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National groups on both sides of the gun control issue have been pouring money into Connecticut this year, hoping to influence the outcome of the first statewide elections since the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the firearms restrictions enacted in response.

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Environmental group WWF Scotland said Friday that analysis of data provided by WeatherEnergy showed the country's wind turbines sent 86,467 megawatt hours of electricity to the National Grid on Monday.

The National Business Group on Health last year surveyed 133 large companies employing 15 million Americans about their benefit practices: An astounding 90 % said they expect to make at least some telemedicine services available to their workers this year.

Work has started on the $ 21.4 million Port Coogee shopping centre, with national development group Australand signing Adco Constructions to carry out the build.

Based on data investigators have been accumulating, it's likely a «non-state actor» rather than a particular government group carried out the hacking, according to a Wall Street Journal article quoting Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper's comments on Tuesday in New York at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Demonstrators from various groups, including supporters of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, take part in a protest march on the first day of the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 25, 2016.

I am heading to Calgary next week to speak on these same topics with the directors of Livestock Identification Services Ltd., as well as directors of a few additional beef industry groups and one being a newly formed national beef agency called Canada Beef Inc..

According to a recent survey conducted by Towers Watson and National Business Group on Health, most workplace wellness programs simply aren't making the grade.

«Jeb Bush has a big interest in Latin America, and I expect he would follow in the footsteps of [his] father and brother in being more internationally focused on trade issues,» says Todd McCracken, president and chief executive of the National Small Business Association, a business advocacy group.

Several groups including the National Congress of American Indians and the Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association along with 34 other tribes on Thursday filed a court brief supporting Standing Rock's request.

Research group Climate Central has created a plug - in for Google Earth that illustrates how catastrophic an «extreme» sea - level rise scenario would be if the flooding happened now, based on projections in a 2017 report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA).

A coalition of state and national environmental groups have raised concerns about water contamination and other impacts on Western Australia's largest national park.

«People like to touch and feel their fresh foods,» David Portalatin, national analyst for the NPD Group on food and beverage consumption, told Fortune earlier on Friday, and the ability to see where their groceries are coming could make a difference.

On March 7, after being fired as National Security Adviser, Flynn belatedly filed a FARA disclosure that revealed that, through his firm, Flynn Intel Group, he had worked in 2016 on behalf of Inovo BV, a firm based in Netherlands and owned by a Turkish businessman with links to the Turkish governmenOn March 7, after being fired as National Security Adviser, Flynn belatedly filed a FARA disclosure that revealed that, through his firm, Flynn Intel Group, he had worked in 2016 on behalf of Inovo BV, a firm based in Netherlands and owned by a Turkish businessman with links to the Turkish governmenon behalf of Inovo BV, a firm based in Netherlands and owned by a Turkish businessman with links to the Turkish government.

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.

It is among at least 4,000 signatories of the National Agreement on the Right to Decide and the Referendum Agreement, a group comprising of political parties and civil society organisations in favour of the independence vote.

Small - business owners offer health benefits for a variety of reasons: they're genuinely concerned about their employees being taken care of, it's mandated in their state or they want to be more competitive to attract top talent (a large majority of employees consider a health plan to be the most important benefit they can be offered, according to a survey by the National Business of Group on Health).

Large companies «need to attract and retain employees and they'd be at a competitive disadvantage if they stopped offering health benefits,» said William Kramer, executive director for national health policy for the Pacific Business Group on Health.

«What you'll see out of the imposition of these tariffs is the likelihood of localized or regionalized impact on the surrounding economy,» suggests David French, the senior vice president for government relations with the Washington, D.C. - based National Retail Federation, an industry trade group.

Some foreign investors, rather than crunching data on earnings and stock valuations to come up with investment strategies, actively mimicked the actions of China's so - called «national team» — a group of state - backed financial institutions that were tasked with propping up share prices in the height of the market rout.

Another group is planning a national walk - out on April 2o, which marks 19 years since the 1999 Columbine High School mass shooting, in which 12 students and one teacher were killed.

The first group of so - called debt hawks sees another Great Recession coming and wants national governments to focus on austerity programs aimed at deficit reduction because rising sovereign debts are behind our current economic woes.

The National Venture Capital Association, an industry group of top U.S. venture capitalists, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in Washington D.C. District Court against the Trump Administration, alleging it illegally delayed an immigration program created during President Obama's term.

We scored all 50 states on 43 measures of competitiveness developed with input from business groups including the National Association of Manufacturers and the Council on Competitiveness.

The National Rifle Association of America endorsed Donald Trump for president on Friday, shortly before the presumptive Republican nominee spoke at the group's annual conference.

«The cross-border operation may involve nationals of other countries, but once it gets to I - 10 and comes east toward the southern states and up north on 95... those are American organized crime groups that are helping with the distribution internally.»

NEW YORK, April 19 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday ramped up pressure on banks and insurers to revisit whether their ties to the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups harm their reputations and the public interest.

Various other groups are fighting on Capitol Hill to defend the SALT deduction, such as the National Association of Realtors and the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Coulter said in her email that she is still planning on speaking at the university, and the spokesman for Young America's Foundation, a conservative national group that helped organize the event, said Coulter is planning to speak on April 27.

The National Institutes for Health also brought on six health - care groups in smaller cities to expand the study's reach and ensure a diverse roster of patients.

But he nevertheless put his finger on a national interest that needs to be clear: no single group, whether environmental or aboriginal, should be able to stand in the way of the economic prosperity of the country overall.

Advocacy groups called for a national moratorium on self - driving tests.

Police believe Abdeslam drove a car that brought a group of terrorists to France's national football stadium — the site of several explosions in Paris on November 13.

In an email to AL.com Tuesday, Scott Reed, the senior political strategist with the national chamber, said the group plans to «spend the next 60 days working on job growth initiatives and tax reform.»

And the administration has made clear in recent days it will leave formal drafting of a tax bill to GOP leaders on the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees who have been part of the so - called Big Six negotiating group, which includes Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn.

Cal Jillson, a professor of political science at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, said a lot of national groups «are still assessing» the Alabama Senate race on whether to get involved or not.

Among the many scheduled American participants were the political advisor to the head of the U.S. Northern Command, the president for the Americas of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the senior director for the Western Hemisphere of the American National Security Council, the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Carla Hills (who was the primary U.S. NAFTA negotiator), the senior United States Air Force military assistant to the then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from Mexico.

The new venture probably won't affect the polarized healthcare debate in Washington, but could alter the dynamics of the issue down the line if the companies come up with some innovative ideas, said Neil Trautwein, a vice president at the National Retail Federation trade group who lobbies Congress on healthcare issues.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

Kate Mitchell, managing director at the venture capital firm Scale Venture Partners and a co-chairwoman of a National Venture Capital Association task force on diversity, said her group was working with Project Include because of its tech - centric, start - up approach to sharing data and information with other participants.

This holiday season, Zillow Group is pleased to announce The Home Project is making a $ 100,000 donation on behalf of Zillow Group employees to Covenant House, a national nonprofit organization that has been helping homeless and trafficked teenagers, young adults and single moms with kids receive shelter and support across the country for more than 40 years.

Other reports of a verbal order from the Shanghai Financial Service Office come from a translated story featured on Yicai, a Chinese media group, which indicates that, sometime in the evening on September 13, the National Internet Finance Association of China made an issuance decrying the legality of cryptocurrency exchanges.

The Forum, a group of corporate CEOs and university presidents, identified and acted on issues of national concern to the business and academic communities such as international competitiveness, technological innovation, and education and training.

Taylor West, deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, said the group has focused recently on emphasizing its role in creating new jobs and building domestic manufacturing facilities.

The patient community has expressed grave concerns about the proliferation of short - term plans - in fact, 113 groups, including AARP, American Heart Association, March of Dimes, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness, recently sent a letter expressing these concerns to Congressional leaders.

He serves on the board of the following non-public companies and not - for - profit and other organizations: Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, LinHart Group PTE Ltd. (Chairman / Director), Manulife US Real Estate Management Pte Ltd. (Chair), National University of Singapore Business School (Management Advisory Board), Singapore Institute of Management (Member of Governing Council) and Singapore Institute of Management Pte Ltd..

«More employers are viewing holistic well - being as an integral part of their overall workforce strategy,» said Brian Marcotte, president and CEO of the National Business Group on Health.

The 9th annual survey on corporate Health & Well - being from Fidelity Investments ® and the National Business Group on Health ® includes responses from 162 jumbo, large and mid-sized organizations.

The National Business Group on Health is the nation's only non-profit organization devoted exclusively to representing large employers» perspective on national health policy issues and helping companies optimize business performance through health improvement, innovation and health care manNational Business Group on Health is the nation's only non-profit organization devoted exclusively to representing large employers» perspective on national health policy issues and helping companies optimize business performance through health improvement, innovation and health care mannational health policy issues and helping companies optimize business performance through health improvement, innovation and health care management.

«It could be big,» Ed Kaplan, who negotiates health coverage on behalf of large employers as the national health practice leader for the Segal Group, said of the announcement.