News from July 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man who allegedly carjacked a vehicle at gunpoint on the city’s West Side and fired a handgun while attempting to carjack another vehicle has been arraigned in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Genghis Taylor, of Cleveland, Ohio, has admitted to a drug charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The National Park Service (NPS) has selected Nancy Holman to serve as the superintendent of Kalaupapa National Historical Park starting in September 2021. Holman currently serves as chief of interpretation and education at Rocky Mountain National Park.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a business meeting to consider the nomination of Ms. Tracy Stone-Manning to be director of the Bureau of Land Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following statement, as prepared, on the House floor in support of H.R. 3985, the Averting Loss of Life and Injury by Expediting SIVs (ALLIES) Act of 2021...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
Release: Beginning July 23, all eyes will be on Japan as it hosts the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. For me, this summer’s Olympics is the perfect blend of things that I’m passionate about - there’s cycling, there’s an international governing body that oversees the games, and there’s fellowship between the United States and Japan.
By State Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
Release: The United States and Kuwait are working collectively towards the common goal of a stable, secure, and prosperous Middle East. Kuwait is also a vital U.S. partner on a wide range of regional security issues and a leader in the Global Coalition to Defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a business meeting to consider the nominations of:
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Justice today launched five cross-jurisdictional strike forces to help reduce gun violence by disrupting illegal firearms trafficking in key regions across the country. One of the strike forces will be in the Central District of California, where the Los Angeles-based United States Attorney’s Office will coordinate strike force efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 38-year-old Mexican national has entered a guilty plea to possessing a dangerous weapon while in custody, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A Disaster Recovery Center will open in Garden City on Friday, July 23, to help renters, homeowners and business owners affected by the June 25 - 26 severe storms and flooding.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EDDIE COTTO, a/k/a “Eddie Diamond," was found guilty yesterday in Manhattan federal court following a week-long jury trial before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff. COTTO is scheduled to appear for sentencing before Judge Rakoff on Nov. 3, 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (D-IL), reintroduced the Women’s Retirement Protection Act of 2021 (WRPA), legislation to address the retirement gap and bolster...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $642,500 grant to the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, Brunswick, Maine, to make critical infrastructure improvements needed to support operations at the TechPlace manufacturing center. This EDA grant, to be matched with $160,625 in state and local funds, is expected to create 20 jobs, retain 120 jobs and generate $3.5 million in private investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A member of the San Fernando Valley-based Vineland Boys street gang was sentenced today to 372 months in federal prison for committing multiple felonies, including the attempted murders of three rival gangsters.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Santwon Antonio Davis has been sentenced for wire fraud related to a scheme to defraud his employer, and on a bank fraud charge related to a scheme to defraud a mortgage company.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
Release: 17 Projects Will Study Impacts of Climate Change on Watersheds, Wetlands, and Other Ecosystems
By USDA Newswire | Jul 22, 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 Committee will hold a hearing to consider the nominations of Xochitl Torres Small to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development and Robert F. Bonnie to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm Production and Conservation.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Thursday, July 29, at 11 a.m. (EDT). The hearing is entitled, “The Path Forward: Advancing Treatments and Cures for Neurodegenerative Diseases."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: District of New Jersey to Participate in Cross-Jurisdictional Strike Force.
