News from August 2021
By State Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
Release: Four years ago, Burma’s military launched a horrific ethnic cleansing against Rohingya in northern Rakhine State. The brutality of the military’s atrocities on that day shocked the conscience of the international community - but we recognize the Rohingya had already suffered decades of grave human rights...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
Release: CLEVELAND - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a loaded handgun from making its way onboard an airplane at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) Tuesday.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) is continuing to reduce risk around the Plutonium-Uranium Extraction Plant - better known as PUREX - on the Hanford Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Browning man accused of sexually abusing two children on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation admitted charges today, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: Curtis Posed Online as the Mother of an Infant or Toddler and Discussed and Distributed Images of the Sexual Abuse of His Purported Children.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded $500,000 to Planck Aerosystems, Inc. of San Diego, California, for further testing and deployment of its autonomous small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following statement, as prepared, on the House floor in support of H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Butler, Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: Dems’ Spending Spree: Tax Hikes for Families & Taxpayer Dollars for Fraudsters.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on National Security Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) wrote Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding answers regarding the location of U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - A 47-year-old Mexican citizen has been ordered to federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux and Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY - A Louisville man was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge David J. Hale to 15 years in prison, followed by a five-year term of supervised release, for possession of a handgun by a convicted felon.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: Washington - United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Justin Maxson today announced that USDA is on track to provide a record level of support for rural working capital and other business capital needs in fiscal year 2021.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Top Republican on the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) today joined CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss how Democrats’ reckless, multi-trillion-dollar spending spree will land on American families and Main Street businesses in higher taxes, slashed wages, and jobs sent overseas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Kenneth Werkau, of Clarington, Ohio, has admitted to a wire fraud charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Arizona Marketing Produce Distributors Inc. satisfied a $12,100 reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving unpaid produce transactions.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement in response to the Education Department’s announcement that it will default to full forgiveness for defrauded student loan borrowers, abandoning the Trump administration's partial-relief formula...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Lawrence Bobnick. Acting United States Marshal, announced that JOSE SOSTRE, 41, of Hartford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to escaping from the custody of the Attorney General.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, applauded the House passage of their bipartisan bill, the Congressional Budget Justification Transparency Act, to help make information...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: Beatrice, Nebraska - Homestead National Historical Park will host an evening Night Sky Event, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, outside of the Heritage Center, starting at 8 p.m. Gary Fugman of Northeast Nebraska Astronomy Club (search NENAC stars) will discuss "Our Glorious Milky Way Galaxy". After the discussion/presentation...
