News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: An Iowa woman pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to hate crime charges for attempting to kill two children because of their race and national origin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: A North Carolina man was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for perpetrating three fraud schemes between March and July 2020 connected to the COVID-19 pandemic, through which he defrauded consumers and the federal government’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan program (EIDL), created to assist small business owners during the pandemic.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: The federal bank regulatory agencies today invited comment on a proposed rule that updates and codifies existing guidance on income tax allocation agreements involving depository institutions and their affiliates.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the enforcement actions listed below: The Yellowstone Bank, Laurel, Montana Flood insurance violations, civil money penalty Dated April 16, 2021 Iowa Prairie Bank, Brunsville, Iowa Written agreement Dated April 20, 2021 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: We congratulate Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva and the Movement for Democracy (MpD) for the party’s victory in Cabo Verde’s April 18 parliamentary elections. We also would like to express our admiration for the Cabo Verdean people and the transparent conduct of their free and fair elections. ...
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Today, the 51st Earth Day, we must work together to combat the climate crisis and restore our Earth for the benefit of everyone. Each year, an estimated one billion people around the world mobilize for action on Earth Day, and this year, the United States joins this wave of action. This morning, President ...
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. We are so grateful to have all of you with us today.
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Mr. President, thank you very much. And now it’s a true pleasure and honor to introduce another leader: climate activist Xiye Bastida.
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Kazakhstan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tileuberdi. The Secretary affirmed the United States’ continuing support for Kazakhstan’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and ...
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Decarbonization Mission: The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Energy Resources (ENR) works to address climate change by engaging and assisting countries to increase decarbonization efforts and catalyzing market forces that are driving the global shift toward decarbonization and a more diversified ...
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov. The Secretary affirmed the United States’ support for Uzbekistan’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence. The Secretary thanked ...
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: In President Biden’s first foreign policy speech, he underlined the importance of leading by example on climate, saying that “integrating climate objectives across all of our diplomacy and raising the ambition of our climate targets. That way, we can challenge other nations, other major emitters, to ...
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Release of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XI, START I The Department of State released today Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XI, START I.
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: On Apr. 21, 2021 in The Hague, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Conference of the State Parties adopted a historic decision in response to the Assad regime’s continued use and possession of chemical weapons in violation of its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and its failure to complete the measures set out in the OPCW Executive Council’s July 2020 decision.
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I extend my warmest thoughts to all Australians and New Zealanders as you commemorate ANZAC Day on Apr. 25, 2021.
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: At the Leaders Summit on Climate, the United States and India launched a new high-level partnership, the “U.S.-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership,” which envisages bilateral cooperation on strong actions in the current decade to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. The Partnership ...
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: MS PORTER: Hi, good evening. This is Department – State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Jalina Porter. Thank you so much for joining the call this evening. Special Envoy Ricardo Zuniga is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. He has decades of experience with the State Department and ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor, in partnership with the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Delta Regional Authority, today announced the availability of approximately $29.2 million in a third round of grant funding for the Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities Initiative. Grant awards will range from $150,000 up to $1.5 million.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor, in partnership with the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Delta Regional Authority, today announced the availability of approximately $29.2 million in a third round of grant funding for the Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities Initiative. Grant awards will range from $150,000 up to $1.5 million.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: FIRST STEP PROPOSES TO WITHDRAW RULE THAT SOUGHT TO PREEMPT STATES FROM SETTING THEIR OWN GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS STANDARDS OR ZERO-EMISSIONS VEHICLE MANDATES
