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

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Brian Sanders is focused on impactful, multidisciplinary science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, developing solutions for everything from improved imaging of plant-microbe interactions that influence ecosystem health to advancing new treatments for cancer and viral infections. Sanders, associate staff scientist in the Biosciences Division, leverages his knowledge  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

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

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 20 -- Gov. Bill Lee, R-Tennessee, issued the following news on July 19, 2024: * * * State leaders to attend Farnborough International Airshow, recruit new investment from leading companies * * * Today, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD) Commissioner Stuart McWhorter announced they will travel to the United Kingdom for a strategic economic development trip to strengthen relationships with European businesses and incr  more