News from April 2020
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $231,448,014 in airport aid to 30 airports in Nevada to help respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency. This historic grant ...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
Release: Projects Will Focus on Achieving Basic Research Breakthroughs
By USDA Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 14, 2020-A first-of-its-kind hybrid hemlock, which is not vulnerable to the insect hemlock woolly adelgid, has been developed by the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) U.S. National Arboretum.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, April 14, 2020, Joshua Gianni Haire, a 21-year-old man from Geneva, Alabama, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Following his prison sentence, he will be on supervised release for three years.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced more than $5 million in awards through the Office of Nuclear Energy’s Integrated University Program. The program offers undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships to students pursuing nuclear engineering degrees and other nuclear science and engineering programs relevant to nuclear energy. The awards include 42 scholarships and 34 fellowships for students at 32 U.S. colleges and universities.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement on how provider relief from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act is being disbursed...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will soon begin making COVID-19 economic impact payments. For most Americans, this will be a direct deposit into your bank account. For the unbanked, elderly or other groups who have traditionally received tax refunds via paper check, they will receive their check in this same manner.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney John F. Bash of the Western District of Texas announced today that Blue Furniture Solutions, LLC, its successor XMillenium, LLC, and two of the companies’ former executives-CEO Yingqing Zeng and CFO Alex Cheng-have agreed to pay more than $5.2 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by evading customs duties and fees on furniture imported from China.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement that it will not strengthen the particulate matter national air quality standard...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, received notice from Joseph V. Cuffari, the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), that he had amended his office’s public summary of a report examining the death of an eight-year-old...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Byron Rosetta, 35, of Albuquerque, N.M., made an initial appearance today in federal court in Albuquerque on a criminal complaint charging him with assault with a dangerous weapon and discharging a firearm in the commission of a violent crime in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
News Release: Tyler, TX - On April 8, the Denton Police Department began investigating an aggravated robbery involving a firearm that had happened around midnight. Two victims stated that the fugitive Darian Watts had been at their apartment but once they learned that Watts had an outstanding murder warrant they made him leave. Watts returned about 10 minutes later with another individual, both armed with handguns, and proceeded to rob the people in the apartment.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today expressing their escalating concerns with the Trump Administration’s commitment to the independence of the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). The two Committee leaders also wrote that they expect HHS to continue cooperating fully with HHS OIG’s audits and investigations.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $30,344,477 in airport aid to 11 airports in Connecticut to help respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency. This historic grant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics laws and money laundering conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 13, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents arrested a Georgia resident April 10 after he attempted to sell millions of nonexistent respirator masks to the Department of Veterans Affairs, in exchange for large upfront payments.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security and its dedicated workforce across more than a dozen offices and components are working diligently with the White House to execute an unprecedented, whole-of America response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These strategic and tactical efforts range from coordinating ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 13, 2020
News Release: USDA’s COVID-19 Federal Rural Resource Guide Lists Federal Programs That Can Help Rural Communities, Organizations and Residents Impacted by COVID-19 WASHINGTON, April 13, 2020 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today unveiled a one-stop-shop of federal programs that can be used by rural communities, ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 13, 2020
News Release: Pandemic EBT to Feed Children during COVID-19 National Emergency (Washington, D.C., April 13, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced Rhode Island has been approved to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), a new program authorized by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), signed by President Trump, which provides assistance to families of children eligible for free or reduced-price meals dealing with school closures.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2020
News Release: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Justice’s U.S. Trustee Program (USTP) has taken a number of steps to protect the health of the public and those involved in bankruptcy proceedings while ensuring that the bankruptcy system remains functional during the current public health emergency. ...
