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U.S. court voids $655 million verdict against PLO over Israel attacks
NEW YORK - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday threw out a $655.5 million verdict against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization for damages suffered by American families from terrorist attacks in Israel.By a 3-0 vote, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a lower court judge erred in...U.S. appeals court: Potheads can be denied guns
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld federal regulations that prevented a woman with a medical marijuana card from buying a firearm in Nevada, in a ruling that cited the government's interest in preventing gun violence. In upholding a lower-court ruling, a three-judge panel of the San...Mexico president blasts Trump’s policies as ‘huge threat’ after meeting
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's president rebuked Donald Trump as a threat to his country just hours after painting a positive picture of talks the two held on Wednesday to try to defuse tensions over the U.S. presidential hopeful's anti-Mexican campaign rhetoric. President Enrique Pena Nieto had on Wednesday...Clinton hacker sentenced to 4.5 years in prison
WASHINGTON - The hacker known as Guccifer - but better known for exposing Hillary Clinton's private email server - was sentenced today by a U.S. court to four years and four months in jail. Federal District Court Judge James Cacheris passed down the sentencing in Alexandria, Virginia, on Thursday morning,...
Romulus man attempts to set girlfriend on fire
September 1st, 20160 ROMULUS - A Romulus man faces multiple felony charges after investigators say he tried to light his girlfriend on fire.Investigators say Frank Stanchulski, 31, doused his girlfriend in gasoline at a home on the 10700 block of Belleville Road in Wayne County's Van Buren Township about 9 p.m. on Sunday, August 28.He used a lighter to try...Suspect pleads not guilty to killing Imam, assistant
NEW YORK - The man accused of killing a Queens imam and his associate faced a judge on Thursday as his defense attorney raised questions about the case.Members of the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque filled the courtroom as Oscar Morel, 35, entered a not guilty plea.Morel is charged with one count of first-degree murder, two counts of...Muslim woman stabbed to death in Queens
NEW YORK - An NYPD officer’s aunt was stabbed to death while taking a walk with her husband in Queens Wednesday night, and the victim’s family believes it could have been a hate crime. Nazma Khanam, 60, was walking around 9 p.m. in Jamaica Hills when she was stabbed in what may have been an attempted robbery. She was taken...Austrian official ‘recommends’ Muslim kids don’t wear hijab to kindergarten
AUSTRALIA - An Austrian deputy mayor has urged parents to avoid sending their daughters to kindergarten wearing headscarves as the covering insinuates men look at them in a “lustful” way. She termed the comment a “recommendation” rather than an attempt to ban “something religious.” Parents should avoid covering their...
At 32, we remain young and strong
September 1st, 20160 The Arab American News was established 32 years ago. Osama Siblani founded the newspaper on Sept. 7, 1984, following the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and after he witnessed the American mainstream media's atrocious pro-Israeli bias. Over the past three decades plus, the newspaper has evolved, but its core mission and founding...
Keith Ellison urges engagement, encourages community to back Clinton
August 31st, 20160 Keith Ellison speaking at the DNC (Reuters)DEARBORN — Six months ago, Keith Ellison, America’s first Muslim member of Congress, came to Michigan to campaign for Bernie Sanders. Now he is trying to convince the community to support the senator’s once-rival, Hillary Clinton.Ellison met with political activists and community leaders...Christian woman files lawsuit after being forced to remove headscarf
ALABAMA - The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsuit accusing Alabama county officials of violating a Christian woman's religious rights by forcing her to remove her headscarf before taking her driver's license photo. Yvonne Allen, of Tuskegee, said a court clerk told her when she sought a license renewal last...Obama administration meets goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration met its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year a month ahead of schedule and is working with Congress to increase the target by a few thousand in 2017, the White House said. The 10,000th Syrian refugee arrived in the United States on Monday afternoon, national security advisor...
Judge allows government mental exam of Odeh
August 31st, 20160 Rasmea Odeh with her supportersDETROIT - U.S. Judge Gershwin Drain allowed prosecutors’ request for psychological evaluation of Palestinian community leader Rasmea Odeh by a government expert.In 2014, Odeh was found guilty of lying on her naturalization application because she was failed to disclose that she was convicted in 1969 by...Dearborn officer arraigned on sex charge, suspended without pay
DEARBORN - A Dearborn police officer has been arraigned on a sex charge after he allegedly groped a female acquaintance during a traffic stop in May, according to the police department.Officer Justin Smith, 36, faces a second-degree criminal sexual conduct charge and common law offenses, officials said in a...ISIS suicide bomber kills 54 in Yemen attack
The compound after the attack (Reuters)ADEN — A suicide bomber killed at least 54 people when he drove a car bomb into a militia compound in Aden on Monday, the health ministry said, in one of the deadliest attacks claimed by ISIS in the southern Yemeni port city.The director general of Yemen's health ministry in Aden, al-Khader......
U.N. says 10,000 killed in Yemen war
UNITED NATIONS — At least 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen's 18-month-old civil war, the United Nations on Tuesday, approaching double the estimates of more than 6,000 cited by officials and aid workers for much of 2016.The war pits the Houthi group and supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh against President...Mother charged for allowing boyfriend to rape, kill 10-year-old daughter
NEW MEXICO - When police were called on Wednesday to an apartment complex in Albuquerque, New Mexico, they thought they were responding to a battery call.Instead, they found 10-year-old Victoria Martens. She had been killed hours before her 10th birthday party.The girl's mother, Michelle Martens, 35; Martens's boyfriend, Fabian......
Man arrested for killing two nuns
DURANT, Miss. - A man suspected in the slayings of two nuns found dead in their Mississippi home confessed to the killings, a sheriff said Saturday.Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, Mississippi was arrested and charged in the deaths of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill. Both women were 68.Mississippi Department of...Chinese hotels ordered block guests from five Muslim countries
Police have ordered some low-end hotels in the Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou not to allow guests from five Muslim-majority countries to stay, though China's foreign ministry said it had never heard of the policy.Three hotels with rooms costing about 150 yuan ($23) a night told Reuters that they had received police notices from as...
Dearborn Police: Young man drove recklessly in fatal motorcycle crash
August 28th, 20160 Mohamad Hazimi.DEARBORN — A 19-year-old man was killed in a motorcycle accident near Warren and Schaefer around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, August 28.Mohamad Hazimi was riding his bike westbound on Warren Ave. when he struck a Jeep that made a sudden U-turn. The incident occurred between Jonathan Street and Bingham Street. Surveliance...Florida dad murdered on second date by woman he met online
There was no reason for Adam Hilarie to believe anything but the obvious: He had just been on a promising first date with a pretty girl.Hilarie had met Hailey Rose Bustos on PlentyOfFish, which bills itself as the largest dating site in the world. He'd picked her up and they went bowling in Winter Haven, Florida, at Cypress Lanes,......
Dingell facilitates grants for Dearborn, Trenton fire departments
DEARBORN — Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) announced that the Dearborn and Trenton Fire Departments will receive funding for fire prevention and safety through the Department of Homeland Security's Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program. The Dearborn Fire Department has already installed 2,000 smoke alarms for...Six candidates vie for three seats on Dearborn School Board
DEARBORN — Six candidates, including five Arab Americans, are competing for three vacant seats on the Dearborn Board of Education. Four are running for two full-term spots and two are looking to fill the vacancy left by former trustee Aimee Schoelles, who resigned from the board and moved to Ohio last year. The terms of trustees......
Arab Americans slam Trump, promote cooperation at town hall
DEARBORN — The rise of Donald Trump is permitting bigoted individuals to turn violent, like the "goof" who fatally shot Khaled Jabara in Tulsa, Arab American Vietnam veteran Ron Amen said at a town hall meeting on Wednesday. Arab American leaders slammed the Republican presidential nominee at the event, which was hosted and...
Arab, Muslim and brown: Complex identities in the age of Trump
August 26th, 20160 Family members of victims on the one-year anniversary of a mass shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Aug. 5, 2013DEARBORN— For Millions of Arab Americans, ethnic and religious backgrounds are not at odds with American values. An inseparable myriad of cultures and traditions form their identities.Vandalized homes, unjust terrorist......