News from November 2021
By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the Department is investing $86 million to improve equitable access (PDF, 238 KB) to jobs, business opportunities, education, housing and health care for people who live and work in rural areas. The investments are...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Kula, Maui-The Kīpahulu District of Haleakalā National Park will be temporarily closed over the weekend on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021 and Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. The temporary Kīpahulu District closure is due to a complete road closure by Maui Department of Public Works along Hāna Highway, 1.5 miles...
By Press Release | Nov 18, 2021
After consideration of public comments, EPA has finalized its biological evaluations (BEs) for glyphosate, atrazine, and simazine, three herbicides that are used to control a variety of grasses and broadleaf weeds.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
Release: The Secretary of State’s designation of “countries of particular concern" and “special watch list" countries for religious freedom violations pursuant to Section 408(a) of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-292), as amended (the Act), notice is hereby given that, on November...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: A former church bookkeeper has been sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison for using church funds for personal enrichment, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice today announced more than $139 million in grant funding through the department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The awards provide direct funding to 183 law enforcement agencies across the nation, allowing those agencies to hire 1,066 additional full-time law enforcement professionals. In the Southern District of Indiana one city was awarded funding totaling $375,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - An Ash Grove, Missouri, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for a wire fraud scheme in which she embezzled more than $362,000 from her Springfield, Mo., employer.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, delivered opening remarks at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the nominations of Erik Hooks to be Deputy Administrator at...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA--Today, the National Park Service (NPS) and officials from Chevron Environmental Management Company (Chevron), the Musconetcong River Management Council (MRMC), and the Musconetcong Watershed Association (MWA) announced the removal of remnants of nine old oil pipelines from the Wild and Scenic Musconetcong River.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- The Department of Justice today announced more than $139 million in grant funding through the department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The awards provide direct funding to 183 law enforcement agencies across the nation, allowing those agencies to hire 1,066 additional full-time law enforcement professionals. In Oregon, three cities were awarded a total of $625,000.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
Release: QUESTION: Kenya is the first of three stops of the African tour being made by the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and here in Nairobi, a range of issues on the agenda, from democracy to defense agreements and, of course, trade. At the conclusion of his visit, Secretary Blinken agreed to a few minutes of an interview with us here on Citizen.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio today announced that the Justice Department has awarded $5.5 million in grant funding through the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP) to four law enforcement agencies in the district. The awards provide direct funding to hire additional full-time law enforcement professionals.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Grants Announced during the White House Tribal Nations Summit.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: $6,625,000 Awarded to Law Enforcement Agencies in the Northern District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: $1,019,756 Awarded to the City of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
Release: MS ANDERSEN: Thank you. I’m very honored to welcome you, Secretary Blinken, to the United Nations in Nairobi. For almost 50 years - next year it will be 50 - we at the United Nations Environment Program have been proud to call Kenya home to the only UN headquarters located in the Global South, the nerve center of multilateral governance here for the environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A federal jury Wednesday found a Broken Arrow man guilty after his electronic devices were found to have more than 4,000 images and videos depicting the rape and molestation of children, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: $248,257.00 Awarded to Law Enforcement Agencies in the District of Vermont.
