News from July 2020
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) wrote to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai asking several questions related to the companies’ app stores and processes undertaken to vet applications, particularly for foreign sourcing and potential ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Before World War II (WWII), an estimated 4,000 Jews lived in Spain. Aside from a Spanish division of volunteers and conscripts who fought alongside Axis troops during the siege of Leningrad in Russia, Spain did not participate in WWII. The Franco government did sell and exchange supplies with ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: I’m pleased that the U.S. and U.K. are making strides in our negotiations to complete a free trade agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Arminda Martin, age 49, formerly of York County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on July 28, 2020, to 12 months’ and one day imprisonment to be followed by two years of supervised release, by Chief District...
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Nazi Germany occupied Luxembourg in May 1940, with the Luxembourg government fleeing into exile in London for the duration of World War II (WWII). Before the war, more than 3,500 Jews lived in the country. In addition, more than 1,000 German-Jewish refugees had found shelter in Luxembourg.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) wrote to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai asking several questions related to the companies’ app stores and processes undertaken to vet applications, particularly for foreign sourcing and potential ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Canada has recognized the Holocaust as a “unique and unprecedented tragedy in human history" and has affirmed its commitment to acknowledge, remember, and learn from the atrocity. According to the Canadian government, Canada is home to the fourth-largest Jewish population in the world and one ...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican members continued their efforts to create innovative policies and promote clean energy by introducing two bills to strengthen domestic nuclear fuel supply and accelerate nuclear reactor licensing.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. The Nazi-allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH), established by the fascist Ustasha movement on April 10, 1941, annexed all of Bosnia and Herzegovina and had an estimated Jewish population of 39,000. The NDH moved quickly to persecute Jews, Serbs, and Roma, all considered racial enemies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Couple was illegally operating a hunting guide service on Richard K. Yancey Wildlife Management Area.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - In response to Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt and Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman’s recent visit with Klamath Basin ranchers, farmers, tribes and community officials, Reclamation is launching a new science initiative to inform Klamath Project operations. The project...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Following are remarks from United States Attorney Matthew Krueger as prepared for a press conference to announce the expansion of Operation Legend to Milwaukee to reduce violent crime.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Heath Subcommittee hearing on “Improving Access to Care: Legislation to Reauthorize Key Public Health Programs:"
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. The Government of Serbia remains committed to the objectives of the Terezin Declaration and has laws and mechanisms in place that have addressed the restitution of or compensation for wrongfully seized or nationalized private property, communal/religious property, and heirless property. In ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a hearing titled “Lessons Learned from Remote Working during COVID-19: Can the Government Save Money Through Maximizing Efficient Use of Leased Space?"
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Violent anti-Semitic movements in pre-World War II (WWII) Romania had their impact in its province of Bessarabia - the general region of contemporary Moldova. The situation degenerated into government-directed pogroms and mass deportations leading to the concentration and extermination of Jewish ...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Two Major Partnerships Involve Universities and DOE Laboratories
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at Health Subcommittee legislative hearing entitled, “Improving Access to Care: Legislation to Reauthorize Key Public Health Programs."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: UTICA, NEW YORK - Abner Peralta, age 31, and Luis Colon, age 35, both of Utica, were sentenced today after previously being found guilty after trial of drug trafficking charges. Peralta was sentenced to serve 60 months in federal prison, followed by a 4-year term of supervised release and forfeiture...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States has filed a complaint to forfeit approximately 482 bitcoins and 1,721,868 tether (collectively worth approximately $6.5 million), announced the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Michael R. Sherwin and Special Agent in Charge of the United States Secret Service San Francisco Field Office Thomas Edwards.
