DES MOINES, Iowa, March 6 -- Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Bird Leads 16 States in Urging Congress to Support Year-Round E15 and Unleash American Energy Greatness DES MOINES-- Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today urged Congress to pass a bipartisan bill that will unleash homegrown American energy by securing nationwide access to year-round E15 gasoline. Day one in office, President Trump signed an executive order expanding acc  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for March 5, 2025 NAVY Systems Planning and Analysis Inc., Alexandria, Virginia, is being awarded a $98,585,373 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification (P00002) to a previously awarded and announced contract (N00030247002) for support services for Nuclear Sea-Launched Cruise Missile Weapons Surety, Policy, and Compliance. Tasks to be performed include systems engineering and system integration, test/fl  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for March 6, 2025 ARMY Vertex Aerospace LLC, Madison, Mississippi (W900KK-25-D-0021); Lockheed Martin Corp., Orlando, Florida (W900KK-25-D-0022); Cubic Defense Applications Inc., San Diego, California (W900KK-25-D-0023); Ravenswood Solutions Inc.,* Fremont, California (W900KK-25-D-0024); Cole Engineering Services Inc., Orlando, Florida (W900KK-25-D-0025); Skiftech LLC,* Orlando, Florida (W900KK-  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on March 6, 2025: * * * EPA Marks Major Milestone with Partial Deletion of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center from Superfund National Priorities List Huntsville, Ala. (March 6, 2025) - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is celebrating a major step forward in environmental restoration of the USARMY/NASA Redstone Arsenal Superfund site in Huntsville, Alabama. Cleanup has been completed for 5  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * Former priest and convicted child molester sentenced for passport fraud, stripped of citizenship, and ordered deported ALEXANDRIA, La. - An investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has resulted in a one-year sentence for passport fraud for Jorge Antonio Velez-Lopez, a 69-year-old Columbian national, former archdiocese priest and convic  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- The White House has released the following text of President Trump's remarks delivered during his joint address to Congress on March 4, 2025: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very much. Thank you very much. It's a great honor. Thank you very much. Speaker Johnson, Vice President Vance, the first lady of the United States -- (applause) -- members of the United States Congress, thank you very much. And to my fellow citizens, America is back. (Appla  more

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, March 6 -- The Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen issued the following statement on March 5, 2025: * * * "Today, HB 363, Alabama's ban on foreign national contributions to political candidates and committees, successfully passed out of the Alabama House Ethics and Campaign Finance Committee. Alabama's hardworking men and women deserve elections that are funded honestly and transparently. This bill protects Alabama elections against potential influence and manipulation fr  more