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Blackburn Leads Colleagues in Urging Senate to Pass SAVE America Act Following President Trump's Address to the Nation (10)
WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release:
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Blackburn Leads Colleagues in Urging Senate to Pass SAVE America Act Following President Trump's Address to the Nation
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'There is nothing objectionable about these measures.'
'If every state was like Tennessee, there would be no need for the SAVE America Act.'
'There is no other developed nation that leaves their election so vulnerable to fraud and manipulation.'
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) led h more PR
Crowell & Moring Expands Financial Services Group with Former UBS Bank USA General Counsel Cristina Diaz (10)
WASHINGTON, July 21 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Crowell and Moring, a law firm, issued the following news:
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Crowell & Moring Expands Financial Services Group with Former UBS Bank USA General Counsel Cristina Diaz
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New York - July 21, 2026: Crowell & Moring has added Cristina Diaz, former executive director and general counsel of UBS Bank USA, and most recently head of legal for UBS's U.S. Remediation Management Office, to the firm's Financial Services Group as senior counsel in New York. Diaz brings more than two decades of in-house c more PR
Gov. Cox announces updated fireworks guidance as wildfire conditions improve in parts of Utah (10)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 20 -- Gov. Spencer J. Cox, R-Utah, issued the following news release:
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Gov. Cox announces updated fireworks guidance as wildfire conditions improve in parts of Utah
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Municipalities regain primary authority over fireworks restrictions while state forester retains ability to impose additional restrictions where needed
SALT LAKE CITY (July 20, 2026) -Gov. Spencer J. Cox today announced updated fireworks guidance for the upcoming Pioneer Day holiday, returning primary authority over fireworks restrictions to m more PR
Institute for Justice: Massachusetts Families File Appeal to Supreme Court Challenging Unconstitutional Conditions for Special Education Services (10)
ARLINGTON, Virginia, July 22 -- The Institute for Justice posted the following news release:
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Massachusetts Families File Appeal to Supreme Court Challenging Unconstitutional Conditions for Special Education Services
BOSTON--Can the government withhold aid from children because of their parents' exercise of a constitutional right? That's the question two Massachusetts families are asking the United States Supreme Court to address in a newly filed petition for certiorari. A Massachusetts regulation forces parents to choose between sendin more PR
Lee Asks HHS to Cut Red Tape for Life-Saving Diabetes Treatment (10)
WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, issued the following news release:
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Lee Asks HHS to Cut Red Tape for Life-Saving Diabetes Treatment
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WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to cut red tape around life-saving diabetes treatment. Building on the framework of Senator Lee's ISLET Act, the letter urges HHS to reclassify islets to facilitate their use in treatment for Americans with diabetes.
"Americans living with diabetes have been kept from life-saving res more PR
Lee Urges DOJ Investigation of Five Gruesome DC Abortion Victims with Rep. Chris Smith (10)
WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, issued the following news release:
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Lee Urges DOJ Investigation of Five Gruesome DC Abortion Victims with Rep. Chris Smith
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WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ-04) led 55 of their Republican colleagues in a letter urging the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate five gruesome apparent late-term abortion victims discovered outside of a D.C. clinic in 2022. Known as the "D.C. Five," these victims have yet to receive proper investigations, autopsies more PR
Mourning the Loss of Student and Fallen Solider (10)
CEDAR CITY, Utah, July 20 -- Southern Utah University posted the following news:
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Mourning the Loss of Student and Fallen Solider
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It is with a heavy heart that I share news that one of our own, 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, was among the soldiers killed in action on July 18 in Jordan while serving in support of military operations in the region. 1st Lt. Feehan was an SUU graduate and current student in our MBA program. Our hearts are with his family, fellow service members, classmates, and all who knew and loved Tyler as we mourn this more PR
New Bipartisan Research Shows Western Voters Strongly Oppose Selling or Transferring Public Lands (10)
ARLINGTON, Virginia, July 20 [Category: Environment] -- The Nature Conservancy issued the following news:
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New Bipartisan Research Shows Western Voters Strongly Oppose Selling or Transferring Public Lands
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New bipartisan polling commissioned by The Nature Conservancy shows broad, overwhelming support for protecting public lands across the West, with majorities in every state favoring conservation over selloffs or privatization.
The Western Voter Views of Public Lands Issues survey-conducted by the bipartisan research teams of FM3 Re more PR
New map shows nearly 200 million acres of wilderness and wild public lands in Interior review's crosshairs (10)
WASHINGTON, July 21 [Category: Environment] -- The Wilderness Society posted the following news release:
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New map shows nearly 200 million acres of wilderness and wild public lands in Interior review's crosshairs
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Open-ended process could pave way to more development & extraction
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 21, 2026) -A new map released by The Wilderness Society illustrates the enormous scope of the Department of the Interior's ongoing review of wilderness- and wildlands-related policies, showing that nearly 200 million acres of public l more PR
Physician Scientists Urge FDA to Recognize Deramiocel Benefits for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Upper Limb Function (10)
WASHINGTON, July 21 -- In response to a federal agency request for information, the following public comment letter was submitted electronically to the regulations.gov site.
July 17, 2026
Karim Mikhail, Bpharm, MSc
Acting Director
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)
Food & Drug Administration
Dear Mr. Mikhail,
We are 28 physician scientists and researchers who participated in the Capricor HOPE-3 trial of deramiocel (ClinicalTrials.gov number: NCT05126758) and authors of the HOPE-3 manuscript which we hope to publish in a more ST
Professor Nancy McLaughlin chosen as reporter for Uniform Law Commission study on charitable gifts (10)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 20 -- The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law posted the following news:
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Professor Nancy McLaughlin chosen as reporter for Uniform Law Commission study on charitable gifts
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Professor Nancy McLaughlin, whose research focuses on the laws governing charitable gifts, is serving as reporter for the Uniform Law Commission (ULC)'s Study Committee on Harmonization of the Law Governing Restricted Charitable Gifts. The committee will study the need for and feasibility of a law to govern restrictions on all more PR
Sen. Padilla, 3 Co-Signers Issue Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee (10)
WASHINGTON, July 21 (TNSletter) -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, with three co-signers issued the following letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
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Here is the text of the letter:
July 20, 2026
The Honorable Susan Collins
Chair
Senate Committee on Appropriations
Washington, DC 20510
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The Honorable Patty Murray
Vice Chair
Senate Committee on Appropriations
Washington, DC 20510
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Dear Chair Collins, and Vice Chair Murray:
We write to express our concern that the supplemental appropriations request received by Congr more PR
Sen. Schiff Joins Padilla, Tillis, and Curtis to Press Congressional Leaders to Pass Long-Term Disaster Recovery Funding (10)
WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Sen. Adam Schiff, D-California, issued the following news release:
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Sen. Schiff Joins Padilla, Tillis, and Curtis to Press Congressional Leaders to Pass Long-Term Disaster Recovery Funding
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Washington, D.C. -Today, U.S. Senator Adam Schiff joined Senators Alex Padilla (both D-Calif.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and John Curtis (R-Utah), to urge Congressional leaders to include long-term disaster recovery funding in any supplemental appropriations package after the Administration's recent emergency funding request did more PR
USDA Offers Disaster Assistance to Agricultural Producers in Utah Impacted by Drought and Wildfire (10)
WASHINGTON, July 20 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency issued the following news release:
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USDA Offers Disaster Assistance to Agricultural Producers in Utah Impacted by Drought and Wildfire
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Utah
(Salt Lake City, Utah, July 20, 2026) - Agricultural operations in Utah have been significantly impacted by recent drought and wildfires. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has technical and financial assistance available to help farmers and livestock producers recover from these adverse weather events.
"We k more PR
USU Engineering Professor to Receive 2026 Pioneers of Progress Award for Days of '47 Celebration (10)
LOGAN, Utah, July 21 -- Utah State University issued the following news:
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USU Engineering Professor to Receive 2026 Pioneers of Progress Award for Days of '47 Celebration
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Mechanical and aerospace engineering Associate Professor Juhyeong Lee has been selected to receive the 2026 Pioneers of Progress Award.
The Days of '47 Board of Trustees selected Lee as a recipient for the science and technology category of the award, which honors individuals whose work will have an enduring impact.
"Receiving the prestigious Pioneer of Progress more PR
Why do we have traveling brain waves? (10)
LA JOLLA, California, July 21 -- The Salk Institute for Biological Studies issued the following news release:
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Why do we have traveling brain waves?
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* Salk neuroscientist who discovered traveling brain waves in the awake visual system in 2020 now asks why they exist
* New review article suggests neural traveling waves are a computational engine that allows us to build internal representations of the outside world
LA JOLLA-Your brain has something surprising in common with the ocean: waves! Electrical activity wa more PR
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