News from June 2020
By EPA Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: As Americans face both the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting severe economic downturn, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Education and Labor Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA) today unveiled The Patient Protection and Affordable...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: South Africa. Overview: South Africa saw a decrease in suspected terrorism-related incidents in 2019, following an unusually high number of incidents in 2018. ISIS facilitation networks and cells remained a threat, after being first publicly acknowledged by the South African government in 2016. Regional...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Maldives. Overview: In 2019, the Government of Maldives’s CT efforts concentrated on CVE and limiting the flow of FTFs. Those within the penal system or involved in criminal gangs are at a heightened risk of terrorist radicalization. The government claims that 188 cases related to “religious extremism"...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A former Richmond City Public Schools elementary music teacher pleaded guilty today to producing images of child sexual abuse.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Kosovo. Overview: Kosovo continued to fight the threat of terrorism through close cooperation with the United States. Kosovo is a member of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. The Government of Kosovo (GOK) is approaching the end of the timeframe envisaged by its comprehensive CVE strategy and is preparing...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Washington - The Trump Administration today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $86 million in rural broadband service (PDF, 110 KB) for 17,000 people and businesses in eight states.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Tajikistan. Overview: The Tajik government continues to make efforts to improve the capacity of law enforcement agencies to combat terrorism, enhance border security, and detect terrorist financing. The government maintains that northern Afghanistan is a primary source of terrorist activity, and Tajik...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: As Americans face both the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting severe economic downturn, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Education and Labor Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA) today unveiled The Patient Protection and Affordable...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Four Individuals Have Been Charged this Week.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry hosted a hearing on the bipartisan Growing Climate Solutions Act, where prominent agricultural leaders urged passage of the bipartisan Growing Climate Solutions Act.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Panama. Overview: Throughout 2019, Panama remained a willing partner for bilateral and multilateral cooperation in countering terrorism. As a transit country for illicit goods, money, and migrants, Panama’s geographic location makes its willingness to engage on counterterrorism important for regional...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man pled guilty today to federal charges related to the trafficking of methamphetamine and the possession of a firearm while involved in drug trafficking, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. James Daniel Canty, 60, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Democratic Republic of the Congo. Overview: Rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) established ties with ISIS in late 2018. Before its ISIS affiliation, the ADF previously attempted outreach to Islamist terrorist groups for multiple years, including online posts by some ADF members in 2016 and 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Five Shootings Left One Dead and Two Others Paralyzed from Their Wounds.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Kazakhstan. Overview: Kazakhstan remained on guard against the potential for attacks by FTFs returning from war zones in the Middle East and Afghanistan, as well as homegrown terrorist attacks. Between January and June, the government repatriated 595 Kazakhstani FTFs and family members from Syria, prosecuting...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Serbia. Overview: With no terrorist attacks in 2019 and low levels of ISIS recruitment activities, the main terrorism concerns in Serbia remain the potential movement of money and weapons through the region, recruitment and return of FTFs, the revitalization of terrorist ideologies, and opportunities ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, Kan. - A Kansas man who was arrested in Great Bend in September after fleeing from officers was indicted today on federal drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: A prohibited person who possessed a firearm pled guilty on June 23, 2020, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: As Americans face both the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting severe economic downturn, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Education and Labor Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA) today unveiled The Patient Protection and Affordable...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Clarence Michael Ransom, 52, of Las Cruces, New Mexico pleaded guilty in federal court in Las Cruces on June 23 to one count of attempted production of child pornography, two counts of international parental kidnapping and one count of failure to report international travel as a sex offender.
