News from March 2021
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
Release: QUESTION: (Via interpreter) I understand that you will soon leave the country to have a meeting with China, and I would like to thank you very much for selecting SBS for your last interview before leaving the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that REGINALD JONES, 36, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on March 17, 2021 to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime before United States District Judge Sarah S. Vance.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: In San Antonio today, 19-year-old Iron Youth member and Smiley resident Caleb Nathaniel Oliver pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a machine gun, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing entitled, “Fighting Forced Labor: Closing Loopholes and Improving Customs Enforcement to Mandate Clean Supply Chains and Protect Workers.".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise Act of 2021, which provides a path to citizenship for Dreamers as well as TPS and DED recipients, and H.R. 1603, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021, which would permit farm workers-and their ...
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
Release: The United States is providing an additional nearly $52 million in assistance to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The United States has provided a total of nearly $153 million in humanitarian assistance since the crisis began.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, WV - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed a two-year alliance with West Virginia University Safety & Health Extension and West Virginia State Consultation Program to provide safety and health information, guidance and training to OSHA Training Institute Education Center participants.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Xavier Becerra to serve as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by a bipartisan vote of 50-49. Yesterday, in remarks on the Senate floor, Senator Patty Murray, Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, ...
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, Russia, China, and Pakistan on the occasion of the Extended “Troika" on Peaceful Settlement in Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - A federal grand jury in Lafayette, Louisiana, has returned a six-count indictment charging Chance J. Seneca, 19, of Lafayette, with hate crime, kidnapping, firearm, and obstruction charges based on his attempted murder of a gay man and his overarching scheme to kidnap and murder gay men whom he met online.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man pleaded guilty today in federal court for sexually abusing a minor, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Today, Workforce Protections Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Keller (R-PA) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a joint subcommittee hearing to discuss legislation related to workplace discrimination...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: DENVER - Nearly one year after the damaging earthquake centered around Magna, FEMA and the state of Utah are releasing a strategy to address the risks posed to unreinforced masonry structures. The document, Wasatch Front Unreinforced Masonry Risk Reduction Strategy, provides guidance to Utah communities on how to identify their own risk and then take steps to address it.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm today announced the 2021 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, hosted by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), will take place from May 24 to 27 in a fully virtual format.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney W. Anders Folk today announced charges against 13 defendants in a multi-million dollar health care fraud conspiracy. The defendants made their initial appearances yesterday before Magistrate Judge David T. Schultz in U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Following an investigation by Special Agents of the National Park Service (NPS) Investigative Services Branch, a man has been sentenced for misappropriation of government property and interfering with agency functions by providing false information within Grand Canyon National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAYSHON FRAZIER, 30, of Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 27 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd sentenced Valentin Martinez, 41, of Fresno, today to six years in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Under the authority of 36 CFR 1.5(a), the Superintendent will temporarily close two locations at Indiana Dunes National Park so work projects can be completed safely.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Bill Pascrell, Jr. announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on “Examining Private Equity’s Expanded Role in the U.S. Health Care System" on Thursday, March 25, 2021 beginning at 1:00 PM EDT.
