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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......
DHS secretary should apologize for shutting out community leaders
March 31st, 20170 In a meeting Wednesday at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials arranged to meet with Arab and Muslim community activists and leaders under the pretext that those communities would be represented and heard. The subtext that unfolded throughout the course of the contentious...
Sanctuary cities and DOJ funding: The hypocrisy of Jeff Sessions
March 31st, 20170 In a surprise White House appearance on March 27, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced his intent to make America's cities less safe and more vulnerable to crime unless he gets his way. He didn't say it quite like that, of course. In fact, he asserted the opposite, accusing so-called "sanctuary cities" of "mak our nation less safe......
CAIR-OK releases report showing dramatic increase in Anti-Muslim hate incidents
March 30th, 20170 OKLAHOMA CITY-The Council for American Islamic Relations in Oklahoma released its 2016 Civil Rights report Thursday showing a dramatic increase in complaints regarding vandalism and property damage to Islamic centers. A similar report showed an increase in hate crime-related incidents that involved violence. A few key findings of...
Missionary group visits Dearborn
March 30th, 20170 DEARBORN- Students from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary spent three days praying alongside local Muslims and sharing the Gospel during a visit to the city. Coming to Dearborn, Mich. a city with the largest concentration of Arab-Americans in the US, the group worked alongside 100,000-plus Arab Americans. The visit was led by...
Israel approves new settlement for first time in decades
March 30th, 20170 JERUSALEM-On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the establishment of Israel's first new settlement in the West Bank in over twenty years. President Donald Trump's recommendations to Netanyahu to hold off on settlement building contrasted with Netanyahu's pushes to approve settlement building in the West...
U.S. ambassador to U.N.: Washington no longer focusing on removing Assad
March 30th, 20171 NEW YORK - The United States is no longer making removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a focus of its policy in the war-torn country, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said on Thursday. "Our priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out," Ambassador Nikki Haley told a small group of reporters. "Our......
Over 400,000 vehicles recalled due to fire risk, latch issues
March 29th, 20171 DETROIT-In response to reports of technical issues that put vehicles at risk for engine fires and unexpected door openings, Ford recently issued a recall on more than 440,000 vehicles in North America. Its initial recall addressed over 230,000 Escape SUVs, Fiesta ST subcompacts, Fusion midsize cars and Transit Connect vans with...
Seattle sues Trump over threat to sanctuary cities
March 29th, 20170 SEATTLE ― The city of Seattle sued President Trump's administration on Wednesday over its executive order seeking to withhold federal funds from "sanctuary cities," arguing it amounted to unconstitutional federal coercion. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray told reporters the Constitution forbade the federal government from pressuring cities,......
Lebanon’s Aoun takes tumble as Arab summit starts
March 29th, 20170 AMMAN ― Lebanese President Michel Aoun tripped and fell face down as Arab heads of state gathered at the start of their summit at the Dead Sea in Jordan on Wednesday, television footage showed. Aoun, 82, appeared to trip on a low, red-carpeted podium where flags of Arab states had been arranged. Two men in suits rushed to help him...
Howell teen charged with terrorism threat on Twitter
March 29th, 20170 HOWELL ― A Howell High School student was charged as an adult for allegedly making a terrorist threat against the school through Twitter. Sarah Marie Hiler, 17, was also charged with using a computer to commit the crime. She faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted, and her case will be heard at the Ottawa County Circuit......
