CHICAGO, Illinois, Jan. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: Several shipments containing instruments drug traffickers use to manufacture illicit drugs were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Chicago on January 7. A few shipments contained pill press die sets, while another package concealed an entire pill press machine. In the wrong hands, individuals can use these pill presses to manufact  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Jan. 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland issued the following news release: Erek L. Barron, the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced two new senior supervisory appointments. Alicia N. Washington is joining the office as Special Counsel to the United States Attorney, where she will advise the United States Attorney on matters across the office, especially within the Criminal Division, and on the office's most complex a  more

ARGONNE, Illinois, Jan. 17 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Argonne's newest beamline degrades material's properties as much in a day as a nuclear reactor does in a year, minus the radioactivity * * * The AMIS beamline uses the lowest high-energy beams to displace oodles of atoms, making the study of nuclear materials safer and more efficient. ATLAS - the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System - can do even mor  more

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri, Jan. 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on Jan. 16, 2024: A man from Illinois appeared in U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau Tuesday to face a criminal complaint that accuses him of trying to hire someone to kill a business associate in Florida. Ben Patrick Mullavey, 64, of Mechanicsburg, in Sangamon County, was charged with one felony count of use of interstate commerce facilities in the com  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The White House issued the following transcript of a news briefing on Jan. 16, 2024, by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby: (Continued from Part 1 of 2) * * * OPERATOR: All right. Moving on to our next question in queue. Steve Holland with Reuters, please go ahead. Q: Hey there, Karine. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Hey, Steve. Hey, hey. Q: The President -- the -- hey, hey. The President told us on   more