WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: Following the completion of the fifth offshore wind lease sale held during the Biden-Harris administration, the Department of the Interior today announced the results from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's wind energy auction for two lease areas offshore the states of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. The sale the first in the region in a decade resulted in two provisional winners and $92.65 milli  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Census Bureau issued the following news release: AUGUST 14, 2024 The U.S. Census Bureau today released new Business Formation Statistics (BFS) for July 2024. The BFS provide timely and high frequency information on new business applications and formations in the United States. The BFS are a standard data product of the Census Bureau, developed in research collaboration with economists affiliated with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Feder  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: WALDORF, Md. Enforcement and Removal Operations Baltimore apprehended an unlawfully present 19-year-old Guatemalan national convicted of raping a Maryland resident. Deportation officers with ERO Baltimore's Fugitive Operations Team arrested Henry Argueta-Tobar Aug. 14 in Waldorf. "After unlawfully entering our country, Henry Argueta-Tobar made his way to Mary  more

JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Maryland, Aug. 15 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base Andrews (11th Wing) issued the following news: By Airman 1st Class Martha Moore, 316th Wing Public Affairs Hosting their 5th annual Fire Explorer program, the 316th Civil Engineer Squadron's Fire Department hosted 10 students to experience what it takes to be a firefighter at Joint Base Andrews, Md from July 22-27. During the weeklong program, cadets learned how to perform CPR, use an automated external defibrillator, prov  more

BETHESDA, Maryland, Aug. 15 -- The National Institutes of Health's National Human Genome Research Institute issued the following news release on Aug. 14, 2024: * * * NIH researchers find that large language models rely on concise, textbook-like language to evaluate medical questions. * * * National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers discover that while artificial intelligence (AI) tools can make accurate diagnoses from textbook-like descriptions of genetic diseases, the tools are signifi  more

PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland, Aug. 15 -- The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, an organization within the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command, issued the following news release: The U.S. Navy calls on students across the Southern Maryland region to draw on their innovation and creativity to design Naval Aviation's next jet in an inaugural competition by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD). "The aviation pros of Southern Maryland are the foundation of what makes America's N  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Aug. 14, 2024: A Maryland man pleaded guilty today to assaulting law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Uliyahu Haya, 48, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded guilty to  more