Month: April 2016

Physicians for Human Rights Responds to Kunduz Hospital Airstrike Report

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2016.  The Defense Department today released the redacted report of its internal investigation into the U.S. military airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Since the attack last October, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has been pressing the White House and the Pentagon to[Read More…]

Doctors Without Borders Initial Reaction to Public Release of U.S. Military Investigative Report on the Attack on MSF Trauma Hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan

NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2016.  The United States military today released its investigative report on the attack on the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on October 3, 2015. The attack killed 42 people, including 14 MSF staff members, and wounded dozens more. MSF was only[Read More…]

U.S. Navy Captain Select Sentenced to Over Six Years in Prison for Accepting Cash and Prostitutes in International Bribery Scheme

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2016.  A U.S. Navy Captain Select was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for bribery charges, admitting that he accepted cash, gifts, travel expenses, entertainment and the services of prostitutes from foreign defense contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA) in exchange for classified U.S. Navy information,[Read More…]

White House Press Briefing by Josh Earnest, April 29, 2016

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2016 – 12:52 P.M. EDT MS. JANNEY:  Hi, everyone.  Good afternoon.  I was going to tell you all to be seated, but I see you are already seated, so we can begin.  Josh is out today.  He has, I believe, it’s a root canal.  (Laughter.)  Yes, he[Read More…]

After Push from Senators, Dept. of Ed. Publishes Names of Schools Seeking Religious Exemptions from Critical Civil Rights Law

Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2016.  Following a push from U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., the Department of Education today published on its website the names and applications of schools seeking religious exemptions under Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). In January, the Department[Read More…]

Senators Wyden, Merkley Urge Education Secretary to Provide Full Debt Relief to Defrauded Student Borrowers

Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2016.  U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both D-Ore., today urged Secretary of Education Dr. John King to create strong protections and a streamlined path to debt relief for student loan borrowers in the Department’s forthcoming “borrower defense” rule. The Oregon senators joined 41 colleagues[Read More…]

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