WASHINGTON, July 12 (TNSres) -- The American Association of Colleges of Nursing issued the following news release: Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee advanced their Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS-ED) spending bill by a vote of 31 to 25. This bill proposes steep cuts and consolidation of programs throughout the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Education. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) opposes reduce more PR

WASHINGTON, July 10 (TNSres) -- The American Action Forum issued the following news release: In new research, Data Analyst Jacob Jensen walks through the economic impacts of President Biden's trade policies and campaign proposals. Key points: * President Biden and former President Trump, while different in tone, echo one another's stances on protecting U.S. industries and workers through the implementation of costly tariffs and industrial incentives. * President Biden has introduced roughly  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 10 (TNSres) -- The American Action Forum issued the following research: * * * Biden's Protectionist Agenda By Jacob Jensen Executive Summary * President Biden and former President Trump, while different in tone, echo one another's stances on protecting U.S. industries and workers through the implementation of costly tariffs and industrial incentives. * President Biden has introduced roughly $3.8 billion in new tariffs and maintained nearly all the tariffs imposed on China  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 10 (TNSres) -- The American Action Forum issued the following news release: The Biden Administration recently released its Spring 2024 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (UA) detailing the nearly 2,400 rulemakings it plans to put forward within the next year or so. In a new insight, Director of Regulatory Policy Dan Goldbeck examines major trends across agencies and discusses what this shows about the scope of the administrative state and the Biden Administra more PR

NEW YORK, July 10 (TNSres) -- The Asia Society issued the following news release: The Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis (CCA) has released "Politics First: The Key to Understanding China's Third Plenum" by Neil Thomas, Fellow on Chinese Politics, and Jing Qian, CCA Co-Founder and Managing Director. The article analyzes the historical context, policy signals, personnel movements, and key documents related to the Third Plenum of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Co more PR

COLUMBIA, Missouri, July 13 (TNSres) -- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following news: By Kaitlin Washburn Two recent studies examining how local media report on gun violence revealed that Philadelphia TV news stations are failing to produce public health coverage of firearm violence. And they found that these stations routinely overreport on shootings involving children, mass shootings and shootings that happen in wealthier areas with majority white residents. The stu more PR

WASHINGTON, July 8 (TNSres) -- The Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration issued the following news release: Nearly one year after the release of the groundbreaking report, "The Interview of a Lifetime: An Analysis of Visa Denials and International Student Flows to the U.S.," by the Presidents' Alliance and Shorelight, students from the Global South continue to experience high visa denial rates to U.S. colleges and universities. The latest findings in our updated report confir more PR

NEW YORK, July 13 (TNSres) -- The Family Equality Council issued the following news release: * * * To oppose the Title IX protections for LGBTQI+ rules is to oppose the very notion that all families have the right to be free from bullying, discrimination, and harassment * * * Family Equality vehemently condemns the recent House resolution to reverse the Biden Administration's Title IX protections for LGBTQI+ students and families. Though it is unlikely that this resolution will be affirmed i more PR

WASHINGTON, July 12 (TNSres) -- The Allegheny Conference on Community Development issued the following news release: * * * Allegheny Conference Offers Program of Services and Support to Advance In-Market Growth * * * (PITTSBURGH - July 11, 2024) - The expansions of existing businesses across southwestern Pennsylvania have dominated business investment activity in the region - accounting for the lion's share of publicly announced investments over a 17-year period between 2007 and 2023. The in more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, July 12 (TNSres) -- The Williams Institute issued the following news release: A new report from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law indicates significant progress in the number of countries with LGBTI-inclusive laws and policies over time. In 1990, 57% of countries around the world had few or no legal protections based on sexual orientation (SO), and 90% of countries had few or no protections based on gender identity, gender expression, or sex characteristics  more PR

NEW YORK, July 13 (TNSres) -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following news release: * * * Evidence supporting the benefits of SDOH spending is thin * * * In a world where childcare is infrastructure, is housing now health care? That's a premise that some policymakers in the White House currently advance. They claim that addressing what they call social determinants of health (SDOH)--vague, nonmedical social factors like housing and education--will translate into long-term reductions in  more PR

SEATTLE, Washington, July 13 (TNSres) -- The Allen Institute issued the following news: * * * New OpenScope projects aim to pioneer the future of neuroscience * * * By Jake Siegel How do neurons react to magic mushrooms? What happens in the brain when we see motion, or when we recognize grain patterns in a piece of wood? How do our brains track the subtle changes in our friends' appearances over time? The Allen Institute has launched four projects to investigate these questions through Op more PR

WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, July 8 (TNSres) -- The Marine Biological Laboratory, an affiliate of the University of Chicago, issued the following news: By Alex Megerle When it comes to climate change research, a lot of the news is bad. The planet is warming, seas are rising, and much of life on Earth is struggling to respond--but there are a few examples of organisms swimming against that current. Most of the scientific literature is "flooded with doomsday situations of how everything is just  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 9 (TNSres) -- The Phoenix Center issued the following news release: * * * Undecided Voter Share is Historically High and Possibly Determinative * * * The presidential election in November is largely focused on two candidates: Donald Trump and Joe Biden. With many voters dismayed over the choice, third-party candidates are attracting attention, with undecided voters amounting to about 20% of support in recent polls, on average. Third-party candidates come in a variety of for more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, July 12 (TNSres) -- The American Gas Association issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - The American Gas Association (AGA) announced the release of a new report, The Current State of Natural Gas Utility Line Extension Policies, which examines the regulatory framework that guides the provision and expansion of essential utility services, including natural gas utility line extension policies governing the responsibilities of regulators, customers, and utilities in expa more PR

NEW YORK, July 12 (TNSres) -- The Insurance Information Institute issued the following news release: Favorable first-quarter economic and underwriting results for property/casualty insurance are in line with projections that the industry will see a small underwriting loss in 2024 and achieve profitability in 2025, according to the latest forecasting report - Insurance Economics and Underwriting Projections: A Forward View - from the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) and Milliman, a col more PR

WASHINGTON, July 13 (TNSres) -- People for the American Way issued the following news release on July 11, 2024: People For the American Way today released its annual Supreme Court end-of-term report, The Supreme Court's 2023-24 term: A corrupt majority on steroids. The report summarizes key Supreme Court rulings for 2023-24 and looks ahead to cases the Court is slated to hear in 2024-25. It comes at the end of a cataclysmic term in which the Court, dominated by far-right justices and awash in more PR

SANTA MONICA, California, July 12 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following article on July 10, 2024: It was early evening when the storm hit. Amid blinding rain, rivers and streams jumped their banks and surged into downtown Ellicott City, Maryland. The water swept through buildings and sent parked cars careening down Main Street. Two people died. Experts described what happened that night in July 2016 as a thousand-year flood. Then it happened again. In May 2018, six inches of rain pounded the h more PR

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, July 12 (TNSres) -- The Sports and Fitness Industry Association issued the following news release: * * * 28 Individual Single Sport Reports Are Now Available for Purchase * * * The Sports & Fitness Industry Association (SFIA) has released the first series of 2024 Single Sport Reports, including 28 individual sport reports from the team sports, racquet sports, and individual sports categories. These reports provide a detailed analysis and breakdown of participation by more PR

WASHINGTON, July 13 (TNSres) -- The American Educational Research Association issued the following news release on July 11, 2024: * * * Predictive Algorithms Underestimate the Likely Success of Black and Hispanic Students * * * Predictive algorithms commonly used by colleges and universities to determine whether students will be successful may be racially biased against Black and Hispanic students, according to new research published today in AERA Open, a peer-reviewed journal of the America more PR

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, July 12 (TNSres) -- The Association of Equipment Manufacturers issued the following news: U.S. sales of Ag tractors and combines in June 2024 fell below reported sales from the same month a year ago, according to new data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). June sales of 2-wheel-drive tractors dropped 16.3% compared to 2023, while 4-wheel-drive tractors fell 1.3% within the same timeframe. Combines sales declined as well, finishing the month 31% below J more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 10 (TNSres) -- The American Mathematical Society issued the following news release: Ellen Urheim has been named the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Judicial Branch Fellow for 2024-25. Urheim will spend the year at the Federal Judicial Center, working at the intersection of law and science as federal courts increasingly face litigation that requires the expertise of scientists and engineers. Previous Fellows have addressed policy issues  more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 12 (TNSres) -- The Prevent Cancer Foundation issued the following news: In June, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first-ever point-of-care test to diagnose hepatitis C infection in adults. The Cepheid Xpert HCV test, which uses a fingertip blood sample, will make testing for hepatitis C--a leading cause of liver cancer--more accessible and faster for millions of people in the U.S. Here's what you need to know about the test. What is different about more PR