BURBANK, California, Sept. 4 -- ABC, a division of Walt Disney, issued the following news release: Gallery images can be found HERE. Today, the "Dancing with the Stars" season 33 celebrity cast and their professional dancing partners were announced on ABC's "Good Morning America." Cohosted by Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough, the series returns for its 33rd season TUESDAY, SEPT. 17 (8:00-10:00 p.m. EDT), simulcast LIVE on ABC and Disney+, and available next day on Hulu. This season's celeb  more

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Sept. 5 -- Taft, a law firm, issued the following news: On Sept. 3, Taft partner Sohan Dasgupta, Ph.D., delivered a speech at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. He addressed the future of the financial markets in light of the Supreme Court's most recent administrative law decisions. Dasgupta said, "The consequences of those cases, taken together, might reverberate for years to come." Dasgupta is a strategic and experienced problem-solver representi  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 5 -- Pillsbury, a law firm, issued the following news release: In a recent article in The Recorder and Law.com, Jeewon Serrato, the leader of Pillsbury's Consumer Protection team and a leader in the firm's Global AI Task Force, commented on pending legislation in California that would require the largest generative AI developers to ensure their products will not cause significant physical or financial harm. That legislation, SB 1047, has passed both houses of the state legislat  more

BAKERSFIELD, California, Sept. 4 -- California State University-Bakersfield issued the following news: About 30 students from low-income backgrounds will each get a $2,000 scholarship to help pay for college thanks to the work of a Bakersfield foundation. Approximately $52,000 in scholarships for that purpose will be awarded at the annual California State University, Bakersfield Hispanic Excellence Scholarship Fund Awards Program scheduled for 6 p.m. Oct. 20 in the Student Union Multipurpose R  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Sept. 5 -- Husch Blackwell, a law firm, issued the following news release: Husch Blackwell secured summary judgment in the Central District of California on behalf of Best Bay Logistics in an international transportation dispute over stolen cargo during the domestic leg of the shipment. In February 2023, a Chinese manufacturer shipped several pallets of microinverters from Shanghai, China, to its distributor in Texas. After clearing customs in Los Angeles, the cargo was   more

LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 5 -- Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, a law firm, issued the following news release: * * * Judge Carol Whitehurst of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a Report and Recommendation denying Defendants' motion to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit seeking to hold Louisiana District Attorney's office liable for the unconstitutional incarceration of innocent third-party witness for more than six months in flagrant disregard of her constitutiona  more

LOS GATOS, California, Sept. 5 -- Netflix, an Internet television network provider, issued the following news: Reeling viewers in, Netflix dropped the trailer for its upcoming crime thriller - Sector 36, today. Produced by Dinesh Vijan's Maddock Films and Jio Studios, the film traces the story of a once-complacent police inspector who is on the heels of a devious serial killer when justice becomes personal as several children go missing from a basti (slum) in Sector 36. Inspired by true events,  more

PASADENA, California, Sept. 3 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: A new technique, developed in a collaboration between Caltech and Macquarie University, could allow scientists to more simply and controllably alter the genetic makeup of wild populations than with the current proposed use of gene drives. Gene drives are a common technology used to insert a novel gene into a population--for example, to make mosquitos resistant to malaria. They can also be used to  more

ITHACA, New York, Sept. 4 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Shannon Gleeson, the ILR School's Edmund Ezra Day Professor, and co-author Xochitl Bada of the University of Illinois Chicago have won the 2024 Best Book Award by the American Political Science Association Latin@/x Caucus. "Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power " was published by University of California Press (2023). Gleeson will accept the award on Friday at the 2024 Americ  more

LA JOLLA, California, Sept. 4 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: With record-breaking heat becoming the new norm, the consequences are far from evenly distributed. The research is indisputable: communities of color, low-income neighborhoods and medically vulnerable individuals bear the brunt of extreme heat exposure. The reasons for this are complex, rooted in a mix of social, economic and environmental factors that require a nuanced and multidi  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 4 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release: * * * $75 million NIH grant could lead to the first effective drugs for a condition with few treatment options. * * * A clinical trial that will test three drugs concurrently, and could include more, represents new hope for patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), an incurable neurodegenerative disorder that usually kills within seven years after symp  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 4 (TNSres) -- The University of California issued the following news release: * * * Still, changes account for only a small portion of what's needed to keep track with rising temperatures Key takeaways * North American birds are changing locations and shifting annual behaviors in response to global warming. * More than half of the changes they've made are through changes in annual behaviors -- phenology -- rather than changing latitude and elevation. * These   more

PALO ALTO, California, Sept. 5 -- Cooley, a law firm, issued the following news release: San Francisco - September 3, 2024 - Cooley advised Zepto, India's fast-growing quick commerce company, on its $340 million Series G financing at a $5 billion valuation. General Catalyst led the funding round. Partners Matthew Bartus and Andrew Harline led the Cooley team advising Zepto. Cooley has advised Zepto on multiple financing rounds since the company's formation, including its $665 million Series   more