MONTGOMERY, Alabama, May 9 -- The Alabama Secretary of State issued the following news on May 8, 2025: * * * Wes Allen: "Ban on Foreign National Driver Licenses for Voting a Great Day for Alabama" Wes Allen, Alabama's Secretary of State, applauds the final passage of Senator Will Barfoot's SB158, legislation that prohibits the use of a foreign national driver license for voting purposes. "Ensuring that only American citizens are voting in our elections has been a top priority of mine since   more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for May 8, 2025 NAVY Aptim Federal Services LLC, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (N62473-25-D-2211); ECC Expeditionary Constructors LLC,* Burlingame, California (N62473-25-D-2212); Energy Solutions Federal Support LLC, Salt Lake City, Utah (N62473-25-D-2213); Insight Tidewater LLC,* Brea, California (N62473-25-D-2214); ITP America LLC, Brea, California (N62473-25-D-2215); and Perma-Fix ERRG Services,* Oak   more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- NASA issued the following article: * * * NASA Progresses Toward Crewed Moon Mission with Spacecraft, Rocket Milestones By Rachel H. Kraft Engineers, technicians, mission planners, and the four astronauts set to fly around the Moon next year on Artemis II, NASA's first crewed Artemis mission, are rapidly progressing toward launch. At the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, teams are working around the clock to move into integration and final testing of all SLS (Spa  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The National Endowment for the Humanities issued the following news release: * * * NEH Announces $9.55 Million for 68 Humanities Projects Grant awards support expanded access to historical collections, exhibitions, curriculum development, and scholarly research in the humanities. Washington, DC (May 8, 2025) - The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $9.55 million in grants for 68 humanities projects across the country. The grants will underwrite  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The National Severe Storms Laboratory issued the following news: * * * VORTEX USA Tornado Project Paper Chosen as Highlight by AMS A new paper on the PERiLS (Propagation, Evolution, and Rotation in Linear Storms) project was selected by the American Meteorological Society and the editors of Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) to be featured as a BAMS highlight. The paper discusses the design, execution and preliminary data of this groundbreaking collabo  more