News from December 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
Release: NORFOLK, Va. - The Transportation Security Administration team at Norfolk International Airport has taken “little acts of kindness" to an entirely new level.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President-elect Joe Biden announced several key nominations and appointments of his incoming health care team, which includes Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services; Dr. Vivek...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: Padre Island National Seashore Announces Entrance Fee-Free Days for 2021Padre Island National Seashore will waive its entrance fee on six days in 2021. The fee-free days are part of the Trump Administration’s unprecedented commitment to increase access, promote recreational opportunities, improve visitor...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) failure to set newer, more protective standards for particulate matter (PM) pollution. This soot-causing ...
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
Release: More information about Guinea-Bissau is available on the Guinea-Bissau Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statements in response to President-elect Biden announcing his nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and naming several other individuals to serve in key health roles in his Administration related to the COVID-19 response.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $624,000 grant to the Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District, Kenai, Alaska, to increase the economic resilience of the Kenai Peninsula to future disasters. The EDA grant, to be located near a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $176,000 in local funds and is expected to create 20 jobs.
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
Release: Department of State. Public Notice. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Request for Statements of Interest: DRL FY20 Burma Democracy and Human Rights Programs. I. Requested Objectives for Statements of Interest. The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announces a Request for Statements...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A criminal complaint unsealed Friday in federal court in Pittsburgh charges Desmond Fodje Bobga for his alleged involvement in a puppy fraud scheme perpetrated against American consumers. Fodje Bobga, 27, is a citizen of Cameroon who is in Romania on a visa to attend a university there.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A man who pleaded guilty to transportation of child pornography was sentenced Friday, December 4, 2020, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Arthur Taylor, age 38, was sentenced on Dec. 2, 2020, to seven years’ imprisonment followed by four years on supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for his involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM) Atomic Legacy Cabin (ALC) in Grand Junction, Colorado, celebrated Nuclear Science Week on October 19-23, 2020. Nuclear Science Week is an international, weeklong celebration of local, regional, and international innovations and careers in...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE Tenn. - On December 7, 2020, Dusty William Oliver, 41, and Richard Graham, 49, both from Blaine, were sentenced by the Honorable Judge Thomas A. Varlan, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville, for raping two men in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP).
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: Census Bureau Continues Practice of Evaluating Decennial Count.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Knox County, Maine, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses caused by recent drought that occurred from May 1 through Sept. 30, 2020, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced Marcus Catalin Rosu, 39, was charged in an Information for possession of access device-making equipment in connection with an alleged ATM skimmer fraud scheme affecting hundreds of bank and credit union customers in Alaska and elsewhere.
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
Release: Department of State. Public Notice. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Request for Statements of Interest: DRL FY 2020 Global Transitional Justice and Forensic Anthropology Programs. I. Requested Objectives for Statements of Interest. The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announces...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Michael T. Wiest, Special Agent in Charge of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), Northeast Field Office, and Chief...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: Federal, state and local law enforcement effort part of DOJ’s Project Safe Neighborhoods.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: CAMBRIDGE, MA-The Harvard Square Business Association, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site will partner with Cambridge churches and the Cambridge Office for Tourism to offer several ways for the community to celebrate outdoors at a physical distance, or virtually.
