Month: November 2017

Contraceptives

Attorney General Madigan Joins 19 Attorneys General to File Amicus Brief Opposing Roll-back of Contraception Coverage Mandate

Chicago—(ENEWSPF)—November 28, 2017 By: Rosemary Piser A coalition of 20 U.S. Attorneys General, including IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed an amicus brief today in support of  Pennsylvania’s lawsuit to stop the federal government’s roll-back of an Affordable Care Act (ACA, “Obamacare” ) mandate that employee health insurance plans cover[Read More…]

Prof. Augusta Read Thomas

‘Plea for Peace’ to Premiere Dec. 1 in University of Chicago’s Mandel Hall

Prof. Augusta Read Thomas’ Work to Commemorate First Nuclear Reaction CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—November 28, 2017 By: Andrew Bauld The connection between classical composition and a milestone is as old as the art itself. From coronations to religious ceremonies to royal celebrations, such commissions were once commonplace. But commemorating the world’s first nuclear[Read More…]

Rohingya refugees

Violence Drives More Rohingyas to Bangladesh; in Myanmar, Pope Appeals for Tolerance

MYANMAR—(ENEWSPF)–28 November 2017 – While their numbers have dropped in recent weeks, hundreds of Rohingya refugees are still crossing the border into Bangladesh from Myanmar every day, the United Nations migration agency said Tuesday. “People are still arriving in the settlements with horrifying accounts of physical and sexual abuse, harassment[Read More…]

Majave Trails National Monument

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s OK of Corporation’s Plan to Drain California Desert Aquifer

Water-mining project would deplete life-giving springs in the Mojave Trails National Monument Los Angeles, California—(ENEWSPF)—November 28, 2017 By: Greg Loarie, Ileene Anderson, and Adam Keats Conservation and health-safety groups today filed suit in federal court challenging the Trump administration’s approval of an enormous groundwater-mining and pipeline project in Southern California.[Read More…]

Cpl. Todd McGurn

Fort Bliss Soldier Dies in Iraq

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 28, 2017 By: Rosemary Piser The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced the death of a Soldier who was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve. Cpl. Todd L. McGurn, of Riverside, California, died November 25, 2017, in Baghdad, Iraq. The death was the result of a non-combat related incident according[Read More…]

Elephants

Records Sought on Trump Administration Decision to Lift Ban on Zimbabwe Elephant Trophy Imports

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 28, 2017 By: Brett Hartl The Center for Biological Diversity submitted a Freedom of Information Act request today seeking public records about an African trip taken by President Trump’s director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just days before the administration reversed an Obama-era ban on important[Read More…]

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