News from January 2022
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero to discuss our important bilateral relationship.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon, everyone. Good to see you all, and especially good to see Foreign Minister Cafiero.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
The January 13 statement by Guatemala’s Attorney General announcing the filing of a formal request to lift the immunity of judge Erika Aifan is a blatant effort to obstruct investigations into corruption and an affront to the integrity of Guatemala’s highest courts.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
The United States and Canada concluded the twelfth round of negotiations to modernize the Columbia River Treaty regime on January 10.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking will travel to Gulf capitals and London starting January 19 to reinvigorate peace efforts in coordination with the UN, senior regional government officials, and other international partners.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
The United States is designating three Hizballah-linked financial facilitators and their Lebanon-based travel company.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:
By Andy Nghiem | Jan 19, 2022
Reid-Hillview and San Martin Airports, both located in California, will no longer be providing leaded fuel to aircraft following a study that showed elevated lead levels in children living nearby.
By David Hutton | Jan 19, 2022
The U.S. has recently imposed sanctions on seven foreign individuals and one foreign entity found to be providing material assistance to the Democrat People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) weapons programs.
By State Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
Release: More information about Equatorial Guinea is available on the Equatorial Guinea page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will conduct a field tour on January 26 commencing at 8 a.m. at the Grand Junction Field Office, 815 H Road, Grand Junction, CO. Attendees will then travel to recreation trailheads in the Grand Junction...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KEVIN LUCAS, also known as “Dutch," 62, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today via video conference by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervise release, for trafficking narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Hillsboro, Oregon woman was sentenced to federal prison today for engaging in a multi-year scheme to defraud her employer, a non-profit adoption and surrogacy agency operating in Oregon and Washington, and her extended family.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to time served to be followed by a 6-year term of supervised release on his conviction for distributing fentanyl, conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and distribute fentanyl, and conspiring to commit an offense (mail fraud) against the United States, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Today, Johnnie Drewery, 27, a former Sergeant with the Grady County Jail, in Chickasha, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty to using unreasonable force against an inmate, thereby violating the inmate’s constitutional civil rights.
By State Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
Release: Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights Uzra Zeya met today with six Belarusian Olympians and National Athletes representing the Belarusian Sports Solidarity Foundation (BSSF). The group included Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, the Belarusian Olympian whom Belarusian authorities attempted to forcibly repatriate from the Olympic Games in Tokyo last summer after she criticized the Belarusian National Olympic Committee on social media.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: Washington - Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack issued the following statement highlighting key accomplishments of the Department of Agriculture to create more and better markets since the Biden-Harris Administration took office on Jan. 20, 2021. The Biden-Harris Administration immediately...
