COLUMBIA, South Carolina, March 14 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: * * * Attorney General Alan Wilson defends President Trump's Executive Order on birthright citizenship ( COLUMBIA, S.C. ) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joined 18 other state attorneys general in filing a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, supporting President Trump's Executive Order that clarifies the limits of birthright citiz  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for March 14, 2025 AIR FORCE General Electric Aerospace, Cincinnati, Ohio, has been awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity $5,000,000,000 ceiling contract for F110 Foreign Military Sales (FMS) engines. This contract provides five years of pricing for F110-129 install and spare engines, with modernized engine monitoring system computers and spare engine accessories s  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the following recall alert on March 13, 2025: * * * Name of Product: Gerolsteiner 750ml Sparkling Water Bottles Hazard: The recalled water bottles can crack, causing a laceration hazard. Remedy: Refund Recall Date: March 13, 2025 Units: About 61,500 bottles Consumer Contact: Gerolsteiner at 800-777-0633 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, email at customerservice@consup.us, or online at https://www.gerols  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * Finalists Selected in NASA Aeronautics Agriculture-Themed Competition Eight finalist teams participating in the 2025 NASA Gateways to Blue Skies Competition have been selected to present to a panel of judges their design concepts for aviation solutions that can help the agriculture industry. Sponsored by NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, this year's competition asked teams of university students to research  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, March 15 -- The Florida Department of Education issued the following news release on March 14, 2025: * * * Florida Department of Education Announces Florida Leads the Nation on the EdChoice Friedman Index Florida earns the highest ranking amongst states for the amount of choice available for K-12 students Tallahassee, Fla., March 14, 2025 - Today, the Florida Department of Education announced that Florida has earned the highest score on the 2025 EdChoice Friedman Index.  more

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, March 14 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (16th Air Force) issued the following news: * * * MICC hosts 2nd quarter fiscal year 2025 workforce town hall, commits to transparency JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas - The Mission and Installation Contracting Command hosted a second-quarter fiscal year 2025 town hall Feb. 18, answering wide-ranging questions for well over an hour at Blesse Auditorium at Joint Base San Antonio  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following news release: * * * Office for Civil Rights Initiates Title VI Investigations into Institutions of Higher Education WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened investigations into 45 universities under Title VI following OCR's February 14 Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) that reiterated schools' civil rights obligations to end the use of racial preferences and stereotypes in educa  more

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, March 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama issued the following news release: * * * Three Pike County, Alabama Residents Charged with Federal Rental Assistance Program Fraud MONTGOMERY, Ala, - Today, Acting United States Attorney Kevin Davidson announced that a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama indicted three individuals for their roles in a scheme to defraud the United States government. According to the indictment, 50-year-ol  more

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, March 15 -- The Alabama Secretary of State issued the following news on March 14, 2025: * * * USDOJ and Liberal Organizations Drop Biden-era Lawsuits Against Secretary of State Wes Allen MONTGOMERY, Ala. - USDOJ has dismissed its Biden-Harris administration lawsuit filed just before the 2024 presidential election to halt Secretary Allen's efforts to keep noncitizens from voting in Alabama elections. Along with USDOJ's dismissal, came the dismissal of a separate but overla  more