WASHINGTON, May 16 -- The America First Policy Institute issued the following commentary on May 15, 2026, by Carla Sands, chair of the Foreign Policy Initiative and senior fellow for Energy Policy, and Ted Ellis, campaign director of the Power America and deputy policy director for Energy and Environment: * * * The Energy Build-Out Is Happening. Here's Proof. Americans voted for energy abundance, and the door Washington spent years holding shut is finally open. Families want lower bills, work  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, May 12 -- Educational Testing Service issued the following news release: * * * ETS Introduces Praxis Steps, the First National Modular Approach to Teacher Licensure Assessment ETS's Praxis program, the leading provider of teacher licensure assessments, announced today the launch of Praxis Steps, a new, modular capability designed to strengthen educator pipelines by offering more flexible ways to progress through licensure testing without sacrificing rigor or lowering st  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, May 14 -- Educational Testing Service issued the following news release: * * * ETS Research Institute Awarded Overdeck Grant to Expand Middle School Research for Skills for the Future The ETS Research Institute today announced it has received a grant from Overdeck Family Foundation to advance research in support of the Skills for the Future (SFF) initiative, a joint effort between ETS and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The grant will support re  more

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, May 16 -- Faegre Drinker Biddle and Reath, a law firm, issued the following commentary on May 15, 2026, by partners Jamie E. Levin, Libby Baney Burstein and Steve Lokensgard: * * * MSO-PC Structures in the Crosshairs: California AG Takes Aim at Continuity Agreements Art Center Holdings, Inc. v. WCE CA Art, LLC, No. B338625 (Cal. Ct. App. Mar. 30, 2026) At a Glance * A pending California appellate case -- Art Center Holdings, Inc. v. WCE CA Art, LLC -- is testing the   more

WASHINGTON, May 16 -- The Federal Communications Commission has approved the updated formulas for average-schedule interstate settlement disbursements proposed by the National Exchange Carrier Association Inc., Morristown, New Jersey. Released on May 15, 2026, the order (WC Docket No. 25-339) authorizes the revised formulas for a one-year period running from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027. NECA administers interstate access tariffs for rate-of-return incumbent local exchange carriers parti  more

WASHINGTON, May 16 (TNSFR) -- The Federal Communications Commission has issued a public notice announcing several proposed AM and FM radio station community-of-license changes involving stations in Georgia, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Texas, North Carolina, and Kentucky. Public comments on the proposals must be submitted to the FCC by July 13, 2026. The filing includes a proposal from Davis Broadcasting of Atlanta LLC to relocate station WJZA(AM) from Hapeville to North Decatur. Another  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 (TNSLrpt) -- A report issued by FERC2222.org and cusln.org, titled 'FERC Order 2222 & DER Policy and Implementation Report September 2025' and identified as PNNL-38292, outlines evolving federal and state actions shaping distributed energy resource participation in wholesale electricity markets, while highlighting unresolved coordination challenges among grid operators, utilities, and aggregators. The report tracks a series of actions by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissi  more

NOTRE DAME, Indiana, May 16 -- The University of Notre Dame posted the following news: * * * The Commencement of the Graduate School class of 2026 * Mary Cunningham Boyce delivered the keynote address Saturday during the Graduate School 's annual Commencement Ceremony, encouraging students in this moment of profound change, from rapid advances in science and technology to the increasing threat of global climate disaster, to "set aside any sense of there being a well-worn path to 'success.'   more