OAKLAND, California, April 23 (TNSres) -- The American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., issued the following news release on April 22, 2024: The California Supreme Court ruled today that the state's minimum wage law does not apply to people working for private companies while they are held in pretrial detention in California's jails. The lawsuit,Ruelas v. County of Al  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 24 -- CodePink, a grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, issued the following statement on April 23, 2024: * * * The passage of the $95 billion defense spending package in both the House and the Senate represents a deadly and immoral prioritization of military expenditure over investment in social programs for Americans, including education, healthcare, and infrastructure.   more

DANBURY, Connecticut, April 23 -- The National Organization for Rare Disorders issued the following news release: The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) will honor a distinguished group of individuals and industry leaders for their contributions to help improve the lives of more than 30 million Americans with a rare disease at the annual Rare Impact Awards (https://rareimpact.org/). NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Peter Alexander will reprise his role as host and emcee at   more

SANTA MONICA, California, April 23 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following commentary to The Hill on April 22, 2024: * * * This commentary originally appeared on The Hill on April 20, 2024. * * * Japan's Remarkable Call for American Leadership By Jeffrey W. Hornung Something quite remarkable happened during Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's visit to Washington last week. It was not the wide-ranging bilateral agreements, though there was plenty to applaud for an alliance that now appear  more

SANTA MONICA, California, April 23 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following commentary on April 22, 2024: * * * Preparing for Post-Quantum Cryptography By Alvin Moon On April 10th, a researcher from Tsinghua University submitted a research preprint-that is, a public but not yet peer reviewed paper-to the Cryptology ePrint Archive. This submission kicked off an important effort to validate the article's main claim, which was that its author, Yilei Chen, had found a method for efficiently solving  more

SANTA MONICA, California, April 24 -- The Recording Academy issued the following news release: On April 30, the Recording Academy(R) will host its annual GRAMMYs on the Hill(R) Awards, Washington's premier annual celebration of music and advocacy, bringing together congressional leaders and music makers to recognize those who have led the fight for creators' rights. Sponsored by City National Bank and benefitting the GRAMMY Museum(R), this year's awards will honor nine-time GRAMMY(R) winner She  more