News from October 2021

By DOE Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
Release: 2025 Milestone Will Play a Key Role in Achieving Justice40 Goals and Create $1 Billion in Energy Savings
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: Brady: Dreadful News for America’s Slowing Recovery as Americans Lose Confidence in Biden’s Economic Leadership.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - October 8, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 100 months in prison for possessing more than 40 grams of fentanyl with the intent to distribute, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) will begin construction on a wetland enhancement project the week of Oct. 11. In order to accommodate the contractor moving in equipment for the project, the BLM will temporarily close access to the John C. Pointner Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary...

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) September 2021 jobs report...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The City of Knoxville will receive $200,000 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing (COPS) that will support practices and strategies for creative approaches to preventing crime and de-escalation training, announced Acting United States Attorney Francis M. Hamilton III.

By State Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
Release: The Troika (Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States) strongly supports the efforts of Sudan’s government to resolve protests in eastern Sudan which, as the government’s October 3 statement highlighted, risk having a serious impact on the country’s economy and the well-being of its citizens.

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - A bipartisan bill authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Rick Scott (R-FL) to enhance cybersecurity assistance to K-12 educational institutions across the country has been signed into law. Chairman Peters...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Israeli man was sentenced today to 360 months in federal prison for blackmailing dozens of girls into producing child pornography for him.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A federal jury today found three men guilty of various narcotics and firearms offenses for their roles in a Trenton-based drug trafficking conspiracy, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Charles Paul Jansen, 35, of Pittsfield, pleaded guilty in federal court to distribution of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By State Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
Release: Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights Uzra Zeya will travel to Haiti and Panama from October 12-16, 2021.

By State Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
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By State Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
Release: Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland will travel to Moscow, Russia on October 11 to meet with senior officials and other interlocutors to discuss a range of bilateral, regional, and global issues.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the U.S. Senate confirmed Congresswoman Xochitl Torres Small to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Georgia has brought federal charges against 18 individuals as part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) on-going investigation into alleged drug trafficking in Southwest Georgia. An indictment is only an allegation of criminal conduct, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced James Dorsey, age 36, of Baltimore, to 90 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: Mesa Verde National Park Begins Trespass Livestock Operations.

By State Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement ahead of Taiwan’s National Day on October 10: