WASHINGTON, May 22 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: FEMA is opening two Disaster Recovery Centers Wednesday, May 22 at 1 p.m., in Pottawattamie and Shelby counties in Iowa to provide one-on-one assistance for people affected by the April tornadoes. Recovery specialists from FEMA and the U.S. Small Business Administration will provide information on available services, explain disaster assistance programs and he  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: Severe weather moved through portions of the Central Plains and the Midwest overnight bringing high winds, tornadoes and large hail. While preliminary reports indicate 23 potential tornado touch downs, primarily in Iowa. The National Weather Service is forecasting an enhanced risk of severe storms with large hail, wind damage and possible tornadoes across the  more

WASHINGTON, May 23 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration issued the following news release: With train length and the number of long trains increasing, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) finalized three reports on the safety and performance of long trains. FRA recently sent these reports to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to inform an ongoing NAS study mandated by Congress in President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to look at t  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- The Federal Trade Commission issued the following remarks on May 21, 2024, by Chairwoman Lina M. Khan at the 2024 American Economic Liberties Project Anti-Monopoly Summit: * * * The wide range of people in this room today--farmers and pharmacists, law enforcers and labor leaders, legislators from the state senate to the United States Senate--highlights how the problem of consolidated corporate power cuts across so many parts of our economy and society today. This remarka  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 23 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on May 22, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today took action to stop vaccine mandates and protect religious freedoms. New York has eliminated religious exemptions for school vaccination requirements and has imposed massive penalties on religious schools that refuse the vaccine. Vaccine mandates infringe upon parents' First Amendment right to raise their kids according to their faith. Nea  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 23 -- The Iowa Supreme Court issued the following news release: Chief Justice Susan Christensen has appointed District Court Judge Craig Dreismeier, Council Bluffs, as chief judge of the Fourth Judicial District. Judge Dreismeier succeeds Chief Judge Jeffrey Larson who will retire July 1, 2024. Judge Dreismeier will begin the position of chief judge July 2, 2024. "Judge Dreismeier and I served as judges together in the Fourth Judicial District for several years so I know   more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, May 23 -- Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued the following news release on May 21, 2024: Attorney General Hilgers joined a 20-state lawsuit today challenging a new Biden mandate that creates roadblocks for infrastructure projects by forcing social, environmental, and race-based regulations on developers. The mandate eliminates President Trump's common-sense reforms that streamlined development, to instead force Biden's radical green agenda. With the mandate in ef  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 23 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a challenge to the State of California's Advanced Clean Fleets regulation in Nebraska v Cliff, which was filed in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of California. The complaint requests the Court to "declare that Advanced Clean Fleets is preempted by federal statutes, otherwise violates the U.S. Constitution, and is unenforceable." Advanced Clean Fleets or  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, May 22 -- The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction issued the following commentary on May 20, 2024: * * * Supporting Kids' Mental Health is Within Our Grasp By Jill Underly, State Superintendent When people ask me what a major barrier is facing individual Wisconsin students today, I don't have to think hard to come up with an answer: Support for their mental health. On a visit last year to a school in southwest Wisconsin, several students told me their school is do  more