WASHINGTON, March 15 -- LatinoJustice PRLDEF issued the following news release: A group of national Latino and civil rights organizations filed an amicus curiae brief (https://www.latinojustice.org/sites/default/files/2024-03/Doc%2012-1__Amici%20Brief%20of%20Afro%20Latino%20Forum-ASPIRA-HF.pdf) today in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia defending an internship program for undergraduate students offered by the Smithsonian Museum of the American Latino that aims to exp  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- President Biden and Ireland Taoiseach Leo Varadkar issued the following remarks at a St. Patrick's Day celebration: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Hello, hello, hello. AUDIENCE: Hello. THE PRESIDENT: We've got a great guest with us today. (Applause.) We -- we ought to change the rules in the United States: When St. Patrick's Day falls on a Sunday, the next day is a holiday. (Laughter.) On behalf of the Finnegans of County Louth and the Blewitts of County Mayo -- (applause) --   more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, First Lady Jill Biden and Maria Shriver, first lady of California, issued the following remarks by at a Women's History Month reception: * * * THE VICE PRESIDENT: Greetings, everyone. Greetings and Happy Women's History Month. (Applause.) To our incredible President, Joe Biden, who, of course, we all know as a tireless fighter for the safety and wellbeing of women. To our First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden, who is a longstanding,   more

WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following op-ed: A sad fact about the politics of Washington is that some of the most important issues facing the United States and the world are rarely debated in a serious manner. Nowhere is that more true than in the area of foreign policy. For many decades, there has been a "bipartisan consensus" on foreign affairs. Tragically, that consensus has almost always been wrong. Whether it has been the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan,  more

NEW YORK, March 19 -- The U.S. Mission to the United Nations issued the following remarks on March 18, 2024, by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a U.N. Security Council meeting on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation: * * * Thank you, Madam President. Let me start by welcoming you here to the Council today and thank Japan for convening this important meeting. Thank you, Secretary-General, for your statement. And I'd like to thank the two briefers for their briefings,  more

BRATTLEBORO, Vermont, March 22 -- World Learning issued the following news release on March 21, 2024: Celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2024, School for International Training (SIT) is kicking off a series of events spotlighting the institution's unique history and its dynamic future as a 21st-century global university. SIT was officially established in 1964, 32 years after the launch of World Learning's foundational youth exchange program, The Experiment in International Living. When Presid  more