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Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 5/1/21

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Press releases : May 1 - May 7

5/3 - Biden Administration Begins This Week to Reunite Families Separated Under the Prior Administration (DHS)

5/3 - FBI Releases 2020 Statistics on Law Enforcement Officers Killed in the Line of Duty (FBI; direct to data)

5/4 - NOAA Delivers New U.S. Climate Normals (NCEI; direct to data access)

5/5 - Household Pulse Survey Phase 3.1 Biweekly Data Release (Census)

5/5 - CPSC and Peloton Announce: Recall of Tread+ Treadmills After One Child Death and 70 Incidents; Recall of Tread Treadmills Due to Risk of Injury (CPSC)

5/5 - Births: Provisional Data for 2020 (NCHS)

5/5 - Statement from Ambassador Katherine Tai on the Covid-19 Trips Waiver (USTR)

5/6 - Interior Department Takes Steps to Revoke Final Rule on Migratory Bird Treaty Act Incidental Take (DOI)

5/6 - Biden-Harris Administration Outlines “America the Beautiful” Initiative (DOI; direct to report)

5/6 - OSC Statement on Public Service Recognition Week (OSC; direct to FEVS report)

5/6 - U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Establishes New Advisory Committees in U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa and Seeks Nominations of Bipartisan Candidates (USCCR)

5/7 - Defense Leaders to Discuss Sex Assault Review Commission Recommendation (DOD)

5/7 - Justice Department Proposes New Regulation to Update Firearm Definitions (DOJ; direct to proposed rule page)

5/7 - Four Former Minneapolis Police Officers Indicted on Federal Civil Rights Charges for Death of George Floyd; Derek Chauvin Also Charged in Separate Indictment for Violating Civil Rights of a Juvenile (DOJ)

5/7 - Week of May 3-7, 2021 [dismissing case against Donald Trump for "paying off" Stormy Daniels] (FEC; see also, Commissioner Weintraub's op-ed in Washington Post)

5/7 - NSA CISA, FBI, and the UK NCSC further expose Russian Intelligence Cyber Tactics (NSA; direct to advisory)

5/7 - DHS Withdraws Proposed Biometrics Rule (USCIS)

5/7 - USTR Releases Agency Transparency Principles (USTR)

Bills Signed into Law: May 1 - May 7

Information below is from congress.gov. Date listed is date signed into law, and the description is an abbreviated version of bill summary available on that website.

5/4 - H.R.2630 Extending Temporary Emergency Scheduling of Fentanyl Analogues Act - extends until October 22, 2021, the temporary scheduling order issued by the DEA to place fentanyl-related substances in schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act