News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Colorado Man Charged with Hate Crime After Unprovoked Stabbing of Black Man.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is increasing access and services. The National Park Service (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 | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Pedro Santos, 47, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 66 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An indictment was unsealed today charging three computer hackers, all of whom were residents and nationals of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran), with engaging in a coordinated campaign of identity theft and hacking on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated foreign terrorist organization, in order to steal critical information related to United States aerospace and satellite technology and resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today in connection with an armed robbery of a T-Mobile store in Brockton, where multiple gunshots were fired at Brockton Police Officers during a high-speed chase.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC -Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Promises Made, Promises Kept: Connecting Americans for Future Generations."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Fired One Gun in a Parking Lot.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today praised an announcement from President Donald Trump that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will distribute a second round of assistance to agricultural producers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jerry Twaddle, 40, of Carlsbad, New Mexico, was sentenced on Sept. 9 in federal court to 20 years in prison on drug trafficking charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 11 a.m. (EDT) on the growing prevalence of online extremism and social media’s role in its rapid spread. The hearing is entitled, “Mainstreaming Extremism: Social Media’s Role in Radicalizing America."
By EPA Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing titled, “The Trump FCC: Four Years of Lost Opportunities:"
By State Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Washington - Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) today sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar following up on recent press reports that call into question Azar’s prior congressional testimony on the Trump Administration’s family separation policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A member of the New Bedford Chapter of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm as a result of a federal investigation into a shooting on April 19, 2020, in New Bedford.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, applauded the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) for its report recommending that Congress finally repeal Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which allows employers to pay workers with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Three former executives of a Louisiana compounding pharmacy are charged in a 24-count indictment with using the pharmacy to defraud New Jersey and military health benefits programs, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, responded to reports that the Trump Administration is considering using U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funds to bail out oil refiners. As reported by Reuters ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ryan Kee Jones, 25, of Yatahey, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, appeared in federal court on Sept. 16, 2020, on a criminal complaint charging him with aggravated sexual abuse of a minor in Indian Country.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) wrote to a group of 15 stakeholders today requesting their input regarding whether and how collegiate athletes should be compensated for the use of their name, image and likeness (NIL), and other related matters.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.3 million grant to the city of Wartburg, Tennessee, to install a new wastewater collection system to provide service for the Brushy Mountain Development. The EDA grant, to be matched with $317,858 in local funds, is expected to help create and retain 90 jobs and generate $4 million in private investment.
