WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Optimized Materials in a Flash AutoBot platform combines machine learning and robotics to rapidly find the best ways to make advanced materials. Key Takeaways * Researchers developed AutoBot, an automated, AI-driven laboratory that accelerates optimization of materials synthesis. * In just a few weeks, AutoBot pinpointed the best combinations of synthesis pa  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- The Federal Trade Commission issued the following news release: * * * FTC Sues Live Nation and Ticketmaster for Engaging in Illegal Ticket Resale Tactics and Deceiving Artists and Consumers about Price and Ticket Limits * The Federal Trade Commission and seven states sued Live Nation and Ticketmaster for tacitly coordinating with brokers and allowing them to harvest millions of dollars worth of tickets in the primary market. Live Nation and Ticketmaster then sell the   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- The Navy Installations Command issued the following news: * * * JBPHH-based CPOs ensure future enlisted leaders are tried, tested and approved * JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - Twenty-two Joint Base Pearl Harbor (JBPHH) service members were promoted to the coveted rank of chief petty officer, Sept. 16, 2025, during a promotion ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. The new Chiefs spent the past six weeks learning and training with active duty, reservis  more

PASADENA, California, Sept. 19 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * NASA's Deep Space Communications Demo Exceeds Project Expectations The project has exceeded all of its technical goals after two years, setting up the foundations of high-speed communications for NASA's future human missions to Mars. NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology successfully showed that data encoded in lasers could be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded af  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Naval Research Laboratory Robotic Servicing Payload Clears Thermal Vacuum Lab Test, Readies for Space * WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with and with funding support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Northrop Grumman's SpaceLogistics, has reached a historic milestone in satellite servicing technology, completing on Sept. 5 a crit  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (TNSrep) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: * * * NOAA Announces Confirmed U.S. Large Whale Entanglement Numbers for 2024 There were 95 large whale entanglement cases documented in 2024--an increase from 2023 and higher than the historical average. * NOAA Fisheries has released the National Report on Large Whale Entanglements Confirmed in the United States in 2024 (https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/71359). There  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (TNSrpt) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: * * * Data Shows Healthy Numbers of Quillback Rockfish off California; Fishing to Resume Charter fishing vessels helped collect data to reassess state of the species. * New data collected with help from California fishermen has revealed more quillback rockfish off the California Coast than estimated earlier. These findings allow NOAA Fisheries to drop fishing restrictions meant to  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued the following news release: * * * OCC Announces Enforcement Actions for September 2025 * The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released enforcement actions taken against national banks and federal savings associations (banks), and individuals currently and formerly affiliated with banks the OCC supervises.  The OCC uses enforcement actions against banks to requir  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service (ERS) issued a report on September 16, 2025, titled 'Rice Outlook: September 2025' by coordinator Nathan Childs and contributors Vidalina Abadam and Jennifer Bond. The report, RCS-25H, indicates that the U.S. all-rice production forecast for 2025/26 is raised by 313,000 hundredweight (cwt) to 208.8 million, primarily due to a 1-percent increase in harvested area, which more than offsets a reduction in  more

MENLO PARK, California, Sept. 18 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Remote eyes on the sky: Inside SLAC's Rubin control room * By Gaelle Suter It's April 2025, and the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory control room at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is buzzing with activity. On the Menlo Park campus in California, on the first floor of the home of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (ex  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following statement by Principal Deputy Spokesperson Thomas Pigott: * * * Reward Offer of up to $5 Million for Information Leading to Arrest and/or Conviction of Sinaloa Cartel Leader El Ruso Today, the Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs is announcing a reward offer of up to $5 million under the Narcotics Rewards Program (NRP) for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2025: * * * Treasury Sanctions Powerful Faction of the Terrorist Sinaloa Cartel Under Secretary Hurley Visits Border and Sanctions Top Sinaloa Cartel Faction * Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Sinaloa Cartel faction Los Mayos, along with the leader of the faction's armed wing. These sanctions follow Under Secretary of the T  more