SAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug. 20 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report: * * * Alaska Job Openings and Labor Turnover -- June 2025 * Alaska had 18,000 job openings in June 2025, compared to 15,000 openings in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the job openings rate in Alaska was 5.0 percent in June and 4.3 perc  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- The Federal Trade Commission issued the following news release: * * * FTC Sues LA Fitness for Making it Difficult for Consumers to Cancel Gym Memberships * The Federal Trade Commission today sued the operators of LA Fitness and other gyms over allegations they make it exceedingly difficult for consumers to cancel their gym memberships and related services that continued indefinitely unless cancelled. The agency is seeking a court order prohibiting the allegedly unfair   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * ICE arrests twice-convicted, drunk-driving illegal alien who's been hiding in California for over 20 years * WASHINGTON -- ICE San Francisco arrested an illegal alien convicted of two separate drunk driving incidents Aug. 17. Jose De Santiago-Martinez, an illegal alien from Mexico, was sentenced to just four days for one count of driving under the inf  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * Illinois Doctor Sentenced to 34 Months in Prison for Evading $1.6M in Taxes and Committing Health Care Fraud * An Illinois doctor was sentenced today to 34 months in prison for committing health care fraud and for hiding assets and lying to the IRS about his ability to pay approximately $1.6 million in taxes, penalties, and interest. The following is according to court documents and statements ma  more

LIVERMORE, California, Aug. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Inside the Lab: Meet the team protecting America from nuclear threats In the latest episode of its "Inside the Lab" YouTube series, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is featuring the Radiological Assistance Program (RAP), offering a rare look at how national laboratory scientists support high-stakes nuclear and radiological emergency response oper  more

PASADENA, California, Aug. 21 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * NASA: Ceres May Have Had Long-Standing Energy to Fuel Habitability The dwarf planet is cold now, but new research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived energy source that may have maintained habitable conditions in the past. * New NASA research has found that Ceres may have had a lasting source of chemical energy: the right types of molecules needed to fuel some microbial  more

PASADENA, California, Aug. 21 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * New NASA-ESA Sea Level Satellite Arrives at California Launch Site The Sentinel-6B satellite will soon start final preparation to ready it for launch later this year. * After a trans-Atlantic journey on a cargo ship and a truck ride from Texas to California, the international sea level satellite Sentinel-6B arrived at a NASA facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Aug.18.   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: * * * Ready to deploy: 12th Air Task Force achieves final certification * SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AFNS) -- The 12th Air Task Force achieved its final certification on August 18, 2025, after successfully completing Bamboo Eagle 25-3. This accomplishment not only validates the unit's readiness for its upcoming U.S. Central Command deployment but is also sets the standard as one of the first Air Task Forces trained for the  more

MENLO PARK, California, Aug. 20 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Researchers track the motion of a single electron during a chemical reaction * By Emily Ayshford Valence electrons, located in the outermost shell of an atom, play an important role in driving chemical reactions and forming bonds with other atoms. But imaging these particles as they perform this work is tricky. Not only are valence electrons incredibly small, they also for  more

EL SEGUNDO, California, Aug. 21 -- The U.S. Space Systems Command issued the following news release: * * * Space Systems Command Activates New Systems Delta Summary: Space Systems Command (SSC), the U.S. Space Force field command responsible for developing and delivering resilient space capabilities, activated a new Systems Delta to support the Battle Management, Command, Control, Communication, and Space Intelligence (BMC3I) Program Executive Office portfolio. This activation synchronizes ac  more