WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education issued the following news release on April 8, 2025: * * * AACTE Statement on Supreme Court Order Regarding TQP and SEED Grants Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued an order in an emergency appeal filed by the Trump Administration concerning the termination of Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) and Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grants. This opinion reverses the Tempo more PR

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee issued the following news release: * * * ADC Expresses Grave Concern Over Ongoing Harassment and Intimidation of Attorneys by CBP, DHS and ICE Washington, D.C. | The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is gravely concerned about the increasing pattern of harassment and intimidation directed at attorneys throughout the United States by officials from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Department of  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Political] -- America First Legal, a civil rights organization, posted the following news release: * * * AFL Senior Counsel James Rogers Testifies Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Oversight and Intelligence Subcommittee on the Adverse Foreign Policy Consequences of the Biden Administration's Far-Left Priorities Washington, D.C. - Today, America First Legal (AFL) Senior Counsel James Rogers is testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Su more PR

NEW YORK, April 8 [Category: Religion] -- The American Jewish Committee posted the following news release: * * * AJC Statement on University Funding Cuts American Jewish Committee (AJC) has repeatedly insisted that universities must take action to counter and prevent antisemitism on their campuses. However, the broad, sweeping, and devastating cuts in federal funding that a growing number of American research universities have been subjected to in recent weeks, under the auspices of combating more PR

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The American Action Forum issued the following commentary on April 8, 2025: * * * The New U.S. Carbon Tariff Proposal: A Brief Overview By Shuting Pomerleau Executive Summary * Today, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reintroduced the 2025 Foreign Pollution Fee Act (FPFA), which would levy tiered and escalating tariffs on selected imported goods base on their carbon emissions, with the intention to boost U.S. manufacturers' competitiveness in low-c more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- American Bridge 21st Century, an organization that says it focuses on holding Republicans accountable and helps deliver Democratic victories, issued the following news release: * * * Nightmare Scenario: Trump Lights Economy on Fire While Gutting Social Security for Americans on Fixed Incomes Republicans expect Americans to suffer, shut up, and die waiting in line for benefits that may never come In the middle of Donald Trump causing a market crash and burning 401(k) sa more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The American Immigration Lawyers Association issued the following news release: * * * American Immigration Lawyers Association: Trump Dragnet Widens to Unconstitutional Targeting of People with Visas Over the past weeks, individuals holding lawful visas, including students and researchers, have experienced visa revocations, termination of lawful status, and in some instances detention, and removal without clear explanations. The Administration has detained and removed p more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, April 7 [Category: Libraries] -- The American Library Association posted the following news release: * * * American Library Association, AFSCME Challenge Trump Administration Gutting of Institute of Museum and Library Services Cuts to Independent Agency Threatens Libraries Nationwide Washington, D.C. -- The American Library Association (ALA), the largest library association in the world, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the la more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Must Hold Israel Accountable for the Murder of Palestinian-American Child by Israeli Settlers and Soldiers Washington, D.C. | The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) calls for justice in the brutal killing of 14-year-old Palestinian-American Omar Mohammed Rabea, who was shot by Israeli settlers at the entrance of Turmus Ayya, a town northeast of Ramallah in the oc more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Energy] -- The American Petroleum Institute posted the following news release: * * * API Welcomes Trump Administration's Actions to Protect American Energy from Illegal State Overreach WASHINGTON, April 8, 2025 -- The American Petroleum Institute today issued the following statement from Senior Vice President and General Counsel Ryan Meyers after President Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice to protect American energy from so-call more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Stand Up America, an organization was born in 2016 as a digital-first grassroots community working to resist what they say is Donald Trump's corruption, racism and his threats to democracy, issued the following news release: * * * As Republicans Move to Silence Judges Who Rule Against Trump, Stand Up America Warns of Another Threat: 22 New Trump Judges By relentlessly testing the limits of executive power, the Trump administration has placed unprecedented strain on our  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 7 [Category: Political] -- Americans for Tax Reform posted the following commentary: * * * ATR Urges House to Adopt the Senate Amendment to the Budget Resolution Americans for Tax Reform urges all members of the House to adopt the Senate-passed amendment to the House Budget Resolution. Adopting the Senate's amendment will allow Congress to begin drafting reconciliation legislation to deliver on President Trump's tax cut agenda. Doing so allows Congress to prevent the large more PR

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 8 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice posted the following news release: * * * Border Wall Waivers Risk Harm for Border Communities and Environment Washington, D.C. -- Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem issued the first waiver of environmental and good governance laws under the second Trump administration to fast-track the construction of new border wall in Southern California. Under a provision of the REAL ID Act, the DHS Secretary has th more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence issued the following news release: * * * Brady Fiercely Denounces The Trump Administration's Reported Removal of ATF's Crucial "Zero-Tolerance" Policy, Endangering Public Safety The decision to weaken oversight of rogue gun dealers will flood communities with illegal firearms, causing more violence and crime It has been reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi plans to remove the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explos more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR Maryland Condemns Extrajudicial Revocation of Student Visas Amid Federal Campus Crackdowns Civil rights group calls for immediate reinstatement, due process for international students The Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today strongly condemned reported  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR-Arizona Denounces Trump Admin's Visa Revocations, Demands Reinstatement and Safeguarding of International Students' Rights The Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-AZ), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today expressed grave concern and outrage over reports that at least 50 Arizona State Universi more PR

NEW YORK, April 9 -- The Vera Institute of Justice, an organization that says its mission is to end overcriminalization and mass incarceration of people of color, immigrants and people experiencing poverty, issued the following news release on April 8, 2025: * * * Campaign for Immigration Due Process Responds to Supreme Court Ruling WASHINGTON, DC - Last night, the Supreme Court ruled to allow the Trump administration to resume mass arrests and deportations under a wartime authority invoked b more PR

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Center for Economic and Policy Research issued the following news release: * * * Medicare Advantage Decision Will Boost Insurance Profits, Raise Health Care Costs Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its decision to massively increase payment rates for insurers that provide privatized Medicare Advantage plans. The 5.06% rate increase is more than double what the Biden administration had proposed for next year. In response, Cent more PR

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Center for Economic and Policy Research issued the following news release: * * * Most Ecuadorians Believe Economy, Security Haven't Improved Since President Noboa Took Office Majority Also Say that Noboa Has Used the Presidency to Advance Family Business Interests Washington, DC -- Sixty-one percent of Ecuadorians say their economic situation and personal security have not improved since President Daniel Noboa took office, a new YouGov poll commissioned by the Cent more PR

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on April 8, 2025: * * * China's Power Play Across the Pacific By Charles Edel and Kathryn Paik In an uncommonly frank moment in 2019, a Chinese diplomat declared that "we treat our friends with fine wine, but for our enemies we have shotguns." While the more acerbic edges of what is now known as China's "Wolf Warrior diplomacy" have softened, the last several weeks of Chinese activity in more PR

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on April 8, 2025: * * * How Should Africa Respond to Trump's New Tariffs? By Hannah Ryder, Trevor Lwere and Ovigwe Eguegu Last week, the Trump administration moved to impose sweeping tariffs on almost all countries in the world in a bid to rectify the U.S. trade deficit and encourage the reshoring and revival of the U.S. domestic manufacturing and industrial sectors. African countries we more PR

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on April 8, 2025: * * * The Possible European Response to Trump's "Reciprocal" Tariffs By Federico Steinberg and Jeffrey Anderson On April 2--dubbed "Liberation Day" by the U.S. administration-- President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on nearly every country in the world, targeting both allies and rivals alike. These include a 34 percent tariff on China, 24 percent on Japan, 20 more PR

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on April 8, 2025: * * * Reviving Cobre Panama Could Be Strategic to U.S. Minerals Security By Gracelin Baskaran and Paula Reynal The shutdown of Cobre Panama--one of the largest copper mines globally--has become a cautionary tale of how political risk can undermine significant investments from Western mining companies. Developed and operated by Canadian company First Quantum Minerals, th more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on April 7, 2025: * * * Trump Scores an Own Goal By William Alan Reinsch Fans of soccer (or football, as the rest of the world calls it) are familiar with the term "own goal," which refers to a player scoring a point for the opposing team by sending the ball into their own goal. Own goals are inadvertent but always embarrassing. In the trade world, early indications are that Trump has ju more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on April 7, 2025: * * * Where Is the United States? An Earthquake in Myanmar Is the First Test of President Trump's Emergency Aid Cuts By Michelle Strucke and Lily Kennedy On March 28 at 12:50 am local time, disaster struck war-torn Myanmar in the form of a 7.7-magnitude earthquake, the strongest to hit Southeast Asia in decades. This "once-in-a-century" earthquake was followed by strong more PR

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following research: * * * Abruptly Eliminating Social Security Phone Services Threatens Access to Benefits By Kathleen Romig The Trump Administration is making it harder for eligible Social Security beneficiaries to access their benefits by eliminating phone services, forcing millions more people to seek in-person help even as it cuts thousands of Social Security Administration (SSA) staff. At the same time, increas more PR

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following commentary on April 8, 2025: * * * Advocates Must Hold States Accountable on AI Given Trump Order By Symonne Singleton, Digital Services Analyst The Trump Administration has begun a shift in federal policy related to artificial intelligence (AI) that advocates working to improve people's access to public benefits should be aware of. AI has the potential to reduce barriers to public programs (such as stream more PR

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following research: * * * Restricting Phone Services for Social Security Will Harm Seniors 6 Million of Them Are More Than a 45-Mile Trip From Their Field Office By Claire Zippel and Devin O'Connor The Trump Administration and DOGE have proposed eliminating phone access for critical Social Security services, including retirement applications. Millions of seniors would have to seek in-person help from an understaffe more PR

BELLEVUE, Washington, April 9 -- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms issued the following news release: * * * CCRKBA LAUDS DOJ/ATF REPEAL OF BIDEN-ERA 'ZERO-TOLERANCE' ANTI-GUN POLICY BELLEVUE, WA - The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is applauding the announcement by Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that the Biden-era "zero tolerance policy" penalizing gun owners and small retailers has been repeal more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Sociological] -- The American Economic Liberties Project posted the following news release: * * * Congress Should Act Immediately to Protect Americans from the Coming Trump Crash Washington, D.C. -- With dangerous economic fallout brewing from the Trump administration's tariffs announcement--set to go into effect tonight--and unpredictable policymaking environment, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement and recommendations to cu more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The National Whistleblower Center, a legal advocacy organization, issued the following news release: * * * DC Circuit Court of Appeals Issues Injunction Reinstating Cathy Harris On Monday, April 7th, a DC Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit issued an injunction in a 7-4 decision, reinstating Cathy Harris to her position as a Chairwoman of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), along with Gwynne Wilcox to her position at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). To more PR

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 8 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice posted the following news release: * * * Earthjustice Statement on Executive Orders to Boost U.S. Coal Washington, D.C. -- Today President Trump announced several executive orders to prop up coal. Jill Tauber, Vice President of Litigation for Climate & Energy, Earthjustice, issued the following statement in response: "Coal is a disaster for our health, our wallets and the planet. President Trump's efforts to resc more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Sociological] -- The American Economic Liberties Project posted the following news release: * * * Economic Liberties Supports Senate Banking Democrats Demand for Hearing on Trump's Use of Emergency Powers to Impose Incoherent Tariffs and Rejects Grassley-Cantwell Bill Washington, D.C. -- Today, as U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, led Committee Democrats in calling on Chairman Tim more PR

NEW YORK, April 8 [Category: Sociological] -- Everytown for Gun Safety posted the following news release: * * * Everytown Announces $10M Investment in State Attorney General Races, Launch of Everytown Rule of Law Fund Program to Target Up to Ten Key Swing State Attorneys General Elections in 2025-2026 Cycle NEW YORK -- Today, Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund announced the launch of the Everytown Rule of Law Fund to elect Attorneys General who will stand up for the rule of law, uphold t more PR

ARLINGTON, Virginia, April 9 -- The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association issued the following news release on April 8, 2025: * * * New Executive Orders a Big Boost for Reliability, Electric Co-op Leaders at White House Event Say ARLINGTON, Va. - National Rural Electric Cooperative Association CEO Jim Matheson and several NRECA member CEOs today expressed appreciation for President Trump's announcement recognizing the critical role played by always available energy generating resour more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The Jamestown Foundation issued the following news: * * * Global Trade War Does Not Diminish Pressure on Russia to End Its War By Pavel K. Baev Executive Summary: * Russia faces significant economic strain due to declining oil and gas revenues, disrupted supply chains, and falling stock markets, which are exacerbated by global trade disruptions and internal demographic challenges that impact military recruitment. * Russian President Vladimir Putin sent envoy Kirill D more PR

PHOENIX, Arizona, April 9 -- The Goldwater Institute issued the following commentary on April 8, 2025: * * * Landmark Victory: Idaho Bans Mandatory DEI in Higher Ed By Tim Minella The state of Idaho has struck a monumental blow against "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) by eliminating mandatory indoctrination in DEI from the curricula of public universities. Idaho becomes the first state government to adopt the Goldwater Institute's Freedom from Indoctrination Act, a powerful reform th more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Political] -- Public Citizen issued the following news release: * * * Government Ethics Group Sues Trump Administration for Hiding Federal Spending Information from the Public WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Citizens For Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group and CREW, sued the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and its Director Russell Vought for taking offline information that shows how OMB directs agencies to spe more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Governor Kehoe to Sign Energy Inflation Act into Law Jefferson City, Mo - The Energy Inflation Act, Senate Bill 4, is expected to be signed into law on Wednesday by Governor Mike Kehoe. Despite decades of opposition by Missourians, the bill includes unpopular provisions that shift the burden of building new power plants to customers' utility bills before the plants ever produce a spark of p more PR

NEW YORK, April 8 [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., posted the following news release: * * * Groups Move to Block Removals Under Alien Enemies Act Latest Action Stems from Supreme Court Ruling NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union and New York Civil Liberties Union, in partnership with The Legal Aid Society whose clien more PR

NEW YORK, April 8 [Category: Law/Legal] -- New York Civil Liberties Union issued the following news release: * * * Groups Move to Block Removals Under Alien Enemies Act NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union and New York Civil Liberties Union, in partnership with The Legal Aid Society whose clients are plaintiffs in the litigation, filed an emergency lawsuit this morning in federal court in New York to again halt removals under the Alien Enemies Act for people within that court's judi more PR

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Growth Energy, a trade association that represents ethanol producers, issued the following news release: * * * Growth Energy Commends Senate Letter Urging EPA to Set Strong Biofuel Blending Volumes, Account for SREs WASHINGTON, D.C.--Growth Energy, the nation's largest biofuel trade association, applauded a bipartisan group of lawmakers for a Senate letter they sent this week urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set strong, multi-year renewable volum more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, April 8 [Category: Business] -- The National Marine Manufacturers Association posted the following news release: * * * How Countries are Responding to Recent Tariff Announcements With the new reciprocal tariffs set to go into effect tomorrow, below is a recap of important guidence and a summary of how countries are responding to the new tariffs. On April 5, a new 10% baseline tariff on all imported goods went into effect. Additional tariffs, including some that range up t more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Political] -- Americans for Tax Reform posted the following commentary: * * * How the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is Helping Alabama Below is a continuously updated list of good news arising from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act enacted by President Trump and congressional Republicans in 2017, and which now must be made permanent. The average annual TCJA tax cut for Alabama households is $1,352. ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL IRS DATA, TCJA PROVIDED: 17% tax cut for Alabama hou more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Political] -- The Independent Women's Forum posted issued the following news release: * * * Independent Women Applauds U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for Defunding Maine Department of Corrections Over Anti-Women Prison Policies WASHINGTON D.C. -- Today, Independent Women applauds U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Trump administration for swiftly taking action to revoke nonessential funding from the Maine Department of Corrections after it allowed a male i more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Indiana Utilities Must Address Climate Change Amidst Trump's Coal Executive Orders Indianapolis, Ind \-- Donald Trump's executive orders aim to force coal plants to remain open past their scheduled retirement dates by invoking an outdated wartime law that allows the Department of Energy to compel power plants to temporarily remain operational. Donald Trump attempted a similar strategy durin more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Political] -- Public Citizen issued the following news release: * * * IRS Agrees to Share Confidential Tax Information With Immigration Agents WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has reached an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to share confidential taxpayer information with law enforcement officials, according to recently filed court records. In a government filing late yesterday in a case by Centro de Trabajadores  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Environmental Working Group issued the following news release: * * * Key California Assembly committee advances bill to limit 'forever chemicals' in drinking water A.B. 794 would set new state tap water standards to tackle PFAS contamination SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California is one step closer to protecting millions of residents from tap water contaminated by the toxic "forever chemicals" known as PFAS. The Assembly's Environmental Safety and Toxics Materials Commi more PR

OAKLAND, California, April 9 -- The Center for Environmental Health issued the following news release: * * * Lawsuit Challenges Delays by EPA in Cleaning Up Dangerous Smog Pollution in Phoenix, Yosemite National Park Area OAKLAND, Calif.-- Conservation and public-health groups sued Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin today for failure to take action to reduce smog pollution in the Phoenix metro area and Mariposa County, California, home to Yosemite National Park. Both ar more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Biology] -- The Center for Biological Diversity posted the following news release: * * * Lawsuit Challenges Delays by Trump EPA in Cleaning Up Dangerous Smog Pollution in Phoenix, Yosemite National Park Area OAKLAND, Calif.-- Conservation and public-health groups sued Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin today for his failure to take action to reduce smog pollution in the Phoenix metro area and Mariposa County, California, home to Yosemite Na more PR

HELENA, Montana, April 6 -- The Alliance for the Wild Rockies issued the following blog posting: * * * Major Court Victory for Imperiled Selkirk Grizzly Bear Population in Idaho It took the Alliance for the Wild Rockies almost six years of litigation fighting the US Forest Service through both the Trump and Biden administrations to try and save what's left of the imperiled grizzly bear population in Northern Idaho's Selkirk Ecosystem. But that persistence, along with strong and consistent loc more PR

NEW YORK, April 8 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary on April 7, 2025, to Law and Libery: * * * What the New Right Gets Right By Andy Smarick The biggest political event for conservatives in the last decade was Donald Trump's slow trip down the escalator. But maybe the second biggest was the swift rise of what's often been called the "new right." Though that collection has been understood as a hodgepodge of populists, nationalists, neo-mercantilists, p more PR

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Immigration Reform Law Institute issued the following news release: * * * Maryland Birthright Citizenship Challenge Goes to the Fourth Circuit IRLI shows lower court was wrong to block Trump's executive order WASHINGTON--The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) has filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in a case in which activist groups claim that President Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship is unconstitutional more PR

WASHINGTON, April 7 [Category: Political] -- Americans for Tax Reform posted the following commentary: * * * Media Calls Out Democrats for Lying About the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provides across the board tax relief for American households. Democrats have been lying about the Trump tax cuts since day one, and even the beltway media has called them out: NYT: "Most people got a tax cut." WaPo: "Most Americans received a tax cut." CNN: "The facts are, most A more PR

SYDNEY, Australia, April 8 -- The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance issued the following news release: * * * Closure of BenarNews Pacific Bureau MEAA stands in solidarity with the journalists and staff impacted by the suspension of BenarNews, particularly those in its Brisbane-based Pacific Bureau. This suspension, a direct result of recent cuts to funding of the United States Agency for Global Media by the Trump administration, is a devastating blow to press freedom and journalism in t more PR

ALBANY, New York, April 8 -- Empire Center, a non-profit think tank, issued the following news release: * * * Median Teacher Pay Exceeds $100K in a Quarter of NY School Districts as Federal Funding Cuts Loom A total of 186 out of 685 school districts outside New York City last year had a median classroom teacher pay over $100,000, according to data posted today on SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center's government transparency website, up from 159 five years earlier. All eight Rockland County scho more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Financial Services] -- Better Markets, an organization that says it promotes pro-market, pro-business and pro-growth policies to help build a better financial system, posted the following news release: * * * Michelle Bowman Is the Wrong Choice to Lead Bank Regulation and Supervision at the Fed WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Shayna Olesiuk, Director of Banking Policy, issued the following statement in connection with Better Markets' new Fact Sheet, " Ten Reasons that," ahead more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Environment] -- The Defenders of Wildlife posted the following news release: * * * Misleadingly Named 'Pet and Livestock Protection Act' Ignores Science, Subverts Courts The House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources on Wednesday is expected to take up the misleadingly named "Pet and Livestock Protection Act" which if enacted would delist gray wolves in the Lower 48 from the Endangered Species Act. Introduced by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), the bill  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 7 [Category: Political] -- The NAACP posted the following news release: * * * NAACP Calls for Maintenance of the Community Relations Service (CRS) April 7, 2025 Contact: Chyna Fields, cfields@naacpnet.org WASHINGTON -- According to an internal memo, the Department of Justice, under the direction of Donald Trump, is considering closing the Community Relations Service (CRS), which was created as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The office is tasked with "preventing an more PR

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Association of American Universities issued the following news release on April 8, 2025: * * * National Organizations Announce Joint Effort to Develop a New Indirect Costs Funding Model The following is a joint statement from the Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), American Council on Education (ACE), Association of Independent Research Institutes (AIRI more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Business] -- The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council issued the following news release: * * * NEW SBE COUNCIL SURVEY: Small Businesses Deepen Tech Investment and Use AI and Express Checkout Fuel Growth, Tech Platforms Critical, Confident About Trump's Tech Policies Washington, D.C. - Small businesses are leaning heavily into innovative technologies to drive growth, productivity and competitiveness, according to new survey results released today by the  more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 8 [Category: Environment] -- The Union of Concerned Scientists posted the following news release: * * * New Trump Executive Order Endangers Public, Denies Reality with Attempt to Force Ongoing Use of Coal CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (April 8, 2025)--President Donald Trump announced an executive order today suspending critical public health and environmental safeguards, clearing the way for reckless coal extraction and potential public subsidization of uneconomic coal-fire more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, April 7 -- The National Immigration Law Center issued the following statement: * * * NILC Denounces Supreme Court Decision in Alien Enemies Act Case WASHINGTON -- Kica Matos, president of the National Immigration Law Center, issued the following statement after the Supreme Court greenlit the use of the Alien Enemies Act to send immigrants to be tortured abroad: "Today, the Supreme Court embraced the Trump administration's abuse of an obscure, centuries-old law to s more PR

SANTA MONICA, California, April 8 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following commentary on April 7, 2025: * * * FEMA Reformed Itself After Being Faced with Extinction Before, and It Can Learn from the Past By Patrick S. Roberts The president has proposed returning FEMA's functions to the states and created an advisory council to study reforming the agency. FEMA has faced criticism and the threat of extinction before. It was criticized for responding too slowly, and too weakly, to a series of disa more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The Jamestown Foundation issued the following news: * * * Russia's Double Game in Arctic is Cooperation in Name, but Confrontation in Practice By Gabriella Gricius Executive Summary: * Moscow portrays itself as a constructive actor advocating for economic cooperation in the Arctic and Baltic seas while also conducting an increasing rate of hybrid attacks and engaging in provocative discourse. * This double game of cooperation has long marked the Kremlin's Arctic agen more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Demand Justice issued the following news release: * * * Schiff And Raskin Expose Trump's Attacks On The Legal System In Bicameral Hearing Washington, DC- On Monday, Senator Adam Schiff and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin led a bicameral spotlight hearing on the attacks by President Trump and his allies against lawyers, law firms and the courts. Democratic members of both chambers of Congress attended the hearing. As Senator Schiff said during the hearing, "Donald Trump is more PR

WASHINGTON, April 5 -- Americans for Tax Fairness issued the following news release: * * * Senate GOP Advances Budget Resolution Amid Staggering New Costs for Billionaire Tax Cuts Today, Senate Republicans voted to slash Medicaid, child nutrition programs, and other essential services while employing accounting tricks to obscure the true cost of their multi-trillion-dollar tax cuts for billionaires. In a strikingly unprecedented move, the legislation uses an accounting gimmick to treat the ex more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Sierra Club Florida Reacts to Trump Executive Order Bolstering Coal ORLANDO, Fla. - Today, Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders in an attempt to bolster coal production in the United States. According to reporting, the executive orders will aim to force coal plants to remain open past their scheduled retirement dates by invoking an outdated wartime law that allows the Departmen more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: ThinkTank] -- Groundwork Collaborative, a think tank and progressive advocacy group, posted the following news release: * * * Small Businesses Bracing for the Worst as Trump Upends the Economy, Says Groundwork's Owens # As shockwaves from President Trump's chaotic trade policies continue to roil financial markets, small businesses are growing increasingly pessimistic. Small business optimism dropped 3.3 points to 97.4 in March, marking its lowest level since  more PR

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, April 8 -- The Maryland State Education Association issued the following news on April 7, 2025: * * * Howard County social studies teacher and Maryland State Education Association President Paul Lemle released the statement below following the passage of the Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act: "Educators appreciate the work of legislators to restore more than $2 billion in funding for our students over the next four years amid extremely challenging budget times and more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Demand Justice issued the following news release on April 7, 2025: * * * Statement: MAGA Justices Enable Trump's Lawless Deportations Washington, DC- Today, in a deeply anti-immigrant ruling, President Trump's MAGA justices on the U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency order severely limiting the ability of people who are disappeared to challenge these actions in court. In response, Demand Justice Interim Executive Director Maggie Jo Buchanan released the following st more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Sociological] -- The American Economic Liberties Project posted the following news release: * * * Tariffs Are Vital Tool to Rebalance U.S. Trade, but Trump Must Act Immediately to Stop Corporations from Using New Tariffs as Cover to Price-Gouge Washington, D.C. - Today, as the Trump administration announces its tariffs plan, American Economic Liberties Project's Rethink Trade Director, Lori Wallach, released this statement : "The businesses that profiteered fr more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Sociological] -- The American Economic Liberties Project posted the following news release: * * * Taxpayers and Seniors Will Pay the Price for Trump Admin's $25 Billion Handout to Big Insurance Washington, D.C. - In response to the news that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will substantially increase payments to private Medicare Advantage plans in 2026, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement. "Despite its  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Political] -- The Independent Women's Forum posted issued the following news release: * * * The U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of the Trump Administration, Allowing Resumption of Deportations to El Salvador WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Independent Women celebrates a massive legal victory for President Trump and the American people. The Supreme Court of the United States issued a landmark ruling late Monday, allowing the Trump administration to resume their depor more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Biology] -- The Center for Biological Diversity posted the following news release: * * * Trump Administration Moves to Scrap Habitat Protections for All Threatened, Endangered Species WASHINGTON-- The Trump administration has launched a process to redefine what it means to "harm" threatened and endangered species, the first step toward stripping habitat protections from rare plants and animals headed toward extinction. The Interior Department sent the proposed more PR

NEW YORK, April 8 [Category: Environment] -- The Environmental Defense Fund posted the following news release: * * * Trump Executive Orders to Support Coal Pollution Are Bad for American Health, Jobs, Will Increase Costs for Americans "President Trump's Executive Orders today are bad for America's health and our climate and will increase costs for American families. Burning coal releases deadly pollution into our air, including mercury that causes brain damage in young children and other toxi more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Giffords, an organization dedicated to saving lives from gun violence, issued the following news release: * * * Trump reportedly revokes ATF's "zero tolerance" policy, allowing dealers to sell guns to criminals WASHINGTON -- GIFFORDS, the national gun violence prevention organization led by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, released the following statement on the Trump administration's reported reversal of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives'  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Trump to Bolster Coal with Executive Order Washington, D.C. - According to Politico, today Donald Trump will sign executive orders in an attempt to bolster coal production in the United States. According to reporting, Donald Trump's executive orders will aim to force coal plants to remain open past their scheduled retirement dates by invoking an outdated wartime law that allows the Depart more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 9 -- Oxfam America issued the following news release: * * * Trump's 'reckless and shortsighted' coal bailout means 'more pollution, more climate-fueled disasters' - Oxfam In response to President Trump's executive order to keep coal-fired power plants open, Ashfaq Khalfan, Oxfam America's Climate Justice Director, said: "Forcing America's power grid to continue relying on coal is a reckless and shortsighted attempt to line the pocketbooks of billionaires and foss more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Political] -- Public Citizen issued the following news release: * * * Trump's Abuse of Emergency Declaration to Force Ratepayers to Prop Up Inefficient Coal Power Plants Is Breathlessly Stupid WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Donald Trump will today sign executive orders that seek to force ratepayers to pay to keep uneconomic coal power plants running, and push a dramatic expansion of coal mining on public lands. The move to resurrect coal power, which Public Citiz more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Political] -- Public Citizen issued the following news release: * * * Trump's Trillion for the Pentagon Hurts Us All WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, President Trump and Secretary of Defense/former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth heralded their unprecedented trillion dollar budget proposal for the Pentagon. Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response: A trillion-dollar Pentagon budget is morally reprehensible.  more PR

NEW YORK, April 9 -- LatinoJustice PRLDEF issued the following news release: * * * Two Rushed Supreme Court Decisions on Deportations Grossly and Callously Undercut Due Process for All in the US, Says LatinoJustice Two decisions issued by the Supreme Court yesterday in response to emergency appeals by President Trump reversed decisions by federal courts on cases related to deportations carried out without due process. One decision lifted an order from a DC federal judge that halted removal  more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, April 9 -- CodePink, a grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, posted the following news release: * * * U.S. Taxpayers Go to UN Human Rights Council, Charge U.S. Officials with Participation in Genocide On April 7, Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG) submitted a report to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) that charges U.S. officials with directly participating in genocide in Gaza. The more PR