BOISE, Idaho, July 20 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release on July 19, 2024: Attorney General Raul Labrador today joined a 22-state amicus brief in support of Florida's request to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to allow the state to enforce its law regulating sex-modification procedures while the district court's order enjoining the law is heard on appeal. The case is Doe v. Surgeon General, State of Florida. Like half the states in the country an  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following report (No. USDL-24-1411) on July 19, 2024, entitled "State Employment and Unemployment - June 2024": * * * Unemployment rates were higher in June in 8 states, lower in 1 state, and stable in 41 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Thirty-one states and the District had jobless rate increases from a year earlier, 2 states had decreas  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: NAVY Northrup Grumman Systems Corp. Aerospace Systems, Melbourne, Florida, is awarded a $1,456,019,386 modification (P00086) to a previously awarded fixed-priced-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost contract (N0001918C1037). This modification procures nine E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft (four for the Navy and five for Japan), to include over and above support. Work will be performed in Saint Augustine,  more

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: AUSTIN FEMA Disaster Survivor Assistance (DSA) crews are in Texas neighborhoods helping people apply for FEMA assistance after Hurricane Beryl. These specialists can help Texans apply for federal assistance, check the status of an application, identify potential needs and make connections with organizations that can provide resources. DSA crews carry FEMA photo  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Raised in Texas' Rio Grande Valley by hardworking parents who were not given the opportunity to obtain any type of higher degree, Brittany Rodriguez never imagined she would pursue a science career at a Department of Energy national laboratory. However, after some encouraging words from her mother, input from key mentors at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley,   more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 20 -- The Texas Department of Information Resources issued the following news: * * * A technical issue with CrowdStrike is currently causing global computer outages impacting several industries, including Texas state agencies. Please monitor this page for more information. * * * The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) is working with Texas state agencies to restore outages caused by a technical issue with CrowdStrike that is currently causing global computer o  more

SACRAMENTO, California, July 20 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on July 19, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Anne Hoskins, of San Luis Obispo, has been appointed to the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board. Hoskins has been Senior Vice President of Policy and Market Development - Energy Technology at Generac Power Systems since 2022 and Advisor at Swift Solar since 2022. She was an Advisor at Brimstone f  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 20 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), and the Texas National Guard continue to work together to secure the border; stop the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and people into Texas; and prevent, detect, and interdict transnational criminal activity between ports of entry. Since the launch of Operation Lone Star, the multi-agency effort has led to over 516,300 illegal immigrant apprehe  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 20 (TNSres) -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on July 19, 2024: * * * Setting New Highs For Labor Force, Number Of Texans Working * * * Governor Greg Abbott today celebrated Texas continuing to outperform the nation and lead all states for jobs added over the last 12 months following the release of June employment data. Texas also set new highs for the number of Texans working and the size of the Texas labor force. "More Texans are working t  more

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: This Week at Interior Secretary Haaland this week welcomed Mexico's Foreign Secretary, Alicia Barcena. She's been tapped for a new position in the Cabinet of Mexico's President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum the new Secretary for Environment and Natural Resources. They were joined by Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S. Esteban Moctezuma Barragan and former Interior Secretary and current U.S. Ambassador to Mexico  more

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release: The United States exposes the identity of and imposes sanctions on two members of the Russian government-aligned hacktivist group. Today, the United States designated Yuliya Vladimirovna Pankratova (Pankratova) and Denis Olegovich Degtyarenko (Degtyarenko), two members of the Russian hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR) for their roles in cyber operations against U.S. critical infrastru  more