WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- The Small Business Administration posted the following news release: * * * California Permitting Delays Force SBA to Extend Disaster Relief Deadlines for Los Angeles Wildfire Survivors * Special announcement Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill (H.R. 5371), leading to a government shutdown that is preventing the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from serving America's 36 million small businesses. Every day that Senate Democrats cont  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news release: * * * Coast Guard interdicts 24 aliens 20 miles southwest of Point Loma, Calif. * SAN DIEGO -- The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour (WPC 1129) interdicted 24 suspected aliens aboard a 40-foot sport fisher approximately 20 miles southwest of Point Loma, California, Sunday morning. At 5:28 a.m. watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector San Diego Joint Harbor Operations Cente  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news release: * * * Coast Guard seizes 100,000 pounds of cocaine through Operation Pacific Viper * WASHINGTON - The U.S. Coast Guard announced Tuesday it has seized more than 100,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean since launching Operation Pacific Viper in early August, averaging over 1,600 pounds interdicted daily. These drug seizures, and the apprehension of 86 individuals sus  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release: * * * Despite Democrats' Government Shut Down, ICE Arrests Continue Over Holiday Weekend * Without pay, our law enforcement arrested the worst of the worst including child sex abusers, murderers, violent repeat offenders, and drug traffickers WASHINGTON - While the Democrats' government shutdown continues, they are not deterring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) law enforcement o  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct. 13 (TNSLrpt) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco issued the following white paper (No. 2025-22) on October 8, 2025, by Pierlauro Lopez, Jean-Paul L'Huillier, and Sanjay R. Singh entitled "A Behavioral Foundation for the Investment Wedge." Here are excerpts: * * * Motivated by behavioral evidence, we develop a tractable method for incorporating competition neglect in a general equilibrium firm investment problem. Competition neglect causes firms to syst  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * ICE's 287g partnership with Oklahoma Highway Patrol nets 120 illegal alien arrests, 91 driving with CDL licenses, in 3-day operation * OKLAHOMA CITY -- From Sept. 22-25, ICE officers joined the Oklahoma Highway Patrol for a three-day special emphasis operation to disrupt criminal activity and threats to public safety along I-40 in western Oklahoma thr  more

MAXWELL AFB, Alabama, Oct. 15 -- The U.S. Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol issued the following news: * * * Operations Team Adds Emergency Services, sUAS Managers In a restructuring of Civil Air Patrol's National Headquarters Operations team, Chief Master Sgt. Mark Lahan -- a U.S. Army veteran with extensive small Unmanned Aircraft System and communications experience -- has been named as the organization's first national emergency services officer. "I am deeply humbled and extremely joy  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * Roger Ver Admits to Misconduct and Enters into Deferred Prosecution Agreement * Roger Ver, an early bitcoin investor known as "Bitcoin Jesus," entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department to resolve federal tax charges brought against him. Under the agreement, Ver has paid the IRS nearly $50 million in back taxes, penalties, and interest stemming from his willful failur  more