News from March 2023

By Homeland Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Grant Program - Region 3 grant opened on March 1.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
OVC FY 2023 Building Capacity of National Crisis Hotlines grant opened on March 1.

By State Newswire Report | Mar 1, 2023
Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-Ala.) called the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) America’s greatest threat and has supported and co-sponsored legislation to hold the CCP accountable for recent actions.

By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
Release: Employer: ELJ Inc. Investigation site: 133 Batting Cage Trail. Jacksonville, NC 28540. Investigation findings: Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division found the North Carolina general contractor misclassified its employees as independent contractors and paid straight-time rates for ...

By US DOT Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By State Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
News Release: The Bureau of Justice Statistics, a division of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, today released Employment of State and Federal Prisoners Prior to Incarceration, 2016.
By State Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
Release: Bangladesh. Overview: In 2021, incidents causing injury and death derived from hate-based communal protests and political differences occurred, with some violent extremist group involvement. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reemphasized Bangladesh’s zero-tolerance policy on terrorism. Terrorist groups increased...

By State Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
Entrepreneurship Technology Training at Karachis Startup Lab! grant opened on March 1.

By State Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
Release: Uzbekistan. Overview: The Taliban takeover of Kabul heightened the Government of Uzbekistan’s concerns about the potential spillover of terrorism from Afghanistan and its Central Asian neighbors, particularly by ISIS-Khorasan Province, as well as Islamic Jihad Union, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Katibat...

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
News Release: U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves joined U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Mark Gitenstein in a meeting with Bjoern Seibert, Chief of Staff to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in Brussels on February 28. Deputy Secretary Graves expressed gratitude for the close cooperation ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
News Release: Yesterday, Commerce Deputy Secretary Don Graves met with the European Commission’s Director-General for Trade Sabine Weyand. The two leaders discussed U.S.-EU cooperation on the Ukraine crisis, including continued development and implementation of export control actions against Russa and Belarus. During ...

By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By EPA Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that 86 U.S. manufacturing plants earned the agency’s ENERGY STAR certification in 2022, a designation reserved for manufacturing plants in the top 25% of energy efficiency in their sector. Together, these plants saved over ...

By State Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
Release: Since establishing diplomatic relations in 1992, the United States and Uzbekistan have developed a broad-based relationship, cooperating in such areas as border and regional security programs, economic relations, political and civil society issues, and English language training. Uzbekistan is important...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Jane E. Young announces that Dylan Miles, 29, previously of Laconia, was sentenced to 60 months of imprisonment today following his sentencing for participating in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy and for his unlawful possession of firearms.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
News Release: WATERBURY, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JESUS NIEVES, also known as “Pop," 39, formerly of Waterbury, Connecticut, and Springfield, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 63 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for supplying heroin to a member of a Waterbury-area drug trafficking ring.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today wrote Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra regarding President Biden’s plan to kick 2.7 million Americans off their health insurance plans. The members issued the following statement...

By Federal Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its interest rate meetings from January 23 and Feb. 1, 2023.