WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: VALLEJO, Calif. MedMark Treatment Centers, a subsidiary of BayMark Health Services which provides treatment for opioid addiction and substance use disorders, agreed to provide $55,000 to a former employee following an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. According to the EEOC, a counselor at MedMark's treatment center in   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a right of way to Nuiqsut Trilateral, Inc. that provides durable, long-term protections for the Teshekpuk Caribou Herd and its key habitat across roughly 1 million acres within an existing Special Area in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A). The new Teshekpuk Lake Conservation Right of Way acts on   more

PETERSON AFB, Colorado, Dec. 18 -- The North American Aerospace Defense Command issued the following news release: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected and tracked four Russian military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Dec. 17, 2024. The Russian aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace. This Russian activity in the Alaska ADIZ occurs regularl  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, Dec. 19 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news on Dec. 18, 2024: South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson co-led a 23-state brief filed today with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit aimed at protecting students' First Amendment right to free speech. The case is about a school district in Ohio that adopted policies requiring everyone to use students' preferred pronouns. A group of parents challenged the policies but los  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: Conducted on December 16, 2024 SENIOR DEFENSE OFFICIAL: Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you all for joining. On Wednesday, December 18th, the department will release this year's China military power report. I thought I would open with some framing remarks and some key themes from this year's report and then open it up for questions. As you're aware, our national security strategy identifies the PRC as the only co  more