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EPA is expecting some states to cut emissions by switching to natural gas for electricity generation, according to senior agency officials on a media briefing.

«We agree we don't want to alarm people,» Graber had said to senior Environmental Protection Agency officials on the call, according to notes taken by EPA Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck and obtained through a Freedom of Information request.

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«I've had the opportunity to consult with the senior officials of the security and police agencies of the government of Canada, and on the basis of all available information at the present time there would appear to be no national security connection to this particular incident,» Goodale said.

The Environmental Protection Agency, Coast Guard and FRA officials were still on site and continued to monitor the river.

In a post promoting «Amazing China» on its official WeChat account, Huajian claimed to be Ethiopia's largest exporter — an exaggeration also promulgated by China's official Xinhua News Agency.

White House cybersecurity coordinator Rob Joyce will leave his post and return to the National Security Agency, a White House official said on Monday.

The Houthis and allied militias loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who have fired dozens of missiles into Saudi territory during a 2-1/2 year war, said on their official news agency they had launched a mid-range ballistic missile that «hit its military target with high precision».

South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung - wha urged Ri on Sunday to respond as soon as possible to an offer to resume talks between the two countries, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing an unidentified foreign ministry official from Seoul.

He has nominated industry - friendly officials to oversee key government agencies, including the consumer bureau, which is being run on an interim basis by Mick Mulvaney.

I wonder whether he also told Trump that Japan's high - ranking officials from foreign, defense and other government agencies were conducting consultations in Sendai, Japan last Thursday and Friday with their Chinese counterparts on contested maritime borders in the South China Sea.

With Environmental Protection Agency Chief Scott Pruitt also said to be on thin ice, political observers have been guessing which official might be next to depart an administration engulfed in multiple controversies.

«But the U.S. brought the threat of war to the Korean peninsula with large - scale new sanctions on the DPRK ahead of the Olympics closing ceremony,» the state news agency said, using the initials of the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

«Health officials want people who have eaten at a Chipotle between October 14 and 23, and become ill with vomiting and bloody diarrhea, to see their health care provider and mention this outbreak,» the agency said in a notice on its website.

The United States government is creating a new agency to monitor cybersecurity threats, pooling and analyzing information on a spectrum of diffuse risks, a senior Obama administration official said on Tuesday.

Xi told Trump China would «unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development» and promote «coordination and cooperation among world major powers», the official Xinhua news agency reported late on Wednesday.

The Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC) will be an «intelligence center that will «connect the dots» between various cyber threats to the nation so that relevant departments and agencies are aware of these threats in as close to real time as possible,» the official said on condition of anonymity.

A senior North Korean diplomat left for Finland on Sunday for talks with former U.S. and South Korean officials, Yonhap News Agency reported, amid a series of diplomatic encounters ahead of a possible U.S. - North Korean summit.

Someone in the U.S. Justice Department appears to have made a colossal error with the agency's official Twitter (TWTR) account on Tuesday morning.

In a sign the row might spread further, the owner of a venue in Sweden where a senior official from Turkey's ruling party had been due to hold a rally on Sunday cancelled the rental contract, Turkey's private Dogan news agency reported.

The agency has argued that obtaining judicial warrants are unnecessary and would place too much burden on ICE officials and federal courts.

The new rules update existing regulations and are designed to better codify what constitutes a violation of discipline, the official Xinhua news agency reported late on Wednesday.

The chief executive of MasterCard Inc., the former head of the National Security Agency and officials from Microsoft and Uber will join a commission to strengthen U.S. cyber defenses, the White House said on Wednesday.

Late on Tuesday night, China's official news agency tweeted a photo of the Tesla chief chatting with Vice Premier Wang Yang, one of the country's top officials in charge of the economy, in what a close watcher of China's automotive industry says may go down as a breakthrough meeting.

Kim told a ruling party meeting in Pyongyang on Friday his regime would suspend tests of atomic bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles after achieving its goal of building a nuclear arsenal, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.

Both companies have been criticized, however, for not opening up their data to cities and not providing transit agencies with information that would help officials gauge the services» impact on transportation.

The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

The agency used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government officials, according to the NSA document.

When I ask a CDC official to dissect the PAMF screening, I'm told it's against agency policy to comment on private data.

A senior Obama official says the new agency will monitor cybersecurity threats, pooling and analyzing information on a spectrum of diffuse risks.

Despite months of scrutiny by American intelligence assets, officials said US intelligence agencies have gathered virtually no secondary evidence that Cuba might have assisted directly or indirectly in attacks on the Americans.

And according to a top - secret National Security Agency document leaked to the Intercept and published earlier this month, hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government offiAgency document leaked to the Intercept and published earlier this month, hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government offiagency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government officials.

In a presentation to a conference in Sydney, an official from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) intelligence agency said technical information on smart bombs, the Joint Strike Fighter, the Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft and several naval vessels was stolen.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would soon conduct a nuclear warhead test and test launch ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the official KCNA news agency reported on Tuesday.

U.S. and British officials carried out inspections of security measures at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport on Tuesday, the Dogan news agency reported.

Although the current EGRPRA review is expected to last well into 2016, FDIC officials said the agency is on the lookout for potential reforms that can be implemented quickly.

Russia's ambassador to Washington was overheard by U.S. spy agencies telling his bosses he had discussed campaign - related matters, including issues important to Moscow, with Jeff Sessions during the 2016 presidential race, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing current and former U.S. officials.

On December 13, 2017, senior officials from a handful of South Korean government ministries and agencies gathered for an emergency discussion regarding the cryptocurrency boom.

The missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 carrying 162 people to Singapore from Surabaya is thought to have crashed into the sea, a senior Indonesian rescue agency official told reporters on Monday.

China's official Xinhua news agency said on Monday on its verified Twitter account, noting that in the sell - off, about two - thirds of all mainland - listed stocks fell by the daily limit of 10 percent.

On the eve of critical hearings on Capitol Hill, top White House officials are intensifying efforts to document wasteful spending by Scott Pruitt as President Trump weighs whether to keep supporting his controversial Environmental Protection Agency chief, senior administration officials said WednesdaOn the eve of critical hearings on Capitol Hill, top White House officials are intensifying efforts to document wasteful spending by Scott Pruitt as President Trump weighs whether to keep supporting his controversial Environmental Protection Agency chief, senior administration officials said Wednesdaon Capitol Hill, top White House officials are intensifying efforts to document wasteful spending by Scott Pruitt as President Trump weighs whether to keep supporting his controversial Environmental Protection Agency chief, senior administration officials said Wednesday.

• Secret deal places no legal limits on use of data by Israelis • Only official US government communications protected • Agency insists it complies with rules governing privacy

While official figures are usually updated only annually, the agency regularly reports on trends.

China's official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday that Japan's «decision to crank up money printing presses is dangerous» and might lead to «currency wars ``.

In a commentary widely cited in Chinese media on Thursday, the official Xinhua news agency said if things went poorly and a trade war did break out, China would never yield and would hit back strongly.

But Kim did not bring up the issue when he met Moon at the border village of Panmunjeom on Friday for the first inter-Korean talks in over a decade, Yonhap News Agency said, quoting officials of the presidential office.

A former top CIA official who served as the agency's station chief in Moscow is sharply criticizing his former boss, John Brennan, accusing him of doing Vladimir Putin's «bidding» through his harsh attacks on President Trump.

Robert E. Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative, has also blamed some of the problems with the talks on a «whole complicated process» that requires negotiators to clear positions with members of Congress and officials at other agencies.

Pruitt's trip to Australia was ultimately scuttled — the EPA said Pruitt needed to handle the agency's response to Hurricane Harvey — but not before EPA officials spent $ 45,000 in federal funds on a planning mission to Australia, according to Reuters.

Kerik — who was sentenced to four years in prison in 2010 for tax fraud and lying to White House officials — said the Bureau was «wasting resources» on the Russia investigation, and implied that this was why the agency had failed to stop the attack.

«We will resist all actions undermining the ceasefire from side of the government and it security agents / agencies,» the group said on its official site.