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Sen. Peters’ bill to better predict severe weather, flooding and protect Michiganders heads to the president to be signed into law
December 16th, 20220 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Gary Peters’ (D-MI) bipartisan legislation to establish a National Integrated Flood Information System is headed to the president to be signed into law, after passing in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Flood Level Observation, Operations and Decision Support (FLOODS) Act – which Peters...
Corewell Health East hires new chief nursing officer
December 16th, 20220 Corewell Health East has recruited Kelli Sadler, MHA, RN, to serve as its chief nursing officer. Sadler will join the organization in January. Sadler is a seasoned nursing leader who currently serves as Novant Health’s chief nursing officer for the Charlotte, North Carolina area. She has served in numerous roles throughout her...
Pan Am Flight 103 bombing suspect taken into U.S. custody, formally charged in connection with the December 1988 terrorist attack
December 16th, 20220 WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Libyan man accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people after it blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 is in custody in the United States, Scottish and U.S. law enforcement officials said on Sunday. Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi was taken into custody about two years after...
Dearborn crowd celebrates Morocco’s soccer semifinal match despite loss
December 16th, 20220 DEARBORN — A very excited crowd banged drums and waved mostly Moroccan flags during Wednesday's World Cup semifinal watch party, hosted by Mayor Abdullah Hammoud at the Michael A. Guido Theater. The Morocco fans — nearly everyone in attendance — were unwaveringly optimistic, cheering each time the Morocco team dribbled the ball...
Poll: Michiganders want people, lower prices to be top priorities for next legislative session
December 16th, 20220 LANSING – Looking ahead to the 2023-24 state legislative term, Michiganders are expecting lawmakers to focus on matters that improve their daily lives, like lowering the price of necessities and supporting schools. A poll conducted by EPIC-MRA on behalf of the State Innovation Exchange (SiX) examined opinions on a number of issues that...
Resilient Neighborhoods: These three nonprofits are working to keep East Side Detroiters in their homes
December 10th, 20220 By David Sands Daisy Jackson, a community organizer and caregiver who lives in Detroit's Islandview neighborhood, found something unexpected when she ran a title check on her house. Someone had placed a lien on the home, the three-story Foursquare-style residence on Field Street where she's lived for more than 50 years....
Addressing health disparities in Michigan with an uncommon approach to care
December 10th, 20220 By Robert MacArthur, MD Healthcare disparities are preventable differences in healthcare status, access and quality experienced by many consumers due to a variety of factors, including race, ethnicity, income, gender, neighborhood, language and education. For example, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human...
Hosting its first ever World Cup — MENA countries show up, in the stands, on the pitch
December 10th, 20220 By Marc Serber, football analyst The first-ever FIFA World Cup held in the MENA (Middle East/North African) region has brought a real opportunity to showcase football pedigree on the field and introduce the world to its fan culture in the stands and outside of Qatar’s eight stadiums. While the host nation bowed out in...
Dearborn man charged with recent synagogue threats, assault on a Detroit police officer in 2020, moons and gives middle finger to judges
December 9th, 20220 A Dearborn man charged with threatening families, kids and staff at a Bloomfield Hills synagogue and school went on a rant during his arraignment, where he insulted the judge by calling her a "Jewish bitch" and flipped off the court. Hassan Yehia Chokr, 35, was charged with making anti-Semitic and racist threats to parents,...
Yemeni American man returns to Detroit after more than a month of imprisonment in Saudi Arabia
December 9th, 20220 MELVINDALE – A Yemeni American who resides with his family in Melvindale returned home after spending more than a month imprisoned in Saudi Arabia. Mohamed Salem, 63, walked off a plane at Detroit Metro Airport just after noon Thursday, five weeks after he was detained while on a religious pilgrimage. Salem arrived in...
AG Dana Nessel announces second term executive team changes, appoints Fadwa Hammoud as chief deputy
December 9th, 20220 LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has announced the appointment in her second term of Fadwa A. Hammoud as chief deputy and Ann M. Sherman as solicitor general. Current Chief Deputy Attorney General Christina Grossi will be leaving the department after more than a decade in public service. “During her...
Westland Mayor Bill Wild announces resignation to take a position in the private sector
December 9th, 20220 Westland's longest-serving mayor, Bill Wild, plans to step down at the end of the year to assume his new position as the next president and CEO of the Midwest Independent Retailers Association (MIRA), a 112-year-old trade association with a non-profit arm. He officially starts his new position in mid-January. “Serving as mayor of my...
Arab American voters are often ignored by political candidates, but not by Pennsylvania Governor-elect Josh Shapiro
December 7th, 20220 The day former President Trump issued his travel ban in 2017, all Nagi Latefa could see were his daughters’ faces. Sunken. Disappointed. Scared. The executive order banned travelers from six majority Muslim countries from visiting the United States. Latefa and his family, who are Palestinian Muslims, felt vulnerable. The Muslim...
Resilient Neighborhoods: East Detroit nonprofit has a creative approach to helping local businesses grow
December 6th, 20220 By Caroline Bissonette Wherever you find her, blending up fresh ingredients in her home kitchen or selling smoothies from her weekly stall at the East Warren farmers market, Teleah Mitchum is the picture of health. The lively Detroit-based nutrition consultant and owner of Simone’s Original Smoothies brims with vitality as she talks...
Seattle man, 22, sentenced to four years in prison for attempting to join ISIS
December 6th, 20220 SEATTLE — A 22-year-old Seattle man was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison after being arrested while trying to board a flight to join the Islamic State group last year. Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams was arrested at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as he checked in for a flight to Cairo and later pleaded guilty to......
Michigan’s COVID-19 deaths top 40,000
December 6th, 20220 Deaths linked to COVID-19 have now surpassed 40,000 in Michigan since the pandemic began in 2020, the state health department reported. More than 36,400 deaths have been confirmed, while 3,676 were probably caused by COVID-19, the state said Tuesday on its coronavirus website. There were 113 in the past week. “Throughout the...
Police chase in Dearborn ends in crash with driver dead, missing Tennessee woman found dead in trunk
December 6th, 20220 DEARBORN — A traffic stop in Dearborn has resulted in the death of the driver and the discovery of a dead body in the trunk of the vehicle after a pursuit ended in a crash. Police say they initiated a traffic stop on a Dodge Charger involved in an endangered missing investigation on Sunday afternoon when the suspect fled until......
Wayne County Executive Warren Evans appoints Dr. Adul El-Sayed to lead health department
December 6th, 20220 On Thursday, Wayne County Executive Warren Evans announced that he will be presenting Dr. Abdul El-Sayed to the County Commission for its approval as a project consultant working with the County's Health, Human and Veterans Services Department (HHVS). El-Sayed will take over as director, pending Wayne County Commission...
Midterms 2022: A new wave of Muslim and Arab American politicians have been elected
December 6th, 20220 Democrat Nabeela Syed is on cloud nine: In the midterm elections, the 23-year-old flipped a Republican-held district in Chicago’s northwestern suburbs, becoming not only one of the youngest members of the Illinois General Assembly, but also its first Muslim. “It was wild for me to ever consider running for office at such a young...
Biden appoints Arab American as advisor to the deputy undersecretary of the U.S. Army
December 6th, 20220 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Alia Awadallah, an Arab American who has worked in international security, counterterrorism and U.S. policy in the Middle East, has been appointed by President Biden's administration to work as an advisor to the deputy undersecretary of the army. The incoming political appointee made the announcement on Twitter Monday,...
Supreme Court to consider who runs elections
December 6th, 20220 By Mark Hedin On Dec. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case a leading conservative federal judge, now retired, has called “the single most important case for American democracy in the nation’s history.” The case, Moore v. Harper, was brought by Republican legislators from North Carolina alleging that the so-called......
World’s eyes focus on Qatar as it hosts the most expensive World Cup in history
November 25th, 20220 Qatar's ruler opened the World Cup on Sunday with a call for people of all races and orientations to put aside their differences, speaking as the host nation faced a barrage of criticism over its treatment of foreign workers and supporters of LGBT rights. The Muslim Gulf nation is staking its reputation on delivering a smooth...
Northville Arab American couple honored in online memorial service, donations for children exceeded $615,000
November 25th, 20223 A Northville couple who died in a late-night rollover crash Nov. 12 were remembered and honored in an online memorial service last Monday night. Manal Kadry and her husband, Dr. Omar Salamen, died after their car left the road as the driver attempted to navigate a turn near their neighborhood, Northville police said. Police said the......
Americans celebrate Thanksgiving under the shadow of two more mass shootings
November 25th, 20220 The U.S. marked the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday with traditional feasts, parades and American football, taking a moment to celebrate in a week shadowed by gun violence. The official holiday dates to the Civil War, when President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a day to give thanks and seek healing. U.S....
Who is Michael Boulos? Trump’s new Lebanese son-in-law
November 21st, 20220 - This story was originally published in Business Insider Donald Trump's daughter Tiffany, 29, wed billionaire Michael Boulos before 250 guests at the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on November 12. Boulos, 25, joins the family after he and Tiffany began dating in 2018. They were engaged in January 2021 with Tiffany......
