News from December 2025
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has sent letters to 39 governors urging them to stop their states’ child welfare agencies from diverting Social Security...
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
A North Tonawanda man has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for his role in a scheme involving stolen credit card numbers used to purchase large amounts of gasoline. U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced that Kingsley Brown, 23, was...
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
The House Education and Workforce Committee has approved four bills aimed at making higher education more accessible and transparent for students across the United States, including those in U.S. territories and homeschoolers.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
Chief Michael W. Banks shared updates on December 11, 2025 about arrests involving violent offenders—a Cuban national convicted of homicide in Florida and a Honduran national arrested for various violent crimes in Louisiana—and described his...
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, the Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, spoke at Semafor’s Principals Live – Powering America’s Future event in Washington, D.C., discussing permitting reform legislation currently...
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
David Easley, a 39-year-old man from Georgia, has been sentenced to 26 months of supervised release, with the first two months under home confinement.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
A federal grand jury has indicted Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, 52, of Oklahoma City, on charges of wire fraud and money laundering.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
President Trump has signed five Congressional Review Act resolutions that overturn several Biden-era Resource Management Plans (RMPs), affecting public lands in Alaska, Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
Two Corpus Christi residents, Jonathan Stein, 20, and Alvaro Martinez, 21, have been sentenced for a series of aggravated robberies that took place over the Christmas holiday in 2024.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
Democratic Senator Edward J. Markey, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, issued a statement after a Republican-led vote rejected a Democratic proposal aimed at reducing health care costs for small...
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
Do Hyeong Kwon, co-founder of Terraform Labs PTE, Ltd., was sentenced to 15 years in prison for wire fraud and conspiracy related to securities and commodities fraud.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
Sherwood Russell, a 35-year-old resident of the District of Columbia with a prior felony conviction, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm that had been modified with a machine gun conversion device.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
President Donald J. Trump has issued an executive order aimed at establishing a national policy framework for artificial intelligence (AI), citing the need to promote United States leadership in AI and prevent what he describes as excessive...
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
The Subcommittee on Federal Lands convened a legislative hearing today to consider seven bills aimed at improving conditions for military families, updating infrastructure at the Grand Canyon, and establishing Chiricahua National Park as the...
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
A man has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for his role as an accessory after the fact in a murder investigation on the Crow Indian Reservation, according to U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
A Mescalero man has admitted guilt to charges of child abuse after an incident in which he fired a handgun near two young children and threatened self-harm in their presence.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
A federal grand jury has indicted Marty Dwayne Beasley, 48, of Hackleburg, Alabama, for allegedly possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
A Nigerian citizen has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for his role in a romance scam that targeted multiple women in the United States.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
A federal jury in New Orleans has convicted Aaron Terod Johnson, a 37-year-old schoolteacher from the city, on charges of sex trafficking of a minor and coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in prostitution.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 11, 2025
Saikeen Dixon, a 33-year-old Philadelphia resident, has been sentenced to over 12 years in federal prison for his involvement in the armed carjacking of a FedEx truck in August 2022.
