WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- The Department of Housing and Urban Development issued the following news release: * * * Original text here: Biden-Harris Administration Delivers $12 Billion in Long-Term Assistance to Communities Impacted by Disasters Funds will support recovery from Lahaina Wildfire, Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Milton, and other 2023 & 2024 disasters WASHINGTON \- Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the allocation of nearly $12 billion in C  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) sued Vanderbilt Mortgage & Finance for setting families up to fail when they borrowed money to buy a manufactured home. The CFPB alleges that Vanderbilt's business model ignored clear and obvious red flags that the borrowers could not afford the loans. As a result, many families found themselves struggling to make payments an  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 8 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Jan. 7, 2025: * * * Landlord Cortland Agrees to Cooperate with Justice Department and Enter into a Settlement to End the Use of Common Rental Pricing Algorithms and Competitively Sensitive Data to Set Rents * * * Attorney General William Tong today joined the U.S. Department of Justice and nine other states filing an amended complaint in its antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, suin  more

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, Jan. 8 -- The U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center issued the following news: By Mila Cisneros, AFIMSC Public Affairs The Air Force Civil Engineer Center announced the winners of the 2024 Department of the Air Force Design Awards on Dec. 20, recognizing five projects that demonstrated outstanding achievement in design, sustainability and energy efficiency. The AFCEC Facility Engineering Directorate, which is responsible for the design, construction and   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- The Federal Trade Commission issued the following news release: The Federal Trade Commission, along with the New York Attorney General, are taking action against gig economy company Handy Technologies for making a broad array of deceptive claims about how much money workers on its platform could earn. The complaint charges that Handy, which currently does business as Angi Services, has peppered its advertisements with earnings claims that don't reflect the reality for th  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Shaun Gleason, director of the Partnerships Office at ORNL. Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Shaun Gleason has been named director of the Partnerships Office at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, effective January 6. The Partnerships Office advances and connects several critical elements within and beyond the laboratory, including entrepre  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Shaun Gleason has been named director of the Partnerships Office at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, effective January 6. The Partnerships Office advances and connects several critical elements within and beyond the laboratory, including entrepreneurship, commercialization and intellectual property management; technology transfer; strategic p  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration issued the following news release: Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced $44.5 million in grant awards for communities in 13 states and Puerto Rico under its Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program (ATIIP). Authorized through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the grants will be used to plan, design, and construct projects for connec  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration issued the following news release: Funding will improve safety for those biking, walking, and accessing transit in 13 states and Puerto Rico FHWA 01-25 Contact: FHWA.PressOffice@dot.gov (link sends email) Tel: (202) 366-0660 WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced $44.5 million in grant awards for communities in 13 states and Pu  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Jan. 7, 2025: * * * Landlord Cortland Agrees to Cooperate with Justice Department and Enter into a Settlement to End the Use of Common Rental Pricing Algorithms and Competitively Sensitive Data to Set Rents Attorneys General of Illinois and Massachusetts Join Suit Against RealPage and Apartment Landlords, Bringing Total State and Commonwealth Co-Plaintiffs to 10 * * * The Justice Department, together w  more

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, Jan. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina issued the following news release: * * * Landlord Cortland Agrees to Cooperate with Justice Department and Enter into a Settlement to End the Use of Common Rental Pricing Algorithms and Competitively Sensitive Data to Set Rents Attorneys General of Illinois and Massachusetts Join Suit Against RealPage and Apartment Landlords, Bringing Total State and Commonwealth Co-Plaintiffs to 10  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Benjamin Manard, a nuclear analytical chemist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named the 2025 winner of the Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award from Spectroscopy magazine. He leads the Chemical and Isotopic Mass Spectrometry group in ORNL's Chemical Sciences Division. The magazine, which is published by MJH Associates, sup  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: ORNL's Benjamin Manard is an emerging leader in atomic spectroscopy. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept of Energy Benjamin Manard, a nuclear analytical chemist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named the 2025 winner of the Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award from Spectroscopy magazine. He leads the Chemical and Isotopic  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 8 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release on Jan. 7, 2025: The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office has joined the Justice Department in filing an antitrust lawsuit against RealPage and five of the nation's largest landlords for participating in algorithmic pricing and other schemes that harm renters. In August 2024, an initial complaint was filed against RealPage for its unlawful scheme to decrease competition among  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Jan. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Hampshire issued the following news release: United States Attorney Jane E. Young announces the appointment of Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) John Kennedy as the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, the internal transfers of AUSA Kasey Weiland to the Civil Division and AUSA Matthew Vicinanzo to the Criminal Division, and the creation of an External Engagement Division at the United States Attorn  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Growing up in a city flanked by rivers, Phong Le is combining his lifelong curiosity about the natural world with his math and science skills to better understand water resources and quantify the risk of hazards such as flooding for humans and the environment. Le, a computational hydrologist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is helping deve  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Caption: Phong Le is a computational hydrologist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who is putting his skills in hydrology, numerical modeling, machine learning and high-performance computing to work quantifying water-related risks for humans and the environment. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Growing up in a city flanked by rivers, Phong Le is combi  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: At temperatures hotter than the sun, even a small disruption can interfere with a fusion reaction. Scientists planning for the operations of ITER, an international fusion plant now under assembly, needed to solve the problem of runaway electrons, negatively charged particles in the soup of matter in the plasma within the tokamak, a kind of magnetic bottle that confin  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Simulations performed on ORNL's Summit supercomputer may point to a solution for the problem of runaway electrons inside a fusion reactor's tokamak. The study suggests the Alfven wave, left, a ripple-like fluctuation of the magnetic field within the reactor's plasma, could be used to disperse the electrons, right. Credit: Chang Liu, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Ryan Culler speaks at the ceremony last month marking the transfer of Ac-225 production to IPMD. Credit: Kurt Weiss/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy From the time he was 4 years old, Ryan Culler wanted to be an astronomer. It wasn't until after he'd graduated with a master's degree in astrophysics and taught astronomy for a few years that he realized it just wasn't in   more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, Jan. 8 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news on Jan. 7, 2025: South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson signed onto a letter raising concerns that proposed changes to the American Bar Association's (ABA) admission standards for law schools violate a Supreme Court ruling and unlawfully use racial preferences when deciding which students to accept. "Merit should be the criteria for law school admission, not racial preference," said A  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: Jan. 7, 2025 Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the appointment of 36 members to serve on the newly formed Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program Advisory Council, informally referred to as to the Growing Climate Solutions Act Advisory Council. The council will support the Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifie  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: USDA is accepting applications for the USDA 1890 National Scholars Program. January 7, 2025 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is accepting applications for the USDA 1890 National Scholars Program, which aims to encourage students at 1890 land-grant universities to pursue career paths in food, agriculture, natural resource sciences, or related academic disciplines. The application deadline is Mar  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (TNSfact) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on Jan. 7, 2025: * * * President Biden Establishes Chuckwalla and Sattitla Highlands National Monuments in California President Biden has now conserved more lands and waters than any President in history and has created the largest corridor of protected lands in the lower 48 states, the Moab to Mojave Conservation Corridor Surrounded by canyon walls in the Eastern Coachella Valley, today President Biden will sign  more