Sentences with phrase «state departments»

In other cases, state departments around the world would assign January 1 to applicants who didn't know their birthdays.

When the United States Department of Commerce announced it would be imposing a 219 % tax on jets built by Canadian aerospace giant Bombardier on Tuesday night, the outcry was swift.

But inter-agency finger - pointing is a fact of life in Washington, and it seems clear that both the CIA and the State Department screwed up in Benghazi.

Talking with SCORE mentors who've been in your business, scouring the state department of transportation website, and talking with officials at the city / town and state level should provide you with everything you need to know.

He can only regain credibility if he abandons such public naivete, said Steve Sestanovich, a senior fellow for Russian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former State Department official.

The president's spending blueprint cuts $ 54 billion from the Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department, and NASA, among others, to pay for a massive military buildup.

At the time, NASA — and, to a large extent, the State Department — took the position that the image should be released.

A source familiar with the White House emails on the Benghazi talking point revisions say that State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland was raising two concerns about the CIA's first version of talking points, which were going to be sent to Congress: 1) The talking points went further than what she was allowed to say about the attack during her state department briefings; and, 2) she believed the CIA was attempting to exonerate itself at the State Department's expense by suggesting CIA warnings about the security situation were ignored.

But in the modern era, no head of the State Department has come and gone anywhere close to the speed at which Tillerson left.

Such gangs are believed to not have the economic and political clout to expand beyond local drug sales and trafficking, and the State Department reports that they «do not yet appear to be a formal part of the transnational drug logistics chain.»

Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, who is soon leaving his post.

The document reallocates more than $ 54 billion from government entities like the Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and even NASA to boost defense spending by the same amount.

Cuban added that Clinton's handling of classified email while she worked in the State Department shows she knows very little about technology.

But the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler offers an alternative — and in our view, more credible — explanation for why the administration edited down the talking points, suggesting that the emails reveal a «bureaucratic knife fight» that pitted the State Department against the CIA.

Guatemala, where smugglers rely on routes in its vast border regions, and Honduras were both named major transit countries for narcotics by the US State Department this year.

Trump still doesn't have an ambassador in Seoul, his special envoy for North Korea just announced his retirement and the State Department has seen an exodus of career officials since he took office.

State Department met with executives that allege Gulf carriers receive illegal subsidies.

Even after Vietnam ratified the international adoption convention in 2008, the U.S. refused adoptions from the country because the State Department found it fell short of Hague rules.

The State Department's statement on the matter is riddled with curious detail for those who appreciate palace intrigue, Rachel King notes.

Read the State Department's Response to President Trump Replacing Rex Tillerson With Mike Pompeo

When Darash's lawyer told him his application had been rejected, Darash's first reaction was to simply pick up the phone and call Immigration, a division of the United States Department of Homeland Security, to explain the error.

If the State Department can reach a similar agreement, Delta may be ready to once again fly to the region.

«The State Department has hemorrhaged Korean linguists and former negotiators,» Douglas H. Paal, an Asia scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who served in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, wrote in a tweet.

After the State Department's announcement, Bastian told CNBC that the airline is open to resuming flights to the Persian Gulf region but declined to provide more details.

The role of ambassador to South Korea was one of many vacancies in the State Department amid negotiations for a summit between Trump and Kim.

Look to your state department of insurance to determine if your state participates in a private health exchange.

An Amtrak passenger train derailed onto the I - 5 freeway outside of Seattle, the Washington State Department of Transportation confirmed in a tweet Monday.

The U.S. State Department believed that Jong - il would be «a bold economic reformer,» says Klingner, but those expectations never came to fruition.

While the budget proposes large spending cuts to many government agencies — the Environmental Protection Agency and State Department budgets would be cut 31 % and 28 %, respectively — defense and military spending would increase substantially.

As President Donald Trump steps up efforts to engage North Korea in nuclear disarmament talks, the State Department is in the most turmoil since the president's inauguration.

Without thanking Trump or mentioning him by name, the outgoing Cabinet secretary expressed appreciation for «selfless leaders» at the State Department and other agencies, his voice breaking at times.

This came about because officials at the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) realized that an egregious financial sector hack - one that results in catastrophic consequences - remains highly probable, if not imminent.

Speaking at the State Department, the top U.S. diplomat said he will focus on an orderly transition for Trump's new choice to lead the State Department, CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

But Fred Hof, the State Department's former special adviser for transition in Syria, said there was a difference between the warnings issued to Assad nearly five years apart by Obama and Trump.

Clinton first admitted in March 2015 that she used a private email server while working for the State Department.

(The U.S. State Department said last year that cybercrime «does not represent a major threat» in Estonia.)

James Ball — Buzzfeed: Ball's investigative work, both for Buzzfeed and the Guardian before that, has uncovered massive stories about the Iraq War logs, Edward Snowden and the leaked State Department cables.

The State Department has lost clout in the Trump administration, and the White House has proposed massive budget cuts for the agency.

While the renewable industry has gained momentum in recent years, «the battle certainly got tougher» with the election of Trump, said Dan Kammen, an energy expert at the University of California, Berkeley and science envoy for the U.S. State Department.

If Vladimir Putin has a man crush on anyone in business, it's probably Rex Tillerson, the ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson Trump just nominated to head the State Department.

It's also how they believe the hackers infiltrated the White House systems — this time, under the guise of a hijacked State Department email account, CNN said.

«There was G7 unity on opposing Russia's malign behavior,» the senior State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters at the end of the first day of meetings in Toronto.

In November, hackers are said to have breached the U.S. State Department's unclassified email system.

John McCarrick, the deputy assistant secretary at the State Department's Bureau of Energy Resources, said his staff helped pave the way for some of the energy supply agreements by meeting with private and public officials in Europe and Asia to promote the strategic value of U.S. energy.

You almost might look at [it] as a member of State Department, having impacts on foreign policy as well.

The State Department's McCarrick balked at the suggestion by some analysts that the U.S. effort to expand its exports overseas could anger Russia.

In a sign of Cambodia's increasing importance in Southeast Asia, the Trump administration aimed to cut U.S. State Department funding of $ 2 million for land mine clearance — and then reinstated it after an outcry.

ABC News also noted that the US State Department recently warned about activity in the area.

Obama opposed the Keystone bill and wants the State Department to finish its review of the pipeline.

A congressional investigation into the actions of the Obama administration and Clinton's State Department during the attack has been stalled for years.