CHEVY CHASE, Maryland, May 30 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Society of Addiction Medicine posted the following news release: * * * Breaking Down the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Select Health Care Provisions Impacting Addiction Medicine On May 22, 2025, the US House narrowly passed its budget reconciliation bill, H.R. 1 - the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, by a vote of 215 to 214. While this legislation would positively update the conversion factor under the Medicare physician fee sched more PR

WASHINGTON, May 30 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR Calls on U. of Baltimore to Investigate Allegations of Religious Discrimination Against Muslim Graduate The Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, is calling on the University of Baltimore to launch an independent investigation into serious allegations of Islamoph more PR

WASHINGTON, May 30 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * EPA to Provide Nearly $1 Million to Mid-Atlantic States to Protect Beachgoers from Bacteria PHILADELPHIA - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will provide to the states of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia a total of $962,000 in grant funding to monitor water quality at coastal and Great Lakes beaches and to notify the public if elevated levels of illness-causing bacteria make more PR

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, May 31 -- HIAS, a refugee protection organization, issued the following news release: * * * HIAS Alarmed by SCOTUS Humanitarian Parole Ruling HIAS, the global Jewish nonprofit that protects refugees, is deeply alarmed by the Supreme Court's decision this morning to reinstate the Trump administration's termination of the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) humanitarian parole program. "As a direct consequence of this order, over half a million individua more PR

WASHINGTON, May 30 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * House and Senate Democrats Send Letter Calling on GAO to Investigate Federal Worker Firings WASHINGTON, DC - In response to the Trump Administration's unprecedented purge of tens of thousands of federal workers without cause, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05), Ranking Member of the Senate Ap more PR

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Mfume Formally Announces Bid for Oversight Committee Ranking Member Seat BALTIMORE, MD - Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) issued the following statement regarding his decision to formally pursue the role of Ranking Member on the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. "I am formally announcing my candidacy for Ranking Member of the U.S. House Oversight and Government Refor more PR

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, ranking member of the of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Ranking Member Raskin Launches Probe Into Ed Martin's Role in Trump's Corrupt Pardon Spree Two Weeks Into Martin's Tenure as Pardon Attorney, Trump Has Pardoned More Than Two Dozen MAGA Loyalists And Wealthy Criminals Who Paid Millions to Avoid Prison Time and Repaying Victims * Washington, D.C. (May 30, 2025)--Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Rankin more PR

WOODLAWN, Maryland, May 31 -- The Social Security Administration issued the following news release: * * * Social Security Continues to Provide Ways for the Public to Request Accommodations and File Civil Rights (Program Discrimination) Complaints The Social Security Administration (SSA) is committed to ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to access its programs, activities, and facilities, regardless of disability, in accordance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. In addition, S more PR

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, May 31 -- The University of Maryland issued the following news release: * * * University of Maryland Hosts Capital of Quantum Startup Symposium to Accelerate Quantum Innovation The University of Maryland (UMD) convened leading voices in technology, government and entrepreneurship today for the Capital of Quantum Startup Symposium, spotlighting Maryland's role as a national and international hub for quantum innovation. Held in the Anacostia Building (formerly the Ameri more PR

NORFOLK, Virginia, May 29 [Category: Animals] -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following news release: * * * VIDEO: Gruesome Horse Fatality at Auction, PETA Demands End to Timed Sprints Timonium, Md. - Armed with graphic footage of a young horse's catastrophic injury during a speed trial at a Fasig-Tipton auction on May 15 in Timonium, Maryland, PETA today sent a letter to Fasig-Tipton President and CEO Boyd Browning, Jr., urging him to permanently end timed sprints a more PR