WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: Albuquerque, N.M. The Bureau of Land Management today announced the release of its Record of Decision and Approved Rio Puerco Field Office Resource Management Plan (RMP), updating the 1986 Rio Puerco RMP and its 1992 amendment. The planning area spans portions of Bernalillo, Cibola, McKinley, Torrance, Sandoval, and Valencia counties in central and west-central New Mexico. "  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- Rep. Danny K. Davis, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-IL) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) introduced the Protecting Foster Youth Resources Act to protect the benefits and assets of foster youth by stopping states from making disabled and orphaned foster youth pay for their own care. When child welfare entities serve as Social Security Representative Payees for foster youth, they are supposed to act as fiduciaries and use funds in the be  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) recently introduced the Trustworthy by Design Artificial Intelligence (TBD A.I.) Act, legislation that aims to address realistic, short-term challenges created by unregulated A.I. technologies by establishing best practice guidelines for all phases of A.I. development. The legislation would direct the National Institute of Security and Technology   more