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Three car bombs hit Syria, at least seven people killed
July 2nd, 20170 SYRIA- Three car bombs exploded in Damascus on Sunday, state media said, killing at least seven people in the first suicide bombings in the Syrian capital since March. A police officer at the scene of one of the blasts put the death toll there at seven with 13 more people wounded. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based...
Republican healthcare bill imperiled, with 22 million seen losing insurance
July 1st, 20170 WASHINGTON— Twenty-two million Americans would lose insurance over the next decade under the Republican-controlled Senate’s healthcare bill, a nonpartisan congressional office said on Monday, complicating the path forward for the already-fraught legislation. After the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score, Senator Susan Collins,...
Hussein Berry is to blame for the tension on the school board and in the community
July 1st, 20172 These past few weeks have been filled with political rants, social media gossips and legal threats. It has become hard to find the truth amid the sea of accusations. This is the new age of politics, it is the Trump era. Truth has no place in his White House and it seems that it has no place in Dearborn, either. At the Dearborn Board...
Gunman kills doctor, wounds six in a New York City hospital rampage
July 1st, 20170 NEW YORK- A doctor who had lost his job at a New York City hospital opened fire with an assault rifle inside the building on Friday, killing another physician and wounding six other people before taking his own life in a burst of apparent workplace-related violence, officials said. The gunman, wearing a white medical lab coat, stalked...
Acid attack on Muslim cousins in London investigated as hate crime
July 1st, 20170 LONDON- On June 21, a White man in London threw acid on Muslim cousins Resham Khan, a 21-year-old aspiring model, and Jameel Muhktar, 37 through their car window. According to police, the "horrendous act of violence" is now being investigated as a hate crime as they had found new information that led them to that conclusion. Police...
International students: A $32.8 billion industry
June 30th, 20170 By Stephen Martin DEARBORN — The ever-changing global perception of the United States is having an impact on the education industry. CNN, The Hechinger Report and Inside Higher Ed have respectively reported in recent years on a decline in H1B work visas, a decline in international student applications and increased competition...
Travel ban bars grandparents, fiancés from six Muslim countries
June 29th, 20170 WASHINGTON- Grandparents, grandchildren and fiancés of people in the United States will be barred from getting U.S. visas under President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban against citizens of six Muslim-majority countries taking effect on Thursday, U.S. officials said. The administration also narrowly interpreted which refugees...
Bald man steals several boxes of Rogaine from Dearborn pharmacy
June 29th, 20170 DEARBORN ― A bald man stole seven boxes of Rogaine from a pharmacy on Warren Avenue near Wyoming Avenue in Dearborn on June 22, according to a Dearborn Police press release. Employees told officers that the suspect, a 30-40-year-old Black man, entered the store, placed seven boxes of the items in a shopping bag, and left in...
Dearborn Fire Department awarded $773K grant
June 28th, 20170 DEARBORN – On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D- Dearborn) announced that the Dearborn Fire Department will be awarded a $773,637 vehicle acquisition grant through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program. “It is critical that local firefighters and first responders have the...
Michigan Supreme Court examining hookah tobacco mixing case
June 28th, 20170 DETROIT— Michigan’s Supreme Court is examining the case of Samer Shami, a Detroit area man who blends his own tobacco for hookahs. Investigators accused Shami of producing his own tobacco without a license. A Wayne County judge expelled the charge, claiming that mixing tobacco does not equate with manufacturing it. However,...
State sues Flint over failing to approve long-term water deal
June 28th, 20170 FLINT- Michigan sued the city of Flint on Wednesday in federal court over its failure to approve a long-term drinking water source for residents. Flint switched its water supply in 2014, sparking a crisis that was linked to an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease and at least 12 deaths, as well as exposure of residents to dangerously...
Israel vs. the United Nations: The Nikki Haley doctrine
June 28th, 20170 The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, seems to be championing a single cause: Israel. When Haley speaks about Israel, her language is not merely emotive nor tailored to fit the need of a specific occasion. Rather, her words are resolute, consistent and are matched by a clear plan of action. Along with...
Suspect in Michigan airport stabbing to make court appearance
June 28th, 20170 FLINT- A man charged with stabbing an airport police officer in an attack federal investigators are probing as an act of terrorism is expected to appear in a Michigan federal court on Wednesday. Amor Ftouhi, 49, of Quebec, Canada, was charged in federal court with violence at an international airport for stabbing officer Jeff Neville...
Dearborn police looking for truck thief
June 27th, 20170 DEARBORN— According to police, a suspect exited a maroon colored mini-van in the contractor parking lot located at 4001 Miller at Gate 2 and stole a Ford F-250 truck at approximately 1:55 p.m. The suspect was able to enter the victim’s vehicle and steal the F-250. The mini-van and the stolen vehicle were seen leaving the parking lot...
Customer helps Dearborn police catch bank robbery suspect
June 27th, 20170 DEARBORN- Police in Dearborn said they are grateful that a bank customer followed a bank robbery suspect and helped them make an arrest. According to a press release, China Wells, 24, of Southfield entered a bank near Schaefer and Warren Avenue in Dearborn at noon on Friday. She "implied she had a weapon” and gave the teller a note......
U.S. judge halts deportation of Iraqis nationwide
June 27th, 20170 DETROIT- A federal judge halted late on Monday the deportation of all Iraqi nationals detained during immigration sweeps across the United States this month until at least July 10, expanding a stay he imposed last week. The stay had initially only protected 114 detainees from the Detroit area. U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith...
Supreme Court revives travel ban
June 26th, 20170 WASHINGTON ― The Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Trump by reviving parts of his travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries and refugees and agreeing to decide its legality later this year in a major test of presidential powers. The justices narrowed the scope of lower court rulings that had......
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman elevates son to crown prince
June 25th, 20170 RIYADH — Saudi Arabia's King Salman made his son next in line to the throne on Wednesday, handing the 31-year-old sweeping powers as the kingdom seeks a radical overhaul of its oil-dependent economy and faces mounting tensions with regional rival Iran. Although Mohammed bin Salman's promotion to crown prince had long been expected...Flint stabber is Tunisian from Canada
June 25th, 20170 FLINT — Bishop International Airport was evacuated on Wednesday after Lieutenant Jeff Neville of the airport Department of Public Safety was stabbed in the neck in what a government official familiar with the situation said was being investigated as a possible act of terrorism. According to David Gelios, special agent in charge of...
Texas man charged with hate crime for January mosque fire
June 25th, 20170 VICTORIA, TX —A federal grand jury in Victoria, Texas, has charged Marq Perez, 25, with a hate crime on suspicion of setting fire to a mosque there on Jan. 28, the Justice Department said on Thursday. If convicted, Perez faces up to 20 years in federal prison, 10 years for possessing an unregistered destructive device and another 10...
The conspiracy theory and the Dearborn Board of Education appointment process
June 23rd, 20171 Much has been said and written about the Dearborn Board of Education candidates and the process to appoint a successor to now Judge Mariam Bazzi. Most of the rants on social media centered around a couple of themes: Adel Mozip should get Bazzi's former seat because he received 11,000 votes during the last election, which he lost anyway;......
Detroit City Council approves $34.5 million for Pistons move
June 23rd, 20170 DETROIT— The Detroit City Council has approved $34.5 million in public funding bonds toward modification of the Little Caesars Arena that would permit the Detroit Pistons to play there in the fall, despite pleas from residents to abandon the deal or reconsider. The 7-2 measure passed after six months of negotiations between the city...
Six people now charged in female genital mutilation case
June 22nd, 20170 METRO DETROIT— Two Oakland county mothers have been charged in the federal government’s prosecution of female genital mutilation. The mothers have been charged with subjecting their daughters to the banned ritual, which brings the number of identified victims total to six girls. The identified victims include two from Minnesota......
Trump: No tape conversations with former FBI head Comey
June 22nd, 20170 WASHINGTON ― President Trump said on Thursday he did not make and does not possess any tapes of his conversations with James Comey, after suggesting last month that he might have recordings that could damage the former FBI director. "With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking...
Video of killing released after Minnesota officer acquitted of manslaughter
June 22nd, 20170 Video footage of the fatal shooting of a black motorist by a Minnesota police officer released on Tuesday showed how quickly the incident unfolded but shed no light on whether the victim had reached for the gun he told the officer he was carrying. The video footage is from the dashboard camera of the police cruiser of St. Anthony......
