News published on Federal Newswire in January 2023

News from January 2023


Bulk Manufacturer of Controlled Substances Application: Kinetochem LLC discussed on Jan. 20 by Justice Department

The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Jan. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Chair Rodgers: Today is a Reminder that Every Life is Worthy Living

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement on the 50th Annual March for Life...


Interior Department publishes notice on Jan. 20

The US Interior Department published a three page notice on Jan. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


DOE Increases Consent-Based Siting Funding Opportunity to $26 Million

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today increased the funding level for its Community Engagement on Consent-Based Siting Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) from $16 million to $26 million. The additional funding was included in the FY23 Appropriations Bill and raises the number...


North Korean National Sentenced for Money Laundering Offenses

News Release: Mun Chol Myong (Mun), 55, a national of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), was sentenced today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to time served of 45 months’ imprisonment for multiple money laundering offenses. Mun laundered funds through the U.S. financial system ...


Four Defendants Sentenced for Drug Trafficking in Geneva County

News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - A fourth defendant was sentenced this week for his role in selling methamphetamine in Alabama’s Wiregrass region, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart. This concludes a series of federal sentencings that resulted from a Geneva County drug trafficking investigation beginning in 2019.



Arrest and Criminal Charges Announced Against British and Russian Businessmen for Facilitating Sanctions Evasion of Russian Oligarch’s $90 Million Yacht

News Release: Two businessmen, Vladislav Osipov, 51, a Russian national, and Richard Masters, 52, a United Kingdom national, are charged in separate indictments unsealed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, with facilitating a sanctions evasion and money laundering scheme in relation to the ...


News Release: WASHINGTON - An indictment was unsealed today in the Western District of Wisconsin charging a Wisconsin man with one count of labor trafficking.


Buttigieg: 'Infrastructure investments haven't always reached rural communities'

Rural communities are getting a financial boost from the Biden administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to repair roads and bridges and enhance transportation options in those regions to ensure goods and people can move around safely and effectively.


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The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Jan. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Falls Church man yesterday evening on charges of unlawful possession of unregistered silencers.


News Release: Mobile, AL - In the evening of May 28, Deputy U.S. Marshals and other law enforcement officers surrounded a trailer in Baytown, Texas, they suspected was occupied by long-time fugitive Norman Young, wanted since 2007 after the Drug Enforcement Agency attempted to serve a warrant on him on his 40-acre compound in northwest Mobile County.


Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Sison’s Travel to Algeria and Morocco

Release: Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Michele Sison will travel to Algeria and Morocco on January 21-26 to discuss shared multilateral priorities across the UN system, including the importance of human rights as Morocco and Algeria join the UN Human Rights Council. During...


News Release: Dear Mr. President: We write to express our deep concern over recent regressions in press freedom in the Kyrgyz Republic, particularly regarding the mistreatment of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Kyrgyz Service, Radio Azattyk, and its affiliated journalists. While we recognize the historic ...


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement after the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity’s (NSABB) issued a report titled: “Proposed Biosecurity Oversight Framework For The Future of Science."


EPA Announces Plans for Wastewater Regulations and Studies, Including Limits for PFAS, New Study for Nutrients

News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released Effluent Guidelines Program Plan 15 (Plan 15), which lays out how the Agency will work to protect the nation’s waterways by following the science and the Clean Water Act to develop technology-based pollution limits and studies on wastewater discharges from industrial sources.


News Release: A federal jury convicted a former elementary school teacher yesterday for sexually abusing four former students.


2020 Census Tribal Consultation discussed on Jan. 20 by Commerce Department

The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.