COLUMBIA, South Carolina, April 13 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: * * * Attorney General Alan Wilson defends the Second Amendment from legal attacks * (COLUMBIA, S.C.) - Attorney General Alan Wilson is joining a 22-state friend-of-the-court brief supporting the constitutional right to obtain firearms without undue burden or expense. "As the state's top prosecutor, I want to ensure our communities are as safe as possible," Attorney General Wilson s  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 [Category: Union] -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters posted the following news release: * * * B&G Foods Teamsters Ratify Strong Contract * Press Contact: Lena Melentijevic Phone: (347) 208-2279 Email: LMelentijevic@teamster.org (STOUGHTON, Wis.) - Members of Teamsters Local 120 at B&G Foods in Stoughton, Wis., have overwhelmingly ratified a strong new contract just weeks after authorizing a strike. The three-year agreement delivers a 19 percent wage increase  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document on April 13, 2026, from Economics Daily: * * * Unemployment rates higher in 14 states from January 2025 to January 2026 Unemployment rates were higher in 14 states and the District of Columbia from January 2025 to January 2026. Two states had decreases, and 34 states had little change. The national unemployment rate, 4.3 percent in January 2026, was 0.3-percentage point high  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: * * * Committee Cliff Notes: Weekly Preview - Week of April 13, 2026 * Here's what to watch for from House Republican committees during the week: Agriculture On Thursday, April 16, the Committee on Agriculture will hold a full committee hearing called "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Michael S. Selig, Chairman, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.  more

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, April 13 [Category: BizHospital] -- Sanford Health posted the following news release: * * * Sanford leaders join panel discussions at Becker's meeting * The four-day conference takes place April 13-16 in Chicago. Sanford Health's Tommy Ibrahim, M.D., MBA, MHA, executive vice president and chief transformation officer and Brad Reimer, chief technology and digital officer, will join executives from the nation's top health systems. Ibrahim will join a keynote panel   more

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Marshall Calls for Full Funding of Drug Trafficking Prevention Program * Washington - U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), released the following statement asking the Senate Appropriations Committee to robustly fund the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program, which works with state and local law enforcement offices across the U.S. to foster collaboration, share resou  more

SMITHFIELD, Virginia, April 14 -- Smithfield Foods, an American food company, issued the following news release: * * * Smithfield Foods Employees Contribute $643,000 to Local United Way Campaigns Smithfield Foods and its employees in South Dakota, Illinois and North Carolina raised $643,000 to support local United Way chapters in 2026. "Our employees continue to show an inspiring commitment to the communities they call home," said Jim Monroe, vice president of corporate affairs for Smithfiel  more

TUCKER, Georgia, April 13 [Category: Agriculture] -- The U.S. Poultry and Egg Association (USPOULTRY) issued the following news release: * * * USPOULTRY and Foundation Approve Nearly $500,000 in New Research Through the Board Research Initiative Program * USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation have approved $491,070 in funding for four new research grants at three institutions through the Board Research Initiative Program. The topics and requests for proposals were selected by the USPOULTRY   more