Chicago –(ENEWSPF)—October 17, 2017 By: Office of Attorney General Lisa Madigan Attorney General Lisa Madigan, along with 14 other attorneys general, filed an amicus brief opposing the federal administration’s plans to ban military service by transgender individuals. The amicus brief, filed today with the U.S. District Court for the District[Read More…]
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Justice Department Announces First Ever Indictments Against Manufacturers of Fentanyl and Other Opiate Substances
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 17, 2017 By: Department of Justice The Justice Department announced today that federal grand juries in the Southern District of Mississippi and the District of North Dakota returned indictments, unsealed yesterday, against two Chinese nationals and their North American based traffickers and distributors for separate conspiracies to distribute[Read More…]
City of Chicago OIG Releases Third Quarter 2017 Report
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 17, 2017 By: City of Chicago Office of Inspector General The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) has transmitted its third quarter report for 2017 to the City Council and City officials. The report summarizes the Office’s activity from July 1 through September 30, 2017. Also in[Read More…]
Chicago Community Trust Renews Grant for Chicago-based Artist Series at Governors State University Center for Performing Arts
University Park, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 16, 2017 By: Governors State University (GSU) Communications For the seventh consecutive year, The Chicago Community Trust is supporting Governors State University’s Center for Performing Arts (CPA) Made in Chicago series. The grant, awarded in the amount of $20,000, will help present and introduce some of the[Read More…]
VoteVets Responds to Trump Admission That He Hasn’t Bothered To Contact Families of the Fallen
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)—October 16, 2017 By: VoteVets In a stunning admission, Donald Trump today admitted he hadn’t yet contacted the families of American troops who were killed in Niger, nearly two weeks ago. After falsely claiming that President Obama never called family members, Trump struggled to explain why he hadn’t[Read More…]
LIGO Announces Detection of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Neutron Stars
UChicago physicists calculate expansion rate of universe using breakthrough research CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 16, 2017 By: Louise Lerner About 130 million years ago, two incredibly heavy, dense neutron stars spiraled around each other. Their dance brought them closer to one another and made them spin faster, until they were circling more than[Read More…]
Izembek Land Transfer Would Jeopardize Globally Important Bird Habitat
Backroom deal to carve road through wildlife refuge would set dangerous precedent. ANCHORAGE, Alaska —(ENEWSPF)—October 16, 2017 By: Audubon Society The Washington Post reported yesterday that the Department of the Interior is planning to implement a land transfer with King Cove Corporation in order to facilitate the building of a[Read More…]
Harvard Study: More Than Half of Police Killings Not Officially Documented on U.S. Death Certificates
Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)—October 16, 2017 By: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Official death certificates in the U.S. failed to count more than half of the people killed by police in 2015—and the problem of undercounting is especially pronounced in lower-income counties and for deaths that are due to[Read More…]
Spicely Organics Recalls Organic Tarragon Because Of Possible Health Risk
Silver Spring, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—October 16, 2017 By: U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Organic Spices, Inc. dba Spicely Organics of Fremont, CA is recalling 0.4 oz. Organic Tarragon Lot No. OTW100134 because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections[Read More…]
At UN Event in Rome, Pope Francis Urges Action on Climate Change, Conflicts to End Global Hunger
ROME—(ENEWSPF)–16 October 2017 By: United Nations Press Centre Food security for all requires tackling climate change and ending conflicts, His Holiness, Pope Francis, stressed Monday at an official ceremony for World Food Day held at the Rome headquarters of the United Nations agriculture agency. “It is clear that wars and[Read More…]
