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American man arrested at New York City airport after returning from Lebanon
NEW YORK – An American alleged to have ties with Islamic state terrorists abroad was arrested at a New York airport on Aug 2. and is being held without bond, due in part to his Twitter rants reportedly suggesting his militant leanings.FBI agents arrested Donald Ray Morgan, 44, of North Carolina, at John F. Kennedy International...
Dearborn outlaws new hookah establishments for six months in regulation attempt
August 15th, 20140 DEARBORN – Following an intense debate, the city council passed a six month moratorium this week banning any new smoking facilities from opening, in an attempt to put a cap on the influx of hookah lounges that have been operating illegally and dominating the business districts.The Arab American News first reported last month that the...
Starbucks publicly denies supporting Israel, but debate rages on
August 15th, 20141 The Starbucks in Dearborn, located on Michigan Ave., is often frequented by Arab Americans. DEARBORN – In a surprise move last week, Starbucks and its CEO Howard Schultz issued a public statement denying that the coffee chain "provides financial support to Israel", calling such claims "false rumors." The...
U.S. can keep court orders, phone companies secret in NSA spy case
August 15th, 20140 WASHINGTON – The U.S. government need not turn over a secret surveillance court's orders or the names of phone companies helping it collect call records, because it might reveal methods needed to protect national security, a federal judge decided this week.U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, rejected...President of E! Entertainment urged to fire Joan Rivers over remarks about Palestinians
Rivers.MICHIGAN — The pressure to get Suzanne Kolb, the president of E! Entertainment, to fire the host of the network’s popular show, “Fashion Police” is mounting. “Please write to the president of E! Entertainment and demand that she fire Joan Rivers as host of “Fashion Police” for her horrifying hate speech about...
Tensions mount at city council meeting over ‘Boycott Israel’ proposal
August 15th, 20140 DEARBORN – This week’s city council meeting ended on a tense note after several activists asked the city to consider passing a "Boycott Israel" resolution, which ignited a near confrontation with an Israeli supporter who was holding what appeared to be a gun and displaying the Israeli flag. The Israeli supporter took the podium at...United Airlines to cut jobs at Detroit Metro Airport
DETROIT — United Airlines will lay off more than 100 workers this October at Detroit Metro Airport. The positions that will be mainly affected are service representatives and ramp service workers. Jobs will be transferred to an outside vendor, the name of which is still unknown. The new vendor will most likely offer a...Hashtag Genocide: Gaza fought back
GAZA – My old family house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza was recently rebuilt by its new owner, into a beautiful three-story building with large windows adorned by red frames. In Israel’s most recent and deadliest war on Gaza, the house sustained significant damage. A large hole caused by Israeli missiles can be seen from...Local reaction to report smearing Dearborn fell short of its significance
Last week, The Intercept, an online news source, leaked a federal document that alleges Dearborn has the second highest number of "known or suspected terrorists" in the country. Within hours, it made headlines across the country and front page news in local media.The report was not only inaccurate, it was an insult to the city and the...Police fire tear gas, stun grenades at Ferguson protesters
FERGUSON, Mo — Police here fired tear gas, stun grenades and smoke bombs to disperse several hundred protesters late Wednesday, the fourth night of racially charged demonstrations after police shot and killed an unarmed Black teenager.Protesters have gathered every night since Saturday when 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed by...Maliki steps down; pledges support to new prime minister Abadi
Haider al-Abadi.BAGHDAD — Nuri al-Maliki finally bowed to pressure within Iraq and beyond on Thursday and stepped down as prime minister, paving the way for a new coalition that world and regional powers hope can quash a Islamist insurgency that threatens Baghdad.Maliki ended eight years of often divisive rule and endorsed fellow...Libya’s parliament calls for U.N. aid to quell militia fighting
TRIPOLI — Libya's parliament on Wednesday voted to disband the country's militia brigades and called on the United Nations to protect civilians in an effort to end the worst fighting between armed factions since the 2011 fall of Muammar Gaddafi.Lawmakers appeared to be seeking to strip the groups of former rebel fighters of the...Plot to kill former Yemeni president with bomb in tunnel foiled
SANAA — An aide to Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Thursday his security team had uncovered a plot to kill him with explosives planted in a tunnel running to a mosque inside his residential compound in Sanaa.Yemen's authorities said they were investigating.Saleh, who stepped down in 2012 amid mass protests against...Lebanon charges 43 Syrians with belonging to terrorist groups
GAZA — A new, five-day truce between Israel and Hamas appeared to be holding on Thursday despite a shaky start, after both sides agreed to give Egyptian-brokered peace negotiations in Cairo more time to try to end the Gaza war.The Israeli military said Gaza militants had breached the truce by firing eight rockets at Israel shortly...Syrian army recaptures major town in Damascus countryside, encircles Aleppo
DAMASCUS — Syrian government forces backed by Lebanon's Hizbullah took control of a town just outside Damascus from Islamist fighters on Thursday, a blow to the rebels who had held it for more than a year.Syrian state television broadcast showed government soldiers in the streets of Mleiha, which lies on the edge of the eastern......
Lebanese Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri: I’d rather deal with Hariri .. not his deputies
August 15th, 20140 Berry.BEIRUT — Lebanese Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri is known for his skills in finding solutions and settlements during tough political times, which made his post a focal point in Lebanese politics.Berri keeps the communication lines open with his opponents without compromising his convictions, creating a balance between his...New York man accused of online death threats against Obama
NEW YORK – An upstate New York man was accused on Tuesday of threatening to kill President Obama and other political leaders just days after he was arraigned on charges that he had made previous online death threats against them, authorities said.Brandon Correa, 30, of Rochester, faces a seven-count indictment charging him with......
Miko Peled, the general’s son, to keynote a fundraising dinner for Gaza
August 15th, 20140 Travelling all the time, making appearances in Europe, Africa, Australia, Malaysia, returning to West Bank to participate in demonstrations against Israel, getting arrested, standing in Israel and saying: ”Zionism must go, Israel is an Apartheid regime”, Miko Peled, author of “The General’s Son”, is...10-year-old shoots father after dispute between parents
DETROIT — A physical argument between parents led to their 10-year-old son shooting his father on Monday, Aug. 11 at 3:30 a.m. The child saw his mother being assaulted by the father. To stop the altercation the 10-year-old pulled the gun on his 33-year-old father, shooting him in the back. Police question how the gun was easily...Government Discontinues Processing EBT for Merchants
Does your business currently accept or plan to accept Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) in the future? If so please take note that effective September 21, the government will no longer process EBT transactions or provide free equipment to merchants who were not approved by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) prior to March 21, due to...Storm leaves thousands of Metro Detroit residents in limbo
On Monday, August 11, the metro Detroit region was hit hard with torrential rains, causing many communities to become inundated with several inches of precipitation in a relatively short period of time. As a result, thousands of metro Detroit residents experienced sewage backup onto their property. The law regarding the rights and......
Virginia GOP official resigns after anti-Muslim comments
RICHMOND – State GOP Treasurer Bob FitzSimmonds unapologetically stepped down more than a week after he responded in harsh fashion to comments President Obama made praising Muslim Americans. ‘This is pure nonsense. Exactly what part of our nation's fabric was woven by Muslims,’ FitzSimmonds wrote.FitzSimmonds, the outspoken...Egyptians protest on anniversary of bloody day, five dead
CAIRO — Four protesters and a policeman were killed in Cairo on Thursday, the government said, one year after government forces killed hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators in the worst bloodshed in Egypt's recent history.The health ministry said four protesters were killed and 13 others wounded during clashes with security......
Lebanon charges 43 Syrians with belonging to terrorist groups
BEIRUT – Lebanon on Thursday charged 43 Syrians, including an Islamist commander whose arrest sparked five days of fighting between Islamists and the Lebanese army, with belonging to armed terrorist groups and seeking to establish an Islamic emirate.A judiciary source said 10 of those charged were in custody, among them 30-year-old...
DOJ reaches settlement with Crestwood School District to improve services for bilingual students
August 14th, 20140 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — The civil rights division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), working closely with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan, reached a comprehensive settlement agreement with the Crestwood School District in Dearborn Heights to improve educational services for students who are English......
