News published on Federal Newswire in August 2007

Congressional Committee to Investigate Disparity Between Documents and Hearing Testimony by Yahoo!

By State Newswire | Aug 3, 2007

News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Tom Lantos of the House Foreign Affairs Committee announced today that committee staff will investigate whether officials from the Internet company Yahoo! misrepresented the company’s role in a human rights case in China that sent a journalist to jail for a decade.

Lantos Receives, Studies the Details of U.S.-India Civilian Nuclear Cooperation Agreement

By State Newswire | Aug 3, 2007

News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Tom Lantos of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs today issued the following statement about the peaceful civilian nuclear cooperation agreement text released today by the U.S. and Indian governments...

GAO TO INVESTIGATE GOVERNMENT LAPSES IN TB CASE

By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2007

News Release: Contact: Sheila Menz (Lieberman) Aug. 3, 2007 202-224-1839 Jen Burita (Collins) 202-224-4751 Clinton Press Office, 202-224-2243 WASHINGTON - Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., and Senator Hillary Clinton,...

Nano-layer of Ruthenium Stabilizes Magnetic Sensors

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2007

News Release: A layer of ruthenium just a few atoms thick can be used to fine-tune the sensitivity and enhance the reliability of magnetic sensors, tests at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) show.* The nonmagnetic metal acts as a buffer between active layers of sensor materials, offering a simple means of customizing field instruments such as compasses, and stabilizing the magnetization in a given direction in devices such as computer hard-disk readers.

Neutrons Reveal Quantum Order in Solid-State System

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2007

News Release: It's a truism that the world looks very different through the eyes of quantum mechanics. In a new paper appearing in Science,* an international team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory...

Baucus Concerned With Computer Security Violations at IRS

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2007

News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) commented today on a report that uncovered serious lapses in computer security at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The audit by the Office of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) discovered that IRS employees, including...

Additional Resources in Place as Search Continues for Missing Backpacker in Yosemite National Park

By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2007

News Release: The search continues today for a missing backpacker in the wilderness area east of Merced Lake in Yosemite National Park. Ottorrina Bonaventura, 80, was reported missing on July 30, 2007 when she separated from her group and failed to return to the Vogelsang High Sierra Camp where she was staying.

Working Together to Protect and Monitor the Ocean

By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2007

News Release: Biologist Satie Airamé, with the University of California, Santa Barbara, will present a brief history of marine protected areas (MPAs) in California at the August “From Shore to Sea" lecture. Airamé will describe the monitoring efforts underway to understand ecological changes following the establishment of the Channel Islands MPA network in 2003.

Changing the Rings: A Key Finding for Magnetics Design

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2007

News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) have done the first theoretical determination of the dominant damping mechanism that settles down excited magnetic states-"ringing" in physics parlance-in some key metals. Their results, ...

NPS COMMENTS TO USFWS AND TO COURT ARE AVAILABLE

By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2007

News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray announced that Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CAHA) has posted two recent letters on the National Park Service (NPS) Planning, Environment and Public Comment system (PEPC) website. The first letter provides the NPS comments to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife proposal to designate...

Baucus, Grassley Call For More Investment in Low-Income, Rural Communities

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2007

News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Republican Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today urged the Treasury Department to ensure that rural communities receive their due share of investment under the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program. Passed into law as a part...

Public invited to see new Alpine Tundra Stamps make national debut in Colorado on Aug. 28 at Rocky Mountain National Park

By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2007

News Release: DENVER, CO (Aug. 2, 2007) - It’s a Rocky Mountain high! Ten of the most beautiful wildlife and scenic U.S. postage stamps this year will be unveiled in their natural, majestic home setting of Rocky Mountain National Park and Estes Park, CO on August 28.

LIEBERMAN CITES VULNERABILITY OF TERRORIST TRACKING DATA

By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2007

News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Friday said the information controls of a crucial border security program that tracks visitors to this country are so weak that terrorists could hack into and compromise the integrity of the entire system.

Former Chinese National Convicted of Economic Espionage to Benefit China Navy Research Center

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2007

News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV NSD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 First Conviction in the Country Involving Source Code Under the Arms Export Control Act; and Second Conviction in the Country Under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 WASHINGTON Xiaodong Sheldon Meng, ...

Modesto Man Indicted for Federal Hate Crime After Threatening African-Americans

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2007

News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON Bradley Smith of Modesto, Calif., was indicted today by a federal grand jury for repeatedly threatening to harm a local African-American man in violation of federal civil rights laws. The indictment ...

Eighteen Charged with Racketeering in Internet Drug Distribution Network

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2007

News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2008 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON A federal grand jury in San Diego has indicted 18 individuals on racketeering and related charges for allegedly operating an Internet business that generated more than $126 million in gross ...

Illinois Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Selling Thousands Of Copyrighted Video Games And Movies

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2007

News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON A Mount Vernon, Ill., man was sentenced in the Eastern District of Virginia to two years in prison for the unlawful sale of copyrighted video games, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg of the Eastern District of Virginia announced today.

Commerce Department publishes notice on Aug. 2

By Commerce News Now | Aug 2, 2007

The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Aug. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Notice published on Aug. 2 by Commerce Department

By Commerce News Now | Aug 2, 2007

The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Aug. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

What did Commerce Department publish on Aug. 2?

By Commerce News Now | Aug 2, 2007

The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Aug. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.