News from October 2022
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senators Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Angus King (I-Maine), and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) in introducing a resolution condemning the arrest of Cardinal Zen in Hong Kong. The resolution also reaffirms the United States’ commitment to supporting democracy, autonomy, religious freedom, and human rights in Hong Kong.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: TALLAHASSEE - The State of Florida and FEMA have opened two additional Disaster Recovery Centers (DRC) in Orange and Osceola counties.
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) in introducing a resolution condemning the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman whose killing last week by Iran’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: WICHITA, Kan.- A federal grand jury in Wichita returned an indictment charging a Kansas man with drug trafficking related offenses.
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
Release: The Department of State’s Bureau of Energy Resources Assistant Secretary Geoffrey R. Pyatt will travel to Istanbul, Turkey, Bucharest, Romania, and Sofia, Bulgaria, October 10-14, where he will meet with government officials and energy sector leaders to advance bilateral and commercial energy relationships.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement upon the conclusion of the congressional delegation to Stuttgart, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland...
By Bob Pepalis | Oct 10, 2022
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Baquer Namazi, a wrongfully detained Iranian American, was released from Iranian custody and was reunited with his family in Abu Dhabi Oct. 5.
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: The Department of State’s Bureau of Energy Resources Assistant Secretary Geoffrey R. Pyatt will travel to Istanbul, Turkey, Bucharest, Romania, and Sofia, Bulgaria, October 10-14, where he will meet with government officials and energy sector leaders to advance bilateral and commercial energy relationships. ...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico residents affected by Hurricane Fiona can now receive free legal disaster-related assistance to help them through the recovery process. To be eligible for these services survivors must have been directly affected by the disaster and not have sufficient means to hire an attorney for legal disaster-related issues.
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Uganda on the 60th anniversary of Ugandan independence and the significant progress made in the country’s development since then. Over several decades, the people of the United States and of Uganda have cooperated for the benefit ...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico - Additional Disaster Recovery Centers (DRC) are now open in Barceloneta, Orocovis, Patillas and San Juan. The joint DRCs, a partnership between the municipality, the Government of Puerto Rico and FEMA, will help Hurricane Fiona survivors apply for FEMA assistance, upload documents needed for their application and answer questions in person.
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Uganda on the 60th anniversary of Ugandan independence and the significant progress made in the country’s development since then. Over several decades, the people of the United States and of Uganda have cooperated for the benefit...
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
Release: The United States congratulates Lesotho on its elections. The citizens of Lesotho have had the opportunity to have their votes counted and their voices heard in building the future for all the people of Lesotho.
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
Release: We are closely following the worsening health and security situation in Haiti, particularly the ongoing actions by criminal actors that impede urgent measures to address the threat posed by the spread of cholera to the Haitian population.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: TALLAHASSEE - The State of Florida and FEMA have opened an additional Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) in Hardee County.
By Andy Nghiem | Oct 10, 2022
Congresswoman Yvette Herrell (R-NM) recently said the United States needs to address Confucius Institutes and other Chinese government involvement in American education and research institutions in the interest of national security.
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) offered the Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs Act (REPO Act), legislation to provide additional assistance to Ukraine using assets confiscated from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and other sovereign assets of the Russian Federation, as an amendment to the FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act.
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: U.S. Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons Jessica Stern will travel to Greece from October 10-11, and Germany from October 12-16. During her visits, Special Envoy Stern will meet with government officials and representatives from civil society to discuss advancing the human rights ...
By Karen Kidd | Oct 10, 2022
Homeland Security Investigations special agents recently arrested a number of individuals suspected of running a sex trafficking enterprise in Maryland.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 10, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the awarding of a grant to the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, Texas, to study the effects of pesticide use and its health impacts on migrant farmworkers and their children along the southern U.S. border.
