President Obama Establishes Federal Interagency Reentry Council Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2016. An estimated 70 million or more Americans have some kind of criminal record. Each year, more than 600,000 individuals are released from Federal and State prisons, and millions more are released each year from local jails. Promoting the rehabilitation[Read More…]
Month: April 2016
Remarks by President Obama to College Reporters, April 28, 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 28, 2016 – 3:53 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: I hear there’s some hotshot journalists here. Josh was speaking for me, and I wanted to make sure he was getting it right. How’s it going, everybody? Are you guys having an interesting time here? AUDIENCE: Yes! THE PRESIDENT: Was[Read More…]
White House Press Briefing by Josh Earnest with College Reporters, April 28, 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 28, 2016 – 3:22 P.M. EDT MR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody. It’s nice to see you all. Welcome to the White House. And welcome to the White House Briefing Room. This is obviously the room where, every day, or almost every day, I come and do a briefing[Read More…]
Announcing May 2016 Programs at Thorn Creek Nature Center
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—April 29, 2016. Spring beauties are poking their little white and pink heads out, the greens of the wild leeks and onions are becoming more and more visible in the floodplains and the leaf buds are looking forward to opening as warm weather becomes a reality. The woodland[Read More…]
Rally on Monday, May 2: Chicagoans to Support Resolution at Boeing Shareholder Meeting to Increase Transparency in Arms Sales to Israel
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—April 29, 2916. On May 2, at 8:15 a.m. on the south steps of Chicago’s Field Museum, five Boeing Company shareholders will attend the annual meeting to vote for and speak in support of a resolution which will require that the corporation prepare a report detailing its arms sales to[Read More…]
Sauk-Calumet Group of the Illinois Sierra Club to Host Bird Expert on May 9
MATTESON–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2016. The Sauk-Calumet Group of the Illinois Sierra Club will hold its next monthly meeting on Monday, May 9th, at 7:15 pm at the Frankfort Public Library, 21119 Pfeiffer Rd. The program will be given by Mel Tracy of Wild Birds Unlimited. Mel will show slides and talk[Read More…]
Twenty-Five Miami-Area Defendants Charged with Submitting $26 Million in False Claims to the Medicare Part D Program
FLORIDA–(ENEWSPF)–April 28, 2016. Charges were filed today against 25 Miami-area defendants in three separate cases for their alleged participation in various schemes to defraud Medicare of approximately $26 million in false claims through the Medicare Part D program. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division,[Read More…]
Secretary of Defense Carter Details U.S. Strategy to Accelerate ISIL’s Defeat
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 28, 2016 — Moves made last year in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have proved effective and U.S. officials have capitalized on that success to accelerate the counter-ISIL campaign, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee today. The decisions to[Read More…]
DoD Releases Department-wide Strategy to Prevent Retaliation Associated with Reporting Sexual Assault or Harassment
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 28, 2016. Today, the Department of Defense released a department-wide strategy to improve the way it provides support to service members who experience retaliation and to align prevention and response efforts across the services. The DoD Retaliation Prevention and Response Strategy (RPRS) provides support to individuals who experience[Read More…]
Senator Wyden: Congress Must Reject Sprawling Expansion of Government Surveillance
Rule 41 Revision Treats Victims like Attackers; One Warrant Could Authorize Government Hacking of Thousands or Millions of Americans’ Devices; Any Change Should be Made by Congress Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 28, 2016. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. today called for Congress to reject new rules that will massively expand the government’s[Read More…]