News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: KANAB, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument will transition to a winter schedule for the monument’s visitor centers beginning Saturday, Nov. 20. Winter hour operations will commence as follows:.
By Press Release | Nov 15, 2021
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has released a final rule adding four foreign companies to the Entity List for engaging in activities that are contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
Release: The Government of Dominican Republic has asked USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to authorize the importation of the following species of orchid for planting into the United States and Territories
By Press Release | Nov 15, 2021
On November 8, 2021, Kevin J. Kurland, the Acting Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce, announced an administrative settlement with SP Industries, Inc. (d/b/a SP Scientific), of Warminster, Pennsylvania (“SP Industries”), which includes a civil penalty payment of $80,000 and audit requirements related to allegations that SP Industries committed four violations of the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) by exporting items to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (“Huawei”) and two subsidiaries, Huawei Device Co., Ltd. and HiSilicon Technologies Co., Ltd., without the required BIS licenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Panamanian Intermediary in Alleged Bribery Scheme Charged with Money Laundering Extradited to the United States from Guatemala.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Lester Eduardo Cardenas-Flores, 25, a native and citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to two years and five months in prison for conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Billy D. Henderson, 42, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, 100 grams or more of butyryl fentanyl and furanyl fentanyl. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a fine of $10,000,000.
By Press Release | Nov 15, 2021
NOAA’s Climate Program Office today launched a newly redesigned version of Climate.gov, NOAA’s award-winning, flagship website that provides the public with clear, timely, and science-based information about climate.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is looking to hire TSA officers at airports across Upstate New York including Syracuse Hancock International, Albany International, Buffalo-Niagara International, Plattsburgh International, Ogdensburg International, Ithaca Tompkins International, Greater Binghamton and Watertown International Airports within the next few months. Some of the airports have one vacancy and others have a handful of openings.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 15 years’ incarceration, to be served consecutively to a sentence of 10 to 20 years’ incarceration imposed in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, followed by 10 years’ supervised release on his conviction of production and attempted production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Press Release | Nov 15, 2021
Veterans Day originated as “Armistice Day” on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary marking the end of World War I.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Manish Raj Gupta, 50, of Sylvania, Ohio, was sentenced today by Judge James G. Carr to more than 19 years in prison after Gupta, a former Toledo-area physician, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and illegally dispensing a controlled substance. Gupta was sentenced to 235 months and ordered to pay a fine of $250,000 and over $57,000 in restitution.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Angus King (I-ME), Co-Chair of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Mitt Romney (R-UT) announced that President...
By Press Release | Nov 15, 2021
Worldwide employment U.S. multinational enterprises (MNEs) increased 2.4 percent to 43.9 million workers in 2019 from 42.9 million workers in 2018, according to statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) on the operations and finances of U.S. parent companies and their foreign affiliates.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: FARGO - Acting United States Attorney Nicholas W. Chase announced that U.S. District Court Chief Judge Peter D. Welte sentenced Harleigh Josette Haugen, age 20, Fargo, ND, to 45 months in federal prison for Conspiracy to Commit Robbery and Robbery. Chief Judge Welte also sentenced Haugen to 3 years supervised release and a $100.00 Special Assessment.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
Release: The North American Plant Protection Organization (NAPPO) has issued a call for projects. The call period is Nov. 15, 2021, to Jan. 15, 2022. Specifically, NAPPO is seeking proposals for new plant health standards and new tools that support the implementation of existing standards. NAPPO standards ...
By Press Release | Nov 15, 2021
Today, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne met in Washington to discuss areas of cooperation that build upon the Roadmap for a Renewed U.S.-Canada Partnership.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Chris Murphy (D-CT), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) announced that their bipartisan BuyAmerican.gov Act was signed into law as...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Nov. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Heath Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that Medicare Part B premiums paid by beneficiaries will increase next year, one of the largest increases in the program’s history.
