MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Feb. 5 -- Gov. Kay Ivey, R-Alabama, issued the following news release on Feb. 4, 2025: Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday during her state of the state address announced her support for legislation introduced on the first day of the 2025 legislative session prohibiting the use of smart phones and other wireless communication devices in Alabama public schools. "As a former teacher, I know that students cannot do their best when their learning environment is cluttered with distra  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Feb. 4 -- Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Bird Defeats Biden-Harris Emissions Mandate Threatening to Drive Gas-Powered Vehicles off the Road DES MOINES-- Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced a victory defeating the Biden-Harris Administration's illegal highway emissions mandate that attempted to drive gas-powered vehicles off the road. In 2023, the Iowa Attorney General's office sued the Federal Highw  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for Feb. 3, 2025 NAVY Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Syracuse, New York, is awarded a $551,012,019 cost-plus-incentive-fee, fixed-price incentive (firm-target), and firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for engineering and technical support and production of the submarine AN/BLQ-10 electronic warfare systems on new-construction and in-service submarines.   more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Feb. 4 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following news release: * * * Drummond defends religious organization's authority to hire based on beliefs OKLAHOMA CITY (Feb. 4, 2025) - Attorney General Gentner Drummond is standing up for religious organizations' rights to make their own employment decisions. He joined 19 other state attorneys general to file an amicus brief that could impact how religious organizations hire employees. The case invol  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * En Route to Jupiter, NASA's Europa Clipper Captures Images of Stars This version of a mosaic captured by the star tracker cameras aboard NASA's Europa Clipper on Dec. 4, 2024, features the names of stars within view of the cameras. NASA/JPL-Caltech This mosaic of a star field was made from three images captured Dec. 4, 2024, by star tracker cameras aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. Showing part of the constel-latio  more

PASADENA, California, Feb. 4 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * En Route to Jupiter, NASA's Europa Clipper Captures Images of Stars This mosaic of a star field -- showing part of the constellation Corvus -- was made from three images captured Dec. 4, 2024, by star tracker cameras aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. Use the slider to view the star field with and without star names labeled. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Three months after its launch fr  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 5 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news on Feb. 4, 2025: Louisiana Attorney General has joined a coalition of 23 other states in filing a brief arguing that taxpayers should not have to pay for sex change operations for prison inmates. The brief was filed last Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in a case from Indiana. "Louisiana taxpayers should never foot the bill for sex changes for inmates. This lunacy  more