News from June 2021
By Timothy Stuckey | Jun 25, 2021
Carly Jerla has recently been appointed as a senior water resources program manager by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in order to coordinate the Department of the Interior's efforts to develop updated operating guidelines for Colorado River reservoirs, according to a press release.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Ecuador. Ecuador made significant progress by ensuring that budget execution did not deviate significantly from budget projections. During the review period, budget documents were publicly available online, although complete information on debt obligations, including...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A man has been charged in federal court with carjacking and murdering a rideshare driver in Chicago earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - A 46-year-old California resident has been charged in a nationwide ticket scam that included a Texas A&M football game, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - A 38-year-old Cuban citizen who resided in the Houston area is set to appear in federal court on charges of willfully injuring or committing any depredation exceeding $1000 against U.S. property, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Democracy flourishes when institutions of governance are inclusive, transparent, accountable, and responsive to its people. With that immutable fact in mind, the United States commends those Ethiopians who exercised their right to vote on June 21.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Burma. During the review period, the government published its executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report online within a reasonable period of time. Information on debt obligations was available online, but it was out of date. Budget documents...
By Andy Nghiem | Jun 25, 2021
Bryan Newland, principal deputy assistant secretary of Indian Affairs, recently announced two new appointments to leadership positions in the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A New Hampshire man was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release for sex trafficking of a minor, operation of a prostitution enterprise, and maintaining a drug-involved premises. The court also ordered $20,800 in restitution to the victims.
By Trina Thomas | Jun 25, 2021
The Interior and Commerce Departments will be restoring lands to the Native Hawaiian community, with the potential to issue homestead to 200-400 Native Hawaiian families.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Chad. During the review period, the government published its enacted budget within a reasonable period of time but not its executive budget proposal. The government also produced within a reasonable period of time an end-of-year report, although it lacked detail...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Gorham man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland for receiving and possessing child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Richard Lawrence Davis, 38, of St. Louis, Missouri, appeared before United States District Court Judge Stephen R. Clark on today’s date and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine and fentanyl, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Papua New Guinea. During the review period, the government made budget documents publicly available. The enacted budget and end-of-year report were published online, but the executive budget proposal was not. Information on debt obligations was not available in...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Malawi. During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal, end-of-year reports publicly available online within a reasonable period of time. The enacted budget was delayed because it was an election year. While information on most debt...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: The United States is pleased to highlight that the Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean will enter into force June 25, 2021. This is the first multilateral agreement of its kind to take a legally binding, precautionary approach to protect an area from commercial fishing before such fishing has begun.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Summary: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is advising the public of our preliminary concurrence with the World Organisation for Animal Health’s (OIE) bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) risk designation for Bolivia and the United Kingdom’s zone of Jersey. The OIE recognizes this country and this zone as being of negligible risk for BSE.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: Today, Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement announcing the Committees will examine the approval and pricing of Biogen Inc.’s Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: South Sudan. There was no budget enacted for the fiscal year beginning July 2020. During the review period, the government did not publish an executive budget proposal, enacted budget nor end-of-year report within a reasonable period of time. Allocations to and...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Madagascar. During the review period, the government made its enacted budget widely and easily accessible to the general public, including online, but did not publish its executive budget proposal or end-of-year report within a reasonable period of time. Information...
