ILLINOIS–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017 By Jeff Singer Former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn State Sen. Kwame Raoul, a Chicago Democrat who succeeded none other than Barack Obama in the Illinois state Senate, has been mentioned as a possible statewide candidate for a while, but has never gone for it. However, at a recent[Read More…]
Day: January 17, 2017
Former ‘Apprentice’ Contestant Files Defamation Suit Against Trump (Video)
Source: AP/REX/Shutterstock Allred: Accuser, Summer Zervos took/passed polygraph examination before today’s press conference NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—January 17, 2017. At a press conference today, attorney Gloria Allred announced that former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos is suing President-elect Donald Trump for defamation. In October, 2016, Zervos accused Trump of inappropriate sexual advances as[Read More…]
President Obama Grants Clemency to 273 More Individuals, Jan. 17, 2017
Chelsea Manning, Oscar Lopez Rivera And Others To Get Shortened, Reprieved Sentences Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017 Today, President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 209 people incarcerated in federal prison, and handed out 64 pardons. This brings the number of prisoners who have been granted clemency under President Obama to[Read More…]
Health, Environmental, and Tribal Groups Applaud Order Denying Industry Efforts to Halt BLM Methane Waste Rule Implementation
Rule Would Reduce Egregious Methane Waste, Benefit Taxpayers, Communities, Public Health CASPER, WY —(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. Sixteen national, regional, tribal and local public health and environmental groups representing millions of Americans applaud a decision issued yesterday by Wyoming federal judge Scott W. Skavdahl rejecting industry and state efforts to halt[Read More…]
In Case You Missed It: Highlights from Drug Policy Alliance Press Teleconference Featuring Speakers Reacting to Confirmation Hearings for Senator Jeff Sessions
Call Highlighted Sessions’ Record on Criminal Justice Reform, Marijuana Reform, and Civil and Human Rights Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. On January 12, the Drug Policy Alliance hosted a press teleconference with speakers from a broad spectrum of organizations who shared strong concerns that, if confirmed, Jeff Sessions as Attorney General[Read More…]
Women’s March on Washington Update: ‘Sister Marches’ Go Viral Across the Globe
Interest surges in local solidarity events inspired by Women’s March on Washington BOSTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017 — The Women’s March on Washington has inspired a global wave of activism, with more than 616 ‘sister marches’ planned to occur on the same date as the one in the nation’s capital Jan. 21.[Read More…]
Trump’s Marketing Efforts Go Into Overdrive to Hype His Dud of an Inauguration
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017 By Laura Clawson Back in 2009, President Obama showed Trump how the drawing-a-crowd thing is done. Donald Trump always needs to be the biggest and best, and if reality doesn’t cooperate, he’s willing to do a little false marketing. Since his inauguration is shaping up to[Read More…]
Congressional Budget Office: Obamacare Repeal Would Increase Uninsured to 32 Million, Double Premiums in Next Decade
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017 By Joan McCarter Source: NY Daily News The Congressional Budget Office has evaluated the Obamacare repeal passed by Congress last year to determine what would happen if the same bill was used again. The aim was to predict “the changes in coverage or premiums that would result from leaving[Read More…]
CODEPINK Brings Colorful Audacious Resistance to the Inauguration of Donald Trump and the Women’s March on Washington
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. CODEPINK will be visible in our dissent of the inauguration of president-elect Donald J. Trump. We will Rise^Love^Resist for 3 days in the streets of WDC. Dancing, Singing, Hugging, Loving and sharing the world of peace and justice we want to live in. We will be[Read More…]
Drug-Resistant ‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Show Worrisome Ability to Diversify and Spread
Medical illustration of carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. A family of highly drug-resistant and potentially deadly bacteria may be spreading more widely—and more stealthily—than previously thought, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.[Read More…]
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