News from August 2021
By State Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Gregory Meeks (D-NY), along with Europe, Energy, the Environment, and Cyber Subcommittee Ranking Member Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Chairman Bill Keating (D-MA), and Reps. Steve Chabot (R-OH) and Gerald...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - United States District Judge Sarah S. Vance sentenced ASHONTI HALL, 31, of New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 5, 2021 to 60 months in the Bureau of Prisons for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c), announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By State Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Jamaica as you celebrate your independence this August 6.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: ELY, Nev. The Bureau of Land Management Ely District has prepared and published a final environmental impact statement (FEIS) analyzing a proposal to expand the Robinson Mine located on private and public lands about seven miles west of Ely, Nevada. The publication of the Notice of Availability in the Federal Register today at.
By State Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States and the American people, I congratulate the people of Bolivia on the 196th anniversary of your independence.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to Michigan for her first visit to the state as a member of President Biden's Cabinet to make the case for his Build Back Better agenda and how it will invest in domestic manufacturing, build a clean energy economy, and create millions of good-paying jobs.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Financial Services Committee, led by Republican Leaders Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (WA-05) and Patrick McHenry (NC-10), sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-12). The letter criticizes President Biden’s extension of the unconstitutional eviction moratorium and condemns House Democrats’ inability to find a permanent solution for American renters.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Rickey Lynch is the First Defendant to be Charged with a Felony Violation of the TSCA Since the Statute’s Amendment in 2016.
By State Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
Release: More information about Bolivia is available on the Bolivia Country Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: RICHMOND, Va., - A Guatemalan national was sentenced today to 17 and a half years in prison for his role as a transportation manager in a large-scale Guatemalan drug trafficking organization (DTO).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Wednesday, Rowan James Kickinghorse Rhodes, 29, of Camp Verde, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 18 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Rhodes previously pleaded guilty to Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bureau of Reclamation Deputy Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton today named Jacklynn (Jaci) L. Gould as regional director for the Lower Colorado Basin Region. Gould has more than 29 years of experience with Reclamation.
By State Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
Release: I am announcing the designation of five terrorist leaders in Africa. Bonomade Machude Omar, Sidan ag Hitta, Salem ould Breihmatt, Ali Mohamed Rage, and Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir are designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) under Executive Order 13224, as amended.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Anthony A. Parker, age 55, of Troy, was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: KOUNTZE, Texas - Calling anglers of all ages! Join Big Thicket National Preserve on Saturday, August 14th, for a free, family fishing event. The National Park Service is partnering with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to provide Certified Angler Education Instructors to teach basic fishing skills to beginning anglers and their families. Stop by any time between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm and stay as long you'd like!.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Minneapolis man pleaded guilty today to possessing a firearm as a felon, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury, criminal complaints or informations. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Trina Thomas | Aug 6, 2021
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland accepted the Hopi Nation Tribal flag July 28 as a powerful reminder for the government to continue to strengthen relations with Native Tribes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jean Luis Colon, age 23, of Troy, New York, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possessing and intending to distribute heroin, and to possessing a firearm with an altered serial number.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ascension Michigan and related hospitals, Providence Park Hospital, St. John Hospital and Medical Center, St. John Macomb Oakland Hospital and Ascension Crittenton Hospital (collectively, Ascension Michigan), all located in Michigan, have agreed to pay $2.8 million to resolve claims that...
