WASHINGTON, June 10 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Census Bureau issued the following working paper (No. SEHSD-WP2025-03) entitled "Changes in Milestones of Adulthood." The paper was written by Paul Hemez/1 and Jonathan Vespa: * * * ABSTRACT This study uses nationally representative data from 2005 and 2023 to examine changes in young adults' (ages 25-34 years old) experiences reaching five milestones of adulthood: living away from their parents, completing their education, labor force participation,   more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * DOD Launches Child Care Expansion Initiative, Provides More Options to Military Families * Dependable and affordable child care is a big issue for military families, and it's a priority for the Defense Department, which has a number of programs underway to expand the available options. While the department runs the largest employer-sponsored child care program in the United States, military families and   more

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- NASA issued the following news on June 10, 2025: * * * Frigid Exoplanet in Strange Orbit Imaged by NASA's Webb A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Using Webb's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), researchers have successfully imaged one of two known planets surrounding the star 14 Herculis, located 60 light-years away from Earth in our own Milky Way galaxy. The exopl  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * ICYMI: Administrator Zeldin in Fox News: "Alaska is our 'Gateway to Energy Dominance'" * U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin published an op-ed, highlighting Alaska's abundant energy resources as the path to American energy dominance and economic prosperity. This is a path that has strong support from Native Alaskans. President Trump's vision to unleash the oil,  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- NASA issued the following news on June 10, 2025: * * * NASA's CODEX Captures Unique Views of Sun's Outer Atmosphere Key Points: * NASA's CODEX investigation captured images of the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, showcasing new aspects of its gusty, uneven flow. * The CODEX instrument, located on the International Space Station, is a coronagraph -- a scientific tool that creates an artificial eclipse with physical disks -- that measures the speed and temperature of  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- NASA issued the following commentary on June 10, 2025: * * * NASA's PUNCH Releases Its First Images of Huge Eruptions from Sun By Mara Johnson-Groh, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission has released its first images of large solar eruptions called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. The images were presented Tuesday at the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting in Anchorage, Alaska.   more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- NASA issued the following news: * * * NASA's Ready-to-Use Dataset Details Land Motion Across North America An online tool maps measurements and enables non-experts to understand earthquakes, subsidence, landslides, and other types of land motion. * NASA is collaborating with the Alaska Satellite Facility in Fairbanks to create a powerful web-based tool that will show the movement of land across North America down to less than an inch. The online portal and its underlyi  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- The Smithsonian Institution issued the following news release: * * * Smithsonian Presents 2025 Annual Folklife Festival July 2-7 Festival Returns to Location on the Mall From Seventh to 12th Streets * The Smithsonian Folklife Festival presents a wide-ranging theme this year: "Youth and the Future of Culture" featuring lowrider cars and bikes, skateboarders, teen fashion, filmmaking and traditional building arts and a Saturday night prom. Each part of the festival is l  more