WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: * * * EEOC Sues Mayo Clinic for Religious Discrimination * Suit says employer forced security guard to get vaccination against federal civil rights laws MINNEAPOLIS -- The Mayo Clinic, which operates hospitals in Minnesota, Arizona and Florida, violated federal law when it refused to grant a security guard's request for a reasonable religious accommodation to its mandatory COVID-19 vaccina  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency issued the following news release: * * * USDA Designates 12 Montana Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas for Drought * Additional Five Montana Counties Also Eligible Due to Idaho Primary Drought Designations This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natu  more