News from November 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released operational statistics showing a record number of border arrests in October as the United States continues to face a crisis at our southern border...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Pass Christian man was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR recognized six small businesses at a recent ceremony for exceptional support to EM’s cleanup mission at the site.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Lawmakers are urging the Biden Administration to provide greater information and analysis in their rush towards a drug pricing scheme that would dramatically change how the United States pays for drugs and upend the incentives that exist today for innovation and generic and biosimilar competition.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today hailed the release of a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report on uranium impacts to groundwater in the Grand Canyon region. The report found generally low concentrations of uranium but did identify uranium hotspots near active and abandoned uranium mining sites.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on Nov. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Nov. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that an Okreek, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Second Degree Murder and Using and Carrying a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence.
By State Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on reports that the United States will not send government officials to the Beijing Olympics in February. The Strategic Competition Act, legislation authored ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - United States District Judge Jay C. Zainey sentenced BRADLEY BRIGHT, 32, of New Orleans, Louisiana, today to ten (10) years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that, as part of a national rollout, the Department of Justice awarded $2,438,323 in grants to improve public safety, serve victims of crime and support youth programs in tribal communities in the Western District of Michigan.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Nov. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today welcomed the Biden administration's transmittal of the Kigali Amendment to the Senate for ratification.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO - An indictment was partially unsealed yesterday in federal court charging 29 alleged members of an international money laundering organization that is tied to the Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Mexico.
By Press Release | Nov 16, 2021
A federal court in the Eastern District of Michigan has permanently enjoined a Detroit-area tax return preparer from preparing federal income tax returns for others and from owning or operating any tax return business in the future.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s joint Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change and Subcommittee on Energy hearing on supply chains for renewable energy sources.
By State Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
Release: MODERATOR: Thank you, Operator, and good afternoon, everyone. I’d like to thank all of you for joining us today for this on-background briefing to learn more about the Department of State’s ongoing effort to help facilitate the departure of U.S. citizens from Ethiopia. To help explain our efforts and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of Distribution and Receipt and Attempted Distribution and Receipt of Material Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of Minor, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Colombian national, recently residing in Revere, was convicted by a federal jury today in connection with attempting to purchase 20 kilograms of cocaine from undercover agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - James Kristoffer Cantley, 39, formerly of Newton, N.C., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell to 210 months in prison and five years of supervised release for trafficking methamphetamine, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District...
