News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Stephen Robinson, incarcerated at Federal Correction Institution Gilmer, has admitted to trying to get a controlled substance, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Uzbekistan is a constitutional republic with a political system dominated by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and his supporters. In 2016 Mirziyoyev, the former prime minister, won the presidential elections with 88 percent of the vote. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Office...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Chair of the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget requests for the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Office of Science, and Environmental Management.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Timor-Leste is a multiparty, parliamentary republic. After May 2018 parliamentary elections, which were free, fair, and peaceful, Taur Matan Ruak became prime minister, leading a three-party coalition government. The 2017 presidential and parliamentary elections were also free and fair. In contrast with previous years, these elections were conducted without extensive assistance from the international community.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
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 on November 7, 2018, with a two-candidate run-off on Dec. 19, 2018. The winner, Andry Rajoelina...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Zimbabwe is constitutionally a republic. The country elected Emmerson Mnangagwa president for a five-year term in July 2018 in general elections. Despite incremental improvements from past elections, domestic and international observers noted serious concerns and called for further reforms necessary...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Benin is a stable constitutional presidential republic. In 2016 voters elected Patrice Talon to a five-year term as president in a multiparty election, replacing former president Thomas Boni Yayi, who served two consecutive five-year terms. During the year authorities held legislative elections in which...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: COPPER CENTER, AK - On Feb. 18, 2020 the National Park Service (NPS) awarded a construction contract to complete Phase III of the Upper Mill Building Structural Repairs. The successful contractor is Alaska Aggregate Products LLC. of Palmer, Alaska.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) sent a letter to the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) opposing the Trump administration’s proposed rule to fundamentally re-write the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a multiparty, parliamentary democracy. The prime minister is the head of the government. The United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state, represented by a governor general. In 2015 Ralph Gonsalves was elected by his party to a fourth consecutive term as prime minister. International observers assessed the election as generally free and fair.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos: We write on the topic of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the impact it is having on schools across the country. Increasing numbers of K-12 schools and institutions of higher education (IHEs) are considering school closures in order to mitigate the spread of the virus.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Slovenia is a parliamentary democracy and constitutional republic. Power is shared among a directly elected president (head of state), a prime minister (head of government), and a bicameral parliament composed of the National Assembly (lower house) and the National Council (upper house). In June 2018 the country held parliamentary elections. Observers considered the elections free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Chris Coons (D-Del.), member of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy, today applauded the decision by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to update the list of sanctioned individuals for Zimbabwe following their January letter to Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting an update.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security seeking information on its plan for preventing and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that the leader of a Salem-area drug distribution network was sentenced to federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine in and around Salem, Oregon.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a full committee hearing on the war in Syria, with witness testimony from Caesar, a Syrian military defector for whom the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act was named after, Mr. Omar Alshogre, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Six former residents of Mexico have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Sudan began the year as a republic with power concentrated in the hands of authoritarian President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and the National Congress Party (NCP). The NCP, which ruled for three decades with nearly absolute political authority, remained in power until early April. Protests that began in...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is a constitutional parliamentary democracy. Prime Minister Hubert Minnis’s Free National Movement won control of the government in 2017 elections international observers found free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Malawi is a multiparty democracy. Constitutional power is shared between the president and the 193 National Assembly members. On May 21, elections for president, parliament, and local councils were conducted. International observers characterized the elections as competent and professional.
