News from March 2021
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Peru is a constitutional, multiparty republic. President Martin Vizcarra assumed the presidency in 2018 following the resignation of then president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, under whom Vizcarra was vice president, on corruption allegations. Kuczynski had won the 2016 national elections in a vote widely...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz., March 30, 2021-Small check dams can have big benefits in the Southwest landscape, particularly in mending eroding channels, as documented in a new Agricultural Research Service Rangeland Restoration Research website.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Kuwait is a constitutional, hereditary emirate ruled by the Al-Sabah family. While there is also a democratically elected parliament, the amir holds ultimate authority over most government decisions. The most recent parliamentary general election, considered generally free and fair, was held on December 5, and members of the opposition won a majority of the seats.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: The Slovak Republic is a multiparty parliamentary democracy led by a prime minister and a 150-member parliament (Narodna Rada or National Council). Prime Minister Igor Matovic heads a four-party coalition that secured a majority of seats in parliament following free and fair parliamentary elections on February 29. In 2019 voters elected Zuzana Caputova to a five-year term as president and head of state in free and fair elections.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Ronnie L. White sentenced Dominic Young to 90 months in prison Monday. The 27-year-old St. Louis, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to one count of armed robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months’ imprisonment and eight years’ supervised release on his conviction of narcotics trafficking, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: MILLS, Wyoming - The Bureau of Reclamation, at the request of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and in coordination with Willwood Workgroup 2, has scheduled a flushing flow in the Shoshone River downstream of Buffalo Bill Dam. The flushing flow will begin with rapidly increasing flows on April 7 and...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Canada is a constitutional monarchy with a federal parliamentary government. In a free and fair multiparty federal election held in October 2019, the Liberal Party, led by Justin Trudeau, won a plurality of seats in the federal parliament and formed a minority government.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: India is a multiparty, federal, parliamentary democracy with a bicameral legislature. The president, elected by an electoral college composed of the state assemblies and parliament, is the head of state, and the prime minister is the head of government. Under the constitution, the country’s 28 states...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: The Republic of San Marino is a multiparty democracy. Twice yearly, the popularly elected unicameral Great and General Council (parliament) selects two of its members to serve as Captains Regent (coheads of state). They preside over meetings of the Council and of the Congress of State (cabinet), which ...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Niger is a multiparty republic. In the first round of the presidential elections on Dec. 27, Mohamed Bazoum of the ruling coalition finished first with 39.3 percent of the vote. Opposition candidate Mahamane Ousman finished second with 16.9 percent. A second round between the two candidates was scheduled...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Rwanda is a constitutional republic dominated by a strong presidency. The ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front 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 percent...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: 37 Charged in Multi-Year Investigation After TDOC Sought Federal Assistance.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Talladega, Ala. - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), NASCAR, the Talladega Superspeedway, state and local first responders, law enforcement officials, and local businesses held a tabletop exercise today to test response plans around hypothetical public safety incidents on the day of the GEICO 500.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Defendant Stole Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars From Victims By Falsely Promising to Invest Their Funds in his Foreign Exchange Trading Firm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Gregory Lewis, 25, of Williston, Vermont, was arrested yesterday on charges that he distributed cocaine base in January and February of 2021. Lewis is scheduled to appear remotely this afternoon for an initial appearance before the Hon. Kevin J. Doyle, United States Magistrate Judge.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: MR PRICE: Good afternoon, again, everyone, and thanks for joining us. As you saw earlier today, Secretary Blinken rolled out the 2020 Human Rights Report. And he was joined in doing so by Lisa Peterson, the Acting Assistant Secretary in our Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, or DRL.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Lower Paxton Postal employee, Candy Ehler, age 51, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, pled guilty on March 29, 2021, before U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to three counts of theft of mail by an employee.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Brazil is a constitutional, multiparty republic governed by a democratically elected government. In 2018 voters chose the president, the vice president, and the bicameral national legislature in elections that international observers reported were free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Bhutan is a democratic constitutional monarchy with King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck as head of state and Prime Minister Lotay Tshering as chief executive. In 2018 the country held its third general elections; approximately 71 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots. International election observers reported the elections were generally free and fair.
