UPTON, New York, Jan. 17 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * A Brookhaven Lab researcher has conceptualized an "exocortex," an extension of the human brain that will generate inspiration and imagination for scientific discovery * * * Artificial intelligence (AI) once seemed like a fantastical construct of science fiction, enabling characters to deploy spacecrafts to neighboring galaxies with a casual command. Human more PR

UPTON, New York, Jan. 17 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Particles of light emitted from collisions of deuterons with gold ions provide direct evidence that energetic jets get 'stuck' -- a key signature of quark-gluon plasma * * * A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that collisions of even very small nuclei with large ones might  more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: * * * EEOC Sues FedEx for Disability Discrimination Federal Lawsuit Says Worldwide Provider of Business Services Failed to Accommodate Disabled Dispatchers NEW YORK - Federal Express Corporation, doing business as FedEx Express, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate several dispatchers' requests to continue working from home and demanded the dispatchers' immediate return to its more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Jan. 16, 2025: NEW YORK - After carefully considering public comment, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its third periodic review of the cleanup of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the Upper Hudson River. The EPA looked at all the project data for water, fish and sediment collected between 2016-2021, and the fish data from 2022. The EPA's review concludes that the levels of PC more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * ERO Philadelphia removes convicted drug trafficker to Colombia PHILADELPHIA - Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal Operations Philadelphia removed Carlos Julio Sierra Varela, a citizen of Colombia with a final order of removal, to Colombia on Jan. 12. Sierra was convicted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of N more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Jan. 16, 2025: The American Express Company (American Express), based in New York, New York, has agreed to pay a $108.7 million civil penalty to resolve allegations that it violated the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) by deceptively marketing credit card and wire transfer products and by entering "dummy" Employer Identification Numbers in the credit card accoun more PR

WEST POINT, New York, Jan. 17 -- The Military Academy issued the following news release: Cadets from the U.S. Military Academy will march in the 60th Inaugural Parade in Washington, D.C., in honor of President Donald J. Trump beginning at 12 p.m. Approximately 100 cadets will represent the academy in the Inaugural Parade led by First Captain Anna "Caroline" Robinson from Birmingham, Ala. Also represented is Cadet Lewis Mazikowski of Dupont, Wash., who will lead Company A4, Cadet Adam Azmeh of more PR

BROOKLYN, New York, Jan. 16 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release: * * * Non-Prosecution Agreement Resolves Investigation of the Company's Sales and Marketing of Wire Products to Help Customers Avoid Paying Taxes * * * Judy Philips, Acting Attorney for the United States for the Eastern District of New York and Harry T. Chavis, Jr., Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, New York (IRS-CI), a more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following news release on Jan. 16, 2025: * * * Firm ignored material vulnerabilities for years; voluntarily repaid impacted funds and accounts $165 million * * * The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against New York-based investment advisers Two Sigma Investments LP and Two Sigma Advisers LP (collectively, Two Sigma) for breaching their fiduciary duties by failing to reasonably address  more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 22-cv-8142; S.D.N.Y. filed Sept. 23, 2022) involving Morningview Financial LLC, Miles M. Riccio and Joseph M. Riccio Jr.: * * * On December 23, 2024, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered final judgments on consent against Defendant Morningview Financial, LLC, a company alleged to have acted as an unregistered dealer; Defendant Miles M. Riccio, Mor more PR

TYLER, Texas, Jan. 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas issued the following news release: A former Texas hospital chief executive officer has been sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, announced U.S. Attorney Damien M. Diggs. Jeffrey Paul Madison, 49, of Burnet, Texas; Susan L. Hertzberg, 66, of New York, New York; Matthew John Theiler, 58, of Pinehurst, North Carolina; David Weldon Kraus, 66, of Maryvi more PR