WASHINGTON, March 27 -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued the following financial institution letter (No. FIL-14-2024) on March 26, 2024: * * * The FDIC has announced a series of steps intended to provide regulatory relief to financial institutions and facilitate recovery in areas of Rhode Island affected by severe storms and flooding. Statement of Applicability: The contents of, and material referenced in, this FIL apply to all FDIC-supervised financial institutions. Highligh  more

OLYMPIA, Washington, March 27 -- Gov. Jay Inslee, D-Washington, issued the following news release on March 26, 2024: * * * In case you missed it, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and other governors of the Reproductive Freedom Alliance issued a statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in Food and Drug Administration, et al., v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the most significant abortion rights case since this same Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Inslee has b  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, March 27 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on March 26, 2024: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Attorneys General for 11 other States and the District of Columbia have told Glock, Inc. to preserve all evidence related to its line of Glock pistols, which can be easily converted into illegal machine guns with just one small, easy-to-make modification. The States' letter to Glock was sent in the wake of the gunmaker   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 27 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following statement on March 26, 2024: * * * Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) Director Terrence Gray today issued the following statements following the Federal District Court decision in Soscia Holdings, LLC v. Terrence Gray, et al.: "We are pleased with the Court's decision to grant our motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought by Soscia   more