WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued the following program update: * * * APHIS Expands the Citrus Greening (Huanglongbing) Quarantined Area in California * Subject: To: State, Tribal, and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials Effective immediately, the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), in cooperation with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), is expanding the areas qu  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * Co-Founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada Garcia, Pleads Guilty to Engaging in a Continuing Criminal Enterprise and Racketeering * Ismael Zambada Garcia also known as El Mayo, 75, of Sinaloa, Mexico, pleaded guilty today to being a principal leader of a continuing criminal enterprise -- the Sinaloa Cartel (the Cartel), one of the most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizat  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news release: * * * Coast Guard achieves historic milestone with offload over 76,140 lbs. in illegal narcotics at Port Everglades * Editor's note: All Coast Guard Southeast imagery can be found on DVIDS, here. Offload b-roll can be found, here. Case imagery can be found: Eastern Pacific, Caribbean Case video can be found: U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant interdicts over 1,615 pounds of il  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency issued the following news: * * * Don't just ask a chatbot. Have it push useful info right when it's needed. Novel tools automatically capture and effectively disseminate workflow knowledge * Asking a chatbot for help on any number of issues has become part of daily life for many. But today's query-based AI tools built on large language models (LLMs) are limited to responding to questions users ask. These tools can pull q  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * EPA Takes Action to Deny California's Latest Illegal Power Grab on Heavy-Duty Vehicles * WASHINGTON - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to disapprove of California's Heavy-Duty (HD) Inspection and Maintenance (I/M) Requirements as it applies to out-of-state and out-of-country vehicles. The HD I/M requirement in the State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by California e  more

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland issued the following news: * * * Hegseth announces establishment of Mexican Border Defense Medal * WASHINGTON - Effective immediately, the Mexican Border Defense Medal is established to recognize service members deployed to the U.S. international border with Mexico for Defense Department support to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an Aug. 13 memora  more

LIVERMORE, California, Aug. 26 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Samples from asteroid Bennu contain secrets of the early solar system In September 2023, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission became the first U.S. mission to collect a sample of material from an asteroid and return it to Earth. Now, a team including researchers at Lawr  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: * * * San Diego Sector Border Patrol sees increase in drug smuggling attempts using car batteries * SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- The U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego Sector has uncovered a concerning pattern: smugglers hiding dangerous narcotics inside vehicle batteries. In recent months, agents have intercepted multiple loads of drugs concealed under the hood in this manner  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: * * * Summary of Incident: Fatality of an Unknown Pedestrian who was Struck by a Vehicle on I-210 in Monrovia, California * This notification is being issued to the public pursuant to the CBP policy regarding Notification and Review Procedures for Certain Deaths and Deaths in Custody and the Department of Homeland Security FY 2021 Appropriation (H. Rept. 116-458) r  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Department of Education, Federal Partners Issue Guidance to Help Colleges and Universities Mitigate Foreign Threats to Research * Today, the U.S. Department of Education, alongside the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's (ODNI) National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) and other federal partners issued new guidance in its Safeguarding Academia bulletin to alert U.  more