WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- The House Natural Resources subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources issued the following testimony on Feb. 5 by Land Tawney, president and CEO of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, at a hearing on the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act (H.R. 5598): My name is Land Tawney. I'm the president and CEO of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers. We thank Rep. McCollum, Rep. Rooney and the bipartisan list of original cosponsors supporting the bill. We al  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Feb. 8 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * - An advocate of international scientific cooperation, Press served as an MIT department head and lifetime MIT Corporation member. * * * Frank Press, a noted geophysicist and science adviser to four U.S. presidents, died Jan. 29 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was 95. Press, an MIT Corporation life member emeritus, was the chair of the MIT Department of Geology and Geophysics (r  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 4 -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund issued the following news release: The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) mourns the passing of Judge Nathaniel R. Jones, who died on January 26, 2020 at the age of 93. A dedicated lawyer who helped lead the charge against northern school segregation as General Counsel of the NAACP (an entirely separate entity from LDF since 1957), he was later appointed to the federal judiciary, where he served for more than 20   more

OXFORD, England, Feb. 8 -- Osprey Publishing, a division of Bloomsbury Publishing, published the following book - "Operation Eagle Claw 1980, The disastrous bid to end the Iran hostage crisis" by Justin Williamson: Following months of negotiations after the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979, President Jimmy Carter ordered the newly formed Delta Force to conduct a raid into Iran to free the hostages. The raid, Operation Eagle Claw, was risky to say the least. US forces would  more