LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 21 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on March 20, 2024: * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement after co-leading a 20-state, bipartisan letter calling on Congress to affirm states' authority to ban or regulate intoxicating and dangerous hemp-derived products like Delta-8 THC in the next Farm Bill: "Arkansas has banned Delta THC products, but inconsistent court interpretations of certain provisions wit  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 21 (TNSres) -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on March 20, 2024: * * * Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin released the following statement highlighting the work done by his office's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) that resulted in a No. 4 ranking for abuse and neglect convictions, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General's Medicaid Fraud Control Units Fiscal Year 2023  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following news release: Includes a major grant for Charlotte Douglas International Airport to construct a new end-around taxiway - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding another $110 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to over 70 airports across the U.S. for projects that increase safety and expand capacity. The $110 million includes 74 grants to airports in 32 states to modernize airport and r  more

UPTON, New York, March 21 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Room-temperature, ambient-pressure conversion reaction for carbon monoxide could be part of a larger cascade strategy for efficiently turning atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) into liquid fuel * * * Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC) have demonstrated   more

BROWNSVILLE, Texas, March 21 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Dr. Steve Feldgus, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Elizabeth Klein and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Deputy Director Paul Huang today toured Dominion Energy's wind turbine installation vessel Charybdis under construction at   more

OAKLAND, California, March 21 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: * * * California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, along with 20 other attorneys general, sent a letter urging Congress to protect Californians from intoxicating hemp products by updating language of the Farm Bill. The letter argues that vagueness in the 2018 Farm Bill has led to the proliferation of intoxicating hemp products across the nation and challenges the ability   more

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding another $110 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to over 70 airports across the U.S. for projects that increase safety and expand capacity. The $110 million includes 74 grants to airports in 32 states to modernize airport and runway infrastructure, improve airfield safety, and creat  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 21 -- Hawaii Attorney General Anne E. Lopez issued the following news release: Attorney General Anne Lopez is joining a coalition of 20 other state attorneys general on a bipartisan letter asking Congress to fix language in the 2018 Farm Bill that bad actors have used to flood the market with unregulated, intoxicating hemp. The current law defining hemp has resulted in exploitation. Applied to foods, the 0.3% THC limit which distinguishes industrial hemp from cannabis,   more

WASHINGTON, March 19 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - An investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Harrisonburg, the Albemarle County Police Department and the Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force led to a North Carolina man pleading guilty to one count of traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose of engaging in sexually illicit activ  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 21 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: Attorney General Kwame Raoul led a coalition of 22 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief defending the federal law that prohibits people who have been convicted of felonies from possessing firearms. In their brief, filed in U.S. v Prince, Raoul and the attorneys general ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit to overturn a lower court ruling that found the law unconstitutiona  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, March 21 -- Gov. Laura Kelly, D-Kansas, issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: Today, Governor Laura Kelly's bipartisan Medicaid expansion proposal, the Cutting Healthcare Costs for All Kansans Act, was heard in the Kansas Legislature. This is the first time in four years that the legislature has allowed public debate on Medicaid expansion. More than 900 written testimonies were made in support of Medicaid expansion; 450 of which were submitted to the House and 463  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 21 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief (https://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/News%20Documents/032024_Filed_US_Prince_State_Amicus_Brief.pdf) defending the federal law that prohibits people who have been convicted of felonies from possessing firearms. In its brief, filed in U.S. v Prince, the coalition asks the  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 21 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a friend-of-the-court brief defending the federal law that prohibits people who have been convicted of felonies from possessing firearms. In the brief, filed in U.S. v Prince, Attorney General Stein and 21 other attorneys general ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to overturn a lower court ruling that foun  more

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- The National Park Service Assateague Island National Seashore issued the following news release: Assateague Island National Seashore (ASIS) is one of several National Park Service sites on the Atlantic Coast that will benefit from two new coastal resource management projects recently funded through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Assateague will receive a portion of a $3.3 million saltmarsh restoration and adaptive planning project that is currently being planned for  more

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, March 21 -- The U.S. Army Forces Command issued the following news: By Walter T. Ham IV U.S. Army Chemical Corps officers came to aid of a diner who collapsed and hit her head in a restaurant in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Feb. 28. Capt. Madison L. Turner and Maj. Taylor S. Harrington from the Fort Stewart, Georgia-based 83rd Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) Battalion provided first aid to a woman until paramedics arrived. Both officers were atte  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, March 21 -- Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced that Tucker Door & Trim, a distributor and manufacturer of doors, windows, and specialty millwork to the construction industry, will invest $10 million to establish a new manufacturing and assembly operation for fiberboard and fiberglass doors and windows in Henrico County. The new facility, which will open by April 1, 2024, will increase   more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- The White House issued the following transcript of a news briefing on March 18, 2024, by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan: * * * MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Hey, good afternoon, everyone. Happy Monday. Happy Monday. I have two items at the top before I turn it over to our National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. Today, to mark Women's History Month, President Biden, alongside the First Lady and the Vice President and the Second Gentl  more