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Auto industry losing steam as vehicle sales for April decline
May 5th, 20170 DETROIT — On Tuesday, May 2, major automakers posted declines in U.S. new vehicle sales for April in a sign the long boom cycle that lifted the American auto industry to record sales last year is losing steam, sending carmaker stocks down. The drop in sales versus April 2016 came on the heels of a disappointing March, which...
Star International Academy principal nominated for charter school administrator of the year
May 5th, 20171 DEARBORN — Ali Bazzi, Hamadeh Educational Services' (HES) assistant superintendent of all four HES schools and principal of Star International Academy (SIA), is one of five finalists nominated for the 2017 Michigan charter school administrator of the year. Awarded by the Michigan Association of Public School Academies (MAPSA), the...
West Dearborn’s Post Bar to face hearing regarding liquor license revocation
May 5th, 20170 DEARBORN — A bar in west Dearborn criticized by a city official last week for attracting unruly crowds will face a hearing that could result in the revocation of the business' liquor license. City Council President Pro Tem Tom Tafelski has called Post Bar, located on Michigan Ave., a "public nuisance." The city played a key role in...
Ford breaks ground on Wagner Place in Dearborn
May 5th, 20170 DEARBORN — On Wednesday, May 3, Ford Motor Company broke ground on Wagner Place as part of its campus transformation. Ford is reconstructing two blocks of mainly empty buildings in west Dearborn into a 50,000-square-foot development including first-floor retail and restaurants and Ford offices upstairs. One of its vital features...Detroit paramedic reportedly faced discrimination, files complaint
DETROIT — A paramedic in Detroit asserted that he was subjected to discrimination in the workplace. On May 4, the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of the paramedic who works for the Detroit Fire...Two men shot in Inkster after alleged drug deal went bad
INKSTER — Michigan State Police are inspecting a double-shooting following a supposed bad drug deal. State police detectives were called at about 10:20 p.m. May 2 to investigate the shootings, which involved two men. One man was shot twice and is being treated at Beaumont-Dearborn. The other was shot once and is beng treated at...
Search continues for kids missing since mother’s 2014 shooting
May 5th, 20170 DETROIT — In June of 2014, 6-year-old Kaylah and 8-month-old Kristian disappeared the same time their mother, Alicia Fox, was found fatally shot in an abandoned Detroit home. It's been three years since their grandmother, Travae Fox, has seen them. "Its a void," Fox told WXYZ TV. Alicia Fox's estranged husband, Erin Justice,...
Arab artist debuts first solo show at Los Angeles museum
May 5th, 20171 LOS ANGELES — The first solo U.S. show by Saudi Arabian artist Abdulnasser Gharem is currently underway at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) through July 2. The artist, who was also a lieutenant colonel in the Saudi Arabian army, is known for his political and social artwork that interlaces with his Muslim heritage. The...
Trump’s 100 days: A reign of error
May 5th, 20170 President Trump's first 100 days were characterized by attempts to reject every act of President Obama's in his eight years in office. In other words, this is also known as "Whitelash"; a rejection of everything passed by the first Black president by a reactionary reputed bigot. In fact, the entirety of Trump's 100 days in office...
House passed bill to fund government, avoid shutdown
May 5th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill to fund the government through September and avoid a shutdown of many federal agencies. Money would have been depleted on Saturday. Earlier, Republicans who control the House, as well as minority Democrats, had expressed confidence...
All Republican Michigan US representatives voted to repeal Obamacare
May 5th, 20170 WASHINGTON — All nine Republican U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, in favor of the American Health Care Act, or "Trumpcare." The representatives are: Jack Bergman (R-Watersmeet), Jack Bergman (R-Zeeland), Justin Amash (R-Cascade Township), John Moolenaar...
Federal reserve keeps interest rate unchanged at .75 to 1 percent
May 5th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, but downplayed weak first-quarter economic growth and emphasized the strength of the labor market, in a sign it could tighten monetary policy as early as June. In a bullish statement following the end of a two-day policy meeting, the central bank also...
CNN won’t air Trump’s ‘100 days’ ad
May 5th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. — An ad by Donald Trump's campaign that featured the president jeering at the mainstream media network CNN for being "fake news" will not be aired by the station, sources said Tuesday. In a statement addressing the ad, CNN said that they "requested that the advertiser remove the false graphic that says the...
Illinois village attains welcoming status
May 5th, 20170 SUMMIT, IL — The Village of Summit, in Illinois attained welcoming community status following a unanimous vote at a village hall meeting. The meeting, taking place on Monday night at 7 p.m. central time, passed an ordinance that would restrict local police cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials with...New Trump order allows tax-exempt religious institutions’ involvement in politics
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that allows tax-exempt centers of worship to participate actively in politics, freeing religious institutions to deny their employees insurance for birth-control pills. The order fulfills an oft-repeated campaign promise by Trump, who appealed to far-right......
Syrian opposition returns to Astana after Erdogan, Putin summit
May 5th, 20170 SOCHI, RUSSIA — On Wednesday, the leaders of Russia and Turkey publicly re-affirmed their commitment to working together to end the conflict in Syria, despite a gas attack on a Syrian city that tested their fragile alliance Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Tayyip Erdogan, have formed a pact on Syria...
Thousands protest Yemen president’s discharging of southern leaders
May 5th, 20170 ADEN — Tens of thousands of Yemenis protested in Aden on Thursday against President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's discharging of the provincial governor and a cabinet minister widely praised for helping drive Houthis from the city in 2015. The two men discharged, Aden provincial governor Aydaroos al-Zubaidi and cabinet member Hani bin......
Poll: Arab youth disapprove of Trump, see him as anti-Muslim
DUBAI — A majority of young Arabs see President Trump's election as the factor most influencing their region in the next five years, a survey published on Wednesday showed, and they expressed concern that the U.S. president was anti-Muslim. Trump signed an executive order in March banning citizens from six Muslim-majority nations...Turkey’s EU dream is over, for now
VALLETTA — Turkey under President Tayyip Erdogan has turned its back on joining the European Union, at least for now, the bloc's top official dealing with Ankara said, offering economic cooperation instead if both sides can restore friendly ties. After years of deadlock on Turkey's bid to join the world's biggest trading bloc, EU...
Lebanese army chief visits Washington, meets officials
May 5th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Newly-appointed army commander General Joseph Aoun arrived in Washington, D.C. April 29 on an official visit, the first since assuming his post in March. The visit, which runs through May 6, is part of the ongoing Lebanese-U.S. military cooperation. Aoun received the invitation "through the established...
Six reasons to remove your shoes inside your home
May 5th, 20170 From harboring hitchhiking bacteria to tracking in toxins, here's why you may want to leave your kicks at the door. Shoes are great. We've been wearing them for 40,000 years and needless to say, they've served us well. The first forms of protective footwear evolved from simple efforts to keep our trotters insulated from snow and cold......
The real reasons behind the Palestinian hunger strike
May 5th, 20170 Gaza is the world's largest open air prison. The West Bank is a prison, too, segmented into various wards, known as areas A, B and C. In fact, all Palestinians are subjected to varied degrees of military restrictions. At some level, they are all prisoners. East Jerusalem is cut off from the West Bank, and those in the West Bank are...
Deadly U.S. strike killed no militants in Mosul
May 5th, 20170 CAIRO — After an American airstrike killed more than 100 Iraqi civilians in a house in the western part of Mosul in March, U.S. officials suggested ISIS was to blame for the horrific toll, saying militants may have crammed the building with people, booby-trapped it with explosives, then lured in an airstrike by firing from the......
ISIS is developing own social media platform
May 5th, 20170 LONDON — ISIS militants are developing their own social media platform to avoid security crackdowns on their communications and propaganda, the head of the European Union's police agency said on Wednesday. Europol Director Rob Wainwright said the new online platform had been uncovered during a 48-hour operation against Internet...
FBI translator secretly flew to Syria to marry ISIS leader
May 4th, 20171 DETROIT- Federal court documents revealed that an FBI interpreter working in Detroit secretly traveled to Syria three years ago to marry an ISIS terrorist leader she was supposed to be investigating. Daniela Greene worked as a German translator in 2014 for the Detroit FBI office where she was helping inspect a German national who was an......
