News from March 2021
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 State Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: Promontory Summit, UT - For over 40 years Golden Spike National Historical Park’s massive, steam-breathing locomotives have captured the imagination of both young and old but keeping these historic locomotives in tip top shape is no small task.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: The secret to building superconducting quantum computers with massive processing power may be an ordinary telecommunications technology - optical fiber.
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
Release: The following statement was released by United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the European Commission Josep Borrell following today’s meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: Defendants allegedly tied to Mexican drug trafficking organization.
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
Release: The following statement was released by United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the European Commission Josep Borrell following today’s meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. -Seizures of fentanyl and heroin made by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in North Dakota increased in 2020 with investigators seeing a 223 percent increase from 2019 in the two drugs combined.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released the 2021 Capital Spending Report: U.S. Capital Spending Patterns 2010 - 2019. Data in this report are from the Census Bureau's 2010 to 2019 Annual Capital Expenditures Survey, which collects information on expenditures for new and used structures and equipment by all U.S. nonfarm businesses. In addition, it examines investment shares over time.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 44-year-old resident of Corpus Christi has been ordered to prison after admitting her role in a federal drug scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A convicted felon pleaded guilty today to possession of a sawed-off shotgun found during a traffic stop in Searchlight, Nevada, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher Chiou for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Patrick Gorman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Charles Chandler Smith, 43, of Sumrall, Mississippi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to five years’ probation for filing a false tax return, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge James E. Dorsey of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, Atlanta Field Office. Smith was also ordered to pay a $494,444 in restitution.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure today approved bills introduced by Committee Republicans that will improve emergency management programs for disaster victims, encourage the early completion of airport capacity projects, enhance aviation safety information provided to pilots, and reauthorize the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Friday, March 19, 2021, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Eric Joseph Holloway, age 29, of Davenport, to 300 months in prison for Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances, Possession of Firearms in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, and...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In an exchange during a Senate Banking Committee hearing with U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) urged Secretary Yellen to give states the maximum flexibility as they determine how best to use funds authorized by Congress. As written,...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
Release: Congressman Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Chair of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's oversight hearing on The Rural Economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jo-El Rene Torres, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott and Nutrition Subcommittee Chair Jahana Hayes issued the following statement following USDA’s announcement on a U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia action. The Court approved USDA’s move to withdraw its appeal on the previously vacated final rule, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Requirements for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Rashad Khalill Faunteroy, of Charles Town, West Virginia, appeared today before a federal magistrate judge on a firearms charge after being indicted last week, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
