News from March 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at Buffalo Niagara International Airport is now using new technology that confirms the validity of a traveler’s identification (ID) and confirms their flight information in near real time.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX - A local area man was charged Wednesday for fraudulently seeking over $450,000 in COVID-19 relief guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) through the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the fourth phase of the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS). Data collection began Feb. 15. Results will be released weekly Feb. 25 to April 22. The SBPS includes questions on topics such as location closings, changes in employment, disruptions in the...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in partnership with the University of Tennessee Extension Institute of Agriculture and Great Smoky Mountains Association, is pleased to invite visitors to experience the Storybook Trail of the Smokies, an initiative dedicated to promoting literacy in nature. Visitors...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks during a Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet hearing on "The Importance of a Diverse Federal Judiciary"...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested one of ICE’s Top 10 Most Wanted in the United States, a previously removed immigration fugitive citizen of Haiti who had been convicted on multiple counts of narcotics possession and trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VASHUN LEWIS, also known as “V-Love," 45, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall to 90 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for firearm possession offenses.
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement regarding North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test. On Thursday, North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - William John Clark, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 57 months of incarceration for making a bomb, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Directed Employees to Blend Oats into Soybeans and Hide Oats in Grain Bins.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John B. Larson (D-CT), Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ), and Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Chairman Danny K. Davis (D-IL) announced that the Social...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - The former governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico, has admitted he accepted over $3.5 million in illegal bribe money and used it to fraudulently purchase property in the United States, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A Riverside County man pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges that he engaged in a month-long robbery spree of pharmacies in the Inland Empire while wearing a medical mask over his face.
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
Release: QUESTION: Thank you so much, Mr. Secretary, for joining me. I want to start with a speech this week that you gave. You listed China first among the military and non-military threats to the United States. This comes, of course, after you clashed with Chinese officials in Anchorage last week. China is...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK/PAWTUCKET - Today, Acting Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter announced the creation of a rulemaking office in the FTC “to reinvigorate rulemaking authority to level the playing field for consumers and businesses." Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10) and Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David N. Cicilline (RI-01) released the following statements...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is authorizing importation of five commodities of fresh pepper fruit from Colombia into the continental United States. The commodities are Capsicum annuum (Pepper, Bell); C. baccatum (Pepper, Locoto); C. chinense ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Zachary Feeterman, 26, of Tonawanda, NY, with receipt and possession of child pornography. Based on the defendant’s prior conviction, the charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
Release: The United States is shocked and deeply saddened by reports that Burmese security forces continued to use lethal force against the people of Burma last weekend, resulting in the deaths of at least 27 people, including several children.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) during today’s hearing titled, “The Administration’s Priorities for Transportation Infrastructure." Video of DeFazio’s opening statement is here. More information on the hearing, including Secretary Buttigieg’s prepared testimony, can be found here.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: HODGENVILLE, Ky. - The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park will reopen the Birthplace Visitor Center on Wednesday, April 7, 2021 to the public. Normal hours of operation will resume.
