HURLBURT FIELD, Florida, Dec. 5 -- The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command issued the following news: By Capt. Richard Caesar, 353rd Special Operations Wing YAKUSHIMA, Japan -- Close to 100 military and civilian personnel from the United States and Japan gathered at the Yakushima Town Hall Nov. 29, 2024 to attend a ceremony dedicating a cenotaph to the eight heroes who died when their CV-22B Osprey went down just off the coast of the island last year and the joint effort expended to sear  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs issued the following news release on Dec. 4, 2024: * * * Marks 10th Anniversary of the National Public Safety Partnership * * * Today, the Justice Department announced the addition of five new sites to the National Public Safety Partnership, a Department-wide initiative designed to improve safety and reduce violence in areas experiencing elevated crime rates. Administered by the Office of Justice Programs' Burea  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and order in federal court that recovers a total of more than $2.4 million in back wages and liquidated damages from Massachusetts and Pennsylvania healthcare staffing agencies that denied 341 employees overtime wages, including employees misclassified as independent contractors. Entered in the U.S. District Court for the Dis  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following remarks on Dec. 2, 2024, by Secretary Antony J. Blinken at the "Partnerships in Action - Honoring Our Commitment to Afghan Allies" reception: * * * MODERATOR: We will now begin our formal program. Please welcome to the stage the Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Verma, White House Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall, #AfghanEvac President Shawn VanDiver, and Florence Pouya. (Appla  more

MENLO PARK, California, Dec. 5 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: By Glennda Chui While atoms are known to wiggle very fast, dopants added to a cuprate superconductor can also cause atoms to meander very slowly. A SLAC study shows this process, called atomic relaxation, offers a new way to explore quantum states in these puzzling materials. Materials known as unconventional superconductors can conduct electricity with no loss at higher temperatures   more