News from October 2020
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2020
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - A suspect has been arrested for a fatal shooting that occurred in Death Valley National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2020
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho- The Bureau of Land Management’s Birch Creek Recreation Area will undergo grading and graveling on the access road in the campground and day use area during the next few weeks, weather pending. The work involved will result in limited inconvenience to the public, and the recreation site will remain open. The contractor will complete the work in phases to minimize impact to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2020
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Drew Wrigley announced that a federal grand jury has indicted Donald Eugene Green, age 53, Southfield, MI, for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance. The Indictment was unsealed today, alleging that on July 24, 2020, Donald Green traveled via a one-day round-trip...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2020
News Release: A Fort Worth man who videotaped the sexual assault of an infant was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, the statutory maximum, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2020
News Release: After a break of seven months, Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Fort Clatsop is pleased to announce a virtual “In Their Footsteps" guest speaker series event. Tom Wilson will present “a convenient situation to make salt" on our facebook page Sunday, Oct. 18, at 1:00 p.m.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2020
News Release: KINGMAN, Ariz. - The White Fire began Saturday afternoon, on the east side of the Cerbat Mountains, approximately 6 miles north of Kingman. The human caused fire is under investigation. The fire has grown to 337 acres and is burning in mostly bunch grass with chaparral some pinyon-juniper.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2020
News Release: We, the undersigned, support strong encryption, which plays a crucial role in protecting personal data, privacy, intellectual property, trade secrets and cyber security. It also serves a vital purpose in repressive states to protect journalists, human rights defenders and other vulnerable people, as ...
By Labor Gazette | Oct 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor took a range of actions to aid American workers and employers as our nation combats the coronavirus pandemic.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor took a range of actions to aid American workers and employers as our nation combats the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2020
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Labor Scalia Highlights Workforce Development And Economic Recovery During Visit to Miami, Florida - U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia traveled to Miami, Florida, where he visited Miami Dade College's Medical Campus and participated in a roundtable conversation with college leadership...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2020
News Release: NICHOLASVILLE, KY - The National Park Service (NPS) is pleased to announce the unveiling of a new sign on the front of the visitor center on Oct. 15, at 11:00 am in front of the Camp Nelson National Monument Visitor Center. The new sign will provide strong visual evidence that visitors are now visiting a national monument that is managed by the NPS. Additionally, this event will provide an opportunity for the park to share information and updates about upcoming projects.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 11, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding the Trump Administration’s insufficient relief proposal...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) released the following statement on the White House’s latest inadequate coronavirus relief offer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Otay Mesa commercial facility Friday seized more than 3,100 pounds of methamphetamine, fentanyl powder, fentanyl pills and heroin as part of the second largest methamphetamine bust along the southwest border in the history of the CBP, based on information developed by DEA, working jointly with HSI.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, launched the Save Our Science (SOS) Political Interference Tracker, a page that details the many reports of Trump Administration officials interfering in the work of public health experts and scientists on the frontlines of the nation’s COVID-19 response efforts.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 11, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement this evening on the Trump Administration’s latest COVID-19 relief package proposal...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 11, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement this evening on the Trump Administration’s latest COVID-19 relief package proposal...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 11, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement this evening on the Trump Administration’s latest COVID-19 relief package proposal...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2020
News Release: Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Eric Dreiband and Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin for the District of Columbia issued the following statements: “Yesterday, in the heart of our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., a federal district court ruled that the fundamental right of all Americans ...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, published a column in the Wall Street Journal Thursday about efforts to undermine the Trump administration and his committee’s work to declassify and provide information relevant to its investigations. Excerpts from the piece are below, and the full piece can be read here.