News from May 2021
By Homeland Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, applauded the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for passing their bipartisan legislation that will...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of conscience, which includes freedom of thought and religion, subject to the interests of defense, public safety, order, morality, and health, and to the protection of other persons’ rights and freedoms. The law prohibits religious discrimination and allows all...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution prohibits discrimination based on creed and provides for the right of individuals to change, manifest, and propagate their religious beliefs. The government recognizes six groups as religions: Hindus, Roman Catholics, Muslims, Anglicans, Presbyterians, and Seventh-day Adventists. Other...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that XAVIER CRUZ, 26, of Bristol, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Janet B. Arterton in New Haven to possession of a firearm by a felon.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and affirms the state does not support any particular religion. Legal statutes prohibit discrimination based on religion. The government’s official commitment to secularism continued to generate controversy between religious groups and political leaders.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination, stipulates that individuals are free to profess and practice their religion, and does not designate a state religion. Registration is required for religious groups to have legal status. On March 15, the government restricted public gatherings, including...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of conscience and religious belief and practice, including worship. It prohibits discrimination based on religion. Laws prohibit actions that incite religious hatred and violence. Prime Minister Keith Rowley issued public messages for major religious holidays, underscoring...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Glen Allen man was sentenced today to 34 months in prison for defrauding both a Pennsylvania-based bank and the Export-Import Bank of the United States in connection with a $1.6 million loan.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The provisional federal constitution (PFC) provides for the right of individuals to practice their religion, makes Islam the state religion, prohibits the propagation of any religion other than Islam, and stipulates all laws must comply with the general principles of sharia. Most areas of the country...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: In February 2014, armed forces of the Russian Federation seized and occupied Crimea. In March 2014, Russia claimed that Crimea had become part of the Russian Federation. The UN General Assembly’s Resolution 68/262 of March 27, 2014, entitled “Territorial Integrity of Ukraine," and Resolution 75/192 of...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A Dane County man is charged with 2 counts of distributing child pornography in an indictment returned today by a federal grand jury sitting in Madison, according to Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 37-year-old legal permanent resident (LPR) of Mexico has pleaded guilty to participating in a drug importation conspiracy, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: In a Related Action, Corporation Controlled by the Defendant Will Pay $500,000 to Settle a Related Civil Complaint.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Jun N. Martinez, 28, of Jamestown, NY, with narcotics conspiracy, possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, maintaining a premises for drug use and distribution, ...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution states the country is a secular state, and both it and other laws provide for the right of individuals to choose and change their religion and to practice the religion of their choice. International media reported that terrorist groups, armed insurgents, and jihadists continued their...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Dermot Shea, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), and Patrick J. Freaney, Deputy Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the United States Secret Service (“USSS"), announced today...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides for the right to practice or not to practice religion freely and prohibits discrimination based on religion. These and other rights may temporarily be suspended or restricted only in the event of a declaration of a state of war, siege, or emergency. The constitution prohibits...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: Director of Media Relations Kelly Thornton (619) 546-9726.
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Congressman Dan Kildee (D-MI), member of the Ways and Means’ Subcommittee on Trade released the following statement after a second complaint was filed under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s (USMCA) Rapid Response Labor Mechanism for potential labor violations at a plant in Mexico...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and states all persons are equal before the law. It prohibits discrimination based on religion. The constitution grants automatic official recognition to the Roman Catholic Church and states other religious groups may also apply for official recognition...
