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Hotel clerk not charged for suspecting guest was a terrorist
October 10th, 20162 AVON, Ohio -- A Lorain County grand jury chose not to indict the hotel desk clerk accused of falsely reporting that an Emirati guest pledged his allegiance to ISIS. The grand jury opted not to indict the clerk or anyone else involved in the June 29 arrest of Ahmed Al Menhali at the Fairfield Inn and Suites on Colorado Avenue,...New York Muslim man attacked while walking with mother
BRONX — Police are searching for three individuals connected to an assault that occurred in the Bronx in September and involved anti-Muslim slurs. On Sept. 15 right before midnight, the 25-year-old victim and his mother were walking and crossing the street in front of 2481 Creston Avenue in the Fordham Manor section of the...Dozens arrested at India call center linked to IRS scam calls
NEW DELHI (AP) – Indian police have arrested 70 people and are questioning hundreds more after uncovering a massive scam to cheat thousands of Americans out of millions of dollars by posing as U.S. tax authorities and demanding unpaid taxes.According to police in Mumbai, the yearlong scam involved running fake call centers which sent...Trump threatens jail time, Clinton says rival’s campaign is ‘exploding’
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump, defiant amid a tide of criticism of his sexually aggressive remarks about women, said Hillary Clinton would go to jail if he were president and attacked her husband for his treatment of women in a vicious presidential debate less than a month before the U.S. election. The Sunday...Over 140 killed from Saudi airstrikes in Yemen
YEMEN - Saudi-led warplanes struck a funeral at a community hall in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the country's Houthi-run administration said on Saturday, but the coalition denied any role in the attack. More than 140 mourners were killed, according to local health officials cited by the United Nations, in an attack that prompted a strong...Police chief under fire by Muslims for “bacon grease bullets” Facebook posts
ALABAMA - A Police chief in Alabama faces scrutiny after a Muslim rights organization called him out for his Facebook activity. The Alabama chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations is asking federal authorities to investigate "anti-Muslim bigotry expressed" on social media posts allegedly made by the Gurley Police chief...Sikh man attacked by group of men
NEW YORK: "Cut his f*****g hair," yelled a group of men before brutally attacking a Sikh American, knocking off his turban and cutting his unshorn hair with a knife. Maan Singh Khalsa, 41, an IT professional in California, was driving home on the night of September 25 when a group of men in car threw a beer can at his vehicle....Multiple clowns arrested in metro Detroit
DEARBORN - The clown craze continues to cause panic in the metro Detroit region prompting police and school campuses to take caution. At the University of Michigan-Dearborn on Thursday, administrators issued a warning due to a clown sighting on campus. Campus police said a man wearing a white clown mask was spotted, "close to the...
A sobering look beyond the election
October 7th, 20160 This campaign year has been full of twists and turns. We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, let alone on November 8. So talking about what comes afterward seems premature. But it’s been on my mind a lot, because I’m worried. This is not about who wins the presidency. I’m concerned about the aftermath of this...
The war in Yemen must end, as famine spreads
October 7th, 20160 Yemen is on the verge of famine, according to media reports and humanitarian organizations. The country's social, economic and political fabric is being disseminated by the ongoing, apparently endless war. For months, the warring parties met in Kuwait, agreeing and disagreeing every other day, until the negotiations collapsed...State Board of Education candidate Ish Ahmed: Put the public back into public schools
Ish AhmedDEARBORN — Ismael "Ish" Ahmed, a veteran in organizing and mobilizing communities to fight for social justice and equal opportunity education, wants to equip schools statewide with the tools to nurture creative and highly adept students – from the ground up.That is why Ahmed, a Democrat, is running for the State Board of...
Justice Department, CAIR settle lawsuit over rejected Islamic school
October 7th, 20160 CAIR annoucing a lawsuit against Pittsfield Township.PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP — While a heated presidential race continues to brew grave anti-Muslim sentiments, Islamic institutions in Michigan are being caught in the crossfire. Prominent legal cases involving cities denying the construction of religious schools and mosques set new...U.S. road deaths jump 10.4 percent in first half of 2016
WASHINGTON - U.S. traffic deaths jumped 10.4 percent in the first six months of 2016 to a "crisis" level, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday. NHTSA said road deaths in the first half totaled 17,775 and said the number was likely to be higher in the second half...Dozens of Afghani troops gone missing in the U.S.
WASHINGTON - Forty-four Afghan troops visiting the United States for military training have gone missing in less than two years, presumably in an effort to live and work illegally in America, according to a report by Reuters. Although the number of disappearances is relatively small -- some 2,200 Afghan...Deadly Hurricane Matthew strikes
ORLANDO - Matthew, the first major hurricane threatening a direct hit on the United States in more than 10 years, blasted the Bahamas on Thursday as it headed for Florida after killing at least 140 people in the Caribbean, mostly in Haiti. Matthew, carrying winds of 140 mph (220 kph), pounded the......
Sanders returns to Michigan to rally voters behind Clinton
October 7th, 20160 Sanders at the UAW in DearbornDEARBORN — Michigan was one of many states "Feelin the Bern" during the primary election season when Senator Bernie Sanders (D- VT.) surprisingly upset Hillary Clinton. Earlier this year, the Arab American community overwhelmingly backed Sanders, who also received an endorsement from The AANews. In...
Bernie Sanders to the Arab community: ‘Clinton understands our concerns’
October 7th, 20160 DEARBORN — In an exclusive interview with The AANews, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders discussed pressing issues pertaining to the Arab and Muslim communities during a stop in Dearborn, where he was campaigning for Hillary Clinton. Below is our question and answer session with the former Democratic presidential......
College man charged for attacking Middle Eastern student
PENNSYLVANIA – A former Penn State University student has been charged with ethnic intimidation for attacking a student because he was “Middle Eastern.” Nicholas Tavella, 20, entered an open guilty plea on for charges stemming from a December 2015 incident in which he allegedly attacked a student based...Community celebrates promotion of Mike Jaafar at Wayne County Sheriff’s office
Mike Jaafar with Dearborn Police Chief Ron Haddad and Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon.DEARBORN — The Wayne County Sheriff's Office held a promotional ceremony for Mike Jaafar, who was officially appointed to chief of operations following his pervious position as deputy chief. The Wayne County Sheriff's office and community...
Dearborn School Board candidate Adel Mozip is a voice for students
October 7th, 20160 Adel Mozip.DEARBORN — The School Board Trustee race is unique in that all of the four candidates vying for two of the six-year terms are Arab Americans. But 29-year-old Adel Mozip is hoping his deep-rooted history with the district as both a student and a parent, along with growing familiarity among the community, will be able to...AAA hosts first annual Auto Expo
State Police display 1957 car.DEARBORN — Despite the rainy forecast on Saturday, Oct. 1, the weather cleared up just in time for the American Automobile Association's first ever Auto Expo, held at the company's headquarters in Dearborn. The event, which took at least three moths to plan, had a community focus. From 9 a.m. to......
Job insecurity tied to increased risk of diabetes
October 7th, 20160 People who are worried about losing their jobs may be more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes, according to a new analysis. Compared to people who felt secure in their jobs, people who were experiencing so-called job insecurity had a 19 percent higher rate of new cases of diabetes, which researchers called a "modest increased...
Tips to combat election-related stress
October 7th, 20160 Stop reading the news and take up yoga. That's what some therapists are telling patients stressed out by a nasty presidential campaign in which two unpopular candidates are in a tight race for the most powerful office in the world. While some patients are unhappy with the idea of a Hillary Clinton presidency, most are worried about......
New famine fears loom in Yemen
An eight-year-old malnourished boy at a hospital in Sanaa, Sept. 27.SANAA — Intensive care wards in Yemen's hospitals are filled with emaciated children hooked up to monitors and drips - victims of food shortages that could get even worse due to a reorganization of the central bank that is worrying importers. With food ships finding...Iraq requests U.N. emergency meeting on Turkish troops in north
BAGHDAD — Iraq has requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the presence of Turkish troops on its territory as a dispute with Ankara escalates. Turkey's parliament voted last week to extend the deployment of an estimated 2,000 troops across northern Iraq by a year to combat "terrorist......