News from June 2021
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 330,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2021/2022 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - Due to high fire danger across the region the BLM Wyoming High Plains District is implementing Stage 1 fire restrictions for all BLM administered lands within Converse, Crook, Goshen, Natrona, Niobrara, Platte, Sheridan, and Weston Counties beginning tomorrow, June 24, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Canadian man pleaded guilty today to possessing a firearm as an alien illegally or unlawfully in the United States, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
Release: CHANCELLOR MERKEL: (Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to be able to welcome the foreign secretary, the Secretary of State of the United States Antony Blinken, and that I have the opportunity to get to know him a little bit better in his new position.
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), and Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), and Jason Crow (D-CO), released the below statement following a bipartisan press conference calling on the Biden Administration to expedite support for Afghans still awaiting special immigrant visas (SIV).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on June 16, 2021, ALONZO PITTMAN, 34, from Orleans Parish, pled guilty as charged to a one-count indictment for being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) announces the release of a prospectus to solicit concession contract proposals to provide gasoline and diesel fuel, retail, food and beverage, recreational vehicle park, campground, showers, guided UTV and ATV tours, and UTV or ATV rentals at the Hite area of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The effective date of the next concession contract is expected to be Nov. 1, 2021.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) are seeking nominations to fill three positions on the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. The Board plays an important role in the efforts of both agencies to be good neighbors in states where the BLM...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man has been charged with orchestrating a long-running securities offering fraud while simultaneously embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from his employer’s bank account, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: AUSTIN - U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel today sentenced 34-year-old Austin resident Juan Angel Aguirre aka “Larry Aguirre" to 235 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for supplying traffickers with multiple kilograms of narcotics that were distributed throughout the Austin area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: TAMPA. Fla. - Justin Case Lebarron (28, Pasco County) was sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine resulting in death, distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine resulting in death, possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl, and maintaining a drug-involved premises. A federal jury had found Lebarron guilty on April 22, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A former Coahuila, Mexico, governor has been ordered to federal prison for his role in a money laundering scheme that includes offenses against a foreign nation involving bribery of a public official, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Wednesday, June 30, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell...
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
Release: Hello!. Let me begin by thanking the more than 20 governments - and the European Union - for co-sponsoring this event, as well as the co-sponsoring nongovernmental organizations, which have conducted relentless advocacy on behalf of transgender people worldwide. I’m proud to join you for the first UN...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 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 U.S. Senator Richard Burr, Ranking Member of the Senate HELP Committee, announced three new areas of bipartisan oversight as part of their ongoing work to develop policy proposals aimed at improving the nation’s public health and medical preparedness and response programs.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee blocked Republican attempts to allow PFAS chemicals to be safely used in critical products like medical devices, PPE, and protective gear for our law enforcement and military. Rather than support bipartisan amendments to the PFAS...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Guatemalan man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to charges related to a Colombia-to-America cocaine conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee blocked Republican attempts to allow PFAS chemicals to be safely used in critical products like medical devices, PPE, and protective gear for our law enforcement and military. Rather than support bipartisan amendments to the PFAS...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Luis Minier, a/k/a “Cito," age 26, of York, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on June 22, 2021, to 10 years’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner for conspiring to distribute over a kilogram of heroin (one kilogram of heroin is the equivalent of approximately 40,000 individual doses) and five kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, during the markup of H.R. 3843, the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2021...
