Washington, DC - In this week's address, the President spoke about the work the Administration is doing to enhance trust between communities and law enforcement in the year since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson.  In May, the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing released their final report setting out concrete proposals to build trust and enhance public safety.  And across America local leaders are working to put these ideas into action in their communities. 

Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Education awarded more than $16.2 million to eight grantees to develop and implement or enhance and implement a leadership pipeline that selects, prepares, places, supports and retains school leaders or leadership teams at low-performing schools that need the most help in meeting the academic needs of its students.

Washington, DC - Statement by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz on D.C. Circuit Court Ruling Dismissing Immigration Lawsuit:

Washington, DC - Long-range funding doubts notwithstanding, recent polling shows that more workers than ever before are counting on Social Security as a "major source" of their retirement income, reports Gallup.

Washington, DC - Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel will be honored as one of five 2015 Global Generation Award Winners at the Millennium Campus Network’s (MCN) seventh annual conference at the UN Headquarters in New York today. The award will come at the end of the 7th Annual Millennium Campus Conference, a gathering of some 500 university student leaders from over 50 countries, which is being held by Millennium Campus Network.

Bakersfield, California - U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers (District of North Dakota), North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, Special Agent in Charge Richard Thornton (Minneapolis FBI), Special Agent in Charge Monica M. Miller (Sacramento FBI) and Bakersfield Chief of Police Greg Williamson announced indictments of 22 individuals in western North Dakota and seven defendants in Bakersfield on drug trafficking charges.