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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...
FBI investigating Flint airport stabbing as terror attack, suspect shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’
June 21st, 20170 FLINT ― The FBI is investigating an attack at a Flint airport Wednesday as an "act of terror," after a man stabbed a police officer in the neck while he shouted "Allahu Akbar." The suspect, identified as Canadian resident Amor Ftouhi, is charged by the U.S. District Court with committing a violent act in an airport after allegedly...
Officer stabbed at Flint airport
June 21st, 20170 FLINT ― Bishop International Airport in Flint, Michigan, was evacuated on Wednesday after a police officer was stabbed in the neck in what a government official familiar with the situation said was being investigated as a possible act of terrorism. All passengers were safe, the airport said in a brief statement on its Facebook page....
Memorial for Nabra Hassanen burned in Virginia
June 21st, 20170 WASHINGTON-A memorial for slain teen Nabra Hassanen has been burned down where it had been erected in the DuPont Circle on Connecticut Ave NW in Washington, D.C. The DC Fire department responded to the scene at about 8:30 AM on Wednesday. Additionally, the remains from the memorial of 17-year-old Hassanen were found on fire at the...
Van rams Muslim worshipers in London
June 19th, 20170 LONDON ― A van plowed into worshipers near a London mosque in the early hours of Monday, injuring 10 people, two of them seriously, in what Prime Minister Theresa May said was a sickening, terrorist attack on Muslims. The vehicle swerved into a group of mainly North and West African people shortly after midnight as they left...
Journalism, history and war: Sit, type and bleed
June 19th, 20170 The typical newsroom set-up, where journalists chase after news headlines dictated by some centralized news gathering agency — often based in some Western capital — does not suffice any more. In the case of the Middle East, the news narrative has been defined by others and dictated to Arab journalists and audiences for far too...
Kids born through fertility treatment show normal mental development
June 19th, 20170 Despite concerns that children born through Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) may develop differently from other kids, a U.K. study finds they have normal mental skills until at least age 11. In fact, at ages 3 and 5 years, kids born as a result of these techniques had greater verbal cognitive ability than those born through...
Premature babies often catch up to peers in school
June 19th, 20170 A study following more than 1.3 million premature babies born in Florida found that two-thirds of those born at only 23 or 24 weeks were ready for kindergarten on time, and almost 2 percent of those infants later achieved gifted status in school. Such very prematurely born babies did score lower on standardized tests than full-term...
Iraqi forces to enclose on ISIS in Mosul’s Old City
June 19th, 20170 ERBIL, IRAQ — Iraqi forces said they were about to complete the encirclement of ISIS's stronghold in the Old City of Mosul, after taking control of a neighboring district on Thursday. Iraq's military said it had captured Bab Sinjar, north of the historic, densely-populated district where the militants launched their cross-border......
Syrian refugees head home on foot from Turkey for Eid holiday
June 19th, 20170 CILVEGOZU, TURKEY — Carrying suitcases, shopping bags and toddlers, thousands of refugees walked back home into Syria from Turkey on Thursday ahead of the Eid festival that marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Turkey has taken in some 3 million Syrian migrants since the start of civil war in 2011, making it home to the...
FIFA: Qatar World Cup not under threat
June 19th, 20170 DOHA — FIFA president Gianni Infantino does not believe that the diplomatic crisis which has embroiled 2022 World Cup host nation Qatar will threaten its staging of the tournament, he said on Sunday. The global soccer body also confirmed that it had replaced a Qatari refereeing team who were due to officiate at a World Cup......
Lebanese cabinet approves electoral law for parliamentary election next May
June 19th, 20170 BEIRUT — Lebanon is likely to hold long-delayed elections in May 2018, ministers said on Wednesday, after the cabinet approved a new law for a legislative vote that has spared the country a major political crisis. Recent disputes over an election law that is at the heart of the nation's sectarian political system had pushed Lebanon...
Muslims observing Ramadan saved residents in London high-rise fire
June 19th, 20170 LONDON — Early Wednesday morning, a 24-story high-rise in London caught fire, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more. Most people were asleep when the fire broke out, but Muslims awake early for Ramadan helped usher people out of the building. Residents reported that fire alarms didn't go off when the fire broke out...
Qatar signs $12 billion deal to buy F-15 jets from U.S
June 19th, 20170 WASHINGTON—Qatar's Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday the country signed a deal to buy F-15 fighter jets from the United States for $12 billion. The deal was completed despite the Gulf country being criticized recently by President Trump for supporting terrorism. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and representatives from Qatar were...
Special prosecutor investigating business dealings of Trump’s son-in-law
June 19th, 20170 WASHINGTON — The finances and business dealings of Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and adviser, are being investigated by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is as part of probes into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, officials familiar with the matter told The Washington Post. FBI agents and......
Dearborn Heights City Council votes to buy golf course
June 19th, 20170 DEARBORN HEIGHTS—The Dearborn Heights City Council voted 6-0 on Tuesday, June 13, to have the city buy the Warren Valley Golf Course for $1.8 million. The decision follows a four month long standoff between residents and county officials who wanted to sell the land to developers to build a subdivision of luxury homes on the...
Dearborn launches downtown bike share program
June 19th, 20170 DEARBORN — On Tuesday, the city launched a new bikeshare program in partnership with Beaumont Health and Zagster Inc. — a provider of bike-sharing systems countrywide— installing 50 bikes across 10 stations in the city's east and west downtown areas. "Bike sharing is another great way for visitors to experience Dearborn, either......
Virginia teen murdered, thrown in pond while walking back to prayer
June 19th, 20171 HERNDON, VA-A body found Sunday afternoon in a pond in the 21500 block of Ridgetop Circle in Sterling, Virginia, is 17-year-old girl Nabra Hussein from Reston, Virginia, who was reported missing in the area hours earlier. Police discovered a female body in the pond about 3 p.m. The pond is 2 to 3 miles away from the original...Anti-sharia law rallies in Michigan draw counter-protests
LANSING — Around 100 people gathered in south Lansing and about 200 rallied in Southfield on Saturday morning as part of the national protest planned by ACT for America called the "March Against Sharia." However, not all in attendance came for that reason. In Lansing, police placed a partition between two groups of protesters as......
