News from January 2023
By Homeland Newswire Report | Jan 18, 2023
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently presented its 2022 year in review.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: (LEWISTOWN, Mont.) - Staff and leaders welcomed Kirsten Kaiser as the new district manager of the Bureau of Land Management’s North Central Montana District, on Jan. 17.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: PITI, GUAM – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the recipients of its Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, awarding approximately $9,875,000 from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to the Guam Department of Education. These rebate funds will help Guam purchase ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: Jainey K. Bavishi, a distinguished expert in the field of climate adaptation and resilience, started today as the assistant secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and deputy NOAA administrator. The U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination on December 22.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating more than $660 thousand as part of its effort to strengthen Tribal Nations’ infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, threat mitigation, and outreach. USDA is providing more than $70 million in funding this year to support 350 projects in 48 states, Guam and Puerto Rico. The Plant Protection Act Section 7721 gives USDA the authority to provide this funding.
By State Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: The Lukashenka regime continues to repress the Belarusian people and their democratic aspirations, including with the politically motivated trial in absentia of democratic opposition leader Syvatlana Tsikhanouskaya and other democratic activists on baseless charges. To respond to these human rights abuses, ...
By State Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel J. Kritenbrink will travel to Manila, the Philippines, on January 18-21. During his travel, Assistant Secretary Kritenbrink will participate in the tenth U.S.-Philippines Bilateral Strategic Dialogue, accompanied by delegation co-chair ...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
Release: National Labs, Private Companies Pair Up to Develop Cost-Effective, Innovative Fusion Energy Technologies
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - If you are an outdoor enthusiast looking for some adventure this summer, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) might have just what you are looking for. The BLM Klamath Falls Field Office is looking for volunteer campground hosts for the Gerber Recreation Area.
By State Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
The Daily Digest section of the Congressional Record published “NEW PUBLIC LAWS” on Dec. 30, 2005.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
Release: PHILADELPHIA - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers continued to detect guns at Pennsylvania airport security checkpoints last year. TSA officers stopped 82 handguns at Pennsylvania airport security checkpoints in 2022, a decline from the 89 guns detected in 2021, yet a spike from the 71 caught in 2019 (pre-pandemic).
By USDA Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with the Pascua Yaqui Tribe under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA). Through LFPA, the tribe will seek to purchase and distribute locally grown, produced, and processed food from underserved producers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Today, Steven Michael Wehr, 33, from Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to 184 months in federal prison for carjacking and using a firearm during a federal crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart. In addition to imposing a sentence of more than 15 years, the judge ordered Wehr to serve five years on supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Phillip Coyne, Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, and Jean Pierre Njock, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stopped nine handguns at West Virginia airport security checkpoints in 2022, the same number of guns that were caught in 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: MIAMI - Four South Florida residents have been sentenced to prison for participating in a conspiracy to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) out of loan proceeds. These loans are guaranteed by the Small Business Administration under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.
By State Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
Release: This National Religious Freedom Day marks the 237th anniversary of the signing of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786. Under the Virginia Statute authored by Thomas Jefferson, legislators for the first time endorsed the principles of freedom of conscience and separation of church and state.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: Burlington, Vermont - The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Demetrius Thompson, aka “Tone," 44, of Brooklyn, New York was arrested yesterday in Rutland, Vermont. On Dec. 14, 2022, Thompson had been indicted by the federal grand jury for distributions of fentanyl and cocaine base. Thompson is scheduled to be arraigned later today before United States Magistrate Judge Kevin J. Doyle.
By Press release submission | Jan 17, 2023
To help identify and address barriers workers face regarding access to state unemployment insurance benefits, the U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $9.1 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to the New York State Department of Labor.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
Release: WASHINGTON The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recognized a year of accomplishments and progress in 2022, setting a new record in firearm interceptions by Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) at checkpoints, making significant strides to improve transportation security and screening an average of more than two million passengers daily at airports across the country.
