News from May 2022
By Press release submission | May 19, 2022
Thank you, Special Envoy Xia, for your informative briefing for joining us today. I also want to thank our other briefers for their very helpful and useful briefings.
By Press release submission | May 19, 2022
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s Interview with Sherwin Bryce-Pease of SABC News
By State Newswire | May 19, 2022
Ukraine: Keeping Independent Media Operational during the Wartime grant opened on May 19.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute heroin, fentanyl, and other synthetic opioids was sentenced today to more than three years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal jury has convicted Pierre Yvelt Almonor, 49, of Miami Gardens, Florida, for his role in a conspiracy to launder illegal proceeds from a business email compromise scheme that defrauded law firms and other companies of more than $1 million, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney...
By Federal Newswire | May 19, 2022
A former employee of the Department of Energy's Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been found guilty in connection with a scheme to defraud the United States.
By DOE Newswire | May 19, 2022
Release: New Report Recognizes 12 Organizations for Achieving Energy and Water Reduction Goals; Highlights New Partners in Better Climate Challenge
By Homeland Newswire | May 19, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a two page notice on May 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: Larry Edward Foxworth, 48, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Atlanta, Georgia, for hate crime and federal firearms violations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: Paducah, KY - A Lyon County Kentucky man was sentenced this week to 10 years in federal prison, followed by a life term of supervised release, for possession of child pornography and being a felon in possession of a firearm. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Homeland Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: Today, Secretary Mayorkas delivered the following remarks to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Cadets of the graduating class of 2022...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert Riley, age 41, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a United States Postal Service employee, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on mail theft charges.
By Gao Zhensai, China Aid special correspondent | May 19, 2022
The Chinese Chongqing refugees Wang Jingyu and his wife, who applied for political asylum in the Netherlands, have successfully obtained residence permits. Wang Jingyu expressed his gratitude to ChinaAid Association and its founder and president Bob Fu.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - At a press conference today, U.S. House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Small Business Committee Chair Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón (R-Puerto Rico), Rep. Darren Soto...
By DOE Newswire | May 19, 2022
There was activity on nine bills related to the Energy and Commerce Committee on May 18.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - Andrew Charles Welsh has pleaded guilty to intentionally setting fire to the Press Bar and Parlor as part of a scheme to obtain insurance money, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: There is a 60% chance of below-normal tropical cyclone activity during the Central Pacific hurricane season this year, according to NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center and NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, divisions of the National Weather Service. The outlook also indicates a 30% chance for near-normal activity, and only a 10% chance of an above-normal season.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Deb Haaland announced DOI will be releasing a draft five-year plan for oil and gas leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) before the current plan expires on June 30, 2022. House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - Laroy Dashun Redmond, age 29, of Burlington, was sentenced yesterday in federal court to 120 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Five Grams or More of Methamphetamine and Less Than 50 Kilograms of Marijuana, Felon in Possession of a Firearm, and Possession of a...
By State Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: Amidst Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war against Ukraine, the Lukashenka regime in Belarus has found new ways to intimidate and punish its own citizens, including by approving legislation to apply the death penalty to pro-democracy activists and those opposing Russia’s war in Ukraine. Specifically, ...
