April 17: DPA Convenes Special Gathering on Racial Justice and Ending the Drug War Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 23, 2016.  A decades old quote from President Nixon’s administration is making front page news and being shared widely around the web. The quote from John Ehrlichman, who served as President Richard Nixon’s domestic[Read More…]

Buenos Aires, Argentina–(ENEWSPF)–March 23, 2016 – 12:56 P.M. ART PRESIDENT MACRI:  Good morning, everyone.  Thank you for joining us today.  And welcome, Mr. President — dear Mr. President.  We are happy to have you visiting with your whole family.  And I would like to take a minute to share with[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2016.  As the President said today, we stand in solidarity with the Belgian people in condemning the terrorist attacks that occurred this morning in Brussels, we mourn the loss of those killed, and we will do what we can to help Belgian authorities bring to justice those[Read More…]

At the residence of the U.S. chief of mission in Havana, President Barack Obama and National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice receive an update via telephone from Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco on the terrorist attacks in Brussels, March 22, 2016. White House photo by Pete Souza WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2016[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2016 – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today decried GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s call for law enforcement to “patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods” and the naming of notorious Islamophobe Walid Phares as one of leading GOP[Read More…]

Havana, Cuba–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2016 – 10:10 A.M. CST PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Muchas gracias.  Thank you so much.  Thank you very much. President Castro, the people of Cuba, thank you so much for the warm welcome that I have received, that my family have received, and that our delegation[Read More…]

European Union headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Photo: Carmen Cuesta Roca NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–22 March 2016 – Senior United Nations officials have strongly condemned today’s terrorist bombings in Brussels, extending condolences to the victims and their families while expressing solidarity with the people and Government of Belgium. A statement issued by Secretary-General[Read More…]

Memorandum of Understanding signed in Havana CUBA–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2016.  Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis, the Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, and Col. Candido Alfredo Regalado Gomez, Chief of Cuba’s National Office of Hydrography and Geodesy (ONHG), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to improve maritime navigation safety and[Read More…]

Flagstaff, Arizona—(ENEWSPF)—March 22, 2016.  U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday issued the following statement after the deadly explosions in Brussels, Belgium: “We offer our deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones in this barbaric attack and to the people of Brussels who were the target of another cowardly[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2016.   Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch released the following statement regarding the attacks in Brussels this morning: “I stand with President Obama and the American people in condemning this morning’s horrific attacks in Brussels.  This was an appalling assault on the people of Belgium, on the European[Read More…]