Day: October 16, 2017

GSU Center for Performing Arts

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…]

Army casualties

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

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…]

Police Lights

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…]

Pope Francis

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…]

Officer Time Jones

‘Hoopin’ For a Hero’ to Benefit Park Forest Police Officer Tim Jones

CHICAGO HEIGHTS—(ENEWSPF)—October 16, 2017 By: Prairie State College Communications The Prairie State College Athletic Department will host, “Hoopin’ For A Hero”, a charity basketball game to benefit injured police officer Tim Jones of the Park Forest Police Department, at 4 p.m., Saturday, October 28, in the PSC Fieldhouse (at 100[Read More…]

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