News from November 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Enduring Security Framework (ESF), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published guidance today to mitigate cyber threats within 5G cloud infrastructure. Securely Isolate Network Resources examines threats to 5G container-centric or hybrid container/virtual network, also known as Pods.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell handed down sentences of up to 15 years in prison to five defendants for their involvement in a methamphetamine trafficking ring, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement praising House passage of H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man who operates a non-profit agency has been indicted by a federal grand jury for falsely claiming to employ convicted felons who were on federal court supervised release.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today released the below statement following the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) announcement of the first step in EPA's two-step process to replace the Trump administration's 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR) and promulgate a new definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS)...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A Columbia County man faces up to life in federal prison after a jury convicted him on nine felony counts related to child sex trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Nov. 17, 2021, Mark Holmes, age 66, of Hughes Springs, Texas, was charged in a criminal information with honest services wire fraud and failing to remit employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: 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 District of Maine, three towns and one county were awarded funding totaling $750,000.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is authorizing importation of fresh mango fruit from Colombia into the United States. This commodity will be imported using safeguarding measures across the production continuum that growers, packers, ...
By Solange DeLisle | Nov 18, 2021
The U.S. Department of Labor is celebrating the seventh annual National Apprenticeship Week and the creation of a new push to increase, diversify and refashion registered apprenticeships in the United States in an effort to bring paid learning opportunities up to date.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
Release: The President today revoked an Executive Order, thereby terminating the Burundi sanctions program and related visa restrictions. As a result, the sanctions and visa restrictions imposed on the eleven individuals designated under this program have been lifted. This decision reflects the changed circumstances in Burundi and President Ndayishimiye’s pursuit of reforms across multiple sectors over the past year.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement regarding the Congressional Budget Office’s table of Energy and Commerce provisions in the tax and spending spree.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A federal jury convicted a Lizella, Georgia, resident for bank robbery a week after being released from federal prison for previously robbing a bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: A federal jury convicted a Texas man and a Missouri man on Tuesday of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations charges stemming from their membership in the white supremacy prison gang, the Aryan Circle, between 2010 and 2021.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Robert Hopkins, 26, and William Limper, 43, both of Philadelphia, PA, were sentenced to eight years and one month in prison, and 16 years and four months in prison, respectively, by United States District Court Judge Wendy...
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 District of New Hampshire, three towns were awarded funding totaling $500,000.
