News from January 2023
By DHS Newswire | Jan 29, 2023
The U.S. faces "more diverse and dynamic" threats now than it ever has in the past, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said at the recent unveiling of a former DHS secretary's official portrait.
By State Newswire Report | Jan 29, 2023
A coalition of countries are jointly taking action against several more Iranian officials for their roles in human-rights abuses against peaceful government protesters.
By Commerce Newswire Report | Jan 28, 2023
The Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology joined the O-RAN Alliance, a nonprofit organization striving to make radio access network technologies more open, intelligent and interoperable.
By Karen Kidd | Jan 28, 2023
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced grant funding for two California organizations to combat food waste and fight climate change.
By DOE Newswire Report | Jan 28, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded Michigan Technological University $2.5 million for a project to assist the mining industry in Minnesota and Michigan's Upper Peninsula achieve net-zero emissions while retrieving critical minerals from mines.
By DOJ Newswire Report | Jan 28, 2023
A Kentucky man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after admitting to flying to Illinois in May 2020 for the purpose of having sex with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Michael Joseph Wynder, 37, of New York City, was sentenced yesterday to 15 months incarceration for straw purchasing a firearm. The sentence was imposed in District Court by the Honorable Richard G. Andrews.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) applauded the House passing H.R. 21, the Strategic Production Response Act, which would help ensure the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is available during a true energy emergency and not abused for non-emergency, political purposes.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement regarding the release of a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report titled: “The National Institutes of Health and EcoHealth Alliance Did Not Effectively Monitor Awards and Subawards, Resulting in Missed Opportunities to Oversee Research and Other Deficiencies."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: An Ohio man was arraigned today on criminal charges related to his alleged false statements to U.S. immigration and law enforcement officials about his military service and involvement in a politically and ethnically-motivated attack on civilians in Croatia during the civil war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 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 Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (MBCI) under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA). Through LFPA, the tribe seeks to purchase and distribute locally grown, produced, and processed food from underserved producers.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: MIAMI - Port St. Lucie, Fla., resident Elijah Daniel Shaw, 22, has pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Melissa Damian to producing and possessing child sexual abuse material.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Cartersville, Georgia, man was sentenced today to federal prison for his role in a drug trafficking operation and the dismemberment of the body of a Fairmont woman to conceal her overdose death.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: A federal grand jury in St. Paul returned an indictment yesterday charging a Minnesota man with assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: AUSTIN, Texas - A former Lakeway resident was sentenced in federal court in Austin on Thursday to 15 years in prison with an additional 15 years of supervised release for producing child sexual exploitation material.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to conspiring to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Genesis Tolentino-Cruz, 29, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, heroin, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Jan. 25, the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3), in collaboration with EdVenture Partners and the McCain Institute for International Leadership, hosted the finalists of Invent2Prevent, a program that empowers university and high ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that KYREN WASHINGTON, age 19, a resident of Orleans Parish, was charged on Jan. 26, 2023 in a one-count indictment for an attempted carjacking that occurred on Oct. 20, 2022.
