CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—January 20, 2015. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon for the Northern District of Illinois, Special Agent-in-Charge Robert J. Holley of the FBI’s Chicago Office and Special Agent-in-Charge James C. Lee of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division in Chicago announced[Read More…]
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Brooklyn Man Sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court to 15 Years in Prison for Providing Material Support to Al Qaeda
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 20, 2015. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara for the Southern District of New York announced that Wesam El-Hanafi was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 15 years in prison for his extensive efforts to support al Qaeda –[Read More…]
U.S. Forest Service Withdraws Oil and Gas Drilling Approval in the Gunnison National Forest, Headwaters of the North Fork Valley
Conservationists settle lawsuit after the government agrees to conduct a comprehensive environmental analysis of the drilling project Gunnison County, CO—(ENEWSPF)—January 20, 2015. Conservationists have settled a lawsuit that challenged the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of a new natural gas drilling project in Colorado’s Gunnison National Forest without conducting the legally[Read More…]
Doctors Without Borders Calls on GSK and Pfizer to Slash Pneumo Vaccine Price to $5 Per Child for Poor Countries
In July 2014, MSF held the first of three rounds of a mass vaccination campaign in Adjumani district of northern Uganda to protect children from deadly respiratory infections. Photo By: Sydelle WIllow Smith NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2015. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today called on pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)[Read More…]
Senator Durbin Statement On Congressional Delegation To Cuba
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2015. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) released the following statement after returning from the first congressional delegation visit to Cuba since the United States announced its change of policy: “We had a very productive trip. The changes to America’s Cuba policy announced by President Obama last month marked[Read More…]
Brain Recalls Old Memories Via New Pathways
Shift in fear retrieval circuitry eyed in anxiety disorders – NIH-funded studies Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2015. People with anxiety disorders, such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), often experience prolonged and exaggerated fearfulness. Now, an animal study suggests that this might involve disruption of a gradual shifting of brain circuitry[Read More…]
NIH Study Reveals Many Americans at Risk for Alcohol-medication Interactions
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2015. Nearly 42 percent of U.S. adults who drink also report using medications known to interact with alcohol, based on a study from the National Institutes of Health released Friday. Among those over 65 years of age who drink alcohol, nearly 78 percent report using alcohol-interactive[Read More…]
Lawsuit Filed to Secure ‘Endangered’ Status for Gunnison Sage Grouse
Unique Bird Once in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona Now Reduced to 7 Percent of Historic Range WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2015. The Center for Biological Diversity and Western Watersheds Project filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to protect the Gunnison sage grouse as “threatened”[Read More…]
Guantánamo Prisoner’s Book Is Released
ACLU Launches “Free Slahi” Campaign, Actors Read Excerpts Online NEW YORK –-(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2015. In a first, a book written by a Guantánamo prisoner was published today in the United States and several other countries. Mauritanian citizen Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been at the detention camp since 2002, and the[Read More…]
Two Yemeni Nationals Charged with Conspiring to Murder United States Nationals Abroad and Providing Material Support to Al-Qaeda
Defendants Allegedly Conspired to Carry Out Armed Attacks Against United States Military Personnel and Facilitated the Entry of an American Citizen into Al-Qaeda Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 20, 2015. A complaint and arrest warrant were unsealed today in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging Saddiq Al-Abbadi, also known[Read More…]
