BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 29 -- Oxfam America issued the following news release on March 28, 2025: * * * Congress must 'not sit idly by in the face of the Trump administration's illegal attempts to abolish' USAID -- Oxfam Today, in reaction to news of the Trump administration's memo for remaining USAID staff stating that most positions would be eliminated in the coming months, Oxfam America President and CEO Abby Maxman said: "Today marks the Trump administration's attempt to put a final   more

NEW YORK, March 28 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., posted the following news release: * * * In New Filing, Rumeysa Ozturk Urges Court to Protect Her Rights, Release Her BOSTON - Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was grabbed, arrested, and detained in Somerville, Massachusetts by plainclothes federal agents this  more

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, March 29 -- OASIS Open, an international open source and standards consortium, issued the following news release on March 28, 2025: * * * Invitation to comment on TOSCA Version 2.0 before call for consent as OASIS Standard 60 Day Public Review - ends May 27th OASIS and the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) TC [1] are pleased to announce that TOSCA Version 1.0 CS01 is now available for public review and comment. TOSCA provides   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 29 -- Reproductive Equity Now, an organization that says it advances reproductive justice and eliminates barriers to safe and legal abortion care, issued the following news release: * * * NH House and Senate Advance Slate of Anti-LGBTQ Bills Advocates Call For Governor to Reject All Bills That Would Set Back LGBTQ Rights following this week's votes and the House passing HB 10 and HB 148 last week CONCORD, NH (March 27, 2025) -- Today, the New Hampshire House vote  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 28 [Category: Environment] -- The Union of Concerned Scientists posted the following news release: * * * Rescinding NIH Scientific Integrity Policy is an Attack on Science and Public Health Today, President Trump's administration rescinded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy designed to maintain the use of science in decision making and protect scientific research from political interference. This attack, one of countless the administration has carried  more

WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, March 28 -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution issued the following news release: * * * WHOI's Mark Hahn named AAAS Fellow AAAS welcomes 471 scientists and engineers in the class of 2024 The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is proud to announce that Mark Hahn, a senior scientist in Biology, has been named as a 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow. AAAS is one of the world's largest general scientific societies and publ  more