JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (16th Air Force) issued the following news: JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Virginia - The 363d Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Wing recently earned the Air Force Meritorious Unit Award to recognize the organization for outstanding achievement in direct support of combat operations from June 1, 2022, to May 31, 2023. The MUA is given to Air Force active duty, Res more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and 11 states announced today that Prehired will provide more than $30 million in relief to student borrowers for making false promises of job placement, trapping students with "income share" loans that violated the law, and resorting to abusive debt collection practices when borrowers could not pay. The CFPB partnered with Washing more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- The U.S. Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol issued the following news: Turns out Santa, Mrs. Claus, and all the North Pole elves aren't necessarily the busiest people in the world during the holidays after all. Instead, one strong candidate for that distinction is Cadet Chief Master Sgt. Morgan Raymondson of the Virginia Wing's Southside Composite Squadron. Here are some of the things that will keep Raymondson, a long-distance runner, on his toes in December: * He'll  more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Matthew M. Graves, issued the following news release on Nov. 20, 2023: Federal law enforcement in D.C., Virginia, Maryland, San Diego, and Los Angeles arrested 11 additional alleged members of a fentanyl drug distribution, responsible for bringing hundreds of thousands of fake blue Oxycodone (M30) pills, containing fentanyl, from California to D.C., announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves, Administrator Anne Milgram, of th more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- The Federal Election Commission issued the following advisory opinion document (No. AO 2023-07) on Nov. 20, 2023: * * * The Upshur County Republican Executive Committee (Upshur County) and the West Virginia Republican Party (State Party) are not affiliated for purposes of the Federal Election Campaign Act's (the Act) contribution limits. Under the Act, political committees are "affiliated" if they are established, financed, maintained or controlled by the same organizat more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 56764) involving Flowserve, Lynchburg, Virginia: * * * Rep Org: Flowserve Licensee: Flowserve Region: 1 City: Lynchburg State: VA Agreement: Y NRC Notified By: Christopher Shaffer HQ OPS Officer: Lawrence Criscione Notification Date: 09/29/2023 Notification Time: 08:36 [ET] Event Date: 09/29/2023 Event Time: 00:00 [EDT] Last Update Date: 11/17/2023 Emergency Class: Non Emergency  more PR

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 21 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Kenneth L. Parker, issued the following news release on Nov. 20, 2023: U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Parker today announced that a Virginia-based tactical gear and equipment company has agreed to pay nearly $2.1 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it failed to comply with the requirements of the Buy American Act ("BAA"), Trade Agreements Act ("TAA") and Berry Amendment when selling textile-based products more PR

NORFOLK, Virginia, Nov. 21 -- President Biden answered questions on Nov. 19, 2023, ahead of Air Force One departure from Naval Station Norfolk: * * * Q: Mr. President, your thoughts on Rosalynn Carter? Your thoughts on the Fir- -- former First Lady? THE PRESIDENT: (Inaudible.) The day she was put in hospice, I was on the phone with the family, and I was speaking to their grandson, and the family was just showing up. You know, they're really an incredible family because they brought so much gr more PR

NORFOLK, Virginia, Nov. 21 -- The U.S. Navy's Chief of Naval Operations issued the following news story: President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, alongside renowned Chef Robert Irvine, hosted a Friendsgiving meal in the Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron (HM) 15 hangar on Naval Station Norfolk for roughly 400 family members of USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) Sailors, as well as single Sailors assigned to units on the naval station, Nov more PR

NORFOLK, Virginia, Nov. 21 -- President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden issued the following remarks on Nov. 19, 2023, ahead of a military families movie screening at the Joint Forces Staff College: * * * THE FIRST LADY: You're supposed to come out, too, Joe. (Laughs.) Hello, how are you? (Applause.) Hello. Wow, it's so -- it's so nice to -- I love that he's continued clapping. Thank you. (Laughs.) So, it's really special for me to be here today because my dad was Navy. He fought in World Wa more PR

NORFOLK, Virginia, Nov. 21 -- President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden issued the following remarks on Nov. 20, 2023, at a friendsgiving with service members and military families at the Helicopter Mine Countermeasure Squadron 15 hanger: * * * THE FIRST LADY: Well, Happy Thanksgiving. I'm sorry that I have to lead this off with a sad announcement. Our former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has just passed. And she was well known for her efforts on mental health and caregiving and women's rights. more PR

QUANTICO, Virginia, Nov. 21 -- The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command issued the following news release: United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson and Purdue University announced a pre-suit settlement resolving allegations that an associate professor of Cancer Biology and Pharmacology in Purdue's College of Veterinary Medicine falsified documentation provided to the National Institutes of Health and Department of the Army. The university will pay the government $737,391, to resolve alleg more PR

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, Nov. 21 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, Will Thompson, issued the following news release on Nov. 20, 2023: Aaron Zachary Slash, 22, of Huntington, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute heroin. According to court documents and statements made in court, on September 5, 2023, law enforcement officers conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by Slash on the 700 block of Sixth Avenue in Huntington. Officers searc more PR