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Airmen showcase radio capabilities during Exercise Noble Skywave (10)
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii, Oct. 26 -- The U.S. Pacific Air Forces issued the following news:
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Airmen showcase radio capabilities during Exercise Noble Skywave
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The Internet has become so integrated into our lives that it can be difficult to imagine how to communicate without it. For the U.S. Air Force, losing all communication isn't an option. When Wi-Fi, cell service or satellite connections fail, Airmen must rely on radio communications to keep the mission on track.
Last week, the 673d Communications Squadron took part more PR
Attorney General Bonta: States Must Have the Ability to Protect Residents from Assault Rifles Commonly Used in Mass Shootings (10)
SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 28 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release:
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Attorney General Bonta: States Must Have the Ability to Protect Residents from Assault Rifles Commonly Used in Mass Shootings
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OAKLAND -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, as part of a coalition of 19 attorneys general, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of laws enacted in Connecticut and Cook County, Illinois, restricting the sale, manufacture, and possession of certain uniquely dangerous ass more PR
ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL SUPPORTS CONSTITUTIONALITY OF ASSAULT WEAPONS RESTRICTIONS BEFORE U.S. SUPREME COURT (10)
CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 28 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release:
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ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL SUPPORTS CONSTITUTIONALITY OF ASSAULT WEAPONS RESTRICTIONS BEFORE U.S. SUPREME COURT
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Chicago - Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of attorneys general, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court today defending the right of states and local governments to protect their citizens from the extraordinary lethality of AR-15-platform rifles.
The brief supports Cook County and the state of Co more PR
Bank of America Opens First Financial Centers in Wisconsin, Sets 2027 Entry into Alabama and Louisiana (10)
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Oct. 28 [Category: BizFinancial Services] -- Bank of America, a financial institution, posted the following news release:
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Bank of America Opens First Financial Centers in Wisconsin, Sets 2027 Entry into Alabama and Louisiana
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Expansion extends the bank's in-person reach to approximately eighty-three percent of Americans
New centers are part of the bank's five billion dollars investment in its network since 2016
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina - Bank of America continues to expand and modernize its financial cen more PR
California Institute of Technology: Chemical Data Collected From the Eaton Fire Plume Help Characterize Urban Fires (10)
PASADENA, California, Oct. 29 (TNSjou) -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news:
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Chemical Data Collected from the Eaton Fire Plume Help Characterize Urban Fires
October 28, 2026
Caltech scientists have published the first detailed analysis of the atmospheric particles in the smoke plume from the Eaton Fire that devastated much of the town of Altadena in Southern California's San Gabriel Valley and the surrounding areas in January 2025. The results confirm the very different chemical nature of the smoke produ more PR
Court Halts DOJ Attempt to Disenfranchise California Voters Ahead of Midterms (10)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 [Category: Political] -- The Campaign Legal Center posted the following news release:
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Court Halts DOJ Attempt to Disenfranchise California Voters Ahead of Midterms
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LOS ANGELES -- A federal court has rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) attempt to disenfranchise over 20,000 California voters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. This comes as several pro-voting organizations -- League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the NAACP, NAACP California/Hawaii State Conference (NAACP CA/HI), and NAAC more PR
Fall Back: Change your clocks, batteries as daylight saving time ends Nov. 1 (10)
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland issued the following news:
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Fall Back: Change your clocks, batteries as daylight saving time ends Nov. 1
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Daylight saving time ends Nov. 1. Time will be set back one hour at 2 a.m. to standard time.
Beginning in 2007, Congress established that daylight saving time begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
Before then, daylight saving time dates have varied as Congress passed new statutes several more PR
First-of-its-kind women's clinic in the Air Force established at JBER (10)
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii, Oct. 26 -- The U.S. Pacific Air Forces issued the following news:
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First-of-its-kind women's clinic in the Air Force established at JBER
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Under the Pacific Air Forces, the 673d Medical Group at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson provides healthcare for more than 34,000 women. At this epicenter of medical services is a first-of-its-kind clinic specifically designed to educate, treat and improve the lives of these women.
From active duty to dependents and beyond, the JBER Women's Mid-Life Optimizati more PR
Freedom Flag 26-2: U.S. Seventh AF, ROK AFOC commanders conduct 'Friendship Flight' at Kunsan AB (10)
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Pacific Air Forces issued the following news:
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Freedom Flag 26-2: U.S. Seventh AF, ROK AFOC commanders conduct 'Friendship Flight' at Kunsan AB
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U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. David Shoemaker, Seventh Air Force commander, and Republic of Korea air force Lt. Gen. Jun-sun Cha, Air Force Operations Command commander, conducted a Friendship Flight during Freedom Flag 26-2 at Kunsan Air Base, ROK, Oct. 27, 2026.
During the Friendship Flight, Shoemaker and Cha accomplished a training mis more PR
How this Kamehameha Schools Maui performing arts kumu is passing it forward (10)
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 28 -- Kamehameha Schools posted the following news:
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How this Kamehameha Schools Maui performing arts kumu is passing it forward
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Ikaika Mendez KSM'19 has a big kuleana to carry in his first year as kumu of literature, language and performing arts at Kamehameha Schools Maui, stepping into a role once held by his former kumu and mentor, Kalei Aarona-Lorenzo KSK'85.
Though he went on to study `olelo Hawai`i, music and theater at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa, Mendez traces his love for performance back to th more PR
Judicial Watch Sues FBI for Records on Recalled Chinese Election Interference Report (10)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (TNSxrep) -- Judicial Watch issued the following news release:
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October 28, 2026
Judicial Watch Sues FBI for Records on Recalled Chinese Election Interference Report
(Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records about the FBI's recall of a September 2020 intelligence report alleging that China manufactured and exported fraudulent U.S. driver's licenses to help Chinese nationals cast fraudulent mail-in vot more PR
Md. A.G. Brown Joins Defense of Assault Weapons Restrictions Before the U.S. Supreme Court (10)
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Oct. 29 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release:
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Attorney General Brown Joins Defense of Assault Weapons Restrictions Before the U.S. Supreme Court
10/28/2026
Critical Public Safety Cases To Be Heard in December
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BALTIMORE, MD - Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a multistate amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court of the United States today defending the right of states to protect their residents from the extraordinary lethality of AR-15 platform and similar semiau more PR
N.J. A.G. Davenport Co-Leads States in Defense of Assault Weapons Restrictions Before the U.S. Supreme Court (10)
TRENTON, New Jersey, Oct. 29 -- New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport issued the following news release:
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AG Davenport Co-Leads States in Defense of Assault Weapons Restrictions Before the U.S. Supreme Court
Critical Public Safety Cases to be Heard in December
October 28, 2026
TRENTON -- Attorney General Jennifer Davenport co-led a multistate amicus brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court today defending the right of states to protect their citizens from the extraordinary lethality of AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic ri more PR
Navy Submarine Arrives in Western Australia for Scheduled Maintenance Period (10)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Department of War issued the following news:
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Navy Submarine Arrives in Western Australia for Scheduled Maintenance Period
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The submarine USS Colorado arrived at HMAS Stirling, Australia, yesterday to begin a scheduled, monthlong maintenance period.
The visit marks the fourth submarine maintenance period in Western Australia since the establishment of the Australia, U.K., U.S. trilateral security partnership and highlights ongoing progress under AUKUS pillar one.
The USS Colorado is the sixth nuclear- more PR
University of Hawaii Manoa: New Tropical Protea Flowers Expand Floriculture Opportunities Across Hawaii (10)
MANOA, Hawaii, Oct. 29 -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release:
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New tropical protea flowers expand floriculture opportunities across Hawaii
Oct 28, 2026
Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR) have achieved a breakthrough in floriculture by breeding new "tropical" pincushion protea (Leucospermum) hybrids that bloom near sea level, reducing local reliance on imported flowers.
"These new genetic combinations allow growers at all ele more PR
University of Hawaii Manoa: Unlocking Secrets - Mantis Shrimp Vision Captures Unseen (10)
MANOA, Hawaii, Oct. 29 (TNSjou) -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release:
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VNR: Unlocking secrets: Mantis shrimp vision captures unseen
Oct 28, 2026
A University of Hawaii at Manoa researcher is helping explain how mantis shrimp see colors and detect types of light that humans cannot, offering new clues about how eyes sense the world.
Megan Porter, a professor in the UH Manoa School of Life Sciences, co-authored a study published in October 2026 in Science Advances that explores how mantis shrimp eyes more PR
URI to honor veterans with ceremony, events on campus (10)
KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Oct. 28 -- The University of Rhode Island posted the following news:
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URI to honor veterans with ceremony, events on campus
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KINGSTON, R.I. - Oct. 28, 2026 - The University of Rhode Island community will come together to honor the country's veterans and military members with multiple events on campus. A Veterans Day Ceremony recognizing those who have served will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at noon at the Hope Room inside the Robert J. Higgins Welcome Center.
This year's ceremony will feature guest speaker Ca more PR
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