News from February 2021
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) designated five North Carolina counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Dare, Onslow, Tyrrell, Washington and Wilkes counties who suffered losses caused by excessive rains that occurred from April 1, 2020, through Nov. 14, 2020, may be eligible for USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: In case you missed it, last week’s markup of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s budget reconciliation instructions - a $95.62 billion measure developed exclusively by the Majority - rejected over 50 Republican amendments. Commonsense amendments offered by Republican Members included proposals...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: A woman who created sexually explicit images of two children was sentenced on Feb. 12, 2021, to 30 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Nigerian national was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a computer-based intrusion fraud scheme that caused approximately $11 million in known losses to his victims.
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
Release: The United States urges the Houthis to halt their advance on Marib and cease all military operations and turn to negotiations. The Houthis’ assault on Marib is the action of a group not committed to peace or to ending the war afflicting the people of Yemen. UNOCHA estimates about one million Yemenis...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
Release: Congreswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Chair of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on oversight of privatized military housing.
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul and U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations committee and co-chair of the Senate Poland Caucus today released the following statement on their concerns with the government of Poland’s proposed media advertising tax...
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: Dover, Tennessee- Fort Donelson National Battlefield is closed today, Tuesday, February 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three New York men have been charged in connection with a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine in New Jersey from locations in Manhattan, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on Election Assistance Commission (EAC) oversight.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
Release: Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL), Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on Election Assistance Commission (EAC) oversight.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Derrick Begay, 33, of Shiprock, New Mexico, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced on Feb. 10 in federal court to two years in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for assault upon a federal officer involving physical contact.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig today congratulated Brian O’Hara on being named as the new Acting Public Safety Director for the City of Newark, replacing Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose when he retires on March 31, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Samuel Lawrence and Julee Lawrence have pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to impede and impair the ability of the Internal Revenue Service to ascertain and collect employment tax revenue. Each faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
Release: Bonjour à tous. C’est un plaisir pour moi de participer cette année au sommet du G5 Sahel. Je remercie le président Ghazouani de son leadership au cours de l’année écoulée, le président Deby d’assurer la présidence cette année, et son excellence Maman Sidikou pour la direction du secrétariat exécutif.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Office of River Protection (ORP) contractor Bechtel National, Inc. continues to make progress on testing secondary safety systems installed to prevent situations that could potentially harm the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), workers, or the environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: Defrauded Victims out of $450,000 in Financial Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: National Park Service Regional Director Gay Vietzke has named Leslie Morlock as superintendent of Saratoga National Historical Park in Stillwater, New York. Morlock begins her new role on March 28, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: A drug user who possessed a firearm was sentenced today to five years in federal prison.
