WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers issued the following news release: * * * AFT, AAUP Leaders Respond to Trump's Higher Education Admissions Directive * WASHINGTON-- AFT President Randi Weingarten, AFT Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick Ingram and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following statements in response to President Donald Trump's directive requiring colleges and universities to disclose more st more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 8 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Ken Paxton Files Historic Lawsuit Against Democrat Runaways in SCOTX to Secure Order Declaring Their Seats Vacant * Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of Texas to formally pursue judicial declarations that 13 Texas House seats have been vacated due to continued unlawful absences by Democrat legislators who failed to meet the return deadline set by more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 8 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Major Victory Stopping Runaway Democrats from Taking "Beto Bribes" and Preventing Deceptive Fundraising * Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a major victory against Robert Francis O'Rourke and his radical organization, Powered by People, by stopping continued unlawful fundraising activity, including potentially operating a misleading financial-influence sch more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following Legal Sidebar white paper (No. LSB11347) on Aug. 7, 2025, by legislative attorney Todd Garvey: * * * Congressional Access to Personal Health Information The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Committee) is examining whether White House staff engaged in a "cover-up of President Biden's mental decline" and whether the laws governing presidential incapacity are in need of reform. As part of t more PR

ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 9 -- Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2025: * * * Carr Vows to Take Fight Against Taxpayer-Funded Sex Changes "All the Way to the Supreme Court" ATLANTA, GA - Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr today issued the following statement in response to a new lawsuit that seeks to block SB 185, which prohibits the use of State funds to pay for a transgender-identifying inmate's "sex reassignment" surgery: "It's absurd that this  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Giffords, an organization dedicated to saving lives from gun violence, issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2025: * * * GIFFORDS urges SCOTUS to take up federal minimum age for handguns GIFFORDSLaw Center filed an amicus brief in McCoy v. ATF * Today, GIFFORDS Law Center, the legal arm of the national gun violence prevention organization GIFFORDS, filed an amicus brief calling on the United States Supreme Court to take up McCoy v. ATF and affirm the Fourth Circ more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following In Focus white paper (No. IF10576) on Aug. 7, 2025, by foreign affairs specialist Michael A. Weber: * * * Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Sanctions: The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (Global Magnitsky Act; Title XII, Subtitle F of P.L. 114-328, as amended; 22 U.S.C. Sec.Sec.10101 et seq.) authorizes the President to impose economic sa more PR

BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 8 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following letter: * * * Labrador Letter: The Fight For Girls' Sports Continues * Dear Friends, Last week, I joined 25 attorneys general demanding the NCAA restore championships, records, and awards to female athletes who were cheated out of what they earned. For years, biological males competed in women's sports and stole honors that belonged to the women who trained for them. The letter to NCAA President Charlie Ba more PR

SCHAUMBURG, Illinois, Aug. 9 -- Motorola Solutions issued the following news release: * * * Motorola Solutions Reports Second-Quarter 2025 Financial Results Company raises full-year revenue, earnings and operating cash flow outlook following strong Q2 results * Sales of $2.8 billion, up 5% versus a year ago - Software and Services sales up 15% - Products and Systems Integration sales flat * GAAP earnings per share ("EPS") of $3.04; up 17% versus a year ago * Non-GAAP EPS* of $3.57, up 10 more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 [Category: Political] -- The Campaign Legal Center posted the following news release: * * * NEW: CLC Urges Congress to Pass Federal Laws to Stop Gerrymandering * Washington, D.C. -- Bruce V. Spiva - CLC's senior vice president - issued the following statement in response to the current redistricting arms race happening nationwide: " Congress, through our representatives, makes important decisions about our lives. When congressional districts are drawn unfairly, voters ar more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2025: * * * On the 60th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Senator Gallego Backs John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act Today, on the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) announced he is supporting the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, legislation that would update and restore critical safeguards of the original Voting Rights Act. This  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- New America Open Technology Institute issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2025: * * * Public Interest Groups Decline to Seek Supreme Court Review of FCC Open Internet Rules Organizations that intervened in legal case will pursue other federal and state solutions rather than relief from the Roberts Court * Today, the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, Free Press, New America's Open Technology Institute and Public Knowledge announced that they will not fi more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Rep. Dave Min, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * RELEASE: Rep. Dave Min, Chair Grace Meng, CAPAC Leadership Demand Answers Into ICE's Treatment of Asian Immigrants * Washington, D.C. -- Today, Representative Dave Min (CA-47) and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Chair Grace Meng (NY-06) led 14 of their colleagues in a new letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) demanding answers into the Trump administration's treatment more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 9 -- The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2025: * * * Supreme Court Secures Grant to Sustain Family Treatment Courts Through Sept. 30 CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia today announced it has secured a $280,000 State Opioid Response grant which will be used to fund the operations of Family Treatment Courts through September. "The Supreme Court is grateful to receive this grant, w more PR

MADISON, Wisconsin, Aug. 8 [Category: Religion] -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation posted the following news release: * * * Two Pennsylvania news organizations publish FFRF op-ed urging end to state blasphemy law * FFRF Regional Government Affairs Manager Mickey Dollens has written an op-ed that has been published in both the PennLive Patriot-News newspaper and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "Here's a fascinating piece of Pennsylvania history most people don't know: The state still has a more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- Sen. Tina Flint Smith, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Senator Tina Smith, Colleagues Push Administration to Reinstate Duluth EPA Lab Workers * WASHINGTON- Today, U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN), joined by 16 of her Senate colleagues, called on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin to reinstate workers placed on administrative leave for expressing concern with the agency's direction under the Trump Administration. Sen more PR