By Bob Pepalis | Aug 26, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor awarded $70.8 million in grant funding to 166 Native American entities to provide training services and employment to low-income and unemployed adults and youth.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 26, 2022
The United States remembered and honored the victims and survivors of the Ghouta, Syria, chemical weapons attack on the ninth anniversary of its occurrence.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 26, 2022
A Chinese government official pushed back at criticism by Australia of Huawei's expansion in the Solomon Islands through a $66 million loan from China to construct mobile communications towers.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 24, 2022
Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert said that the U.S. military is focused on pronouns and privilege as the military of China and Russia collaborate, mirroring criticism of too much emphasis on “woke” priorities.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 24, 2022
Two Alaska Native entities were awarded an estimated $51 million in grants in the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program, the Department of Commerce announced during an Internet for All roundtable in Fairbanks.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 23, 2022
The vice president of Paraguay and the legal counsel for the Yacyretá Bi-National Entity have been designated by the United States for bribing a public official and meddling in public affairs.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 23, 2022
A $587,395 grant from the Economic Development Administration will support Recinto Universitario Mayaguez in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, with the island’s economic development initiatives.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 22, 2022
The United States will contribute more than $68 million through USAID to help buy, ship and store up to 150,000 tons of Ukrainian wheat to address acute food insecurity in the Horn of Africa.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 22, 2022
Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo thanked President Biden and Congressional leaders for getting the CHIPS and Science Act passed and signed into law.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 20, 2022
The United States designated three Liberian government officials for their involvement in public corruption.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 20, 2022
Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said the signing of the CHIPS and Science Act could not have come at a more urgent moment.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 20, 2022
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was a “strategic fiasco,” Florida Republican Rep. Mike Waltz said.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 19, 2022
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa comes down to the recognition that the United States must find ways to cooperate and coordinate with those countries, making it what the U.S. does with Africa, not for it.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 19, 2022
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposes more than $6.5 million in penalties against Dollar General after inspections of 78 locations nationwide revealed startling safety violations.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 19, 2022
The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be above average, according to the Climate Prediction Center’s annual mid-season update.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 18, 2022
Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo told attendees at the Job Quality Framework Launch Aug. 4 that the labor shortage and the demand for workers both remain high.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 18, 2022
A Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation revealed a Golden Valley, Minn., franchisee of a national home healthcare provider did not pay its certified nursing and patient care assistants overtime.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 18, 2022
Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda is, “An incredibly powerful reminder of man’s inhumanity to man,” during a visit to the site Aug. 10.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 17, 2022
Seven ocean drones will be deployed by Saildrone Inc. with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to improve hurricane forecasting.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 17, 2022
A Louisiana-based helicopter ambulance service is being ordered to reinstate a pilot who refused to fly in hazardous conditions after an investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
