OLYMPIA, Washington, Oct. 16 -- Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued the following statement on Oct. 15, 2024: * * * SEATTLE -- Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued the following statement today after a federal court rejected Meta's attempt to dismiss his lawsuit accusing the company of knowingly harming youth mental health. "Meta can't get off the hook that easily. This ruling brings us one step closer to accountability. Meta and its top executives disregarded their own rese  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: The Bureau of Land Management today announced an investment of nearly $2.4 million from the President's Investing in America agenda through the Inflation Reduction Act to develop a cultural landscape study and predictive model for public lands in California and Arizona. The study would identify and provide a better understanding of the impacts of renewable energy development o  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Oct. 10 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southeast Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 8, 2024, entitled "Women's Earnings In Georgia - 2023": * * * In 2023, Georgia women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings of $976, significantly below the $1,103 median usual weekly earnings of their male counterparts, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commiss  more

OAKLAND, California, Oct. 16 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2024: California Attorney General Rob Bonta, along with a bipartisan coalition of 33 attorneys general, successfully blocked an attempt by Meta to dismiss the coalition's lawsuit against the company for its part in harming children's mental health and for allowing young children on its platforms in violation of federal law. In October 2023, Attorney General Bonta co-led a biparti  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 16 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2024: California's battery storage capacity has expanded rapidly, increasing by 3,012 megawatts (MW) in just six months to reach a total of 13,391 MW. This growth marks a 30% increase since April 2024, underscoring the state's swift progress in building out clean energy infrastructure, especially during a summer marked by record-breaking heat. Within the past five years, Californi  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 17 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom announced today that California is expanding access to culturally-based substance use disorder (SUD) treatment services. After years of working toward this milestone, today marks the first time Medi-Cal will cover traditional health care practices in use since time immemorial. These are deeply rooted in cultural practices and have been shown to improve   more

SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 16 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that California's Organized Retail Crime Task Force (ORCTF), led by the California Highway Patrol (CHP), continues its work to tamp down on organized retail theft operations statewide. This year, the task force has conducted 621 investigations statewide leading to 1,123 arrests and recovered 269,992 stolen items valued at $8.1 million. "  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 17 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom celebrated the passage and recent signing of several pieces of legislation to support women, children, and families, just as national Republican leaders continue to block policies to support them. The package of bills the Legislature sent to the Governor includes new laws to support victims of revenge porn, protect  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 16 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom today highlighted a $3.5 million federal investment to improve access to the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and enhance a key Southern California water source that provides Los Angeles County with one-third of its water supply. Federal, state, tribal and local partners celebrated the announcement today, which will support trash removal projects,  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (TNSrep) -- The Government Accountability Office issued the following report: Here are excerpts: * * * Fast Facts The Coast Guard provides health care services, such as physicals and immunizations, to its 47,000 personnel. This Q&A report provides information on its medical facilities. As of July 2024, the Coast Guard had 34 clinics 9 satellite clinics 65 ashore sickbays 57 afloat sickbays It has a costly backlog of infrastructure projects, which includes medical f  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: Today, the Department of Defense's Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation released its Fiscal Year 2023 Defense Spending by State report to help states and communities better understand how Defense procurement, personnel, and grant spending impact their economies. The report's graphs, maps, and tables present a range of findings, such as total spending figures, categories of contracted goods and services,   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- The Federal Trade Commission issued the following statement on Oct. 16, 2024, by Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on the final trade regulation rule concerning recurring subscriptions and other negative option programs (File No. P064202): * * * As is common in rulemaking proceedings, this Final Rule that the Commission promulgates is somewhat different from what it originally proposed--clarified, narrowed, and ultimately improved by the process of grappling with the   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- The Federal Trade Commission issued the following news release: The Federal Trade Commission has taken action against coffee shop franchise Qargo Coffee and its founders for failing to disclose critical information required by the Franchise Rule, including one founder's ties to burger franchise BurgerIM, leaving prospective franchisees in the dark when deciding whether to invest in the franchise. In its complaint, the FTC alleged that Qargo and founders Mark Bastorous, B  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey issued the following abstract of an article on July 23, 2024, entitled "Debris Avalanches In The Northern California Coast Range Triggered By Plate Boundary Earthquakes". The article was written by Jessie K. Pearl, Harvey Kelsey, Stephen J. Angster, Dylan Caldwell, Ian Pryor and Brian Sherrod. * * * Determining the timing and cause for ancient hillslope failures proves difficult in the western United States,   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey issued the following abstract of an article on July 20, 2024, entitled "Post-Fire Sediment Yield From A Central California Watershed: Field Measurements And Validation Of The WEPP Model". The article was written by Amy E. East, Joshua B. Logan, Helen Willemien Dow, Douglas P. Smith, Pat Iampietro, Jonathan Warrick, Thomas Lorenson, Leticia Hallas and Benjamin Kozlowicz. * * * In a warming climate, an intensif  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey issued the following abstract of an article on July 15, 2024, entitled "Probabilistic Assessment Of Postfire Debris-Flow Inundation In Response To Forecast Rainfall". The article was written by A. B. Prescott, L. A. McGuire, K.-S. Jun, Katherine R. Barnhart and N. S. Oakley. * * * Communities downstream of burned steep lands face increases in debris-flow hazards due to fire effects on soil and vegetation. Rap  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey issued the following abstract of an article on July 5, 2024, entitled "Rangewide Occupancy Of A Flagship Species, The Coastal California Gnatcatcher (Polioptila Californica Californica) In Southern California: Habitat Associations And Recovery From Wildfire". The article was written by Barbara E. Kus, Kristine L. Preston and Alexandra Houston. * * * The Coastal California Gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica c  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Oct. 17 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta issued the following Banking and Finance article on Oct. 16, 2024, by Domonic Purviance, residential real estate subject matter expert in the supervision and regulation division: * * * Overview The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Home Ownership Affordability Monitor (HOAM) is a tool that is updated monthly and tracks emerging trends in homeownership affordability at the national, metro, and metro-county levels. Affordability i  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following Q&A on Oct. 14, 2024, featuring Corinne Scown, a senior scientist, and Sarah Nordahl, a postdoctoral researcher in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division: * * * By Will Ferguson A machine that sucks carbon emissions from the atmosphere might sound like science fiction, but it is one of several carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies expected to help achieve net-z  more

LIVERMORE, California, Oct. 17 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Eight Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers were recently honored by the Lab's Engineering Principal Associate Directorate for their efforts in raising the Lab's visibility and reputation through Strategic Partnership Projects (SPPs). The event was hosted by Rob Sharpe, Engineering's deputy principal associate director for research and   more

LIVERMORE, California, Oct. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: In December 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) created a "mini sun" deep inside the National Ignition Facility (NIF), ushering in a new realm in scientific discovery. Lasting just a fraction of a second, this historic experiment marked the first time that a controlled fusion experiment achieved ignition. In the next two episodes of the Big Ideas L  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that FELIX HERRERA GARCIA was sentenced to 45 years in prison for trafficking fentanyl out of a daycare in the Bronx, which resulted in the death of one child and the poisoning of three others. Herrera Garcia pled guilty on June 10, 2024, before United Stat  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Oct. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: For decades, Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility has harnessed the power of the sun to expose aerospace materials to intense heat, replicating the harsh conditions of faster-than-sound flight and atmospheric reentry to ensure the materials' ability to protect the rest of the vehicle. The most recent of these tests is in support of two  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission's Accounting and Auditing Enforcement issued the following order (No. 4534) on Oct. 16, 2024. Here are excerpts: * * * In the Matter of RTX CORPORATION Respondent. ORDER INSTITUTING CEASE-AND-DESIST PROCEEDINGS PURSUANT TO SECTION 21C OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, MAKING FINDINGS, AND IMPOSING A CEASE-AND-DESIST ORDER I. The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") deems it appropriate that cease-and-desist pr  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following news release: * * * Awards will support 35 Tribes across 15 states, bolstering fish and wildlife conservation * * * The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is awarding more than $6.4 million to federally recognized Native American and Alaska Native Tribes to benefit fish and wildlife resources and their habitats. This year's funding will support 35 Tribes for conservation projects acro  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following notice (Docket No. FD 36790) entitled "Norfolk Southern Railway Co. - Trackage Rights Exemption - CSXT Transportation Inc.": * * * Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR), a Class I rail carrier, has filed a verified notice of exemption under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(7) to acquire overhead trackage rights from CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), over an approximately 95-mile CSXT rail line betw  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following news release: U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona today announced the recipients of the Terrel H. Bell Award for Outstanding School Leadership for 2024. All nine school leaders from the 2024 cohort of National Blue Ribbon Schools will be honored during the National Blue Ribbon Schools awards ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. "Schools that raise the bar count on school leaders who raise the bar," said U.S. Se  more

DETROIT, Michigan, Oct. 16 -- Vice President Kamala Harris answered questions ahead of the Air Force Two departure from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport: * * * THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, about last night. So, Donald Trump -- I -- I found it to be quite bizarre -- actually called himself the "father of IVF." And if what he meant is taking responsibility, well, then, yeah, he should take responsibility for the fact that one is three women in America lives in a Trump abortion ban state.   more