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Trump’s new Syria policy raises tension, could fan flames of war
January 19th, 20180 DAMASCUS — On Tuesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said a new U.S.-backed, 30,000-strong force inside Syria constituted a breach of international law and Syrian sovereignty, joining Syria, Turkey and Russia in a vehement rebuke of the plan. On Sunday, the U.S.-led coalition said it was working with its Syrian militia allies,...
Report: Lebanese security agency turns smartphone into selfie spycam
January 19th, 20180 FRANKFURT — Lebanon's intelligence service may have turned the smartphones of thousands of targeted individuals into cyber-spying machines in one of the first known examples of large-scale state hacking of phones rather than computers, researchers say. Lebanon's General Directorate of General Security (GDGS) has run more than 10...
Trump’s ‘shithole’ remarks and America’s history of immigration
January 19th, 20180 By Amer Zahr It's quite popular these days to declare that Donald Trump's racist views on immigration are "un-American." He only wants White people coming here. "Why can't we have more people from Norway?" He wants to get rid of Latinos and Black people. "Do we really need more Haitians?" He devalues, denigrates and...
Coach tells ex-USA Gymnastics doctor Nassar in court to ‘go to hell’
January 19th, 20180 LANSING — A coach who sent dozens of young girls for treatment to USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, who pleaded guilty to molesting female athletes, told the disgraced physicians on Wednesday to "go to hell" for his crimes. Thomas Brennan, a youth gymnastics coach, confronted Nassar in a Michigan courtroom on the second day...
Growing pains for #MeToo as Ansari tale sparks backlash talk
January 19th, 20180 LOS ANGELES — Less than four months after the #MeToo movement inspired a national conversation about sexual misconduct and led to the downfall of dozens of powerful American men, a backlash seems to be underway. Women are divided among themselves, men are beginning to speak out, and words like "revenge porn" and "witch hunt" are...
Trump administration bars Haitians from U.S. visas for low-skilled work
January 19th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Haitians will no longer be eligible for U.S. visas given to low-skilled workers, the Trump administration said on Wednesday, bringing an end to a small-scale effort to employ Haitians in the United States after a catastrophic 2010 earthquake. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the change less than...
California parents who starved, tortured 13 children face life in prison
January 19th, 20180 RIVERSIDE, CA — The California parents accused of imprisoning their 13 children in the family's squalid home beat, starved and chained them to their beds for years, taunting them with apple pie, according to a prosecutor on Thursday who called it a case of "human depravity." The father, 57-year-old David Turpin, is also accused of...
Ex-CIA officer arrested for retaining classified information
January 19th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — A former Central Intelligence Agency officer was arrested at an airport on Monday night in connection with charges that he illegally retained highly classified information, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a U.S. citizen who now lives in Hong Kong, used to maintain a top secret clearance...
Congress scrambles for deal to avoid shutdown
January 19th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressional Republicans struggled to line up support on Thursday for a short-term extension of government funding that would avert a politically embarrassing shutdown, after President Trump offered mixed signals on the stopgap plan. Trump complicated the talks by saying a six-year extension of funding for the...
CAIR-MI questions Pew report on numbers of Muslim Americans
January 19th, 20180 By Farah Harb WASHINGTON D.C. — The Pew Research Center recently released a report stating that Muslim Americans in the United States constitute 1 percent of the total U.S. population, but a Muslim advocacy group questions the results. In the report, The Pew Research Center claims that as of 2017, there are 3.45 million Muslims...
Women business group hosts panel on how to deal with sexual harassment in the workplace
January 19th, 20181 By Farah Harb DEARBORN — In the wake of the #MeToo movement that has brought down powerful men in the political and entertainment worlds and encourages organizations to take initiative to guide women on how to deal with sexual harassment in the workplace, the Arab American Women's Business Council hosted a discussion panel at the...
Detroit out in bid to be Amazon’s second headquarters
January 19th, 20180 DETROIT — Amazon has released a list of the top 20 finalist among the 238 cities across the United States, Canada and Mexico vying to serve as that company's second headquarters. Detroit was not among them. Detroit made a joint bid with the city of Windsor. It offered big tax breaks, cheap labor costs and a possible ferry to the...
New president for Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority
January 19th, 20180 DETROIT — Willie Brooks will be the new president and CEO of the Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority after being unanimously approved by the DWMHA Board of Directors on January 17. The search for a new CEO and president began in May and included more than 100 candidates. "I am looking forward to working with Mr. Brooks and the...
Trump administration to provide $60 million in Palestinian aid, withhold $65 million
January 16th, 20180 WASHINGTON - The United States will give a U.N. agency $60 million in aid for Palestinians but will withhold a further $65 million “for future consideration,” a U.S. official said on Tuesday. In keeping back some of the aid, Washington appeared to carry out a threat made by President Trump in a Twitter post on Jan. 2 in which he...
Reps. Abdullah Hammoud and Darrin Camilleri receive Legislator of the Month awards
January 12th, 20180 LANSING — State Reps. Abdullah Hammoud (D-Dearborn) and Darrin Camilleri (D-Brownstown Township) were named co-recipients of Progress Michigan's Legislator of the Month Award. Hammoud and Camilleri were named for their efforts to engage young people in Dearborn and Downriver in the political process. "Decisions made day after day in......
Gary Woronchak gains an endorsement in his bid for State Senate
January 12th, 20180 DETROIT — Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has announced her endorsement of Gary Woronchak for the State Senate in the Third District. "Gary Woronchak understands the challenges my office faces in fighting crime and will be an advocate to help us meet those challenges as a state senator," Worthy said. "He has demonstrated...
What you need to know about Trump’s fully implemented travel ban
January 12th, 20181 By Tareq Abdel Wahed DEARBORN — On December 5, the Supreme Court ruled to fully implement President Trump's decision to ban travel from six Muslim-majority countries, despite several legal challenges against it in lower courts. The decision to approve the third iteration of Trump's travel ban has disappointed many in the legal......
CVS guard allegedly threatens, assaults customer
January 12th, 20180 DETROIT — Police investigators are seeking a warrant to bring charges against a CVS guard who works at the store located at 18585 E. Warren Near the Grosse Pointe border, according to WXYZ TV. Jerry T. Bell Jr. said the armed guard assaulted him Friday, Dec. 29 as he was leaving the store to get cash from his car to pay for...
Study: Married heart patients more likely than singles to survive
January 12th, 20180 People with heart disease have better long-term survival odds when they are married, a recent U.S. study suggests. Compared to divorced, widowed and never-married peers, who were up to 71 percent more likely to die during a follow-up of several years, married patients also had fewer heart risk factors like high blood pressure and were...Italy and Iran sign $6 billion investment agreement
ROME — Italy and Iran signed a framework credit agreement on Thursday to fund investments worth up to 5 billion euros ($6.02 billion) in Iran, Italy's Economy Ministry said. The deal was signed between two Iranian institutions, Bank of Industry and Mine and Middle East Bank, and the investment arm of Italian state-owned holding...
Syrian army dismisses rebels claim of progress in Idlib province, continues offensives
January 12th, 20180 BEIRUT — Fighting raged in Idlib, where the Syrian government forces offensive has gathered pace in the last two weeks, according to rebels and a military media unit run by Lebanon's Hezbollah, which is fighting on the Syrian government side. Idlib province is the biggest chunk of Syria still held by rebels fighting the Syrian army,......
Israeli army kills two Palestinian youths in Gaza, West Bank
January 12th, 20180 GAZA — Two Palestinian youths were shot dead by Israeli troops during clashes on Thursday in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian medical sources and witnesses said. Israeli-Palestinian tensions have risen following President Trump's Dec. 6 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a move that has...Arab League to hold meeting on Jerusalem next month
CAIRO — The Arab League will meet on Feb. 1 to discuss how to counter President Trump's move last month to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Egypt's state news agency MENA said on Wednesday. Six Arab foreign ministers who met in Amman last week said Arab states would embark on a diplomatic drive to persuade the United Nations......
Israel approves hundreds of new illegal settlement homes in the West Bank
January 12th, 20180 WEST BANK — The Israeli government has given its final approval for 352 homes in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, an anti-settlement movement said on Thursday — construction that Palestinians see as jeopardizing their prospects for an independent state. The Peace Now group said a meeting on Wednesday by a planning...
Saudi women-only auto show opens in Jeddah
January 12th, 20180 JEDDAH — Women flocked to Le Mall on Thursday to check out the kingdom's first car exhibition aimed at women, a few months after Saudi Arabia granted them the right to drive. Pink, orange and yellow balloons hung in the mall's showroom as women posed for photos and selfies in front of the cars. One woman in the driver's seat fixed......
