News from May 2022
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are looking to beef up your salad—not with complementary slices of tender chicken, steak or other meat but rather new, improved varieties of carrot and onion.
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
Air is a critical resource for many living things, including people. USDA Forest Service scientists explore the effects of air pollution on environmental and human health – and how those effects impact different communities disproportionately.
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a commercial chicken breeder flock in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
Today Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack planted a tree to announce the reopening of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) People’s Garden Initiative.
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
Item E-1 is a draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking [NOPR], issued pursuant to section 206 of the Federal Power Act, to reform the Commission’s electric regional transmission planning and cost allocation requirements.
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
The U.S. Department of State is offering rewards of up to $5 million each for information leading to the arrests and/or convictions of Honduran drug trafficker Herlinda Bobadilla and her two sons, Tito Montes Bobadilla and Juan Carlos Montes Bobadilla.
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
On April 21, U.S. and Cuban officials met in Washington, D.C. to discuss the implementation of the U.S.-Cuba Migration Accords.
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
I’ve been asked to give you a brief introduction before I’ll let you hear from the star of the meeting, Mr. Blinken
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Rashad Hussain traveled to Cox’s Bazar and Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 17-20.
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
We strongly condemn the atrocities depicted in a recently released video, which appears to show blindfolded, unarmed civilians being shot point-blank by an Assad regime official before falling into a mass grave in Tadamon,
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
The United States is deeply concerned by the violence in Jerusalem today on the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount.
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
In Geneva at the High-Level Roundtable for the Horn of Africa Drought, the United States announced more than $200 million in additional humanitarian assistance for the Horn of Africa region.
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
The United States has had a consular or commercial presence in the area comprising modern-day Malaysia since the 1800s and, in 1957, established official diplomatic relations with Malaysia.
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
And I’m especially pleased to introduce Jessica Stern – as you know, she’s our Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ persons – on this momentous occasion.
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
The United States is deeply troubled and disappointed by the court’s decision to convict Osman Kavala today.
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
President Putin’s unprovoked and unjustified war against Ukraine, conducted with the complicity of the Lukashenka regime, continues to cause needless suffering and thousands of civilian casualties.
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
According to Independent Study, Banning Menthol Cigarettes Could Prevent as Many as 633,000 Smoking Deaths
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
Republican leaders of the Senate and House Committees with oversight of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are raising concerns with a recent decision to severely restrict coverage of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved Alzheimer’s treatment and any similar future treatments
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the Department of Energy announced on Wednesday that it had authorized an increased amount of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from two projects that were approved by the prior administration.
By Press release submission | May 5, 2022
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA), and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra to examine the causes of the staggering increase in overdose deaths.
