NEW YORK, May 8 -- Columbia University's Columbia Journalism School issued the following news: * * * 2025 Lipman Criminal Justice Grant Recipients Announced Discover this year's Lipman Grant recipients. The Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights awarded five grants totaling $180,000 to journalists and newsrooms for reporting on inequalities and misconduct in the American criminal justice system. The Lipman Center's Initiative in Reporting on Race and Criminal Justi  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

TUCSON, Arizona, May 8 -- The city of Tucson issued the following news on May 7, 2025: * * * Notice for Lariat Village Affordable Rental Development Request for Release of Funds On or about May 22, 2025, the City of Tucson Housing & Community Development Department will submit a request to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the release of HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) funds, under Title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez Act of 1990, as amended, and the Cit  more

TUCSON, Arizona, May 8 -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * A vast molecular cloud, long invisible, is discovered near solar system By Hannah Hindley An international team of scientists including University of Arizona astronomer Erika Hamden has discovered a molecular cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky, and among the closest molecular clouds to Earth ever detected. Previously invisible to telescopes, the discovery hints at the pre  more