WASHINGTON, D.C. – The new design for the $100 note will make its debut on Wednesday, April 21 during a ceremony at the Department of the Treasury’s Cash Room. The U.S. government redesigns currency in order to stay ahead of counterfeiters and protect the public. Decisions about the redesign of each denomination are guided by [...]
New York– Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today asked former United States President Bill Clinton, already deeply involved in Haiti before last month’s devastating earthquake as United Nations Special Envoy to the country, to assume a leadership role in coordinating international quake relief, from emergency response to reconstruction to launching a new funding appeal.
“Needless to say, he [...]
By Donna Miles
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget request calls for a record $8.8 billion for military family support programs, First Lady Michelle Obama told military spouses today at Bolling Air Force Base here.
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First Lady Michelle Obama outlines military family support measures in the fiscal 2011 budget request to [...]
Six members of a racketeering enterprise, called La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, were convicted today by a jury in U.S. District Court in Charlotte, N.C., of criminal charges that include racketeering, murder, attempted murder, assault, cocaine trafficking and numerous related federal firearms offenses, the Department of Justice announced. The jury convicted the defendants after two [...]
NEW YORK – A team of United Nations independent experts today called for those behind the 2007 incident where 17 people were killed in the Iraqi capital to be brought to justice, following the dismissal of an indictment against five private security guards by a United States court.
In response to the decision by the US [...]
MANTECA – Lieutenant Governor of California John Garamendi attended a luncheon in Manteca for the Indian American community. During the luncheon the local community came together and addressed their concerns about the current state of California to Lt. Governor John Garamendi.
Lt. Governor John Garamendi praised the Indian American community for its contributions to America.
“As I [...]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Vijay K. Taneja, popular in the Indian American community for his Bollywood shows in the US, pleaded guilty to a massive $33 million mortgage fraud case, the largest mortgage fraud case in Virginia in almost 20 years and among the largest nationally. The money was apparently used to fund Taneja’s Bollywood ventures, [...]
WASHINGTON – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced a new program – the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program – to strengthen confidence and encourage liquidity in the banking system by guaranteeing newly issued senior unsecured debt of banks, thrifts, and certain holding companies, and by providing full coverage of non-interest bearing deposit transaction accounts, regardless [...]
WASHINGTON (D. Miles) – President Bush signed the fiscal 2009 defense budget into law today, authorizing a $512 billion base to support military readiness, as well as $66 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The law also authorizes a 3.9 percent pay raise for servicemembers, to take effect Jan. 1. This represents a one-half-percent increase [...]
TALLAHASSEE – A 49-year-old illegal alien from Pakistan was convicted here yesterday for failing to comply with a removal order following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigation.
Evidence introduced during the trial established that Sahi Sarwar, who had been ordered removed from the United States to Pakistan by an immigration court, willfully refused to [...]