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ISIS suicide attackers kill 60 in southern Iraq restaurants, checkpoint
September 14th, 20170 BAGHDAD ― Three suicide attacks claimed by ISIS killed at least 60 people in southern Iraq on Thursday, a health official and police sources said, suggesting a shift in the ultra-hardline group’s tactics since it lost control of its stronghold in Mosul. Iraqi and Kurdish security officials say the militants are likely to wage a...
Smoking tied to frailty in older adults
September 14th, 20170 Older adults who smoke are more likely to become physically frail than their counterparts who are former smokers or never used tobacco products, a recent study suggests. Researchers studied people age 60 or older in the U.K. who had not yet developed so-called frailty, a term that describes a lack of robustness and physical reserves...
Kids who skip breakfast may miss key nutrients
September 14th, 20170 Children who skip breakfast on a regular basis are likely to fall short for the day in getting all their recommended essential nutrients, a U.K. study suggests. Kids who skipped breakfast every day were less likely to get enough iron, calcium, iodine and folate when compared to kids who ate breakfast every day, the research team...
Saudi Arabia’s calls for social media informants decried as ‘Orwellian’
September 14th, 20170 Saudi Arabia ― The Saudi Kingdom has urged its people to report subversive comments spotted on social media via a phone app, a move denounced by a human rights watchdog as “Orwellian”. The appeal, announced on a Twitter account run by the interior ministry late on Tuesday, coincides with an apparent crackdown on potential...
China backs U.N. call for justice in Yemen, while U.S. and Saudis don’t
September 14th, 20170 GENEVA ― China signaled on Wednesday it was willing to back an international inquiry into atrocities in Yemen, as demanded by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, but Saudi Arabia and the United States said they did not support the idea. For three years running U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra‘ad al-Hussein has asked the 47...
From refugee camp to runway, hijab-wearing model breaks barriers
September 14th, 20170 NEW YORK - Roughly one year ago, Denise Wallace, executive co-director of the Miss Minnesota USA pageant, received a phone call from 19-year-old Halima Aden asking if she could compete in the contest wearing her hijab. “Her photo popped up and I remember distinctly going, ‘Wow, she is beautiful,'” Wallace said. The...
State Reps. Introduce fireworks reform legislature
September 14th, 20170 LANSING — State Reps. Abdullah Hammoud (D-Dearborn) and Brian K. Elder (D-Bay City) have introduced legislation to improve Michigan’s fireworks laws. The bills, 4924 and 425, would make an amendment to the Michigan Fireworks Safety Act established in 2011. “Throughout the summer, we received numerous constituent complaints about...
House Democrats Jobs for America Task Force names Dingell co-chair
September 14th, 20170 WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) was selected to co-lead a new task force focused on crafting legislation to help middle-class citizens. Dingell’s political career has focused on the manufacturing-based economy in Michigan and will continue those efforts on the board. “Today, every industry — from autos and...
Task force from Michigan sent to help Floridians, sent home
September 14th, 20170 HOLLY – Michigan Task Force 1 (MI-TF1)—a regional task force designed to provide support, expertise and equipment in emergency situations, has been sent home from Florida because the damage from Hurricane Irma wasn’t as bad as expected. According to reports, MI-TF1 partnered with the Michigan State Police Emergency Management...
New Michigan Media appoints social media engagement manager
September 14th, 20170 DETROIT– New Michigan Media (NMM), the collaborative network of the five largest ethnic and minority media publications in Michigan: The Arab American News, The Detroit Jewish News, The Latino Press, The Michigan Chronicle and The Michigan Korean Weekly, has appointed Keyta Roberson as the organization’s social media and community...
U.S. judge presses Trump administration on Dreamer deadlines
September 14th, 20170 NEW YORK—A U.S. judge on Thursday repeatedly pressed the Trump administration to extend an October deadline for some immigrants to reapply for a program that shielded children brought to the United States illegally by their parents from deportation. President Donald Trump recently decided to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood...
U.S. will not issue some visas in four nations in deportation crackdown
September 14th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. State Department on Wednesday will stop issuing certain kinds of visas to some citizens of Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone because the nations are not taking back their citizens the United States wants to deport. The new policies, laid out in State Department cables reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday...
Justice Department warns of disaster fraud after Irma, Harvey
September 14th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Justice Department has received more than 400 fraud complaints involving relief aid after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and expects a spike in fraud complaints in the coming months, department officials said on Thursday. The majority of fraud efforts target the federal government itself as people try to...
U.S. extends some Iran sanctions relief under nuclear deal
September 14th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C.—The United States on Thursday extended some sanctions relief for Iran under the 2015 nuclear deal, the State Department said, but no decision has been made on whether to preserve the deal itself. At the same time, President Donald Trump said that Iran is violating “the spirit” of the Iran nuclear deal and the...
Obamacare enrollment to fall in 2018 and beyond after cuts: CBO
September 14th, 20170 NEW YORK—Enrollment on the Obamacare health insurance exchanges in 2018 and later years is expected to be less than previously forecast, dampened by the Trump administration’s decision to pull back enrollment efforts, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday. The administration has cut back on advertising spending,......
U.S. Appeals Court allows extra airport screening of two Arab American locals
September 14th, 20171 DETROIT — The U.S. government did not violate the Constitutional rights of two Dearborn businessmen, Nasser Beydoun and Maan Bazzi, by routinely subjecting them to extra security screening at airports, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. Beydoun and Bazzi, both U.S. citizens from Dearborn, accused the government of violating...
Trump administration sued over phone searches at U.S. borders
September 13th, 20170 WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has engaged in an unconstitutional practice of searching without a warrant the phones and laptops of Americans who are stopped at the border, a lawsuit filed on Wednesday alleged. Ten U.S. citizens and one lawful permanent resident sued the Department of Homeland Security in federal court, saying......
Hezbollah declares Syria victory, Russia says much of country won back
September 13th, 20170 BEIRUT/MOSCOW — The Lebanese group Hezbollah has declared victory in the Syrian war while Russia said government forces had driven militants from much of the country where President Bashar al-Assad’s rule seemed in danger two years ago. The comments from two Syrian government allies mark the most confident assessments yet of...
Dearborn-based Iraqi American family arrested while trying to deposit check
September 12th, 20172 WICHITA ― Sattar Ali, a Dearborn man who moved his family to Kansas says he regrets the decision, after he, his wife, and daughter were all in handcuffs while attempting to deposit a large check that was acquired through the sale of their home. According to the Kansas-based TV station, the Ali family recently sold their Dearborn...
U.S. Rep. Dave Trott of Birmingham is retiring from Congress
September 11th, 20170 Washington — Republican Rep. Dave Trott (R-Birmingham) said Monday he will retire from Congress at the end of his second term and return to the private sector. “Our country’s Founding Fathers envisioned a government where citizens leave private life, serve for a brief time, and then return home to their communities," Trott said...
Supreme Court justice temporarily preserves Trump refugee ban
September 11th, 20170 WASHINGTON ― Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday put a temporarily hold on limits imposed by a lower court on President Trump’s order barring most refugees from entering the United States. Kennedy acted in response to the Justice Department’s challenge to the part of a Thursday ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th......
Irma aims full fury at Florida’s Gulf Coast, floods central Miami
September 10th, 20170 FORT MYERS/MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Irma lashed the Gulf Coast of Florida with the brunt of its fury on Sunday afternoon, knocking out electricity to 2.5 million homes and businesses statewide while flooding streets and swaying skyscrapers in Miami. Hours after barreling across the resort archipelago of the Florida Keys, the storm...
Keeping DACA is the right thing to do
September 8th, 20170 The American Dream: Work hard, play by the rules, provide a better life for your family. The dream that has attracted immigrants to our shores for more than a century must be reformed and modernized to accommodate our modern-day realities. Republicans and Democrats both agree. However, the recent actions of our president to end the......
The genocide of Rohingya Muslims must mobilize and unite humanity
September 8th, 20170 The genocide of the Rohingya Muslims became a major global focus this week and yet no official outcry against their massacre or for immediate aid was made. Making headlines should raise awareness about the crisis— immediately outraging humanity as a call for action— not silencing and immobilizing it. According to an op-ed...
U.S. House unanimously approves sweeping self-driving car measure
September 8th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, the U.S. House unanimously approved a sweeping proposal to speed the deployment of self-driving cars without human controls by putting federal regulators in the driver's seat and barring states from blocking autonomous vehicles. The House measure, the first significant federal legislation aimed at......
