News from November 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Kiara Haynes, age 36, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to two counts of aiding and abetting the use and discharge of a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime and crime of violence, causing the death of Jennifer Jeffrey and her seven-year-old child. Haynes has been detained since her arrest in Texas on June 18, 2021, on a related federal criminal complaint.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing to examine the causes, outlook, and implications of domestic and international energy price trends.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Padre Island National Seashore has awarded EA Engineering, Science and Technology, Inc. to provide the National Park Service (NPS) and Padre Island National Seashore with preliminary planning services as the park considers the need for a beach management plan.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management announced today it is accepting proposals for new research projects to develop safe, effective and longer-lasting fertility control methods for wild horse mares. The BLM is also accepting proposals for research that analyzes how wild horses and burros interact with their environment, including how present and future climate change may impact wild horse and burro management.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Marionville, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for threatening two members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Ranking Member Bob Gibbs (R-OH) from today’s hearing entitled, “Rebuilding Coast Guard Infrastructure to Sustain and Enhance Mission Capability":
By USDA Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has deployed a new, high-tech tool to help protect U.S. nursery and specialty crop growers from a disease-causing microbe called Ralstonia solanacearum.APHIS’ Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) program ...
By State Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that federal inmate George Hall was convicted following a jury trial in federal court for charges stemming from a violent prison attack. Hall’s trial marks the first federal criminal jury trial in Charleston since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States in March of 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing to consider the nominations of Maria Lago to be Under Secretary for International Trade, and Lisa Wang to be Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance at the Department of Commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - One resident of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
Release: Private exporters reported sales of: * 270,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Mexico during the 2021/2022 marketing year. * 161,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2021/2022 marketing year.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee Republican Leader Greg Murphy, M.D. (R-NC), and Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-UT) sent a letter to Committee Democrats ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Randy McKinley, of Bridgeport, West Virginia, has admitted to a child pornography charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By Press Release | Nov 16, 2021
On Nov. 4, U.S. Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing to examine the potential non-electric applications of civilian nuclear energy.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)-led Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC) represented the U.S. Nov. 9 and 10 at The Hague, Netherlands, for a global meeting to discuss ongoing efforts to investigate and prosecute human rights violators and war criminals around the world.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ahead of the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale tomorrow-the first new fossil fuel lease sale in 2021-Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today criticized the Biden administration’s choice to hold the sale without first explaining in detail to the American people how it intends to reform and modernize the federal oil and gas program, which DOI itself has described as riddled with financial and environmental flaws.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MARTIN CORTEZ-BALDERAS (“CORTEZ"), age 39, a citizen of Mexico, was charged on Nov. 12, 2021 in a two-count indictment for Identity Theft and Violations of the Federal Gun Control Act.
By Press Release | Nov 16, 2021
The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced Nov. 4 that the goods and services deficit was $80.9 billion in September, up $8.1 billion from $72.8 billion in August, revised.
By Press Release | Nov 16, 2021
A Rwanda native, most recently residing in Buffalo, New York, has been denaturalized by consent and departed from the United States under an order of removal following the filing of a complaint citing his suspected involvement in the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
