News from June 2021
By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: United States Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm and Canadian Minister of Natural Resources Seamus O’Regan today held a bilateral meeting to launch a new updated and revised Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that reinvigorates and expands energy cooperation between their departments, accelerates...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - The initial investigation into the cause of the fire at Scotty’s Castle has recently concluded. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) determined the fire began inside the Visitor Center.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Democrats’ Sabotage of Our Recovery is Just Getting Started.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.3 million grant to the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, for infrastructure improvements needed to serve the Reactory Biotechnology Park and grow...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted two men today for participating in a bribery and kickback conspiracy involving a contract for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Tawhyne M. Patterson, a Vice Lord gang member from Chicago, Illinois, and Damon D. Williams of Omaha, Nebraska, were sentenced today for their respective roles in a home invasion that resulted in the death of Jessica Brandon on July 31, 2018. Chief...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing two firearms that he stole from a car and attempted to sell outside a nearby hotel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury today convicted Armando Daniel Calderon of four charges related to methamphetamine trafficking. The announcement was made Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Wade R. Shannon and Acting United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds. The verdict follows a one and a half week jury trial before the Honorable William Alsup, Senior United States District Judge.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A federal jury convicted a St. Paul man for drug possession with intent to distribute after being arrested with six kilograms of cocaine in his vehicle, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Shane Kelly Torpey, age 37, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on June 23, 2021, to 140 months’ imprisonment to be followed by a 10-year term of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for using the internet to attempt to entice a 12-year-old minor female to engage in prohibited sexual activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s hearing on the Democrats’ bill to dramatically expand federal paid leave by chastising Democrats for their hypocrisy. Democrats entitled this hearing “Leading by Example," yet held today’s hearing remotely regardless of the fact the science indicates it’s safe to conduct business in-person.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Husband and Wife Stormed Capitol; Man Threw Chair at U.S. Capitol Police Officers.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) called on Inspectors General from numerous federal agencies to assess the impact of telework on federal agencies’ mission, employee performance, and service to the American people during the pandemic.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Prime Minister, welcome again. And I’m so pleased to have this opportunity to see you, to see the foreign minister, to see your delegation, especially after the very good, good day we had yesterday, which I think demonstrated again the very strong support on the part of the international community, the United Nations for Libya, for a strong, positive future as a unified, independent, stable country without any foreign interference.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) and top Republican for the Trade Subcommittee Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) introduced the bipartisan Trade Preferences and American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act to build upon the success of USMCA and renew trade programs to protect U.S. workers and small businesses.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: The House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch today approved by voice vote its fiscal year 2022 bill.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Mexican national was sentenced today to 14 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for unlawful reentry by an alien after deportation or removal, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Jason E. Schneider, Chief Patrol Agent of the Border Patrol’s New Orleans Sector.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Brady: The Federal Government “Can’t Become the Olive Garden of Never-Ending Government Checks".
