WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: The Defense Health Agency announced 15 military hospitals got an "A" rating in the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade Fall 2024 assessment. This grade reflects the DHA's ongoing dedication to transparency and to providing high-quality, safe care to service members and their families. 81st Medical Group, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi 673d Medical Group, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska Alexander T. Augu  more

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center issued the following news: By Emily Mifsud, AFIMSC Public Affairs TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, FLA - The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center is fielding the Installation Resilience Operations Command and Control platform at five more bases after three years of successful initial testing here. AFIMSC awarded a $20 million contract to Simplesense, Inc., Nov. 18 to provide the low-rate i  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following opening remarks on Nov. 19, 2024, by Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke at an event on the 15th anniversary of the Enactment of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act: * * * As Prepared for Delivery Good afternoon. My name is Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department. I am honored and proud to be with you for this important comme  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: On the newest episode of the Big Ideas Lab podcast, listeners will go behind the scenes of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) latest groundbreaking achievement: El Capitan, the world's most powerful supercomputer. Listen on Apple or Spotify. Built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) with AMD's new Instinct MI300A Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), El C  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following report (No. USDL-24-2362) on Nov. 19, 2024, entitled "State Employment and Unemployment - October 2024": * * * Unemployment rates were lower in October in 3 states, higher in 1 state, and stable in 46 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Twenty-four states and the District had jobless rate increases from a year earlier, 6 states had   more

SACRAMENTO, California, Nov. 20 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2024: * * * Amended judgment to address serious ongoing deficiencies in the treatment and conditions of youth at Barry J. Nidorf and Los Padrinos Juvenile Halls * * * California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a joint motion with the County of Los Angeles to amend the court judgment addressing conditions in the County's juvenile halls following the County's failure to  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: DEL RIO, Texas U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Del Rio Port of Entry encountered a man wanted on an outstanding felony warrant for a sex-related offense against a child. "This apprehension of a man with an outstanding felony warrant for an alleged sex crime involving a child demonstrates the resolve of our frontline officers to uphold our priorit  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: LOS ANGELES (November 19, 2024) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing $800,000 in research funding to two Southern California small businesses to further develop and commercialize their environmental technologies. With these awards from EPA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, businesses nationwide will be tackling complex challenges including destroying PFAS, c  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III announced today that the president has made the following nominations: Marine Corps Col. Timothy S. Brady Jr. for appointment to the grade of brigadier general. Brady is currently serving as assistant chief of staff, G-3, Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii. Marine Corps Col. Dustin J. Byrum for appointment to the grade of brigadier general. Byrum is currently   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: The civil money penalty marks OCR's 51st HIPAA Right of Access enforcement action to advance patient access to medical records Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced a $100,000 civil monetary penalty against Rio Hondo Community Mental Health Center ("Rio Hondo") in California. The penalty resolves an investigation into Rio H  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2024: * * * John Chen Furthered the PRC Government's Transnational Repression Campaign Against the Falun Gong by Paying Cash Bribes to a Purported IRS Official * * * John Chen, 71, of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Los Angeles, was sentenced today to 20 months in prison for acting as unregistered agents of the PRC and bribing an IRS agent in connection with a plot to target U.S.-base  more

PASADENA, California, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: A team of researchers identified this decrease in freshwater using observations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth's total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low ever since. Reporting in Surveys in Geophysics, the   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency issued the following news: At first glance, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command's Public Affairs Officer Army Maj. Patrick Sorensen may appear to be a Caucasian male with a long, braided ponytail. Born to a Caucasian mother and Native American father in Northern California, Sorensen is a member of the Confederated Tribes of Grande Rode, Oregon, despite never living on a reservation. Sharing his heritage, the A  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Nov. 20 -- Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2024: Attorney General Hilgers filed an antitrust lawsuit against some of the nation's largest heavy-duty truck manufacturers for an alleged plot to stifle the availability of internal-combustion semi-trucks in favor of electric ones. California has imposed a series of regulations designed to essentially eliminate semi-trucks with internal combustion engines. Other states have adop  more

BETHESDA, Maryland, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences issued the following news: * * * Analyzers speed diagnostic and treatment development * * * One of the biggest achievements in modern medicine involves some of the smallest known substances. Much of today's biological research and drug development involves tiny particles, each smaller than one millionth of a millimeter - t  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health issued the following news release: Research needed to establish best diagnostic and management strategies for increasingly common condition. Experts convened by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified five elements of a brain-based condition that has emerged as a leading cause of vision impairment starting in childhood in the United States and other industrialized nations. Kno  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The White House issued the following news release: NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: Benjamin J. Cheeks, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of California, vice Gonzalo P. Curiel, retired. Serena Raquel Murillo, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California, vice Cormac J. Carney, retired. * * * Original text here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/11/18/n  more

PETERSON AFB, Colorado, Nov. 20 -- The North American Aerospace Defense Command issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2024: North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) will conduct a planned live-fly air defense exercise near Riverside, California, today. NORAD F-16s and general aviation aircraft from the Civil Air Patrol will participate in the exercise. Aircraft will operate at approximately 8,500 feet and will likely be visible to the public. NORAD routinely conducts air defen  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Nov. 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2024: A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 34 years of imprisonment, to be followed by lifetime supervised release, on his convictions of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl and conspiracy to commit money laundering, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Uni  more

LIMA, Peru, Nov. 16 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following remarks by Secretary Antony J. Blinken at the Caltrain donation ceremony: * * * MR DE DIOS OLAECHEA: (Via interpreter) Last year I received a call from the mayor, who had a challenge for me for people from Lima. I can only tell you, Mr. Mayor, we did it. The dream has just begun and it is an accomplishment. Now I have another challenge for you, Mr. Mayor and other representatives here today. Let's come back here next year a  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release: Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a network of nine Mexican nationals involved in fentanyl, heroin, and other deadly drug trafficking and money laundering. Individuals designated in this network also engage in human smuggling in furtherance of their drug trafficking activities. Additionally, as members of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced nearly $15 million for nine research and development projects to increase hydropower's ability to respond to changing demand on the electric grid. This ability to operate flexibly allows hydropower facilities to help balance electricity grids with an increasing amount of variable renewable resources such as   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following news release: Representatives from nearly 50 U.S. agribusinesses and trade groups and 14 state departments of agriculture will travel to Casablanca, Morocco, Dec. 2-5, as part of a U.S. Department of Agriculture trade mission to expand U.S. farm and food exports to Morocco and other West African markets. "This mission offers a crucial opportunity for U.S. agribusinesses to enter into M  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Nov. 20 -- The Wisconsin Department of Justice issued the following news release: Attorney General Josh Kaul and a bipartisan coalition of 46 Attorneys General called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to improve their Robocall Mitigation Database (RMD) and close what has effectively been an unmonitored loophole that bad actors can exploit to access the U.S. telephone network. "People shouldn't have to be annoyed by robocall after robocall," said Attorney Genera  more