News published on Federal Newswire in May 2022

News from May 2022


News Release: BOISE - A Boise man was sentenced to 77 months in federal prison for transporting women for prostitution and money laundering.


FACT SHEET: U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council Establishes Economic and Technology Policies & Initiatives

Release: New Policies Will Strengthen Our Economic Partnership, and Update Rules of Global Economy The U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) held its second ministerial meeting in Saclay - Paris, France on May 15-16, 2022. U.S. co-chairs, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, ...


Mexican Nationals Sentenced for Methamphetamine Trafficking in Stanislaus County

News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Antonio Ochoa Mejia, 50, a Mexican national residing in Hughson, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.


Raimondo: Commerce Department's goal for 2023 budget is 'to improve America's competitiveness'

U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo testified before the Senate Commerce Committee April 27 about the president's 2023 Commerce budget.


Chairman Cartwright Statement at Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Hearing

Release: This morning the Subcommittee will receive testimony on the fiscal year 2023 budget request for the Department of the Air Force.


News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Winner, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on May 16, 2022, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.


News Release: The United States welcomes the appointment of Laura Lane, Executive Vice President (EVP) and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at the United Parcel Service (UPS), to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council (ABAC).


The US Homeland Security Department published a two page notice on May 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: The United States congratulates the people of Somalia on the conclusion of their national electoral process. We also congratulate Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on his election as the president of the Federal Republic of Somalia and look forward to working closely with him and the new government.


Release: Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.


News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM Oak Ridge contractor UCOR has awarded grants to make many ideas possible, from new classroom learning spaces that foster collaboration to opportunities for students to engineer happier fairytale endings by helping design a house that can’t be blown down and build a chair that Goldilocks can’t break.


News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities today arrested five people linked to a ring that allegedly obtained at least $2 million in California unemployment insurance (UI) benefits - mostly pandemic-related relief - by using stolen identities, some of which belonged to California prison inmates.


Leader Rodgers Discusses Baby Formula Shortage on Fox News

News Release: “This is devastating. It’s a matter of life and death."


News Release: Concord, NH - The United States Marshals Service is very happy to announce the arrest of last week’s “Fugitive of the Week," Ricardo Ferguson.


On the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphopbia, Interphobia, and Transphobia

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 in Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “[a]ll human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.".


U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Arrests Homicide Fugititve in York

News Release: Harrisburg, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Christian Galarza-Rodriguez, a 37-year-old York Man.


Senior Official for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Allen’s Travel to France

News Release: Senior Official for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Elizabeth Allen will travel to Paris, France May 17-18 to participate in the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs Public Affairs Officer Workshop and engage with diplomatic, cultural, and multilateral partners and counterparts on key priorities. ...


News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - The United States has filed a lawsuit against The Prometheus Group (Prometheus), a New Hampshire manufacturer of pelvic muscle therapeutic systems and related rectal probes, and Richard Poore, its president and sole owner. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the...



News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released operational statistics showing that April was had the highest number of border encounters on record which makes it clear that the administration should not lift Title 42 without putting policies in place to secure the border...