News from June 2021
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: MR BUISINE: (Via interpreter) Hello, everyone. We are live on - with Antony Blinken, the new Secretary of State of the Biden administration. Hello, Mr. Secretary of State. You are the voice of America in the world. You are actually on an official visit in Europe. You met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and you are going to meet French President Macron in a moment.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Algeria. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing its executive budget proposal within a reasonable period of time. The government published its enacted budget online but did not publish an end-of-year report within a reasonable...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: SECRETARY GENERAL CORMANN: Secretary Blinken, a very warm welcome to the OECD.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: FOREIGN MINISTER LE DRIAN: (In French.) My dear Tony, I am very happy to welcome you in Paris.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Travell T. Richard, 32, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for being a felon in possession of a firearm. United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Richard to 51 months’ imprisonment. Richard will serve a 3-year term of supervised release following his release from the Bureau of Prisons. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Interstate Transportation of a Stolen Vehicle.
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: Iraq. Iraq spent the first five months of the review period under a caretaker Prime Minister. The new government, formed in May 2020, did not draft or pass a 2020 budget. In the past, the government made its enacted budget and end-of-year report available online,...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, held a remote hearing on H.R. 564, the Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Maldives. During the review period, the government made significant progress by making information on contingent debt, including state-owned enterprise debt, publicly available. During the review period, the government made budget documents widely and easily accessible...
By Trina Thomas | Jun 25, 2021
The Northern Nevada Correctional Center/Stewart Conservation Camp Saddle Horse and the Burro Training Program are saddling up to host a horse adoption event that is taking place on Saturday, June 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robert Moore, 43, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of distribution of fentanyl causing death, was sentenced to serve 270 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations today approved by voice vote its fiscal year 2022 bill.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Guinea-Bissau. During the review period, the government did not make budget documents or information on debt obligations widely and easily accessible to the general public. Available budget information did not include allocations to, earnings from, or debt holdings...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Justice Department announced today that it filed a lawsuit against the State of Georgia, the Georgia Secretary of State, and the Georgia State Election Board over recent voting procedures adopted by Georgia Senate Bill 202, which was signed into law in March 2021. The United States' complaint challenges provisions of Senate Bill 202 under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
By Trina Thomas | Jun 25, 2021
The Bureau of Land Management signed the Decision Record, approving an amendment for a 1.5 million-acre White River Field Office in northwestern Colorado that will provide access to outdoor recreational activities.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Azerbaijan. During the review period, budget documents and debt obligations were publicly available, including online, and provided a substantially complete picture of the government’s revenues, including natural resource revenues. While budget documents did not...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Mali. During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report available online within a reasonable period of time. Information on debt obligations was publicly available, with the exception of state-owned...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
