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Gum disease linked to heart disease
August 25th, 20160 A report from The Netherlands adds to the evidence tying chronic gum disease to heart disease and stroke. In a study of more than 60,000 dental patients, those with gum disease were twice as likely to have had a heart attack, stroke or severe chest pain. At the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, the largest dental school in the...
Concerns rise over EpiPen price increase
August 25th, 20160 Members of Congress are demanding more information on why the price for lifesaving EpiPens has skyrocketed. EpiPens are injection devices used to ward off potentially fatal allergic reactions and the price has surged in recent years. A two-dose package cost around $94 nine years ago. The average cost was more than six times that in...Israel’s War on NGOs takes a worrying turn
You deserve to see your loved ones suffer and die. But, maybe, you would be hurt before them," was part of a threatening message received by a staff member at Al-Mezan, a Gaza-based human rights group. The photo attached to the email was of the exterior of the activist's home. The gist of the message: "We are coming for...
Entrapment: Legal experts criticize FBI tactics
August 25th, 20160 Abu-Rayyan/ Hamdan before he was arrested at the airportDETROIT — Over the past two years, the FBI has arrested so many terror suspects that one would think extremists have a foothold on our shores. But a closer look at those cases reveals that the authorities were heavily involved in constructing the plots they pride themselves on...Two sisters killed in Dearborn Heights after colliding with semi
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (WXYZ) - Dearborn Heights police said two sisters were killed in an accident involving a semi truck on Thursday morning.The accident happened around 9 a.m. near the intersection of Van Born and Beech Daly. Police said 22-year-old Heidi Fox and 19-year-old Samantha Fox were traveling in a Ford Focus on Beech...Kerry tackles Yemen, Syrian conflicts in Saudi Arabia talks
JEDDA — Secretary of State John Kerry met Saudi Arabia's King Salman and the country's powerful deputy, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday to discuss ways to end conflict in Yemen and resume peace talks between the warring sides. Kerry arrived in Jeddah late on Wednesday from Nigeria for discussions with Saudi leaders and...Report: Conflicts reduce life expectancy in Arab countries
The Arab Spring uprising and subsequent conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa have lowered life expectancy in countries such as Syria, Yemen, Tunisia and Egypt, jeopardizing two decades of health gains, experts said on Wednesday.Between 2010 and 2013, Yemen, Tunisia and Egypt lost some three months of the average person's life...U.N. calls for international probe into Yemen violations
Children at a camp for internally displaced people near Sanaa (Reuters)UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations has called for the creation of an independent international body to investigate a series of human violations in the ongoing war in Yemen.Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the U.N. human rights chief, said in a statement on Thursday...New Hajj & Umrah travel medical kit now available
DEARBORN – With thousands of Muslims in the U.S. gearing up to travel to Hajj in coming weeks, Muslim medical professionals have designed a medical travel kit. Created in coordination with a Mayo Clinic physician, the Hajj & Umrah Travel Medical Kit allows Muslim pilgrims to quickly and...
Man allegedly stalks woman, charged with three counts of breaking and entering
August 24th, 20160 21-year-old Ali AlsoweidiDEARBORN –Ali Alsoweidi, 21, was arrested on July 27 on three counts of breaking and entering, after a female resident contacted police and claimed that she found him in her garage, where he allegedly revealed he had been stalking her.The incident occurred on the 6400 block of Coleman Street, in...French police make woman remove clothing on Nice beach
Nice is the latest French town to ban the burkini. Photo: Vantagenews.comNICE, France — French police confronted a woman on a beach and made her remove some of her clothing as part of a controversial ban on the burkini.Photographs of the incident sparked outrage.Authorities in several French towns have implemented bans on the burkini,...
Turkish troops launch first major push into Syria against ISIS
August 24th, 20160 Turkish army tanks make their way in the Syrian border town of Jarablus (Reuters)ANKARA — Turkish special forces, tanks and jets backed by planes from the U.S.-led coalition launched their first co-ordinated offensive into Syria on Wednesday to try to drive ISIS from the border and prevent further gains by Kurdish militia fighters.A...U.S. judge blocks Obama transgender school bathroom policy
A U.S. judge blocked an Obama administration policy that public schools should allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice, granting a nationwide injunction sought by 13 dissenting states just in time for the new school year.While a setback for transgender advocates, the ruling is only the latest salvo in a larger...Phoenix area Muslims pay for ‘ISIS sucks’ billboard
PHOENIX - A large electronic billboard has a simple message directed at ISIS: "Hey ISIS, you suck." The billboard was paid for by a national Muslim-American non-profit with help from the Muslim community in Arizona. Local Muslims in the state said they want to condemn the terrorist organization in a very public way. They said...Muslim inmate sues Indiana sheriff’s office over halal diet
LEBANON, Ind. — A Muslim inmate is using Indiana’s religious freedom statute in part to sue a central Indiana sheriff for denying him a diet that follows Islamic dietary laws.The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed the federal lawsuit on behalf of Gannon Thomas against the Boone County Sheriff’s Office over its......
Clinton’s top aide scrutinized for ties to Saudi magazine
WASHINGTON - The top campaign aide to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is being scrutinized for her ties to a Saudi-sponsored magazine. Huma Abedin, 40, has for years been one of Clinton’s closest confidantes. She began her career as an intern in the White House in 1996, when Hillary Clinton was first lady, and was...Iraq executes 36 ISIS militants for mass killing of soldiers
A soldier prays at a mass grave for soldiers from Camp Speicher (Reuters)BAGHDAD — Iraq said on Sunday it had hanged 36 ISIS militants sentenced to death over the mass killing of hundreds of soldiers at a camp north of Baghdad two years ago.It is the highest number of militants executed in one day by the Iraqi government since ISIS......
Turkey blames child bomber for attack that killed 51
A suicide bomber aged between 12 and 14 carried out the attack on a wedding party in the Turkish city of Gaziantep on Saturday that killed at least 51 people, the president said. The attack was the deadliest in a series of bombings in Turkey this year, and President Tayyip Erdogan said Islamic State was likely behind it. "Initial...Islamic charity vandalized
ATLANTA - The Council On American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is asking police to investigate a vandalism incident in Atlanta targeting a Muslim charity. Sometime during the evening of August 17, an unknown number of vandals shattered the glass entry door to the Stone Mountain office of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA),...Michigan Muslim woman outraged at CNN for featuring her in ISIS video
MICHIGAN - A local Muslim woman and her family are outraged after discovering that her face was being used in a CNN video about ISIS recruitment. The woman's husband recognized his wife's face in the clip. Though she has no ties to ISIS, the woman's face was featured in the clip for a few seconds. The identity of the...Muslim woman gets thrown out of Trump rally…again
A Muslim woman has been ejected from a Donald Trump rally after handing out pens inscribed with the word “peace”. Rose Hamid said a member of the Republican Presidential candidate’s security staff removed her from the event in Charlotte, North Carolina, because she was causing a “disturbance”. “I just wanted to let people......
Bank of America acquitted of discrimination against Muslim charity
August 19th, 20160 DETROIT — Committed to serving Arabs and other communities in Michigan, countless Arab American charity organizations of varying sizes have popped up since waves of immigrants made Metro Detroit home.Founded by Iraqi Americans in 1992, Life for Relief and Development opened its doors as an international relief association and says it...Michigan unemployment rate lowest since 01
Michigan’s unemployment rate in July dipped slightly by one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.5%, according to data released today by the State of Michigan.Despite the reduction in the unemployment rate thanks to 8,000 fewer people on the unemployment rolls, total employment also decreased by 20,000 over the month. State......
‘Nobody is safe anymore’: Arab Americans react to deadly hatred
August 19th, 20160 TULSA — On Friday, August 12, 37-year-old Oklahoma resident Khalid Jabara was brutally murdered by his neighbor who had directed racial slurs at him for years. On Saturday, August 13, Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, and his assistant, Thara Uddin, 64, were killed in Queens, New York by a lone gunman as they were walking home. Both...Mexico’s president says he’s willing to meet with Trump
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Tuesday he was willing to meet with Donald Trump, months after comparing the Republican presidential candidate to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. "Yes, I would meet with him," Pena Nieto said, referring to Trump in a pre-taped television interview broadcast on Tuesday night. "I have......
