Victoria Police Department Ordered to Pay Highest-Ever Award for Injury to Dignity in a Political Belief Case in Canada Victoria, B.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) speaker and board member Constable David Bratzer won a free speech case against his employer, the Victoria Police Department (VicPD), for discrimination against his political beliefs.[Read More…]
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HRC Alabama Calls for Full Repeal of Oxford, Alabama’s Horrific, Anti-Transgender Ordinance
City Council to discuss recalling the measure at special meeting tomorrow MONTGOMERY, ALA.-(ENEWSPF)- Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Alabama responded to the Oxford, Ala., City Council’s decision to hold a special meeting tomorrow to consider the fate of a horrific, anti-transgender ordinance by calling for repeal of the measure,[Read More…]
IKEA, AIG Join Growing List of Nearly 200 Major Business Leaders Against HB 2
Momentum in North Carolina: IKEA, AIG Join Growing List of Nearly 200 Major Business Leaders Against HB 2 as McCrory & Berger Double Down on Discrimination Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality NC announced that executives from 23andMe, Instacart, The Honest Company, United Guaranty Corporation, Cabot Creamery,[Read More…]
Ketamine Lifts Depression Via A Byproduct Of Its Metabolism (Video and Text)
Bethesda, MD-(ENEWSPF)- A chemical byproduct, or metabolite, created as the body breaks downketamine likely holds the secret to its rapid antidepressant action, National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and grantees have discovered. This metabolite singularly reversed depression-like behaviors in mice without triggering any of the anesthetic, dissociative, or addictive side[Read More…]
Federal Court Orders Rice Noodle Company To Stop Selling Products Until It Complies With Food Safety Regulations
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- On April 27, 2016, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against Kun Wo Food Products Inc., located in San Francisco, and its co-owners, Zi Xing Liu and Zi Chen Liu (“Kun Wo”), after the U.S. Food and[Read More…]
EPA Finds Atrazine Likely Harming Most Species of Plants, Animals in U.S.
PORTLAND, Ore.—(ENEWSPF)–May 3, 2016. The amount of the herbicide atrazine that’s released into the environment in the United States is likely harming most species of plants and animals, including mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, according to a preliminary risk assessment by the Environmental Protection Agency. Atrazine is well known as[Read More…]
Senators Urge Dept. of Education to Clarify Legal Protections for LGBT Students
Senators Call for Education Department to Release Comprehensive Non-Discrimination Guidelines to Better Protect Transgender Students in Middle School, High School, and in College Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–May 3, 2016. Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley joined 38 other Democratic senators in urging the Department of Education to release[Read More…]
Senators Urge Education Department to Fully Enforce Key Funding Accountability Provision in ‘Every Student Succeeds Act’
“Supplement, Not Supplant” Provision Ensures Federal Education Funding Provides Additional Programs, Supports, and Services to Help Schools and Students Most in Need” Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–May 3, 2016. United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), along with seven other senators, urged the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to[Read More…]
Congressman Luis V. Gutiérrez: Proposed Rule on Fee Waivers Could Open the Door to Citizenship For Eligible Hard-Working Immigrants
“The new calculation is going to mean more of those who are already eligible can finally take the step and apply for citizenship” Chicago –(ENEWSPF)–May 3, 2016. Today, Congressman Luis V. Gutiérrez praised a new proposed rule to be published tomorrow in the Federal Register that announces new guidelines for fee[Read More…]
Interior Secretary Jewell, Senator Tester Join Blackfeet Tribal Chairman Barnes to Commemorate Implementation of Land Buy-Back Program
Land program strengthens tribal sovereignty and reduces land fractionation BROWNING, MONT. –(ENEWSPF)–May 3, 2016. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today traveled to the Blackfeet Nation in Browning, Montana with U.S. Senator Jon Tester for a signing ceremony commemorating a new agreement with the Blackfeet Nation to implement the Land Buy-Back[Read More…]
