WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- Defend Public Health, a volunteer advocacy network of healthcare workers and researchers dedicated to protecting community health, issued the following news release: * * * October 26, 2026 New Video Campaign Urges: "Be a Public Health Voter" Defend Public Health Launches New Videos as Election Day Approaches - With election day nearly here and voting already underway, Defend Public Health has launched a new video campaign in which DPH members from across the country tell viewers why they're a public health voter. Th more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- In response to a federal agency request for information, the following public comment letter was submitted electronically to the regulations.gov site. Comment of Detroit Disability Power on the Proposed Decennial Census Residence Criteria and Demographic Question Restrictions To: Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce Re: Decennial Census of the Population of Americans; Proposed Residence Criteria and Proposed Regulations for Demographic Questions, 91 Fed. Reg. 57524 (Sept. 10, 2026). FDMS Docket No. USBC-2026-062 more ST

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- In response to a federal agency request for information, the following public comment letter was submitted electronically to the regulations.gov site. Comment of Disability Action on the Proposed Decennial Census Residence Criteria and Demographic Question Restrictions To: Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce Re: Decennial Census of the Population of Americans; Proposed Residence Criteria and Proposed Regulations for Demographic Questions, 91 Fed. Reg. 57524 (Sept. 10, 2026). FDMS Docket No. USBC-2026-0628 (Agency more ST

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration issued the following action in the Federal Register. * * * National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program; List of Petitions Received HRSA is publishing this notice of petitions received under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, as required by the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as amended. While the Secretary of HHS is named as the respondent in all proceedings brought by the filing of petitions for compe more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Nov. 1 [Category: BizInsurance] -- Highmark, a health insurance company, issued the following news release: * * * Highmark Announces 2027 Affordable Care Act Products in New York * Buffalo, N.Y. (November 1, 2026) -- Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield announced its Individual Market Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance products for 2027 in Western and Northeastern New York, offering individuals and families high-quality and convenient coverage options to fit their lives and health goals. "For Americans who don' more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Nov. 1 [Category: BizInsurance] -- Highmark, a health insurance company, issued the following news release: * * * Highmark Announces 2027 Affordable Care Act Products in Western Pennsylvania * PITTSBURGH (November 1, 2026) -- Highmark announced its Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance products in Western Pennsylvania for 2027, offering individuals and families high-quality and convenient coverage options to fit their lives and health goals. "For Americans who don't receive insurance through work or another g more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (TNSFR) -- The Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, will repatriate human remains representing two Native American individuals to one of four tribal nations following determinations of cultural affiliation. The remains were recovered from two Kansas counties. One individual was found in an unnamed creek in Kingman County, while the other individual's remains were believed to originate near Garden City in Finney County. Both sets underwent forensic anthropological analysis before being transferred to the historical socie more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- In response to a federal agency request for information, the following public comment letter was submitted electronically to the regulations.gov site. October 30, 2026 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA Docket Center Office of Air and Radiation Docket Mail Code 28221T 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20460 Re: Comments on Initial Air Quality Designations for the 2024 Annual PM2.5 NAAQS Docket ID No. EPA-HQ- OAR-2024-0078 Dear Administrator, The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) Air Quality Forum ( more ST

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Republican Attorneys General Association posted the following news: * * * Republican Attorneys General Association Deploys Boots on the Ground and Launches Creative Campaigns in Battleground States Ahead of Election Day * WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Ahead of Election Day, RAGA has deployed staff and Republican Attorneys General to key battleground states, launched an organic digital campaign with affiliated groups, and is rolling out mobile billboard trucks and outdoor advertising with creative from  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (TNSFR) -- The Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum in Kansas intends to repatriate 10 sacred cultural items to the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana. The items include child's leggings, child's vests, moccasins, pipe bags and a breastplate. According to the museum's records, seven objects were collected by Carl Eldridge Bitting during his travels across the Plains in the 1930s and 1940s and donated to the museum in 1957. A breastplate collected by Fern Mead Jordan was donated more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (TNSFR) -- The Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum in Kansas intends to repatriate a sacred shield to the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma. The shield was collected by Finlay Ross (1847-1933) and donated to the museum in 1939 by his widow, Ella Fuller Ross. Museum records link the item to the 1874 Anadarko Affair, also known as the Battle of the Wichita Agency, involving Comanche and Kiowa tribes, U.S. troops and civilians. A 1930 Wichita Beacon article identified the shield as belonging to Ross, who reportedly took it fr more PR