News from March 2021
By DOJ Gazette | Mar 30, 2021
The US Justice Department published an eight page proposed rule on March 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Mar 30, 2021
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on March 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Mar 30, 2021
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on March 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Mar 30, 2021
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on March 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 30, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on March 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: MR PRICE: Good afternoon. Today I have the privilege of welcoming back to the press briefing room Secretary Blinken. It’s especially a privilege today because the Secretary, as you know, is here to unveil the 2020 Human Rights Report.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: The United Republic of Tanzania is a multiparty republic consisting of the mainland region and the semiautonomous Zanzibar archipelago, whose main islands are Unguja (Zanzibar Island) and Pemba. The union is headed by a president, who is also the head of government. Its unicameral legislative body is...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Saint Kitts and Nevis is a multiparty parliamentary democracy and federation. The prime minister is the head of government. The United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state, represented by a governor general. The constitution provides the smaller island of Nevis considerable powers of self-governance...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Guinea-Bissau is a multiparty republic. The country has endured prolonged political gridlock punctuated by periods of turmoil. In March 2019 the country held legislative elections, which included all 102 seats in the National Assembly. Presidential elections held in November 2019 resulted in two finalists:...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Ukraine. In February 2014 Russian forces entered Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and occupied it militarily. In March 2014 Russia announced the peninsula had become part of the Russian Federation following a sham referendum that violated Ukraine’s constitution. The UN General Assembly’s Resolution 68/262 ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Emery Garcia, 36, of the San Felipe Pueblo, pleaded guilty in federal court on March 29 to two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon in Indian Country.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Brunei Darussalam is a monarchy governed since 1967 by Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah. Emergency powers in place since 1962 allow the sultan to govern with few limitations on his authority. The Legislative Council, composed of appointed, indirectly elected, and ex officio members, met during the year and exercised a purely consultative role in recommending and approving legislation and budgets.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Chad is a centralized republic in which the executive branch dominates the legislature and judiciary. In 2016 President Idriss Deby Itno, leader of the Patriotic Salvation Movement, was elected to a fifth term in an election that was neither free nor fair. During the 2011 legislative elections, the ruling...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - MARK DOUGLAS, age 72, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced for embezzlement of union funds by the Honorable Greg G. Guidry, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. DOUGLAS was sentenced to 24 months of probation and a $100 special assessment. DOUGLAS was also ordered to pay $7,078.35 in restitution to the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1101.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Executive Summary Title. 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...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: The Republic of Lithuania is a constitutional, multiparty, parliamentary democracy. Legislative authority resides in a unicameral parliament (Seimas), and executive authority resides in the Office of the President. Observers evaluated the presidential elections and European Parliamentary elections in May 2019 and the national parliamentary elections on October 11 and October 25 as generally free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Barbados is a parliamentary democracy led by Prime Minister Mia Mottley of the Barbados Labour Party. The Barbados Labour Party won all 30 parliamentary seats in the 2018 election. A former Barbados Labour Party member of Parliament became an independent in order to serve as the formal leader of the opposition. Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state and is represented by the governor general, who certifies all legislation on her behalf.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Taiwan is a democracy led by a president and parliament selected in multiparty elections. On Jan. 11, voters re-elected President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party to another four-year term in an election considered free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Malta is a constitutional republic and parliamentary democracy. The president is the head of state, appointed by a resolution of the unicameral House of Representatives (parliament) for a term of five years. In 2019 parliament appointed George Vella president for a five-year term beginning April 4. The...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Australia is a constitutional democracy with a freely elected federal parliamentary government. In a free and fair federal parliamentary election in May 2019, the Liberal Party and National Party coalition was re-elected with a majority of 77 seats in the 151-seat House of Representatives. The House subsequently reconfirmed Scott Morrison as prime minister.
