WASHINGTON, May 26 -- The House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Health issued the following testimony by Tamara Campbell, executive director for the Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration, at an oversight hearing on April 18, 2023, entitled "Combatting a Crisis: Providing Veterans Access to Life-saving Substance Abuse Disorder Treatment": * * * Good morning, Chairman Miller-Meeks, Ranking Member Brownley and di  more

LIVERMORE, California, May 25 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release on May 24, 2023: Scientists have conducted laboratory experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) that provide new insights on the complex process of pressure-driven ionization in giant planets and stars. Their research, published today in Nature, unveils the material properties and behavior of matter under extreme compression, offer  more

WASHINGTON, May 25 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: TO: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending May 5, 2023 Staff Activity: On Tuesday, a staff review team held a remote interaction with Triad and NNSA Field Office personnel supporting their continuing review of Triad's nucle  more

WASHINGTON, May 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Students and teachers at Blanco Elementary School in Bloomfield, NM are wrapping up the school year with newfound confidence and proficiency in mathematics, thanks to the ongoing work with Los Alamos National Laboratory's Math and Science Academy and its Math Teacher Leader Network. The academy increases elementary and middle school students' math proficiency by offering teachers inn  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: With the world's first exascale supercomputing system now open to full user operations, research teams are harnessing Frontier's power and speed to tackle some of the most challenging problems in modern science. The HPE Cray EX system at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory debuted in May 2022 as the fastest computer on the planet and first machin  more

WASHINGTON, May 24 -- U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai issued the following remarks on May 22, 2023, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies' event entitled "Countering AAPI Discrimination and its Intersections with U.S. Foreign Policy." AAPI is Asian Americans and Pacific Islander. * * * United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai today delivered keynote remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies event: "Countering AAPI Discrimination and its Inte  more