LONDON–(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2014.  SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. First of all, let me just thank Foreign Secretary William Hague for his terrific hosting today, convening all of us together to be able to talk about a number of challenging issues that we’re facing together, and I think after today, with[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2014.  The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Kenya.  U.S. citizens in Kenya, and those considering travel to Kenya, should evaluate their personal security situation in light of continuing and recently heightened threats from terrorism and the high rate of[Read More…]

En Route Andrews Air Force Base–(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2014 – 11:33 A.M. EDT MR. CARNEY:  Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.  Thanks for joining us aboard Air Force One as we make our way from New York City to Washington, D.C. to Joint Base Andrews.  I don’t have any announcements, so why[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—May 15, 2014. The President has made clear since he was a candidate that he strongly supports net neutrality and an open Internet.  As he has said, the Internet’s incredible equality – of data, content, and access to the consumer – is what has powered extraordinary economic growth and[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2014.  In a letter sent to the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) yestrday, six Senators – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley, along with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) – pushed[Read More…]

LONDON–(ENEWSPF)–15 May 2014.  The US has released Yunus Rahmatullah, a Pakistani citizen held at Bagram Airbase for ten years without charge, trial, or access to a lawyer after his capture by British forces in Iraq and subsequent rendition to Afghanistan in 2004. After years of government denials that the UK[Read More…]

  LONDON–(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2014.  Following is the text of the communique agreed upon by the Ministers of the London 11 countries at a meeting held in London on May 15, 2014. We the countries of the ‘London 11’ Core Group of the Friends of Syria denounce the Assad regime’s unilateral[Read More…]

Political Battle Builds as DEA Faces Growing Scrutiny for Slew of Scandals: Use of NSA Data to Spy on Virtually All Americans, Massacre of Civilians in Honduras, and Systematic Pattern of Fabricating Evidence; DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart Increasingly At Odds With President Obama, Justice Dept., and Congress Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—May 15,[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—May 15, 2014. SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending May 10, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 297,000, a decrease of 24,000 from the previous week’s revised level. This is the lowest level for initial claims since May 12, 2007 when they were 297,000. The[Read More…]

President Barack Obama delivers remarks during the National September 11 Memorial & Museum dedication ceremony in New York, N.Y., May 15, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) New York, New York–(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2014 – 10:12 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Cuomo, honored guests, families of the[Read More…]