WALLA WALLA, Washington, Aug. 27 -- Whitman College posted the following news: * * * A Lifesaving Purpose for a Whittie Innovator * Fall 2026 Whitman Stories Whitman Magazine Fall 2026 For Ashifi Gogo '05, the journey to becoming a global health technology entrepreneur began with tomatoes. Since his undergraduate days at Whitman College, Gogo has always let his curiosity lead him to opportunities. So as a graduate student in New Hampshire, when he wondered what exactly made the organic tomatoes at the local co-op cost so much, he decided  more PR

RICHMOND, Virginia, Aug. 27 -- Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2026: * * * Attorney General Jay Jones Announces a $17 Billion Landmark Settlement with Meta with $353 Million Guaranteed for Virginia Settlement requires Meta to implement sweeping child-safety reforms for Virginians on Instagram and Facebook after deceiving the public about teen mental health harms - Today, Attorney General Jones announced a $17 billion settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. of which Virginia will receive a gua more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- District of Columbia Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Schwalb Announces That Meta Will Pay Up to $17.1 Billion for Exploiting Kids with Intentionally Addictive Social Media Platforms * Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb today announced a landmark multistate settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta). It is the largest state consumer protection settlement in history outside of the Big Tobacco settlements of the 1990s. The District will receive at least $90,395, more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following commentary on Aug. 27, 2026, by Ife Finch Floyd, director of income security with the Housing and Income Security Team: * * * Congress, States Have Eroded TANF Programs for 30 Years, Leaving Families With Inadequate Cash Assistance As Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) marks its 30th anniversary, we've warned how we risk repeating lessons hard-learned from the program's failures. Namely, TANF's rules require taking assistance away from people w more PR

HANOVER, New Hampshire, Aug. 25 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news: * * * Dartmouth to Host AI at 70 Conference in October At the birthplace of artificial intelligence, a focus on human judgment. - As people increasingly incorporate artificial intelligence into how they work, learn, and make decisions, the questions surrounding its use extend well beyond technology. They concern human judgment and responsibility, how AI should be governed, and when its use is appropriate. Seventy years after hosting the summer workshop that la more PR

HANOVER, New Hampshire, Aug. 28 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news: * * * DIMEX Signs Partnership Agreement With UN Refugee Agency Dartmouth Initiative for Middle East Exchange expands programming for faculty, students. Written by Julia Tanton Dartmouth has signed an innovative new agreement in Jordan with UNHCR, the United Nations' refugee agency, as part of its efforts to deepen relationships and build new collaborations in the Middle East. The Dartmouth Initiative for Middle East Exchange, or DIMEX, was created last year as more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau issued the following public notice (WC Docket Nos. 26-221, 26-222, 26-223, 26-225, 26-229, 26-230, 26-232, 26-233): * * * Unless otherwise specified, the following procedures and dates apply to the application(s) (the Section 214 Discontinuance Application(s)) listed in the Appendix. The Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau), upon initial review, has found the Section 214 Discontinuance Application(s) listed herein to be acceptable for filing and subjec more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration issued the following action from the Federal Register: * * * The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is providing interested persons with the opportunity to submit comments concerning abuse potential, actual abuse, medical usefulness, trafficking, and impact of scheduling changes on availability for medical use of eight drug substances. These comments will be considered in preparing a response from the United States to the Exp more PR

ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 27 -- Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2026: * * * Carr Announces Largest Big Tech Settlement in History Meta to pay up to $17 billion and implement sweeping child-safety reforms on Instagram and Facebook - Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr today announced a landmark $17.1 billion multistate settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. - the largest state consumer protection settlement in history outside the Big Tobacco settlements of the 1990s. In addition to the payment, M more PR

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug. 27 -- Earthjustice posted the following news release: * * * Groups Request Public Comment Period Extension for the Proposed Rollback of the Roadless Rule The Trump administration has allowed just 32 days for the public to comment on the plan that would open the door to widespread destruction of cherished national forests - Washington, D.C. -- Conservation groups are asking the U.S. Forest Service to extend the public comment period on the proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule from 32 days to at least 120  more PR

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Aug. 28 -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following news release: * * * Groups Request Public Comment Period Extension for the Proposed Rollback of the Roadless Rule The Trump Administration has allowed just 32 days for the public to comment on the plan that would open the door to widespread destruction of cherished national forests - WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Conservation groups are asking the U.S. Forest Service to extend the public comment period on the proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule from 32 days to at least 120 more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 27 -- Hawaii Attorney General Anne E. Lopez issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2026: * * * ATTORNEY GENERAL LOPEZ ANNOUNCES LARGEST BIG TECH SETTLEMENT IN HISTORY Meta to Pay Up to $17 Billion and Implement Sweeping Child-Safety Reforms on Instagram and Facebook - Today, Attorney General Anne Lopez announced a landmark $17.1 billion multistate settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. -- one of the largest state consumer protection settlements in history outside the Big Tobacco settlements of the 1990s. In addi more PR

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 28 -- Gov. Kelly Ayotte, R-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2026: * * * ICYMI: Governor, Attorney General Announce Largest Social Media Settlement in History On Wednesday, August 26, Governor Kelly Ayotte and Attorney General John Formella announced a landmark $17.1 billion multi-state settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. Under the settlement, New Hampshire will receive up to $224,344,141 paid in ten equal installments. In addition to the payment, Meta must implement a sweeping set of more PR

AUGUSTA, Maine, Aug. 27 -- Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2026: * * * Attorney General Aaron M. Frey Announces Largest Big Tech Settlement in History Meta to Pay Up to $17 Billion and Implement Sweeping Child-Safety Reforms on Instagram and Facebook - Today, Attorney General Aaron M. Frey announced a landmark $17.1 billion multistate settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc.-- the largest state consumer protection settlement in history outside the Big Tobacco settlements of the 1990s. The settlem more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 [Category: Sociological] -- The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws posted the following news release: * * * Massachusetts: Most Voters Oppose Ballot Initiative Effort To Repeal State's Adult Use Marijuana Market * Boston, MA: Most voters say that they oppose a November ballot measure (Question 8) that seeks to repeal key elements of Massachusetts' voter-approved marijuana legalization law, according to statewide polling compiled by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Fifty-five percent of res more PR

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 28 -- Gov. Kelly Ayotte, R-New Hampshire, issued the following statement on Aug. 27, 2026: * * * Governor Ayotte Statement on Easterseals NH Reversing Cuts to Adult Day Programs Today, Governor Kelly Ayotte released the following statement after Easterseals NH announced it would reverse planned cuts to its Adult Day programs in Manchester and Rochester, as well as continue providing certain in-home services in Strafford and Hillsborough Counties: "I'm pleased Easterseals has reversed its decision to cut these vi more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Aug. 27 -- New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2026: * * * Attorney General Davenport Announces Historic $17 Billion Settlement With Meta Meta to Implement Safeguards to Protect Children and Pay New Jersey at Least $525 Million - Attorney General Jennifer Davenport today announced a landmark multistate settlement of up to $17.1 billion with Meta Platforms, Inc.--a historic step in protecting consumers and the largest state consumer protection settlement in histor more PR

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 27 -- New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2026: * * * New Hampshire Announces Largest Social Media Settlement in History, Meta to Pay Up to $224,344,141 to New Hampshire and Implement Sweeping New Protections for Children on Instagram and Facebook Governor Kelly A. Ayotte and Attorney General John M. Formella announce a landmark $17.1 billion multistate settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. Under the settlement, New Hampshire will receive up to $224,344,141 pa more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 27 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2026: * * * Attorney General Neronha, coalition announce largest Big Tech settlement in history Attorney General Neronha today joined a coalition of 47 States and D.C., Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands in announcing a landmark multistate settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. of up to $17.1 billion - one of the largest state consumer protection settlements in history. Under the settlemen more PR

PIERRE, South Dakota, Aug. 27 -- South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2026: * * * Attorney General Jackley Announces SD to Receive Minimum $52 Million in Multistate Settlement with Meta Attorney General Marty Jackley announces South Dakota will receive a minimum of $52,612,676 as its share in a landmark $17.1 billion multistate settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. It is one of the largest state consumer protection settlements in history outside the Big Tobacco settlements of the 1990s. Sou more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: * * * Shaheen Celebrates Opening of DEA Lab, Highlights Millions She Secured for the Project in Londonderry Continues Affordability Action Tour at Affordable Apartment Groundbreaking in Manchester (Londonderry, NH) - U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies (Ag-FDA) Appropriations Subco more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued the following recall alert: * * * Shanghai Ravioli Corporation Recalls Not Ready-To-Eat Frozen Buffalo Chicken Products Produced Without the Benefit of Inspection * WASHINGTON, Aug. 26, 2026 - Shanghai Ravioli Corporation, in Boston, Mass., is recalling approximately 24,900 pounds of frozen, not ready-to-eat (NRTE) Buffalo chicken products that were produced without the benefit of inspection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety more PR

ST. MARY'S CITY, Maryland, Aug. 27 -- St. Mary's College of Maryland issued the following statement on Aug. 26, 2026, by President Rhonda Phillips announcing Sharief Hashim as vice president for athletics and recreation: * * * Announcing Sharief Hashim as VP for Athletics and Recreation Dear Campus Community, Please help me welcome Sharief Hashim as the new Vice President for Athletics and Recreation at St. Mary's College of Maryland, effective Oct. 5. In this role, Sharief will report directly to me and serve as a member of the President's more PR

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 27 -- Utah Attorney General Derek Brown issued the following news on Aug. 26, 2026: * * * Utah secures $12.2 billion settlement with Meta over child safety practices Utah today announced a landmark $12.2 billion settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. that will force sweeping changes to how Instagram and Facebook are built for children and teens once issued by the court. It ranks among the largest consumer protection settlements in U.S. history--rivaled only by the Big Tobacco settlements of the 1990s--and marks the more PR