News from October 2021
By USDA Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Commits to complete study of potential impacts of mining near pristine watershed; will pause new mineral leasing while science and public input is gathered WASHINGTON, Oct. 20, 2021 – Today the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior announced actions to protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and surrounding watershed in northeastern Minnesota, a unique natural wonder and one of the jewels of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: A federal grand jury in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, returned an indictment in July, which was unsealed yesterday, charging a South Carolina man with tax evasion and attempting to obstruct an IRS civil audit and an IRS criminal investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: An enrolled member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and member of the Indian Brotherhood (IBH), a prison-based gang active in Oklahoma, pleaded guilty today to charges related to two separate homicides that took place in 2015 and 2017 within Indian Country in Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Two Eastern European men were sentenced for providing “bulletproof hosting” services, which were used by cybercriminals between 2009 to 2015 to distribute malware and attack financial institutions and victims throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: A Tennessee man pleaded guilty today to civil rights violations for a series of church arsons.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: A federal court today ordered Utah company Grandma’s Herbs, Inc. and its owners, Kevin Parr and Tracey Parr, to stop distributing unapproved and misbranded drugs in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), the Department of Justice Department announced.
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: PRESIDENT DUQUE: (In progress) (Via interpreter) I would also like to greet Ambassador Goldberg, Mr. Brian Nichols, Mr. Juan Gonzales, and all the members of your delegation. Thank you. Thank you very much for supporting our country, Mr. Secretary, for being with us here. And I would like to extend a ...
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Government of the United States of America and the European Union.
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Today we commemorate 35 years of the Compact of Free Association between the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the United States of America, which entered into force on Oct. 21, 1986. The Compact has been a cornerstone of the strong relationship between the Marshall Islands and the United States for more than three decades.
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: MS BUENO: Buenos días. Good morning and welcome, Mr. Ambassador of the United States, authorities, members of San Francisco de Quito University, civil society, dear students. Welcome to Ecuador, Mr. Secretary, or as, humbled, that early father of environmentalism called us, welcome to the country of ...
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you very much, and let me just first start by apologizing to colleagues because I think I’m responsible for making us a little bit late today. Thank you for your patience, but especially thank you all for being here, and (inaudible), thank you so much for all of the work on very short notice that you put into bringing us all together today, both in this room and virtually. I’m so glad to see so many colleagues here today from across our region.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - United States Attorney Prim F. Escalona announces support of DEA’s 21st National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to be held on Saturday, October 23rd from 10am to 2pm. Take Back Day is a bi-annual event that aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while also educating the public about the potential for abuse of medications.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, California Oct. 20, 2021- A community meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021 at the Three Rivers Memorial Building at 43490 Sierra Drive in Three Rivers, CA.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), sent letters to Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Senior Counselor to the Secretary Elizabeth Klein asking that they release their official calendar.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: For Being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Acres: 88,278 acres. Containment: 60%. Start Date: Sept. 10, 2021. Cause: Lightning. Jurisdiction: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks; Sequoia National Forest. Resources: 671 personnel including: 11 crews, 20 engines, 16 water tenders, 6 dozers and 11 helicopters. Yesterday, the KNP Complex was quiet...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX - The Drug Enforcement Administration will host its 21st National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event offers free and anonymous disposal of unneeded medications at more than 4,000 local drop-off locations nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart, announced today that Quinton Allen Manigault, 26, of Wando, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to armed bank robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Bryce Canyon National Park has joined almost 500 sites across the country to celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA’s next great space science observatory. The park will offer a day of public programs to bring the excitement of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) to park visitors.
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) led a letter to President Biden in support of the White House’s plans to welcome His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew this month. The bipartisan letter was addressed to the President with 180 additional co-signers.
