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Suspect in Portland commuter train attack arraigned in court
June 2nd, 20170 PORTLAND — The suspect in a May 26 attack on a commuter train that left two men dead and one injured was arraigned inside the Multnomah County Justice Center Courthouse on Tuesday. Jeremy Joseph Christian, a 35-yearold convicted felon, was charged with two counts of aggravated murder, two counts of second-degree intimidation and one...
Trott, Cicilline introduce bipartisan legislation requiring ethics training
June 2nd, 20170 WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Dave Trott (R-Birmingham) introduced The Ensuring Trust and Honorability in Congressional Standards (ETHICS) Act, or H.R. 2678, last Thursday. The bill would require U.S. representatives to participate in yearly ethics training and awareness programs. The legislation, co-authored with Rep. David Cicilline of...
Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media checks
June 2nd, 20170 WASHINGTON-The Trump administration has rolled out a new questionnaire for U.S. visa applicants worldwide that asks for social media handles for the last five years and biographical information going back 15 years. The new questions, part of an effort to tighten vetting of would-be visitors to the United States, was approved on May 23 by...
FBI raids Dearborn home, arrests man citing ‘national security issue’
June 2nd, 20171 DEARBORN ― On June 1 at around 5 in the evening, the silence of a Dearborn street was broken when a large FBI task force raided a home, just as some residents were preparing to break their fasts. The FBI said it was conducting an operation related to a "national security issue" at the home on Jonathon Street near Warren Avenue, but...
Trump delays moving U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem by six months
June 1st, 20170 WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an order on Thursday to keep the U.S. Embassy in Israel in Tel Aviv temporarily instead of relocating it to Jerusalem, despite his campaign pledge to go ahead with the controversial move. After months of fierce debate within his administration, Trump chose to continue his predecessors' policy of...
Trump to pull out of Paris agreement
May 31st, 20170 President Donald Trump will follow through on a campaign pledge to pull the United States out of a global pact to fight climate change, a source briefed on the decision told Reuters, a move that promises to deepen a rift with U.S. allies. Trump, who has previously called global warming a hoax, did not confirm the decision in a post on...
The future of most business districts outside of Downtown Detroit is uncertain
May 30th, 20170 By Lester Graham | Michigan Radio There are small business districts throughout Detroit that are barely hanging on. They were once thriving. But, population loss, and the loss of wealth in the neighborhoods have caused hard times for neighborhood businesses. The question is: what to do with them now? In the MorningSide neighborhood...
Morocco arrests activist leading northern protests
May 30th, 20170 RABAT — A leading Moroccan activist was arrested on Monday alongside other protesters caught up in a wave of rallies against official abuses and corruption in the north, state media said. Nasser Zefzafi, who has helped organize months of protests, would be investigated on charges of "threatening national security" and other crimes,...
Suspect in Portland commuter train attack to be arraigned in court
May 30th, 20170 PORTLAND-A man will appear in court in Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday to answer charges that he murdered two men who tried to stop him hurling religious slurs against two women of Muslim appearance on a commuter train. The attack came as some religious rights groups warn of a rising tide of anti-Islamic sentiment in the United States,...
Laptop ban may extend to all flights in and out of US
May 30th, 20170 WASHINGTON-The United States might ban laptops from aircraft cabins on all flights into and out of the country as part of a ramped-up effort to protect against potential security threats, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said on Sunday. In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," Kelly said the United States planned to "raise the...
Suicide bomber kills 13, injures 24 at Baghdad ice cream shop
May 29th, 20170 BAGHDAD - On Tuesday, a suicide bomber detonated a rigged vehicle outside of a popular ice cream shop in the Karrada district of Baghdad, killing 13 people and wounding at least 30 others, officials said. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) claimed responsibility, stating its intent in attacking a "gathering of...
Texas teacher disciplined after giving student ‘terrorist’ award
May 28th, 20170 CHANNELVIEW, Texas - At least one teacher at Lance Cpl. Anthony Aguirre Junior High School in Houston has been disciplined after presenting a seventh grade student with the mock award "most likely to be a terrorist," a school district official said on Friday. "The Channelview Independent School District Administration would like...
Tillerson declines to host Ramadan event at State Department
May 28th, 20170 WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has declined a request to host an event to mark Islam's holy month of Ramadan, two U.S. officials said, apparently breaking with a bipartisan tradition in place with few exceptions for nearly 20 years. Since 1999, Republican and Democratic secretaries of state have nearly always hosted...
Two men stabbed to death on Oregon train trying to stop anti-Muslim rant
May 27th, 20170 PORTLAND- A man fatally stabbed two passengers aboard a Portland, Oregon, commuter train after they tried to stop him from harassing two young women who appeared to be Muslim, police said on Saturday. Police identified the assailant, who was arrested soon after the Friday afternoon attack, as Jeremy Joseph Christian of Portland, a...
Talking to the other side
May 26th, 20170 I've had a number of conversations recently that convince me our country is divided into two political camps separated by a deep and uncomfortably wide gap. No, I'm not talking about liberals and conservatives or pro- and anti-Trump voters. I'm talking about people who believe in politics and our political system and people who......
Fear as an obstacle to peace: Why are Israelis afraid?
May 26th, 20170 Bat-Hen Epstein Elias's long article on Iranian Jews is interesting. Parts of it, in fact, are heartwarming. Yet, despite the lack of any serious evidence, the story is entirely framed in the language of fear. Entitled, "All the Jews there live in fear that their telephones are tapped", the story in "Israel Hayom" peddles the idea...
Trump in Saudi Arabia: King of hypocrisy
May 26th, 20172 Trump's affinity for all things "yuge" and slathered in gold was manifest in his choice of visits. Instead of taking the opportunity to make a diplomatic stride through his first foreign visit since taking office, Trump rather reinforced the commitment to power and money shared between the two warmongering governments through a......
Suicide bombers kill 3 police officers, wound 10 in Indonesia
May 25th, 20170 JAKARTA ― Two suspected suicide bombers killed three Indonesian police officers and injured 10 people on Wednesday night in twin blasts near a bus station in the eastern part of the capital, police said. The blasts went off five minutes apart at Jakarta's Kampung Melayu terminal, police said. National Police spokesman Setyo...
Car bomb explodes, kills four in Syria’s Homs
May 24th, 20170 SYRIA- A car bomb exploded in Homs on Tuesday morning, Syrian state television said, two days after the city went back under full government control for the first time since 2011. Authorities destroyed another vehicle rigged with explosives near a Shi'ite Muslim shrine south of Damascus, the broadcaster and other state media...
British police name suicide bomber, May condemns ‘sickening’ attack
May 23rd, 20170 MANCHESTER- British police on Tuesday identified the suicide bomber who killed 22 people, including children, in an attack on a crowded concert hall in Manchester, and said they were trying to establish whether he had acted alone or with help from others. The man suspected of carrying out Britain's deadliest bombing in nearly 12 years...
At least 19 dead in blast at Ariana Grande concert in British arena
May 22nd, 20170 MANCHESTER- A blast on Monday night at a concert in the English city of Manchester where U.S. singer Ariana Grande had been performing left at least 19 people dead and about 50 injured in what British police said was being treated as a terrorist incident. Police said they were responding to reports of an explosion and that there were a......
Palestinian solidarity activists’ homes targeted in Pro-Israel intimidation campaign
May 22nd, 20171 Berkeley, CA-University of California lecturer Hatem Bazian noticed a flyer placed on his winsheild when he went to drop off his daughter at school the morning of May 10. He was appalled to confront an image of himself on a flyer that claimed he "supports terror." Pictured alongside Rebecca Vilkomerson, executive director of Jewish...
Trump budget poised to slash healthcare for poor, other programs
May 22nd, 20170 WASHINGTON-The White House is set to release President Donald Trump's first full budget on Tuesday, a plan that will include a cut of more than $800 billion from the Medicaid program for the poor and reductions in other social spending. The Medicaid cuts were part of a Republican healthcare bill passed by the U.S. House of......
Trump reaps Saudi arms deal, stronger ties
May 20th, 20170 RIYADH- Under political fire at home, U.S. President Donald Trump sealed a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia on Saturday on his maiden foreign trip as he struggled to shift attention from the aftermath of his firing of the director of the FBI. The arms deal, plus other investments that U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said...
Ford to cut 1,400 white-collar jobs, shares tumble
May 19th, 20170 DEARBORN — Ford Motor Co plans to cut 1,400 salaried jobs in North America and Asia through voluntary early retirement and other financial incentives as the No. 2 U.S. automaker looks to boost its sagging stock price. Ford shares fell as much as 2.5 percent in heavy trading Wednesday and were headed to their worst close since......
