LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Oct. 17 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on Oct. 16, 2024: * * * Griffin: 'Our Constitution gives states-not the federal courts-the responsibility to regulate the practice of medicine' * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued the following statement regarding the amicus brief he and the attorneys general of Kentucky and Indiana filed on behalf of a 22-state coalition asking the United States Supreme Court to uphold a Tennes  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: The Bureau of Land Management today announced an investment of nearly $2.4 million from the President's Investing in America agenda through the Inflation Reduction Act to develop a cultural landscape study and predictive model for public lands in California and Arizona. The study would identify and provide a better understanding of the impacts of renewable energy development o  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: U.S. National Science Foundation-funded researchers recently found a fossil that led to the discovery of a brand-new dinosaur species, Lokiceratops rangiformis. This horned dinosaur, an earlier relative of the triceratops, has asymmetric horns on top of its head but lacks the typical nose horn found in other relatives. Fossils are the preserved remains, impressions or traces of any once-living   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey issued the following abstract of an article on July 3, 2024, entitled "A Fine-Scale Examination Of Parturition Timing In Temperate Ungulates". The article was written by Matthew T. Turnley, Tabitha A. Hughes, Randy T. Larsen, Kent R. Hersey, Matthew S. Broadway, M. Colter Chitwood, W. Sue Fairbanks, Robert Charles Lonsinger and Brock R. McMillan. * * * Parturition timing has long been a topic of interest in u  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, Oct. 16 -- Gov. Henry McMaster, R-South Carolina, issued the following news on Oct. 15, 2024: Governor Henry McMaster today was joined by nine other Republican governors in filing an amicus brief in United States v. Skrmetti supporting Tennessee's Help Not Harm Law that prohibits physicians from performing or providing gender-reassignment surgeries, puberty-blocking drugs, and cross-sex hormones to minors. The case will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this term. "  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, Oct. 16 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2024: Governor Kristi Noem and nine fellow governors submitted an amici curiae brief to the United States Supreme Court for the United States v. Skrmetti case. This case regards the constitutionality of a Tennessee law that, similar to South Dakota's "Help Not Harm" law, bans harmful, irreversible medical procedures on vulnerable minors. "South Dakota's kids are our future, and I w  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following news release: * * * Awards will support 35 Tribes across 15 states, bolstering fish and wildlife conservation * * * The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is awarding more than $6.4 million to federally recognized Native American and Alaska Native Tribes to benefit fish and wildlife resources and their habitats. This year's funding will support 35 Tribes for conservation projects acro  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, Oct. 17 -- Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2024: Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares today joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in support of stopping the Biden-Harris administration's rule that would allow illegal immigrants to remain where they are in the United States, while also allowing them the possibility of employment and affording them access to public benefits programs. Th  more

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Oct. 17 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2024: Governor Gordon announced today that he directed Wyoming Attorney General Bridget Hill to join a 22-state coalition led by Kentucky, Arkansas, and Indiana in filing an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing the rights of states to regulate the appropriateness of providing life-altering gender-transition procedures to minors. The brief, filed in support of Tennessee in U.S.  more