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Buttigieg: Proposed funding 'will increase the speed, reliability & frequency of commuter rail service' in Utah

By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 25, 2023

Utah’s FrontRunner transit system would receive more than $315 million in federal funding in the Department of Transportation's proposed spending plan.

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Fernandez: 'Transit is a great equalizer for our nation'

By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 24, 2023

The San Francisco area could be a beneficiary of an infusion of $500 million in funding that would help extend the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system.

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Buttigieg: Proposed funding will support two ‘long-awaited transit projects’ in NYC

By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 24, 2023

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recommended providing $4.45 billion in funding for 18 major transit projects across 11 states to boost regional transit services and stimulate economic growth.

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DOC: In Bali, IPEF negotiators share vision for 'open, connected, prosperous and resilient Indo-Pacific region'

By Federal Newswire Report | Mar 24, 2023

Representatives of the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Office of the United States Trade Representative traveled to Indonesia last week for the second round of negotiations in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity.

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Lyons: Foreign fugitives who try to hide in U.S. 'should think again'

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.

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Alaska attorney general on spiraling drug overdose deaths: 'These drugs are traced back to drug cartels operating out of Mexico'

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).

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Guzman: Chemical-discharges report shows EPA is 'prioritizing transparency with our toxics data'

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.

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Lyons: 'Perpetrators of these types of crimes care very little about the havoc they cause to the victims involved'

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.