WASHINGTON, July 20 (Sen.) -- Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-New York, issued the following news release: * * * AS DEVASTATING GOP SNAP CUTS ARE SET TO SHIFT COST OF CRITICAL FOOD ASSISTANCE TO STATES AND COUNTIES AND INCREASE HUNGER, SCHUMER LAUNCHES PUSH TO DELAY COST SHIFTS AND SAVE CAPITAL REGION COUNTY... * Last Year Trump And Republicans Made The Largest Cut To SNAP In History - NEARLY $200 BILLION - Meaning Now Capital Region Counties Will Need To Find A Whopping $4.4+ MILLION To Keep Nutrition Assistance Flowing To Fam more PR

FARGO, North Dakota, July 20 -- North Dakota State University posted the following news: * * * Ask the Expert: What You Should Know About Data Centers * Robert L. Mayo, PhD Research Specialist Sheila and Robert Challey Institute for Global Innovation & Growth NDSU College of Business 1\. What is a data center, and why do we depend on them every day? A data center is a warehouse full of computers. When you check the weather on your phone, deposit a check with your banking app, or stream a movie, that work isn't happening on you more PR

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Sen. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: * * * Budd Joins 60+ Senate Colleagues in Leading Sanctions Package Holding Russia Accountable, Honoring Senator Lindsey Graham * Washington, D.C. -U.S. Senator Ted Budd (R-N.C.) joined U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Darline Graham (R-S.C.), and 59 of his Senate colleagues in introducing the bipartisan Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026. The legislation aims to hold major purchasers of Russian oil and gas accountable for sup more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following commentary on July 20, 2026, by Wesley Tharpe, senior advisor for state tax policy: * * * Several States Strengthened Revenues in 2026, While Others Chose More Harmful Path States entered 2026 facing intensifying strain from the sweeping federal tax and spending changes enacted last year and other fiscal pressures. Several states have risen to the occasion by taking prudent and sometimes bold steps to raise or protect revenues to better meet residents' nee more PR

ATLANTA, Georgia, July 21 [Category: BizFinancial Services] -- Pinnacle Financial Partners, an asset regional bank that says it provides banking, investment, trust, mortgage and insurance products and services, issued the following news release: * * * Emery Johnson named financial advisor at Pinnacle Financial Partners in Rome Legacy Synovus banker expands advisory role to serve Northwest Georgia clients ROME, Ga. -- Pinnacle Financial Partners, which merged with Synovus Bank, has named Emery Johnson as a financial advisor for its Rome, Ge more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- The Internal Revenue Service issued the following notice (No. 2026-21) on July 20, 2026, entitled "Per Capita Payments from Proceeds of Settlements of Indian Tribal Trust Cases". * * * BACKGROUND Notice 2013-1, 2013-3 IRB 281, provides guidance on the federal tax treatment of per capita payments that members of Indian tribes receive from proceeds of certain settlements of tribal trust cases between the United States and those Indian tribes. The Appendix to Notice 2013-1 provides a list of Indian tribes that have settle more PR

PASADENA, California, July 21 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science Flights The first of six new venture-class missions will hit the skies this summer to chase dangerous and little understood pyrocumulonimbus storms out West. Landslides in Alaska. Air quality in Atlanta. Fire clouds out West. From the Arctic fringes to farm country, NASA's newest class of suborbital Earth Venture missions is gearing up to deliver science that will benefit communities in t more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: * * * Meet Alaska Sea Greens: Farmers, Fishers, and Homesteaders on Kodiak Island NOAA's Tide to Table series profiles members of the aquaculture community who provide valuable jobs and access to fresh, sustainably sourced American seafood. If you want to visit Kodiak Island in Alaska, you have two options. You can take a flight from Anchorage, about 250 miles away, or take the Alaska Marine Highway Ferry from Ho more PR

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Ranking Members Heinrich and Huffman Demand Answers on Trump Administration's Fast-Track of Pro-Oil Rule for Alaska's Western Arctic * WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, sent a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum demanding answers  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 (TNSLrpt) -- Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) Sixth Report to Congress: Highlights of the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act Program 2008-2020 - A report from U.S. Environmental Agency Office of Transportation and Air Quality - June 2026 (28 pages) Here are excerpts: * * * Table of Contents Executive Summary ... 6 Figure 1: DERA Appropriation Funding ($ millions) by FY (2008 to 2020) ... 8 Air Quality Benefits ... 8 Economic Benefits ... 9 Local Demand for the DERA Program ... 9 Table 1: DERA Overall Program Outcom more ST

RICHMOND, Virginia, July 21 -- Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones issued the following news release on July 20, 2026: * * * Attorney General Jones Secures Multistate Settlement of Bankruptcy Claims Against 23andMe over Genetic Data Breach Attorney General Jay Jones today joined a coalition of 42 attorneys general announcing a settlement with the bankruptcy trustee for 23andMe, resolving allegations stemming from a 2023 data breach that compromised the genetic data of nearly 7 million customers worldwide. "Virginians and consumers globall more PR

WENHAM, Massachusetts, July 20 -- Gordon College posted the following news: * * * When You Can't Not Go * Inside the life of Todd Denison '91, dedicated to emergency medicine and humanitarian aid. This article was contributed by Amber Dempsey '13 in the spring issue of The Magazine of Gordon College. The heat hit him first. Todd Denison '91 had just touched down in West Africa as a 20-year-old college student who had never left the United States. "I remember getting slammed in the face with heat that was a living entity," he recalls.  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 (TNSLrpt) -- The Granite State Migration: Why People Are Moving to New Hampshire, Who They Are, and What It Means for Our Future - A white paper from Pine Tree Public Policy Institute - June 2026 (9 pages) - Authored by Joe Sweeney * * * Executive Summary For twenty years we were told that migration would turn New Hampshire blue. That Massachusetts liberals were coming north to vote the way they voted back home. It was repeated so often that people stopped checking whether it was true. It is not true. The data say the op more ST