News from June 2025

By Federal Newswire | Jun 19, 2025
U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has announced the return of over $4.4 billion in unspent and unusable COVID-era funding to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s General Fund.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 19, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited two event production companies following an investigation into a fatal incident that occurred in October 2024 at a music festival site in Orlando, Florida.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 19, 2025
TWIN FALLS, ID – The U.S. Department of Labor has reached an agreement with Swensen’s Magic Markets LLC, a grocery store in south-central Idaho, to address violations of federal child labor laws.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 19, 2025
The Department of Energy has issued a statement from U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright regarding a recent Presidential Memorandum signed by President Trump.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 18, 2025
Understanding U.S. tax law is no longer optional for American entrepreneurs—it’s essential.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 18, 2025
A Gorham resident, Cody J. Merrill, 33, has entered a guilty plea in the U.S. District Court in Portland on charges related to distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 18, 2025
The owner of a Chicago laboratory has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for his involvement in a Covid-19 testing fraud scheme.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 18, 2025
Edgardo Amador-Rodriguez, a 29-year-old Honduran national, has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for re-entering the United States after being deported.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 18, 2025
James Robert Peterson, a 38-year-old resident of Prosperity, South Carolina, has been sentenced to over 12 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a felon.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 18, 2025
Megan Elsbury, a 43-year-old pharmacist from Mason City, Iowa, has been sentenced to one month in federal prison.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 18, 2025
Federal charges have been filed against three men from Baton Rouge following an undercover firearm-trafficking operation that escalated into violence.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 18, 2025
A Cranston resident has admitted in federal court to producing, possessing, and distributing methamphetamine and fentanyl-laced fake Adderall pills.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 18, 2025
Two individuals involved in a drug conspiracy distributing fentanyl and methamphetamine have been sentenced to prison terms, according to Russ Ferguson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Federal Newswire | Jun 18, 2025
A Beaver Falls resident has pleaded guilty in a federal court to theft of government property, according to an announcement by Acting United States Attorney Troy Rivetti.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 18, 2025
A federal grand jury has indicted Jack Amadeus LaSota, 34, of Fairbanks, Alaska, on charges of possessing firearms and ammunition while being a fugitive from justice.
By Federal Newswire | Jun 18, 2025
An Inland Empire woman has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining $1.7 million in COVID-19 related benefits and loans.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 18, 2025
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer has initiated an investigation into the Medicare Part D program.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 18, 2025
A St. Louis man, Darnell L. Clemons, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey for a series of violent crimes including an armed carjacking in 2018 and a shooting in 2021.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 18, 2025
Senator Susan Collins, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, criticized the Army’s decision to cancel its Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) program during a committee hearing on Wednesday.

By Federal Newswire | Jun 18, 2025
A Honduran national, Rossel Geovanny Recinos Arita, was sentenced on June 17, 2025, in New Orleans for re-entering the United States after being previously deported.