News from December 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 28, 2021
News Release: Guaynabo, Puerto Rico - While the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) maintained a fast-paced obligation of funds last year, construction work leads the way towards the revitalization of many communities throughout the island.
By State Newswire | Dec 28, 2021
Release: The United States condemns the attacks committed on December 24 by the Burmese military in Kayah State, which killed at least 35, including women and children and two staff members of the international aid organization Save the Children. We are alarmed by the military regime’s brutality across much of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2021
News Release: U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of West Virginia announces awards of more than $1.8 million.
By Emily Bevard | Dec 28, 2021
In a show of bipartisan support for officially condemning forced labor in the Xinjiang region of China, the U. S Senate confirmed three nominees to diplomatic positions considered vital to enforcing the crackdown on the Chinese government.
By State Newswire | Dec 28, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 28, 2021
Release: Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers across the State of Florida have seen a surge in passengers bringing guns to airport checkpoints, breaking records across the state and specifically at the international airports in Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa, Miami, Pensacola, Fort Myers, and Destin-Fort Walton Beach.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - A Davenport man, originally from Chicago, Chovontae Martise Farmer, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey on Dec. 22, 2021 to 228 months in prison for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Heroin and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime. Farmer was ordered to serve five years of supervised release to follow his prison term and pay $200 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By George Willis | Dec 28, 2021
The University of California-Berkeley recently received $549,940 in research funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prevent wildland fire smoke exposure in at-risk San Francisco Bay Area communities through an improved communication system.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Butler, Pennsylvania, has been charged by superseding indictment before a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotic and firearm laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 28, 2021
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut residents in Fairfield, New Haven and New London counties who suffered damage or losses from remnants of Hurricane Ida, have one month left to apply for disaster assistance with FEMA and low-interest disaster loans with U.S. Small Business Administration.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 28, 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, announced that their bipartisan Domains Critical to Homeland Security Act was signed into law as part of the FY 2022 National Defense...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2021
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Peter Ko (619) 546-7359 and Shane Harrigan (619) 546-6981.
By State Newswire | Dec 28, 2021
Release: The United States condemns today’s decision by the Russian Supreme Court to forcibly close International Memorial, one of Russia’s oldest and most respected scholarly and human rights organizations. For three decades, International Memorial’s researchers have worked tirelessly to recover the names and...
By State Newswire | Dec 28, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 28, 2021
News Release: HOUGHTON, MI - Applications for Isle Royale National Park's 2022Artist-in-Residence Program will be accepted between January 2 and Feb. 16, 2022. Each 2 - 3 week residency provides artists the opportunity to become part of a long-established tradition of interpreting national parks through art.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 28, 2021
News Release: Several prescribed burning activities are scheduled from Dec. 27, 2021, to March 1, 2022, across seven units within the Mount Lewis Field Office area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2021
News Release: NASHVILLE - A criminal complaint unsealed today, charges a Lebanon, Tennessee woman with interfering with a flight crew following an incident on board a Spirit Airlines flight flying to Nashville on Nov. 27, 2021, announced U.S. Attorney Mark H. Wildasin for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Art Benavidez | Dec 28, 2021
Three senior members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee recently submitted a letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, asking about her husband's possible involvement with the Chinese Communist Party.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2021
News Release: Second Federal Conviction for Unlawfully Possessing a Gun Leads to Over Seven Years in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2021
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Myers announced today that the Southern District of Indiana collected $4,302,430.23 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2021. Of this amount, $2,799,296.37 was collected in criminal actions and $1,503,133.86 was collected in civil actions.
