WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * Administrator Lee Zeldin Fulfills Pledge to Visit All 50 States this Year, Bringing EPA Directly to the American People * Since getting confirmed by the United States Senate on January 29, 2025, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin has now traveled to all fifty states across the country to hear directly from the American people about the challenges facing their c  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Nov. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued the following news release: * * * CMS Issues Guidance to Strengthen Oversight of Medicaid Financing * The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is issuing preliminary guidance for states regarding the implementation of new federal requirements on health care-related (provider) taxes in Medicaid. Providing this guidance now allows states time to plan the  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- The Federal Trade Commission issued the following news release: * * * FTC Requires Divestiture of Oil Change Shops in Valvoline-Greenbriar Deal * The Federal Trade Commission will require automotive services company Valvoline Inc. and private equity firm Greenbriar Equity Fund V., L.P. (Greenbriar) to divest 45 quick-lube oil change shops to resolve antitrust concerns surrounding their $625 million deal. Main Street Auto, LLC will acquire the divested outlets from Gree  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * Justice Department Announces Nationwide Actions to Combat Illicit North Korean Government Revenue Generation * Four U.S. Nationals and Ukrainian Identity Broker Plead Guilty Department Seeks Forfeiture of More Than $15M in Virtual Currency Stolen and Laundered by North Korean Hackers The Justice Department today announced five guilty pleas and more than $15 million in civil forfeiture actions a  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 15 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Unique resin allows 3D-printing method to add and subtract Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, is normally a one-way street. In a digital light processing (DLP) printer, a structured pattern is projected onto a layer of liquid resin, which cures and solidifies. This builds an object up, layer-by-layer. But if the print isn't exactly right, there'  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * LLNL and partners launch record-breaking protein-folding workflow on world's fastest supercomputer Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and collaborators at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Columbia University have achieved a milestone in biological computing: completing the largest and fastest protein structure prediction workflow ever  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service posted the following news: * * * Secretary Rollins Leads Largest USDA Trade Mission to Mexico, Participates in New World Screwworm Joint Reviews * Last week in Mexico City, Mexico, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins led the largest U.S. Department of Agriculture agribusiness trade mission in the history of our country. During the mission to Mexico, 41 U.S. businesses, 33 cooperat  more

MENLO PARK, California, Nov. 14 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * These colorful crystals may hold clues for future quantum computers * By Ula Chrobak Key takeaways  * Researchers from SLAC and Stanford discovered a new example of a quantum spin liquid - a unique state of matter that may one day be used in qubits. * The blue-green lab-grown crystals of zinc barlowite form a crystal lattice of ever-fluctuating magnetic spins that show sig  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued the following news release on Nov. 14, 2025: * * * Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Takes Emergency Action to Protect America's Roads, Restrict Non-Domiciled CDLs New rule closes dangerous loopholes, holds states accountable, and launches immediate enforcement action against California for gross negligence * U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy today announced  more