NEW YORK, April 13 [Category: Law/Legal] -- New York Civil Liberties Union issued the following news release: * * * ACLU and 75 Organizations Sound Alarm on Meta's Plan to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Ray-Ban and Oakley Eyeglasses * SAN FRANCISCO - Meta's reported plan to equip its artificial intelligence (AI) AI eyeglasses with facial recognition technology poses an unacceptable threat to privacy and liberty and is "a red line society must not cross," a broad coalition of organizati  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 13 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release: * * * AG Campbell Urges Supreme Court To Preserve Temporary Protected Status For Haitians And Syrians * Boston -Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell today co-led a coalition of 19 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in Trump v. Miot and Mullin v. Doe in the Supreme Court of the United States, in support of a challenge to the Trump Administration's ter  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following fact sheet on April 13, 2026: * * * Ahead of Hearing, Ranking Member Merkley Releases Committee Fact Sheets on Trump's Budget Request to Congress Fact Sheets Detail How Trump is Out-of-Touch with the Needs of Working Americans; Begging Congress to Fund More War, Gut Programs for Families * Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Commit  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 [Category: Political] -- America First Legal, a civil rights organization, posted the following news release: * * * America First Legal and the State of Florida Call on the U.S. Census Bureau to Require Citizenship and Immigration Status Questions in the Decennial Census * America First Legal (AFL), alongside the State of Florida, has filed a petition for rulemaking urging the U.S. Census Bureau to adopt new rules for the decennial census. This filing builds on AFL's ong  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 [Category: Political] -- America First Legal, a civil rights organization, posted the following news release: * * * America First Legal Exposes Impacts of California's Sanctuary State Law: Santa Clara County Released 529 Criminal Aliens ICE Sought to Detain * Today, America First Legal (AFL) released explosive public records from Santa Clara County's Office of the Sheriff, revealing that California's sanctuary state law, the "California Values Act," caused the County to   more

WASHINGTON, April 13 [Category: Political] -- America First Legal, a civil rights organization, posted the following news release: * * * America First Legal Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Stop Lower Courts' Attempt to Block TPS Terminations * America First Legal (AFL), alongside co-counsel James R. Conde of Boyden Gray PLLC, has filed an amicus brief on behalf of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz in the U.S. Supreme Court in Markwayne Mullin, et al. v. Dahlia Doe, et al. and Donald J. Trump, et al. v. Frit  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 13 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Bonta Urges Supreme Court to Preserve Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians * OAKLAND - California Attorney General Rob Bonta today co-led a coalition of 19 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a challenge to the termination of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Haitians and Syrians.   more

ALBANY, New York, April 13 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General James Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Legal Status of Haitian and Syrian Immigrants * New York Attorney General Letitia James today co-led a coalition of 18 other attorneys general in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to uphold the legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Haiti and Syria who have been living in the Uni  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, April 13 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: * * * ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL LEADS COALITION URGING SUPREME COURT TO PRESERVE TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS FOR HAITIANS AND SYRIANS * Chicago - Attorney General Kwame Raoul co-led a coalition of 19 attorneys general asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for Haiti and Syria. Raoul and the coalition filed an amicus brief today in Trump v. Miot an  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 13 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Tong Urges Supreme Court to Preserve Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians * Press Releases (Hartford, CT) - Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in Trump v. Miot and Mullin v. Doe in the Supreme Court of the United States, in support of a challenge to the Trump Administration  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas posted the following news release: * * * Bangladeshi national extradited from Brazil to SDTX to face human smuggling charges * LAREDO, Texas - A 39-year-old man from Bangladesh is set to make his initial appearance in U.S. federal court for his role in a conspiracy that smuggled numerous illegal aliens through Central America to the United States, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John G.E. Marck. S  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, April 14 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on April 13, 2026, by economist John Phelan: * * * State government is squeezing school budgets and pushing up property taxes with unfunded mandates Back in 2023, the "historic" DFL trifecta enacted a K-12 education bill which included a $2.2 billion hike in spending on schools. The bill indexed the per p  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

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on April 13, 2026, by Australia Chair program manager John Auge and Japhet Quitzon, associate fellow with the Southeast Asia Program: * * * Australia and Indonesia: A Strategic Partnership for Climate and Energy Resilience Introduction Climate change presents an existential challenge for the international community. Sea level rise and intensified storms stemming from climate change disp  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on April 13, 2026: * * * Prolific Alien Smuggler Extradited from Brazil to Face Charges in the United States Bangladeshi national Saiful Islam, 39, will make his initial appearance in Laredo, Texas, today after being extradited from Brazil. An indictment in the Southern District of Texas was unsealed today charging Islam for his role in a conspiracy that smuggled numerous aliens through Central America to  more

ELON, North Carolina, April 14 -- Elon University issued the following news release: * * * Elon Law earns A+ in Practical Training for fourth straight year PreLaw Magazine features the School of Law's curriculum and immersive Residency-in-Practice Program as models for experiential legal education, ranking it No. 11 nationally in its annual list of "Best Law Schools for Practical Training." * For the fourth consecutive year, Elon University School of Law has earned an A+ rating for practica  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 13 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island posted the following news: * * * How One Day Could Fix a Flaw in Rhode Island's Justice System * Consider this example: a long-time Rhode Island resident is a lawful permanent resident, also called a "green card" holder, who has lived here for decades. She gets a single conviction for a first-time shoplifting misdemeanor, for which she was given no jail time, just a fine. She then g  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * ICE criminal illegal alien detainee passes away in Louisiana * NEW ORLEANS -Alejandro Cabrera Clemente, a 49-year-old criminal illegal alien from Mexico, passed away in ICE custody. His criminal history includes convictions for disorderly conduct, drug possession and probation violation and an arrest for domestic violence. On April 11, 2026, Cabrera wa  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, April 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia posted the following news release on April 13, 2026: * * * Illegal alien and his associate charged with trafficking 85 kilograms of methamphetamine Alberto Ortiz-Osornio, an illegal alien from Mexico, and Marco Antonio Solano-Posadas face federal drug trafficking charges after law enforcement seized approximately 85 kilograms of methamphetamine in Norcross, Georgia. "The defendants allegedly so  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued the following news release: * * * Justice Department Files Case to Revoke U.S. Citizenship of Mastermind Behind Multimillion-Dollar Tax Fraud Scheme USCIS assisted with the investigation and is supporting denaturalization case * BALTIMORE - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services helped investigate Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem, a native of Nigeria recently named in a civil denat  more

NEW YORK, April 13 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund posted the following news: * * * LDF and NAACP File Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Reject Trump Administration's Attempt to Deport Haitian Families * Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the justices to uphold a lower court decision blocking the Trump administration from  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Warren, Escobar, Underwood Lead 32 Lawmakers in Pressing Homeland Security Watchdog to Investigate Detainee Locator System Failures * "Without a functional locator system, DHS is effectively creating 'disappearances' on U.S. soil, and we urge the DHS Office of Inspector General to investigate this matter" Santa Fe, N.M. - U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mas  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 14 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release on April 13, 2026: * * * Attorney General Brown Urges Supreme Court to Preserve Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in Trump v. Miot and Mullin v. Doe in the Supreme Court of the United States, in support of a challenge to the Trump administration's termination   more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, April 13 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico issued the following news release: * * * New Mexico Habeas Project Connects Unlawfully Detained Immigrants with Free Legal Representation * ALBUQUERQUE, NM - A first-of-its-kind pro bono service for detained noncitizens in New Mexico was launched today by the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center (NMILC), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico, and Innovation Law Lab. The Ne  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- Rep. Dave Min, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * Rep. Dave Min Hosts Community Forum Demanding Transparency on New ICE Lease in Irvine * Washington, D.C. - Last week, Representative Dave Min (CA-47) joined local leaders, immigration advocates, and Orange County residents for a community forum demanding answers about a newly leased federal office space in Irvine that is expected to be used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The forum wa  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- Rep. Derek Tran, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * Representatives Tran, Correa, Garcia Urge Action On DACA Renewal Delays * WASHINGTON -U.S. Representative Derek Tran (CA-45) joined Representatives Lou Correa (CA-46) and Chuy Garcia (IL-04) in a letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and USCIS Director Joseph Edlow urging DHS to reduce delays in processing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) renewal requests. Read the full text of t  more

BUFFALO, New York, April 13 [Category: BizHospital] -- The Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center posted the following news release: * * * Roswell Park Teams Bring Latest Real-World Data, New Strategies to Treat Aggressive Cancers to AACR 2026 * BUFFALO, N.Y. and SAN DIEGO -The work of researchers at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center will be featured at the 2026 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in San Diego, California, April 17-22. The event bri  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following news release: * * * Secretary Rubio Terminates Green Cards of Foreign Nationals Tied to Infamous Iranian Regime Propagandist This week, three Iranian nationals with ties to the Iranian regime were arrested by federal agents following Secretary of State Marco Rubio's termination of their lawful permanent resident (LPR) statuses. Seyed Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their son are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, issued the following news release: * * * Sen. Cruz Files Amicus Brief Supporting Trump Administration's Authority to End TPS Without Judicial Interference * Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to reverse multiple lower district court rulings that blocked the termination of Tem  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 (TNSbrep) -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Durbin Releases GAO Report Detailing FDA & DOJ's Failure To Crack Down On The Thousands Of Kid-Friendly Flavored Vaping Products Illegally On The Market Durbin requested the report to examine how FDA and DOJ are coordinating enforcement actions against illicit vaping products CHICAGO - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL),  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following fact sheet on April 13, 2026: * * * TRUMP'S BUDGET WOULD BE DEVASTATING FOR OUR COMMUNITIES Despite Republicans already providing about $170 billion for federal immigration enforcement, President Trump requested another $38.5 billion for ICE and CBP in FY27. These funds would be on top of the tens of billions that President Trump and Congressional Republicans plan to give   more

OTTAWA, Ontario, April 13 -- Employment and Social Development Canada issued the following news release: * * * The Government of Canada invests in programs that have a proven track record of delivering positive employment outcomes for young people. * 1\. Managing the cost of studying and training : The Canada Student Financial Assistance Program The Canada Student Financial Assistance Program (CSFA Program) provides Canada Student Grants and Loans to help students pay for their post-seco  more

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, April 14 (TNSjou) -- The University of Maryland School of Public Health issued the following news: * * * Nuanced data needed to achieve digital health care for all SPH researcher breaks down barriers to equitable access to digital health tools * Whether renewing prescriptions online, booking a doctor's appointment or receiving test results in a health app, most people these days get at least some of their health needs met by using digital health platforms. While smar  more