MCONNELL AFB, Kansas, July 2 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command issued the following news: By Airman Paula Arce, 22nd Air Refueling Wing public Affairs A 22nd Air Refueling Wing KC-46A Pegasus executed the world's first nonstop, KC-46A Pegasus westbound circumnavigation endurance flight, called Project Magellan, June 29-July 1 starting and finishing here. This flight was the latest Maximum Endurance Operation (MEO) for the KC-46A Pegasus, Air Mobility Command's newest tanker aircraft.  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service issued the following news on July 1, 2024: Scientists at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university research partners developed a near chromosome-level genome for the Mojave poppy bee, a specialist pollinator of conservation concern, according to a recent Journal of Heredity paper. Putting together the Mojave poppy bee genome is part of   more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 2 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's Rocky Mountain Division issued the following news release: The Drug Enforcement Administration's Rocky Mountain Field Division (RMFD) seized approximately 170,000 fentanyl pills in Utah operations last month. In less than two weeks in June, 170,000 fentanyl pills were seized across the state. This represents 25.6% of the total fentanyl pill seizures in Utah in all of 2023. A record 664,000+ fentan  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 (TNSres) -- The Federal Election Commission issued the following news release on July 1, 2024: Presidential candidates collected $553 million and disbursed $416 million, Congressional candidates collected $1.8 billion and disbursed $1.2 billion, political parties received $989.5 million and spent $774.8 million, and political action committees (PACs) raised $5.2 billion and spent $4.4 billion, according to campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission th  more

MCCONNELL AFB, Kansas, July 2 -- The U.S. Air Force McConnell Air Force Base (22nd Air Refueling Wing) issued the following news: By Airman Paula Arce, 22nd Air Refueling Wing public Affairs A 22nd Air Refueling Wing KC-46A Pegasus executed the world's first nonstop, KC-46A Pegasus westbound circumnavigation endurance flight, called Project Magellan, June 29-July 1 starting and finishing here. This flight was the latest Maximum Endurance Operation (MEO) for the KC-46A Pegasus, Air Mobility Co  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 57190) involving IHC Health Services dba Mckay-Dee, Ogden, Utah: * * * Rep Org: Utah Division of Radiation Control Licensee: IHC Health Services DBA Mckay-Dee Region: 4 City: Ogden State: UT License #: UT 2900147 Agreement: Y NRC Notified By: Spencer Wickham HQ OPS Officer: Sam Colvard Notification Date: 06/24/2024 Notification Time: 17:46 [ET] Event Date: 06/04/2024 Event Time: 00:  more

GOLDEN, Colorado, July 2 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory issued the following news release: A research effort led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has made advances that could enable a broader range of currently unimagined optoelectronic devices. The researchers, whose previous innovation included incorporating a perovskite layer that allowed the creation of a new type of polari  more