WASHINGTON, March 18 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R45951) on March 4, 2026, entitled "Apportionment and Redistricting Process for the U.S. House of Representatives" by American national government analyst Sarah J. Eckman. Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY The census, apportionment, and redistricting are interrelated activities that affect representation in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressional apportionment (or reapportionment) is more PR

WASHINGTON, March 18 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R45951) on March 4, 2026, entitled "Apportionment and Redistricting Process for the U.S. House of Representatives:" (Continued from Part 1 of 2) * * * Redistricting Process/26 Congressional redistricting involves creating or redrawing geographic boundaries for U.S. House districts within a state. Redistricting procedures are largely determined by state law and vary across states, but states more PR

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, March 18 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: * * * Attorney General Alan Wilson joins multistate push for immediate confirmation of Mullin as DHS Secretary * (COLUMBIA, S.C.) - Attorney General Alan Wilson today joined a coalition of 19 state attorneys general in urging Congress to swiftly confirm U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Led by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Dr more PR

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, March 17 -- The Chesapeake Bay Foundation posted the following news release: * * * Bill to Launch New Market for Chesapeake Blue Catfish Passes House * In another step to address threats from invasive blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay, the House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation today that will help watermen catch and sell more Chesapeake blue catfish. The Mitigation Action & Watermen Support (MAWS) Act, co-sponsored by Reps. Sarah Elfreth of Maryland a more PR

NEW YORK, March 18 [Category: International] -- Human Rights Watch posted the following news: * * * Black Voting Rights in Mississippi * On the night of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his Oldsmobile parked in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi home, carrying t-shirts that read, "Jim Crow Must Go." He had returned from a civil rights meeting where he'd discussed voter registration strategies. A bullet struck him moments later, fired by a white man crouched in honeysuckle bus more PR

BRISTOL, Connecticut, March 18 [Category: BizMedia] -- ESPN, a sports media company, posted the following news release: * * * Chipotle High School Basketball Nationals returns for 17th season April 1-4 * * Sixteen SC Next Top 25 ranked boys and girls teams to participate, including: * * The top nine ranked boys teams in the country * Four girls teams ranked top 10 in the country * 53 boys and girls ESPN ranked players * Twelve games on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, including the  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 16 (TNSLrpt) -- The Defense Inspector General issued the following report (No. D2026-D000AU-0052.000) on Jan. 12, 2026 entitled "Project Announcement: Audit of the Shipbuilding Industrial Base Contract Incentives for the Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer Program." Here are excerpts: * * * The purpose of this memorandum is to notify you that we are initiating the subject audit. The objective of this audit is to determine whether the Navy effectively used and monitored contract in more PR

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida, March 18 -- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University posted the following news: * * * Embry-Riddle Ph.D. Student Flies High in Academia -- and in an F-16 * In his second year as a Ph.D. student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Seur Gi Jo published three research papers on three different space operations topics in top-rated scientific journals. He attributes that rare feat at least partly to another of his roles -serving as an F-16 fighter pilot in the Republic of more PR

ATLANTA, Georgia, March 19 -- Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr issued the following news release on March 18, 2026: * * * Carr Fights for Parental Rights in School Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has filed an amicus brief to defend the constitutional rights of a mother whose public school deliberately hid efforts to "socially transition" her child. "This is not about just one parent - it's about all parents and protecting their rights to direct their child's care," said Carr. "For any more PR

PIERRE, South Dakota, March 18 -- Gov. Larry Rhoden, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: * * * Gov. Rhoden and Colleagues Support SAVE Act * PIERRE, S.D. - Today, Governor Larry Rhoden and the America First Policy Institute's Governors' Council sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, urging them to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act. You can find the letter here. "Protecting the security of Am more PR

ALLENDALE, Michigan, March 19 -- Grand Valley State University issued the following news on March 18, 2026: * * * NAACP president: 'Do well for yourself, do good for your neighbors' By Michele Coffill The president and CEO of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization told a campus audience they should not act as passive observers in today's polarized society; they should carry these two obligations: "Do well for yourself and do good for your neighbors." Derrick Johnson, a na more PR

WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Rep. Michael Guest, R-Mississippi, and Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-California, chairman and ranking member, of the House Ethics Committee, issued the following statement on March 18, 2026, regarding Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, R-Fla: * * * Pursuant to Committee Rule 7, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics (Committee) determined to release the following statement: On March 17, 2026, the adjudicatory subcommittee in the matter of Representative She more PR

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Hoyer, Elfreth, Wittman Lead House Passage of Bill to Tackle Invasive Blue Catfish in the Chesapeake Bay * WASHINGTON, DC \- Today, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) joined Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth (MD-03) and Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-01) to recognize the House passage of the Mitigation Action and Waterman Support (MAWS) Act (). () This legislation, which was introduced last July, woul more PR

WASHINGTON, March 18 [Category: Law/Legal] -- Judicial Watch issued the following news release: * * * Judicial Watch: Supreme Court Argument on March 23 on Whether Federal Election Day Laws Forbid Counting Ballots Received after Election Day * (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch announced that the Supreme Court will hold oral argument on March 23 in a landmark election integrity case over whether the federal Election Day laws prohibit the counting of mail-in ballots that arrive after Election  more PR

ATLANTA, Georgia, March 18 -- Mercer University posted the following news: * * * Mercer administrator finds lifelong passion in student affairs * A profession she once didn't know existed became a lifelong passion for Mercer University Associate Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Samantha Murfree. "Student affairs is an umbrella term that serves as a catch-all for all the ways in which we impact the lives of students from a co-curricular standpoint," Dr. Murfree said. "One of the greate more PR

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Navy Researcher Receives NRL's Award for Breakthroughs in Interfacial Science * WASHINGTON, D.C. - Kathryn Wahl, Ph.D., a senior researcher at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), has been awarded the 2025 E.O. Hulburt Annual Science Award for pioneering research that has advanced the scientific understanding of adhesion, lubrication, and nanoscale contact mechanics. The Hulburt Award is one of more PR

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation posted the following news release: * * * NFWF Announces $8.7 Million in Grants from Conservation Partners Program * WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 18, 2026) - The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) today announced $8.7 million in grants to support the implementation of voluntary conservation practices on farms and ranches across eight states from the Midwest to western grasslands. The grants will generate $6.4 million in ma more PR

EDGEFIELD, South Carolina, March 19 -- The National Wild Turkey Federation issued the following news release: * * * NWTF Endowed Chair at UGA Surpasses $1 Million In 2024, the NWTF and the University of Georgia created the first endowed professorship solely focused on the management, research and conservation of the wild turkey. Now, the endowed professorship -- chaired by esteemed researcher Mike Chamberlain, Ph.D. -- has surpassed $1 million. The annual returns from the $1-million-and-growi more PR

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Rep. Mike Ezell, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: * * * PASSED BY HOUSE: Ezell Bill to Strengthen Coastal Monitoring and Resilience * Today, Congressman Mike Ezell (MS-04) announced that his legislation, H.R. 2294, to reauthorize the Integrated Ocean Observation System (IOOS), passed the U.S. House of Representatives last night. The bill ensures the continued operation and modernization of a critical national system that provides real-time data on o more PR

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, March 18 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: * * * Attorney General Alan Wilson supports election integrity law at SCOTUS * Attorney General Alan Wilson joined Missouri and 19 other states to call on the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in favor of a Pennsylvania law that required voters to handwrite the date on mail-in ballots. The States argue that the lower court, completely lacking judicial restraint, badly erred in striking down  more PR

OXFORD, Mississippi, March 19 -- The University of Mississippi issued the following news: * * * Screwworm Comeback Raises Concerns Flesh-eating pests sighted moving north, but have been eradicated before * New World screwworms once threatened livestock, pets and people across the southern United States. Decades after a successful eradication effort, the pests may be returning. The United States was officially declared free of screwworms - a flesh-eating, parasitic fly - in 1966 after years more PR

SAVANNAH, Georgia, March 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia posted the following news release on March 18, 2026: * * * South Carolina woman sentenced to prison for multi-state unemployment insurance fraud Family members also implicated in COVID-era scheme * AUGUSTA, Georgia: A South Carolina woman was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay substantial restitution for her role in a multi-state scheme to fraudulently obtain unemployment insurance benefi more PR

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, March 18 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Southern Poverty Law Center posted the following news: * * * SPLC's Vote Your Voice Initiative Launches New Grant Cycle to Strengthen Democracy Across the Deep South * Three grant opportunities are available to nonprofit organizations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi Montgomery, Ala. -The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced the launch of its 2026 Vote Your Voice grant cycle, opening applications for  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Rep. Trent Kelly, R-Mississippi, chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces, issued the following news release: * * * Kelly: Sealift Capacity Is Critical To Sustaining America's Military Advantage U.S. Representative Trent Kelly (R-MS), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces, delivered the following opening remarks at a joint subcommittee hearing on the posture of U.S. Transportation Command and the Marit more PR

WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Rep. Mike Ezell, R-Mississippi, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, issued the following opening statement on March 17, 2026, at a hearing entitled "Force Design or Force in Decline: Reviewing Readiness": * * * Admiral Allan, thank you for joining us today to discuss the Coast Guard's plans for its future. You have been in your role in an acting capacity for a while now, but since the Senate ha more PR

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: * * * Tuberville Speaks at Alabama League of Municipalities Breakfast, Receives Hometown Hero Award * WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined the Alabama League of Municipalities in their breakfast panel during the National League of Cities' Congressional City Conference. During the panel, Sen. Tuberville touted Alabama's many accomplishments over the last year and the importa more PR

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Marshals Service issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Marshals Capture Fugitive Wanted for Shooting One Adult Male and Attempting to Shoot a Law Enforcement Officer * Louisville, MS - Bobby White Jr., 45, was arrested in Ackerman, Mississippi on March 17, 2026, after a fugitive investigation conducted by the U.S. Marshals Service. White Jr. was wanted by the Winston County Sheriff's Department for aggravated assault with a deadl more PR