OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * AI Initiative projects receive NAIRR, INCITE awards for foundation models Research teams at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory received computing resource awards to train and test AI foundation models for science. A total of six ORNL projects were awarded allocations from the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource, or NAIRR,   more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The Department of Housing and Urban Development issued the following news release on May 7 , 2025: * * * HUD Provides $1.8 million to Support Youth Aging Out of Foster Care on Anniversary of First Lady Melania Trump's BE BEST Initiative Announcement is part of National Foster Care Month and a continuation of HUD's successful Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) program WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner, in collaborat  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, May 8 -- Gov. Josh Stein, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on May 7, 2025: * * * NC Breaks Tourism Spending Record, Continues to Be #5 Most Visited State Tourism economy shows resiliency post Helene as travelers directly add $37 billion to the state economy Governor Josh Stein announced today that the overall North Carolina tourism economy held strong against the headwinds of Hurricane Helene. Travelers spent more than $36.7 billion on trips to an  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Reduced porosity strengthens large-scale 3D prints Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a vacuum-assisted extrusion method that reduces internal porosity -- by up to 75% -- in large-scale 3D-printed polymer parts. Large-format additive manufacturing, or LFAM, enables the direct printing of meter-scale structures used in aerospace, automo  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * Texas Man Convicted of Making Threats to Kill Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk David Aaron Bloyed, 60, of Frost, Texas, was found guilty today by a federal jury of one count of communicating a threat in interstate commerce to lynch and kill Glenn Funk, the elected District Attorney General (DA) for Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee. "The defendant's heinous threats strike at the heart o  more