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Today , AltaGas Ltd. and WGL Holdings, Inc. announced that they have reached a settlement in principle with key stakeholders in Washington D.C., including the Government of the District of Columbia, the Office of the People's Counsel, the Laborers' International Union of North America, its affiliated District Council, and Local Unions serving or located in Washington D.C. , the United States Department of Defense, the National Consumer Law Center/National Housing Trust-Enterprise Preservation Corporation , and the Apartment and Office Building Association. All key parties have now reached an understanding on settlement terms, clearing a path for review and approval by the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia .
U.S. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-New York, is again criticizing the military's handling of sexual assault victims following the latest Department of Defense report that showed more cases are ending without convictions. The senator on Tuesday released a statement on the DoD's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office report , saying that not enough is being done to convict accused sexual offenders in the military.
A system that uses a digital wristband and a mobile app could someday predict future outbursts among autistic children, allowing family members and helpers to prevent and prepare for episodes. "One of the problems when someone can't tell you they're distressed is these behaviors feel like they come completely out of the blue," said Matthew Goodwin, a behavioral scientist at Northeastern University.
This image provided by the Department of Defense was presented as part of a briefing slide at the Pentagon briefing on Saturday, April 14, 2018, and shows a photo of a preliminary damage assessment from the Him Shinshar Chemical Weapons Storage Site in Syria that was struck by missiles from the U.S.-led coalition in response to Syria's use of chemical weapons on April 7. In this image from video provided by the U.S. Navy, a U.S. fast-attack submarine launches a tomahawk missile on April 14, 2014, from the Mediterranean Sea as part of a U.S.-led military operation in retaliation for Syria using chemical weapons on April 7. President Donald Trump declared "Mission Accomplished" for a U.S.-led allied missile attack on Syria's chemical weapons program, but the Pentagon said the pummeling of three chemical-related facilities left enough others intact to enable the Assad government to use ... (more)
The White House is seen in the early morning light in Washington, Saturday, April 14, 2018, the morning after the U.S. military response, along with France and Britain, to Syria's chemical weapon attack on April 7.a less The White House is seen in the early morning light in Washington, Saturday, April 14, 2018, the morning after the U.S. military response, along with France and Britain, to Syria's chemical weapon attack on ... more In this image released by the Department of Defense, a U.S. Air Force B-1 Bomber separates from the boom pod after receiving fuel from an Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker on April 13, 2018, en route to strike chemical weapons targets in Syria.
In heated exchanges with his national security team in recent weeks, President Donald Trump repeatedly made clear he saw little incentive for the United States to be involved in Syria's intractable civil war. In doing so, Trump is trying to confront a dilemma that haunted his predecessor, Barack Obama.
Hoeven said Tuesday the key position is responsible for funding the Department of Defense, including North Dakota's Air Force bases and National Guard. Hoeven says given North Dakota's defense installations, the position is important to the state "and will help us to better support these defense communities."
METEGHAN, N.S. Louisette Saulnier and her sister Odette Thibodeau often walk the beach in Meteghan, Digby County, N.S. looking for beach glass. Louisette Saulnier and Odette Thibodeau found more than beach glass on a recent trip to the beach in Meteghan, N.S. "We go pick up beach glass.
Maj. Gen. Arthur "Joe" Logan, head of the Hawaii state Department of Defense, left, and Chris Leonard, president of the Hawaii Association of Broadcasters, right, appear before a U.S. Senate committee hearing in Honolulu on Thursday, April 5, 2018.
A federal spending watchdog agency says the Department of Defense must do better at estimating the cost of military construction projects, some of which have had contracts awarded as much as 30 percent higher than expected.
AeroVironment and Bba Aviation are both aerospace companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership. AeroVironment presently has a consensus target price of $39.50, indicating a potential downside of 13.21%.
The Department of Defense has taken steps to implement a portion of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 enhancing postaward debriefing rights. Specifically, Shay Assad, Director of Defense Pricing/Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy issued a memorandum on March 22, 2018, requiring contracting officers providing a postaward debriefing in accordance with FAR 15.506 to provide unsuccessful offerors an opportunity to submit additional questions related to the debriefing.
According to Zacks, "KEYW Corporation with its subsidiaries is engaged in providing mission-critical cyber security and cyber superiority solutions to defense, intelligence and national security agencies. Its solutions, services and products support the collection, processing, analysis, and use of intelligence data and information in the domain of cyberspace.
President Obama has been out of office for 14 months now, but his ability - and that of his allies still in government - to steer gargantuan federal contracts to his friends seems not to have diminished. Earlier this month, the Pentagon announced it was looking to purchase cloud computing services for its 3.4 million users and their 4 million devices.
Napa County Fire captain Chase Beckman says a gunman has taken ho... Two of the mental health workers killed by a former U.S. soldier at a California veterans home were psychologists who treated veterans with post-traumatic stress syndrome and the third victim was the program's the executive director. The Pathway Home program at the country's largest veterans home in Yountville said in a statement Friday that 42-years-old Jennifer Golick and 29-years-old Jennifer Gonzales were accomplished mental health therapists.
A new special publication orchestrated by five of the nation's leading hearing experts compiles the latest research into hearing loss caused by drugs and solvents - how it occurs, how to treat it, and how to prevent it. The compilation is being published online as a special research topic by the journal Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience .
As of Saturday, at least 2,263 members of the U.S. military have died in Afghanistan since 2001, according to the Department of Defense website. In operations related to Iraq, a total of 4,535 members of the U.S. military have died.
Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan hosts an enhanced honor cordon for Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the Pentagon, Feb. 22, 2018.
Hawaii's nuclear missile scare showed that the state began testing alerts before fully developing a plan to address the ballistic missile threat and that a public outreach campaign months earlier wasn't effective, said a report released Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday rolled out its budget for fiscal year 2019, asking Congress for 716 billion U.S. dollars for arms purchases and a staff expansion, and bringing a slew of questions and doubts. The entire budget consists of three parts -- the base budget of 617 billion U.S. dollars, covering Pentagon operation costs and arms procurement, the war fund, or Overseas Contingency Operations, of 69 billion dollars, and the defense budget of 30 billion dollars to keep other government agencies functioning.