Warsaw, Poland–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014. MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Thank you so very much, Minister, and thank you, Secretary of State, and now, if I could please ask you to deliver your statements. The first to speak is going to be Minister Radoslaw Sikorski. FOREIGN MINISTER SIKORSKI: (Via interpreter) Mr. Secretary of[Read More…]

Point to racial injustices, overcrowding of prisons due to nonviolent infractions, urge Congress to pass Smarter Sentencing Act WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. More than 1,100 faith leaders urged the U.S. Congress today to support a bipartisan sentencing reform bill to reduce mandatory-minimum sentences for federal drug offenses. The Smarter Sentencing[Read More…]

Warsaw, Poland–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014 – 3:24 P.M. CET PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Well, thank you very much.  Good afternoon. And along with President Komorowski, I’m very pleased to welcome our outstanding allies from across Central and Eastern Europe.  We have done this before in Prague and on my last visit to Warsaw. [Read More…]

Warsaw, Poland–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014 – 2:25 P.M. CET PRIME MINISTER TUSK:  (As interpreted.)  Mr. President, I’m very happy that again here in Warsaw we had the opportunity to talk about Polish-American relations.  And with great satisfaction, I observed that so much has changed around us, but our relations and the[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014 – 1:06 P.M. EDT MR. CARNEY:  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.  Thank you for being here.  I’m not gone yet, Wendell.  Before I take your questions, let me note that just two weeks ago, the President led a weeklong effort to highlight this administration’s focus on[Read More…]

Oakland—(ENEWSPF)—June 2, 2014. Today, a federal judge allowed hundreds of California prisoners to join a lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement in California prisons when she granted the case class action status. The case, Ashker v. Brown, was filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of 10 prisoners in[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014.  U.S. Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) issued the following statement today calling on the Obama administration to halt and review U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority following President Abbas’ announcement of a new Hamas-backed transitional government: “Israel has gone to great lengths in recent[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014. Index for Today’s Briefing DEPARTMENT Welcoming Visiting Students Upcoming Our Ocean Conference BERGDAHL Bowe Bergdahl Release Status of Other Detained American Citizens Determination that Transfer Should Move Forward / NDAA Qatari Assurances on Handling of Released Detainees Afghan -Taliban Reconciliation Outreach to Families of Other Detained[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 2, 2014. The Justice Department today announced a multi-national effort to disrupt the Gameover Zeus Botnet – a global network of infected victim computers used by cyber criminals to steal millions of dollars from businesses and consumers – and unsealed criminal charges in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Omaha, Nebraska,[Read More…]

BURLINGTON, Vt.–(ENEWSPF)–June 2 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was joined this morning by representatives of Vermont-based, worker-owned businesses and an employee-ownership expert at a news conference to announce legislation to help workers who want to form their own businesses or worker-owned cooperatives. Sanders said employee ownership increases employment, productivity,[Read More…]