News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Bank Robber Allegedly Wore “Chewbacca" Mask and Carried a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Dominica is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. In the December general election, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit’s Dominica Labour Party (DLP) prevailed over the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) by a margin of 18 seats to three. The prime minister is the head of government. The House of Assembly...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Iraq is a constitutional parliamentary republic. The 2018 parliamentary elections, while imperfect, generally met international standards of free and fair elections and led to the peaceful transition of power from Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to Adil Abd al-Mahdi. On Dec. 1, in response to protesters’...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Kiribati is a constitutional multiparty republic. The president exercises executive authority. Following legislative elections, the House of Assembly nominates at least three and no more than four presidential candidates from among its members, and the public then elects the president for a four-year...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Equatorial Guinea is nominally a multiparty constitutional republic. Since a military coup in 1979, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has dominated all branches of government in collaboration with his clan and political party, the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE), which he founded in...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary Scalia: We write to request additional information on the Department of Labor’s (DOL) role in the federal government’s response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). The seeming absence or exclusion of DOL from any aspect of the Administration’s efforts to address this crisis is alarming.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Ryan Antrim, 29, of Allentown, Pennsylvania was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment and a lifetime of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Edward G. Smith, for the distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Rwanda is a constitutional republic dominated by a strong presidency. The ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) led a governing coalition that included four smaller parties. In 2017 voters elected President Paul Kagame to a third seven-year term with a reported 99 percent of the vote and a reported 98...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Uganda is a constitutional republic led since 1986 by President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party. In 2016 voters re-elected Museveni to a fifth five-year term and returned an NRM majority to the unicameral parliament. Allegations of disenfranchisement and voter intimidation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that March 10, 2020, a jury seated in the federal district court in Green Bay, found William A. Julius (age: 57) of Green Bay and Menominee, Wisconsin, guilty of two counts of arson.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: El Salvador is a constitutional multiparty republic. On Feb. 3, voters elected Nayib Bukele as president for a five-year term. The election was generally free and fair, according to international observers. Free and fair municipal and legislative elections took place in 2018.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Sierra Leone is a constitutional republic with a directly elected president and a unicameral legislature. In March 2018 the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) presidential candidate, Julius Maada Bio, won the presidential elections. Bio defeated Samura Kamara of the All People’s Congress (APC)...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: The Republic of Kazakhstan’s government and constitution concentrate power in the presidency. The law grants former president Nursultan Nazarbayev broad, lifetime authority over a range of government functions. The executive branch controls the legislature and the judiciary, as well as regional and local...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) today released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the Secure 5G and Beyond Act of 2020 (S. 893 ) by unanimous consent...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Fiji is a constitutional republic. In November 2018 the country held general elections, which international observers deemed free, transparent, and credible. Josaia Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama’s Fiji First party won 27 of 51 seats in parliament, and he began a second four-year term as prime minister.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Guinea-Bissau is a multiparty republic. The country has endured prolonged political gridlock punctuated by periods of turmoil. Aristides Gomes is the seventh prime minister since 2015. In March the country held legislative elections, which included all 102 seats in the National Assembly. Presidential...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Health Subcommittee markup examining 13 health bills, including bipartisan proposals to promote health and increase the safety of medical products.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Chair of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request for the Food and Drug Administration.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: The Kingdom of Belgium is a parliamentary democracy with a limited constitutional monarchy. The country is a federal state with several levels of government: national; regional (Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels); language community (Flemish, French, and German); provincial; and local. The Federal Council...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of New Castle, PA pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
