News from March 2021
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, submitted the following to the record as the Committee held a hearing entitled “A Year Out: Addressing International Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic." The Chairman submitted the following remarks to the record...
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Daniel Santos Galaviz, 27, of Fresno, charging him with unlawfully possessing ammunition after being convicted of a felony crime, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
Release: *MODERATOR:* (Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen, foreign and defense ministers.
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 State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
Release: Mekong-U.S. Partnership. The Indo-Pacific, and particularly Southeast Asia, is dynamic, and enhancing the United States’ economic ties with this region is a Biden administration priority. Over 3.5 million Americans are immigrants or descendants of immigrants from Mekong-region countries, and over 1,000...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that India Tykeyah-Najee Cuyler, a/k/a “Lady Tank," 26, of Columbia, was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison, after pleading guilty in February 2019 to using a facility of interstate commerce to entice a minor under the age of 18 to engage in sexual activity.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing on Efforts to Address Marine Plastic Pollution Through Recycling.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Anthony Gerace, 41, of Clarence, NY, who was convicted of possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Yesterday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and Congressman August Pfluger (R-TX) held a virtual press conference demanding the immediate release of American and U.S. Marine Veteran Trevor Reed, who is currently being held as a political hostage in Russia. The Members were joined by Trevor’s parents, Paula and Joey Reed.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Benjamin Butler, age 33, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, pled guilty on March 17, 2021, before U.S. District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann to wire fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Carriage roads are closing to all users March 19 as “mud season" opens across Acadia National Park.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - On March 3rd, 2021, FEMA Region 3, along with the City of Philadelphia, its federal partners, and volunteer organizations, opened a mass vaccination site at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The goal of opening this site was to provide Philadelphia residents with a centralized location...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Kentucky man pleaded guilty today to federal hate crimes and firearm charges arising out of the racially motivated shootings of Black individuals at a grocery store. The federal plea was announced by Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Pamela S. Karlan of the Civil Rights...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Canon City, Colorado, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: VALDOSTA, Ga. - A Doerun, Georgia, resident found guilty of distributing large amounts of methamphetamine in two southwest Georgia communities was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison today for his crimes, said Peter D. Leary, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent letters to Elanco Animal Health Inc. and Bayer U.S. LLC seeking documents and information regarding the Seresto flea and tick collars, following reports that the collars may have killed thousands of pets and caused injuries to many more pets as well as humans.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - In Del Rio yesterday, a federal judge sentenced Houston resident Michael Dewayne Dennis, aka Michael Spiller, to 18 years in federal prison for leading a conspiracy that distributed over 11,000 kilograms of marijuana throughout the country, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
Release: Congressman Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Chair of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the COVID Outbreaks and Management Challenges: Evaluating the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Pandemic Response and the Way Forward.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ADRIAN FLEMMING, also known as “Gordo," 25, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl.
