COLUMBIA, South Carolina, June 18 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: * * * Attorney General Alan Wilson defends the First Amendment rights of pro-life Americans Attorney General Alan Wilson recently joined a 20-state friend-of-the-court brief in support of the First Amendment right of the Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford, Illinois, at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.  The PCC of Rockford holds to a traditional Christian teaching on human life and sexuality and expect their employees to uphold th more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on June 18, 2026: * * * Crapo Announces International Trade Commission Nominations Hearing U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) announced the Committee will hold a nomination hearing on Thursday, June 25, 2026, at 10:00 AM ET to consider Brett Doyle, David Foley, Jr., Samuel Negatu, Peter-Anthony Pappas and Bartholomew Thanhauser to be members of the United States International Trade Commission.  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, issued the following news release: * * * Curtis Announces 250-Mile Walk for America's 250th Anniversary * Journey will honor values highlighted in America's founding documents, Utah's pioneer heritage PROVO, UT -U.S. Senator John Curtis (R-UT) today announced his plans to embark on a multi-day, 250-mile walk across Utah in honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Averaging 30 miles of walking per day, the senator will start his journey near the north more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news release on June 18, 2026: * * * Department of Energy Celebrates Second Advanced Reactor Achieving Criticality Today, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy Reactor Pilot Program, Valar Atomics' advanced reactor design, Ward 250, successfully completed a zero-power fueled criticality demonstration. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today celebrated another historic milestone in America's nuclear renaissance. DOE Reactor Pilot Program participant Valar Atomi more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy issued the following news release on June 18, 2026: * * * Department of Energy Celebrates Second Advanced Reactor Achieving Criticality The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today celebrated another historic milestone in America's nuclear renaissance. DOE Reactor Pilot Program participant Valar Atomics' advanced reactor design, Ward 250, successfully completed a zero-power fueled criticality demonstration. The experiment took place at the Utah San Rafael Energy Lab more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 (TNSinfo) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued the following information collection: We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), U.S. Department of Agriculture, plans to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) to analyze the effects of a program to suppress populations of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets from rangeland in seventeen states of the western United States (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kans more PR

ARCATA, California, June 17 -- The California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt posted the following news: * * * A Life Outdoors, Rooted at Humboldt * That patience, curiosity, and deep respect for wildlife helped shape a career that now includes one of the field's highest honors. Bowyer is the 2025 recipient of the Aldo Leopold Memorial Award from The Wildlife Society, which recognizes lifetime contributions to wildlife conservation. "That's a tremendous honor," Bowyer says. "It's not something you ever think is going to happen." F more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, June 18 -- Montana State University issued the following news: * * * Montana State filmmaker earns regional writing award * Montana State University film major Trent Pietsch photographed Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Bozeman, Mont. MSU photo by Colter Peterson BOZEMAN -Trent Pietsch sat alone in his watch tower. As he waited for incoming training flights on a naval base in Texas about 13 years ago, 19th century philosophers Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche kept him company. Their writings were influential for his more PR

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * Padilla, Curtis, and Bipartisan Group of 4 Democrats and 4 Republicans Introduce Bill to Strengthen Rural Water Infrastructure and Wildfire Readiness * WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and John Curtis (R-Utah), members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, introduced the FIRE SMART Act, bipartisan legislation to expand funding eligibility for projects with fire suppression benefits in high-risk ru more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: * * * Working Families Tax Cuts Encourage Self-Reliance While Medicaid was designed to benefit specific vulnerable populations-pregnant women, Americans with disabilities, low-income children and seniors-Obamacare distorted its intended purpose by incentivizing states to enroll and prioritize healthy adults. As a result, federal Medicaid spending has more than tripled since 2008, threatening the sustainability of the program. This expansion also hurt many low more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, and Jim Risch, R-Idaho, ranking member and chairman, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on June 17, 2026: * * * Read Out: June 17th Committee Business Meeting Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Jim Risch (R-ID), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after members passed 24 pieces of legislation out of committee. "The legislation advanced by the Committee today addres more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, and Jim Risch, R-Idaho, ranking member and chairman, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on June 17, 2026: * * * Read Out: June 17th Committee Business Meeting U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement after members passed 24 pieces of legislation out of committee. "The legislation advanced by the Committee today ad more PR

RICHARDSON, Texas, June 19 -- The University of Texas Dallas campus issued the following news: * * * PhD Student's Research Is Turning Tides into Electricity By Kim Horner As a child growing up in Bangladesh in the early 2000s, Fazlur Karim experienced firsthand the consequences of an energy system under pressure. Rapid economic growth and rising electricity demand frequently overwhelmed the country's developing power infrastructure, resulting in daily outages that often lasted several hours. "The region experienced power outages averaging more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on June 18, 2026: * * * Working Families Tax Cuts Encourage Self-Reliance While Medicaid was designed to benefit specific vulnerable populations--pregnant women, Americans with disabilities, low-income children and seniors--Obamacare distorted its intended purpose by incentivizing states to enroll and prioritize healthy adults. As a result, federal Medicaid spending has more than tripled since 2008, threatening the sus more PR