New Orleans, Louisiana - A Laotian national in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) died Thursday morning at LaSalle General Hospital in Jena, Louisiana, after suffering a heart attack.

Washington, DC - NASA has selected 137 research and technology proposals from 117 American small businesses and research institutions that will enable NASA's future missions into deep space, while also benefiting the U.S. economy right here on Earth.

Washington, DC - Higher education continues to be the single most important investment students can make in themselves and the surest engine to enter the middle class. Since President Obama took office, he has made college affordability a top priority, recognizing the debts that far too many students face when they graduate from college.

Washington, DC - The staff of the Federal Trade Commission has issued warning letters to app developers who have installed a piece of software that can monitor a device’s microphone to listen for audio signals that are embedded in television advertisements.

Washington, DC - Starting today, the Federal Trade Commission is mailing 2,172 partial refund checks totaling nearly $210,000 to consumers who bought Nano-UV “disinfectant” devices from a company called Zadro Health Solutions, Inc. These are legitimate refund checks that must be cashed within 60 days of the date they are issued, or they will become void.

Cambridge, Massachusetts - The new approach is based on a discovery announced in 2010 by Michael Strano, the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor in Chemical Engineering at MIT, and his co-workers: A wire made from tiny cylinders of carbon known as carbon nanotubes can produce an electrical current when it is progressively heated from one end to the other, for example by coating it with a combustible material and then lighting one end to let it burn like a fuse.