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State Department Issues Public Schedule for Jan. 28, 2026
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- The U.S. Department of State issued the daily public schedule for Jan. 28, 2026:
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SECRETARY MARCO RUBIO
10:00 a.m. Secretary Rubio testifies before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on U.S. Policy Towards Venezuela on Capitol Hill.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
1:00 p.m. Secretary Rubio meets with Venezuelan Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE CHRISTOPHER LANDAU
Deputy Secretary Landau is on travel to Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Djibouti from January 24-February 1, 2026.
DEPUTY
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- The U.S. Department of State issued the daily public schedule for Jan. 28, 2026:
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SECRETARY MARCO RUBIO
10:00 a.m. Secretary Rubio testifies before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on U.S. Policy Towards Venezuela on Capitol Hill.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
1:00 p.m. Secretary Rubio meets with Venezuelan Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE CHRISTOPHER LANDAU
Deputy Secretary Landau is on travel to Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Djibouti from January 24-February 1, 2026.
DEPUTYSECRETARY OF STATE FOR MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCES MICHAEL J. RIGAS
Deputy Secretary Rigas attends meetings and briefings at the Department of State.
UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS ALLISON M. HOOKER
Under Secretary Hooker is on travel to Nigeria, Oman, Bahrain, and Italy from January 21-29, 2026.
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY THOMAS G. DINANNO
4:00 p.m. Under Secretary DiNanno meets with Swedish National Security Advisor Niclas Kvarnstrom at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
BRIEFING SCHEDULE
No Department Press Briefing.
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Original text here: https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/01/public-schedule-january-28-2026/
Providence Man Sentenced for Trafficking Cocaine
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island posted the following news release on Jan. 27, 2026:
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Providence Man Sentenced for Trafficking Cocaine
A Providence man has been sentenced in federal court in Rhode Island for trafficking kilos of cocaine, announced United States Attorney Charles C. Calenda.
Eluid Rosa-Escudero, 35, was sentenced on January 21, 2026, by U.S. District Court Judge Mary S. McElroy to 24 months of incarceration followed by three years of supervised release. Rosa-Escudero pleaded guilty on September 10, 2025,
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island posted the following news release on Jan. 27, 2026:
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Providence Man Sentenced for Trafficking Cocaine
A Providence man has been sentenced in federal court in Rhode Island for trafficking kilos of cocaine, announced United States Attorney Charles C. Calenda.
Eluid Rosa-Escudero, 35, was sentenced on January 21, 2026, by U.S. District Court Judge Mary S. McElroy to 24 months of incarceration followed by three years of supervised release. Rosa-Escudero pleaded guilty on September 10, 2025,to possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.
Court documents reflect that a three-month, multi-agency investigation into Rosa-Escudero's drug trafficking activities culminated on April 10, 2025, with the execution of a court-authorized seizure of a package containing over two kilograms of cocaine and a search of his Providence residence, resulting in the seizure of over $10,000 in cash and other items associated with narcotics trafficking.
Leading up to the execution of the search warrant, law enforcement intercepted a package containing the cocaine, which was removed from the package. Law enforcement then surveilled the retrieval of the same package (with the cocaine removed) delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to the front porch of a Providence residence. The package was retrieved by an individual who arrived by car and later drove to a nearby gas station, where the driver met with Rosa-Escudero, who was travelling in a separate vehicle. As the two vehicles departed, a law enforcement surveillance team followed Rosa-Escudero to his residence. East Providence Police subsequently conducted an investigative stop of the vehicle driven by the individual who retrieved the package from the porch of the residence, who was identified as a 15-year-old juvenile.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Christine D. Lowell and G. Michael Seaman.
The matter was investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service Contraband Interdiction and Investigations Task Force, with the assistance of the Providence, East Providence and Pawtucket Police Departments, and the Rhode Island State Police.
This case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime. Operation Take Back America streamlines efforts and resources from the Department's Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETFs) and Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN).
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Original text here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ri/pr/providence-man-sentenced-trafficking-cocaine-0
Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending Jan. 9, 2026
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following activity report for the week ending Jan. 9, 2026:
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TO: Technical Director
FROM: Los Alamos Site Resident Inspectors
SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending January 9, 2026
Plutonium Facility-Emergency Response: On Tuesday, workers observed smoke coming from underneath a glovebox in a laboratory room. They reported this observation to Operations Center personnel, who instructed them to actuate the dropbox fire alarm and call 911. Operations
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following activity report for the week ending Jan. 9, 2026:
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TO: Technical Director
FROM: Los Alamos Site Resident Inspectors
SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending January 9, 2026
Plutonium Facility-Emergency Response: On Tuesday, workers observed smoke coming from underneath a glovebox in a laboratory room. They reported this observation to Operations Center personnel, who instructed them to actuate the dropbox fire alarm and call 911. OperationsCenter personnel then entered the relevant alarm and emergency response instruction and activated facility command to coordinate the response, which involved evacuating people from the wing of the facility with the fire to the other half of the facility, and then doing a normal exit from the unimpacted wing. The fire department responded and confirmed that a solenoid beneath the box was overheated and smoking. Once this was de-energized and cooled down, the fire department returned control of the event scene to facility personnel. This solenoid had been out-of-service for nearly ten years and was considered abandoned-in-place. Facility management has developed several corrective actions to improve event response based on lessons learned from this event. Management is also evaluating what can be done regarding poorly documented out-of-service equipment that may still be energized and thus pose a potential hazard to workers and the facility operations.
The new fire alarm system being installed at the Plutonium Facility is not yet fully tested and inservice but is largely functional. During this event, a new detector in this laboratory room identified the smoke and alarmed within the Operations Center. For situations in which workers are not present to identify issues promptly, the new alarm system will provide a significant safety improvement in early detection of fires, once it is fully commissioned and in-service. While acceptance testing is in progress, Operations Center personnel use a conservative best practice and respond to any input from the new alarms as a trigger to investigate the situation.
Plutonium Facility-Waste Disposal: On Wednesday, resident inspectors conducted a walkdown of the Plutonium Facility to look at several rooms and activities. During this walkdown, the resident inspectors discussed how spent ion-exchange resins from the aqueous nitrate (AQN) process will be disposed of with workers in that area (see 12/26/2025 report). The workers provided background on the development of a process to cement the resin prior to disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the testing conducted recently to validate that the disposal pathway will meet WIPP's waste acceptance criteria, and the plans to implement this approach moving forward. There is no immediate need to replace the ion-exchange resins; however, the need to identify a DOE-approved waste process for all nitrated material in the AQN process was a pre-start finding in the readiness assessment performed for the startup of the AQN process (see 3/22/2024 report).
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Original text here: https://www.dnfsb.gov/sites/default/files/2026-01/Los%20Alamos%20Week%20Ending%20January%209%202026.pdf
Illegal Aliens Charged With Methamphetamine Trafficking and Firearm Possession
ATLANTA, Georgia, Jan. 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia posted the following news release on Jan. 27, 2026:
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Illegal aliens charged with methamphetamine trafficking and firearm possession
Juan Carlos Solano Lorenzo and Jorge Luis Ramirez Bibiano, both illegal aliens from Mexico, appeared in federal court earlier today on charges related to their alleged distribution of methamphetamine and illegal possession of a loaded pistol.
"Quick work by our law enforcement partners disrupted this drug trafficking enterprise," said U.S. Attorney Theodore S.
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ATLANTA, Georgia, Jan. 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia posted the following news release on Jan. 27, 2026:
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Illegal aliens charged with methamphetamine trafficking and firearm possession
Juan Carlos Solano Lorenzo and Jorge Luis Ramirez Bibiano, both illegal aliens from Mexico, appeared in federal court earlier today on charges related to their alleged distribution of methamphetamine and illegal possession of a loaded pistol.
"Quick work by our law enforcement partners disrupted this drug trafficking enterprise," said U.S. Attorney Theodore S.Hertzberg. "Agents seized large quantities of drugs, a firearm, and subsequently arrested the two defendants who are in our country illegally and will face justice here."
"As part of the DEA's Fentanyl-Free America initiative, DEA and our state and local partners are united in sending a clear message: trafficking dangerous drugs and carrying firearms will not be tolerated," said Jae W. Chung, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division. "These arrests demonstrate our continued commitment to dismantling drug trafficking organizations and preventing the violence they bring into our communities."
According to U.S. Attorney Hertzberg, the charges, and other information presented in court: DEA agents learned that Solano Lorenzo and Ramirez Bibiano were allegedly distributing kilogram quantities of methamphetamine in the metro-Atlanta area and operating their drug trafficking enterprise out of an apartment near Piedmont Park.
On January 21, 2026, agents executed a federal search warrant at the apartment and located approximately 44 kilograms of methamphetamine, 22 "M30" pills suspected to contain fentanyl, and a loaded firearm that was next to Ramirez Bibiano's wallet. The investigation further revealed that both Solano Lorenzo and Ramirez Bibiano are citizens of Mexico and illegally present in the United States.
Earlier today, Juan Carlos Solano Lorenzo, 30, of Guerrero, Mexico, appeared before Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Russell G. Vineyard on a criminal complaint that charged him with possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
Jorge Luis Ramirez Bibiano, 28, of Guerrero, Mexico, appeared before Magistrate Judge Vineyard on a criminal complaint that charged him with possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm by an illegal alien.
Both defendants have been remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending further proceedings.
Members of the public are reminded that the criminal complaint only contains charges. The defendants are presumed innocent of the charges, and it will be the government's burden to prove the defendants' guilt beyond a reasonable doubt at trial.
This case is being investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration with valuable assistance provided by the Marietta-Cobb-Smyrna Organized Crime Task Force Narcotics Unit, the Georgia State Patrol, the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office, and the Atlanta Police Department.
Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Amy Schwarzl is prosecuting the case.
This case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations, and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Atlanta recommends parents and children learn about the dangers of drugs at the following web site: www.justthinktwice.gov.
For further information please contact the U.S. Attorney's Public Affairs Office at USAGAN.PressEmails@usdoj.gov or (404) 581-6016. The Internet address for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia is http://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga.
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Original text here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/pr/illegal-aliens-charged-methamphetamine-trafficking-and-firearm-possession
Grand Jury Indicts Mexican National With Prior Heroin Conviction for New Drug, Immigration Crimes
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio posted the following news release on Jan. 27, 2026:
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Grand jury indicts Mexican national with prior heroin conviction for new drug, immigration crimes
Luis Cabrales-Guerra, 32, was indicted in U.S. District Court here for allegedly conspiring to distribute fentanyl and for illegally reentering the United States following his previous federal conviction for an aggravated drug felony.
According to charging documents, between January and September 2025, Cabrales-Guerra participated in a narcotics
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio posted the following news release on Jan. 27, 2026:
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Grand jury indicts Mexican national with prior heroin conviction for new drug, immigration crimes
Luis Cabrales-Guerra, 32, was indicted in U.S. District Court here for allegedly conspiring to distribute fentanyl and for illegally reentering the United States following his previous federal conviction for an aggravated drug felony.
According to charging documents, between January and September 2025, Cabrales-Guerra participated in a narcoticsconspiracy involving 40 grams or more of fentanyl and 100 grams or more of para-fluorofentanyl. Law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at the defendant's Columbus apartment and discovered more than a kilogram of narcotics.
Court documents detail that Cabrales-Guerra was previously removed from the United States to Mexico multiple times in 2010 and 2011. In 2016, Cabrales-Guerra was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute heroin in the District of Minnesota. He was again removed from the United States to Mexico in 2019 after serving his sentence in that case.
Cabrales-Guerra's prior federal conviction for conspiring to distribute heroin is an aggravated felony, which increases his potential penalty in this case to up to 20 years in prison.
Dominick S. Gerace II, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio; Jared Murphey, Acting Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Detroit; Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant and officials with the Central Ohio High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force announced the charges. Assistant United States Attorney Sheila G. Lafferty is representing the United States in this case.
This case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime.
An indictment merely contains allegations, and defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
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Original text here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/grand-jury-indicts-mexican-national-prior-heroin-conviction-new-drug-immigration
Energy Secretary Secures New England and Texas Grids Amid Winter Storm Fern
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news release on Jan. 26, 2026:
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Energy Secretary Secures New England and Texas Grids Amid Winter Storm Fern
Secretary Wright issues emergency orders to keep the New England and Texas grids stable, save lives, and lower costs during Winter Storm Fern
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The U.S. Department of Energy today issued two emergency orders to mitigate blackouts in New England and Texas during Winter Storm Fern. Issued pursuant to Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act, the orders authorize ISO New England Inc. (ISO-NE) and the Electric
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news release on Jan. 26, 2026:
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Energy Secretary Secures New England and Texas Grids Amid Winter Storm Fern
Secretary Wright issues emergency orders to keep the New England and Texas grids stable, save lives, and lower costs during Winter Storm Fern
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The U.S. Department of Energy today issued two emergency orders to mitigate blackouts in New England and Texas during Winter Storm Fern. Issued pursuant to Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act, the orders authorize ISO New England Inc. (ISO-NE) and the ElectricReliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to run specified resources located within the ISO-NE region and ERCOT region, regardless of limits established by environmental permits or state law. The orders will help ISO-NE and ERCOT with the extreme temperatures and storm impacts across the Northeast and Texas and reduce costs for Americans during the winter storm. This is the second emergency order issued to ERCOT during Winter Storm Fern following an order issued yesterday to leverage backup generation at data centers and other industrial sites.
"As Winter Storm Fern brings extreme cold and dangerous conditions across the country, maintaining affordable, reliable, and secure power is non-negotiable," said U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright. "The previous administration's energy subtraction policies weakened the grid, leaving Americans more vulnerable during events like Winter Storm Fern. Thanks to President Trump's leadership, we are reversing those failures and using every available tool to keep the lights on and Americans safe through this storm."
On day one, President Trump declared a national energy emergency after the Biden administration's energy subtraction agenda left behind a grid increasingly vulnerable to blackouts. According to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), "Winter electricity demand is rising at the fastest rate in recent years," while the premature forced closure of reliable generation such as coal and natural gas plants leaves American families vulnerable to power outages. The NERC 2025 - 2026 Winter Reliability Assessment further warns that areas across the continental United States have an elevated risk of blackouts during extreme weather conditions.
Power outages cost the American people $44 billion per year, according to data from DOE's National Laboratories. These orders will help mitigate power outages in New England and Texas and highlights the commonsense policies of the Trump Administration to ensure an affordable and reliable energy system.
The ISO-NE order is in effect from January 25--January 31, 2026.
The ERCOT order is in effect from January 25--January 27, 2026.
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BACKGROUND
Orders such as these are in accordance with President Trump's Executive Order: Declaring a National Energy Emergency and will ensure the availability of generation needed to meet high electricity demand and minimize the risk of blackouts.
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Original text here: https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-secretary-secures-new-england-and-texas-grids-amid-winter-storm-fern
