Sentences with phrase «for agencies of the state»

In many countries, it is illegal for agencies of the state to carry out propaganda against its citizens.

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Also ask the salesperson for the phone number of the local state agency or FTC office that has advised them they are exempt.

One of the best sources of information and assistance for startup and expanding business is state, region and local economic development agencies.

Psychologist Ashley Hampton has run into that doing evaluations of children and adults for a state agency in Alabama.

It was a Wednesday in October 2012, and Ulman, CEO and president of the Livestrong Foundation, had just received the inevitable news he had been dreading for months: The United States Anti-Doping Agency's long - awaited and damning report, which concluded once and for all that Lance Armstrong, the cancer charity's founder and chairman, was guilty of doping during his legendary cycling career.

Governor Greg Abbott, who sets the agenda for special sessions, told a news conference the session would begin in July and the first item of business would be approving a bill that keeps some state agencies open.

Kim Jong Un's regime said it will «make the U.S. pay dearly for all the heinous crime it commits against the state and people of this country,» the Korean Central News Agency reported on Monday.

The agency color - codes the severity of the outbreak using a legend of bright green for states with minimal flu activity, rising to deep red for those inundated by the virus.

April 16 (Reuters)- The United States and Britain on Monday warned of a global cyber attack targeting routers and other networking equipment, blaming Russian government - backed hackers for the campaign on government agencies, businesses and critical infrastructure operators.

Fees for freezing your credit vary by state and go to each of the three credit agencies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.

The notice, which calls on local authorities to «create and refine platforms for exposing defaulted borrowers» by the end of the year, was jointly issued by China's Supreme People's Court, the Chinese Communist Party's Publicity Department and the China Banking Regulatory Commission, according to the state - run Xinhua News Agency.

That led us to go deeper into the report — by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the federal Department of Health and Human Services — to see what other states are near the top of the list for marijuana users, who leads in cocaine abuse, and which states» residents most abuse alcohol and other drugs.

A spokesman for the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs said the agency is «not able to comment on current litigation.»

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 26: A Muslim woman, Sarah A. Aly, Mentorship Coordinator at Network for Arab American Professionals, poses for a photo during an exclusive interview for «Anadolu Agency (AA)» on raising hate speech and islamophobia ahead of the US presidential elections in New York City, NY, USA on October 26, 2016.

The CIA has confirmed that Mike Pompeo, that agency's current director and current nominee for Secretary of State, was not deployed in the first Gulf War, despite widespread statements that he served in that conflict.

The bill forbids local authorities from working with federal agents, including using «agency money, facilities, property, equipment, or personnel to assist a federal agency to investigate, detain, detect, report, or arrest a person for commercial or noncommercial marijuana or medical cannabis activity that is authorized by law in the State of California.»

The United States will account for 60 percent of global oil output growth through 2023, the International Energy Agency says.

Pruitt is the somewhat embattled Oklahoma state attorney general whom Trump picked to lead the agency responsible for protecting the environment and the health of Americans through regulation.

Elsewhere, EU member states — excluding the U.K. - will have until the end of the day to submit bids for hosting the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the European Banking Authority (EBA).

The U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an intra-government agency that scrutinizes foreign groups» purchases of U.S. assets to protect national security interests, rejected the initial application for the Alerian deal, one of the sources said on Tuesday.

But Lesko's lists pertain mostly to small business: you'll find information on agencies that give development assistance to expanding companies, economic reports that regional Federal Reserve banks will send you, government surplus - property auctions, whom to ask about overseas selling, how to find financial data on a company or franchisor, where to apply for research grants — in sum, information on the offerings of nearly every federal, state, and local bureaucracy in the country.

India - based drug manufacturing facilities have been criticized by the FDA in recent years for violating quality standards, as the agency increases oversight of key suppliers to the United States.

Senate confirmation is not required for the White House national security post, and Bolton, a former ambassador to the United Nations, will inherit a staff of several hundred specialists from the Pentagon, State Department and U.S. intelligence agencies.

«The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) strongly urges you to secure your child in a CRS or device for the duration of your flight,» the agency states on its website.

Most state agencies are grappling with spending cuts of 5.5 %, and they're bracing for more belt tightening as state economists prepare to release reduced revenue estimates for the current and coming fiscal year.

President Obama's choice of a new overseer for Federal Housing Financing Agency, Joseph A. Smith, brings a toughness hewn from fighting federal regulators in pursuit of predatory lenders in his state role in North Carolina.

The Trump Administration said Wednesday that unspecified local and state agencies as well as tribal authorities would help the federal government to create a set of drone regulations for commercial flights.

Warner told USA Today that he was pushing intelligence agencies to declassify the names of the states affected by those cyberattacks so they could prepare for midterm elections in 2018.

The agency is on record stating that the most dangerous time for the protection detail is when the President is in transit and outside of a controlled environment.

North Korea's supreme court sentenced American student Otto Warmbier to 15 years of hard labour for crimes against the state, China's Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.

«Given the agency's stated goal that the registration process should serve primarily to educate [operators of small drones], we feel that process should be as inclusive as possible,» Sarah Wolf, a senior manager for security and facilitation for NBAA, said in a statement.

This past April, the United States Energy Information Agency released an estimate that fracking has effectively increased the volume of recoverable gas in the world six times over, to the point where it could satisfy current demand for 250 years — and that isn't counting a number of countries including Russia where the necessary geological data were unavailable.

CNBC's Eamon Javers sits down with Rajesh De the Former General Counsel for the National Security Agency; Michele Reagan the Secretary of State of Arizona; and Mark Testoni the President and CEO of SAP National Security Services to talk about the concern of foreign interference in this year's presidential election.

The 17 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's decision in April to declare U.S. vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency rules through 2025 «not appropriate.»

«A responsible source at the Foreign ministry expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's full support for the American military operations on military targets in Syria, which came as a response to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians,» a statement released by state news agency SPA said on Friday.

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As part of the launch of the S.O.S. Initiative, Schneiderman and Gascón commended New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli for urging the four leaders of the smartphone industry to protect consumers, and shareholder value, by working with law enforcement agencies and government officials to pursue a meaningful solution to the spike in smartphone thefts.

The difficult legal choices being weighed by the bank — should it settle or should it fight — coincide with an unusual wave of scrutiny for JPMorgan, which is now facing investigations from at least seven federal agencies, several state regulators and two foreign nations.

It was not an entirely spurious claim: Classified documents released by Edward J. Snowden showed a complex effort by the National Security Agency to get into the systems of a Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, though the United States maintained that the effort was for national security surveillance, not for the theft of intellectual property.

Acknowledging there's much still to be learned about Paddock, his state of mind, and his motivations, Safir said, «There should be a database for police departments and federal agencies of people who have been... mentally disturbed where before you get a gun these people have to be cleared in order to process them.»

A total of 138 public libraries and other locations in seven states — Alaska, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wyoming — and the District of Columbia took part in the 2017 DASH for the STASH investor education and protection program and contest conducted by the Investor Protection Institute (IPI) and state securities agencies.

Most of the state's CAAs are providing the program, and those who need help should contact their local Community Action Agency to make an appointment.When taxpayers arrive for their scheduled appointment, they should bring a valid photo identification, a social security card for all family members, and last year's tax return if available.

If Issue 2, or the Drug Price Relief Act, passes, the act would require the state and state agencies, including Ohio Medicaid, to pay the same or lower prices for prescription drugs as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs does.

Most courts considering laws that state governmental agencies have claimed are necessary for fiscal responsibility, which Chelan County claims is the purpose of this rate increase, have concluded that the laws are rationally related to a legitimate government interest.

«If the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially, the committee will continue its purchases of agency mortgage - backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases, and employ its other policy tools as appropriate until such improvement is achieved in a context of price stability,» the Fed's announcement stated.

The FOMC's annoucement after their meeting on Wednesday affirmed the Fed's QE3 policy, offering no changes, while stating, «If the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially, the Committee will continue its purchases of agency mortgage - backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases, and employ its other policy tools as appropriate until such improvement is achieved in a context of price stability.»

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

The world's political and business leaders should choose from «two fundamentally different outlooks» for the state of the world: One is Xi's «shared future» vision and the other is Trump's «America First» policy, said state news agency Xinhua in a commentary published yesterday (Jan. 24).

Notably, the National Financial Work Conference has been the stage for: forming agencies to regulate the insurance and securities industries and bank bailout strategies in 1997, creating banking regulators and listing state - owned banks on exchanges abroad in 2002, creating the sovereign wealth fund, establishing the China Investment Corporation in 2007, which currently has assets of $ 813.5 billion, and developing methodologies for dealing with the global financial crisis of 2008.

Your state's unemployment agency reports the amount of benefits you receive for the year on Form 1099 - G.