COLUMBUS, Indiana, Aug. 4 -- Indiana University Columbus campus issued the following news: * * * Aimee Zoeller advances Phil Ochs research with IU grant Sociology Professor Aimee Zoeller spent her summer exploring the life and legacy of folk singer, songwriter and activist Phil Ochs, conducting grant-funded research in Tulsa, Oklahoma, alongside colleagues from the Woody Guthrie Teaching Collective. - Zoeller's project, Teaching Phil Ochs: The Politics of Labor in Song, included an intensiv  more

MONTPELIER, Vermont, Aug. 3 -- Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark posted the following news release: * * * Attorney General Clark Announces $358,000 Settlement in Principle With Generic Drug Maker Sandoz * Attorney General Charity Clark today announced a nationwide $400 million settlement in principle with Sandoz Inc. to resolve allegations that the generic drug manufacturer engaged in widespread, long-running conspiracies to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 3 -- West Virginia Attorney General John B. McCuskey posted the following news release: * * * Attorney General McCuskey Announces $400 Million Settlement in Principle with Sandoz Over Conspiracy to Inflate Drug Prices and Limit Competition * Attorney General JB McCuskey today announced a $400 million settlement in principle with Sandoz Inc. The action is to resolve allegations that the generic drug manufacturer engaged in widespread, long-running conspiracies   more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 3 -- West Virginia Attorney General John B. McCuskey posted the following news release: * * * Attorney General McCuskey leads coalition to keep a critical gas pipeline open * West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey is leading a coalition of 18 states in an amicus brief filed in Enbridge Energy v. Gretchen Whitmer, to keep a critical gas pipeline open. The Enbridge Line 5 pipeline starts and ends in Canada and carries more than 20 million gallons of light   more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 3 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Tong Announces $400 Million Settlement in Principle with Sandoz Over Conspiracy to Inflate Prices and Limit Competition * Press Releases The Settlement Will Result in Total Payments of Approximately $469 Million to State Enforcers by Sandoz (Hartford, CT)- Attorney General William Tong today led a coalition of 43 states and territories announcing a $400 milli  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * Job openings rate 5.5 percent in Georgia, 5.4 percent in Alaska, during 2025 During 2025, the job openings rate averaged 5.5 percent in Georgia and 5.4 percent in Alaska. Average job openings rates were also 5.0 percent or higher in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Mississippi. Rates averaged under 4.0 percent in six states: California, Hawaii, Iowa, Nebraska, N  more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 3 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Frantz Ward, a law firm, posted the following news: * * * Boards, Executives, and the Law: What the Fable Shutdown Reveals About AI Governance Liability * Part One of this series documented the threat environment: the Fable and Mythos pullback, AI-driven malware, autonomous cyberattacks, and the emergence of frontier AI models whose capabilities are being rationed by their own developers. This second installment addresses what is at stake l  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release on Aug. 3, 2026: * * * CAIR, Islamic Society of Tulsa Lawsuit Against City of Broken Arrow Says Denial of Mosque Proposal Violated RLUIPA, U.S. Constitution, Okla. Law The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of Tulsa (IST) today held a news conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to announce the filing of a lawsuit against the City of Broken Arrow for illegally denying IST  more

ADA, Oklahoma, Aug. 3 -- The Chickasaw Nation, a federally-recognized Native American tribe, issued the following news release: * * * Chickasaw Nation breaks ground for Newcastle Medical Center * NEWCASTLE, Okla. -Chickasaw Nation Governor Chris Anoatubby led groundbreaking ceremonies July 31 for the Chickasaw Nation Health Newcastle Medical Center, marking a significant investment in First American healthcare access in the Oklahoma City area. When complete, the 160-acre Chickasaw Nation He  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: * * * Congressman Brecheen Announces August Town Halls * August 3, 2026 Oklahoma-On Monday, Congressman Brecheen announced his August town hall schedule which includes stops in 15 different cities. Monday, August 24th, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am Tishomingo Town Hall Johnston County Library 116 W. Main St. Tishomingo, OK 73460 10:00am - 11:00am Durant Town Hall Donald W. Reynolds Library 1515 W. Main  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- In response to a federal agency request for information, the following public comment letter was submitted electronically to the regulations.gov site. July 29, 2026 Electronic Filing Submitted Via Regulations.gov U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA Docket Center Office of Land and Emergency Management Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OLEM-2019-0361 Mail Code 28221T 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20460 RE: COMMENTS OF THE LARGE PUBLIC POWER COUNCIL ON ESTABLI  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (TNSFR) -- Michigan State University, East Lansing, plans to repatriate 141 unassociated funerary objects to affiliated Potawatomi Tribes under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), according to a notice published by the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service. The collection includes groundstone tools, projectile points, stone tools, pipes, pendants, drills, pottery pieces, effigies, copper artifacts, weapons and other cultural i  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- In response to a federal agency request for information, the following public comment letter was submitted electronically to the regulations.gov site. July 24, 2026 The Honorable Dr. Mehmet Oz Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Avenue SW Washington, DC 20201 Dr. Oz, On behalf of NAMI Oklahoma, part of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the nation's largest grassroots men  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- In response to a federal agency request for information, the following public comment letter was submitted electronically to the regulations.gov site. July 31, 2026 Mr. Edward Strocko Acting Director, Bureau of Transportation Statistics c/o Docket Management Facility U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140 Washington, DC 20590-0001 Re: Request for Information - Shaping the Future of the Bureau of Transpor  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Aug. 4 -- The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden issued the following news release: * * * OKC ZOO IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THAT ENDANGERED ASIAN ELEPHANT KAIRAVI IS PREGNANT The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden's endangered Asian elephant herd keeps growing with the births of Xerxes in May 2025, a female calf on June 26, 2026, and, exciting news, there's another calf coming soon! As part of its World Elephant Day festivities on Saturday, August 1, the Oklahoma   more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Aug. 3 -- The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation posted the following news: * * * OMRF awarded $12.8 million grant to study cellular metabolism * The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has received a $12.8 million federal grant to continue building its Center for Cellular Metabolism Research in Oklahoma. Awarded by the National Institutes of Health, the five-year grant is funded through the NIH's Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence program, or COBRE. It is  more

NORMAN, Oklahoma, Aug. 3 -- The University of Oklahoma issued the following news: * * * OU Hosts Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Showcases Statewide Health Efforts * OKLAHOMA CITY - Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, visited the OU Health Campus on Saturday, Aug. 1 to learn more about the University of Oklahoma's flagship academic health system and its efforts to improve health outcomes across the state. Oz was joine  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (TNSFR) -- The Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, New York, has completed an inventory under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), determining that human remains and associated funerary objects are culturally affiliated with the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, according to a notice published by the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service. The inventory includes   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 [Category: Political] (TNSrpt) -- Public Citizen issued the following news release: * * * Trump Administration's Fake Crackdown Leaves Most 'Gas Station Heroin' on the Shelves * Instead of cracking down on Kratom, the Trump administration has left dangerous kratom products on store shelves and even promoted them, according to a report released today by Public Citizen. Tonics and powders made from kratom, a plant native to Southeast Asia, have become widely available in the  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Aug. 4 -- The National Association of State Energy Officials posted the following news on Aug. 3, 2026: * * * U.S. Department of Energy Selects Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah as Potential Host States for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses By Camille Norton, NASEO On July 28, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of potential host states for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses, integrated, full-cycle nuclear ecosystems. Idaho,  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Aug. 4 -- The University of Oklahoma Health campus issued the following news: * * * OU Hosts Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Showcases Statewide Health Efforts Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, visited the OU Health Campus on Saturday, Aug. 1 to learn more about the University of Oklahoma's flagship academic health system and its efforts to improve health outcomes across the state. Oz was joi  more