Congressional Republicans are taking secretary-designate Alexis Herman to task for campaign-related work she performed for President Bill Clinton while serving as director of the White House public liaison office.

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It is well placed for the task, having addressed complex competition-related problems in its telecoms-trade accord.

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Alongside other performance-related targets, Ms Evans described the task as "unachievable" and a day afterwards offered her resignation.

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The Moray Task Force has been set up to fight the loss of defence-related jobs in the local area.

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The task force made 26 recommendations, and police have since implemented all of the recommendations related to missing-persons investigations, including the foundation of a new missing-persons unit and website, said one task-force member.

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Det Supt Joanne Chilton, head of the gang task force at West Midlands Police, said the figures include domestic incidents and random attacks as well as gang-related crime but the overall drop in deaths was encouraging.

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