News from May 2021
By Homeland Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation to set the United States Postal Service on a more sustainable financial footing and support the goal of...
By State Newswire | May 19, 2021
Release: The United States supports the sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity of the five Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. We partner with these countries on security cooperation-related issues, both bilaterally and via regional,...
By Homeland Newswire | May 19, 2021
Release: DETROIT - The past week has been a busy one for Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers as they prevented a loaded handgun from making its way into the passenger cabin of an airplane at Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) for the third time in four days.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Fair Grove, Missouri, man who is a member of the Southwest Honkys violent prison gang was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a drug-trafficking conspiracy in which investigators intercepted a shipment of nearly 9.5 kilograms of methamphetamine.
By State Newswire | May 19, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Marc, good morning. FOREIGN MINISTER GARNEAU: Good morning, Tony. SECRETARY BLINKEN: Great to see you. So pleased to have a chance to spend some time with my friend, the minister of foreign affairs. We have been meeting in all sorts of places - in Brussels for NATO, in London at ...
By State Newswire | May 19, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, chaired by Rep. James E. Clyburn, held a hybrid hearing with Emergent BioSolutions, Inc.’s (Emergent) President and Chief Executive Officer, Robert G. Kramer, and Executive Chairman, Fuad El-Hibri. The hearing was related to...
By State Newswire | May 19, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By State Newswire | May 19, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -At today’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing examining Emergent Biosolutions’s multi-million-dollar contracts to produce vaccines, Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney questioned Emergent’s CEO Robert Kramer. Mr. Kramer admitted under questioning...
By State Newswire | May 19, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price...
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: There is a 45% chance of near-normal tropical cyclone activity during the Central Pacific hurricane season this year, according to NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center and NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, divisions of the National Weather Service. The outlook also indicates a 35% chance for below-normal activity, and 20% chance of an above-normal season.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Wesley Gullett, the president of a white supremacist organization which sold multiple kilograms of methamphetamine and committed numerous violent acts-including attempted murder-will spend the more than three decades in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: HUNGRY HORSE, Mont. - Today, the Bureau of Reclamation announced the opening of the Hungry Horse Dam Visitor Center Memorial Day weekend, May 28-May 31, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. MDT. Following the holiday weekend, the center will be open Friday through Sunday through June 13. Beginning June 18, the visitor center will be open daily through Oct. 9.
By Homeland Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: HONOLULU - A Big Island man appeared in U.S. District Court Monday to face methamphetamine and firearm charges, following an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Hawaiʻi County Police, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
By State Newswire | May 19, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon. Wonderful to see everyone. Pekka, welcome. It’s so good to see you. We had an opportunity to see each other briefly at - in Brussels at the NATO, but I was very much looking forward to being able to spend some more time.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: A federal grand jury recently returned an eight-count indictment charging Haskell Knight, a/k/a “Trey Knight," age 56, and Emily Knight, a/k/a “Emily Ricciardelli," a/k/a “Emily Fryer," age 37, both of Franklin, Tennessee, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud. Each appeared for their arraignments and pled not guilty to the pending charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Meredith Dawn Dunkin, age 47, of Hartshorne, Oklahoma was sentenced to 9 months’ imprisonment in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in...
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) led a letter, signed by every Republican Committee Member, to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona voicing strong objection to the Education Department’s proposed priorities on the American History and Civics Education programs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES G. GUERRA, 59, of Dix Hills, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to three years of probation, the first two months of which Guerra must spend in home confinement, for a felony tax offense. Judge Bolden also ordered Guerra to perform 100 hours of community service.
