WASHINGTON, June 17 -- The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee issued the following news release: * * * ADC to President Trump and G7 Leaders: Stay Out of Israel's War With Iran Washington, D.C. | The American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee (ADC) calls on leaders gathered at the G7 summit in Kananaskis and, specifically, on President Donald Trump to keep the United States out of Israel's illegal and unprovoked war against Iran, and to work toward a peaceful resolution that preserv more PR

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence issued the following news release: * * * Brady Responds to Shooting at Salt Lake City "No Kings" Protest Brady, the gun violence prevention group founded in the wake of a horrific act of political violence after a gunman tried to kill President Reagan, responds to a shooting at Saturday's 'No Kings' political protest in Salt Lake City. Brady President Kris Brown said: "Just after two elected officials and their families in Mi more PR

WASHINGTON, June 16 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * BREAKING: CAIR Condemns Pres. Trump for Demanding Tehran Evacuation, Repeating Mistakes of George W. Bush * The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned President Trump's demand that "everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran," and said the president is repeating the same l more PR

WASHINGTON, June 16 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR Welcomes Senator Kaine's Resolution Forbidding Unauthorized U.S. War on Iran * The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed the introduction of a joint resolution ( S.J.Res.68) by Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) to prevent the Trump administration from involving U.S. armed force more PR

WASHINGTON, June 17 (TNSrpt) -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following research: * * * By the Numbers: House Republican Tax Agenda Favors the Wealthy and Leaves Millions of Working Families Behind The House Republican reconciliation bill would give huge tax breaks to wealthy individuals, businesses, and large corporations while leaving behind or raising costs for millions of working families. Here are some of the impacts: Under the bill, the average family earning le more PR

WASHINGTON, June 12 (TNSrpt) -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following research: * * * House Republican Bill Would Impose a One-Size-Fits-All Medicaid Work Mandate on States By Allie Gardner A provision taking health coverage away from people who can't meet or regularly document they meet a work requirement or qualify for an exemption is at the center of the House Republican reconciliation bill's more than $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid./[1] The provision would lea more PR

WASHINGTON, June 11 (TNSrpt) -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following research: * * * We Can Support Work by Helping People, Not Hurting Them By Nick Gwyn The House-passed budget reconciliation bill would take away health coverage and food assistance from people not meeting harsh and red tape-laden work requirements despite significant evidence this will substantially increase hardship, while doing little to nothing to increase employment.[1]But policymakers do have more PR

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 17 -- Equal Rights Advocates issued the following news release: * * * Civil Rights Org Challenges Trump Administration's Backdoor Attack on Title IX Protections for Trans Students Equal Rights Advocates (ERA), which fights for gender justice in workplaces and schools across the country, exposes administration's use of regulatory loophole to strip student protections through Department of Energy in a public comment issued Monday * SAN FRANCISCO, June 16, 2025  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- The Asian Americans Advancing Justice issued the following news release on June 16, 2025: * * * Coalition of Over 60 Organizations Calls for Halt of Visa Revocation Policy Targeting Chinese Students Based on National Origin The Secretary of State's new planned visa policy, issued without meaningful clarity, hurts the safety and well-being of students. * Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, Asian American Scholar Forum, Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) & Stop  more PR

NEW YORK, June 17 -- Asian American Scholar Forum, an organization that says it promotes academic belonging, openness, freedom and equality for all, issued the following news release on June 16, 2025: * * * Coalition of Over 60 Organizations Calls for Halt of Visa Revocation Policy Targeting Chinese Students Based on National Origin Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, Asian American Scholar Forum, Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) & Stop AAPI Hate led a coalition letter representing  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 16 [Category: Political] -- The Independent Women's Forum posted issued the following news release: * * * New Documentary Features Success Story of Idaho Business Owner Thanks to President Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts * Today, Independent Women Features (IW Features), the grassroots storytelling and original journalism arm of Independent Women, released a documentary in its Earn More, Pay Less: How America Grew Under the Trump Tax Cuts series highlighting Idaho business owner, Lisa more PR

WASHINGTON, June 16 [Category: Government/Public Administration] -- Accountable.US, an organization that says it conduct investigations to expose conflicts of interest, issued the following news release: * * * Enriching Trump Pays: Justin Sun's TRON Set to Go Public After Trump SEC Paused Fraud Probe of Sun's Companies Amid $75M Tribute to Trump's Crypto Venture News Comes As Trump White House Recoils at Conflict-of-Interest Language in Bipartisan Crypto Regulation Bill * Reportedly, "cryp more PR

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, June 16 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Southern Environmental Law Center posted the following news release: * * * Environmental groups to BOEM: don't reopen Atlantic to offshore drilling 46 nonprofits urge Trump administration to protect Atlantic coast * WASHINGTON -- Today, the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of 45 nonprofit groups, urged the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to exclude the Mid- and South Atlantic from the 11 th National Outer  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Giffords, an organization dedicated to saving lives from gun violence, issued the following news release: * * * Senate GOP seeks to remove safeguards on gun silencers & sawed-off shotguns WASHINGTON -- GIFFORDS, the national gun violence prevention group led by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, condemned the newly released Senate reconciliation bill for removing silencers, short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns from the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1 more PR

COLUMBIA, Missouri, June 16 [Category: Media] -- The Association of Health Care Journalists posted the following news: * * * Governments, at all levels, are 'going backwards,' lead researcher on homelessness says * Solving homelessness: What will it take? * Moderator: Katia Riddle, mental health correspondent, National Public Radio * Margo Kushel, director, University of California San Francisco's Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative By Vivienne Aguilar/ California Health Jour more PR

COLUMBIA, Missouri, June 16 [Category: Media] -- The Association of Health Care Journalists posted the following news: * * * Guidance for journalists reporting on how the U.S. public health system is changing * Can public health ever get its groove back? A soul-searching moment for an embattled public utility * Moderator: Keren Landman, independent health reporter * Quang "Q" Dang, executive director of the Network for Public Health Law * Joseph Kanter, M.D., MPH, CEO of the Associa more PR

WASHINGTON, June 16 [Category: Financial Services] -- The Independent Community Bankers of America posted the following news release: * * * ICBA Applauds Interagency Request for Information Targeting Check Fraud * Washington, D.C. (June 16, 2025) -- The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) applauded the prudential banking regulators for announcing a request for information on potential actions to help consumers, businesses, and financial institutions mitigate risk of payments frau more PR

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- The Independent Petroleum Association of America issued the following news release: * * * IPAA Comments to Interior on Regulatory Issues Impacting Onshore and Offshore Producers Although there are a variety of important issues facing independent producers on offshore and onshore federal lands, IPAA wants to raise three specific issues the Trump Administration is working on that are of vital importance to our members. These issues are outlined below: 1. Revising the Ris more PR

WASHINGTON, June 16 [Category: Computer Technology] -- The Information Technology Industry Council posted the following news release: * * * ITI: Senate Finance Reconciliation Text Will Enhance U.S. Tech Competitiveness * WASHINGTON - Today, global tech trade association ITI released the following statement from its President and CEO Jason Oxman following the release of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee's budget reconciliation text, which includes several pro-growth tax provisions. "We're p more PR

WASHINGTON, June 16 [Category: Biology] -- The Center for Biological Diversity posted the following news release: * * * Judge to Hear Arguments on Restoring Wolf Protections in Northern Rockies * MISSOULA, Mont.-- Conservation and animal advocates will present oral arguments Wednesday in a federal court case that will decide whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service unlawfully refused to restore federal Endangered Species Act protections to gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains. Wha more PR

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- The Bipartisan Policy Center issued the following news release: * * * Members of the Terwilliger Center Advisory Committee Comment on Principles for Ending Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Conservatorship Conversations continue around the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their potential exit from a nearly 17-year conservatorship. Drawing on more than a decade of work on housing finance policy, BPC's Terwilliger Center has released a set of principles to help guide this p more PR

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 17 -- Policy Matters Ohio, a nonpartisan policy research institute, issued the following news release on June 16, 2025: * * * Ohio Senate would tighten tax breaks, give proceeds to the wealthy Ohio's 177 state tax breaks have never gotten the scrutiny that they deserve. Adding up to nearly $12 billion this fiscal year, they would amount to more than a quarter of the revenue the state does collect. As the conference committee of House and Senate legislators meet to hammer  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 16 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Senate Finance Committee Text Will Raise Costs, Threaten Our Health, and Kill Jobs * Washington, DC - Today, Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee released text of their part of Donald Trump's so-called "One Big, Beautiful" reconciliation bill in the Senate. The committee's text would rollback many of the tax credits for renewable energy and advanced manufacturing, as well as the c more PR

WASHINGTON, June 16 [Category: Government/Public Administration] -- Accountable.US, an organization that says it conduct investigations to expose conflicts of interest, issued the following news release: * * * TODAY: Senate Finance Republicans Unveil "Even Steeper" Medicaid Spending Cuts to Pay for Tax Cuts for the Wealthy * WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee released their portion of President Donald Trump's so-called "Big, Beautiful Bill," unveiling " even  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 16 [Category: Political] -- Public Citizen issued the following news release: * * * Senate Republicans' Reconciliation Bill Would Harm Millions * WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate Finance Committee today published its draft version of the tax provisions in the Republican reconciliation package. Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, released the following statement: "Congressional Republicans' and President Donald Trump's tax scam is an extremely dangerous step backward more PR

WASHINGTON, June 16 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Sierra Club Sues Department of Energy for Avoiding Transparency, Ignoring FOIA Requests * Oakland, CA - The Sierra Club has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy for unlawfully failing to respond to the organization's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. In March, Sierra Club requested calendars and correspondence from 30 new political appointees, including Secretary more PR

NEW YORK, June 16 [Category: Law/Legal] -- New York Civil Liberties Union issued the following news release: * * * State Legislature Passes Bill Strengthening Protections for Reproductive Health and Gender Affirming Care * NEW YORK - Today, the New York State Legislature passed a bill to strengthen legal protections for reproductive and gender-affirming health care providers, patients, and supporters (S.4914-B/A.5480-C). The legislation would ensure that New York will not be complicit in inv more PR

WASHINGTON, June 16 [Category: Education] -- Education Trust posted the following news release: * * * Testimony of Denise Forte on Senate FY26 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill * Written Testimony for the Record On behalf of Denise Forte President and Chief Executive Officer EdTrust Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies June 13, 2025 On behalf of EdTrust, more PR

WASHINGTON, June 16 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Trump Administration Proposes Ditching Coal Mine Safety Protections * The Department of the Interior has issued a proposal to roll back 2024 improvements to the Ten Day Notice Rule, a process that allows citizens to request inspections by federal regulators of environmental and public health and safety issues caused by coal mines when the state fails to take action to force coal companies  more PR

BOONE, North Carolina, June 16 [Category: Sociological] -- Appalachian Voices posted the following news release: * * * Trump administration proposes ditching coal mine safety protections * WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of the Interior has issued a proposal to roll back 2024 improvements to the Ten Day Notice Rule, a process that allows citizens to request inspections by federal regulators of environmental and public health and safety issues caused by coal mines when the state fails to t more PR

WASHINGTON, June 16 [Category: Political] -- Public Citizen issued the following news release: * * * New Trump Phone Appears Likely To Join Long Ling of Trump Family Scams and Ripoffs * WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Trump Organization announced a new mobile phone plan and a $499 smartphone that is set to launch in September. Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response: "Americans should slam down the phone in response to the latest marketi more PR

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Americans United for Separation of Church and State issued the following statement on June 16, 2025: * * * Trump Religious Liberty Commission promotes Christian Nationalism Americans United for Separation of Church and State President and CEO Rachel Laser issued the following statement in response to today's inaugural meeting of President Donald Trump's "Religious Liberty Commission," which Laser attended alongside AU Vice President for Public Policy Alessandro Terenzon more PR

WASHINGTON, June 16 [Category: Business] -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce posted the following news release: * * * U.S. Chamber, Billings Chamber Host U.S. Representative Troy Downing for Roundtable on Tax Reform * BILLINGS, MT - Today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Billings Chamber of Commerce hosted U.S. Representative Troy Downing (R-MT-02) for a roundtable discussion in Billings, Montana with local business leaders on the need to extend pro-growth business tax provisions before por more PR

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations issued the following news release: * * * USCMO Calls on Trump to End U.S. Complicity in Israel's Lawless War on Iran The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the nation's umbrella group of Muslim associations, today condemned the Israeli apartheid government's lawless, unprovoked and criminal war on Iran, which has killed dozens of Iranian civilians, threatens to spark a nuclear catastrophe and risks pulling the United Sta more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 16 [Category: Environment] -- The Union of Concerned Scientists posted the following news release: * * * White House Fires Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner, Undermining Public Safety * WASHINGTON (June 16, 2025)--Late Friday, June 13, President Trump fired Christopher Hanson, a commissioner serving on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the nation's independent federal agency tasked with developing and enforcing safety and security requirements for commerci more PR