SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 7 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Bonta Secures Court Victory Blocking Trump Administration's Latest Attempt to Divert Funding from Permanent Supportive Housing * OAKLAND -As part of a coalition of 21 attorneys general and two governors, California Attorney General Rob Bonta today secured a major victory in the July 2026 lawsuit brought by the coalition to challenge the Trump Administration's attempt to divert federal funding away from permanent  more PR

MONTPELIER, Vermont, Aug. 7 -- Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark posted the following news release: * * * Attorney General Clark Secures Order Protecting Federal Support for Homelessness Services * Attorney General Charity Clark and a multistate coalition have won their case challenging Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) illegal attempt to cap funding for permanent housing projects that help families facing housing insecurity or experiencing homelessness. For more than two decades, HUD has embraced a commitment to pe more PR

ALBANY, New York, Aug. 7 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General James Secures More Than 140,000 Eggs for Central New York Families * August 7, 2026 NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced the delivery of more than 140,000 eggs to Food Bank of Central New York in Syracuse as part of a bipartisan multistate settlement with Cal-Maine Foods (Cal-Maine), Versova/Centrum (Versova), and Hickman's Egg Ranch (Hickman's) for years of price fixing. A multistate i more PR

ALBANY, New York, Aug. 7 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General James Secures More Than 140,000 Eggs for Southern Tier Families * August 7, 2026 NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced the delivery of more than 140,000 eggs to Food Bank of the Southern Tier in Elmira as part of a bipartisan multistate settlement with Cal-Maine Foods (Cal-Maine), Versova/Centrum (Versova), and Hickman's Egg Ranch (Hickman's) for years of price fixing. A multistate inves more PR

ALBANY, New York, Aug. 7 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General James Wins Case Stopping Trump Administration's Latest Attempt to Jeopardize Funds to Fight Homelessness * August 7, 2026 NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 20 other attorneys general and the governors of Kentucky and Pennsylvania today won their case challenging the Trump administration's illegal conditions on Fiscal Year 2026 funds for the Continuum of Care (CoC) program. The CoC more PR

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, Aug. 7 -- The Chesapeake Bay Foundation posted the following news release: * * * Chesapeake Bay Foundation Statement on Bay Cleanup Progress * The Chesapeake Bay Program this week released its latest modeling on clean-up efforts, which showed significant declines in pollutants entering the Bay between 2009 and 2025. Model results indicated that as of 2025, jurisdictions in the Chesapeake Bay watershed had met their goals for sediment reduction, hit 90% of their goal for phosphorus reduction, and met 57% of their goal f more PR

LAUREL, Maryland, Aug. 7 [Category: Science] -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory posted the following news release: * * * Douglas-Bradshaw Named Civil Space Flight Mission Area Executive at Johns Hopkins APL * Donya Douglas-Bradshaw has been named mission area executive for Civil Space Flight at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. In this role, she will lead APL programs to deliver critical spaceflight hardware to NASA, U.S. government civilian agencies, and other partners. Douglas more PR

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, Aug. 7 -- Gov. Wes Moore, D-Maryland, posted the following news release: * * * Governor Moore Announces More Than $53.5 Million Recovered by Maryland Insurance Administration for Consumers in First Half of 2026 * ANNAPOLIS, MD - Governor Moore today announced the Maryland Insurance Administration recovered more than $53.5 million for Marylanders by helping resolve insurance-related issues and complaints in the first six months of 2026. "As H.R. 1 makes it harder for people to attain healthcare on the ACA exchange and i more PR

GERMANTOWN, Maryland, Aug. 7 [Category: BizEngineering] -- Amentum, a provider of technical and engineering services, issued the following news release: * * * Nuclear Decommissioning: from Liability to Lasting Legacy * By Mike Houghton, Vice President for Environment, Amentum About 200 - nearly half - of the world's nuclear reactors are due to cease generating by 2050. Meanwhile, decommissioning work on those which have already shut down lags. If there is little prospect of an immediate return on investment, the standard approach is to fo more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (TNSletter) -- Rep. April McClain Delaney, D-Maryland, with 18 co-signers issued the following letter to Federal Communications Commission, and U.S. Departments of Commerce and State: * * * Here is the text of the letter: July 24, 2026 The Honorable Jacob Helberg Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20520 - The Honorable Arielle Roth Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration U.S. Department of Commerce 1401 Constitu more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (TNSletter) -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following letter to FIFA President Gianni Infantino: * * * Here is the text of the letter: July 26, 2026 Mr. Gianni Infantino President FIFA Trump Tower 725 5th Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10022 Dear Mr. Infantino: In 2015, the Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecuted more than two dozen high level FIFA officials and sports-marketing executives for a racketeering conspiracy involving wire fraud and money laun more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (TNSletter) -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, with nine co-signers issued the following letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: * * * Here is the text of the letter: July 30, 2026 The Honorable Scott Bessent Secretary of the Treasury U.S. Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20220 Dear Secretary Bessent: We write to express our deep frustration that the Department of the Treasury is "not at present" planning to move forward with the long-standing effort to place Harriet T more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following letter to Deputy Inspector General Caryl Brzymialkiewicz: * * * Here is the text of the letter: August 4, 2026 Dr. Caryl Brzymialkiewicz Deputy Inspector General Performing the Duties of the Inspector General Office of Inspector General U.S. Department of the Interior 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240 Dear Deputy Inspector General Brzymialk more PR

OLYMPIA, Washington, Aug. 7 -- Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown issued the following news release: * * * Washington-led coalition secures order protecting federal support for homelessness services * Washington and a multistate coalition have won their case challenging Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) illegal attempt to cap funding for permanent housing projects that help families facing housing insecurity or experiencing homelessness. If the coalition had not successfully challenged HUD's policy, nearly 3,000  more PR