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  1. Boeing Employees Go on Strike in Latest Blow to Aerospace Giant After already having dealt with multiple and sometimes deadly quality issues involving design and manufacturing flaws, the walkout added another big hit to the company’s woes. Read
  2. CFPB Sues Horizon Card Services and CEO Robert Kane The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently sued Horizon Card Services and its CEO Robert Kane for tricking consumers into signing up for its expensive membership credit card. Read
  3. NASA Ames Selects Aeronautics And Exploration Support Contractor NASA has awarded the NASA Academic Mission Services 2 (NAMS-2) contract to Crown Consulting Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, to provide the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, aeronautics and exploration technology research and development support. Read
  4. Walgreens to Pay $106.8M To Resolve Allegations It Billed The Government For Prescriptions Never Dispensed Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and Walgreen Co. (together, Walgreens) have agreed to pay $106.8 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act and state statutes for billing government health care programs for prescriptions never dispensed. Read
  5. Large U.S. Military Contracts Awarded on September 13, 2024 The U.S. Defense Department announced new major contracts awarded on September 13, 2024 Read
  6. South Africa: EIB And FirstRand Bank Boost Renewable Energy Investments With € 400M/ZAR 7.9B Initiative Renewable energy projects developed by independent power producers in South Africa received a € 400 million (ZAR 7.9 billion) boost with this announcement of a joint initiative between the European Investment Bank (EIB) and FirstRand Bank Ltd. Read
  7. AHRQ Announces Funding Opportunities to Establish State-Based Solutions to Accelerate Health Care Improvement The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to establish state-based Healthcare Extension Cooperatives. Read
  8. New CDC Data Show Prevalence of Adult Obesity Remains High New CDC population data from 2023 show that in 23 states more than one in three adults (35%) has obesity. Before 2013, no state had an adult obesity prevalence at or above 35%. Currently, at least one in five adults (20%) in each U.S. state is living with obesity. Read
  9. Radical Judicial Reform Bill Passes the Mexican Senate The outgoing president of Mexico was just granted his wish for the ultimate democratization of his country’s judiciary. Read
  10. CFPB Orders Navent to Pay $120 Million for Wide-Ranging Student Lending Failures The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a proposed order against the student loan servicer Navient for its years of failures and lawbreaking. Read
  11. Justice Department Announces More Than $690 Million in Violence Against Women Act Funding The Justice Department announced the awards of over $690 million in grant funding administered by the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). Read
  12. Large U.S. Military Contracts Awarded on September 12, 2024 The U.S. Defense Department announced new major contracts awarded on September 12, 2024 Read
  13. USDA Invests Nearly $121M in Specialty Crops Research and Organic Agriculture Production The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced an investment of nearly $121 million to advance research and Extension activities that aim to solve key challenges facing specialty crop and organic agriculture producers. Read
  14. Taxes On Everyday Europeans Bring In 13 Times More Revenue Than Taxes On Wealth Tax rates on the richest Europeans and largest corporations decreased in the last decades while tax rates on consumption and labour increased. Read
  15. Stibnite Gold Mine Plan Fails To Address Concerns About Toxic Mine Pollution In Salmon River Headwaters The Forest Service has released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) and Draft Record of Decision (DROD) for the Stibnite Gold Project. Read
  16. U.S. to Allow Ukraine to Use Long-Range American Weapons Against Targets in Russia The official red line preventing Kyiv from using U.S.-supplied missiles and drones capable of striking targets thousands of kilometers away is now gone. Read
  17. Breakthrough Research Sheds Light On The Hidden Effects Of Stress On Sperm CU Anschutz researchers find stress-induced events like the pandemic jumpstart the male reproductive system once the event has passed Read
  18. IRS Information Technology Supervisor Pleads Guilty to Accepting Bribes from Government Subcontractor A Maryland man pleaded guilty yesterday to accepting cash bribes in exchange for helping acquaintances and their businesses procure and continue work on subcontracts with the IRS. Read
  19. Large U.S. Military Contracts Awarded on September 11, 2024 The U.S. Defense Department announced new major contracts awarded on September 11, 2024 Read
  20. U.S. Remains the World’s Most Powerful Travel & Tourism Market The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) launched its 2024 Economic Impact Trends Report, which has revealed the U.S. as the world’s most powerful Travel & Tourism market, contributing a record-breaking $2.36 TN to the nation’s economy last year. Read
  21. EPA Releases Proposed Updates to Recommendations to Help Buyers Find Sustainable Products On Sept. 10, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a proposed update to the agency’s Recommendations of Specifications, Standards and Ecolabels for Federal Purchasing (Recommendations), which help federal government purchasers and other buyers utilize private sector standards and ecolabels to buy products that are more sustainable and climate-friendly and contain safer chemical ingredients. Read
  22. Argonne Entrepreneurship Program Opens Fellowship Applications Chain Reaction Innovations, the entrepreneurship program at Argonne National Laboratory, is seeking applicants for its next cohort Read
  23. European Commission Issues €10 Billion in Bonds In Its 8th Syndicated Transaction Of 2024 The European Commission has raised €10 billion of EU-Bonds in its 8th syndicated transaction for 2024, €5 billion of which in the form of NextGenerationEU (NGEU) Green Bonds. Read
  24. Senegal: COFINA Senegal Funds Agricultural SMEs COFINA Senegal, under a partnership with the European Investment Bank (EIB) backed by the European Union, has announced that it has already granted over XOF 440 million (€675 000) to 57 SMEs, all in agricultural value chains: 14 in the horticulture sector and 35 in the cereals sector, two priority areas in the Senegal-EU partnership. Read
  25. New CDC Report Shows Suicide Risk Tied to Local Economic and Social Conditions A new CDC Vital Signs report released highlights the role that conditions in counties, such as insurance coverage, broadband internet access, and household income, can play in lowering suicide risk. Read