WASHINGTON, June 4 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act gave HHS the authority to add 10 states to the CCBHC Medicaid Demonstration program every two years, starting with the 10 being announced today Note to editors and reporters: Video b-roll of a CCBHC and an explainer video "What is a CCBHC?" are available for download and use in reporting, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Th  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, June 4 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued the following news release: The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act gave HHS the authority to add 10 states to the CCBHC Medicaid Demonstration program every two years, starting with the 10 being announced today The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in partnership with the Substance Abuse and  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: NEW YORK, N.Y. -- U. S. Customs and Border Protection officers from the New York Field Office and the Port of New York/Newark will conduct interviews for conditionally approved Global Entry applicants at the Woodbridge Township Community Center in New Jersey on Saturday June 8th. This Global Entry event is the first of its kind in the New York/New Jersey area, typic  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: This is the latest action that OCR has taken to strengthen access to health and human services for people with disabilities. Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with Englewood Ear Nose and Throat (Englewood) to ensure effective communication and access to services for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on June 4, 2024: A Michigan man was sentenced today to 26 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring with other members of a white supremacist group, The Base, to victimize Black and Jewish people, and for defacing Temple Jacob, a Jewish synagogue in Hancock, Michigan, using swastikas and symbols associated with The Base. Nathan Weeden, 24, of Houghton, was convicted at tri  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 30 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: Attorney General Anthony G. Brown and a coalition of 13 attorneys general today urged the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to open a civil rights investigation into the July 2020 murder of Garrett Foster. Mr. Foster was protesting racial injustice when he was shot and killed by Daniel Perry in Austin, Texas. A jury found Mr. Perry guilty of murder in April 2023. However, earlier this mon  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, June 5 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on June 4, 2024: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs ("Division") announced today that the State filed a civil lawsuit against a Nevada firearms company that sold and shipped more than two dozen large capacity ammunition magazines ("LCMs") into New Jersey, including to a Division investigator working undercover. New Jersey law prohibits the posses  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, June 4 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on June 3, 2024: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) announced today that DCR has proposed a new rule that describes and clarifies the prohibitions against disparate impact discrimination under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD). The proposed new rule, which largely codifies existing state and federal case law, provides examples of p  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, June 4 -- The New Jersey Department of Education issued the following news release on June 3, 2024: Governor Phil Murphy and Acting Education Commissioner Kevin Dehmer today announced awards of $1.79 million for two grants to expand computer science in schools. One grant will help 27 school districts and charter schools establish or expand high-quality computer science courses in the high school grades, and the other grant will fund three Computer Science Hubs for teacher t  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, June 5 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following statements on June 4, 2024: * * * Governor Phil Murphy and Major General Lisa Hou, the Adjutant General of the New Jersey National Guard and the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, today issued statements in remembrance of four New Jersey National Guard members who were killed in action during Operation Iraqi Freedom 20 years ago. "Today marks 20 years since the war in I  more

NEW YORK, June 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that TERRIS OLIVER, a/k/a "T-Bird," and RICARDO AYALA, a/k/a "Richie," were sentenced to 185 and 220 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in the March 27, 2002, shooting death of 19-year-old Atari Felton. OLIVER and AYALA were participants in a drug conspiracy, me  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: Unraveling the behavior of plasma increasingly requires intensive computing resources. That's why plasma demands a calculated approach to computation. As the new head of computational sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Shantenu Jha is excited to be at the helm of the Lab's computing efforts, fusing computer sci  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news: The U.S. Navy Submarine Industrial Base (SIB) program along with local shipbuilding companies and suppliers, elected officials, and community leaders gathered to celebrate the future of the defense workforce during the inaugural National Signing Day event in Boston on May 30. The National Signing Day concluded a series of five Talent Pipeline Program (TPP) events across key maritime hubs, honoring the latest group o  more