News from July 2022
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: U.S. Department of State Counselor Derek Chollet will travel to Seoul, Republic of Korea (ROK), on July 11-12. Counselor Chollet will meet with ROK government officials, academia, and civil society to discuss ways to strengthen the U.S.-ROK Alliance and coordinate on regional and global issues, including the threat posed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the ongoing crisis in Burma.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: HAWAII NATIONAL PARK, Hawaiʻi - Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park has closed Mauna Loa Road to the public from the gate at the Kīpukapuaulu parking lot due to a wildfire and fire suppression efforts. Only authorized vehicles are permitted until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: On July 8, after a three-week trial, a federal jury convicted three former correctional officers at the Hawaii Community Correctional Center - Jason Tagaloa, 31, Craig Pinkney, 38, and Jonathan Taum, 50 - for assaulting an inmate in violation of his civil rights and for obstructing justice in attempting ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Broke Windowpanes Next to Senate Door, Was Among First Rioters Inside Capitol Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.--Senate Republican leaders have sent a letter to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) requesting more information on the potential budgetary and economic impacts of making the temporary expansion of premium tax credits (PTC), justified as pandemic relief by Democrats, permanent.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: Honored for The Investigation and Prosecution of Nxivm Leader Keith Raniere and Co-Conspirators Who Victimized Women Through Sex Trafficking and Other Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Columbia, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for possessing fentanyl that he intended to distribute in Springfield, Mo.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: MS BLAUW: Since we have only seven minutes, I’m just going to go straight to it.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: Senior leaders from EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) hosted a Community Forum and Open House on July 7 at the Santa Fe Convention Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Carlsbad Field Office Manager Reinhard Knerr, center, and Sean Dunagan, president and project manager for operations contractor Nuclear...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: ELIZABETH, NJ - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $353,945 in back wages and liquidated damages for 79 sales associates at 12 New Jersey T-Mobile locations whose owners willfully denied the employees overtime wages for hours over 40 in workweek.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on July 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Foreign Relations Committee on July 11.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced today that the full Committee will hold a markup on Wednesday, July 13, at 11 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
There was activity on three bills related to the Oversight and Reform Committee on July 11.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
Release: Releases Are Part of President Biden’s Actions to Help Protect Americans from Putin’s Price Hike at the Pump
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Energy and Commerce Committee on July 11.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
The US Labor Department published a three page notice on July 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: OMAHA, Neb.-Investigators with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Omaha Division seized approximately 32,000 fake pills in Omaha, some laced with lethal doses of fentanyl, in a two-day span beginning July 8. During the first six months of 2022, DEA investigators seized approximately 151,500 pills in Nebraska, marking an 83 percent increase over the 82,775 pills seized in all of 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on July 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUIS COLON, also known as “Big Lou" and “Hitman," 51, of Stratford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 32 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for fentanyl distribution and gun possession offenses. Colon must spend the first six months of his supervised release in home confinement.
