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Wilbur Ross, the 39th Secretary of Commerce, who recently announced his department's plans to become a "one-stop shop" for regulating the space industry, will discuss how the Department of Commerce is creating conditions for economic growth and...

The following are statements from Rep. Jim Bridenstine and acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot on Thursday's U.S. Senate confirmation of Bridenstine as the 13th Administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration:...

SeaDek has been named 2018 Small Business Exporter of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The Rockledge, Florida-based company will be officially recognized during National Small Business Week, an annual event honoring the...

https://cpsc.gov/Recalls/2018/Wild--Wolf-Recalls-Petit-Collage-Childrens-Toy-Xylophones-Due-to-Choking-Hazard Recall Summary Name of Product: Petit Collage musical jumbo wooden xylophones Hazard: The ball on the end...

Twenty-three years ago on April 19, 1995, an extremist turned his anti-government views into mass murder when he detonated a bomb packed inside his rental truck parked in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. One...

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration examined reform of the country's immigration courts in a hearing Wednesday. The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), the Department of Justice agency...

The U.S. Small Business Administration today honored Citibank and Byline Bank as the 2018 SBA Export Lenders of the Year, respectively, for large and small lending institutions during a ceremony at the 11th annual SBA Export Lender Roundtable in...

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) now is scheduled for launch at 6:51 p.m. EDT today, Wednesday, April 18, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch...

The U.S. Department of Commerce ("Commerce") announced on Tuesday, April 17, 2018, its final determination that two Indian producers, Viraj Profiles Ltd. ("Viraj") and Venus Wire Industries Pvt. Ltd., including its affiliates Hindustan Inox Ltd.,...

The Certified Development Company (CDC) Small Business Finance, a California-based SBA 504 CDC Lender, Community Advantage Lender and Microloan Intermediary, has been selected as this year's Jody C. Raskind Award recipient. This recognition is...

Chairman Aderholt, Ranking Member Bishop, and Members of the Subcommittee. I'd like to thank the Committee for your commitment to FDA. We've been fortunate to receive strong bipartisan support in recent years. And the 2018 budget was no different....

On Monday, April 23, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, will release a one-of-its-kind report showing "concrete evidence" that the Trump administration's Muslim Ban...

This Earth Day, NASA invites you to create your own shareable views of our home planet, help combat mosquito-transmitted diseases, and watch our fleet of Earth-observing spacecraft as they circle the globe. NASA pioneers...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Crysvita (burosumab), the first drug approved to treat adults and children ages 1 year and older with x-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH), a rare, inherited form of rickets. XLH causes low levels of...

Advances in material science, digital technology and advanced manufacturing are contributing to an unparalleled period of invention in medical devices. New devices offer more opportunities to improve health than at any time. Last year, the FDA...

A NASA scientist who was a lead author on the U.S. Global Change Research Program's 2017 Climate Science Special Report will give a talk about it Monday, April 23, at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia....

The public is invited to a free talk called "Swimming in Martian Lakes: Curiosity at Gale Crater," with Dr. Scott Guzewich in the Pickford Theater, third floor, Madison Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., on April 25 from 11:30 a.m. to...

Students from Maryland, Michigan and Texas will talk with astronauts on the International Space Station this week as part of NASA's Year of Education on Station. NASA astronauts Ricky Arnold, Drew Feustel and Scott...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will hold its 67th Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Conference April 16-19, 2018 in Atlanta. The annual gathering of disease detectives showcases cutting-edge investigations and...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) will host two workshops in Omaha, Neb., at the Hilton Omaha, May 22 and 23, for directors of national community banks and federal savings associations supervised by the OCC. The Risk Governance...

As part of National Retirement Planning Week, the Insured Retirement Institute hosted a panel on Capitol Hill which focused on the challenges Americans face in saving for their retirement and policy solutions which could be employed to make it easier...

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took an important step to better protect consumers from the dangers of highly concentrated and pure caffeine products. These products present a significant public health threat because of the high risk...

NASA will hold a news conference at 9 a.m. CDT Tuesday, April 17, to unveil plans to conduct a series of supersonic technology research flights over the Galveston, Texas, area, in support of the agency's Commercial Supersonic Technology Project....

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants the Board of Immigration Appeals to dismiss 500 pages of evidence presented by The National Press Club and 16 other professional journalism organizations in the asylum case of Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, an...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today finalized two guidances to drive the efficient development of a novel technology that scans a person's DNA to diagnose genetic diseases, which are usually hereditary, and guide medical treatments. The...

Media are invited to see how engineers and scientists are helping make NASA's deep space human exploration plans a reality at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday, April 26. A briefing with NASA at 10...

Tomorrow, Hudson Institute will host a discussion on the Department of Defense's cloud-based IT architecture and the public policy considerations surrounding the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) procurement process. Hudson Institute is...

City Attorney Dennis Herrera today issued the following statement after oral arguments were heard in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal regarding President Donald Trump's unconstitutional executive order that seeks to strip federal funding from...

Later this year, a 10-year old settlement and consent decree between the National Association of Realtors® and the U.S. Department of Justice mandating how listings are displayed by online brokerages will expire. Prior to that, on June 5, 2018, NAR...

On a mission to detect planets outside of our solar system, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is scheduled to launch no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT Monday, April 16. Prelaunch mission coverage will begin on NASA Television and the...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today permitted marketing of the first medical device to use artificial intelligence to detect greater than a mild level of the eye disease diabetic retinopathy in adults who have diabetes....

VMD Systems Integrators, a federal government contractor with significant IT and aviation contracts, today announced that it has hired veteran chief financial officer David Thornton to lead its finance team. Thornton, who has helped organizations...

The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) applauds the Trump Administration for its commitment to advance welfare reform through principles that will move millions of Americans out of dependency and into work.  Today's executive order is a...

Media accreditation now is open to cover the launch of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission ? twin satellites that constitute the agency's latest Earth-observing mission. GRACE-FO...

At the last meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) on March 14, 2018, CEO and Director John F. Lansing briefed the Board on the Agency's action plan for calendar year 2018. The Board has formally endorsed...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today cleared the first contact lens to incorporate an additive that automatically darkens the lens when exposed to bright light. The Acuvue Oasys Contact Lenses with Transitions Light Intelligent Technology are...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers fully supports the administration's One Federal Decision Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that was signed Monday by numerous secretaries of federal agencies, including the Department of the Army.  President Donald...

Last month, the Department of Commerce announced that it would include a question on the 2020 Census asking whether respondents are U.S. citizens. The announcement touched off a firestorm of protest by the mass immigration advocacy network and by...

Commenting broadly on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Final Rule modifying Medicare Part D regulations as well as the Final Part D Call Letter for 2019, the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) praised the agency for its...

Newly installed Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar says that President Trump wants "big and bold" health care changes. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) agrees that such changes are long overdue, but urges the...

A new national poll of America's 18- to 29-year-olds by Harvard's Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the Kennedy School of Government, finds a marked increase in the number of young Americans who indicate that they will "definitely be voting" in...

Bloomberg Tax today released the results from a survey of more than 225 corporate tax practitioners that highlights the critical role of the corporate tax department in mergers and acquisitions (M&As).  The many wide-ranging impacts of the 2017 tax...

Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot has named the Science Mission Directorate's Planetary Science Division Director Jim Green as the agency's new chief scientist, effective May 1. He succeeds Gale Allen, who has served in an acting capacity...

Bloomberg Government today announced the release of its 2018 Navy Budget report. The report examines the U.S. Navy's mission and describes its challenges and strategic plans for investing in future capabilities. The full report is available for...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released projections that show sharp increases in the federal deficits and debt over the next decade and beyond. Robert L. Bixby, executive director of The Concord Coalition, issued the following statement:...

The Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA) and the Consumer Service Alliance of Texas today filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, against the Consumer Financial Protection...

The National Press Club, joined by 19 professional journalism organizations, on Monday asked a federal court to order the release of award-winning journalist Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto and his son, Oscar, from an El Paso detention center where Immigration...

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has written to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, requesting that the Department of Justice withhold funds from any local or state government that adopts policies that infringe on the right...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued an order to restrict the sale and distribution of the Essure device to ensure that all women considering use of the permanent contraception device are provided with adequate risk information so that...

As part of National Small Business Week, April 29 ? May 5, the U.S. Small Business Administration and SCORE, mentors to America's small businesses, will host the first-ever National Small Business Week Virtual Conference. The conference will include...