News from March 2022
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Cedar City Field Office has approved the construction of two trailheads, a new trail system, a campground and other features to enhance recreation in the Granite Mountain area of Beaver County.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
The ScienceTiny quantum computing processors built from silicon have finally surpassed 99 percent fidelity in certain logic operations ("gates”).
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
Nuclear scientists create the hottest matter in the universe by colliding nuclei at almost the speed of light. At such high temperatures, almost a million times hotter than the Sun, nuclear matter melts into a soup of subatomic particles called quarks and gluons.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
The Veterans Lake Fire started as a controlled burn (brush pile) on private land on Saturday evening, March 19, 2022.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
After thorough public review last spring, and following a separate process later in the summer, the National Park Service will raise parking fees at two NPS-controlled lots in the Presidio of San Francisco starting April 1, 2022.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
As part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s commitment to expanding and diversifying global market opportunities for U.S. agriculture, the Department will sponsor four additional international trade missions in 2022, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today at the Commodity Classic in New Orleans.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration today announced the 2022 NHTSA Public Service Awards at the annual Lifesavers Conference on Highway Safety Priorities in Chicago.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to eight months’ imprisonment followed by a term of three years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotic laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
A third-party seller on Amazon.com Inc. has admitted gaming the online retailer’s payment system in a scheme that defrauded the company out of more than $1.3 million, the Justice Department announced today.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
A Huntington man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl.According to the plea agreement and statements made in court, Scott Lee Midkiff, 35, admitted that he participated in the conspiracy from the summer of 2020 to July 2021.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
Makel Elboghdady, 37, an Egyptian national living in Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for traveling in interstate commerce to engage in illicit sexual activity with a minor.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
John Perry, 64, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to receipt of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors, U.S.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
A Puerto Rican man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for his role in a wide-ranging fentanyl, heroin, crack and cocaine trafficking conspiracy.Rafael Hidalgo Rodriguez, 34, of Ponce, P.R., was sentenced by U.S.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
Ryan Kent Wheeler, 39, of Citrus Heights, was sentenced today by U.S.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following statement on the House floor in support of H.R. 963, the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act of 2022:
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, during a Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet hearing on "Workplace Protections for Federal Judiciary Employees: Flaws in the Current System and the Need for Statutory Change:"
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following statement on the House floor in support of H.R.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered an opening statement during “Removing Barriers to Legal Migration to Strengthen our Communities and Economy,” a Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety hearing chaired by U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA).
