News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: DALLAS - The Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the results of Project Python, a DEA-led multilateral interagency operation encompassing all global investigations and related disruption activities targeting the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Heather Denese Medina, 40, of Brookwood, Alabama, was sentenced yesterday in federal court on three charges that she falsified information on federal forms in order to purchase firearms. Court documents showed...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: The Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe is a multiparty constitutional democracy. In 2016 voters elected President Evaristo do Espirito Santo Carvalho as head of state. The legislative elections in October 2018 produced a peaceful transfer of power from the Independent Democratic Action (ADI) to a coalition of other parties. International observers deemed the presidential and legislative elections generally free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Namibia is a constitutional multiparty democracy. In the presidential and parliamentary elections on Nov. 27, President Hage Geingob won a second five-year term, and the South West African People’s Organization (Swapo) retained its large parliamentary majority, winning 63 of 96 National Assembly...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: The Kingdom of Tonga is a constitutional monarchy. The Legislative Assembly, a parliamentary body consisting of 17 popularly elected members and nine nobles selected by their peers, elects the prime minister. Following the November 2017 election, which international observers characterized as generally...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: The established climbing management areas identified below are closed to all public use from March 1, 2020 to July 15, 2020 to protect peregrine falcon nesting aeries.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: The Kingdom of Denmark is a constitutional monarchy with democratic, parliamentary rule. Queen Margrethe II is head of state. A prime minister, usually the leader of the largest party of a multiparty coalition, is head of government and presides over the cabinet, which is accountable to a unicameral...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News 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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - After a three-day jury trial in August 2019, Johnny Lee Nixon, Jr., 23, was found guilty of Conspiracy to Commit multiple business robberies, Hobbs Act business robbery, possession of a firearm during a robbery, and receiving firearms while under indictment. Nixon has now been sentenced to 160 months in federal prison. U.S. Attorney Dunavant announced the sentencing today.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News 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 September 2019 and presidential elections in 2016 were considered free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: The Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe is a multiparty constitutional democracy. In 2016 voters elected President Evaristo do Espirito Santo Carvalho as head of state. The legislative elections in October 2018 produced a peaceful transfer of power from the Independent Democratic Action (ADI) to a coalition of other parties. International observers deemed the presidential and legislative elections generally free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Lesotho is a constitutional monarchy with a democratic parliamentary government. Under the constitution the king is head of state but does not actively participate in political activities. The prime minister is head of government and has executive authority. In 2017 former prime minister Pakalitha Mosisili...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a centralized constitutional republic. Voters popularly elect the president and the lower house of parliament (National Assembly). Following a two-year delay, presidential, legislative, and provincial elections were held on Dec. 30, 2018; however, presidential...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Democrats today introduced the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to bolster the federal government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and address the severe impacts of the coronavirus on Americans’ personal safety and financial security.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Eswatini is an executive monarchy. King Mswati III and Queen Mother Ntombi, the king’s mother, rule as co-monarchs and exercise varying levels of authority over the three branches of government. There is a bicameral parliament consisting of the Senate and House of Assembly, each composed of appointed...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Bulgaria is a constitutional republic governed by a freely elected unicameral National Assembly. A coalition government headed by a prime minister leads the country. National Assembly elections were held in 2017, and the Central Election Commission did not report any major election irregularities. International observers considered the National Assembly elections and the 2016 presidential election generally free and fair but noted some deficiencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN -Cedric Townsend, 38, has been sentenced to 320 months imprisonment for Conspiracy to Distribute 50 grams or more of Actual Methamphetamine and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: The Republic of North Macedonia is a parliamentary democracy. A popularly elected president is head of state and commander in chief of the armed forces. The unicameral parliament exercises legislative authority. Parliamentary elections were last held in 2016 and presidential elections during the year.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: The Gambia’s constitution enumerates a full range of provisions and assurances for a multiparty democratic republic. In 2016 Adama Barrow, the consensus candidate of a coalition of seven opposition political parties, defeated incumbent president Yahya Jammeh in what international observers deemed a peaceful...
