TRAVIS AFB, California, July 11 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command issued the following news: By Staff Sgt. Scott Warner, 621st Continency Response Wing Public Affairs Dressed in military-issued operational camouflage pattern clothing, a thick interceptor body armor vest with multiple ballistic plates inside, a radio, an advanced combat helmet and a M-4 carbine to protect and defend USAF interests. This is the ideal uniform of a deployed USAF Airman. Temperatures reached as high as 10  more

EGLIN AFB, Florida, July 11 -- The U.S. Air Force's Eglin Air Force Base issued the following news: By Catherine Sprague, Air Force Research Laboratory The Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate welcomed its new commander, Col. Matthew Caspers June 28, further fueling the Lab's "Engine to Accelerate." Munitions Directorate, or RW, personnel bid farewell to Col. Woodrow "Tony" Meeks, who began his role as the directorate's commander and director in the summer of 2021 and is now re  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: CALEXICO, Calif.,CBP officers assigned to the Calexico East Commercial Facility intercepted a total of 515.74 pounds of methamphetamine concealed within wooden furniture cabinets last week. On July 3, at approximately 1:00 p.m., CBP officers encountered a 29-year-old male driving a box truck transporting a shipment manifested as wooden furniture. The man was applyi  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news: By Adam Jaime, Training Center Petaluma This past June, a wind-driven wildfire erupted in north-central Sonoma County. The fire grew to 1,000 acres within hours, causing emergency evacuation orders for over 400 people in the area, and threatening multiple wineries and vineyards in the storied Dry Creek Valley wine region. After a call was sent out by CalFire for any available fire responder  more

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, July 11 -- The Colorado National Guard issued the following news release: Members of the Colorado Army National Guard 100th Missile Defense Brigade (Ground-based Midcourse Defense) will host a change of command ceremony where U.S. Army Col. Joseph Paladino will relinquish command to Col. Dani S. Williams, July 11, 2024, at 11:00 a.m., at Patriot Park Parade Field, Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado. Family, friends and colleagues of the 100th MDB will bid farewell   more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: NAVY Allied Electric LLC,* Honolulu, Hawaii (N62478-24-D-4028); D&D Construction Inc.,* Waipahu, Hawaii (N62478-24-D-4029); EPC Service, Inc.,* Aiea, Hawaii (N62478-24-D-4030); Mija Construction Services, LLC,* Newbury Park, California (N62478-24-D-4031); Niking Corp.,* Wahiawa, Hawaii (N62478-24-D-4032); Southwest Construction and Property Management,* Waianae, Hawaii (N62478-24-D-4033); and Tri Coast-Pac  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, is awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (HQ003424D0022) with a ceiling of $460,000,000. No funds are being obligated at time of award. The Strategic Capabilities Office within the Office of the Secretary of Defense intends to utilize Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laborato  more

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, July 11 (TNSres) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis issued the following news: * * * Featuring frontier research to enhance economic opportunity and inclusive growth * * * The Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute is pleased to announce its annual Research Conference. This event will feature presentations and critical discussions of the frontier academic research with which the Institute engages. A broad scholarly exchange of ideas around presented papers w  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 11 -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, a federal district bank, issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: * * * Bank nearly doubles funding for California affordable housing projects in 2024, helping address affordable housing crisis * * * The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLBank San Francisco) today announced $49.3 million in affordable housing grants to California-based housing developers through its Affordable Housing Progr  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: A pharmacy owner and an associate were sentenced for submitting false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and California Medicaid (Medi-Cal) for prescription drugs and engaging in a black market prescription drug diversion conspiracy. Irina Sadovsky, 54, of Calabasas, California, a pharmacist who owned Five Star RX, doing business as Five Star Pharmacy and Ultimate Pharmacy Inc., was sentenc  more

EL SEGUNDO, California, July 11 -- Peterson and Schriever Space Force Base issued the following news: In partnership with NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Space Force (USSF) GPS III Program Office has delivered two laser retroflector arrays to Lockheed Martin. On May 6, the LRAs were delivered under a directed program to rapidly integrate hosted payloads on GPS satellites ahead of launch call up. The LRAs will be installed onto two GPS III satellites, SV9 and SV10,  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 10 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news: Attorney General Liz Murrill joined Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and a coalition of 23 state attorneys general in opposing the Biden administration's latest overreach into the livelihoods of middle-class Americans. This time, the administration has weaseled its way into laundry rooms in an attempt to further their radical energy policies by implementing harmful and costly standards on w  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release: A California-based laboratory, Pacific Toxicology Laboratories (PacTox), has agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims for payment to Medicare for urine drug testing (UDT). On Jan. 1, 2020, Medicare established regulations for payment to Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs) for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment services for Me  more

JACKSON, Mississippi, July 10 -- Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch issued the following news release on July 9, 2024: Online businesses cannot be allowed to evade state consumer protection laws that help level the playing field for everyday consumers against big corporations. But the lower court in this case essentially found that because online companies do business everywhere, they can be held accountable nowhere. I was proud to stand with AG Ford and these 29 other Attorneys General in  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: Northern California steelhead require continued protection as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, according to a recent 5-year review by NOAA Fisheries. State and federal agencies, tribes, and private landowners have completed numerous habitat restoration projects since the last review in 2016. However, the population faces continued threats from drought, high water tempe  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation issued the following news: On July 8, The San Diego Union-Tribune published an op-ed by ACHP Chair Sara Bronin in which she lays out how adaptive reuse of historic buildings can help ease California's housing crisis. Bronin writes: "Given the magnitude of the housing shortage, we'll need an all-hands-on-deck approach. I'm optimistic about California and its largest cities making meaningful progress in advancing policies that   more

MENLO PARK, California, July 11 (TNSres) -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: Using SLAC's instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV-UED), one of the lab's world-leading tools for ultrafast science, researchers discovered how an ultrathin material can circularly polarize light. This discovery sets up a promising approach to manipulate light for applications in optoelectronic devices. While taking snapshots with the high-speed "electron camera"  more

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland, July 11 -- The U.S. Army Forces Command issued the following news: By Walter T. Ham IV Soldiers, Army civilians and family members participated in the Norwegian Foot March on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, July 3. The marchers started at 1 a.m. and covered 18.6-mile march across the Army installation. The event was hosted by the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command, the U.S. Department of Defense's premier CBRNE f  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 11 -- The New Jersey State Board of Education issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: The New Jersey State Board of Education (State Board) today selected the board's leadership for the coming school year. Kathy Goldenberg will continue to serve as board president and Nedd James Johnson, Ed.D., was named vice president. In addition to the selection of president and vice president, the State Board swore in a new member, Dr. Claudine Keenan of Galloway, Atlan  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Sixty years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 creating the federal transit program. For the first time, the federal government took on a major role in supporting transit bus and rail systems across the U.S. This law was signed shortly after another landmark piece of legislation, the Civil  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: For far too many American mothers, complications related to pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum can lead to devastating health outcomes--including hundreds of deaths each year. Unfortunately, our nation has one of the highest maternal mortality rates of any wealthy country in the world. This maternal health crisis is particularly devastating for Black women, Native women, and women in rural com  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- The White House issued the following transcript of a news briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on July 9, 2024: * * * MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Hi. Good afternoon, everyone. Really sorry for the delay. I just got out of the Oval Office with the president, who wanted me to relay a few me- -- a few new messages to you all on Hurricane Beryl. This is important to him, and he knows it's important to the people of Texas, so he wanted to make sure that, be- -- before I came o  more