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Syrians with temporary U.S. protection brace for Trump decision
January 26th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Targeted by the Syrian government after providing humanitarian supplies to civilians fleeing air strikes, Mohammad Alala and his wife escaped in 2012, eventually obtaining student visas to enter the United States. They received a form of temporary protected status (TPS) extended to Syrians in the United States...
Trump rolls out plan for path to citizenship for 1.8 million ‘Dreamers’
January 26th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump is ready to sign on to a plan that would open a path to citizenship for as many as 1.8 million "Dreamers," young immigrants brought illegally to the country as children, senior White House officials said on Thursday. The White House presented the offer as a major concession aimed at attracting...
Obituary: Joseph Haiek, who documented the history and achievements of Arab Americans, dead at 85
January 26th, 20180 LOS ANGELES — Joseph R. Haiek, 85, a well known Arab American historian and journalist who spent his life documenting the achievements of our community in this country, died on Thursday, Jan. 25, according to his family. "It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our father, Joseph Rizek Haiek, this morning, January 25,...
Acclaimed theater company searching for Arab Americans with Dearborn stories
January 26th, 20180 DEARBORN — Ping Chong + Company, an internationally acclaimed theater company known for bringing unheard voices to the stage, is partnering with the Arab American National Museum to present Undesirable Elements/Dearborn, an interview-based theater production for the AANM's Global Fridays series. The production is now accepting...
U.S. drops to eighth place on ‘best countries’ list
January 26th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. has dropped to eighth place in U.S. News and World Report's "Best Countries" ranking. This is the second straight year that the U.S. has dropped in the rankings. In 2017, the U.S. came in seventh place. Switzerland came in at the top spot for the second year in a row. U.S. News said the drop can be...
Dearborn’s longtime associate broker Sam Baydoun announces run for Wayne County Commission seat
January 26th, 20180 DEARBORN — Dearborn Real Estate associate broker and businessman Sam Baydoun announced that he will seek the Wayne County Commission seat being vacated by Chairman Gary Woronchak, who has opted against seeking another term on the county's governing board and will instead run for an open seat in the State Senate. Woronchak represents...
Yemeni American family decries police cruelty: They threw us out in the cold like animals
January 26th, 20180 By Farah Harb HAMTRAMCK — Members of a Hamtramck family claim the police treated them pitilessly during a traffic stop on Jan. 3 in which the father was pulled over for an expired tag and ticketed for having no insurance. Nasser Almasmari had his pregnant wife, 10-year old son and 2-year-old and 11-month-old daughters with him when...
Michigan State University president resigns over gymnasts abuse case
January 24th, 20180 LANSING — The president of Michigan State University said on Wednesday she is tendering her resignation after facing a barrage of criticism for not doing enough to stop the abuse by a doctor who worked at the school and was convicted of molesting gymnasts. “As tragedies are politicized, blame is inevitable. As president, it is...
Dearborn’s longtime associate broker Sam Baydoun announces run for Wayne County Commissioner seat
January 24th, 20181 DEARBORN, Mich. – Dearborn Real Estate associate broker and businessman Sam Baydoun announced today that he will seek the Wayne County Commission seat being vacated by Chairman Gary Woronchak, who has opted to against seeking another term on the county's governing board and will instead run for an open seat in the State Senate....
Amena Khan loses her L’Oreal gig after 2014 tweet calling Israel a “child killers” unearthed
January 24th, 20180 LONDON - Just days into her role, a British Muslim model has quit a major beauty brand's campaign after right-wing media outlets published her tweets from 2014, in which she criticized Israel's war in Gaza. Amena Khan, who runs the Pearl Daisy fashion blog, became L'Oreal's only hijab-wearing model to front its haircare campaign,...
Ex-USA Gymnastics doctor sentenced to 175 years for sexual abuse
January 24th, 20180 LANSING — Disgraced long-time USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced on Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison for molesting young female gymnasts, following days of wrenching testimony from about 160 of his victims, including Olympic medalists. “I’ve just signed your death warrant,” Ingham County Circuit...
While the opioid crisis looms Neurontin prescriptions rise
January 19th, 20180 ATHENS, OHIO — Prescriptions for nerve pain medications like Neurontin and Lyrica have more than tripled in recent years, according to a recent U.S. study. The study suggests the rise is driven by chronically ill older adults already taking opioids. "Nearly one in 25 adults takes a gabapentinoid during a year, which matters because...
Stress in schools could be reduced with a partnership between doctors and teachers
January 19th, 20180 CHICAGO — A teacher turned doctor has made some suggestions about lowering stress levels in students. Dr. Kavitha Selvaraj of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago suggested giving teachers a professional support network, strategies to de-escalate charged situations and ways to manage behavior in children with...
The presidency
January 19th, 20180 By Lee H. Hamilton Because we live in such tumultuous political times, it's easy to believe that today's intense public focus on the Trump presidency is something new — an obsession like none we've ever seen before. Yet to one degree or another, the president has always been at the center of the public's attention. This is...
In words and deeds: The genesis of Israeli violence
January 19th, 20181 By Ramzy Baroud Not a day passes without a prominent Israeli politician or intellectual making an outrageous statement against Palestinians. Many of these statements tend to garner little attention or evoke rightly deserved outrage. Just recently, Israel's minister of agriculture, Uri Ariel, called for more death and injuries on......
Rights group accuses Saudi Arabia of repression, war crimes in Yemen
January 19th, 20180 On Thursday, Human Rights Watch accused Saudi Arabia of violating international humanitarian law in Yemen and stepping up arrests and prosecutions of activists seeking reform or voicing peaceful dissent. In its World Report 2018, which reviews human rights practices in more than 90 countries, the rights group reported it had...
Jordan: Agreement reached for Israel’s embassy to resume full operations in Amman
January 19th, 20180 AMMAN — Israel's embassy in the Jordanian capital, Amman, will resume full operations immediately, the Israeli prime minister's office declared on Thursday. Jordan said Israel had formally apologized for the deaths of two of its citizens killed by an Israeli security guard last July. The incident has soured ties and led to the......
World Economic Forum survey points to rising risk of war this year
January 19th, 20180 BERLIN — The risk of political and economic confrontations between major powers, including outright military conflicts, has risen sharply, according to a survey released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) days before its annual gathering in Davos. The Global Risks Report highlighted several top risks for 2018, including environmental...
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......
