Collaboration between NIH and Tetra Discovery Partners leads to development of treatment that may affect cognition Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–December 31, 2015. An experimental drug that may improve memory is now being tested in a Phase 1 safety trial. The compound, BPN14770, was developed by Tetra Discovery Partners, with support from the[Read More…]
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Wildlife Feel Squeeze as 322 Million Americans Ring in New Year
North Carolina, Florida Endangered Species Threatened by Population Milestones TUCSON, Ariz.—(ENEWSPF)–December 31, 2015. This New Year’s Eve there are more than 322 million people in the United States — 2.5 million more than the number that rang in the New Year in 2015, according the U.S. Census Bureau. Among the[Read More…]
Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending Dec. 26, 2015
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 31, 2015 SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending December 26, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 287,000, an increase of 20,000 from the previous week’s unrevised level of 267,000. The 4-week moving average was 277,000, an increase of 4,500 from the previous week’s unrevised[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan: New Year Brings New Laws
Nursing home cameras; protections for sexual assault survivors, crime victims and workers effective Jan. 1 Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—December 31, 2015. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today highlighted new laws initiated by her office that will go into effect Jan. 1. In 2016 Illinois will become the fourth state to explicitly allow electronic[Read More…]
Rochester Man Charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 31, 2015. Emanuel L. Lutchman, 25, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000[Read More…]
Federal Grand Jury Indicts Riverside Man on Charges of Conspiring with Shooter in San Bernardino Terrorist Attack to Provide Material Support to Terrorists
Defendant also Charged with Being ‘Straw Purchaser’ of Two Assault Rifles Later Used in San Bernardino Attack that Killed 14 People Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 30, 2015. Enrique Marquez Jr., 24, of Riverside, California, a longtime friend of Sayed Rizwan Farook, the male shooter in the San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack, was[Read More…]
Justice Department Reaches Landmark Settlement Agreement with State of Oregon Regarding Americans with Disabilities Act
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 30, 2015. In a Dec. 29, 2015, order, the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon approved a settlement agreement between the Justice Department, a class of private plaintiffs and the state of Oregon, which resolved the department’s and the class plaintiffs’ claims against the state under[Read More…]
ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Hospital for Denying Reproductive Health Care
Dignity Health Hospital Network Continues to Refuse Pregnancy-Related Care Because of Religious Directives WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–December 29, 2015. The ACLU and the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP have filed a lawsuit challenging Dignity Health’s use of religious directives to deny basic reproductive health care to its patients. Filed on[Read More…]
CAIR Seeks Hate Crime Probe of Nevada Mosque Desecration
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 29, 2015. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) , the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called for a state and federal hate crime investigation of the desecration of a Nevada mosque, the latest such incident in a recent spike in attacks on Muslim houses[Read More…]
At New Hampshire Town Hall, Hillary Clinton Highlights Plan to Make Alzheimer’s Cure Possible by 2025
NEW HAMPSHIRE—(ENEWSPF)—December 29, 2015. At a midday town hall meeting in Portsmouth, NH, Clinton continued to talk about her newly released, $2 billion-per-year plan to prevent, effectively treat and make a cure possible for Alzheimer’s by 2025. Clinton noted that Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the[Read More…]
