SACRAMENTO, California, Nov. 6 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Bonta: Trump Administration Throws in the Towel, Drops Baseless Lawsuit Seeking to Disrupt California Elections * OAKLAND -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced that the Trump Administration has dropped its lawsuit seeking to force California election officials to set aside and not count mail-in ballots that may be cast by a list of approximately  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR-CA Welcomes Governor Newsom's Decision to Commute More Than 500 Death Sentences * The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA) today welcomed Governor Gavin Newsom's decision to commute the death sentences of more than 500 people on the state's death row, ensuring they will not be executed under future administrations. SEE: G  more

SANTA CRUZ, California, Nov. 6 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus posted the following news: * * * Cancer-linked gene uses 'shortcut' to trigger cell division * Researchers found that a gene affected in many cancers, known as E2F1, can cause cells to divide without having to abide by the normal rules of cell division. Living cells are one of the few materials that can replicate themselves, and this is crucial for tissue development and recovering from injury or illness. But m  more

DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 7 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release: * * * Discontinuing statins generally safe for older adults without heart disease * Research Highlights: * In a study of almost 1,900 adults, ages 70 years and older who had other chronic health conditions but not cardiovascular disease, those who stopped taking cholesterol-lowering statins had similar rates of heart attack, stroke and death after two years when compared to pee  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachussetts, Nov. 7 -- Education Next, an academic journal and magazine that says it focuses on K-12 education policy, reform and research, posted the following commentary: * * * Lessons from the First Great Enrollment Decline School systems must learn how to thrive without constant growth By Parker Baxter How well do institutional leaders learn from the lessons of the past? If school districts are the institutions in question, the answer is: not well at all. The nation's pub  more

FAIRFAX, Virginia, Nov. 7 -- Empower Oversight Whistleblowers and Research, an organization dedicated to enhancing independent oversight of government and corporate wrongdoing, issued the following news release: * * * Empower Oversight presses CMS to End Payments for Psychoeducation November 6, 2026 WASHINGTON - Empower Oversight is pressing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to end payments to entities utilizing the code for "psychoeducational service." Empower Oversight's requ  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- The Environmental Working Group issued the following research: * * * Nearly 7M U.S. school students may be exposed to pesticides used to treat crop fields 1 in 4 schools within a quarter-mile of pesticide-treated fields, new EWG analysis shows By Geoff Horsfield (EWG), Al Rabine (EWG) November 5, 2026 Nearly 20,000 U.S. public elementary and middle schools sit within a quarter-mile of crop fields where harmful pesticides may be sprayed, a new EWG analysis finds. Almos  more

STUTTGART, Germany, Nov. 7 -- Mercedes-Benz Group, a company that says it offers a high-end passenger cars and premium vans, issued the following news release: * * * Mercedes-Benz presents a bespoke MANUFAKTUR Mercedes-AMG SL 55 4MATIC+ as the official FAGE WTA Finals winner's car * MANUFAKTUR Made to Measure Mercedes AMG SL 55 4MATIC+ revealed as the official winner's car at the 2026 FAGE WTA Finals * Grand unveiling during the exclusive WTA Clubhouse event at the Mercedes Benz Brand Studio  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Nov. 5 -- Princeton University issued the following news: * * * Philosophy professor and graduate alumna Lara Buchak receives Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement * Lara Buchak, professor of philosophy, has received a 2026 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. She is among 10 recipients of the prize, awarded at a Nov. 4 ceremony Link downloads document at the Library of Congress in Wa  more

HILLSBORO, Missouri, Nov. 7 -- St. Louis University issued the following news: * * * Rivalry Renewed: Raucous Fans Relish Billiken Victory Over Tigers * It was an eruption 25 years in the making. As the seconds ticked down the Saint Louis University student section inside Enterprise Center was primed to explode. The sea of blue positioned behind one of the baskets got loud. Some students pulled out phones, wanting to document the final seconds of a major Billiken win. When the final horn s  more

LONDON, England, Nov. 6 -- The University College London posted the following news: * * * UCL researchers win Cancer Grand Challenges funding to test AI co-scientists * Teams NexTGen and MATCHMAKERS will join AURORA, a pioneering new PS8 million project that will test how AI co-scientists can work alongside researchers from existing Cancer Grand Challenges teams, helping UCL scientists to analyse vast amounts of data, generate new ideas and identify promising experiments to investigate. The  more