News from March 2020
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Ghana is a constitutional democracy with a strong presidency and a unicameral 275-seat parliament. Presidential and parliamentary elections conducted in 2016 were peaceful, and domestic and international observers assessed them to be transparent, inclusive, and credible.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In case you missed it, yesterday, on the last day for the public to submit comment on the Trump Administration's National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rulemaking proposal, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, spoke on the Senate floor to once again urge the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to reverse course on its proposal.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
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 State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Bangladesh’s constitution provides for a parliamentary form of government in which most power resides in the Office of the Prime Minister. Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League (AL) party won a third consecutive five-year term, keeping her in office as prime minister, in an improbably lopsided December...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Chillicothe, OH - Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, in partnership with the International Fiber Collaborative (IFC), announces the first ever student art exhibition, Every Earthwork Tells a Story.
By DOE 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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Harrisburg, PA - Today, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Michael Howard Falloon - an 18-year old Allentown man.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Solomon Islands is a constitutional multiparty parliamentary democracy. Observers considered the April 3 parliamentary election generally free and fair, although there were incidents of vote buying. Parliament elected Manasseh Sogavare prime minister after the election, and he formed a coalition government.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Senegal is a republic dominated by a strong executive branch. In February voters re-elected Macky Sall as president for a second term of five years in elections local and international observers considered generally free and fair. The government postponed until mid-2020 local municipal elections originally scheduled to take place in December.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
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: Afghanistan is an Islamic republic with a directly elected president, a bicameral legislative branch, and a judicial branch; however, armed insurgents control some portions of the country. On Sept. 28, Afghanistan held presidential elections after technical issues and security requirements compelled...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Cuba is an authoritarian state led by Miguel Diaz-Canel, president of the republic, with former president Raul Castro serving as the first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (CCP). Despite ratifying a new constitution on Feb. 24, Cuba remains a one-party system in which the constitution states the CCP is the only legal political party and the highest political entity of the state.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Mexico is a multiparty federal republic with an elected president and bicameral legislature. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the National Regeneration Movement won the presidential election in July 2018 in generally free and fair multiparty elections and took office in December 2018. Citizens also elected members of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, governors, state legislators, and mayors.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Saint Lucia is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. In free and fair elections in 2016, the United Workers Party (UWP) won 11 of the 17 seats in the House of Assembly, defeating the previously ruling Saint Lucia Labour Party. UWP leader Allen Chastanet became prime minister.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Warm Springs man has been charged with sexually abusing a minor victim nearly three decades ago on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Mauritania is an Islamic Republic with a president as head of state and a constitution grounded in French civil law and sharia (Islamic law). The National Assembly exercises legislative functions but was weak relative to the executive. Voters elect deputies to the National Assembly, municipal mayors,...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau is carefully monitoring the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation and will follow the guidance of federal, state and local health authorities. We have also established the Census Bureau COVID-19 Internal Task Force to continuously monitor the situation and update our Pandemic Addendum to the Census Bureau Continuity of Operations (COOP) Plan.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: The Oriental Republic of Uruguay is a constitutional republic with a democratically elected president and a bicameral legislature. In November, in a free and fair general election, Luis Lacalle Pou won a five-year presidential term. No political party won a majority in parliament; consequently, party coalitions will be required to pass legislation. Legislative elections were also held in October.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Singapore is a parliamentary republic where the People’s Action Party (PAP), in power since 1959, overwhelmingly dominated the political scene. The Elections Department declared Halimah Yacob president in 2017; she was the only candidate who qualified for the ballot, which was reserved that year for...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: 14 years of federal sentence to be served after defendant completes 21-year state sentence.
