News from May 2020
By USDA Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on May 11, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision with Mitchell Lee Barthel (Barthel) d.b.a. Rock’n M Cattle (Rock’n M), Perham, Minn., for an alleged violation of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Timpanogos Cave trail opens for fitness use, cave tours go virtual for now.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) issued the following statement today after the President signed an executive order aimed at bullying social media platforms into bowing to his will...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: GREENVILLE, N.C. - A Jacksonville man was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON- The Justice Department announced today that it has entered into an agreement to settle a voting rights lawsuit with the Chamberlain School District in South Dakota. The department’s lawsuit challenges the method of electing the Chamberlain School Board under Section 2 of the Voting Rights...
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Homestead, Fla. - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, the National Park Service (NPS) in South Florida continues to increase recreational access. The NPS is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: GREENVILLE, N.C. - A Jacksonville man was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By Homeland Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested a Salvadoran national and documented member of the transnational criminal street gang known as “18th Street," wanted in his home country on charges of manslaughter/murder, injury causing death, and gang participation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Greeneville, Tenn. - On May 26, 2020, Anthony Dwayne Sensabaugh, 33, currently of Rogersville, was sentenced by the Honorable Clifton L. Corker, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville. Sensabaugh pleaded guilty to possession with the intent to distribute ...
By State Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Dear Ambassador Trujillo: We write to express our deep concern regarding comments made by a representative of your office on behalf of the Trump Administration during an Organization of American States (OAS) Permanent Council discussion on the LGBTI Core Group Statement commemorating the International...
By Homeland Newswire | May 28, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Chair of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Department of Veterans Affairs' response to COVID-19.
By Homeland Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on President Trump’s Executive Order directed at social media companies...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Cut Bank man today admitted assaulting a minor girl on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Commerce Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today asked federal watchdogs to review the prevalence and consequences of insurance companies subcontracting mental health service coverage to a different insurance company. In a letter to the Government Accountability Office...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Four residents of Alachua, Florida, have been arrested on federal criminal
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that O’Neill Ventures, Inc., a tomato greenhouse and packing plant located in O’Neill, Nebraska, was sentenced on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 for their role in a conspiracy to harbor undocumented aliens with Juan Pablo Sanchez-Delgado. Chief United States District...
By Commerce Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) issued the following statement today after the President signed an executive order aimed at bullying social media platforms into bowing to his will...
By State Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot E. Engel, Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Chairman James E. Clyburn, and Oversight and Reform National Security...
By Commerce Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Harley Rouda, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the Vice Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Environment, and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, the Ranking Member...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Steven Smith, age 59, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady following his plea of guilty to attempting to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
