From the Chicago Sun-Times: A judge sentenced Casey Anthony on Thursday to four years for lying to investigators but says she can go free in late July or early August because she has already served nearly three years in jail and has had good behavior. More at the Sun-Times

NAPLES–(ENEWSPF)–6 July 2011.  Today, NATO aircraft struck military refuelling equipment to deny pro-Qadhafi forces access to fuel in the Brega area. Sustained observation of the area by NATO intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets proved it was being used to provide fuel for military vehicles and equipment engaging in attacks on[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 6, 2011 – 2:04 P.M. EDT         MR. DORSEY:  Good afternoon and welcome to the White House.  I am Jack Dorsey, from Twitter.         Through more than 200 million tweets per day, people around the world use Twitter to instantly connect to what’s most meaningful to them.  In[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 6, 2011.   ISRAEL/PALESTINIANS Upcoming Quartet Meeting/U.S. Continuing to Work with Quartet Partners/Goal is to Get Parties Back to Negotiating Table Special Envoy David Hale Meeting with Saeb Erekat Today PAKISTAN Assistant Secretary William Brownfield Consultations in Region/IEDs Central Piece of Agenda in Recent Working Group Meeting SUDAN[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—July 6, 2011. Robot Tests Radiation in Fukushima Reactor Building Plant Status Work is continuing to reduce radiation levels at Fukushima Daiichi’s reactor 3 building. Tokyo Electric Power Co. has used robots to vacuum radioactive debris and place steel sheets on the floor to decrease the potential for radiation[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 5, 2011 –  4:54 P.M. EDT         MR. CARNEY:  That pretty much sums it up.  Anybody have any questions?  Mr. Feller?         Q    Thanks, Jay.  Let me follow real quickly on two points the President made.  So is he then ruling out White House support for an interim[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 5, 2011 – 4:49 P.M. EDT         THE PRESIDENT:  All right.  Hello, everybody.  I just wanted to give you an update on the deficit negotiations that we’ve been having for the last several weeks, and I want to wish, again, everybody a Happy Fourth of July.         Over[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 5, 2011.   Index for Today’s Briefing DEPARTMENT Secretary Clinton will Meet Tomorrow with Peruvian President-elect Humala Nomination of Wendy Sherman as Under Secretary of Political Affairs SYRIA U.S. Concern about Ongoing Attacks Against Peaceful Protests MEXICO Humberto Leal Garcia/USG Filed an Amicus Brief for Stay of Execution/Consular[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 5, 2011.  U.S. exports supported an estimated 9.2 million jobs in 2010, up from 8.7 million in 2009, according to a report issued today by the Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration. For every billion dollars of exports, over 5,000 jobs are supported. “The exports surge in 2010[Read More…]

RUSSIA–(ENEWSPF)–4 July 2011.  The 29 nations of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) restated their commitment to pursuing cooperation on missile defence as well as cooperation in other security areas of common interest, when they met in Sochi, Russia, on 4th July 2011, at the invitation of the Russian authorities. As part[Read More…]