News from March 2022
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States, I warmly congratulate the people of Bangladesh on the celebration of the 51st anniversary of your independence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
News Release: RUTLAND, Vt. - The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced today that Daniel Ruiz, 34, of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Joel Ivan Caquias Aviles, 21, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, were arrested Wednesday evening and charged yesterday by criminal complaint with Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances. Both men are scheduled to appear before United States Magistrate Judge Kevin J. Doyle this afternoon.
By Press release submission | Mar 26, 2022
E&C Chairman Raises Concerns with Four Companies Regarding Their Roles in the Rise of Youth Vaping Following Passage of Legislation Empowering FDA to Regulate Synthetic Nicotine
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
News Release: Dayton, OH - The U.S. Marshals Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST), with assistance of the Dayton Police Department, have arrested Gerald Pendergrass III. Pendergrass was wanted by the Dayton Police Department for charges including unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, importuning, ...
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
News Release: The United States is designating six individuals for their support of the terrorist group Boko Haram. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has added Nigerian nationals Abdurrahman Ado Musa, Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
News Release: WINOOSKI, Vt. - The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced today that Julie Overfield, 62, of Winooski, Vermont was arrested Wednesday during the execution of a search warrant at her residence. Overfield was charged by criminal complaint with Distribution of Methamphetamine. Overfield is scheduled to appear on Monday before United States Magistrate Judge Kevin J. Doyle.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
News Release: Los Alamos, New Mexico - Early on the afternoon of March 23, 2022, 54-year-old Brenda Holzer from Yorkville, Illinois was killed while climbing up to the Alcove House at Bandelier National Monument. After being struck by a falling rock, Holzer fell about 25 feet down the second of four ladders. A crew...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials closed several trails and backcountry campsites at approximately 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 26, due to wildfire activity between Deep Creek and Newfound Gap Road in North Carolina. At this time, two wind-driven wildfires that originated south of the park boundary are now active inside the park.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: On March 24, Special Representative for the DPRK Sung Kim held separate calls with Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Funakoshi Takehiro and ROK Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Noh Kyu-duk and they jointly condemned the DPRK’s March 24 ballistic missile launch, the latest in a series of increasingly escalatory launches this year.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior announced today that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its environmental review and will hold a wind energy auction for two lease areas offshore the Carolinas on May 11. The lease areas cover 110,091 acres in the Carolina Long Bay area ...
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Department of State Office of Global Partnerships (GP), along with Concordia and the University of Virginia Darden School of Business Institute for Business in Society, have opened the application process for the ninth annual P3 Impact Award. The award was established in 2014 to recognize and honor best practices of public-private partnerships (P3s) that are improving communities in the most impactful ways.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
News Release: As we approach one year since the horrific violence perpetrated by the Burmese military on Armed Forces Day 2021, in which more than 100 people were killed, the United States is imposing sanctions on five Burmese individuals and five entities in response to the regime’s brutal crackdown against the people ...
By Fed Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board announced on Friday that it will extend until May 5, 2022, the comment period for its proposal to implement a framework for the supervision of certain insurance organizations overseen by the Board. The Board extended the comment period to allow parties additional time to prepare comments. Originally, comments were due by April 5, 2022.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah and representatives of Palestinian civil society in Jerusalem on March 27. The Secretary will reaffirm the U.S. commitment to the Palestinian people and the Administration’s support for a lasting, negotiated two-state solution.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
Release: The United States intends to provide an additional $100 million in civilian security assistance to enhance the capacity of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs to provide essential border security, sustain civil law enforcement functions, and safeguard critical governmental infrastructure in the face of President Putin’s premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - On Tuesday, March 22, 2022, members of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Las Vegas District Office, DEA Fresno Resident Office and the Tulare County High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program concluded a multiple month-long investigation of a major narcotic trafficking organization with the arrest of four suspects and the seizure of a large amount of illegal synthetic drugs and firearms.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the Biden administration announced a partnership with the European Union to increase American exports of liquified natural gas (LNG) to Europe.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
News Release: An Estonian man was sentenced today to 66 months in prison for his years-long role in furthering and facilitating computer intrusions, the movement of fraudulently obtained goods and funds, and the monetization of stolen financial account information. He also participated in ransomware attacks causing over $53 million in losses and was ordered to pay over $36 million in restitution.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2022
“SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS“ was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E285-E286 on March 21
