News from June 2021
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
News Release: Craig, Colo. - Within the past two weeks, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) firefighters have responded to 23 fires throughout Moffat and Rio Blanco Counties.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is convening U.S. government research organizations for the Virtual Whole-of-Government R&D Showcase, a unique four-part virtual content series that kicks off today and will run through August. The showcase...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
Release: The United States congratulates the people of Armenia on their June 20 parliamentary elections. We welcome the overall positive assessment by the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission. We are pleased that ODIHR’s preliminary conclusions noted voters’ human rights and fundamental freedoms were generally ...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
Release: The United States has taken action against dozens of Belarusian individuals and entities in response to last month’s forced diversion of a commercial Ryanair flight between two European Union member states and the politically motivated arrest of journalist Raman Pratasevich and Sofiya Sapega. These steps...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will join Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Luigi Di Maio in co-hosting a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS on June 28 to discuss efforts in the campaign to achieve the enduring defeat of ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Albert T. Nguyen, M.D., of Oklahoma City, paid $325,000 to settle civil penalty claims stemming from allegations that he violated the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 and its regulations, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
News Release: Pecos, NM:- Pecos National Historical Park will offer two special backcountry hikes this July.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Christopher O’Sullivan, 32, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, 10 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $5,200 restitution by United States District Judge Nitza I. Quinones-Alejandro for crimes stemming from his sexual exploitation of a student via text message.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
Release: WEYERS CAVE, Va. - Transportation Security Administration officers at Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport prevented a man from carrying a loaded handgun onto his flight on Friday, June 18. The gun, loaded with 10 bullets, including one in the chamber, was detected in the X-ray machine among the Kentucky man’s carry-on items at the security checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
News Release: Police Chase in Stolen Car Resulted in Collision.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott, today issued the following statement regarding the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) response to the Motion for Preliminary Injunction against Black farmers in the ongoing Faust et al v. Vilsack et al case...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Cory John McGilloway appeared in federal court today and was arraigned on an information charging him with a violation of the Endangered Species Act, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Federal Bureau of Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
Release: MR PRICE: Thanks very much, and thanks, everyone, for joining the call. We will be previewing Secretary Blinken’s trip to Germany, France, and Italy. We officially announced that last Friday. We’ll be departing for the trip tomorrow afternoon. Just a reminder, this call is on the record, but it is.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - A Georgia man has been arrested on criminal charges related to allegations that he lied during the Naturalization process, including failing to disclose his participation in political persecution during the 1970s Ethiopian Red Terror campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Anthony Tevan Tyner, 24, was sentenced today to 26 months in prison for being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSHUA JENKINS, 28, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 21 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl and crack cocaine.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
Release: MR CAPEHART: Hello and welcome to this special edition of AC Front Page, the Atlantic Council’s premier live ideas platform for global leaders. I’m Jonathan Capehart, a journalist with The Washington Post and MSNBC. Thank you for joining us today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Pine Ridge man was acquitted of two counts of Sexual Abuse and two counts of Sexual Abuse of a Minor following a federal jury trial in Rapid City, South Dakota, on June 11, 2021.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
News Release: Whether the pollen honey bees collect comes from spring or fall flowers can be a vital factor in supporting the annual cycle of behaviors that sustain a honey bee colony, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service scientists.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities have arrested two Illinois residents named in an indictment that accuses five defendants of conspiring to unlawfully export to Russia defense articles - specifically, thermal imaging riflescopes and night-vision goggles - without a license in violation of the Arms Export Control Act.
