SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 26 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined 17 state attorneys general in opposing the White House's recent decision to defer removing Palestinians from the United States. Earlier this year, President Biden ordered the Department of Homeland Security to stop removing Palestinians subject to removal orders. The President purportedly ordered the deferral due to "humanitarian conditions in the Palestinian te  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, June 27 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on June 26, 2024: * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued the following statement announcing he has sent a letter on behalf of 20 state attorneys general supporting the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act (ICC Act), legislation sponsored by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) to protect American civil and military officials from unlawful prosecutions by the International Criminal Court (ICC): "A  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, June 27 -- Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares issued the following news release on June 26, 2024: Attorney General Jason Miyares today announced his support for S. 4484, the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act (ICC Act), joining a 20-state coalition of attorneys general in a letter to United States Senate leadership. This legislation aims to shield American civil and military officials from unlawful prosecutions by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The House c  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, June 26 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that New Jersey, California, and Pennsylvania have filed another set of amicus briefs in federal courts across the country this month to defend Title IX's protections of students from sex-based discrimination and harassment in education. Attorney General Platkin, the Division on Civil Rights (DCR), and their state partners are seeking t  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 27 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement on June 26, 2024: * * * Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding the U.S. Supreme Court decision today in Murthy v. Missouri preserving the government's ability to collaborate with social media companies to address the spread of disinformation and dangerous content on their platforms. "This decision rightly preserves the government's ability to work with s  more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: Projects Funded by President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act Strengthen American Farms and Rural Small Businesses U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is partnering with rural Americans on hundreds of clean energy projects to lower energy bills, expand access to clean energy and create jobs for U.S. farmers, ranchers and agricultural producers. Many of t  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on June 26, 2024: An indictment was unsealed in the District of North Dakota today charging a federal inmate and eight co-conspirators with international methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl trafficking. According to court documents, since January 2022, Jesus Amurahaby Celestin-Ortega, also known as Flaco, 26, allegedly engaged in drug-related and money laundering conspiracies, and a continuing criminal en  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, June 26 -- The Missouri House issued the following news: A Task Force that hopes to advance Missouri's response to substance abuse has resumed work. The Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention Task Force met in the 2023 interim and developed recommendations for the legislature, some of which were enacted. One of those was that it be continued this year, and its chairman, Representative John Black (R-Marshfield), is glad that was passed. "I think we'll do more or les  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, June 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release on June 26, 2024: The co-founder of a so-called Christian health care sharing ministry in St. Joseph, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for his role in an $8 million wire fraud conspiracy that cheated hundreds of members, and to making false statements on a personal tax return. Craig Anthony Reynolds, 62, of St. Joseph, was sentenced by U.S. District   more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, June 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release on June 26, 2024: A former Overland Park, Kansas, man was sentenced in federal court today for fraudulently receiving more than $800,000 under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act for a business that was no longer in operation. Mirza Michael Reazuddin, 66, currently a resident of Lawrenceville, Georgia, was sentenced by U.S. Chief Di  more

FARGO, North Dakota, June 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of North Dakota issued the following news release: United States Attorney Mac Schneider announced that nine defendants have been indicted in the District of North Dakota for drug trafficking and money laundering crimes after a year-long, multi-agency, transnational investigation. The following defendants have been indicted in the case: Jesus Amurahaby Celestin-Ortega, 26, Florence, Colorado Charges: Conspiracy t  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, June 27 -- Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued the following news release on June 26, 2024: Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that the United States Supreme Court has cleared the way for his office to obtain more discovery in his landmark First Amendment case exposing Joe Biden's censorship regime. In his case, Murthy v. Missouri, Attorney General Bailey argued that top officials in the federal government coerced big tech social media   more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, June 27 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis issued the following news release on June 26, 2024: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, economic policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE). Restrepo-Echavarria will serve a two-year term on the board, which voted to appoint her on March 25. Restrepo-Echavarria also serves as the secretary of the Society fo  more