WASHINGTON, May 5 -- A coalition of 15 state Attorneys General submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services citing concerns about the agency's recent Request for Information related to Comprehensive Regulations To Uncover Suspicious Healthcare. The letter emphasize their shared commitment to combating Medicaid and healthcare program fraud, while cautioning that recent federal actions risk undermining the longstandi  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- A coalition of 57 housing advocacy organizations submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development opposing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking titled "Establishing Flexibility for Implementation of Work Requirements and Term Limits." The coalition and partners argue that the proposal would jeopardize housing stability for millions of HUD-assisted residents, exacerbate homelessness, and impose undue burdens on housing providers. According  more

OLYMPIA, Washington, May 4 -- Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown issued the following news release: * * * AG Brown files brief urging Supreme Court to stay restrictions on Mifepristone * Attorney General Nick Brown today joined a coalition of 22 states and the District of Columbia in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to stay a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that would restrict access to mifepristone, a safe and effective abortion medication. This morning, the  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 4 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release: * * * AG Campbell Urges Supreme Court To Block Restrictions On Mifepristone * BOSTON -Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell today co-led a coalition of 22 states and the District of Columbia in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to stay a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that would restrict access to mifepristone, a safe and effective abortion  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 5 -- Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes issued the following news release on May 4, 2026: * * * Attorney General Mayes Welcomes Supreme Court Stay on Mifepristone Restrictions, Warns Fight for Abortion Access Not Over Attorney General Kris Mayes today joined a coalition of 22 states and the District of Columbia in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to stay a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that restricted access to mifepristone, a safe and effective  more

SACRAMENTO, California, May 4 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Bonta Urged U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Telehealth Access to Mifepristone, Welcomes Temporary Halt of Fifth Circuit Ruling * U.S. Supreme Court temporarily preserves telehealth access to mifepristone following coalition brief OAKLAND - Co-leading a coalition of 22 attorneys general and the Governor of Pennsylvania, California Attorney General Rob Bonta this mor  more

ALBANY, New York, May 4 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General James Leads Coalition Urging Supreme Court to Protect Access to Mifepristone * May 4, 2026 NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Letitia James today led a coalition of 21 other states and the District of Columbia in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to stay a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that would restrict access to mifepristone, a safe and e  more

LANSING, Michigan, May 4 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Nessel Files Brief Urging Supreme Court to Stay Restrictions on Mifepristone * Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is expressing relief after the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily restored access to Mifepristone, a safe and effective abortion medication. The decision comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a ruling that would have reinstated a   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, May 4 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: * * * ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL OPPOSES PROPOSED POSTAL SERVICE RULE THAT WOULD ALLOW UNLAWFUL ACCESS TO GUNS BY MAIL Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a multistate coalition of 22 attorneys general, opposed an unlawful proposal by the U.S. Postal Service to allow individuals to send certain firearms by mail, endangering the public and harming state and local budgets. For almost 100 year  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, May 4 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: * * * ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL: SUPREME COURT ENTERS ADMINISTRATIVE STAY, PREVENTING RESTRICTIONS ON MIFEPRISTONE GOING INTO EFFECT * Chicago - Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced the U.S. Supreme Court entered an administrative stay to pause a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that would restrict access to mifepristone, a safe and effective abortion medication. T  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 4 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Tong Files Brief Urging Supreme Court to Stay Restrictions on Mifepristone Fifth Circuit Decision Arbitrarily and Abruptly Bans Telehealth Prescribing, Forces Patients to Medically Unnecessary In-Person Appointments  * Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 22 states and the District of Columbia in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to stay a rul  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, May 4 -- The New Jersey Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Autonomous Model Car Design Wins Real-World Impact Award at NJIT AI Exploration Day Written by: Evan Koblentz Students won the Real World Impact award at New Jersey Institute of Technology's spring 2026 Artificial Intelligence Exploration Day not for what they built, but for how they built it. The team of Bartek Broclawik, Matthew Sudol, Pola Szwaczka and Om Vaghasiya knew that autonomous ve  more

RARITAN, New Jersey, May 5 -- Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine issued the following news release on May 4, 2026: * * * CAPLYTA(R) (lumateperone) showed greatest improvement across key efficacy outcomes among adjunctive MDD treatments in new network meta-analysis CAPLYTA(R) ranked highest among FDA-approved adjunctive therapies across four measures of efficacy, based on indirect comparisons from placebo plus antidepressant therapy-controlled trials Among the secondary endpoints for the  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Carlyle Group posted the following news release on May 4, 2026: * * * Carlyle Acquires Knack RCM and EqualizeRCM to Create an AI-Native, Global Multi-Specialty Healthcare RCM Platform Global investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) today announced it has acquired a majority stake in Knack RCM ("Knack") and EqualizeRCM ("Equalize"), two leading U.S. healthcare revenue cycle management ("RCM") providers, to create an AI-native, global, multi-specialty RCM platform. Equity for t  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Rep. Jefferson Van Drew, R-New Jersey, issued the following news release: * * * Congressman Van Drew Slams Big Oil for Profiting While Americans Pay More at the Pump * Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Van Drew criticized major oil companies as gas prices remain high and continue to strain American families. "These companies are taking advantage of the situation, plain and simple," said Congressman Van Drew. "What is happening in the Middle East is being used as an e  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 4 -- The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine posted the following news: * * * Craig Gronczewski named CEO of Penn Medicine Doylestown Health * Craig Gronczewski, MD, MBA, FACHE, has been named chief executive officer of Penn Medicine Doylestown Health effective June 1, after serving as chief medical officer and vice president of medical affairs at Penn Medicine Princeton Health since December 2020. Gronczewski will provide executive leaders  more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, May 1 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news: * * * New Dartmouth Engineering Technology Aims to Help EPA Eliminate Lead Water Pipes By Catha Mayor Dartmouth Engineering's Electromagnetic Sensing Group recently completed phase one testing of its technology for the detection of buried lead and copper pipes without the need for excavation. The testing, conducted at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) testbed site in New Jersey, is part of a multi-year proje  more

DOVER, Delaware, May 5 -- Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings issued the following news release on May 4, 2026: * * * AG Jennings, coalition secure final approval in $700 million Google Settlement over app store monopoly Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings has announced that a federal court will approve a $700 million settlement in a multistate antitrust lawsuit against Google. The lawsuit, first filed in 2021 by a bipartisan group of 52 Attorneys General, challenged Google's contro  more

GLASSBORO, New Jersey, May 4 -- Rowan University posted the following news: * * * Diplomat rising: At Rowan, Moonique Williamson found her voice in international studies * Long before she began studying diplomacy in Ric Edelman College of Communication, Humanities & Social Sciences, Moonique Williamson was already practicing - through service, leadership and commitment to community shaped by her upbringing in Guyana. An international student, Williamson arrives at commencement May 13 as a   more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Flok Health, a patient-led organization dedicated to supporting individuals with inherited disorders of protein metabolism, submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding the agency's proposed Plausible Mechanism Framework for individualized therapies. The group highlighted the importance of incorporating structured real-world data and cross-condition evidence generation in both pre- and post-approval processes to improve access and eval  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 4 -- Gov. Mikie Sherrill, D-New Jersey, posted the following news release: * * * Governor Sherrill Nominates Joseph Ribsam for Commissioner of the Department of Children and Families * Governor Mikie Sherrill today announced the nomination of Joseph Ribsam to serve as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF). Ribsam will lead the state's cabinet-level agency dedicated exclusively to ensuring the safety, well-being, and success of child  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- The Greater New York Hospital Association, representing over 200 hospitals and health systems in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, submitted a public comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding the agency's Request for Information focused on Comprehensive Regulations to Uncover Suspicious Healthcare. The letter addresses CMS's consideration of modifications to Medicare Advantage program integrity policies, the use of artificial intelligence   more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, May 4 [Category: BizHealth & Beauty] -- Johnson and Johnson posted the following news release: * * * Johnson & Johnson to Present New Data Spanning Vision Portfolio at ARVO 2026 * JACKSONVILLE, FL - May 4, 2026 - Johnson & Johnson will present new data on several of its latest innovations spanning 17 posters and oral presentations, including the latest FDA-approved TECNIS PureSee IOL, at the 2026 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual me  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 5 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release on May 4, 2026: * * * Attorney General Brown Opposes Postal Service Rule Undermining Federal Gun Law Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a multistate comment letter signed by 24 states opposing an unlawful proposal by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to allow a flood of prohibited weapons across state borders by mail, endangering the public and harming state and local budgets. For al  more

CEDARVILLE, Ohio, May 4 -- Cedarville University posted the following news: * * * Model United Nations Team Receives Highest Award * by Madison Dors, Student Public Relations Writer Cedarville University's Model United Nations team received the Outstanding Delegation award, the conference's highest honor, at the National Model United Nations Conference in New York City, the world's largest international Model UN competition. Cedarville students represented Jamaica at National Model Unite  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 5 -- New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport issued the following news release on May 4, 2026: * * * AG Davenport, States Oppose U.S. Postal Service Rule Flouting Federal Gun Law Coalition Opposes Trump Administration Efforts to Allow Guns by Mail, Harming Public Safety * Attorney General Jennifer Davenport led a multistate comment letter today on behalf of 22 states opposing an unlawful proposal by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to allow a flood of prohibite  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 5 -- The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection issued the following news release on May 4, 2026: * * * SHERRILL ADMINISTRATION DELIVERS MORE THAN $25 MILLION IN GRANTS TO CLEAN UP LITTER IN NEW JERSEY COMMUNITIES The Sherrill Administration today announced the award of $25.2 million in annual Clean Communities grants to municipalities and counties for local litter removal programs that help keep trash out of the environment and beautify New Jersey's commun  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- The National Association of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs submitted a public comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services addressing the agency's Comprehensive Regulations to Uncover Suspicious Healthcare initiative. NASOP, representing frontline ombudsmen who oversee more than 3 million licensed long-term care beds nationwide, underscored the need for strengthened investments in fraud detection programs and protections for residents' access to ca  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Washington, issued the following news release: * * * Newhouse Leads Bipartisan Letter to Support Douglas County's BUILD Grant Application * Press Release : May 4, 2026 Contact: Juan Ayala, (202) 713-7750 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last week, Rep. Dan Newhouse (WA-04) led a bipartisan letter to Secretary Sean Duffy at the Department of Transportation in support of Douglas County's BUILD Grant application for the Wenatchi Landing Interchange Project.   more

NEWARK, New Jersey, May 4 -- The New Jersey Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * NJIT Senior Earns Fulbright Award to Help Jamaica Build AI in Its Own Voice Written by: Jesse Jenkins For Naketa "KET-A" Williams '26, artificial intelligence is not just about what systems like ChatGPT can do -- it is about whose stories, languages and values they carry. That idea will soon take Williams to Jamaica as a Fulbright recipient, where she will join a national initiative advancin  more

NEW YORK, May 2 -- New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani issued the following remarks on May 1, 2026, at the Regional Plan Association Assembly: * * * Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani: Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for the kind introduction and for having me today. It is a real pleasure to be here. You know, a number of times each day I am stopped by New Yorkers in our city's streets, parks and public transit systems. Sometimes it's a high five, sometimes it's a "Let's go Knicks!" [and] s  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, May 5 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following news release on May 4, 2026: * * * Drummond urges CFTC to recognize state authority over sports gambling on prediction market platforms Attorney General Gentner Drummond is urging federal regulators to reaffirm that jurisdiction over sports-related prediction markets belongs to States. Drummond and 40 other state attorneys filed a formal comment Thursday with the Commodity Futures Trading Commi  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution released the following written testimony by Jeffrey Bossert Clark, vice president of litigation at the Oversight Project, and former acting administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, from an April 21, 2026, hearing entitled "Arctic Frost: Conspiracy and Coordination Against President Trump and the American Right": * * * Chairman Schmitt, Ranking Member Welch, and Members of the Subcommittee, than  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 5 -- Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on May 4, 2026: * * * Governor Shapiro Takes Legal Action to Protect Abortion Access Amid Federal Court Battle and Confusion Over Mailing of Medication Abortion, Reiterates Commitment to Protecting a Woman's Right to Choose Pennsylvania joins a multistate amicus brief to push back on ruling that blocks mailing of mifepristone and threatens access to safe, widely used reproductive health car  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, May 4 [Category: BizHealth & Beauty] -- Johnson and Johnson posted the following news release: * * * Promising Data from US Pilot Study Shows Planned Impella 5.5 Use is Safe and Feasible in Non-Shock, High-Risk Cardiac Surgery Patients * Chicago, IL - May 4, 2026 - Johnson & Johnson announced results from a novel U.S. pilot single-arm trial that evaluated the safety and feasibility of planned Impella 5.5(tm) support in adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery in t  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, May 4 [Category: Business] -- The National Marine Manufacturers Association posted the following news release: * * * Recreational Boating Industry Leaders Convene in Washington for American Boating Congress 2026 * The recreational boating industry gathers today in Washington, D.C., for the start of the American Boating Congress 2026 (ABC), bringing together manufacturers, dealers, retailers and stakeholders from across the country for three days of policy discussions, indu  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, May 5 (TNSjou) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * Doctoral Student Coauthored Research That Could Transform Cancer Treatment Maciej Jeziorek is helping to advance breakthrough biomedical research at Rutgers-Newark before even completing his degree By Sherrie Negrea As a doctoral student at Rutgers-Newark, Maciej Jeziorek has already accomplished what many scientists take years to achieve: He has coauthored eight biomedical academic papers, incl  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, May 5 -- Rutgers University issued the following Q&A on May 4, 2026, involving Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, associate professor in the School of Management and Labor Relations: * * * The Most Influential Black Woman You've Never Heard Of Is Finally Getting Her Due By Steve Flamisch An underappreciated leader in the labor and civil rights movements will be celebrated this week in Washington, D.C. A Rutgers professor is co-chairing the events. When Danielle Phillip  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 5 (TNSjou) -- Stevens Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Stevens Researchers Develop a Novel Approach to Training AI That Saves Energy, Improves Speed and Minimizes Amount of Data Sent Across Networks Common approaches to updating AI models are energy-intensive and inefficient. A new research paper finds a clever fix * In a novel attempt to improve how large language models learn and make them more capable and energy-efficient, Stevens research  more

NEW YORK, May 5 -- Skanska, a construction and development company, issued the following news release: * * * Traylor/Walsh/Skanska Joint Venture awarded Hudson Tunnel Project Package 1C: Hudson River Tunnel Section Contract for $1.29B Joint venture to deliver the Hudson River Tunnel section of the Gateway Program's Hudson Tunnel Project, a critical investment in the future of Northeast Corridor rail service * The Gateway Development Commission has awarded the joint venture comprised of Tray  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee released the following testimony by William Trachman, President Trump's nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania, from an April 28, 2026, confirmation hearing: * * * Chairman Daines, Ranking Member Kaine, and distinguished Members of the Committee. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. I am deeply honored by President Trump's nomination to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Republic of Tanzania, and am gra  more

SALEM, Oregon, May 4 -- Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Supreme Court Issues Temporary Stay on Restrictions on Mifepristone after Attorney General Rayfield and Coalition File Brief * Attorney General Dan Rayfield and a coalition of 21 other states and the District of Columbia successfully urged the U.S. Supreme Court today to stay a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that would restrict access to mifepristone, a safe a  more