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17 states challenge Trump over climate change regulation
April 8th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. — A coalition of 17 states filed a legal challenge on Wednesday against efforts by President Trump's administration to roll back climate change regulations, deepening a political rift over his emerging energy policies. Led by New York State, the coalition said the administration has a legal duty to regulate...
Trump administration no longer considering separating women, children at border
April 8th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration is no longer considering separating women and children at the southern U.S. border as a means of deterring their migration, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman said on Wednesday. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly was questioned by a Senate panel on Wednesday, but only said it...
Trump defends O’Reilly after sexual harassment accusations
April 8th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, President Trump defended Fox News TV anchor Bill O'Reilly after a report that the conservative commentator and his employer, 21st Century Fox, paid five women to settle claims he sexually harassed them. "I think he's a person I know well — he is a good person," Trump said of O'Reilly in an...
How Israel understands the Arab Peace Initiative
April 8th, 20171 Once more, the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002 is taking center stage. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas insisted during his speech before the recently concluded Arab League Summit in Jordan that the initiative is the only solution on the table; asserting that it will not be changed or even tweaked. But why is this...
Who benefits from the horrific chemical attacks in Syria?
April 8th, 20170 The deadliest chemical attack in Syria in years killed dozens of people in the rebel-held northern Idlib province on Tuesday morning, including children, and sickened scores more. The alleged "chemical airstrikes" are said to have taken place in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, about 50km south of the city of Idlib. Predictably, the...
Hubbard’s statue has no place under the Dearborn sun
April 8th, 20172 Former Mayor Orville Hubbard's statue stood in front of the Dearborn City Hall on Michigan Avenue and Schaefer Road from 1989-2015. After much community debate, the sale of the building and national events like the Charleston massacre in 2015, the statue was removed and placed into storage. Many said it was for good reason. Hubbard...
GOP mega donor persuaded Bannon not to resign
April 8th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. - According to a Politico report, White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, a former executive at Breitbart News, has been bickering with fellow White House staff so much recently that a GOP mega donor had to persuade him to think about the “long term” instead of resigning. Five people told Politico that Bannon has...
U.S. warships strike Syrian airfield in response to Idlib ‘chemical attack’
April 7th, 20170 President Trump ordered missile strikes against a Syrian airfield from which a deadly chemical weapons attack was allegedly launched, declaring he acted in America's "vital national security interest." The deadliest chemical weapons attack in years in Syria killed dozens of people in the rebel-held northern Idlib province on Tuesday...
Orlando nightclub gunman’s widow to face federal charges
April 6th, 20170 ORLANDO— The widow of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida has agreed to return to the state from California to face federal charges, her lawyer said on Wednesday. Noor Salman, the widow of Omar Mateen, had been due to argue in court on April 10 against the transfer. But on Tuesday she waived her...
Suspect pleads not guilty in fatal New York stabbing of Black man
April 6th, 20170 NEW YORK— A White man who police said traveled to New York City to harm Black people pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a charge of murder "as a crime of terrorism" for the fatal stabbing of an African American on a Manhattan sidewalk last month. James Jackson, 28, turned himself in to police on March 22 after authorities circulated...
Arab American lawyer to file $50 million lawsuit over fatal shooting of unarmed man
April 5th, 20170 DETROIT — Nabih Ayad, a prominent Arab American civil rights lawyer and founder of the Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL), will file a $50 million federal lawsuit at the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Thursday, April 6, against ICE and Detroit police officers, who fatally shot an unarmed 20-year-old...
Russia denies Assad to blame for chemical attack, on course for collision with Trump
April 5th, 20170 MOSCOW- Russia denied on Wednesday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was to blame for a poison gas attack and said it would continue to back him, setting the Kremlin on course for its biggest diplomatic collision yet with Donald Trump's White House. Western countries, including the United States, blamed Assad's armed forces for a...
DTE Energy to upgrade gas infrastructure in neighborhoods
April 5th, 20170 DETROIT — This spring, DTE Energy crews will upgrade natural gas infrastructure by swapping older steel lines with durable polyethylene lines to keep gas systems dependable for years to come. “Our customers rely on us to keep the natural gas delivery system reliable and safe,” Joi Harris, vice president of Gas Operations at DTE...
Syrian government denies responsibility in Idlib’s chemical attack, blames rebels
April 4th, 20170 BEIRUT, Lebanon - The deadliest chemical weapons attack in years in Syria killed dozens of people in northern Idlib province on Tuesday morning, including children, and sickened scores more, according to medics, rescuers and witnesses in the rebel-held province. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack...
Trump welcomes Egyptian President Sisi to the White House: “He has done a fantastic job”
April 3rd, 20170 WASHINGTON, DC - President Donald Trump met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the White House. Trump said the Egyptian President had done a "fantastic job" and declared his support for Egypt and the Egyptian people. He also said he was “very much behind” Sisi and been very close to him since the first time they......
U.S. appeals court sets May hearing on revised Trump travel order
April 3rd, 20170 WASHINGTON, DC - A U.S. appeals court said on Monday it would hold a hearing in May over a Hawaii federal judge's order that blocked President Donald Trump's revised travel restrictions on citizens from six Muslim-majority countries. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals previously upheld a Seattle judge's block of Trump's first...
Trump tastes failure as his healthcare bill collapses
April 3rd, 20171 WASHINGTON- President Donald Trump suffered a stunning political setback on Friday in a Congress controlled by his own party when Republican leaders pulled legislation to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, a major 2016 election campaign promise of the president and his allies. House of Representatives leaders yanked the bill after a......
Arab leaders on display: Division and declining influence
April 3rd, 20170 AMMAN — For years, the stage was almost as big as the larger-than-life strongmen that made it their own. Muammar Qaddafi. Saddam Hussein. Yasser Arafat. At times both politics and pageantry, the annual gathering of leaders at the Arab Summit has been a guiding force in Arab politics and a source of drama for Arab citizens, who have...
Seven individuals added to U.S. terrorism list
April 3rd, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C.- A high profile British Islamist preacher who was sentenced to prison last year for inviting support for the ISIS militancy was added to the U.S. global counter-terrorism list, the U.S. Treasury said on Thursday. Anjem Choudary, 50, who was imprisoned in Britain in September for five and a half years for encouraging...
Child killed, 12 people injured by carbon monoxide in Michigan motel
April 3rd, 20170 NILES- A 13-year-old boy was killed and 12 people were taken to hospitals for treatment due to a carbon monoxide leak in a Michigan motel on Saturday, police and hospital officials said. Six of those taken to hospitals for treatment were children between the ages of 12 and 14 years old, police said. Emergency officials received...
Bluesman Eric Bibb: From Syria to Detroit, we are all migrants
April 2nd, 20170 LONDON- "Migration Blues", a new album from veteran bluesman Eric Bibb, uses the sounds of the American South to tell the tale of everyone from 1920s farmers fleeing the Dust Bowl for California to refugees crossing the Mediterranean to Europe in the 2010s. Along the way are Mexicans seeking a future in the United States, families......
Abu Rayyan says he embarrassed Islam, sentencing postponed
April 2nd, 20170 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On Monday, Khalil Abu Rayyan, a 22-year-old accused of supporting ISIS, told U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh that he embarrassed Islam during a hearing that ended with a postponed sentencing. "I never intended to hurt anyone," the Dearborn Heights man said. "My behavior caused embarrassment to myself, my...
Iraq: ISIS second-in-command killed in airstrike
April 1st, 20170 BAGHDAD - Ayad al-Jumaili, believed to be a deputy of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in an air strike on Friday, an Iraqi intelligence spokesman said on Saturday. The U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition said it was unable at the moment to confirm the information that was reported earlier in the day by Iraqi......
Two JDL members arrested for brutally beating Palestinian man outside AIPAC conference
April 1st, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. ― A 55-year old Palestinian-American instructor at a North Carolina community college was “brutally beaten” by members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) whil e walking through a protest outside the AIPAC conference in Washington D.C. on Sunday. The man was identified as Kamal Nayfeh. The JDL members...
The next phase in the war on BDS: Why Israel detained Omar Barghouti
March 31st, 20170 The Israeli state has violated international law more than any other country, yet has rarely, if ever, been held accountable for its crimes and misconduct. Israel's successful public relation campaigns through the ever-willing Western media partners, coupled with the relentless work and pressure carried out by its powerful backers in......
