Pacific Ocean - The hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) Medical Treatment Facility held a change of command ceremony while underway, July 20.

Washington, DC - Como representantes de la comunidad internacional, reconocemos que las comunidades religiosas de todas las tradiciones pueden ser poderosas fuerzas pacíficas para el bien en el mundo. Instamos a todos los gobiernos a respetar el derecho humano de las personas a tener creencias o no tenerlas, y a practicar una fe o ninguna. Celebramos el bien de la religión, que se manifiesta en incontables actos desinteresados de servicio, compasión y caridad en todo el mundo, y condenamos los aberrantes actos perpetrados en nombre de la religión.

Miami, Florida - The United States Friday extradited Andres Felipe Arias Leiva, who served as Colombia’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development from 2005 to 2009, to face a prison sentence in that country based on a 2014 conviction by the Supreme Court of Colombia for two offenses committed while Arias served in public office.

Sacramento, California - Governor Gavin Newsom issued the following statement following confirmation that the Trump administration will not print a citizenship question on the 2020 Census form:

Baltimore, Maryland - A Maryland woman pleaded guilty to theft of government money and aggravated identity theft, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert K. Hur.

Sacramento, California - Loretta Darlene Stewart-Cabrera, also known as Loretta Dexter, 54, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.