Day: January 23, 2015

President Obama Says Treating Drug Use As A Criminal Problem Is ‘Counterproductive’

NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—January 22, 2015 By: Tony Newman President Barack Obama continues to speak out against mass incarceration, the devastating impact of our drug policies on communities of color and his expectation that marijuana legalization will continue to spread. Obama’s comments came today during his YouTube interviews with YouTube bloggers, Bethany[Read More…]

Getting To Know Rosetta’s Comet

Comet from 8 km European Space Agency-(ENEWSPF)- Rosetta is revealing its host comet as having a remarkable array of surface features and with many processes contributing to its activity, painting a complex picture of its evolution. In a special edition of the journal Science, initial results are presented from seven of Rosetta’s[Read More…]

Mars panorama

High Viewpoint for 11-Year-Old Rover Mission on Mars

California Institute of Technology-(ENEWSPF)- This panorama is the view NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity gained from the top of the "Cape Tribulation" segment of the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover reached this point three weeks before the 11th anniversary of its January 2004 landing on Mars. The component images were[Read More…]

HRC Highlights Illinois’s LGBT Protections, Laws and Legislative Proposals in Inaugural National Report

New Report Reveals that Equal Treatment Remains Out of Reach for LGBT Americans in Most States – Discrimination Continues Even With Marriage Equality WASHINGTON-(ENEWSPF)- The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, in partnership with the Equality Federation, today released its first[Read More…]

Sudan: Doctors Without Borders Hospital Bombed in South Kordofan, Jan. 22, 2015

NEW YORK/PARIS—(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015.  A hospital operated by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was directly targeted in an aerial bombing in Sudan on January 20, forcing the suspension of medical activities, MSF announced today. The hospital, located in the Nuba Mountains village of Frandala[Read More…]

Senator Elizabeth Warren Announces Legislation to Advance Medical Research in Remarks at Families USA Conference

WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015.   In remarks at the Families USA Health Action Conference in Washington, DC today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren announced plans to introduce new legislation to advance medical research. “Over the past fifty years, the American system of medical innovation has transformed the health of[Read More…]

Senator Bernie Sanders: Republicans Ignore Climate Science

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015.  Senate Republicans on Thursday refused to acknowledge the scientific consensus that global warming is a real, man-made threat to the planet and that time is running out to stop burning the fossil fuels scientists blame for worldwide climate change. “The American people need to know whether[Read More…]

Center for Reproductive Rights: U.S. House Passes Bill to Deny Millions of Women Reproductive Health Care Coverage

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015.  After canceling a vote originally planned for today on an unconstitutional federal abortion ban following loud opposition over the bill’s cruel, narrow exceptions, the U.S. House of Representatives instead voted on and passed a bill that would deny insurance coverage of abortion care for millions of[Read More…]

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