By Glenn Minnis | May 24, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration instituted new rules to strengthen safety, improve response efforts and reduce emissions at pipeline shut-off valves.
By Glenn Minnis | Apr 24, 2022
The Functional Government Initiative is pumping the breaks on a Biden administration plan that would deal with the country’s rising gas price crisis by invoking the Defense Production Act and promoting electric vehicles as opposed to American energy production.
By Glenn Minnis | Apr 6, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has designated Bradford Island a Superfund site on the National Priorities List, meaning the site will now have special priority for cleanup among locations across the country, according to a March 17 EPA news release.
By Glenn Minnis | Apr 4, 2022
The Chinese government continues to press forward with its reputation repair campaign in the wake of all damages caused by COVID-19.
By Glenn Minnis | Apr 2, 2022
Federal authorities have charged three men with being part of a drug trafficking conspiracy that is alleged to have landed more than 1,100 pounds of cocaine in the Cleveland area from Mexico.
By Glenn Minnis | Apr 2, 2022
The brother of former Chabad of Poway Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein has reportedly been sentenced to eight months in custody for his role in an ongoing tax fraud scheme that prosecutors say also involved his brother.
By Glenn Minnis | Mar 28, 2022
Citing the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Biden Administration has extended the public transportation mask mandate until April 18.
By Glenn Minnis | Mar 28, 2022
Government officials in China are facing rising pressure to address human rights issues linked to the regime there, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently tweeting that the U.S. plans to sanction officials of the Chinese Communist Party over abuses.
By Glenn Minnis | Mar 27, 2022
Federal authorities have unsealed an indictment charging a Russian citizen in connection with an election interference scheme that includes making illegal political contributions as a foreign national and conspiring to make illegal political contributions in the names of straw donors, according to a March 14 Department of Justice news release.
By Glenn Minnis | Mar 27, 2022
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is investing $5.6 million aimed at improving the technology used to treat unusable waters such as seawater, brackish groundwater and forms of wastewater.
By Glenn Minnis | Mar 26, 2022
An Anchorage, Alaska, man has been convicted for his role in a drug trafficking operation, including murder and drug charges, according to a March 15 news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
By Glenn Minnis | Mar 24, 2022
A Lee U.S. Penitentiary inmate identified as a MS-13 gang member has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder another prisoner at the high-security facility for male prisoners, making him the fifth person charged in the case to enter a guilty plea.
By Glenn Minnis | Mar 16, 2022
President Joe Biden and the U.S. Department of Transportation announced the launch of a new supply chain initiative the administration is hoping will help speed up delivery times and ease costs for consumers.
By Glenn Minnis | Jan 17, 2022
A Southern California construction company was recently found liable for $72,342 in back wages and liquidated damages by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) after investigators found 12 employees were not paid for work performed before and after scheduled shifts.
By Glenn Minnis | Jan 16, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a complaint against A OK Walker Autoworks and owner Miles Walker, of Peachtree City, for paying a former worker with thousands of oily pennies.
By Glenn Minnis | Jan 12, 2022
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are currently studying the impact of trees on the transmission of millimeter waves responsible for 5G technology in an effort to solve the technology’s limited ability to penetrate objects.
By Glenn Minnis | Jan 10, 2022
The U.S. Department of State recently celebrated International Migrants Day with a focus on worldwide safe migration that affords protection from human trafficking and other dangers.
By Glenn Minnis | Jan 3, 2022
The U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information related to a terrorist attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh that left U.S. citizen Avijit Roy dead and his wife, Rafida Bonya Ahmed, seriously injured.
By Glenn Minnis | Dec 28, 2021
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is working to preserve the production of cranberries in response to growing concerns for the fruit’s future with the looming threat of climate change.
