News from February 2022
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
Bureau of Land Management Colorado Threatened and Endangered Species grant opened on Feb. 2.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has presented to Congress the Fourteenth Biannual Report on the Operation of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA).
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested a Guatemalan noncitizen fugitive who is wanted in his home country for rape/aggravated sexual assault charges against two minor girls.
By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
Release: The U.S. Department of State is announcing a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the conviction of Maximiliano Dávila Perez, a Bolivian national. Dávila is the former Director of the Bolivian Special Forces for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking (Fuerza Especial de Lucha Contra el Narcotráfico...
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai today attended the virtual informal World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial gathering hosted by Switzerland to discuss the path forward for ministerial engagement in 2022.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
Today begins a monthlong celebration of the contributions and achievements of Black Americans as well as an examination of parts of our nation’s history too often overlooked.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: Dear Ms. Whitcomb:. We are writing to request that you conduct a review of USPS performance and operations with regard to Free Matter for the Blind or Other Physically Handicapped Persons. This program enables mail to be sent without charge if it is for the use of people who cannot read conventional...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
FY 2022 Energizing Insular Communities Grant Program grant opened on Feb. 2.
By Emily Bevard | Feb 2, 2022
OSHA finds the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management violated procedures for safe handling of chemical materials at its helium enrichment unit in Amarillo.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
On the one-year anniversary of the military coup in Burma, we are seeing the regime’s human rights abuses and violations escalate, as well as an increasingly severe humanitarian crisis.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: Oak Hill, FL --Canaveral National Seashore and the Atlantic zone Fire Management staff with assistance from Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge are looking to implement a prescribed burn in the Bill’s Hill area of the seashore, south of Oak Hill. The burn is part of Canaveral’s Fire Management Plan...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Macon resident convicted in August 2021 for his role in a substantial methamphetamine trafficking network was sentenced to serve 420 months in prison for his crimes.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
Today’s vote is a sub-optimal outcome for the Libyan people, and a poor reflection on this Council.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
Release: MEDFORD, Oregon - An officer with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Rogue Valley International Medford Airport (MFR) discovered a.38 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver loaded with five rounds of ammunition in the carry-on luggage of a male passenger ticketed for travel to San Francisco International Airport Tuesday morning. The firearm was detected during routine X-ray screening in the security checkpoint.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
Thank you, Madam President. I can’t say that I am surprised by my Russian colleague’s comments, but I am disappointed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - This week, U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland released the Justice Department’s new National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act.
By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
U.S. Embassy Accra Special Self-Help Program grant opened on Feb. 2.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
Colleagues, the situation we’re facing in Europe is urgent and dangerous, and the stakes for Ukraine – and for every UN Member State – could not be higher. Russia’s actions strike at the very heart of the UN Charter.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
As our colleague stated, we have called for this meeting.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Rep. Jimmy Gomez, Vice Chair of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to the Department of Justice renewing their request that it conduct a full investigation into violent contingents of deputies within the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) following serious allegations of misconduct and race-based policing.
