WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * "America's Tall Ship," U.S. Coast Guard Barque EAGLE to Visit RI * NEWPORT, RI - Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed and Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore announced that the 295-foot sailing vessel U.S. Coast Guard Cutter EAGLE (WIX 327) is scheduled to visit the Ocean State during the last weekend of July through early August and will be open to visitors. The USCG Barque EAGLE is a tall ship a  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, May 14 [Category: Sociological] -- Americans for Prosperity posted the following news release: * * * AFP-NH Commends House for Rejecting Health Care Tax * Concord, NH -Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire (AFP-NH) today commends the House for rejecting SB 498, a misguided proposal that would have created a new insurer assessment scheme and shifted costs onto Granite State families through higher health insurance premiums. The legislation would have established a dang  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, May 14 [Category: Sociological] -- Americans for Prosperity posted the following news release: * * * AFP-NH: Income Tax Proposal Would Undermine 'Live Free Or Die' * Concord, NH - Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire (AFP-NH) today applauded the House for rejecting a proposal that would have opened the door to a state income tax. The proposal, backed by lawmakers and outside supporters who pushed the so-called "3-3 Tax Savings Plan," would have fundamentally changed th  more

STORRS, Connecticut, May 14 -- The University of Connecticut posted the following news: * * * BUILDing Connecticut's Capital City: Unique UConn Course Celebrates Five Years of Partnership, Collaboration, and Hartford Stories * On a Wednesday afternoon in late April - tucked inside a quiet brick building in Hartford's Frog Hollow neighborhood, just a few blocks from the shining gold dome of Connecticut's State Capitol building - a celebration took place. On the third floor of The Lyceum - a  more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, May 15 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news: * * * Nina Pavcnik Named Inaugural Dean of Arts and Sciences The economist is committed to advancing liberal arts education and research excellence. Written by Bridget Campolettano President Sian Leah Beilock today announced the appointment of Nina Pavcnik as inaugural dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1--a significant step toward Dartmouth becoming the best undergraduate education within a   more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: * * * During Police Week, Senators Hassan and Cornyn Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Provide Tax Cut for Families of Fallen First Responders * WASHINGTON -U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and John Cornyn (R-TX) today introduced bipartisan legislation that provides a tax cut for families of fallen first responders. The bill would allow the families of public safety officers -including police officers,  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 (TNSFR) -- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission plans to prepare an environmental assessment for the proposed relicensing of the Minnewawa Hydroelectric Project in Marlborough, New Hampshire, after determining the project is unlikely to create major environmental impacts. The hydroelectric facility, operated by Ashuelot River Hydro, Inc., is a 1,000-kilowatt project located on Minnewawa Brook in Cheshire County. The company filed its relicensing application with FERC on J  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: * * * House Passes Bipartisan Resolution Honoring Fallen Law Enforcement Officers Led by Pappas, Guest, Letlow * Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Congressman Michael Guest (MS-03), and Congresswoman Julia Letlow (LA-05) led House Resolution 1252 to honor and memorialize fallen law enforcement officers. The resolution was introduced ahead of National Police Week and recognizes the 363 officers who lo  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, May 15 -- Gov. Kelly Ayotte, R-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 14, 2026: * * * Childcare Tax Credit Headed to Governor's Desk After Senate Vote A new law to create a tax credit program for companies that invest in childcare for their workforce is headed to Governor Kelly Ayotte's desk following a bipartisan vote in the New Hampshire Senate. Today, Governor Ayotte celebrated the bill's passage and thanked Senators for supporting a commonsense sol  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- No Labels, a political organization that advocates for centrism and bipartisanship, issued the following commentary: * * * Voters Should Choose Yesterday morning, the Virginia Supreme Court voided a redistricting referendum that voters had approved just two and a half weeks ago. Virginia Democrats drew a new map that would likely flip four of the state's 11 House seats from Republican to Democratic. Republicans challenged the process on constitutional grounds, and in a 4-  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: * * * Pappas Amendment Supporting Funding for Manchester VA Medical Center Upgrades Attached to Bipartisan Funding Package * Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), a member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, successfully passed an amendment in support of robust funding for improvements to VA direct care for New Hampshire veterans,  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: * * * Pappas Leads NH Delegation in Urging Dept. of Education to Fund TRIO Upward Bound Programs * Without the delivery of FY 2026 funding, its future for the upcoming cycle is uncertain. Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) led a letter along with Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Senator Maggie Hassan (NH), and Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) to Education Secretary Linda McMahon and OMB Director R  more

WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, May 14 [Category: Environment] -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution issued the following news release: * * * Researchers help solve mystery of clockwork-like earthquake system deep beneath the Pacific * Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 1,000 miles off the coast of Ecuador, a fault line on the seafloor has been generating magnitude 6 earthquakes with almost clocklike regularity for at least three decades. The earthquakes strike every five to six year  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on May 13, 2026, with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, and a group of Democratic colleagues: * * * Shaheen, Schumer, Durbin, Reed, Coons, Schatz, Warren, Kim Statement on Trump's China Policy Ahead of his Summit with President Xi Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committe  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Senators Collins, Shaheen Lead Maine and New Hampshire Congressional Delegations in Calling for Federal Labor Relations Authority to Explain Refusal to Process Complaints at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard * U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) are leading the Maine and New Hampshire Congressional delegations in calling for the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) to provide a  more

PASADENA, California, May 14 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Space Weather and Sun Science: A Conversation with Christina Cohen * Space physicist Christina Cohen first joined the Space Radiation Laboratory (SRL) as a postdoctoral scholar in 1996. At the time, the group was helmed by the late Edward Stone, a giant in the fields of space physics and planetary astronomy, who spent six decades at Caltech establishing the SRL and leading numerous space m  more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, May 12 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news: * * * A Standout Year for Dartmouth NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Nineteen undergraduates and recent alumni earned the prestigious fellowship, along with nine graduate students at the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies. * Before coming to college, Devin Tulio '25 had never picked up a pipette. By the time she graduated, she had spent five terms investigating how sulfated peptides regulate plant c  more