News from March 2023
By Karen Kidd | Mar 23, 2023
A Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department sergeant has been indicted with a federal civil rights violation and second-degree murder.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 23, 2023
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently spoke with Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard to discuss the cooperation between the two nations in tackling security issues, specifically the joint effort to stop the production of precursor chemicals use to create fentanyl and other illegal drugs.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 23, 2023
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently met with the signatories of the Pretoria Cessation of Hostilities Agreement.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 23, 2023
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists developed a new conductive polymer coating which could provide longer lasting and more powerful lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 23, 2023
An upstate New York nuclear power plant has begun clean hydrogen production, making it the first-of-its-kind facility in the nation to do so
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 23, 2023
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested a Cape Verdean woman wanted on forgery charges in her home country.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 23, 2023
A cryptocurrency mixer that processed over $3 billion in illegal transactions on the darknet has been taken down and its Vietnamese operator charged with money laundering.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 22, 2023
Fentanyl, a highly potent and lethal opioid, has infiltrated all corners of the country, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake.
By David Beasley | Mar 22, 2023
A letter from 21 state attorneys general requests that President Joe Biden list the Sinaloa Cartel, CJNG and other similarly situated Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorists organizations (FTO’s).
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 22, 2023
Environmental releases of more than 500 chemicals listed on the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) from reporting facilities nationwide were still below pre-pandemic levels in 2021.
By Sam Jackson | Mar 22, 2023
A federal probe into the deaths of two workers at an Oregon, Ohio, refinery’s crude unit found that BP Products North America violated U.S. Department of Labor’s process safety procedures for highly-hazardous materials and failed to adequately train the workers.
By David Beasley | Mar 22, 2023
Fentanyl overdoses, including fentanyl poisonings, have become the foremost cause of avoidable fatalities among people under 45 years of age -- surpassing suicide, gun violence and car accidents, according to a report by the Colorado Attorney General's Office.
By Sam Jackson | Mar 22, 2023
Students in Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers provided 204,633 total hours of support to federal firefighters in 2022, 20% more than the previous year, according to a release by the U.S. Department of Labor.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 22, 2023
Congressman August Pfluger (R-TX), chairman of the Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement and Intelligence Subcommittee, argued that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in addition to spying and surveilling, is attempting to influence American college campuses through Chinese cultural centers, commonly known as Confucius Institutes.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 22, 2023
A Brazilian native convicted of fraud in his home country was arrested in Massachusetts by Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston agents and sentback to Brazil.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 22, 2023
U.S. Department of Agriculture signed a cooperative agreement with the Georgia Department of Education through the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 22, 2023
The U.S. State Department unveiled its plans to roll out the CHIPS Act International Technology Security and Innovation Fund (ITSI), which will help develop a stable supply chain for semiconductors, a key component for a number of industries, from healthcare and communications to defense.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 22, 2023
While some digital asset analysts have voiced concerns that the actions the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken against stablecoins could push innovation out of the U.S. into other countries, two economists told the Federal Newswire that they don't share those concerns. Steve H. Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University, and Matt Sekerke, a fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise, said they believe stablecoin issuers will not leave the U.S. because they benefit from access to the U.S. dollar and financial institutions.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 22, 2023
The alarming spike in fentanyl-related fatalities across the U.S. has been a growing concern for years, and now Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is drawing attention to a particularly chilling aspect of this epidemic: Drug dealers are deliberately targeting children as their clientele, resulting in a tragic increase in the child death toll.
By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 22, 2023
The city of Austin will receive $65.6 million in funding from the Biden administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to develop rapid bus service.
