Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 18, 2014. Attorney General Eric Holder, Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta for the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara for the Southern District of New York announced today that the United States has taken legal action to ensure that critically important reforms are put in[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–December 18, 2014.  In a letter sent to United States Trade Representative (USTR) Michael Froman on Wednesday, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) raised concerns about provisions that may be included in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that would make it harder[Read More…]

ST. LOUIS —(ENEWSPF)–December 18, 2014.  The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a federal lawsuit against Missouri’s Ferguson-Florissant School District, charging the district’s electoral system is locking African-Americans out of the political process. The case, brought on behalf of the Missouri NAACP and African-American residents, is challenging the district’s at-large system[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 18, 2014. SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending December 13, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 289,000, a decrease of 6,000 from the previous week’s revised level. The previous week’s level was revised up by 1,000 from 294,000 to 295,000. The 4-week moving average[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 17, 2014 – 2:08 P.M. EST MR. EARNEST:  Good afternoon, everybody.  It’s a pleasure to be standing before you on what is a genuinely historic day here at the White House.  We’re starting a little late in order to give Mr. Gross an opportunity to make his appearance[Read More…]

Germany’s Chief Federal Prosecutor must investigate former CIA boss Tenet, former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and others – and should not wait until they are on German soil. BERLIN—(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2014. Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined a criminal complaint filed by the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and[Read More…]

Supreme Court Rules That DREAMers Can Apply for Licenses Pending Its Review of State’s Appeal Request Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–December 17, 2014.  Immigrant youth will be allowed to receive driver’s licenses in Arizona while the Supreme Court considers whether or not to hear an appeal of a Ninth Circuit ruling in[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 17, 2014. Also avaliable in Spanish. I was a seventeen year old kid watching on a black and white television set when I first heard an American President talk of Cuba as an “imprisoned island.” For five and a half decades since, our policy toward Cuba has remained[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 17, 2014. 12:01 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon.  Today, the United States of America is changing its relationship with the people of Cuba. In the most significant changes in our policy in more than fifty years, we will end an outdated approach that, for decades, has failed[Read More…]

Hearing Follows Historic Votes to Legalize Marijuana in Alaska, Oregon and D.C. New York —(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2014. Today, Senator Liz Krueger and Assemblyperson Crystal Peoples-Stokes sponsored a public forum about the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, a bill that would tax and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol.[Read More…]