Navient, Formerly Part of Sallie Mae, Illegally Cheated Borrowers Out of Repayment Rights Through Shortcuts and Deception WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–January 18, 2017. Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is suing the nation’s largest servicer of both federal and private student loans for systematically and illegally failing borrowers at every[Read More…]
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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…]
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…]
Bullies Target Physical Appearance, Ethnicity, Gender or Sexual Orientation – UN Reports
Children at a displaced camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. UN Photo/Sophia Paris NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–17 January 2017 – Nearly a quarter of a million children and young people world-wide are bullied each year, according to a report released today by the United Nations educational and cultural agency, which found that bullies like[Read More…]
Remembering Gene Cernan
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, died Monday, Jan. 16, surrounded by his family. Cernan, a Captain in the U.S. Navy, left his mark on the history of exploration by flying three times in space, twice to the moon. He also holds[Read More…]
In Letter to Senate HELP Committee, 38 Groups Express Concerns with Education Secretary Nominee Betsy DeVos
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. Thirty-eight groups representing a broad spectrum of education stakeholders have sent a letter to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, or HELP, Committee expressing “strong concerns” with President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the next U.S. secretary of education, Betsy DeVos. “Over the[Read More…]
Governor Rauner Signs Lead Testing Bill
Bipartisan legislation to protect Illinois children, remove lead contamination from schools, daycare drinking water CHICAGO – (ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2017. Governor Bruce Rauner joined by Reverend Jesse Jackson, State Sen. Steans and state agency directors today signed Senate Bill 550, legislation to protect Illinois children from possible exposure to lead in[Read More…]
