News from February 2022
By Kaleb Brown | Feb 21, 2022
Stellantis has filed a safety recall with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for 16,741 of its 2017-18 plug-in hybrid minivans due recent reports of the vehicles catching on fire.
By State Newswire | Feb 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, yesterday joined U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a letter to President Biden co-signed by 31 additional senators rebuking the administration’s ...
By State Newswire | Feb 21, 2022
“STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS“ was published in the Senate section on pages S788-S789 on Feb. 17
By State Newswire | Feb 21, 2022
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good morning, everyone. It’s a particular pleasure to be able to spend some time with my good friend Jean-Yves Le Drian and for us to be able to compare notes on many different issues, the first of which, of course, is the situation in and around Ukraine and Russia’s aggression, ...
By State Newswire | Feb 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing entitled, Reinvigorating U.S.-Colombia Relations. The witnesses for panel one included: The Honorable Brian A. Nichols, assistant ...
By State Newswire | Feb 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Judy Woodruff on PBS NewsHour to discuss Russia's military escalation towards Ukraine and his new legislation, the NYET Act, which is intended to deter Russian aggression.
By State Newswire | Feb 21, 2022
FY2022 U.S. Embassy Tokyo: U.S. Exchange Program on Securing Japan's Research Space grant opened on Feb. 21.
By Art Benavidez | Feb 21, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently appointed four experienced candidates to senior staff positions in Washington, D.C.
By Kaleb Brown | Feb 21, 2022
David Cortez Marshall Jr., 30, recently pleaded guilty to defrauding the Orangeburg, South Carolina, School District of over $50,000 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Appear.
By Kaleb Brown | Feb 21, 2022
A federal judge sentenced a Florida man to 30 months in prison for participating in conspiracy to falsify clinical trial data.
By Trina Thomas | Feb 21, 2022
Lebanon, N.H. is being recognized by the U.S. Environmental Agency (EPA) for stopping the overflow and discharge of certain types of wastewater into the Connecticut River, the agency announced recently.
By State Newswire | Feb 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the United States’ new Indo-Pacific strategy:
By Bob Martin | Feb 21, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service and Cornell University are putting on the first national webinar series about the hemp industry, as the crop proves to be on the rise.
By State Newswire | Feb 21, 2022
News Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union.
By State Newswire | Feb 21, 2022
News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian today on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference to discuss ongoing diplomatic and deterrence efforts by NATO Allies, EU partners, G7 members, and ...
By Caleb Lombardo | Feb 21, 2022
The Department of Labor recently announced it will explore a pilot program to encourage COVID-19 vaccination among miners in Kentucky and Arizona. The initiative comes as COVID rates in the U.S. are once again rising, especially with the rise of the Omicron variant.
By State Newswire | Feb 21, 2022
Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program grant opened on Feb. 21.
By Trina Thomas | Feb 21, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is performing extensive audits of the completed cleanup work at more than a dozen Superfund sites in New England, the agency announced recently.
By Kaleb Brown | Feb 21, 2022
2021's 670.4 million passengers is an 83% increase from 2020 and a 27% decrease from 2019.
