News from August 2021
By State Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: We are deeply concerned that Poland’s parliament passed legislation today severely restricting the process for Holocaust survivors and their families, as well as other Jewish and non-Jewish property owners, to obtain restitution for property wrongfully confiscated during Poland’s communist era. We urge ...
By State Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: The United States welcomes the visit by Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid to the Kingdom of Morocco for the reopening of the Israeli Liaison Office in Rabat. Foreign Minister Lapid’s trip — the first to Morocco by an Israeli Foreign Minister since the agreement to establish full diplomatic relations ...
By Commerce News Now | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: On July 11, 2021, tens of thousands of Cuban people marched in cities across their country to demand freedom from decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba’s authoritarian regime. Standing with the Cuban people in the face of ongoing repression is a top priority ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: DENVER – A worker at a Denver milk packaging plant operated by Safeway Inc. lost four fingers while operating a molding machine that lacked required safeguards.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of up to $5 million in grant funding aimed at strengthening decent work for laborers in South America’s fishing industries.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a series of actions to modernize and reform a cornerstone of our economic infrastructure, the unemployment insurance system. Over the last year alone, the unemployment insurance system has helped nearly 53 million workers stay afloat during a pandemic and economic crisis and put nearly $800 billion into the economy – staving off an even deeper recession.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a series of actions to modernize and reform a cornerstone of our economic infrastructure, the unemployment insurance system. Over the last year alone, the unemployment insurance system has helped nearly 53 million workers stay afloat during a pandemic and economic crisis and put nearly $800 billion into the economy – staving off an even deeper recession.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of up to $5 million in grant funding aimed at strengthening decent work for laborers in South America’s fishing industries.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: DENVER – A worker at a Denver milk packaging plant operated by Safeway Inc. lost four fingers while operating a molding machine that lacked required safeguards.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: Trainer Jorge Navarro and Veterinarian Kristian Rhein Used Their Positions to Acquire, Promote, and Administer Prohibited Performance Enhancing Drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Nashville Field Division hosted a “Post Blast Investigative Techniques" course the week of August 2nd at the Tennessee Fire and Codes Academy in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. The course was taught by subject matter experts from ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Point Park, atop Lookout Mountain and part of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, is waiving the entrance fee on Wednesday, Aug. 25, to celebrate the National Park Service’s 105th birthday.
By State Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
Release: On behalf of the United States, I extend my best wishes and hope for a bright future to the people of the Republic of Chad on the 61st anniversary of their independence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Laura Swanquist-Chavez, 35, of the area of El Centro, California, was arraigned today in federal court on a two-count indictment charging her with making a false and fictitious statement to a licensed dealer of firearms and knowingly transferring a firearm to a convicted felon. Swanquist-Chavez has been released on pre-trial conditions pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joshua W. McCallister, Acting Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Division, today announced that JOSE L. GERENA, 31, and BRIAN I. CRUZ-RODRIGUEZ, 29, both of New Haven, were arrested yesterday and charged by federal criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A former Aiken County, S.C., teacher has admitted to a child sexual exploitation charge related to illegal activities with a Columbia County, Ga., minor.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: Bayfield, WI - Apostle Islands National Lakeshore will soon open the application process for Commercial Use Authorizations (CUAs) for the 2022-23 operating season. Beginning October 4, 2021, application forms and instructions may be downloaded from the park website or an application packet may be requested...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: Special Assistant U. S. Attorney Steven Lee (619) 546-8893.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, signed a letter led by Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) and other Republican senators pledging not to vote to increase the debt ceiling, “whether that increase comes through a stand-alone bill, a continuing...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) released the following statement after an agreement was reached to address allegations of worker rights concerns under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s (USMCA) Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRM)...
