WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 -- Twenty attorneys general and Hawaii Office of Consumer Protection submitted a public comment letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) opposing the agency's proposed rule on the legal standard applicable to supervisory designation proceedings. The letter emphasizes concerns that the proposed changes could severely limit the Bureau's authority to oversee nonbank financial institutions, placing millions of consumers at greater risk of financial harm. The le  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 -- A coalition of 44 state and regional banking associations representing thousands of community banks has submitted a public comment letter to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) applauding their efforts to address the growing issue of payments fraud, which has become a pressing challenge for community banks. The ICBA emphasizes that community banks are in  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * A Chilling Discovery: The Surprising Flexibility of Ice * RICHLAND, Wash.--You'd think there's nothing surprising left to discover about water. After all, researchers have been studying its properties for centuries. But today researchers at Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory report a new finding. Even though ice forms in a perfectly hexagona  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Durbin, Grassley Take Aim At Labor Exploitation In Tech, Finance, Retail Sectors * September 25, 2025 In letters to ten major corporations who are the biggest users of the H-1B visa program, the Senators cite mass layoffs of American employees even while the corporations file thousands of H-1B visa petitions for foreign workers, often at depressed wages and subjected to poor working conditi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- The Federal Trade Commission issued the following news release: * * * FTC and 19 States Act to Stop a Deceptive Cancer Charity Fundraising Scheme * The Federal Trade Commission, along with 22 agencies from 19 states, stopped a deceptive charity fundraising scheme and its operators who made false or deceptive claims to U.S. donors. Kars-R-Us.com, Inc. (Kars) and its operators, Michael Irwin and Lisa Frank, solicited charitable donations nationwide on behalf of United  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Sept. 26 (TNSrpt) -- The Illinois Department of Public Health issued the following news on Sept. 25, 2025: * * * Gov. Pritzker Releases Illinois Birth Equity Blueprint The report builds upon groundbreaking Illinois Birth Equity Initiative * Today, Governor JB Pritzker, Lieutenant Governor Stratton, and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) released the Illinois Birth Equity Blueprint - a roadmap designed to improve maternal healthcare and birth outcomes in I  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 24 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report: * * * Michigan Job Openings and Labor Turnover -- July 2025 * Michigan had 253,000 job openings in July 2025, compared to 243,000 openings in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Acting Regional Commissioner Julie Wilson noted that the job openings rate in Michigan was 5.3 percent in July and   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * More Than Two Million Illicit Vaping Products Seized in Nationwide Sweep * The Justice Department, together with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), announced today that recent actions targeting unauthorized flavored e-cigarettes, or vapes, resulted in the seizure of more than 2.1 million illicit vaping products taken from five distributors and six retailers across seven different states.  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law research affiliate Ian Liu submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Pediatric Therapeutics. The writer urged the agency to strengthen regulations governing pediatric drug testing, citing research that shows widespread use of loopholes and delays in completing required trials. The commenter, a research affiliate with the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL), sta  more