NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2016. Today, Hillary Clinton announced a major new plan to help children, families and educators confront the challenge of bullying and heal divisions in communities around the country. The initiative, Better Than Bullying, would provide $500 million in new funding to states that develop comprehensive anti-bullying plans,[Read More…]
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Warns Financial Institutions About Potential Mortgage Lending Reporting Failures
CFPB Puts 44 Mortgage Lenders and Brokers on Notice That They May Be Required to Report Mortgage Data WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2016. Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is issuing warning letters to 44 mortgage lenders and mortgage brokers. The Bureau has information that appears to show they[Read More…]
Republican Women Discover—a Day Late and a Dollar Short—That ‘War on Women’ is Really a Thing
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2016 By Laura Clawson For years, one of the key roles of Republican women operatives has been to make regular media appearances expressing outrage that Democrats say Republicans are waging a war on women with things like forced ultrasounds or opposition to equal pay. In the year of[Read More…]
Trump Can’t Stop Kicking the Khan Family in the Heart
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2016 By Mark Sumner Donald Trump spent weeks fighting with the Gold Star family of Captain Humayun Khan, a Muslim soldier who was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004. While campaign manager Kellyanne Conway may have slapped Trump’s twitter fingers long enough to make him stop saying[Read More…]
Sierra Club Independent Action and For Our Future PAC Launch African-American Voter Mobilization Campaign in Pennsylvania
New Effort Will Reach Nearly 300,000 Voters Before Election Day WASHINGTON, D.C. -(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2016. – Today, Sierra Club Independent Action and For Our Future launched a joint campaign to mobilize African-American voters in Pennsylvania in the final week leading up to election day. The six-figure campaign will focus on[Read More…]
Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending October 22, 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2016 SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending October 22, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 258,000, a decrease of 3,000 from the previous week’s revised level. The previous week’s level was revised up by 1,000 from 260,000 to 261,000. The 4-week moving average[Read More…]
U.S. Strikes in Afghanistan Target Senior al-Qaida Leaders
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2016 — Precision U.S. strikes conducted Oct. 23 targeted two of al-Qaida’s most senior leaders in Afghanistan, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook announced last night. In a statement, Cook said officials are still assessing the results of the strikes, which targeted Faruq al-Qatani and Bilal al-Utabi. “Their demise[Read More…]
Obama Administration Announces Additional Economic and Workforce Development Resources for Coal Communities through POWER Initiative
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2016. As part of President Obama’s continuing efforts to assist communities negatively impacted by changes in the coal industry and power sector, today the Administration is announcing the second round of grants awarded this year as part of the POWER Initiative’s “POWER 2016” funding opportunity that invests[Read More…]
White House Press Briefing by Josh Earnest, October 26, 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 26, 2016 – 12:11 P.M. EDT MR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody. Nice to see you all. I do not have any announcements at the top, so we can go straight to questions. Mr. Freking, do you want to go first? Q Thank you, Josh. Could you say[Read More…]
Operation Inherent Resolve Commander Cites Momentum in Mosul Push; Raqqa Isolation to Begin ‘Soon’
Sailors conduct pre-flight inspections on an E/A-18G Growler assigned to Electronic Attack Squadron 130 on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf, Oct. 18, 2016. Ike and its Carrier Strike Group are deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, maritime security operations[Read More…]
