DALLAS, Texas, May 2 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on April 30, 2025, entitled "Changing Compensation Costs in the Dallas Metropolitan Area - March 2025": * * * Compensation costs for private industry workers increased 4.4 percent in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK Combined Statistical Area (CSA) for the year ended March 2025, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Assistant Commis more PR

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * EPA celebrates 100 days with 100 environmental actions Major accomplishments achieved in Mountains and Plains Region DENVER -- Yesterday, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin released a recap of 100 environmental actions Exit EPA's website taken by the agency during President Trump's First 100 Days in office. The recap highlights numerous accomplishments in EPA Re more PR

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * EPA Region 7 Celebrates 100 Days with 100 Environmental Actions in Heartland and Across Nation LENEXA, KAN. (APRIL 30, 2025) - Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin released a recap of 100 environmental actions taken by the Agency during President Trump's First 100 Days in office, including the record Phase 1 hazardous materials cleanup after the catastroph more PR

WASHINGTON, May 2 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has extended the public comment period for a proposed rule that would withhold certain aircraft registration information from public dissemination. The proposed changes, first published in the Federal Register on April 3, 2025, aim to fulfill Section 803 of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, which mandates the removal of personally identifiable information (PII) of private aircraft owners more PR

WASHINGTON, May 2 (TNSFR) -- The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, has amended a notice of inventory completion originally published in 1996, under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), to update the list of Native American tribes with cultural affiliation to certain human remains. This notice impacts the repatriation of remains that were part of the original inventory, but no repatriation has yet occurred. The museum has identified more PR

WASHINGTON, May 2 (TNSFR) -- The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College has finalized an inventory of human remains, identifying them as Native American in origin. The remains, representing at least one individual, were acquired by the museum in 1939 from Professor F.D. Lord, who stated that they were "given to [him] by a man in Iowa." Despite this acquisition, no additional information has been discovered in the museum's archival records regarding the identity or history of the remains. Fol more PR

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release: * * * ICYMI: ICE Targets Major Human and Drug Smuggling Property In Oklahoma City WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Homeland Security set the record straight regarding an April 24, 2025, execution of court-authorized search warrant at a home owned by a human smuggling suspect in Oklahoma City. This lawful operation conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), led by Homeland Securit more PR

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, issued the following news release: * * * In Senate Floor Speech, Senator Murray Calls Out Trump's Staggeringly Lawless and Inhumane Immigration Policy 60 Minutes : U.S. sent 238 migrants to Salvadoran mega-prison; documents indicate most have no apparent criminal records WATCH : Senator Murray's remarks on the Senate Floor Washington, D.C. - Today U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, t more PR

WASHINGTON, May 2 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior, Reclamation, Oklahoma-Texas Area Office (OTAO), has completed an inventory of human remains and confirmed a cultural affiliation with the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, including the Wichita, Keechi, Waco, and Tawakonie. The human remains, representing at least two individuals, were recovered by a local collector from an archaeological site (34JK18) in Jackson County, Oklahoma, prior to 1990. In 2017, these remains were brought  more PR

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: * * * Lankford, Hudson Unveil Bill to End Biden-Era 'Social Cost' Climate Models, Supercharge Trump's American Energy Agenda WASHINGTON, DC -- Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today introduced the Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act alongside Congressman Richard Hudson (R-NC), legislation that will eliminate the use of "social cost" metrics in federal rulemaking and reinforce President Donald  more PR

WASHINGTON, May 2 (TNSFR) -- Mercyhurst University, Erie, Pennsylvania has completed an inventory of human remains, determining that they are of Native American ancestry. The remains, representing one individual, were removed from an unknown location in Florida, possibly from a mound, and later acquired by Raymond C. Vietzen, an avocational archaeologist and founder of the Indian Ridge Museum in Elyria, Ohio. The remains were eventually transferred to Mercyhurst University in 2003, following more PR

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Nanette Barragan, D-California, issued the following floor remarks on April 30, 2025 (In this document, the reference to Mr. Speaker refers to the presiding officer of the House at the time of the speech): * * * Mr. Speaker, as the economy is tanking, costs are going up, not down. Today, we face a new threat and danger: The Trump government is abusing its power. The Trump government ignores court orders, ignores the Constitution, and then lies to try to justify its ac more PR

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-New Jersey, issued the following floor remarks on April 30, 2025 (In this document, the reference to Mr. Speaker refers to the presiding officer of the House at the time of the speech): * * * Mr. Speaker, I rise today because the Trump administration is carrying out a campaign of reckless cruelty with zero accountability. Last week, the home of a woman from Oklahoma was mistakenly targeted by ICE agents. They broke into her home, forced her a more PR

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- The U.S. Senate conducted 12 committee hearings on April 30, 2025: * * * BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine biomedical research, focusing on keeping America's edge in innovation, after receiving testimony from Sudip S. Parikh, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and E. Cartier Esham, Alliance for a Stronger FDA, both of Washington, D.C.; Hermann Haller, MDI Biological Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine; Ba more ST

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Unveils New Package to Boost Air Traffic Controller Workforce Package addresses shortage through retention of existing controllers and hiring of new controllers WASHINGTON. D.C. - U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy today unveiled a new package of actions to further supercharge the air traffic controller workforce. The package will allow mor more PR

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration issued the following news release on May 1, 2025: * * * U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Unveils New Package to Boost Air Traffic Controller Workforce WASHINGTON. D.C. - U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy today unveiled a new package of actions to further supercharge the air traffic controller workforce. The package will allow more of the best and brightest candidates to get into air more PR

WASHINGTON, May 2 (TNSFR) -- The University of Tennessee Department of Anthropology in Knoxville and the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka have completed a joint inventory confirming the cultural affiliation of human remains and funerary objects with the Kaw Nation, Oklahoma and the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. The remains, representing at least two individuals, were removed from the Kansas Monument site (14RP1) located in Republic County, Kansas, a known historic Pawnee village occupied  more PR