Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University calls for steps to curb decline CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2017. For nearly a decade, the rollout of new express bus and train service made it easier for Americans to put down their car keys and hop on a bus or train for[Read More…]
Day: August 25, 2017
Park Forest Teen Charged In Armed Robbery Of Pizza Delivery Man
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Police announced Friday the arrest of a teenager in connection late last week with the armed robbery of a pizza delivery driver. According to police, a pizza delivery driver reported being robbed at gunpoint on Saturday, August 19, 2017, at approximately 9:30 p.m. in the 400 block[Read More…]
Robotic Exoskeleton Offers Potential New Approach to Alleviating Crouch Gait in Children with Cerebral Palsy
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2017. Researchers from the NIH Clinical Center Rehabilitation Medicine Department have created the first robotic exoskeleton specifically designed to treat crouch (or flexed-knee) gait in children with cerebral palsy by providing powered knee extension assistance at key points during the walking cycle. Crouch gait, the excessive bending[Read More…]
Earthjustice on Zinke’s National Monuments Report: Secretary Zinke, Make Your Report Public
“The law is clear: only Congress has the authority to change a national monument designation under the Antiquities Act—not the president.” San Francisco, CA —(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2017. Today, the Interior Department announced that Secretary Zinke sent a report with recommendations on national monuments to President Trump—without releasing the report itself.[Read More…]
Sierra Club Calls for Release of Public Land Monument Recommendations
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2017. The Sierra Club today filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details on recommendations from Interior Secretary Zinke on the future of public lands protected as national monuments. The summary report from Secretary Zinke was void of any actual recommendations or decision-making metrics. In[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Launches New Program to Help Improve U.S.-Mexico Relations
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 24, 2017. No country affects daily life in the United States more than Mexico, and the Center for American Progress has established a new program to help leaders in both nations build a relationship of mutual respect and understanding that cuts through the angry rhetoric of recent[Read More…]
NASA Analyzes Hurricane Harvey’s Rainfall, Sees Landfall, August 26, 2017
MARYLAND–(ENEWSPF)–August 26, 2017 Update Satellites have been providing forecasters with valuable information as Harvey intensified to a Category 4 hurricane before making landfall in southeastern Texas. NASA’s GPM satellite and NOAA’s GOES-East satellite provided a look at Harvey’s heavy rainfall, cloud heights, temperatures and extent of the storm. At 6[Read More…]
Texas National Guard Mobilizes Ahead of Hurricane Harvey’s Landfall
AUSTIN, Texas–(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2017 — At the request of Gov. Greg Abbott through the Texas Division of Emergency Management, about 700 members of the Texas Army National Guard and Air National Guard and the Texas State Guard with the Texas Military Department have been activated and are pre-positioning throughout the[Read More…]
US Navy Identifies One Dead, Nine Missing USS John S. McCain Sailors
CHANGI NAVAL BASE, Republic of Singapore (NNS) –(ENEWSPF)–August 24, 2017. After more than 80 hours of multinational search efforts, the U.S. Navy suspended search and rescue efforts for missing USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) Sailors in an approximately 2,100-square mile area east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore.[Read More…]
ACLU Response to Press Reports that White House is Considering Ending DACA
WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2017. Lorella Praeli, director of immigration policy and campaigns at the American Civil Liberties Union, issued the following statement in response to media reports that the Trump White House is considering ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program: “We have 800,000 examples of why DACA[Read More…]
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