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The FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs will be working closer to improve law enforcement in Indian Country according to an agreement announced during the recent White House Tribal Nations Summit.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today continued his investigation of Big Pharma’s tax practices with a final request to Amgen for voluntary compliance in providing information about efforts to avoid billions in taxes through profit-shifting to subsidiaries in Puerto Rico.

News Release: Scranton, PA - Today, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane announced that the United States Marshals Service New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Blair Dawn Hart, 31 years old, of Scranton.

News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh today announced that Argentina, Canada, Germany, South Africa and Spain have joined the Multilateral Partnership for Organizing, Worker Empowerment and Rights initiative and that the effort has established a new action plan and that the U.S. has exceeded its 2021 pledge of support. The M-POWER initiative remains the largest U.S. government commitment to advance worker empowerment and support trade union rights in the global economy.

Norway, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States welcomed an agreement on an initial political framework in Sudan.

News Release: In some materials, the molecules line up in a regular, repeating pattern. In others, they all point in random directions. But in many advanced materials used in medicine, computer chip manufacturing and other industries, the molecules arrange themselves in complex patterns that dictate the material’s properties.

News Release: NEW BRITAIN, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging NERICK DIAZ-QUESADA, 24, of New Britain, with cocaine trafficking and firearm possession offenses.

News Release: Concord, NH - Early this morning, Daren Keith Gragg, Sr., 43 years-of-age was arrested in a family member’s apartment on Pembroke Drive in Derry, NH. Mr. Gragg was being sought on a State of New Hampshire Parole Warrant. Gragg was on parole as a result of being found guilty and sentenced in connection with multiple firearm related offenses. Additionally, Gragg has an outstanding arrest warrant for stalking issued out of the Manchester Police Department.

This year’s Atlantic hurricane season officially ended Nov. 30 after producing eight hurricanes.

News Release: HORNBROOK, Calif. - The Department of the Interior announced today that four Tribal water projects in Oregon and California's Klamath River Basin will receive $5.8 million through the Bureau of Reclamation to restore aquatic ecosystems, improve the resilience of habitats, and mitigate the effects of the ongoing drought crisis. The funding is made available through Reclamation's Native American Affairs Technical Assistance to Tribes Program.

News Release: Washington, DC - Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement upon the release of Brittney Griner, an American WBNA player wrongfully imprisoned in Russia since February of this year.

Eliminating force labor was the main focus of the first leaders' meeting of the trilateral Trade and Labor Dialogue between the United States and the European Union.

News Release: - The U.S. Census Bureau today released data from the Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS), a survey that measures business conditions on an ongoing basis. The BTOS is the successor to the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS), a high-frequency survey that measured the effect of changing business conditions during the coronavirus pandemic and other major events like hurricanes on our nation’s small businesses.

News Release: New Orleans, LA - U.S. Marshals New Orleans Task Force arrested fugitive sex offender, Jeremiah Shawn Prater (31 years of age) at a residence in the 1100 block of South Salcedo St. New Orleans, Louisiana on the morning of Nov. 14, 2019. A handgun and small amount of white powdery substance believed to be illegal narcotics were recovered and seized during his arrest. Two other males were also arrested at the residence.

Release: Thank you, Jared for the introduction, and apologies for my scratchy voice. Too many airplanes have gotten to me, so I’ll sip tea as we go through this. I hope you all can hear me.

News Release: Scranton, PA - Today, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane announced that the United States Marshals Service New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Shaquan Jamal Longchallon, 22 years old, of Tobyhanna.

News Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will announce the third cohort of ACCA honorees during the Anti-Corruption Champions Award Ceremony on December 9, International Anti-Corruption Day, at 9:00 a.m. in the Burns Auditorium at the Department of State in Washington, D.C.

News Release: Scranton, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Jorge Aguilar, a 34-year old Scranton man.

Release: Employer name: Publix Super Markets Inc.

News Release: Philadelphia, PA - Members of the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force arrested Khadir Blue, 27, for murder and Pennsylvania State Parole Violations, at approximately 1:30 p.m. in Chester Pennsylvania on December 3rd. The arrest was made in relation to an incident which occurred January 4th, 2017, in the...

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration, the IRS and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. today released informational copies of the 2022 Form 5500, Form 5500-SF, IRS Form 5500-EZ and their related instructions.

News Release: On December 9, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will deliver remarks and participate in a conversation with three of the 2022 Department of State Anti-Corruption Champion Award (ACCA) honorees at 5:30 p.m. during the closing session of the IACC at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.

News Release: Harrisburg, PA - Today, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of John Curtis Anderson Jr. - a 22-year old Harrisburg man.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released a statement following news that Brittney Griner will be released by the Putin regime in a prisoner swap for dangerous arms dealer Viktor Bout.

News Release: For decades, astronomers and physicists have been trying to solve one of the deepest mysteries about the cosmos: An estimated 85% of its mass is missing. Numerous astronomical observations indicate that the visible mass in the universe is not nearly enough to hold galaxies together and account for how matter clumps. Some kind of invisible, unknown type of subatomic particle, dubbed dark matter, must provide the extra gravitational glue.