News from February 2023
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Rodeo Beach. Amenities. 1 listed. Trash/Litter Receptacles. Most of the year this beach separates the brackish water of the lagoon from the ocean. In winter, storm waves wash over the beach into the lagoon. The lagoon, swelled by rainwater, overflows, and breaks through the beach...
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
Release: Last week, the Government of Kyrgyzstan repatriated 18 women and 41 children from displaced persons camps in northeast Syria. We are grateful to Kyrgyzstan and to our local partners, the Syrian Democratic Forces, for working with us to help resolve the ongoing humanitarian and security challenges presented...
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: Begin Text: We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union, are united in our condemnation in the strongest possible terms of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and its ...
By Tamara Browning | Feb 22, 2023
Four projects to provide high-speed internet for rural areas in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Mississippi are receiving $63 million in grants from the third funding round of a U.S. Department of Agriculture program.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: This article is one in a series, French Language and the Lewis and Clark Expedition, by Lewis and Clark Trail Digital Interns.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
FY23 COPS Anti-Heroin Task Force Program grant opened on Feb. 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EDIBERTO SANTANA, a/k/a “Flaco Veneno," was sentenced to life imprisonment for leading the Sunset Trinitarios gang from at least 2010 through 2019 and, in that capacity, ordering multiple acts of brutal...
By Tamara Browning | Feb 22, 2023
A New York City man has been found guilty of wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy in a scheme to steal nearly $1 million from a tech company in which his brother was the CEO.
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and Greece on the occasion of the fourth Strategic Dialogue.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
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), sent a letter to Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Secretary David Turk regarding misleading claims about DOE’s vetting of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) award recipients. Deputy Secretary Turk recently testified before ENR at a hearing to examine DOE’s implementation of the IIJA.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Rodeo Beach. Coastal lagoons support a variety of wildlife and vegetation. This enriched environment sustains many small plant and animals providing a feeding ground for egrets, herons, ducks, and migrating birds. Wildlife of Rodeo Lagoon AD. WAYSIDE TITLE: Wildlife of Rodeo Lagoon...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: This article first appeared in the National History Day 2020 Themebook. See their website for more information or visit this page to find more NHD articles about National Park Service resources.
By DOL Newswire Report | Feb 22, 2023
Miami-based wholesale plant nursery Pure Beauty Farms has been found to have given foreign visa workers preferential treatment over U.S. workers, while also housing employees in unsafe conditions in Georgia, according to a U.S. Department of Labor investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: Introduction. Supervolcanoes are volcanic centers that have experienced the eruptions ranked at level 8 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI). The VEI is a scale that describes the size of volcanic eruptions based on magnitude and intensity. It is a numerical scale (from 0 to 8) on a logarithmic basis...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: For well over a century, railroads have been an indispensable part of America’s economy, society, and way of life. Our rail system must be kept safe-safe for the workers who operate it, and for the communities that rely on it. Safety is USDOT’s top priority. That means ensuring each and every day that . .
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: Underscoring the strong commitment to the U.S. - Türkiye alliance and Türkiye’s role as a NATO Ally, critical regional partner, and important U.S. security partner, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken joined U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Flake to dedicate the new U.S. Embassy Ankara.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging six Nigerian nationals - three residing in the United Kingdom and three residing in Spain - with operating a large transnational fraud scheme. One of the charged defendants made his initial appearance today, after being extradited from the United Kingdom.
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
Release: Underscoring the strong commitment to the U.S. - Türkiye alliance and Türkiye’s role as a NATO Ally, critical regional partner, and important U.S. security partner, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken joined U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Flake to dedicate the new U.S. Embassy Ankara.
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will participate in a virtual moderated conversation on “Russia’s War on Ukraine: One Year Later" with The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg at 11:00 a.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023.
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently joined Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) in introducing the Preventing Adversary Influence, Disinformation and Obscured Foreign Financing (PAID OFF) Act, which would help close Foreign Agents Registration Act loopholes that allow unregistered agents of foreign adversaries to lobby in the United States:
