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

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Department of Energy released a request for proposals today to advance its leadership in high-performance computing, inviting vendors to submit their plans for a successor to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's exascale (a quintillion or more calculations per second) supercomputer, Frontier.  The future system, to be called Discovery, will be designed to offer new   more

ATLANTA, Georgia, July 20 -- Gov. Brian P. Kemp, R-Georgia, issued the following news release on July 19, 2024: Governor Brian P. Kemp and First Lady Marty Kemp today announced they will lead an international mission to Italy to strengthen existing economic ties and develop new partnerships that will bring further opportunities to hardworking Georgians. "For decades, Georgia has enjoyed close economic and cultural ties to Italy," said Governor Brian Kemp. "Marty and I look forward to building   more

ATLANTA, Georgia, July 20 -- The Georgia House issued the following news release: State Representative Dar'shun Kendrick (D-Lithonia) will attend the National Future Summit, a conference for Gen Z and millennial lawmakers, hosted by Future Caucus. The National Future Summit, now in its eighth year, is a premier event for young bipartisan lawmakers to connect, explore innovative policy solutions, workshop legislative approaches, meet policy experts and develop strategies for bipartisan victories  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, July 20 -- The Georgia State Senate issued the following news release on July 19, 2024: Today, Sen. Blake Tillery (R-Vidalia) commended the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) for their decision to expedite phase two of the US-1, State Route 4 bypass project by four years. This significant infrastructure initiative, with a funding allocation of $26.6 million, is a major step forward in improving transportation and economic development in the region. "I deeply apprecia  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