News from March 2022
By Bob Pepalis | Mar 9, 2022
The Senate unanimously passed legislation March 4 to give universities control over Confucius Institutes that host them over concerns the organization suppresses free speech on American college campuses.
By Bob Pepalis | Mar 9, 2022
The U.S. Department of Commerce will help connect more than 133,000 unserved households to broadband utilizing grant funding.
By Press release submission | Mar 9, 2022
U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) yesterday sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan requesting transparency and information on EPA’s use of Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (SC-GHG).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Jackson man was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Inspector in Charge Scott Fix of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
By State Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
Release: The Department of State’s Office of Global Partnerships has established a public-private partnership with GoFundMe.org to direct funds to organizations that are helping to address the humanitarian needs of those impacted by the Kremlin’s aggression against Ukraine. This partnership with GoFundMe.org is designed to mobilize private-sector donations and individual giving to support relief organizations aiding those impacted by Russia’s actions.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: This October will mark 25 years since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) joined the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). The expertise and dedication that USACE has brought to the program has not gone unnoticed by the DOE Office of Legacy Management (LM).
By Press release submission | Mar 9, 2022
A fatigue crack ultimately led to a fishing tender barge breaking loose from its mooring buoy and grounding during a storm near Ekuk, Alaska, the National Transportation Safety Board said in Marine Investigation Report 22/03 released Tuesday.
By Press release submission | Mar 9, 2022
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy issued the following statement Wednesday:
By Press release submission | Mar 9, 2022
The National Transportation Safety Board found that a captain’s assumption and poor communication led to a collision between an offshore supply vessel and a U.S.
By State Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in response to reports that a delegation of senior Biden administration officials traveled to Venezuela to meet with President Nicolás Maduro...
By Press release submission | Mar 9, 2022
The Federal Aviation Administration will open the application period to become an FAA Approved Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Service Supplier for the FAA’s Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) on May 2, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on March 8, 2022, Joel Luis-Aguilar, age 56, was sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment to be served consecutive to a recently imposed state sentence of 2-10 years for his tenth DUI, by United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: CAPE GIRARDEAU - The United States Attorney's Office announced that CARLOS WALLACE, age 33, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, was sentenced to 228 months in federal prison for the offenses of carjacking, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Republican Leader Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) today led 28 of their House colleagues asking U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for answers on how the Biden administration and its new Task Force KleptoCapture will enforce new sanctions against the Russian Federation and its leaders and how the Treasury Department will hold Russia accountable.
By Press release submission | Mar 9, 2022
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has finalized a new rule that would improve equity and mobility for drivers and passengers with disabilities.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: JAMESTOWN, VA (March 9, 2022) Kalen Anderson, this year's Lead Ancestral Lands Corps Individual Placement, has been selected Corps Member of the Year by The Corps Network. Kalen is one of four recipients of the award selected from among the more than 25,000 young people serving in Corps programs across the country.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - Visit the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center this weekend to learn about John C. Fremont and Kit Carson and the lasting imprint the duo made with their expeditions across Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Operation dubbed “Operation Kutt Off" has resulted in the conviction of nine individuals, either by a plea of guilty or conviction at trial, for their involvement in drug trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man who attempted to rob an armored car employee during a delivery to a bank was sentenced today to five years in prison.
