OLYMPIA, Washington, Jan. 29 -- Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown issued the following news release: * * * AG Brown opposes federal efforts to prolong detention of immigrant children * Attorney General Nick Brown today joined a multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief opposing the Trump administration's efforts to terminate a nearly 30-year-old settlement agreement that provides crucial protections against the inappropriate detention of children, including a requirement that they are held in faciliti more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Jan. 29 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: * * * AG Nessel Joins Multistate Amicus Brief Opposing the Trump Administration's Attempt to Prolong the Immigration Detention of Children * LANSING -Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief (PDF) opposing the Trump Administration's efforts to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement, which has been in place since 1997. The Flores Settlement Agreement provide more PR

PHOENIX, Arizona, Jan. 30 -- Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes issued the following news release on Jan. 29, 2026: * * * Attorney General Kris Mayes Joins Multistate Coalition Condemning DOJ Threats Against Minnesota Attorney General Kris Mayes today joined a coalition of 21 other attorneys general in denouncing the Department of Justice's (DOJ) latest attempt to coerce the State of Minnesota. In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the coalition condemned the Trump administration's ef more PR

SACRAMENTO, California, Jan. 28 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Bonta Joins Multistate Coalition Condemning U.S. DOJ Threats Against Minnesota * OAKLAND -California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in denouncing the U.S. Department of Justice's (U.S. DOJ) latest attempt to coerce the State of Minnesota. In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the coalition condemn the Trump Admi more PR

SACRAMENTO, California, Jan. 28 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Bonta Leads Multistate Amicus Brief Opposing Trump Administration's Attempt to Prolong the Immigration Detention of Children * OAKLAND -California Attorney General Rob Bonta yesterday led a coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief opposing the Trump Administration's efforts to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement, which has been in place since 1997. The Flores Settlement Agreement provide more PR

SALEM, Oregon, Jan. 29 -- Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Dan Rayfield Condemns DOJ Threats Against Minnesota * Attorney General Dan Rayfield and 21 other attorneys general today denounced the Department of Justice's (DOJ) latest attempt to coerce the State of Minnesota. In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the coalition condemned the Trump administration's effort to exploit the situation in Minnesota to pressure state le more PR

CARSON CITY, Nevada, Jan. 29 -- Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Ford Joins Multistate Coalition Condemning DOJ Threats Against Minnesota * Carson City, NV -Today, Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford announced that he joined a coalition of 21 other attorneys general in denouncing the Department of Justice's (DOJ) latest attempt to coerce the State of Minnesota. In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the coalition condemne more PR

ALBANY, New York, Jan. 29 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General James Leads Multistate Coalition Condemning DOJ Threats Against Minnesota * January 29, 2026 NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Letitia James today led a coalition of 21 other attorneys general in denouncing the Department of Justice's (DOJ) latest attempt to coerce the state of Minnesota. In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Attorney General James and th more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Jan. 29 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: * * * ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL CONDEMNS DOJ THREATS AGAINST MINNESOTA * Chicago - Attorney General Kwame Raoul today denounced the Department of Justice's (DOJ) latest attempt to coerce the s tate of Minnesota. Raoul, as part of a coalition of 21 other attorneys general, submitted a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, condemning the Trump administration's effort to use the deployment of U more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Jan. 29 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: * * * ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL JOINS MULTISTATE AMICUS BRIEF OPPOSING TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S ATTEMPT TO PROLONG THE IMMIGRATION DETENTION OF CHILDREN * Chicago - Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined a multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief opposing the Trump administration's efforts to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement. The Flores Settlement Agreement, which has been in place since 1997, provides crucia more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 29 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Tong Joins Multistate Coalition Condemning DOJ Threats Against Minnesota * (Hartford, CT) -Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 21 other attorneys general in denouncing the Department of Justice's (DOJ) latest attempt to coerce the State of Minnesota. In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the coalition condemned the Trump administra more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 [Category: Political] -- America First Legal, a civil rights organization, posted the following news release: * * * Blown Away: America First Legal Reveals Five States Lack Evidence in Lawsuit Over Trump Administration's Federal Wind Regulation Review * America First Legal (AFL) has uncovered that multiple states lack evidence to support their claims of harm in their lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration's Wind Memorandum, which temporarily pauses offshore and onshore federal wind leasing and permitting for a comp more PR

NEW YORK, Jan. 29 -- Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2026: * * * Win for Oregonians: Judge Dismisses DOJ Lawsuit Seeking to Seize Private Voter Data The voter file sought by the Justice Department contains sensitive voter data such as driver's license numbers and partial Social Security numbers. * On January 26, 2026, a federal judge dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) lawsuit seeking Oregon's complete voter rolls, which contain Oregon voters' priva more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: * * * Builders FirstSource to Pay $26,000 to Settle EEOC Disability and Age Discrimination Lawsuit * Settlement resolves federal claims that construction materials supplier unlawfully rejected older temporary worker SEATTLE - Building supply company Builders FirstSource (BFS) agreed to pay $26,000 to settle a disability and age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency anno more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Duckworth, Durbin Slam Half Billion Dollar Cost of Trump's Domestic Troop Deployments in Chicago and Throughout U.S. * January 28, 2026 [WASHINGTON, D.C.] - Combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) reacted to today's Congressional Budget Office Report on cost estimates for troop deployments to U.S. cities. CBO estimated, that for the last six months of 2025, the domestic deploym more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Elfreth, Merkley Introduce Legislation to Prohibit Partisan National Park Passes * WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth (MD-03), Vice Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee, and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), the top Democrat overseeing funding for the National Park Service, introduced the Prohibit Partisan Park Passes Act. The bill is straightforward legislation that would explicitly prohibit the National Park Service  more PR

HOLLAND, Michigan, Jan. 30 -- Hope College issued the following news: * * * Hope Hosts 2026 Black History Month Lecture on Feb. 24 Dr. Derrick Bines, assistant professor in the department of counseling at San Francisco State University, will present a lecture titled, "We All We Got: Self and Community Care are More Than Buzzwords." Dr. Bines will speak on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 3:30 p.m. in the recital hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts. The public is invited and admission is free. Hope College is honored to host Dr. Derrick B more PR

LIVERMORE, California, Jan. 30 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Light-based 3D printing lets scientists program plastic properties at the microscale Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have co-developed a new way to precisely control the internal structure of common plastics during 3D printing, allowing a single printed object to seamlessly shift from rigid to flexible using only light. In a paper (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sc more PR

PORTLAND, Oregon, Jan. 28 -- Lewis and Clark College posted the following news: * * * Mastering the Most Human Skills * In an opinion piece published in U.S. News & World Report earlier this month, " Why AI Makes a Liberal Arts Education Even More Invaluable," President Robin Holmes-Sullivan speaks to the value of a liberal arts education in an age of rapidly evolving, artificially intelligent machines. "It may seem counterintuitive," she writes, "but in a time of economic uncertainty, national division and increased technological relianc more PR

AUGUSTA, Maine, Jan. 30 -- Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey issued the following news release on Jan. 29, 2026: * * * Attorney General Aaron M. Frey Joins Multistate Coalition Condemning DOJ Threats Against Minnesota Attorney General Aaron M. Frey today joined a coalition of 21 other attorneys general in denouncing the Department of Justice's (DOJ) latest attempt to coerce the State of Minnesota. In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the coalition condemned the Trump administration's  more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Jan. 30 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release on Jan. 29, 2026: * * * Attorney General Brown Joins Multistate Amicus Brief Defending Critical Protections for Children in Immigration Detention Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief opposing the Trump administration's efforts to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement, which has been in place since 1997. The Flores Settlement Agreement provides crucial pro more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Jan. 30 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release on Jan. 29, 2026: * * * Attorney General Brown Joins Multistate Coalition Condemning DOJ Threats Against Minnesota Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today joined a coalition with 21 other attorneys general in denouncing the Department of Justice's (DOJ) latest attempt to coerce the State of Minnesota. In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the coalition condemned the Trump admini more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Merkley, Salinas Lead New Bill to Hold ICE, CBP Accountable for Abusing Americans' Constitutional Rights * Washington, D.C. - Today, Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and U.S. Representative Andrea Salinas (OR-06) introduced new legislation to hold U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) liable for violating individuals' constitutional rights. The ICE and CBP Constitutional Accountability Act would m more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 30 -- New Jersey Acting Attorney General Jennifer Davenport issued the following news release on Jan. 29, 2026: * * * Acting Attorney General Davenport Joins Multistate Coalition Condemning DOJ Threats Against Minnesota 22 Attorneys General Stand With Minnesota Against Trump Administration Intimidation * Acting Attorney General Jennifer Davenport joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general in denouncing the Department of Justice's (DOJ) latest attempt to coerce the State of Minnesota. In a letter to U.S. Attorney G more PR

SACRAMENTO, California, Jan. 29 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Pacific Legal Foundation issued the following news release: * * * Nebraska mother files lawsuit to protect her right to birth freedom * Lincoln, Nebraska; January 29, 2026: A pregnant mother in Nebraska filed a lawsuit today challenging a law that turns midwife-assisted home births into felonies. Hope Lindstrom alleges that the law, which strips mothers of their birth freedom and limits access to high-quality medical care, violates the Fourteenth Amendment. "Childbirth is one of more PR

SALEM, Oregon, Jan. 29 [Category: Education] -- The Oregon School Boards Association posted the following news: * * * Oregon reaches record 83% high school graduation rate * Oregon's education system takes frequent criticism for its graduation rate, but the rate has been steadily improving for more than a decade. Oregon's four-year graduation rate hit a record high of 83% in 2025, more than a percentage point improvement from the previous year, according to data released Thursday, Jan. 29. "We're seeing results because we are leaning in more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * Padilla, Durbin, Colleagues Urge Trump's Justice Department to Cease Pressure Campaign to Obtain States' Sensitive Voter Data, Purge Voter Rolls * Senators raise alarm on Attorney General Bondi's attempt to coerce Minnesota Governor Walz into relinquishing the state's voter registration list as a condition for the removal of ICE and CBP from Minneapolis following the rejection of DOJ's lawsuits in two other states WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, U.S. more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 -- President Trump issued the following proclamation on Jan. 29, 2026: * * * YEAR OF CELEBRATION AND REDEDICATION, 2026 On January 1, 2026, the United States began our year-long commemoration of an important milestone in the history of our country: 250 years of American freedom and independence. Two and a half centuries ago, on July 4, 1776, thousands of years' worth of wisdom, philosophy, and culture were brought together in Philadelphia where delegates to the Second Continental Congress gathered to declare the birth of more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Jared Huffman, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * Rep. Huffman, Senator Schiff, Bay Area Members Introduce Bill to Designate National Scenic Trail * Legislation would connect Bay Area parks, expand access, and boost recreation economy San Rafael, CA - Today, U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (CA-02) and U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA), along with every member of the Bay Area delegation, introduced legislation to help designate the 550+ mile Bay Area Ridge Trail as a National Scenic Trail. Th more PR

MISSOULA, Montana, Jan. 29 -- The University of Montana posted the following news release: * * * UM Women's Flag Football Team Takes Field for Historic First Season * MISSOULA - Ainsley MacKenzie knew she wanted to attend the University of Montana to study secondary education and work to become a high school teacher. But the freshman from Lakeridge, Oregon knew pursuing her educational goals would mean giving up her dreams of playing flag football in college. MacKenzie's high school started women's flag football two years ago, and she hel more PR

NOTRE DAME, Indiana, Jan. 29 (TNSjou) -- The University of Notre Dame Keough School of Global Affairs issued the following news release: * * * New tool tracks cross-border pollution, revealing unequal distribution of risk, responsibility Microscopic airborne particles known as PM 2.5 contribute to 100,000 premature deaths in the United States each year. A new University of Notre Dame study finds that 40 percent of these deaths can be attributed to pollution that crosses state lines, highlighting the impact of the problem and pinpointing whic more PR

LOGAN, Utah, Jan. 29 -- Utah State University issued the following news: * * * USU Ecologists Offer Expert Perspective About Gray Wolves Found in Cache Valley * State officials recently killed three gray wolves near Avon, Utah, in the southwestern corner of Cache County. Wildlife ecology experts from the Department of Wildland Resources at Utah State University answered questions about wolves in Utah. Q. Is it surprising to find gray wolves in the state? A. No, not surprising, according to David Stoner, wildlife ecologist and assistant  more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Leads 14 Bicameral Colleagues on Bill to Reduce Barriers to Organic Agriculture in Vermont * Legislation would help more producers transition to and maintain organic practices WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, today led 14 bicameral lawmakers in reintroducing the Opportunities in Organic Act, legislation designed to help farmers an more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 29, 2026: * * * Wyden Calls for SEC Action on Firm that Sold Fake Tribal Tax Credits Wyden Releases Evidence Confirming White River Energy Corp. Sold Fake Tax Credits; White River Is Hiding Ongoing DOJ Investigation from Investors by Refusing to File Legally-Required SEC Reports * Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today urged SEC Chairman Paul Atkins to consider taking steps to  more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 29, 2026: * * * Wyden Demands Answers About Trump's Swiss Tariffs That Were Arbitrarily Raised and Then Lowered After Trump Accepted a Rare Rolex and Gold Bar from Swiss Companies While Americans Pay Unprecedented Taxes on Goods from Abroad Based on a Sham 'Emergency,' Wyden Questions whether USTR Is Setting Tariffs Based on Payoffs to Trump * Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., d more PR