News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2016
News Release: FBI Statement. The FBI Portland Division continues to work with our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners in assessing LGBT associated threats. At this time, we have no information regarding any specific credible threats to any LGBT communities or organizations in Oregon. As always, the...
By State Newswire | Jun 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement regarding the terror attack in Orlando...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, reacted to news that the man suspected of killing 50 people in an Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning was an American citizen born in New York and, reportedly, radicalized here at home.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement in response to the attack that took place at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 50 people. The mass shooting is being investigated as an act of terrorism.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2016
News Release: Homestead Days activities at Homestead National Monument of America begin on Friday, June 17, 10 a.m.at the Homestead Education Center with a variety of demonstrations of traditional arts, crafts, and skills necessary for homesteaders. In addition, two speakers, Audrey Kalivoda and Ellen Kuhl, will be featured at the Heritage Center at 2 and 3 p.m.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2016
News Release: The Crater Lake National Park Science and Learning Center is sponsoring a survey and inventory of Crater Lake's beetles (Coleoptera) on Saturday, July 23, 2016 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. This Beetle BioBlitz is an opportunity for "citizen scientists" from the general public to join park staff and other...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2016
News Release: Ellen Kuhl, a painter, sculptor and weaver from Stamford, Nebraska, is the fourth artist of Homestead National Monument of America's 2016 Artist-in-Residence program, working in the park June 12- 25, 2016. A special program given by Kuhl will take place at the Homestead Heritage Center on Friday, June 17, 2016 at 3 p.m.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Tombigbee Pioneer Group will demonstrate pioneer era crafts and skills at the Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center, from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm on June 25, 2016. The demonstrations will show the challenges faced and creative solutions developed by those Americans who lived in the area from the 1700s to around 1840.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On June 13-15, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will visit Beijing, China to participate in a series of high-level meetings with Chinese officials. Secretary Johnson will join Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch to co-chair the Second ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: A Virginia man who served as a volunteer with the music program at Grace E. Metz Middle School in Manassas, Virginia, was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for production of child pornography, attempted coercion and enticement of a minor, and distribution and receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Amin al-Baroudi, 50, a Syrian-born naturalized U.S. citizen, formerly of Irvine, California, was sentenced today to 32 months in prison for conspiring to export U.S.-origin goods from the United States to Syria in violation of sanctions imposed on Syria by the U.S. government. The sentence was announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Amin Yu, 54, of Orlando, Florida, pleaded guilty today to acting in the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the Attorney General and conspiring to commit international money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Divestiture Prevents a Duopoly in the Provision of Media Contact Databases to Businesses and Other Organizations The Antitrust Division filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to block the proposed acquisition, and simultaneously filed a proposed settlement ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Agencies Urge North Carolina General Assembly to Consider the Competitive Benefits of Legislation Allowing Interactive Websites to Generate Legal Forms for Consumers The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the staff of the Federal Trade Commission have submitted a joint statement to the North ...
By Fed Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on Friday permitted 84 firms with limited U.S. operations to file reduced content resolution plans for their next three resolution plans. The decision is intended to increase clarity and reduce burden by creating more certainty around future filing requirements.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced its approval of the notice under section 4 of the Bank Holding Company Act by Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited, both of Tokyo, Japan, to acquire 50 percent of the voting shares of Marubeni Rail Transport, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and thereby indirectly acquire Midwest Railcar Corporation, an Illinois corporation.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced the appointment of 32 members to the Travel and Tourism Advisory Board (TTAB). First chartered in 2003, TTAB serves as the advisory body to the Secretary of Commerce on matters relating to the travel and tourism industry in the United States. ...
By DOT News Wire | Jun 10, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on June 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 10, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on June 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 10, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on June 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
