Google defended its £130 million settlement with British tax authorities for the first time in a letter to the Financial Times, arguing that it was complying with British law.
Authorities for the first time have declared the heat a "level 2" weather emergency — a label normally used for typhoons and flooding.
It shows that federal agencies have taken steps toward greater policy alignment by repurposing existing statutory provisions and relying on previously under-utilized legal authorities for the first time, in a carefully calibrated process of legal innovation.
That was the case for William Carter, 67, of Blacklick, Ohio, who registered his homestead with his local tax authorities for the first time this year after living in his house for 11 years.
On Tuesday, the day after Mr. Jackson filed the forms, he notified the authorities for the first time about the threats against him, contacting the Bronx district attorney's office.
The shutdown of Heathrow airport, near London, also allowed authorities for the first time to inspect runways on foot in broad daylight instead of in the middle of the night.
The protection of freedoms bill will also regulate the use of CCTV by the police and local authorities for the first time to ensure they are used "proportionately and appropriately".
In Corleone, the birthplace of Cosa Nostra's most infamous godfathers, and the town that lent its name to the fictional crime family of Francis Ford Coppola's films, a victim of Mafia extortion rackets has co-operated with law authorities for the first time ever.
After meeting in London with Northern Ireland's main political parties, Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland set a deadline of September for restarting the province's stalled local government, which was suspended in 2002 by British authorities for the fourth time in four years amid allegations of continued activity by the Irish Republican Army.
It may sound like a prediction made while still high on brandy butter, drunk with New Year optimism, but 2014 will see an increase in the volume and quality of social housing built by local authorities for the first time in decades.
