WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–Sept. 18, 2017 By: Terri Moon Cronk Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has issued interim guidance on military service by transgender individuals based on direction received from a presidential memorandum, Defense Department officials said today. The guidance takes effect immediately, Mattis directed. In a memorandum to the services and DoD components,[Read More…]
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Dēmos and ACLU File Supreme Court Brief in their Case Challenging Ohio’s Voter Purges
NEW YORK —(ENEWSPF)—September 19, 2017. Dēmos and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court detailing how Ohio is violating the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) by targeting registered voters who fail to vote in a two-year period for eventual removal from the registration rolls —[Read More…]
More Than 128 Countries Back Pledged Reforms to Shape 21st Century UN
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF0–18 September 2017 – Pledging to overhaul the United Nations bureaucracy to make the world body stronger and more responsive to the people it serves, Secretary-General António Guterres today launched a pledge of support for reforms that has the backing of 128 countries. “Our shared objective is a 21st[Read More…]
NASA Sees Maria Intensify into a Major Hurricane
MARYLAND—(ENEWSPF)—September 18, 2017. NASA and NOAA satellites have provided data on Maria as it strengthened into a major Hurricane headed toward the Leeward Islands. NASA’s Aqua satellite provided an infrared look at Maria that showed cooling cloud top temperatures and NOAA’s GOES satellite provided an animation of imagery that showed[Read More…]
U.S., Japanese, South Korean Aircraft Conduct Show of Force Flights
CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii–(ENEWSPF)–Sept. 18, 2017 . By: Air Force Capt. Cassandra Gesecki U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps aircraft joined Japanese and South Korean military aircraft in a sequenced show of force over the Korean Peninsula yesterday in response to North Korea’s Sept. 14 launch of an intermediate range[Read More…]
Ukraine: Woman Detained, Held Incommunicado, Tortured
Ensure Due Process; Investigate Torture, Liberty Violations Berlin –(ENEWSPF)—September 15, 2017. Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) arbitrarily detained a Ukrainian woman, held her incommunicado, and tortured her, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities charged the woman, Daria Mastikasheva, with treason, and a court in Dnipro has ordered her pretrial detention[Read More…]
Rohrabacher-Blumenauer Medical Cannabis Protections Temporarily Extended
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2017. President Donald Trump reached an agreement late last week with Congressional leadership to enact a three-month continuing resolution that maintains present federal spending levels and priorities through December 8, 2017. The resolution extends medical cannabis patient protections imposed by the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment until that date. The[Read More…]
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2017. A thrilling epoch in the exploration of our solar system came to a close today, as NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its 13-year tour of the ringed planet. “This is the final chapter of an amazing mission, but it’s[Read More…]
Special Forces Soldier Identified as Casualty in Fort Bragg Training Incident
FORT BRAGG, N.C. –(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2017. Staff Sgt. Alexander P. Dalida, 32, of Dunstable, Massachusetts, a Soldier enrolled in the Special Forces Qualification Course at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, died Sept. 14, during a training exercise at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The cause[Read More…]
Military Strikes Continue Against ISIS in Syria, Iraq, Sept. 15, 2017
SOUTHWEST ASIA–(ENEWSPF)–Sept. 15, 2017 — U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria yesterday, conducting 19 strikes consisting of 30 engagements, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported today. Officials reported details of yesterday’s strikes, noting that assessments of results are[Read More…]
