WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Accountable.US, an organization that says it conduct investigations to expose conflicts of interest, issued the following news release: In the same week a New York judge upheld President-elect Trump's felony conviction for falsifying records to cover up hush money to a porn star he had an affair with, Trump's nominee for HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is now reportedly being accused of committing a felony of his own "by casting an absentee ballot in New York after  more PR

NEW YORK, Dec. 19 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., issued the following news release: NEW YORK New documents obtained by the ACLU reveal that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is actively considering proposals to expand its immigration detention capacity in at least six states across the country, including in California, K more PR

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 19 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Hector D. Abruna, the Emile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, will receive the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology honors bestowed by the U.S. government. The award will be shared with two other scientists, Paul Alivisatos and John Hopkins Nuckolls. Abruna is being recognized "for revolut more PR

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 19 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Reinforcement Learning (RL), an artificial intelligence approach, has the potential to guide physicians in designing sequential treatment strategies for better patient outcomes but requires significant improvements before it can be applied in clinical settings, researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and Rockefeller University have found. RL is a class of machine learning algorithms able to make a series of decisions ov more PR

NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (TNSres) -- Educators for Excellence issued the following news release: * * * Educators for Excellence-Connecticut unveils survey insights from 300+ teachers on priorities for the district's new strategic plan * * * HARTFORD, CT -- Following their survey of over 300 educators across Hartford Public Schools (HPS), Educators for Excellence-Connecticut (E4E-CT) released today a new report that spotlights urgent actions needed to support teachers, strengthen the profession, and more PR

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 19 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Early this year, the City of Rome announced the winning design of an international competition aimed at the redevelopment of the Via dei Fori Imperiali and surrounding Imperial Forum archaeological sites. Labics, a design office cofounded by Francesco Isidori and Maria Claudia Clemente, was selected for their proposed promenade, which will improve access to and understanding of this iconic setting for both residents and  more PR

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 19 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Despite being unbound by space and time, fictional protagonists in American literature travel fewer miles than their nonfiction counterparts, according to a Cornell-led research team that used artificial intelligence to analyze nearly 13,500 books from the last 230 years. The team also found that despite social constraints that affected women's mobility over the last three centuries, female protagonists throughout Ameri more PR

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 19 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Romina Wainberg, Klarman Fellow in Romance studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, is co-editor of the trilingual collected volume "Queer Latin American Voices" (Katakana, 2024), which contains brief texts and illustrations by Latin American LGBTQIA+ writers and artists, accompanied by responses by queer academics in Spanish, Portuguese or English. Translations and visual art pieces illuminate the written works. In more PR

NEW YORK, Dec. 19 -- Parliamentarians for Global Action issued the following news on Dec. 17, 2024: On 17 December, during the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Member States overwhelmingly adopted the tenth Resolution on a "Moratorium on the use of the death penalty". With 130 votes in favor, 32 abstentions and 22 votes against, this historic result represents a crucial step forward for the abolitionist movement. Compared to the 2022 resolution, which received 125 vot more PR

GENESEO, New York, Dec. 20 (TNSres) -- The State University of New York's Geneseo Campus issued the following news: Rachel Britton '18, a writer/editor/translator, has published her first book of poems in translation from Icelandic, A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder, by Brynja Hjalmsdottir (Circumference Books, 2024). An excerpt of the translation also received the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Leif and Inger Sjoberg Prize in 2023. "As a translator and technical writer, I am first and forem more PR

NEW YORK, Dec. 19 -- The U.S. Council for International Business issued the following news: USCIB has released a position paper on the draft UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights (BHR), also known as the Legally Binding Instrument to Regulate, in International Human Rights Law, the Activities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises. The release of this position paper is during the 10th round of negotiations taking place in Geneva this week. The draft Treaty poses serious  more PR

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 19 -- Cornell University issued the following news: The Gensler Family AAP NYC Center welcomed architect and founder of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) Vishaan Chakrabarti to the faculty this semester as the Thomas J. Baird Visiting Critic. In this capacity, Chakrabarti led Master of Science in Advanced Urban Design students in The Fundamentals of Urban Design, the first in a series of the degree program's studio courses that prepares students to explore, ana more PR