News from March 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: More than 150 years ago, the Sun blasted Earth with a massive cloud of hot charged particles. This plasma blob generated a magnetic storm on Earth that caused sparks to leap out of telegraph equipment and even started a few fires. Now called the Carrington Event, after one of the astronomers who observed...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ranking Member and Chairwoman of the Committee on Rules and Administration, released the following...
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
Release: FOREIGN MINISTER WILMES: Ladies and gentlemen, dames en heren, mesdames et messieurs, let me first thank the journalists and the media who are following us from a remote location for their understanding regarding the format of this event. We all know that the conditions are not optimal, but unfortunately, the pandemic forces us still to be creative, but we hope that it’s going to be ended up soon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal jury convicted a Wilson man on Tuesday on charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Cranston man admitted to a federal court judge today that he sprayed a flammable liquid into a Providence Police Department cruiser causing a fire to intensify and destroy the vehicle moments after he and others unsuccessfully attempted to flip-over the cruiser during the June 2020 riots in downtown Providence.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, introduced legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Their bill would make tax credits that encourage carbon capture projects more available and easier to use.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, held a hearing to discuss the child health and hunger crisis as the Committee begins its work on legislation to provide healthy food to children in need in the next Child Nutrition Reauthorization.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following opening statement at the hearing titled “Child Nutrition Reauthorization: Healthy Meals and Healthy Futures." Live video of the hearing is available here.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee and senior member of the Finance Committee; Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and a senior member of the Finance ...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader for Communications and Technology Subcommittee Bob Latta (R-OH) delivered opening remarks at today’s joint subcommittee hearing on how Big Tech has failed to be responsible stewards of their platforms and has lost the trust of Americans.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
Release: Washington - In January 2021, President Biden released the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. The plan is driven by science, data, and public health to improve the effectiveness of our nation's fight against COVID-19 and to restore trust, accountability and a sense of common purpose in our response to the pandemic.
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after the committee approved two bills and 13 resolutions during a business meeting:
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DESI WILLIAMS, 40, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 42 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm while on federal supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho - The windstorm that swept through the north Idaho area in mid-January left a path of downed trees at the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) popular Mineral Ridge Scenic Area and National Recreation Trail. Downed trees from the storm have impacted the trail system and the adjacent public lands.
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
Release: At the 46th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), February 22 - March 23, the United States actively reengaged with the Council after a two-and-a-half-year absence and announced its candidacy for a member seat for the 2022-2024 term. With introspection about the United States’ own human rights ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that CHARLES CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT, a.k.a. Charlie Lonedog Jr., 31, was sentenced in U.S. District Court. Lambert was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm and assault resulting in serious bodily injury, pleading guilty to the later charge. Lambert was sentenced to twenty-six months in prison. Chief Federal District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl handed down Lambert’s sentence.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: DENVER - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved $19.4 million in additional funding for COVID-19 response efforts in North Dakota. To date, FEMA has paid more than $77.1 million in Public Assistance funding for COVID-19 response in North Dakota. The assistance was made available under a major disaster declaration issued April 1, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A felon pleaded guilty today to being in possession of a firearm. John Leach, 55, formerly of St. Albans, was indicted by a federal grand jury in September 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 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 Management, Performance Challenges and COVID Response at the Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Andrew Ross Hose, of Augusta, West Virginia, appeared today before a federal magistrate judge on drug charges after being indicted last week, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
