ALBANY, New York, Jan. 16 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General James and New York State Department of Health Take Action to Shut Down Herkimer County Vape Shop January 16, 2025 NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Letitia James and the New York State Department of Health (DOH) today announced a lawsuit against G Smoke 360 Corp. and Liberty Smokeland, two companies operating a vape shop in Ilion, Herkimer County, and their owner  more

ALBANY, New York, Jan. 16 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General James Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Funding Program for Broadband Access in Rural Communities January 16, 2025 NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Letitia James today urged the Supreme Court to uphold a funding program that supports broadband access in rural communities across the country. The Universal Service Fund (USF) supports internet, phone, and communication  more

ALBANY, New York, Jan. 16 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General James' Office of Special Investigation Releases Report on Death of Jose Mejia Martinez NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Letitia James' Office of Special Investigation (OSI) today released its report on the death of Jose Mejia Martinez, who died on June 10, 2021 while incarcerated in the George R. Vierno Center (GRVC) on Rikers Island. Following a comprehensive inv  more

ALBANY, New York, Jan. 17 -- The New York State Department of Health issued the following news release on Jan. 16, 2025: * * * G Smoke, Also Known as Liberty Smokeland, and Its Owners Persistently Violated New York State Public Health and Tax Laws and Endangered Youth Health Lawsuit Seeks to Shut Down Store, Ban Owners from Selling Flavored Vapor Products, and Recover All Illegal Profits * * * New York Attorney General Letitia James and the New York State Department of Health (DOH) today an  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Chairman Capito Asks Zeldin about his Vision to Lead EPA, Returning Agency to Core Missions To watch Chairman Capito's questions, click here or the image above. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, participated in a hearing on the Nomination of Lee Zeldin to be Administrator of the E  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Chairman Capito Opening Statement at Hearing on Nomination of Lee Zeldin to Lead EPA To watch Chairman Capito's opening statement, click here or the image above. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, held a hearing on the Nomination of Lee Zeldin to be the Administrator of the Environ  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury Comptroller of the Currency issued the following news release on Jan. 16, 2025: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released enforcement actions taken against national banks and federal savings associations (banks), and individuals currently and formerly affiliated with banks the OCC supervises. The OCC also announced updates to its enforcement action search tool. The OCC uses enforcement actions against banks to   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for Jan. 15, 2025 DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics LLC,** as successor-in-interest to Science Applications International Corp., Fairfield, New Jersey (SPE8E3-25-D-0008, $3,008,600,000); and Noble Supply & Logistics,* Boston, Massachusetts (SPE8E3-25-D-0009, $1,940,200,000), have each been awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract under  more

ALBANY, New York, Jan. 16 -- The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued the following news release: * * * DEC Announces Camp Santanoni Winter Weekends Winter Weekends: Jan. 18-20, Feb. 15-17, and March 15-16 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar today announced three upcoming Winter Weekend events at the historic Camp Santanoni in the town of Newcomb in the Adirondacks. Hosted by DEC and Friends of Camp Santano  more

ALBANY, New York, Jan. 15 -- The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued the following news release: * * * DEC Forest Rangers - Week in Review New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents statewide. Working with other state agencies, local emergency response organizations, and volunteer search and rescue groups, Forest Rangers locate, and extract lost, injured, or distressed people from across New Yo  more

UPTON, New York, Jan. 17 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * A Brookhaven Lab researcher has conceptualized an "exocortex," an extension of the human brain that will generate inspiration and imagination for scientific discovery * * * Artificial intelligence (AI) once seemed like a fantastical construct of science fiction, enabling characters to deploy spacecrafts to neighboring galaxies with a casual command. Human  more

UPTON, New York, Jan. 17 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Particles of light emitted from collisions of deuterons with gold ions provide direct evidence that energetic jets get 'stuck' -- a key signature of quark-gluon plasma * * * A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that collisions of even very small nuclei with large ones might   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: * * * EEOC Sues FedEx for Disability Discrimination Federal Lawsuit Says Worldwide Provider of Business Services Failed to Accommodate Disabled Dispatchers NEW YORK - Federal Express Corporation, doing business as FedEx Express, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate several dispatchers' requests to continue working from home and demanded the dispatchers' immediate return to its  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Jan. 16, 2025: NEW YORK - After carefully considering public comment, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its third periodic review of the cleanup of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the Upper Hudson River. The EPA looked at all the project data for water, fish and sediment collected between 2016-2021, and the fish data from 2022. The EPA's review concludes that the levels of PC  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * ERO Philadelphia removes convicted drug trafficker to Colombia PHILADELPHIA - Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal Operations Philadelphia removed Carlos Julio Sierra Varela, a citizen of Colombia with a final order of removal, to Colombia on Jan. 12. Sierra was convicted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of N  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The Federal Communications Commission issued the following statement on Jan. 16, 2025, by Commissioner Geoffrey Starks on an action entitled "Protecting the Nation's Communications Systems from Cybersecurity Threats, Declaratory Ruling and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" (PS Docket No. 22-239): * * * As I have frequently said: "Network security is national security."/1 One of my highest priorities as a Commissioner has been to make our telecommunications networks more sec  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (TNSFR) -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the withdrawal of approval for 12 new drug applications (NDAs) after applicants confirmed that these products are no longer marketed. The decision, effective February 14, 2025, affects widely known drugs such as Diamox IV by Teva, Tarceva by OSI Pharmaceuticals, and Atripla by Gilead Sciences. The manufacturers requested the withdrawals and waived their rights to a hearing under FDA regulations, allowing for a  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: * * * FEMA, Cherokee Nation Sign Historic Agreement that Will Help Disaster Survivors WASHINGTON -- Leaders of FEMA and the Cherokee Nation signed an agreement on Jan. 15 that will enable the Tribal Nation to deploy in support of FEMA's operations during disasters, the first such agreement ever signed. The Intergovernmental Service Agreement (IGSA) is a form  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate issued the following news: * * * The Science and Technology Directorate's (S&T) National Urban Security Technology Laboratory (NUSTL) and the Big City Fire Working Group (BCF) have reached a major milestone toward introducing electric vehicle-related safety improvements to the National Electrical Code. * * * Back in 2023, members of the Big City Fire Working Group (BCF), which is organized unde  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Jan. 16, 2025: The American Express Company (American Express), based in New York, New York, has agreed to pay a $108.7 million civil penalty to resolve allegations that it violated the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) by deceptively marketing credit card and wire transfer products and by entering "dummy" Employer Identification Numbers in the credit card accoun  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (Sen.) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release: * * * McConnell on Biden Admin. Foreign Policy Legacy and Restoring American Hard Power Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the Biden Administration's foreign policy and assessing the work ahead: "Earlier this week, President Biden went to the State Department and offered a final assessment  more

WEST POINT, New York, Jan. 17 -- The Military Academy issued the following news release: Cadets from the U.S. Military Academy will march in the 60th Inaugural Parade in Washington, D.C., in honor of President Donald J. Trump beginning at 12 p.m. Approximately 100 cadets will represent the academy in the Inaugural Parade led by First Captain Anna "Caroline" Robinson from Birmingham, Ala. Also represented is Cadet Lewis Mazikowski of Dupont, Wash., who will lead Company A4, Cadet Adam Azmeh of  more

ALBANY, New York, Jan. 17 (TNSres) -- New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli issued the following news release: * * * DiNapoli Says Funding for Services to Support Seniors Should Keep Up With Growth * * * New York City's 65 and older population grew by nearly half a million seniors in the last two decades, an increase of 53%, according to a new report by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. Much of the growth was led by Asian, Hispanic and Black seniors calling the city home  more

NEW YORK, Jan. 15 -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued the following statement on Jan. 14, 2025, in response to Governor Kathy Hochul's State of the State address: * * * "Governor Hochul's State of the State address showed her commitment to making New York a safer, more affordable city for working-class families. "As the governor stated today, her top priority is public safety. She understands that we must tackle street homelessness in the five boroughs, and one of the key pieces to gett  more

NEW YORK, Jan. 17 -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued the following news on Jan. 16, 2025: New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced the release of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Preliminary Budget to continue making New York City the best place to raise a family. The budget deepens the administration's commitment to strong fiscal management, achieving savings and reducing asylum seeker costs, and makes key investments that protect critical programs and services, making the city safer, mor  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Jan. 16 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release: * * * Non-Prosecution Agreement Resolves Investigation of the Company's Sales and Marketing of Wire Products to Help Customers Avoid Paying Taxes * * * Judy Philips, Acting Attorney for the United States for the Eastern District of New York and Harry T. Chavis, Jr., Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, New York (IRS-CI), a  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The National Labor Relations Board issued the following weekly case summary for Dec. 16-20, 2024: * * * Summarized Board Decisions USC Care Medical Group, Inc., Keck Medicine of USC (31-CA-307034 and 31-RC-299354; 374 NLRB No. 2) (https://apps.nlrb.gov/link/document.aspx/09031d4583ed63a3) Pasadena, CA, December 16, 2024. The Board adopted the Administrative Law Judge's conclusions that the Respondent violated Section 8(a)(1) and engaged in objectionable conduct by thre  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: * * * Ricketts on Senate Floor: Laken Riley Act Is "Our First Step" to Help President Trump Secure the Border WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) called on his colleagues to pass the Laken Riley Act. The Laken Riley Act would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain illegal aliens who commit theft, burglary, larceny, or shoplifting o  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release: * * * SBA Administrator Guzman Grants More Than $26M to Create 13 New Women's Business Centers WASHINGTON -- Today, Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice in President Biden's Cabinet for America's more than 34 million small businesses, awarded $26.25 million to create 13 new Women's Business Centers (WBC) and support 17 existing WBCs ac  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (Sen.) -- Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-New York, issued the following news release: * * * SCHUMER: $18 MILLION FOR EDWARDS VACUUM IS LOCKED IN! CHIPS INVESTMENT FINALIZED FOR GENESEE COUNTY FOR EDWARDS VACUUM 600 JOB SEMICONDUCTOR DRY PUMP FACTORY Funding Directly From Schumer's Bipartisan CHIPS & Science Law Will Support Edwards Vacuum's Plans To Build A First-Of-Its-Kind $300+M American Semiconductor Dry Pump Factory In Genesee County Finalized Commerce  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (Sen.) -- Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-New York, issued the following news release: * * * SCHUMER: $32 MILLION IN FED FUNDING FOR CORNING INCORPORATED'S EXPANSION IN NORTH COUNTRY IS LOCKED IN! SENATOR ANNOUNCES CHIPS AWARD FOR 300+ JOB CANTON GLASS MANUFACTURING EXPANSION IS SIGNED &... Finalized Commerce Award Will Ensure Corning Incorporated Can Tap Schumer-Created CHIPS Funding For Canton Project In Coming Years As It Meets Project Milestones Corning   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following news release on Jan. 16, 2025: * * * Firm ignored material vulnerabilities for years; voluntarily repaid impacted funds and accounts $165 million * * * The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against New York-based investment advisers Two Sigma Investments LP and Two Sigma Advisers LP (collectively, Two Sigma) for breaching their fiduciary duties by failing to reasonably address   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 1:25-civ-00280; S.D.N.Y. filed Jan. 13, 2025) involving Alfred V. Tobia Jr. and Elizabeth Lee: * * * SEC Charges Former Public Company Officer and His Sister-In-Law with Insider Trading * * * On January 13, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Alfred V. Tobia, Jr., the former president and chief investment officer (CIO) of one public company and a member of the board of   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 22-cv-8142; S.D.N.Y. filed Sept. 23, 2022) involving Morningview Financial LLC, Miles M. Riccio and Joseph M. Riccio Jr.: * * * On December 23, 2024, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered final judgments on consent against Defendant Morningview Financial, LLC, a company alleged to have acted as an unregistered dealer; Defendant Miles M. Riccio, Mor  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on Jan. 16, 2025: Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), former Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, introduced former Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Zeldin is President-Elect Donald J. Trump's nominee to serve as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Click here (https://ww  more

TYLER, Texas, Jan. 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas issued the following news release: A former Texas hospital chief executive officer has been sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, announced U.S. Attorney Damien M. Diggs. Jeffrey Paul Madison, 49, of Burnet, Texas; Susan L. Hertzberg, 66, of New York, New York; Matthew John Theiler, 58, of Pinehurst, North Carolina; David Weldon Kraus, 66, of Maryvi  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Department of Transportation Accomplishments Overview - January 2021-January 2025 Thanks to Secretary Buttigieg's leadership, America's transportation systems are in better shape than they were four years ago, and the foundation has been laid for major progress in the coming years on all modes of travel and our supply chains. After passage of the historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, issued the following news: * * * VIDEO: Senate Passes Cornyn Amendment to Detain Illegal Migrants Who Assault Law Enforcement Officers WASHINGTON - Yesterday on the floor, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) proposed an amendment to the Laken Riley Act that would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain illegal immigrants who assault a member of law enforcement. The amendment was adopted by a vote of 70-25. Excerpts of Sen.  more

NEW YORK, Jan. 17 -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued the following news on Jan. 16, 2025: New York City Mayor Eric Adams today released the administration's Fiscal Year 2026 Preliminary Budget to make New York City the best place to raise a family. The budget deepens the administration's commitment to strong fiscal management, achieving savings and reducing asylum seeker costs, investing in critical programs and services, and making the city safer, more affordable, and more livable for wo  more