News from August 2021
By State Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
Release: Good morning Chairman Murphy, Ranking Member Young, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee. It’s an honor to appear before you with DASD Stroul to discuss U.S. Security Assistance to the Middle East. Let me make it clear at the start, as Secretary Blinken has repeatedly said, that the State Department is fully committed to partnering with Congress on these issues, and we welcome the opportunity to engage today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl, crack cocaine, powder cocaine, and alprazolam and to possession with intent to distribute those same substances, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - An Illinois man was sentenced today to 105 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for setting fire to a cell phone store in Minneapolis in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd.
By State Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
Release: Today, during an official visit to Thailand, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced that the United States is providing more than $50 million in critical humanitarian assistance to the people of Burma, including those forced to flee violence and persecution. This aid...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Durrion Joshua Morrison, of Wilmington, Delaware, has admitted to a cocaine charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter Monday to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins regarding the agency’s handling of sexual harassment complaints about an oncologist who served in leadership roles on NIH committees.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - Fifty-year old Palm Beach County resident James Cleary pled guilty on Friday, August 6 to participating in a fraud scheme that bilked investors out of more than $393,500.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell appeared on MSNBC and CNN Monday to promote nearly $5 billion dollars in hazard mitigation grants now available to states, tribes and territories. The nearly $5 billion dollars in grant funding will be available through FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Washington, D.C. man was sentenced today to life in prison for committing murder with a firearm, robbery, and conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-The U.S. Senate adopted an amendment authored by Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, that prevents a ban on fossil fuels and supports access to affordable, reliable energy to power their farms, businesses and broadband networks in rural America.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter Monday to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins regarding the agency’s handling of sexual harassment complaints about an oncologist who served in leadership roles on NIH committees.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, introduced an amendment to the Democrats’ reckless tax and spend bill to block attempts to ban fossil fuels which threaten rural communities’ access to affordable, reliable energy to power their farms, businesses and broadband networks.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man with previous felony convictions today admitted illegally possessing firearms and ammunition as part of a planned revenge shooting, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a wide-ranging heroin trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr., handed down prison sentences of up to 25 years to three cocaine traffickers, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Nakia Barber, age 46, of Schenectady, New York, plead guilty today to unlawfully possessing a defaced firearm, and to possessing with intent to distribute and distributing heroin. The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and John B. DeVito, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
Release: On the one-year anniversary of Belarus’s fraudulent presidential election, the United States government has taken decisive action against forty-four individuals and entities in order to hold Alyaksandr Lukashenka and his regime to account for its continued, violent repression of Belarusians inside and ...
By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – On Thursday, Aug. 12, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas will be in South Texas to receive operational updates and engage with the DHS frontline workforce. While in South Texas, Secretary Mayorkas will meet with local officials and community leaders. Additional details will be announced in the coming days.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: A federal jury convicted the Sheriff of Franklin County, Arkansas today on two counts of deprivation of rights under color of law.
