News from August 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ), Congressman Dan Kildee (D-MI), member of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, released the following statement on the historic pro-worker election results at the General Motors (GM) auto plant in Mexico...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) introduced the “Information Sharing and Advanced Communication (ISAAC) Alerting" Act, which directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to prepare a report on how to implement a nationwide 9-1-1 disability alerting system.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Concord, NH - A short time ago, this week’s U.S. Marshals - New Hampshire Joint Fugitive Task Force “Fugitive of the Week," R’Jay Ladd surrendered to the fugitive task force outside of the Belknap County Jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Sold pills that killed Bellingham 17-year-old.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - Two alleged members of one of the most serious transnational criminal organizations will make their initial appearances in U.S. federal court on charges of narco-terrorism and distributing kilogram quantities of cocaine from Colombia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: BOISE - Kim Jarod Kouros Firouzbakhsh, 35, of Idaho Falls, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 27 months in federal prison for the unlawful possession of a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced today. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Firouzbakhsh to serve three years of supervised release following his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that OMAR AMANAT, an associate of codefendant Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, the former chairman and chief executive officer of the technology start-up company KIT digital, Inc. (“KITD"), was sentenced today by U.S.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Kula, Maui -Backpackers will soon be able to reserve and stay overnight on weekends at Palikū cabin located in Haleakalā Crater. Reservations for Palikū wilderness cabin will go live on Recreation.gov beginning Aug. 23, 2021 between 7:00 -7:30 am Hawaiian Standard Time (HST). The first available date...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
Release: Funding Supports New Technology and Advances in Future Quantum Internet to Enable Discovery Science and Clean Energy Applications
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent letters to three manufacturers of insulin in the U.S.-Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi-following up on January 2019 letters to those companies and requesting additional information, including any specific steps the companies have taken to lower the cost of insulin and increase patient access since the Committee’s initial letters.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) introduced the “Information Sharing and Advanced Communication (ISAAC) Alerting" Act, which directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to prepare a report on how to implement a nationwide 9-1-1 disability alerting system.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded $454,099 to Echodyne Corporation of Kirkland, Washington, to continue critical research and development on new radar systems using metamaterials. DHS awarded the funds through a Phase 5 Other Transaction Agreement with S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP).
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: HENDERSON, Nev. - Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) assisted their law enforcement partners execute a state warrant that resulted in the seizure of more than $13 million in counterfeit designer goods.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Jersey City, New Jersey, men who were involved in a shootout made their initial court appearances today on charges that they possessed ammunition as previously convicted felons, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va.- A Dutch national and member of the Bugaloo Bois, was sentenced today to time served, which included five and a half months in prison, for illegally possessing a firearm while being unlawfully present in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 262 months’ imprisonment and 10 years’ supervised release on his conviction of narcotics trafficking, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Billy Ray Jones, Jr., 39, of Pineville, was sentenced by United States District Judge Dee D. Drell to 57 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: DEL RIO - Today a federal jury convicted a Mexican national for illegally transporting an unaccompanied child from Mexico.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Republican Leader Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) released the following statement regarding the data breach and theft of personal information from T-Mobile current and potential customers...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Republican Leader Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) released the following statement regarding the data breach and theft of personal information from T-Mobile current and potential customers...
