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News Tipoffs - South Dakota Editors Newsletter for Tuesday August 27, 2024 ( 4 items )  

Attorney General Griffin Leads 24-State Coalition Urging Brown University to Reject Israeli Divestment Vote
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Aug. 27 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on Aug. 26, 2024: * * * Griffin: 'Arkansas's law places our state among those aggressively combating antisemitic conduct' * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued the following statement announcing that he and 23 other state attorneys general sent a letter urging Brown University to reject a proposal that the university divest from certain companies because they do business with Isra  more

Idaho and Texas Lead Suit Demanding End to 'Parole-in-Place' Overreach in Latest Administration Scheme to Circumvent Congress
BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 27 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release: Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are leading 14 other states in a suit filed in a Texas U.S. District Court demanding an end to the Biden-Harris Administration's massive overreach through the Parole-in-Place (PIP) Program. This program is traditionally administered on a case-by-case basis to allow aliens who entered the country without authorization to re  more

Justice Dept.: Jamaican National Extradited for Scheme to Defraud American Citizen
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2024: A Jamaican national was extradited to the United States and made his initial appearance today in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, following his role in a long-running scheme to defraud a California woman. Dwayne Anderson, 35, of Hannover, Jamaica, will face federal wire fraud charges. He was arrested, pursuant to the U.S. request for extradition, on July 11, by Jamaican authorities. He has remai  more

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: LZ Experiment Sets New Record in Search for Dark Matter
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * New results from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe's invisible mass. Key Takeaways * With 280 days of data, the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) collaboration has made a world-leading search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in areas no experiment has pro  more