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 Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the following recall alert on March 13, 2025: * * * Name of Product: BD Vision Climbing Harness Hazard: The recalled BD Vision harnesses can degrade over time and fail to support the climber, posing a fall hazard resulting in serious injury or death. Remedy: Refund Recall Date: March 13, 2025 Units: About 1,580 (In addition, about 130 were sold in Canada) Consumer Contact: Black Diamond toll-free at 866-306-0865 from 9   more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * NASA Atmospheric Wave-Studying Mission Releases Data from First 3,000 Orbits Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA's AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers publicly released the mission's first trove of scientific data, crucial to investigate how and why subtle changes in Earth's atmosphere cause disturbances, as well as how these atmospheric disturbances impact technological sy  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