BURLINGTON, Vt.—(ENEWSPF)–October 9 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) this week strongly disagreed with a proposal by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to cut Social Security and disabled veterans’ benefits to pay for more defense spending. Ryan has resurrected a discredited plan to change the formula that the[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Senator Bernie Sanders Investigating Drug Prices
BURLINGTON, Vt.—(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2014 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today raised new questions about skyrocketing prices for prescription drugs, including a new treatment for Hepatitis C that costs more than $1,000 per pill, and what he calls “staggering” price hikes for generic drugs. Sanders’ focus on the Hepatitis C[Read More…]
Full Fifth Circuit Refuses to Reconsider Law Blocking Abortion Access Across Texas
AUSTIN–(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2014. The full U.S Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit declined to reconsider the constitutionality of a portion of a Texas law blocking access to abortion across large parts of the state, despite an emphatic dissent. The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Texas, Planned Parenthood[Read More…]
Alleged Russian Cyber-Criminal Now Charged in 40-Count Superseding Indictment
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 9, 2014. A federal grand jury in Seattle returned a second superseding indictment late yesterday charging a Russian national with 11 additional counts and further detailing his alleged scheme to hack into businesses and steal credit card information for later sale over the Internet on “carding” websites. The[Read More…]
Defendant Pleads Guilty for Role in Brutal Sex Trafficking Ring
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 9, 2014. Acting Assistant Attorney General Molly Moran for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer for the Southern District of Florida announced today that Rafael Alberto Cadena-Sosa pleaded guilty in the Southern District of Florida to one count of conspiracy and one[Read More…]
Russian National Receives 18 Month Prison Sentence for Smuggling High-Tech Night Vision Technology to Russia
WILMINGTON, Del.—(ENEWSPF)—October 9, 2014. Dmitry Ustinov, of Moscow, Russia, 53, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 18 months in prison and 3 years supervised release, for conspiracy to export high-tech military technology, in violation of federal law, including the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and the International Traffic in[Read More…]
White House Press Gaggle by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz Aboard Air Force One, Oct. 9, 2014
En Route Los Angeles, California–(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2014 – 1:01 P.M. EDT MR. SCHULTZ: Good afternoon. Welcome aboard. Are we ready? Thank you for joining us on the trip. This afternoon the President will hold a town hall at Cross Campus in Los Angeles where he will speak directly to millennials[Read More…]
Congresswoman Robin Kelly Donates Books to Marian Catholic High School
CHICAGO HEIGHTS—(ENEWSPF)—October 9, 2014. Congresswoman Robin Kelly personally delivered nearly 150 books to Marian Catholic High School as part of the Library of Congress Surplus Book Program. “Books open young minds to new worlds and possibilities,” Congresswoman Kelly said. “A book we donated may be the reason a student chooses[Read More…]
Medical Marijuana Advocates Survey Federal, State Electoral Candidates Ahead of November Elections
Surveys seeking positions on medical marijuana are widely disseminated in first-of-its-kind voter education campaign Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2014. The medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) has produced a new 30-second online advertisement to launch its survey drive for for this year’s election-cycle educational campaign. The ad will[Read More…]
Horizons Conference on October 11 and 12 to Present New Research on the Medical and Psychological Applications of Psychedelic Drugs
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—October 9, 2014. The eighth annual Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics conference will be held at Judson Memorial Church and The New School in Greenwich Village, NYC on October 11th and 12th. Horizons focuses on contemporary research into the applications of psychedelics, providing an invaluable forum for experts to share[Read More…]
