News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm and conspiring to defraud two banks of $250,000 using stolen credit cards and blank checks, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Penn-Wharton: Bidenflation to Force Families to Pay $3,500 More in 2021.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Sneezes, rain clouds, and ink jet printers: They all produce or contain liquid droplets so tiny it would take several billion of them to fill a liter bottle.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Charges Stem from Embezzlement from URW Credit Union i n Virginia, Cocaine Distribution in N.C.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md. - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected Joannie Chin to lead its Engineering Laboratory. Chin has been at NIST for 26 years, most recently serving as acting director of the Engineering Lab.

By Glenn Minnis | Dec 20, 2021
The 2021 Excellence in Extension and National Extension Diversity awards were recently given to cooperative extensions that exemplify “visionary leadership and diversity in educational programming,” a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) press release said.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Dems’ Spending is Burning Holes in Family Budgets.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: W&M Analysis: Costs for Child Care & Nursery Schools Increased Under Dems’ Expanded Child Tax Credit.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal court in Kentucky unsealed an indictment today charging a dual U.S.-Bosnian citizen with providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) a designated foreign terrorist organization. The defendant is also charged with conspiring to provide material support to ISIS and receiving military type training from ISIS.

By State Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
Release: The Hong Kong Autonomy Act Report to Congress, released today, underscores the United States’ deep concerns about Beijing’s clear efforts to deprive Hong Kongers of a meaningful voice in the December 19 Legislative Council (LegCo) elections. The United States is concerned by the People’s Republic of...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - A federal district judge in Miami last week sentenced 35-year-old Christopher Grant Proby to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking a minor and for participating in the armed robbery of a Riviera Beach plumber.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Today, the United States Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo and the U.K. Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Nadine Dorries issued the following statement on their governments’ shared commitment to deepening the UK-U.S. data partnership to realize a more peaceful and prosperous future ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today led 47 senators and 44 House members on an amicus...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo met with Malaysian Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob to discuss ways to further improve bilateral relations and deepen U.S.-Malaysia economic ties, including through President Biden’s vision for a new Indo-Pacific economic framework. Secretary ...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By EPA Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C- Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), Oversight and Investigations Ranking Member...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.