News from June 2022

By Press release submission | Jun 3, 2022
Oversight Committee Holds Classified Briefing on U.S. Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

By Press release submission | Jun 3, 2022
Last fall the National School Boards Association sent a letter to President Biden, calling for the Justice Department to use counterterrorism tools to investigate parents at school board meetings.

By Press release submission | Jun 3, 2022
Media Advisory: Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield to Hold Press Conference upon the Conclusion of the U.S.

By Press release submission | Jun 3, 2022
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 has selected the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) for a Brownfields Community-Wide Assessment Grant for States and Tribes.

By Press release submission | Jun 3, 2022
I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the Representative of the United States.Let me start by thanking you, Director Rajasingham and Director-General Mardini, for your briefings today.

By Press release submission | Jun 3, 2022
Nevada Communities Will Receive Brownfields Assessment Grants to Help Build A Better America While Advancing Environmental Justice

By Press release submission | Jun 3, 2022
President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will help revitalize New England communities, Build a Better America and Address Environmental Justice Concerns

By Press release submission | Jun 3, 2022
Indiana communities to receive Brownfield funding to help build back America’s economy while addressing environmental justice concerns

By Press release submission | Jun 3, 2022
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry today regarding the situation in Yemen and the importance of flights between Sana’a and Cairo.

By Press release submission | Jun 3, 2022
Today’s unprecedented health threats demand close international cooperation.

By Press release submission | Jun 3, 2022
The U.S. Department of State is announcing the launch of a new Conflict Observatory to capture, analyze, and make widely available evidence of Russia-perpetrated war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine.

By Press release submission | Jun 3, 2022
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at the first Conference Committee meeting on H.R. 4521, the America COMPETES Act and S. 1260, the United States Innovation and Competition Act

By Press release submission | Jun 3, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced an investment of more than $5 million to mitigate antimicrobial resistance across the food chain.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, and Hartford Police Chief Jason Thody today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging KEJUAN WILLIAMS, 29, of Hartford, with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
The US Interior Department published a three page notice on June 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
News Release: WIND CAVE, S.D. - While the cost of fees has not changed, the method for collecting them will. Beginning June 15, 2022, payments for cave tours, campground fees, as well as Interagency Passes at Wind Cave National Park, will be by credit and debit card only. Cash and check payments will no longer be accepted. Visitors can pay via the following charge cards: American Express, Master Card, Visa, Discover and Diners International.

By Homeland Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
News Release: Guaynabo, Puerto Rico - Around 55 public schools in Puerto Rico will be seismic retrofitted following updated building codes. This is possible thanks to an initial obligation of nearly $35 million to the Public Buildings Administration through the Hazard Mitigation Grants Program (HMGP) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Red Lake man was sentenced to 235 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for sexually abusing a child over the course of several years, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: In June, UK-based NGO Amnesty International released a 160-page report entitled “Like We Were Enemies in a War": China’s Mass Internment, Torture and Persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang, documenting the accounts of more than 50 former detainees who experienced torture, violence, and other mistreatment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Thursday, June 2, 2022, Eric Michael Caylor, a 40-year-old man from Enterprise, Alabama, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for attempting to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart. Following his prison sentence, Caylor will be on supervised release for three years. There is no parole in the federal system.