Washington, DC - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced the first post-doctoral award to support research in nuclear forensics as part of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office’s (DNDO) National Nuclear Forensics Expertise Development Program.

Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Education announced today that it has awarded $28.4 million in Advanced Placement (AP) grants to 38 states, Washington, D.C., and the Virgin Islands as part of its efforts to boost college- and career-readiness for historically underserved students. The grants will help defray the costs of taking advanced placement tests for low-income students.

Washington, DC - The Federal Trade Commission, together with the Department of Justice’s Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, released the agencies’ 37th Annual Hart-Scott-Rodino Report. The report presents fiscal year 2014 data on the agencies’ HSR Premerger Notification Program. The program allows the agencies to identify and challenge transactions that may substantially lessen competition in violation of federal antitrust laws. Also included in the report is a summary of the agencies’ merger enforcement activities for the year.

McAllen, Texas - A Mexican man, living illegally in Laredo, was convicted Tuesday for possessing a firearm in violation of federal law, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson, Southern District of Texas.

Washington, DC - The Federal Trade Commission has charged a data broker operation with illegally selling payday loan applicants’ financial information to a scam operation that took millions of dollars from consumers by debiting their bank accounts and charging their credit cards without their consent.

Purchase, New York - MasterCard today announced that its 2015 Masters of Code™ global hackathon series will continue its search for the best coders in the world in San Francisco on August 22–23. San Francisco is the seventh stop on this intense, 12-city global hackathon tour to find the master artisans of our day: coders.