Baltimore, Maryland - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers have found that increases in unemployment in California during the Great Recession were associated with an increased risk for weight gain among the state’s 1.7 million public school students, suggesting that economic troubles could have long-term health consequences for children.

Nogales, Arizona - Agents assigned to the Nogales Border Patrol Station working at the Interstate 19 checkpoint thwarted two smuggling attempts 45 minutes apart last night, which lead to the arrest of seven undocumented aliens hidden in car trunks.

Washington, DC - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) supported a joint effort by 19 EU Member States targeting an organized crime network involved in the production and distribution of forged travel documents. After being clued in to the network by the discovery of stolen U.S. passports in Greece, HSI agents in Athens worked with the Hellenic Police to disrupt the organization. With the support of Europol, 16 persons were arrested in Greece on May 25, and three in the Czech Republic on May 10.

Washington, DC - Using a new satellite-based method, scientists at NASA, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and two universities have located 39 unreported and major human-made sources of toxic sulfur dioxide emissions.

Bloomington, Illinois - USDA Rural Business-Cooperative Service Administrator Sam Rikkers yesterday unveiled new rules to expand access to capital for rural businesses.

Washington, DC - Muhammad Ali was The Greatest.  Period.  If you just asked him, he’d tell you.  He’d tell you he was the double greatest; that he’d “handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder into jail.”