WASHINGTON, May 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following report (No. USDL-24-0947) on May 17, 2024, entitled "State Employment and Unemployment - April 2024": * * * Unemployment rates were lower in April in 5 states, higher in 2 states, and stable in 43 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Thirty states had jobless rate increases from a year earlier, 1 state had a decrease, and 19 states an  more

SACRAMENTO, California, May 18 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on May 17, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom today provided updated data from the California Highway Patrol (CHP) showing more people applying to join the nation's largest public-facing state law enforcement agency. In the last four months, CHP has received 7,615 applications, an increase from 2023 and 2022 which saw 5,803 applications and 3,732, respectively, in the same period. The officers of the   more

SACRAMENTO, California, May 19 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on May 17, 2024: Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration, today reminded Hoopa Valley Tribe private nonprofit organizations of the June 18 deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for property damage caused by severe winter storm that occurred Jan. 30 - 31. Private nonprofits that provide es  more

SACRAMENTO, California, May 19 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on May 17, 2024: Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration, today reminded private nonprofit organizations in the Morongo Band of Mission Indians of the June 18 deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for property damage caused by severe storms and flooding that occurred Jan. 31 -- Feb. 9. Pr  more

WASHINGTON, May 19 -- The FBI issued the following news release on May 17, 2024: Director Christopher Wray has named Akil Davis as the assistant director in charge of the Los Angeles Field Office. Mr. Davis most recently served as the special agent in charge of the Phoenix Field Office. Mr. Davis has previously served in the Los Angeles Field Office several times. He joined the FBI as a special agent in 2005 and was assigned to the Palm Springs Resident Agency--a satellite of the Los Angeles F  more

WASHINGTON, May 19 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau issued the following public notice (WT Docket No. 24-150) on May 17, 2024: * * * By this Public Notice, we seek comment on a request by California Internet, L.P. DBA GeoLinks (GeoLinks) that the Commission modify some of GeoLinks' Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) licenses to substitute unassigned frequencies currently held in Commission inventory for GeoLinks' existing geographically an  more

WASHINGTON, May 18 -- The Federal Election Commission issued the following news release on May 17, 2024: At its open meeting yesterday, the Federal Election Commission declared Mike Pence and his principal campaign committee, Mike Pence for President (MPFP), eligible to receive public matching funds for Pence's 2024 presidential campaign for the Republican Party nomination. Additionally, since Pence suspended his campaign for the nomination in October 2023, the Commission also initially determi  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 18 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco issued the following remarks on May 17, 2024, by President and CEO Mary C. Daly at the University of San Francisco School of Management commencement: * * * Remarks as prepared for delivery. Thank you for your kind introduction. And thank you, Father Fitzgerald, for the invitation to speak here today. It is truly my honor. Now before I begin, I want to ask, how many of you missed your high school graduation ceremo  more

BOLOGNA, Italy, May 18 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on May 17, 2024: On the one year anniversary of the worst floods in the region's history, Governor Gavin Newsom launched a new partnership with the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Emilia-Romagna and California share similar climates and have been on the front lines of the climate crisis - including the weather whiplash of extreme drought to extreme flooding that impacted communities last year. The Gove  more

WARSAW, Poland, May 18 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration issued the following remarks on May 16, 2024, by Under Secretary Marisa Lago at Warsaw School of Economics: * * * As Prepared Good afternoon, everyone. Dzien dobry! Thank you, Vice Rector Prokop, for your kind introduction and for hosting me today at your renowned institution. Before I continue with my remarks, I want to take a moment to recognize the shocking attack just yesterday on Slovakia's  more

WASHINGTON, May 19 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service issued the following notice (No. 2024-37) in Internal Revenue Bulletin (No. 2024-21, dated May 20, 2024): * * * SECTION 1. PURPOSE This notice provides additional guidance and safe harbors regarding the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) credits under Sec.Sec. 40B and 6426(k) of the Internal Revenue Code (collectively, SAF credit or SAF credits).1 The Department of the Treasury (Treasury Department) and the Inte  more

LIVERMORE, California, May 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Commercial fusion energy plants and advanced compact radiation sources may rely on high-intensity high-repetition rate lasers, capable of firing multiple times per second, but humans could be a limiting factor in reacting to changes at these shot rates. Applying advanced computing to this problem, a team of international scientists from Lawrence Livermore  more

WASHINGTON, May 18 -- NASA issued the following news release: NASA has selected four companies to provide spacecraft and related services, including acquiring spacecraft components and equipment, in support of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The multiple awards, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity base contracts, are firm-fixed-price with a total combined value of $6 billion. These multi-agency contracts may support other NASA centers and federal agencies. The pe  more

WASHINGTON, May 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management issued the following news release on May 16, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced four research and development projects selected to receive nearly $32 million to advance technologies that will help reduce natural gas flaring at oil production sites, a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions, by transforming gas in  more

SACRAMENTO, California, May 19 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on May 17, 2024: Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to Texas businesses and residents as a result of President Biden's major disaster declaration, U.S. Small Business Administration's Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman announced. The declaration covers Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity and Walker counties as a result of the severe storms, straight-l  more

WASHINGTON, May 18 -- The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued the following news release: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) welcomes the new appointments of Maureen Ferguson, Vicky Hartzler, and Asif Mahmood. USCIRF also welcomes the reappointments of Stephen Schneck and Eric Ueland. Maureen Ferguson was appointed to USCIRF by Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-LA). She is a Senior Fellow with The Catholic A  more