WASHINGTON, June 2 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * Unemployment rates under 3.0 percent in 77 metropolitan areas in April 2025 Unemployment rates were higher in April 2025 than a year earlier in 286 of the 387 metropolitan areas, lower in 72 areas, and unchanged in 29 areas. A total of 77 metropolitan areas had unemployment rates of less than 3.0 percent and 8 areas had rates of at least 8.0 percent more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service issued the following news release: * * * Channelization Project to Help Protect Native Fish in Grand Canyon Completed * News Release Date: June 5, 2025 Contact: Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Basin Region Contact: National Park Service, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area The Bureau of Reclamation and the National Park Service have completed modifications to a warmwater slough in the Colorado River more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-New York, issued the following news release: * * * Congressman Nick Langworthy Introduces Energy Choice Act to End Blue-State Wars on American Energy * WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, Congressman Nick Langworthy (NY-23) and Senator Jim Justice (R-WV) introduced the bipartisan, bicameral H.R. 3699, the Energy Choice Act (link is external) toprohibit states or local governments from banning an energy service's connection, reconnection, modification,  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: * * * DHS issues new waivers to expedite new border wall construction in Arizona and New Mexico * WASHINGTON -- Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has issued three new waivers for border wall construction, ensuring expeditious construction of approximately 36 miles of new border wall in Arizona and New Mexico. This is in addition to the waiver tha more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * Five Highs Gang Members Convicted by Jury of RICO Conspiracy, Drug Trafficking, and Firearms Offenses * Following a three-week trial, a federal jury in Minneapolis convicted five Minnesota men today for their involvement in the Highs -- a violent Minneapolis street gang -- and in gang-related murders, shootings, and narcotics distribution. According to court documents and evidence presented at tri more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 (TNSFR) -- A notice of inventory completion from the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service announces that Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, has completed an inventory of human remains. The college has determined cultural affiliation between these remains and numerous Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations, in accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The inventory identifies human remains from at least four in more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, issued the following news release on June 5, 2025: * * * Gallego, Baldwin Introduce Bill to Prevent Companies from Ripping Healthcare Away from Striking Workers WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced a bill to protect striking workers from their employers terminating their health care benefits. The Striking and Locked Out Workers Healthcare Protection Act would protect workers' health care benef more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Heinrich, Lujan Statement on President Trump's 2026 Budget Request * Heinrich and Lujan: "Trump's budget is an attack on New Mexicans" WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Finance, released the following statement on President Trump's Fiscal Year 2026 (F more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: * * * Kelly, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Strengthen U.S. Competitiveness in Space * The LAUNCH Act would streamline commercial space launches Today, Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ), John Cornyn (R-TX), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), and Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced the bipartisan Licensing Aerospace Units to New Commercial Heights (LAUNCH) Act, which would streamline the application process for commercial space launche more PR