News from April 2022
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Mexico is a multiparty federal republic with an elected president and bicameral legislature. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the MORENA party coalition won the presidential election in generally free and fair multiparty elections in 2018. In the June midterm elections, citizens voted for all members of the Chamber of Deputies, 15 governors, state legislators, and mayors across the country. The elections were generally free and fair.
By Press release submission | Apr 12, 2022
Samples from the flocks were tested at the Montana Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, part of the National Animal Health Laboratory Network, and confirmed at the APHIS National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Botswana is a constitutional, multiparty, republican democracy. Its constitution provides for the indirect election of a president and the popular election of a National Assembly. The Botswana Democratic Party has held a majority in the National Assembly since the nation’s founding in 1966. In 2019 President Mokgweetsi Masisi won his first full five-year term in an election that outside observers deemed free and fair.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is a constitutional parliamentary democracy. Prime Minister Philip Brave Davis’s Progressive Liberal Party won control of the government on September 16. International observers found the electoral process to be free and fair.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Uganda is a constitutional republic led since 1986 by President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement party. During the year voters re-elected Museveni to a sixth five-year term and returned a National Resistance Movement majority to the unicameral parliament. Allegations of arbitrary killings...
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Ghana is a constitutional democracy with a strong presidency and a unicameral 275-seat parliament. Presidential and parliamentary elections conducted in December 2020 were generally peaceful, although there were isolated incidents of violence during the voting and vote count, resulting in as many as eight deaths, some by security forces. Domestic and international observers assessed the elections to be transparent, inclusive, and credible.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: Defendants Alleged To Have Submitted Approximately 54 Fraudulent H-1B Visa Applications.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: Springfield, Ore. - Officials with the Bureau of Land Management are seeking public input on ways to improve the safety of Hult Reservoir and Dam. As the owner of the dam, the BLM has a responsibility to the people and property downstream as well as to the users of the reservoir. The dam is aging, and...
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Thailand is a constitutional monarchy, with King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun (Rama X) as head of state. In 2019 the country held the first national election after five years of rule by a junta-led National Council for Peace and Order. The National Council-backed Phalang Pracharath Party...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
The Daily Digest section of the Congressional Record published “Senate Committee Meetings” on April 7.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. The 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law of the Special Administrative Region specified that, except in matters of defense and foreign affairs, Hong Kong would have a high degree of autonomy under the “One...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: REDDING, Calif. -- With summer camping season just around the corner, the Bureau of Land Management is preparing to open Trinity River campgrounds, along California State Highway 299, on Friday, April 29. These campgrounds are first-come, first-served, with no reservations taken. Campers can deposit their fees in cash at campground collection boxes. The maximum stay is 14 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice announced that it has submitted to the Federal Register the “Frame or Receiver" Final Rule, which modernizes the definition of a firearm. Once implemented, this rule will clarify that parts kits that are readily convertible to firearms are subject to the same regulations ...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MN: In response to the discovery of zebra mussel veligers (larvae) in Black Bay of Rainy Lake in late 2021, Voyageurs staff is starting a containment and prevention program. This program involves educational activities as well as new management operations related to Kettle Falls and Gold Portage areas.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: The Russian Federation has a highly centralized, authoritarian political system dominated by President Vladimir Putin. The bicameral Federal Assembly consists of a directly elected lower house (State Duma) and an appointed upper house (Federation Council), both of which lack independence from the executive.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
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.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Columbia Gorge Community College, The Dalles, Oregon, to renovate and modernize an existing facility to grow healthcare workforce development programs.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - A significant software improvement is leading to enhanced decision-making on environmental cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior announced today it is investing $46 million in funding to Tribal communities to address the unique impacts of climate change in Indigenous communities. This initial funding, made available from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and fiscal year ...
