News from May 2020
By DOT News Wire | May 18, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on May 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | May 18, 2020
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on May 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 18, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on May 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 18, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on May 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 18, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on May 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Newswire | May 18, 2020
Release: APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine is developing a new online permitting system called eFile. Beginning in fall 2020, importers will be able to use the eFile to apply for and receive fresh fruit and vegetable import permits, in many cases, within the same day! Until then, APHIS will continue issuing ...

By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2020
News Release: Spokane - It has been reported that a potentially large number of fraudulent unemployment claims have been filed with and paid by the Washington State Department of Employment Security Department during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2020
News Release: “What are we doing here?. “Our nation is fighting a vicious battle for lives and jobs - yet Democrats waste time bringing a partisan, political, and dead bill to the House. “Never asking Republicans to work together. “It’s shameful. As one House Democrat who opposes this bill said: ‘This is not the...

By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $562,000 grant to the Virgin Islands Professional Charter Association of Saint Thomas, U.S.V.I., to support the tourism sector by installing moorings in the bays of the U.S. Virgin Islands as...
By Homeland Newswire | May 18, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - Pursuant to ongoing Cultural Property, Arts & Antiquities investigations by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York, a civil complaint was filed Monday to forfeit a rare cuneiform tablet bearing a portion of the epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian epic poem considered one the world’s...

By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging MOHAMED SALAH HUSSEIN, 25, with conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.1 HUSSEIN was initially charged in a criminal complaint on Feb. 13, 2020, and is currently in custody in the Sherburne County Jail pending further court proceedings.

By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2020
News Release: Energy is an enabling resource. It enables us to do things at a scale that was once impossible: empowering medical workers to heal the sick, first responders to protect the vulnerable, and all of us to communicate across the nation.

By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2020
News Release: Albuquerque, NM - The National Park Service is asking visitors to take caution and not to approach wildlife, especially wild rabbits. Rabbit hemorrhagic disease (RHDV2) was recently detected in wild cottontail rabbits and jackrabbits in the southwestern United States, including Bernalillo County, New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging MOHAMED SALAH HUSSEIN, 25, with conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. HUSSEIN was initially charged in a criminal complaint on Feb. 13, 2020, and is currently in custody in the Sherburne County Jail pending further court proceedings.

By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2020
News Release: Settlements Resolve Allegations That the NYC Department of Education Discriminated Against African American Teachers Who Worked at Pan American International High School and Retaliated Against an Assistant Principal Who Spoke Out Against the Discriminatio.

By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2020
News Release: Ochopee, FL - With the help of a more than an inch of rain from the tropical system on Friday and Saturday and the hard, dedicated work of our fire crews, the Moon Fish Wildfire is now 60% contained. The size of the wildfire has remained steady at approximately 25,834 acres.

By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2020
News Release: Trump Admin Rejects Pelosi’s Windfall to Wealthy & Tax Hikes on Small Biz.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Tampering with a Witness was sentenced on May 18, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Chinese woman who resides in Canada was sentenced today for using bribery to facilitate her son’s admission to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) as a purported soccer recruit.

By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2020
News Release: New Haven, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARIO LLANOS-AYALA, 45, of Deltona, Florida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.