Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– President Obama answers questions on a wide range of issues submitted by and voted on by YouTube users, from the legalization of drugs to jobs and the economy, in an interview moderated by YouTube’s Steve Grove.
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Tom Slaughter Appointed Executive Director of Inland Press Association
Tom Slaughter. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Patty Slusher named Inland’s director of Membership and Programming Des Plaines, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Tom Slaughter, former vice president of U.S. Newspaper Markets for The Associated Press who created AP Digital before heading the company’s new media business unit, was named Inland’s new executive director today, effective Tuesday,[Read More…]
State Department Briefing by Phillip J. Crowley, January 27, 2011
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2011. INDEX: DEPARTMENT Secretary Clinton Will Host a Dinner for National Security Advisor Menon of India Under Secretary Burns Will Meet with National Security Advisor Menon on Friday Health of Former South African President Nelson Mandela Murder of Human Rights Activist David Kato in Uganda USAID Administrator[Read More…]
White House Press Briefing by Robert Gibbs, January 27, 2011
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2011 – 1:43 P.M. EST MR. GIBBS: Go ahead, I’m sorry. Q Can you comment on the conclusions of the financial crisis investigatory commission? And do you agree with the finding that the crisis was preventable and that current members of the administration were partly to blame? [Read More…]
Statement by President Obama on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2011. I join people here at home, in Israel, and around the world in commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as we mark one of the darkest, most destructive periods in human history. To remember is a choice, and today we remember the innocent victims of the Nazis’[Read More…]
Southwest Airlines Declares 138th Consecutive Quarterly Dividend
DALLAS, Jan. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Southwest Airlines’ (NYSE: LUV) Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $.0045 per share to Shareholders of record at the close of business on March 3, 2011 on all shares then issued and outstanding. The 138th consecutive dividend will be paid onMarch 24, 2011. SOURCE[Read More…]
Operator of Deceptive ‘Scareware’ Scheme Will Pay More than $8 Million to Settle FTC Charges
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2011. An operator of an online “scareware” scheme will pay more than $8 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that he used deceptive ads to trick consumers into thinking their computers were infected with malicious software, and then sold them software to “fix” their non-existent problem.[Read More…]
DHS Secretary Napolitano Announces New National Terrorism Advisory System
DHS Discontinues Color-Coded Alert System Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2011. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will discontinue the color-coded alerts of the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS) in favor of a new system, the National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS), that will[Read More…]
Satellite Sentinel Project Provides Images of Troop Presence Around Sudan’s Volatile Abyei Region
WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2011. The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) has confirmed that the Sudanese Armed Forces, or SAF, has deployed company-sized units of troops equipped with light armor and artillery in areas of South Kordofan around the oil-producing Abyei region and other strategic areas along Sudan’s volatile North-South border. However,[Read More…]
UN Marks Holocaust Memorial Day With Exhibitions and Pledges of ‘Never Again’
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–27 January 2011 – The United Nations today honoured the memory of the estimated six million Jews and countless others who perished in the Nazi death camps of the Second World War with ceremonies around the world and pledges to wipe genocide off the face of the Earth. The[Read More…]
