NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–January 11, 2016. Maalik Alim Jones, 31, of Maryland, was indicted based on his alleged support of al Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization based in Somalia that is allied with al Qaeda. Jones, a U.S. citizen, was presented before Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Frank Maas of the Southern[Read More…]
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CAIR-Chicago Seeks Police, FBI Probe of Fake Islamophobic Mosque Website
WHEATON, IL–(ENEWSPF)–January 11 2016 – The Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) today urged state and national law enforcement authorities to investigate a fake website purporting to represent the Islamic Center of Wheaton (ICW) in Wheaton, Ill., which contains hate-filled and defamatory claims about Islam and the[Read More…]
Governors State Athletic Department Names Fall Semester Honor Roll
UNIVERSITY PARK, IL—(ENEWSPF)–January 11, 2016. Eighteen student-athletes were named to the fall semester Athletic Department Honor Roll at Governors State University. This academic acknowledgement is given to athletes who earned a minimum GPA of 3.00 for the semester, with High Honors going to those with at least a 3.50 GPA.[Read More…]
South Suburban College Bulldogs Baseball Program to Host Adult-Child Baseball Camps
SOUTH HOLLAND, IL–(ENEWSPF)–January 11, 2016. The South Suburban College Baseball Program and Head Coach Steve Ruzich will be conducting Adult-Child Baseball Camps in February for boys and girls ages 6 thru 14. The camps will feature sessions for pitching, catching, hitting and fielding while providing adults and children the opportunity[Read More…]
South Suburban College Readies For Jazz Festival Concert on Jan. 13
SOUTH HOLLAND, IL–(ENEWSPF)–January 11, 2016. South Suburban College will be hosting their Jazz Festival Concert on Saturday, February 13. The concert will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Kindig Performing Arts Center. Admission to the event is free of charge. This year’s Jazz Festival Concert will feature performances by the[Read More…]
UN Rights Experts Urge US to Close Guantánamo Detention Centre and End Impunity for Abuses
Photo: UNHCR/V. Tan GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–11 January 2016 – Human rights experts from the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) today called on the United States Government to promptly close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and end impunity for abuses in the so-called ‘global war on[Read More…]
Saturn the Mighty
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 11, 2016. It is easy to forget just how large Saturn is, at around 10 times the diameter of Earth. And with a diameter of about 72,400 miles (116,500 kilometers), the planet simply dwarfs its retinue of moons. One of those satellites, Tethys (660 miles or 1,062 kilometers[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel and CPS Announce New Summer Transition Program for All Incoming Freshmen; Summer Intensive Program for At-Risk Eighth-Graders
Funds generated by tobacco tax to provide high school preparation for 20,000 incoming freshmen CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 11, 2016. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Chief Education Officer Janice K. Jackson today introduced two new programs designed to ensure that all students begin their freshman year of high school prepared[Read More…]
Researchers Discover Three Glaucoma-related Genes
NIH-funded genetics analysis of glaucoma is largest to date Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–January 11, 2016. An analysis funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has identified three genes that contribute to the most common type of glaucoma. The study increases the total number of such[Read More…]
UK Researchers Find Bee-Killing Pesticide Cocktail in Hedgerows and Wildflowers
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 11, 2016. Scientists at Sussex University in the United Kingdom (UK) have found that bumble bees and honey bees are exposed to a harmful chemical cocktail when collecting pollen from wildflowers and hedgerows that border neonicotinoid-treated crops in UK farmland. After testing oilseed rape croplands during blooming season,[Read More…]
