WASHINGTON, June 24 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency issued the following news: A two-week program that provides advanced training on private-sector business practices is empowering Defense Logistics Agency acquisition professionals to change thought patterns and apply risk-based decision-making to current and future problems. The DLA Industry Partnership Management Course is taught semiannually at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School for G  more

OAKLAND, California, June 25 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on June 24, 2024: California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined 22 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in support of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) cease-and-desist order against Intuit, maker of TurboTax. The FTC found that Intuit deceptively advertised supposedly "free" tax-filing products and ordered Intuit to cease all deceptive activity and make disclosures to cure the  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, June 25 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on June 24, 2024: * * * Griffin: 'Pill by pill and dollar by dollar, PBMs enabled the opioid epidemic in Arkansas' * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin today announced he has filed a lawsuit against pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) Optum, Inc., and Express Scripts, Inc., and their subsidiaries for their roles as a cause of the opioid epidemic in Arkansas and issued the following statement: "  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 25 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release: Attorney General Josh Stein filed a brief in support of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) order that bans Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, from deceptively advertising "free" tax preparation software when its services were not actually free for most consumers. In the brief filed in Intuit v. Federal Trade Commission, the coalition of 22 attorneys general argue that the United States Co  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, June 25 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release on June 24, 2024: Attorney General Kwame Raoul, with District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb, today led a coalition of 22 attorneys general in filing a brief supporting a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) order that bars Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, from deceptively advertising free tax preparation software when its services were not actually free for many consumers. In a brief (ht  more

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- District of Columbia Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb issued the following news release: * * * Argues Intuit's Marketing of TurboTax Harmed Millions of Consumers * * * District of Columbia Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul led a coalition of 22 state attorneys general in support of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) order that bars Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, from deceptively advertising "free" tax preparation software when i  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 25 -- The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality's Division of Air Quality issued the following news release: After thoroughly investigating multiple citizen complaints regarding off-site dust impacts near the Port of Wilmington, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality's Division of Air Quality (DAQ) is requiring two facilities, Enviva Pellets and Basaga International, to adopt additional fugitive dust control measures. State regulation   more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 25 -- Gov. Roy Cooper, D-North Carolina, issued the following statement on June 24, 2024: * * * Today, Governor Roy Cooper issued the following statement on the anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision: "Two years ago today, the Supreme Court destroyed the constitutional right to abortion access. Now Republican leaders are launching assaults that put extreme politicians in control of decisions that should be made between women and   more

WILMINGTON, North Carolina, June 25 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued the following news release on June 24, 2024: Today, Jordan Duncan, 29, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the manufacturing of a firearm as charged in a superseding criminal information filed in the Eastern District of North Carolina. This crime carries a maximum punishment of 10 years' imprisonment. Duncan is a former Marine assigned previously to Camp Lejeune in Jacksonv  more

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation has awarded $50 million in cooperative agreements to two university consortia to support the basic science that underlies its nuclear security and nonproliferation missions. The two consortia, led by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the G  more

FORT STEWART, Georgia, June 25 -- The South Carolina National Guard issued the following news: By Maj. Karla Evans, South Carolina National Guard Soldiers assigned to 4th Battalion, 118th Infantry Regiment, 218th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, South Carolina Army National Guard conducted an Integrated Training Weapons Strategy qualification table for the newly fielded Next Generation Squad Weapon Rifle, XM7, and the Next Generation Squad Weapon Automatic Rifle, XM250, during a week-long trainin  more