GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–16 October 2014 – Combating the “twin plagues” of Ebola and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while addressing the largest number of forcibly displaced people since World War II amid budget cuts is like “being asked to use a boat and bucket to cope with a[Read More…]
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Don’t Let Billionaires Buy the Senate, Bernie Sanders Tells Labor Convention
LAS VEGAS—(ENEWSPF0)–October 16, 2014 – Speaking at a labor union convention here yesterday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the future of American democracy is at stake. “We are not living in a democracy when 60 percent of Americans are not voting, while billionaires like the Koch Brothers are spending hundreds[Read More…]
Sanders, Cummings to HHS: Act Now on ‘Staggering’ Generic Drug Price Increases
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2014 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) today called on the Obama administration to address “staggering increases” in generic drug prices. “The federal government must act immediately and aggressively to address the increasing costs of these drugs,” Sanders and Cummings wrote in a[Read More…]
With Service Workers and Healthcare Workers on Front Lines of U.S. Ebola Response, SEIU President Henry Calls On Employers To Support, Prepare Workers to Beat Virus
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2014. From airport workers welcoming international passengers to nurses, hospital cleaners, and medical technicians caring for patients, workers are on the front lines of protecting American communities from the spread of the Ebola virus. Last week, dozens of New York-area airport workers took part in awareness[Read More…]
ESA Confirms the Primary Landing Site for Rosetta
Philae’s primary landing site – mosaic EU–(ENEWSPF)–16 October 2014. ESA has given the green light for its Rosetta mission to deliver its lander, Philae, to the primary site on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November, in the first-ever attempt at a soft touchdown on a comet. Philae’s landing site, currently known as Site[Read More…]
NASA’s Hubble Telescope Finds Potential Kuiper Belt Targets for New Horizons Pluto Mission
This is an artist’s impression of a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), located on the outer rim of our solar system at a staggering distance of 4 billion miles from the Sun. A HST survey uncovered three KBOs that are potentially reachable by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft after it passes by[Read More…]
NOAA: Another Warm Winter Likely for Western U.S., South May See Colder Weather
Repeat of last year’s extremely cold, snowy winter east of Rockies unlikely (Credit: NOAA) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2014. Below average temperatures are favored in parts of the south-central and southeastern United States, while above-average temperatures are most likely in the western U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and New England, according to the[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel, Senator Durbin and CTA Welcome Customers To Newly Revitalized California Station
Station Project Is Part Of Mayor’s Four-Year, Comprehensive $492 Million Your New Blue Program CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 16, 2014. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Senator Dick Durbin and CTA President Forrest Claypool welcomed CTA Blue Line customers this morning to the newly renovated, modernized California station as part of the Mayor Emanuel’s $492 million[Read More…]
Chrysler Recalls 184,215 SUVs
Auburn Hills, Mich. –(ENEWSPF)—October 16, 2014. Chrysler Group is voluntarily recalling an estimated 184,215 SUVs globally to replace a component that manages restraint-system deployment. Occupant restraint control (ORC) modules in certain model-year 2014 Dodge Durango and Jeep Grand Cherokee SUVs may exhibit internal electrical short-circuits. This condition may cause air-bag[Read More…]
National Institutes of Health to Admit Texas Nurse Diagnosed with Ebola Virus
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2014. Later today, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center expects to admit the first nurse who contracted the Ebola virus at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital while providing patient care to the index patient who died of Ebola. The nurse is being admitted to the Special[Read More…]
