WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following letter on May 7, 2025: * * * Mr. Charles Ezell, Acting Director, Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20415-0001 Re: Review of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Agency Actions April 21, 2025, through May 2, 2025 Dear Acting Director Ezell: The Office of Personnel Management sent a continuing request to the employees of the Federal Energy Regulatory Co  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for May 7, 2025 DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Freedom Fresh LLC,* Medley, Florida, has been awarded a maximum $348,000,000 fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for fresh fruits and vegetables. This was a competitive acquisition with five responses received. This is a five-year contract with no option periods. The ordering period end date is May 4,  more

SACRAMENTO, California, May 6 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * Governor Newsom announces appointments 5.6.25 SACRAMENTO - Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Paul Henderson, of San Francisco, has been appointed to the California African American Museum Board of Directors. Henderson has been the Executive Director at the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability since 2017. He was a Senior Policy Advisor with B  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration issued the following news release on May 7, 2025: * * * ICYMI: Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Delivers Critical Bridge Investment to Build Alabama's I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project $550 million finalized agreement will accelerate progress on largest bridge project to date WASHINGTON, D.C. - Delivering on a promise made by President Trump in 2019 during his first administratio  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- 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 - Today, 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 e  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The White House Office of Management and Budget issued the following statement of administration policy on May 6, 2025, on the Gulf of America Act (H.R. 276), which was introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, and 17 cosponsors: * * * The Administration strongly supports passage of H.R. 276, which codifies President Trump's January 20, 2025, Executive Order 14172, officially renaming as the "Gulf of America" the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the north  more