News from November 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) and House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today blasted the Biden Administration’s new policies requiring private sector businesses with 100 or more employees to require vaccinations or weekly COVID testing and mandating employees in certain health facilities be vaccinated by January 4, 2022.
By State Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
Release: As the conflict in Ethiopia marks a full year, Ethiopian leaders - both inside and outside government and from across the country - face an urgent need to act immediately and alleviate the suffering of the Ethiopian people. The United States reiterates our deep concern about the risk of intercommunal...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.4 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to support broadband expansion in Northeast Minnesota.
By State Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:.
By State Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, will begin selling Christmas tree permits on Monday, November 15. The permit is valid from the date of purchase through December 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man was sentenced today for conspiring to distribute large quantities of cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Tom Carper (D-DE), along with U.S. Representatives Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) and David Price (D-NC), introduced bicameral, bipartisan legislation to ensure...
By Caleb Lombardo | Nov 4, 2021
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is giving $6.2 million in funding for five grants to support research on existing and novel surrogates for detecting and monitoring viruses in wastewater that is intended for water reuse applications.
By State Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) were joined today by State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) in marking one year since the beginning of the conflict in Ethiopia ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted an Alexandria man yesterday on charges of conspiracy, possession, and distribution of fentanyl and Eutylone, and being a felon in possession of a firearm during drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man was sentenced yesterday for illegally possessing three firearms and ammunition.
By George Willis | Nov 4, 2021
Non-citizens who can document they've been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 will be allowed to enter the United States through land ports of entry and ferry terminals beginning Nov. 8, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced recently.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: Dear Comptroller General Dodaro:. In January 2015, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report describing the weaknesses of statutory protections for whistleblowers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the failures of the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to effectively...
By State Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
Release: When the Department of State released the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices earlier this year, I announced our intention to restore the section on reproductive rights - because women’s rights are human rights. Today we are releasing updated Country Reports with information on a broad range...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan and bicameral group of lawmakers is seeking a new review of the FBI’s whistleblower protection rules as well as reports of retaliation against whistleblowers from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) after the bureau’s and the Justice Department’s failure to implement new regulations to comply with more stringent protections enacted by Congress in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Wise County man this week of trafficking methamphetamine from Atlanta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to time served - 17 months - for his role in a bank fraud conspiracy, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.8 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Indianapolis Airport Authority, Indianapolis, Indiana, to support the distribution and logistics sector in Central Indiana.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: Glasgow, Scotland - U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm and Romanian Minister of Energy Virgil Popescu highlighted a new commercial partnership between NuScale Power and Nuclearelectrica that was signed earlier this week on the sidelines of the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change...
