City Brief Makes Same Arguments as Bloomberg Administration Despite Claims of New Vision for New York New York–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014.  Despite Mayor de Blasio’s claims that he had a new vision for the City of New York and his dismantling of the New York Police Department (NYPD) Muslim spying unit,[Read More…]

San Francisco, Calif.–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014.  As part of our latest transparency report released in July, we described how we were being prohibited from reporting on the actual scope of surveillance of Twitter users by the U.S. government. Our ability to speak has been restricted by laws that prohibit and even[Read More…]

ACLU class action lawsuit argued federal government wrongly incarcerated more than 100 people a year in Massachusetts jails under “mandatory detention” provision. BOSTON –(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014.  In a ruling that could enable more than 100 Massachusetts detainees per year to argue for their freedom, the U.S. Court of Appeals for[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014 – 1:05 p.m. EDT MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. QUESTION: Hi. QUESTION: Hello. QUESTION: Good Tuesday. MS. PSAKI: Happy Tuesday. Hi, Samir. Okay. I have two items for all of you at the top. General Allen and Ambassador McGurk are in Amman today, where they met with[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 7, 2014. There were 4.8 million job openings on the last business day of August, up from 4.6 million in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The hires rate (3.3 percent) was down and the separations rate (3.2 percent) was essentially unchanged in August. Within[Read More…]

$7M in funding for global project to combat child labor also announced WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014.  U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez today announced the 13th edition of the “Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor” report, prepared annually by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs.[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2014 – 12:55 P.M. EDT MR. EARNEST:  Good afternoon, everybody.  Hope you all enjoyed your weekend as much as I did.  (Laughter.)  There certainly was a lot of exciting playoff baseball to watch on television. Q    Yes, the Orioles won — MR. EARNEST:  I noticed.  I noticed. [Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2014 -1:14 p.m. EDT MS. PSAKI: Okay. I have a couple of items at the top. Secretary Kerry will travel to his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts with the British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on October 9th – so this Thursday – for a joint public event on[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 6, 2014. On the heels of the Supreme Court’s decision late last month to allow Ohio’s new voting law to go into effect, Attorney General Eric Holder criticized the law’s restrictions on early voting, which he said were “heavily used” by African-American voters. “It is a major step[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 6, 2014. President Obama hosted a discussion today in the Roosevelt Room with lead financial regulators and senior advisors on the economy and the ongoing implementation of Wall Street Reform. Six years after the depths of the financial crisis, the President commended regulators for their efforts to further[Read More…]