Boonsom ‘Lipstick Lady’ Hartman with her 2013 Boston Marathon finisher’s medal. (Photo: Scott Hartman) Boston, MA-(ENEWSPF)- Boonsom Hartman said she cried for hours after finishing the Boston Marathon today. Barely 3 minutes after she and husband Scott crossed the finish line, two bombs exploded, killing 3 and injuring more than[Read More…]

Silver Spring, MD-(ENEWSPF)- On April 15, 2013 Sister Florence Deacon, OSF, LCWR president; Sister Carol Zinn, SSJ, LCWR president-elect; and Sister Janet Mock, CSJ, LCWR executive director; met with Archbishop Gerhard LudwigMüller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF); Archbishop Luis Ladaria, secretary of CDF; and[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Statement of U.S. PIRG Tax and Budget Advocate Dan Smith on the introduction of the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act by Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and 45 original cosponsors, including Congressman Chris Van Hollen, the ranking member of the House Budget Committee. Among other provisions, this legislation would[Read More…]

Detroit, MI-(ENEWSPF)- Late last week, 53-year-old Michigan medical marijuana patient Jerry Duval received a Justice Department order to surrender to federal authorities on June 11th to begin serving a 10-year prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Elkton, Ohio. Although Duval is a kidney-pancreas transplant patient with coronary artery disease and[Read More…]

U.S. Should Recognize Results, as Rest of Hemisphere Will Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Obama administration should recognize the presidential election results in Venezuela, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Co-Director Mark Weisbrot said today. Venezuela’s electoral authority, the Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) reported early results showing that Nicolas Maduro had won by[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)-Leo W. Gerard,  International President for the United Steelworkers (USW), released this statement on last week’s announcement by the Obama Administration that consultations with Japan have been completed paving the way for Japan to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations. The Statement was released April 12: “President Obama’s[Read More…]

Francine Wheeler and her husband. (PHOTO FROM VIDEO) Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- An incredibly moving address from the mother of Ben Wheeler, murdered at Newtown, Connecticut. This week’s address is delivered by Francine Wheeler, whose six year old son, Ben, was murdered alongside nineteen other children and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut,[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Airlines reported 34 tarmac delays of more than three hours on domestic flights, but no tarmac delays of more than four hours on international flights in February, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report released today. All of the long tarmac delays took place[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 11, 2013.  Today at the G-8 Foreign Ministers meeting in London, the United States joined G-8 partners in support of the United Kingdom’s Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative, and reaffirmed its commitment to work with the international community to strengthen global coordination and individual countries’ capacity to prevent sexual[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 11, 2013 – 2:22 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon, everybody.  Please have a seat.  On behalf of Michelle and myself, welcome to the White House.  Thank you, Chaplain.  This year, we mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War — a time when thousands[Read More…]