NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–8 May 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his deep concern at the fate of the recently kidnapped schoolgirls in Nigeria during a phone call with the country’s President, Goodluck Jonathan, who has accepted the United Nations chief’s offer to send a high-level envoy to discuss how the[Read More…]
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Discount School Supply Recalls Sorting Boards Due to Magnet Ingestion Risk and Excessive Lead Levels
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014. Consumers should stop using this product unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Recall date: May 07, 2014 Recall number: 14-734 Recalled Excellerations™ magnetic color sorting boards with cupcake cut-outs Recall Summary Name of product: Magnetic Color[Read More…]
NASA’s Chandra Observatory Delivers New Insight into Formation of Star Clusters
Astronomers have studied two star clusters (NGC 2024 and Orion) to gain insight on how clusters of stars like our Sun form. They found the stars on the outskirts of these clusters are older than those in the center, which is different from what the simplest idea of star formation[Read More…]
Reducing Poverty Through Climate Action
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014. Today, the Center for American Progress and Climate Advisers released a new report that assesses the challenges of poverty and climate change and identifies opportunities to jointly tackle these challenges. Countries around the world have a tremendous opportunity to design a new global development agenda when[Read More…]
New Report Recommends Federal Action to Address Pervasive Profiling, Punishment, and Imprisonment of LGBT People and People Living with HIV
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, or LGBT, people and people living with HIV, or PLWH, face sweeping discrimination at all stages of the criminal legal system—including policing, adjudication, and incarceration—according to a new report published by the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia Law[Read More…]
Energy Department Announces Innovative Offshore Wind Energy Projects
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014. As a part of the Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Energy Department yesterday announced the selection of three pioneering offshore wind demonstrations to receive up to $47 million each over the next four years to deploy innovative, grid-connected systems in federal and state waters by 2017. These[Read More…]
South Sudan: Civilians Killed and Raped as Ethnically-motivated Violence Spirals and Famine Looms
LONDON–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014. A new investigation into the conflict in South Sudan has revealed horrific atrocities committed by both parties to the conflict, with ethnically motivated attacks on civilians constituting war crimes and crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said in a report released today. Nowhere Safe: Civilians Under Attack in[Read More…]
U.S. State Dept. Updates Ukraine Travel Warning, May 8, 2014
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014. The Department of State warns U.S. citizens to defer all non-essential travel to Ukraine. In addition, the Department of State warns U.S. citizens to defer all travel – both essential and non-essential – to several regions of Ukraine, including the Crimean Peninsula, the eastern regions of[Read More…]
Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending May 3, 2014
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—May 8, 2014. SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA There were no special factors impacting this week’s initial claims. The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.0 percent for the week ending April 26, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the previous week’s unrevised rate of 2.1 percent. The advance[Read More…]
Elevated Levels of Glyphosate in U.S. Mothers’ Breast Milk
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014 – Two citizen groups have taken the initial step toward debunking chemical-industry claims that glyphosate, the world’s most widely-used herbicide, does not bioaccumulate or metabolize in humans. The pilot study, conducted by Moms Across America and Sustainable Pulse, looked at ten breast-milk samples and 35 urine[Read More…]
