In observance of Constitution Day on September 17th and following America’s historic 250th anniversary of independence, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon today issued a Dear Colleague Letter to all education leaders and teachers, urging them to strengthen civic learning and provide routine opportunities for students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. The call to […]

St. Kitts and Nevis today, September 16, observes National Heroes Day, honouring five distinguished figures whose contributions have played a significant role in the Federation’s political, social and economic development. The annual observance coincides with the birthday of the late Right Excellent Sir Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, who became the country’s first National Hero when the […]

Internal Inconsistency in the 15 September 2026 Judgments Omnibus (Morley J) National Heroes Day in St Kitts and Nevis celebrates the country’s struggle for self-government and independence, and the specific individuals credited with leading that struggle and who pushed the islands from colonial rule toward self-determination, culminating in independence in 1983. Seen against that, the […]

Education Minister Erica Stanford today released the final two learning areas – Health and Physical Education and the Arts – completing the release of the updated Years 0-10 New Zealand Curriculum. This follows the release of the Year 0-10 learning areas Technology and Learning Languages, last week. “This curriculum provides a clear and nationally consistent […]

All four new mobile breast screening units have been delivered, adding capacity to screen more women a year as free screening expands, Health Minister Simeon Brown and Women’s Minister Nicola Grigg say. “These units are a key part of making sure services can manage demand as free screening is extended to eligible women aged 70 […]

Governor Greg Abbott today announced the creation of a leadership team to secure Texas as the permanent home of the United States Space Academy. Representative Greg Bonnen M.D. of Friendswood, Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, will lead the team. “Texas is the home of America’s human spaceflight program,” said Governor Abbott. “No state can match what […]

In direct alignment with President Trump’s mandate for comprehensive transparency on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), the Department of War (DOW) today announced the issuance of a targeted legal waiver. This waiver establishes an authorized, legally protected disclosure mechanism for current and former personnel to provide UAP-related National Defense Information (NDI) to designated representatives of the […]

On Sept. 14, the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division along with the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the SBA Office of Inspector General, as part of a Heartland Fraud Surge announced the results of Operation No Doze, a surge of criminal enforcement actions targeting fraud in SBA’s small business COVID-era loan programs. During the […]

Abbott Laboratories (Abbott), an Illinois-based healthcare company that manufactures and sells infant formula and nutritional therapy products, has agreed to pay $384,999,040 to resolve allegations that it caused false claims to be submitted between Jan. 1, 2018, and Dec. 31, 2022, to federal and state programs arising from its failure to manufacture certain powder infant […]

Last week, an individual in California was arrested and two others were charged for paying people on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles to sign petitions using stolen identities of registered voters to qualify initiatives on ballots in California elections. Two aliens living in Kansas, and Louisiana were charged for illegally voting. And an individual […]