ACLU and Lambda Legal Add Transgender High School Student and Lesbian Couple to Lawsuit to Fight HB 2 RALEIGH, N.C. —(ENEWSPF)–April 21, 2016. The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of North Carolina, joined by counsel from the law firm of Jenner & Block, announced today that they have added[Read More…]
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U.S. State Dept. Updates Philippines Travel Warning, April 21, 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 21, 2016. The Department of State warns U.S. citizens to avoid all non-essential travel to the Sulu Archipelago and through the southern Sulu Sea, and to exercise extreme caution when traveling to the island of Mindanao, due to continued terrorist threats, insurgent activities and kidnappings. This Travel Warning replaces[Read More…]
Remarks by President Obama in Q&A with the Press — Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 21, 2016
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia–(ENEWSPF)–April 21, 2016 – 4:16 P.M. DST PRESIDENT OBAMA: (In progress.) — the entire Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for their hospitality and their generosity, and all my counterparts in the GCC who devoted the time and the energy to make sure that this was a successful summit. You[Read More…]
Statements By President Obama and His Majesty King Salman of Saudia Arabia
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia–(ENEWSPF)–April 21, 2016 – 3:52 P.M. AST KING SALMAN: (As interpreted.) Mr. President, on behalf of my brothers, the leaders of the GCC countries, and on my personal behalf, I’d like to thank you for attending this constructive and fruitful summit, which will contribute to enhancing the consultation[Read More…]
White House Press Briefing by Josh Earnest and Ben Rhodes, April 21, 2016
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia–(ENEWSPF)–April 21, 2016 – 1:20 P.M. DST MR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody. It’s nice to see you all. Ben has a couple of readouts that we’ll do at the top, and then we’ll open it up to your questions. Obviously we can try to do a little readout[Read More…]
White House Press Briefing by Josh Earnest, April 19, 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016 – 1:08 P.M. EDT MR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody. Nice to see you all. I do not have any statements at the top, so we can go straight to your questions. Josh, would you like to start? Q Sure. Thanks, Josh. Ahead of this trip[Read More…]
Representatives Schakowsky and Gallego Lead 172 Representatives in Calling For No Riders in Appropriations Bills
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. Today, Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) released the following statement after leading 172 representatives in sending a letter to House Leadership urging that no divisive policy provisions be included in the 2017 appropriations bills: “Divisive partisan policy riders have no place in our[Read More…]
World Drug Problem: UN Adopts New Framework for Policies to ‘Put People First’
Heroin seizure in Turkmenistan. Photo: UNODC NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–19 April 2016 – The United Nations today adopted a new framework putting people at the centre of global policies on drug control, which the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says can help promote the “urgent, united and[Read More…]
Cannabis Regulation and the UN Drug Treaties
Strategies for Reform NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. As jurisdictions enact reforms creating legal access to cannabis for purposes other than exclusively “medical and scientific,” tensions surrounding the existing UN drug treaties and evolving law and practice in Member States continue to grow. These treaty tensions have become the “elephant in[Read More…]
United Nations Orders Security to Confiscate Copies of Open Letter to Ban Ki-Moon Calling for End to Global Drug War
Hillary Clinton Latest to Sign Letter, Joining Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Cory Booker, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Richard Branson, More Than a Dozen Former Heads of State, and Hundreds of Other Legislators, Cabinet Ministers, Former UN Officials, and Celebrities New York, New York –(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. On the[Read More…]
