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New York Times
February 1, 2018
Even so, an American president's rhetoric can make a significant difference. “Yes, realpolitik often wins out over values, and it often seems steeped in hypocrisy,” said Michael Wahid Hanna of The Century Foundation in New York. But, he added, espousal of those values by American officials “is neither 100ÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 1, 2018
Imagine also that senior Clinton campaign officials at first denied and later had their memories “refreshed” about knowing him. ... a warm-up to getting rid of the deputy attorney general, a well-regarded, straight-shooting Democrat who had appointed the special counsel looking into Clinton's Russia ties.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
February 1, 2018
ALBANY — The federal government docked New York $14 million on Thursday for installing more than 500 I Love NY signs that violate road rules and ... FHWA Acting Administrator Brandye Hendrickson outlined the penalty in a letter Thursday to transportation officials in Cuomo's administration, givingÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 1, 2018
Now the second line of the anthem, which gained official status only in 1980, will soon become “True patriot love in all of us command” rather than “in all thy sons command. ... But Conservatives opposed to the change stymied its progress through Senate, whose members are appointed rather than elected.
Newsday
January 31, 2018
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran was expected to appoint George Tsunis, a former member of her transition team and a onetime nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Norway, as the ... State campaign disclosure records show Tsunis has been a large contributor to New York Democrats including Gov.
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
January 31, 2018
Long, noting Cuomo has appointed many judges, including DeFiore, suggested the governor look into the court administration's latest policies pertaining to visits by ICE agents. Marks said his agency's moves were not influenced by the Cuomo administration. Joe Mahoney covers the New York StatehouseÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 31, 2018
Alex Azar, the newly appointed secretary of Health and Human Services, announced the resignation of the director, Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald. An agency ... Dr. Anne Schuchat, a veteran official with the C.D.C., was named acting director — the position she had filled before Dr. Fitzgerald took office. She has hadÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 29, 2018
Official news outlets reported that Mr. Wang had been chosen as a deputy to the congress for Hunan, a province in southern China. ... senior Chinese officials and speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The New York Times that Mr. Wang had a strong chance of being appointed vice president whenÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 29, 2018
The memo's primary contention is that F.B.I. and Justice Department officials failed to adequately explain to an intelligence court judge in initially seeking a ... 2 official, who appointed the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and now oversees his investigation into Mr. Trump's campaign and possibleÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 12, 2018
But officials at Boston University, contacted by The New York Times, said they had no record of Mr. Sabry and that they do not offer a Ph.D. in commercial law. Pressed about his claim, Mr. Sabry pointed to a framed certificate issued by Constantinian University — an educational establishment with an officialÃÂ ...
Patch.com
January 12, 2018
NEW YORK, NY — A city-appointed commission concluded a nearly five-month review of controversial New York City monuments by deciding only to relocate one and ... (Lead image: A statue of J. Marion Sims at Central Park will be moved to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, city officials said Friday.
Newsday
January 12, 2018
After an extraordinary personal visit Thursday from New York's top two education leaders, Hempstead school board trustees generally agreed on the urgency of implementing a state-appointed adviser's sweeping recommendations to turn around the system. But the panel — deeply divided for monthsÃÂ ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian
January 12, 2018
The United States attorney general appointed 1981 College and Wharton graduate Geoffrey Berman to become a federal prosecutor in New York. Berman ... Berman's district is also “home to Trump Tower, where a meeting between Trump campaign officials and Kremlin-linked Russians occurred in 2016,"ÃÂ ...
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
January 11, 2018
Another constructive reform would be to appoint actuaries and professional managers to pension fund boards. Currently, as Doyle notes, the pension boards are “comprised of elected and appointed officials and union representatives,” who are likely to face incentives to downplay the funding gap, in orderÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 10, 2018
The official, Theo Francken, is a 39-year-old Flemish nationalist who in 2014 was appointed secretary of state for asylum and migration. ... Lawyers for the migrants said the Sudanese officials warned that if the migrants applied for asylum in Belgium but were denied and sent home, they would be targetedÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 5, 2018
Mr. Khuzami's selection was announced by Geoffrey S. Berman, who was appointed this week as the interim United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and who is expected to be nominated to the post by President Trump. Mr. Berman said in a statement that Mr. Khuzami had been anÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 4, 2018
Berman has prior experience with the Southern District of New York, as an assistant U.S. attorney from 1990 to 1994. Previously, during the Iran-Contra investigation in the 1980s, he worked under the independent counsel. The appointment is also notable because the official in that post could end upÃÂ ...
Newsday
December 26, 2017
Corrigan graduated from New York Law School after earning a bachelor's degree from SUNY Albany. In her community, the judge has served as a Girl Scouts leader, PTA committee chairwoman and Catholic Youth Organization basketball coordinator. While a prosecutor, Corrigan specialized in drug, gangÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Mr. McGahn disagreed with the president's case and told senior White House officials that firing Mr. Mueller would have a catastrophic effect on Mr. Trump's ... Around the time Mr. Trump wanted to fire Mr. Mueller, the president's legal team, led then by his longtime personal lawyer in New York, Marc E.
Syracuse.com
November 28, 2017
Barney was appointed to the New Haven Town Board in September to fill a vacancy for a temporary term that expires at the end of this year.
New York Times
November 28, 2017
Bloomberg took a look at more of the efforts by officials in low-tax ... Carlos Slim remains an investor in The New York Times Company. .... Or is it Mick Mulvaney, appointed by Mr. Trump to lead the agency ... Joe Grundfest, a former Securities and Exchange Commission official who now teaches at Stanford, ...
New York Times
November 28, 2017
This has been the rule for cabinet officials ever since. ... Limiting the power of the bureau's director to appoint his own interim successor will be ...
WKBW-TV
November 28, 2017
A senior State Department official appointed by the Trump administration is leaving the agency after just three months on the job, CNN has ...
New York Times
November 27, 2017
The news that the New York City Housing Authority falsely certified for years that it had inspected apartments for lead paint is a stark sign of ...
New York Times
November 26, 2017
Trump administration officials on Saturday defended the president's legal authority to ... Mr. Trump made the appointment late on Friday, after the abrupt ... an official from inside the agency to take on temporary leadership of the bureau. ... and special offers for The New York Times's products and services.
New York Times
November 19, 2017
A former senior official appointed by Gov. Andrew ... the woman, Lisa Marie Cater, shed her anonymity in an interview with The New York Post.
New York Times
November 16, 2017
Jamie Johnson, who was appointed by the Trump administration to lead ... A Homeland Security official confirmed Mr. Johnson's resignation ...
New York Times
November 16, 2017
But Brian McKeon, a former Pentagon official, told the committee that the president could appoint a new general and defense secretary to carry ...
Aljazeera.com
November 16, 2017
US officials have expressed "growing alarm" at the moves made recently by Saudi Arabia's crown prince saying they could "damage USÂ ...
New York Magazine
November 16, 2017
Hasen argues that the duties of the Alabama's governor have been fulfilled: appoint a temporary senator (Luther Strange) and set a special ...
New York Times
November 16, 2017
Mr. Trump promised last year that if elected, he would instruct his attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Mrs. Clinton.
New York Times
November 15, 2017
Mr. Schweizer provided some of his information from his book, “Clinton Cash,” to The New York Times, which conducted its own reporting.
New York Times
November 15, 2017
Committee Republicans asked the Justice Department to appoint another special counsel back in July, and appeared frustrated that it hasn't ...
New York Times
November 15, 2017
U.S.D.A. Official's Emails With Lobbyists Are Sought After Hearing ... a former pesticide lobbyist who was appointed to the Department of Agriculture by ... to the official, Rebeckah Adcock, after an investigation by The New York ...
New York Times
November 14, 2017
Mr. Trump announced his choice of Alex M. Azar II, a former president of the American division of Eli Lilly and a health official in the George W.
New York Times
November 14, 2017
The new accuser, Beverly Young Nelson, told a packed news conference in New York that Mr. Moore attacked her when she was a teenager ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
November 7, 2017
ALBANY – New York voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a constitutional convention, opposing a chance to open the state's highest ...
Amsterdam News
October 29, 2017
Mueller was appointed in May to lead the investigation into Russian ... of activity at the grand jury room, but officials made no announcements.
New York Times
October 29, 2017
But Egyptian security officials said the reorganization was prompted by the ... el-Sisi, was appointed to a new position as crisis management adviser to the ... Egyptian security officials told several news outlets, including The New York ... at least 12 of the reported names were not on the official list of victims.
New York Times
October 29, 2017
While government officials in Washington and San Juan have argued over how a company from Whitefish, Mont., with connections to the ...
Newsday
October 26, 2017
NY woman missing since 1975 found alive in Mass., officials say ... A woman who disappeared from upstate New York after being dropped off for a doctor's appointment 42 years ago has ... The sheriff's office in Sullivan County, New York, said Flora Stevens, 78, was ... Official: Suffolk Marathon races still on.
New York Times
September 4, 2017
WUHAN, China — Throughout much of China's economic rise over the past three decades, one Chinese official quietly played a pivotal role inÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 4, 2017
The most obvious questions are: Who will be the next director, and when will he — or, better yet, she — be appointed? Increasingly Mr.
New York Times
September 4, 2017
... Trump to appoint a successor as head of the consumer watchdog agency, ... Due to a law forbidding public officials from using their office toÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 4, 2017
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has been conspicuously silent on the Rohingya issue, and when pressed by reporters, she has toed the official line ofÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 4, 2017
N.Y. / Region ... Over the past decade, the DNA laboratory in the office of New York City's chief ... In court testimony, a former lab official said she was fired for ..... Appointed to the state forensic science commission when it formed in 1994, Mr. ... He accused lab officials of not having performed the necessaryÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 26, 2017
Mr. Trump received a briefing on the preparations Friday morning from top homeland security officials, including Mr. Bossert; his chief of staff,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
President Xi Jinping, center, in Beijing on Thursday. Mr. Xi, one of the most influential Chinese leaders in decades, may further consolidate hisÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
In a move that follows in the footsteps of a clutch of European cities, New York is to appoint a director of night life, or a DON — an ambassadorÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
People protested in June outside the federal courthouse in San Antonio against a Texas measure banning so-called sanctuary cities.
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