WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * 10 Arrested in Federal Indictment Charging Olympic Athlete-Turned-Cocaine Trafficker with Ordering Murder of Witness in January Ten defendants have been arrested - and 11 total are in custody - pursuant to a nine-count federal grand jury indictment Links to other government and non-government sites will typically appear with the "external link" icon to indicate that you are leaving the Department of  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news release: * * * Coast Guard continues to break records, offloading over $362 million in illicit drugs interdicted in Eastern Pacific Ocean * MIAMI - U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stone's crew offloaded approximately 49,010 pounds of illicit narcotics worth more than $362 million at Port Everglades, Wednesday. This offload marks the most amount of cocaine seized by a single cutter in one patrol in  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release: * * * DHS Applauds White House Lawsuit Against California's Unconstitutional Anti-Cop Legislation That Endangers Federal Law Enforcement * ICE agents face an 8,000% increase in death threats, in addition to a 1,000% increase in assaults against them WASHINGTON - The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) applauded the Trump administration's lawsuit filed this week against the Sta  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * Drug Trafficker Zhi Dong Zhang, aka "Brother Wang," Returned from Mexico to Face International Narcotics and Money Laundering Charges in New York and Georgia * Zhi Dong Zhang, also known as "GG," "Kun Li Hernandez," "Chang Li Gong Sun," "Memo," "Brother Wang," "BW," "Pancho," "HeHe," "HaHa," "Chino," and "Summor Ownor," 38, was arraigned today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Clay H. Kaminsky for the E  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * EPA Delivers Additional 100 Top Environmental Accomplishments, 300 Environmental Wins Now Highlighted Since President Trump Took Office in January * DALLAS, TEXAS (November 19, 2025) - Monday, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin shared 100 additional environmental accomplishments EPA has achieved in the last 100 days, recognizing 300 days of fulfilling the agenc  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- The FBI issued the following news release: * * * 10 Arrested in Federal Indictment Charging Olympic Athlete-Turned-Cocaine Trafficker with Ordering Murder of Witness in January Ten defendants have been arrested - and 11 total are in custody - pursuant to a nine-count federal grand jury indictment unsealed today charging a former Olympic snowboarder now on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List, a Canadian criminal barrister, a reggaeton musician, a would-be gangland n  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov. 19 (TNSLrpt) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco issued the following white paper (No. 2025-27) on Kevin X.D. Huang, Zheng Liu, Mark M. Spiegel by November 13, 2025 entitled "Optimal Foreign Reserve Intervention and Financial Development." Here are excerpts: * * * We document evidence of a U-shaped relationship between financial development and the adjustments of foreign exchange (FX) reserve holdings in response to a U.S. interest rate increase. Count  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov. 19 (TNSLrpt) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco issued the following white paper (No. 2025-26) on November 13, 2025 by Regis Barnichon and Aayush Singh entitled "What Is a Tariff Shock? Insights from 150 years of Tariff Policy." Here are excerpts: * * * In this paper we exploit 150 years of tariff policy in the US and abroad to estimate the short-run effects of tariff shocks on macro aggregates. A careful review of the major changes in US tariff polic  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * Founder/CEO and Clinical President of Digital Health Company Convicted in $100M Adderall Distribution and Health Care Fraud Scheme * A federal jury in San Francisco yesterday convicted Ruthia He, the founder and CEO of Done, a California-based digital health company, and David Brody, its clinical president, yesterday for their roles in a years-long scheme to illegally distribute Adderall over the i  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The National Academy of Medicine issued the following news: * * * Health in the Headlines: 4 Insights for American Families About Ultra-Processed Foods and Health * Experts from Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and past roles at FDA and NIH share what science saysand what remains uncertainabout the role of ultra-processed foods in health. Are ultra-processed foods dangerous? What is the guidance on how many we can safely feed our families? And how are they specifically impa  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 20 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Experiments show how water could form on exoplanets, disrupting current theories In the search for extraterrestrial life, the presence of water is a key signature of possible habitability. Identifying why some planets are wet and others are dry could help with the hunt. In a recent study published in Nature (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-02  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Gordon Bell finalist team pushes scale of rocket simulation on El Capitan Researchers used Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) exascale supercomputer El Capitan to perform the largest fluid dynamics simulation ever -- surpassing one quadrillion degrees of freedom in a single computational fluid dynamics (CFD) problem. The team focused the effort o  more

PASADENA, California, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * NASA Cassini Study Finds Organics 'Fresh' From Ocean of Enceladus Researchers dove deep into information gathered from the ice grains that were collected during a close and super-fast flyby through a plume of Saturn's icy moon. * A new analysis of data from NASA's Cassini mission found evidence of previously undetected organic compounds in a plume of ice particles ejected from the ocean  more

PASADENA, California, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news on Nov. 19, 2025: * * * NASA's Mars Spacecraft Capture Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS Two orbiters and a rover captured images of the interstellar object -- from the closest location any of the agency's spacecraft may get -- that could reveal new details. * At the start of October, three of NASA's Mars spacecraft had front row seats to view 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object so far discove  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Naval Research Laboratory and Florida International University Advance Non-Contact Detection of Trace Fentanyl Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), working with Florida International University's (FIU) Global Forensic and Justice Center, have demonstrated a new method for detecting trace levels of fentanyl using a silicon nanowire (SiNW) array that concentrates chemical vapors for han  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 8:25-cv-02375; C.D. Cal. filed Oct. 20, 2025) involving Marco G. Santarelli: * * * On October 20, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Marco G. Santarelli, a resident of Laguna Niguel, California for running a multi-million-dollar investment scheme that defrauded hundreds of investors nationwide. The SEC's complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the Cent  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 8:25-cv-02324; C.D. Cal., filed Oct. 15, 2025): * * * Securities and Exchange Commission v. Linh Thuy Le and Trong Hoang Luu, Case No. 8:25-cv-02324 (C.D. Cal., filed Oct. 15, 2025) On October 15, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil action against married couple Linh Thuy Le and Trong Hoang Luu for allegedly conducting an unregistered offering and making Ponzi-like  more