Arlington, VA–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2017 By: Steve Marshall One day after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called up the entire 12,000-member Texas National Guard to assist civilian authorities with the epic flooding resulting from Hurricane Harvey, several other state Guard units are in the hard-hit areas to offer manpower, equipment and support.[Read More…]
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Human Rights Watch: Trump Threatening to Expel ‘Dreamers’
Repealing DACA Would Harm Thousands With Close US Ties Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2017. US President Donald Trump’s threatened repeal of a program protecting from deportation immigrants who arrived in the United States as children would harm hundreds of thousands of people with strong ties to the US, Human Rights[Read More…]
NASA Sees Tropical Storm Harvey Moving Back into the Gulf, August 28, 2017
MARYLAND–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2017. On Monday, Aug. 28 at 7 a.m. CDT the National Hurricane Center said the center of Harvey is emerging into the Gulf of Mexico. A NASA animation of imagery from NOAA’s GOES East satellite shows Harvey as it lingered over southeastern Texas over the weekend of Aug.[Read More…]
More Texas Guardsmen Deploy as Harvey Causes Catastrophic Flooding
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2017 By: Jim Garamone Weather forecasters are saying the remnants of Hurricane Harvey is causing “catastrophic flooding” in Southeastern Texas, as 3,000 Texas State Guard and Texas National Guardsmen have now been called up to help their fellow citizens, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said today during a[Read More…]
ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging Trump’s Transgender Service Member Ban
MARYLAND —(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2017. The American Civil Liberties Union and Covington & Burling LLP today filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the president’s directive banning transgender service members from continuing to serve in the military or receiving medically necessary health care, and banning men and women who are[Read More…]
Syria: UNICEF Cites Conflict’s ‘Staggering’ Impact on Children; Calls for Urgent Protection
GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–25 August 2017 – Six and a half years of war in Syria has inflicted untold suffering on the country’s children, a senior United Nations official said today, urging parties to the conflict to stop the violence and live up to their legal obligations to children. “The impact of war[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Launches New Program to Help Improve U.S.-Mexico Relations
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 24, 2017. No country affects daily life in the United States more than Mexico, and the Center for American Progress has established a new program to help leaders in both nations build a relationship of mutual respect and understanding that cuts through the angry rhetoric of recent[Read More…]
NASA Analyzes Hurricane Harvey’s Rainfall, Sees Landfall, August 26, 2017
MARYLAND–(ENEWSPF)–August 26, 2017 Update Satellites have been providing forecasters with valuable information as Harvey intensified to a Category 4 hurricane before making landfall in southeastern Texas. NASA’s GPM satellite and NOAA’s GOES-East satellite provided a look at Harvey’s heavy rainfall, cloud heights, temperatures and extent of the storm. At 6[Read More…]
Texas National Guard Mobilizes Ahead of Hurricane Harvey’s Landfall
AUSTIN, Texas–(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2017 — At the request of Gov. Greg Abbott through the Texas Division of Emergency Management, about 700 members of the Texas Army National Guard and Air National Guard and the Texas State Guard with the Texas Military Department have been activated and are pre-positioning throughout the[Read More…]
US Navy Identifies One Dead, Nine Missing USS John S. McCain Sailors
CHANGI NAVAL BASE, Republic of Singapore (NNS) –(ENEWSPF)–August 24, 2017. After more than 80 hours of multinational search efforts, the U.S. Navy suspended search and rescue efforts for missing USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) Sailors in an approximately 2,100-square mile area east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore.[Read More…]
