News from July 2021
By USDA Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, issued the following statement on Randy Moore’s swearing-in as the 20th chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Forest Service...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) launched the third installment of the Virtual Whole-of-Government R&D Showcase. This unique four-part series highlights how S&T and its partners across government are mobilizing research and development (R&D) teams to reduce risks from natural and human-induced disasters; accelerating breakthrough discoveries; and helping the nation prepare against future threats and unknowns.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
Release: 32 Universities Across 28 States Will Conduct Industrial Assessments to Help Local Manufacturers Reduce Carbon Footprint, Lower Costs, and Train Energy Workforce of Tomorrow
By USDA Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the Senate Agriculture Committee voted by voice vote to advance Ms. Jennifer L. Moffitt to serve as Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs. Ms. Moffitt may now be considered by the full U.S. Senate for confirmation.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: Kula, Maui -Hawaiʻi Volcanoes and Haleakalā National Parks have much in common: rare silverswords, nēnē, sacred volcanic summits and even their own specialty license plates. Founded as one park in 1916 and called “Hawaii National Park," both parks invite the community to celebrate their 105th birthdays on Sunday, August 1 with free entrance.
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Matthew Core, 39, of Vallejo, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to six years and three months in prison for committing bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and possession of reproduced U.S. Postal Service keys, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Ralph Floyd Barnett, Jr., 61, of Birch River, pleaded guilty today to a federal gun crime. A federal grand jury indicted Barnett in April 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Stony Point, New York, man was charged in federal district court with ten counts of Failure to Withhold, Properly Account For, and Pay Over Tax.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria, Ill., man, Keith L. Winters, 31, was sentenced on July 21, 2021, to an aggregate term of 67 months in federal prison, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release, for conspiring and stealing firearms from federal firearms licensees, possessing stolen firearms, and possessing firearms while a felon. Altogether, Winters’s burglaries involved 94 stolen firearms.
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
Release: Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Aleisha Woodward will travel to Rome, Italy, from July 28-30, 2021, to lead the U.S. delegation to the G20 Culture Ministerial.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Charlotte Burrows urging her to reinstate the EEOC’s practice of making members’ voting records public.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: Just one week remains for Louisiana homeowners, renters or business owners in Ascension, Calcasieu, East Baton Rouge, Iberville and Lafayette parishes to apply for federal disaster assistance because of property damage or other eligible losses in May due to severe storms, tornadoes and flooding.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA - With the sentencing of the lead defendant, the prosecution of a major Richmond County drug trafficking conspiracy has resulted in convictions of all eight defendants - including a man and two sons.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 - 10:00 AM EDT.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Barnstable man was arrested on Friday, July 23, 2021 on child exploitation offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Andre Jason Burgos, of Wilmington, Delaware, was sentenced today to 30 months of incarceration for his role in a drug distribution enterprise, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C.- Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), and their colleagues joined members of the Cuban exile community at Lafayette Square to show their support for the people of Cuba as they mark another anniversary of the sadistic communist revolution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man was sentenced today to six years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. Upon his release, Timothy Paul Rapson, 39, will be required to serve a term of 20 years of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Burlington County, New Jersey, man is expected to make his initial appearance today after being charged with trafficking over three kilograms of methamphetamine and illegally possessing unregistered firearms as a previously convicted felon, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
