News from May 2021
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: Doctor performed irreversible hysterectomies, improper sterilizations, and other medically unnecessary surgeries and procedures for over a decade.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: HONOLULU - Jonathan Tai, 36, of Kurtistown, Hawaii, made his initial appearance yesterday in United States District Court in Honolulu on methamphetamine and firearm charges filed in a criminal complaint. United States Magistrate Judge Kenneth J. Mansfield ordered him detained pending a detention hearing on Thursday, May 20.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, a Florida man was arrested for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: Paid Gratuities to a Public Official, Including Money, Travel, and Sporting Event Tickets and Received More Than $20 Million in Government Business.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: Acres: 5,546. Percent Containment: 94. Date/Time Detected: May 8, 2021. 2:15 PM. Structures burned: 0. Number of Resources: 32. Cause: Human under investigation. Origin/Location: 7 miles southwest of Crown King. TUSSOCK FIRE TRANSITIONS TO LOCAL FIREFIGHTERS. FIRE OPERATIONS. Southwest Area Type 1 Incident...
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: WEST GLACIER, Mont. [May 18, 2021] - Glacier National Park's 2021 Artist-in-Residence program will host Brad Einstein, Kyle Niemer, and Imma Barrera.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: On Thursday afternoon, May 13, park rangers at Rocky Mountain National Park responded to cell phone reports from park visitors who indicated there was a man running down the Gem Lake Trail, toward the Lumpy Ridge Trailhead parking area, yelling that he was being chased by someone with a rifle. While rangers were responding to the area, they received an additional report about a woman who had been knocked down on the Gem Lake Trail by a man running down the trail.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, during the markup of H.R. 2922, the Elder Abuse Protection Act of 2021...
By USDA Newswire | May 18, 2021
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 1,360,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to China during the 2021/2022 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: In the first post-pandemic jury trial held in the Southern District of Georgia, a previously convicted felon has been found guilty on gun and drug charges.
By State Newswire | May 18, 2021
Release: More information about Guyana is available on the Guyana Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Wednesday, May 26, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) on building confidence in COVID-19 vaccines in order to vaccinate more Americans. The hearing is entitled, “A Shot at Normalcy: Building COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence."
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: 'Every Kid Deserves to be a Kid'.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on automated vehicles, Subcommittee Republican Leader Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) said that, while full autonomy is still years away, we need to set the industry on the path to a fully autonomous vehicle future today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that four men were arrested today on federal charges related to the distribution of oxycodone pills, counterfeit pills containing fentanyl, and other drugs in the Hartford area.
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on automated vehicles, Subcommittee Republican Leader Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) said that, while full autonomy is still years away, we need to set the industry on the path to a fully autonomous vehicle future today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A prior sex offender who was on parole supervision at the time of his latest offense was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 186 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for attempting to sexually coerce a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity.
By State Newswire | May 18, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: (Inaudible) it’s wonderful to be here. Very much looking forward to the work that we will do both bilaterally and also in the context of the Arctic Council. I have to tell you, as we discussed on the phone - we had the opportunity to talk as well through the - at the NATO meetings ...
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today that the Shasta Dam Visitor Center will reopen on Thursday, May 20. The visitor center is an excellent resource for visitors from around the world who are interested in learning about Shasta Dam - the keystone of the Central Valley Project.
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site recently took steps to strengthen the use of human performance improvement (HPI) tools to help personnel reduce the chance and severity of errors while performing work activities.
