News from May 2022
By Press release submission | May 18, 2022
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Approves Major Disaster Declaration for Rhode Island
By Press release submission | May 18, 2022
Project to Strengthen Walter I.M. Hodge Pavilion’s Resilience Against Storms Moves Forward
By Press release submission | May 18, 2022
Public Invited to Appeal or Comment on Flood Maps in Haskell County, Oklahoma
By Press release submission | May 18, 2022
FEMA Fire Management Assistance Granted for the Coastal Fire
By State Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: The United States is committed to ending hunger and malnutrition and building more sustainable, equitable, and resilient food systems at home and abroad. In support of these ongoing efforts, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to New York City May 18-19 to convene meetings to mobilize action on global food security.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two Martinsburg residents are facing cocaine and fentanyl charges, accused of having enough fentanyl to kill 20,000 people, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By USDA Newswire | May 18, 2022
Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative grant opened on May 18.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: CEDAR CITY, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Cedar City Field Office is seeking input during a 30-day public comment period on an environmental assessment to help protect rangeland conditions and the health of the wild horse herd. The assessment will analyze a proposed gather plan spanning...
By State Newswire | May 18, 2022
Supporting Adolescent Girls' Economic Advancement (or Security) in India grant opened on May 18.
By Press release submission | May 18, 2022
The United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam today convened the first meeting of the Timber Working Group under the Agreement Between the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Government of the United States of America
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2022
There was activity on four bills related to the Judiciary Committee on May 17.
By EPA Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced additional details today on the hearing the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold on Wednesday, May 25, at 11 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Formula Safety and Supply: Protecting the Health of America’s Babies."
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - A former Palm Beach County pharmacy technician and high-level executive assistant has pleaded guilty to her role in a multi-million-dollar kickback conspiracy that defrauded Tricare and CHAMPVA through a South Florida compounding pharmacy. Tricare and CHAMPVA are the health care benefit programs for the United States Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs.
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered remarks at a full committee hearing to examine ways to strengthen the energy and mineral partnership between the U.S. and Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: Spokane, Washington - Vanessa R. Waldref, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Roshon Edward Thomas, 52, of Spokane, Washington, has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining more than $50,000 in COVID-19 relief funds. This case is part of the COVID-19...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge Stephen R. Clark on Wednesday sentenced Anthony D. Jones Jr. to 45 years in prison for fatally shooting a St. Louis woman in 2019 before stealing her car.
By Homeland Newswire | May 18, 2022
Release: Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL), Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request for the Office of Management and Budget.
By State Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: The United States affirms today, on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), that the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) persons are the same human rights to which all persons are entitled. As enshrined ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, announced today that $15,111,453.84 in illicit proceeds derived from an international digital fraud scheme has been transferred by Switzerland to the United States government pursuant to a Final Order of Forfeiture entered by United States District Judge Eric R. Komitee in the matter of United States v. Sergey Ovsyannikov, et al.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department today announced the publication of the first volume of the National Firearms in Commerce and Trafficking Assessment (NFCTA), a four-part, comprehensive examination of commerce in firearms and the diversion of firearms to illegal markets.
