WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2014. Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is suing a Texas-based company, Union Workers Credit Services, for deceiving consumers into paying fees to sign up for a sham credit card. The Bureau alleges that the company falsely advertises a general-use credit card that, in actuality,[Read More…]

Sprint Ignored Complaints from Consumers and Cost Them Tens of Millions of Dollars WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2014. Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a lawsuit against Sprint Corporation for illegally billing wireless consumers tens of millions of dollars in unauthorized third-party charges. The Bureau’s complaint alleges that Sprint[Read More…]

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, co-lead counsel in nationwide litigation against General Motors Co. related to the deadly ignition switch defect that has caused 42 confirmed deaths, triggering an ongoing series of recalls and diminished value of all GM-branded vehicles, announces the filing of a pleading in the Bankruptcy[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 16, 2014. Index for Today’s Briefing SECRETARY KERRY’S TRAVEL AUSTRALIA EGYPT UKRAINE/RUSSIA RUSSIA MIDDLE EAST PEACE PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN ISRAEL/PALESTINIANS RUSSIA/SYRIA SYRIA TURKEY ROK/DPRK PAKISTAN TRANSCRIPT: 1:28 p.m. EST MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. QUESTION: Hi. QUESTION: Hello. MS. PSAKI: Thanks for everybody bearing with us yesterday during our technical difficulties.[Read More…]

Pupil of a primary school class in Pakistan. Photo: UNESCO/Akhtar Soomro NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–16 December 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly condemned the “blood-curdling attack” on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, which has cost the lives of at least 130 people, the vast majority of whom were children.[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 16, 2014.  Last night, the United States Senate passed Congressman Earl Blumenauer’s bill, the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act. The bill will now head to President Obama’s desk for his signature. Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) released the following statement: As we come to the very[Read More…]

WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–December 16, 2014.  The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a nationwide class-action lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s policy of locking up asylum-seeking mothers and children to intimidate others from coming to the United States. The case was brought on behalf of mothers and children who have fled extreme[Read More…]

LONDON–(ENEWSPF)–December 16, 2014. SECRETARY KERRY: Afternoon, everybody. Thanks for being here. Obviously, the last few days have been fairly intensive set of discussions, and we’ve covered a lot of ground, so I thought it was important to try to bring everybody up to speed on the road journeyed and the[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 16, 2014. The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today’s horrific attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan.  Our hearts and prayers go out to the victims, their families, and loved ones.  By targeting students and teachers in this heinous attack, terrorists have once[Read More…]

An Israeli Security Forces vehicle lights a gate in the security fence that separates farmers in the Biddu enclave from their land in the Seam Zone, which is the land between the 1949 Armistices Line and the West Bank Barrier. Photo: Alaa Ghosheh/UNRWA Archives NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–15 December 2014 – The[Read More…]