DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 7 -- Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on Aug. 6, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today joined a 21-state brief, urging a federal court to uphold Congress's law that protects American privacy rights by requiring TikTok to cut ties with the Chinese Communist Party or face a national ban. Earlier this year, Congress passed a bipartisan law banning TikTok unless ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese-owned parent company, sells its stake in th  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release on Aug. 6, 2024: In order to allow the bureau to better protect people, public lands, and public resources, today the Bureau of Land Management announced a rule that modernizes the way it informs the public about temporary closures and restrictions on public lands, aligning it with processes used by the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Department of  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia issued the following news release: Following a five-day trial, Sherlyn Sims, a/k/a "Sherlyn Dzinzi," was found guilty by a jury of conspiring to launder, and laundering, proceeds generated from numerous romance fraud scams and business email compromise schemes. These computer-enabled crimes resulted in more than $1.2 million being diverted to bank accounts controlled by Sims, after which she quickly  more