LANSING, Michigan, July 20 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined 20 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in Pharmaceutical Res. & Manufacturers of Am. v. Stolfi in support of laws that increase drug price transparency. The amicus brief filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals supports Oregon's defense of House Bill 4005, a law that requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to report certain information   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

PANAMA CITY, Panama, July 20 (TNSres) -- The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute issued the following news: Climate change has winners and losers. In tropical forests, woody vines known as lianas are winners. The vines snake up towering trees towards the sky--and their leaves compete with tree leaves for light. Researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's (STRI) Barro Colorado Island Research Station in Panama discovered the world's record-breaking liana, and challenge other  more

DENVER, Colorado, July 20 -- Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera, D-Colorado, issued the following news release on July 19, 2024: AURORA - Yesterday, Lieutenant Governor Dianne Primavera joined AmeriCorps, Serve Colorado, and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, to sign a Memorandum of Understanding to expand economic mobility for Coloradans. This first-of-its-kind MOU resulted in AmeriCorps teams being sent to Colorado for each of the past three years to work on free tax preparation  more

LAKEWOOD, Colorado, July 20 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Colorado Field Office issued the following news release: The number of cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in Colorado feedlots with a capacity of 1,000 head or larger was estimated at 970,000 head as of July 1, 2024. The latest inventory was 1 percent above the previous month's inventory but 2 percent below the July 1, 2023 inventory. The inventory included 500,000 stee  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention issued the following readout of a meeting of state offices of gun violence prevention: * * * On July 17, the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention convened over 30 state government officials from 16 states, including leaders from 12 state Offices of Gun Violence Prevention (OVPs). The convening brought together key violence prevention leaders to * Share strategies around gun violence prevention that have contribu  more

ASPEN, Colorado, July 20 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following remarks at an Aspen Security Forum fireside chat moderated by Mary Louise Kelly of National Public Radio: * * * MS KELLY: Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Secretary. SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good morning. MS KELLY: Great to see you. Welcome back. I don't need to tell this room a lot has happened since you were last on this stage a year ago, and we are going to get through in our time this morning as much of it as I ca  more

DENVER, Colorado, July 20 -- The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issued the following news release: * * * Workers were culling poultry at a farm in northeast Colorado * * * In coordination with the Colorado Department of Agriculture, the State Emergency Operations Center, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment reports an additional confirmed human case of avian flu, bringing the total to six confirmed huma  more