News from April 2022
By Fed Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
The US Federal Reserve System published a two page rule on April 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: Manzanar National Historic Site will expand hours of operation for its visitor center effective May 1, 2022. The center will be open from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm five days per week (closed Tuesday and Wednesday). With seasonal staffing, visitor center hours are expected to expand to seven days per week in mid-June.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: The Blue Ridge Parkway will receive approximately $127 million in Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) funding for two major infrastructure projects in the country’s most-visited national park.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: AUGUSTA, ME - A Maine roofing and siding contractor, solely owned, operated and controlled by Andrew Raymond Pollock, willfully exposed its employees to fall hazards at a Hampden residential construction site on multiple occasions during the same inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
By State Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will travel to Brussels, Belgium from April 19 to 22 to lead the U.S. delegation for the third High Level Meeting of the U.S.-EU Dialogue on China on April 21 and the U.S.-EU Consultations on the Indo-Pacific on April 22. On April 21, the Deputy Secretary will ...
By Bob Pepalis | Apr 19, 2022
Uyghur Christian Ovalbek Turdakun described on April 13 how the Chinese government treated him after being abducted from his home one February morning, taking him to what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) called a training center but he said was a concentration camp.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released operational statistics from March that show a 33 percent increase in encounters of unlawful migrants at the southern border compared to February and a 78 percent increase from last March as the United States’ worst migrant crisis continues...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: Washington D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement on finalization of the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Phase One rulemaking for regulations under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The Phase One rulemaking restores...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - One more room to go.
By State Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. A resident of Williston, North Dakota, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal child exploitation laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded $259,831,989.00 to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) to assist in the acquisition of technical services, in support of S&T’s Counter-Unmanned System Threats (C-UST) efforts. Amentum Services, Inc., of Germantown, MD, was selected as the prime contractor, through DoD’s Fair Opportunity Proposal Request competitive process.
By Art Benavidez | Apr 19, 2022
Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), has been given a letter penned by 60 human rights organizations urging her to "uphold principled and coherent response to China’s human rights crisis" by setting demands for her upcoming visit to China.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX - Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that Camilo Urquiza Sanchez has been indicted on one count conspiracy, one count Illegally conducting an enterprise, and one count possession of a dangerous drug (methamphetamine) for sale.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on April 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Tyrone Parker, age 40, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, pled guilty today in federal court in Syracuse to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman; Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and Putnam County Sheriff Kevin J. McConville.
By Bob Pepalis | Apr 19, 2022
China announced April 19 it has reached and signed an agreement with the Solomon Islands, according to Reuters, which will add to the “historic challenge” for the Indo-Pacific Strategy of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Scituate man who shared sexually explicit images of prepubescent girls online with an undercover federal law agent he thought to be the parents of a 13-year-old girl has been sentenced to five years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: Gregory Evans, 50, a former Captain with the Madison County Detention Center, in Richmond, Kentucky, pleaded guilty today to using unreasonable force against a detainee, thereby violating the detainee’s civil rights. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Carlton S. Shier IV made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine and a fentanyl analogue.
