News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Jamarcus Dontaye Patterson, age 36, of Lancaster, South Carolina, was sentenced to 115 months (9.5 years) in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Following the term of imprisonment, Patterson will be on federal supervised release for 3 years. Senior United States District Judge Terry L. Wooten, of Columbia, imposed the sentence.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Afghanistan is an Islamic republic with a directly elected president, a bicameral legislative branch, and a judicial branch. Parliamentary elections for the lower house of parliament were constitutionally mandated for 2015, but for a number of reasons, were not held until October 2018. Elections were...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Liberia is a constitutional republic with a bicameral national assembly. The country held presidential and legislative elections in 2017 that domestic and international observers deemed generally free and fair; the first round of voting for the presidency and 73 seats in the House of Representatives...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Greensboro, NC - U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin announced today that the Middle District of North Carolina collected $2,235,279.81 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2018. Of this amount, $1,719,336.45 was collected in criminal actions and $515,943.36 was collected in civil actions.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.’s (D-NJ) prepared opening remarks for today’s Health Subcommittee legislative hearing on “Lowering the Cost of Prescription Drugs: Reducing Barriers to Market Competition" are below...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: The United States recognizes the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and Tibetan autonomous prefectures (TAPs) and counties in Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan, and Gansu Provinces to be a part of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Central Committee oversees Tibet policies. As...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Kenya is a republic with three branches of government: an executive branch, led by a directly elected president; a bicameral parliament consisting of the Senate and the National Assembly; and a judiciary. In the 2017 general elections, the second under the 2010 constitution, citizens cast ballots for...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: The Kingdom of Spain is a parliamentary democracy headed by a constitutional monarch. The country has a bicameral parliament, the General Courts or National Assembly, consisting of the Congress of Deputies (lower house) and the Senate (upper house). The head of the largest political party or coalition ...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: Eritrea is a highly centralized, authoritarian regime under the control of President Isaias Afwerki. The People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), headed by the president, is the sole political party. There have been no national-level elections since an independence referendum in 1993.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: Burkina Faso is a constitutional republic led by an elected president. In 2015 the country held peaceful and orderly presidential and legislative elections, marking a major milestone in a transition to democracy. President Roch Mark Christian Kabore won with 53 percent of the popular vote, and his party-the People’s Movement for Progress-won 55 seats in the 127-seat National Assembly. National and international observers characterized the elections as free and fair.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho- The Bureau of Land Management Idaho Falls District transferred a surplus wildland fire engine to the Clark County Fire Department today, part of BLM’s effort to respond to rural wildland fires by giving excess equipment and supplies to local fire departments and Rangeland Fire Protection Associations.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: Venezuela is formally a multiparty, constitutional republic, but for more than a decade, political power has been concentrated in a single party with an increasingly authoritarian executive exercising significant control over the legislative, judicial, citizens’ power (which includes the prosecutor general...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: The Republic of Austria is a parliamentary democracy with constitutional power shared between a popularly elected president and a bicameral parliament (federal assembly). The multiparty parliament and the coalition government it elects exercise most day-to-day governmental powers. Parliamentary elections in October 2017 and presidential elections in 2016 were considered free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Antonio Wright, age 42, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to coercing and enticing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct and to two counts of production of child pornography.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: Solomon Islands is a constitutional multiparty parliamentary democracy. Observers considered the 2014 parliamentary election generally free and fair, although there were incidents of vote buying. Parliament elected Manasseh Sogavare as prime minister after the election, and he formed a coalition government. In November 2017, after a vote of no confidence against Sogavare, parliament elected Ricky Houenipwela prime minister, and he formed a new coalition government.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Madagascar is a semipresidential democratic republic with a popularly elected president, a bicameral legislature (Senate and National Assembly), prime minister, and cabinet. A presidential election was held November 7, with a two-candidate run-off on December 19. Independent observers judged the election...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.’s (D-NJ) prepared opening remarks for today’s Health Subcommittee legislative hearing on “Lowering the Cost of Prescription Drugs: Reducing Barriers to Market Competition" are below...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: Grenada is a parliamentary democracy with a bicameral legislature. Observers considered the March 13 elections to be generally free and fair. The New National Party won all 15 seats in the House of Representatives and selected Keith Mitchell as prime minister.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing on “Mismanaging Chemical Risks: EPA’s Failure to Protect Workers:"
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: The Republic of Korea (South Korea) is a constitutional democracy governed by a president and a unicameral legislature. Observers considered the presidential election in May 2017 and legislative elections in 2016 free and fair. Moon Jae-in was elected president in an early election following the impeachment of former president Park Geun-hye. In June the government held free and fair local elections.
