News from July 2025

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
A Coventry man has confessed to charges related to child exploitation and pornography while on pre-trial release for a similar offense.

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
The Senate Committee on Appropriations has approved the Fiscal Year 2026 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations Act.

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer, along with Subcommittee Chairmen Eric Burlison and Nancy Mace, expressed support for President Trump's newly announced Action Plan aimed at securing U.S. dominance in...

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, has expressed concerns regarding the Trump Administration's proposal to reorganize the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted to approve six nominees of President Trump for various departments.

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
A Mexican national, Johnathan Mata-Espinoza, 22, has been sentenced to federal prison for armed carjacking. U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei announced the sentence in Laredo, Texas.

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
Today, a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent was arrested by FBI agents for allegedly soliciting sex from an undercover officer posing as a 13-year-old girl online.

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
A West Wareham man has been sentenced in federal court in Boston for receiving and possessing child sexual abuse material.

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
A Laredo resident has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for smuggling methamphetamine into the United States. U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei announced that Jose Pascual Soliz, 38, pleaded guilty on May 16. U.S. District Judge Keith P....

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
The Senate Committee on Appropriations has approved the Fiscal Year 2026 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
As part of efforts to implement President Trump's Executive Order No. 14273, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Commerce will jointly host three...

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
United States Attorney David Metcalf announced the sentencing of Ivory S. Cousins, a former Philadelphia correctional officer, to five years in prison for violating an inmate's constitutional rights.

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
Terence Butler, a 36-year-old resident of Schenectady, New York, has been sentenced to 96 months in prison for his involvement in drug trafficking and money laundering.

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
A man from Carlisle, Kentucky, Ronald G. Miller, aged 43, has been sentenced to 60 months in prison for illegal firearm possession.

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
A man from Waterloo, Iowa, has been sentenced to over 17 years in federal prison for receiving child sexual abuse material.

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
Two men from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, have been sentenced to federal prison for their involvement in drug trafficking operations.

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
Three members of a drug trafficking organization based in Cook County, Georgia, have been found guilty of federal drug and weapons charges.

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Tyrick Thomas, 35, from Hartford, has pleaded guilty in New Haven federal court to a fentanyl trafficking offense.

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, along with Ricky J. Patel, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and Francis J. Russo, Director of the New York...

By Federal Newswire | Jul 24, 2025
U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Chair of the Appropriations Committee, has announced that she secured significant funding and provisions for Maine in the Fiscal Year 2026 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations Act.