U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison talks commitment to civil rights, close relationship with Arab American community
January 14th, 20230 DETROIT — Dawn Ison, nominated by President Biden to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, says she knows the value of community engagement. The Detroit native is the first African American woman to serve in the position. Her office currently employs approximately 221 persons in three locations — Detroit,...
U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin discusses her trip to the Middle East, painful lessons from U.S. invasion of Iraq
January 7th, 20230 U.S. Rep. Elissa Blair Slotkin (D- Holly) recently returned from a nine-day trip to the Middle East over Thanksgiving. The Congressional Delegation of House Veterans Affairs Committee members visited Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq and Lebanon. Slotkin had to miss the Lebanon portion of the trip due to President Biden’s visit to Bay City,...
Sen. Debbie Stabenow announced she won’t seek re-election in 2024, opening up the seat in key swing state
January 6th, 20230 U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow will not seek reelection in 2024, the longtime Michigan Democrat said Thursday, opening up a Senate seat in a key swing state. "Inspired by a new generation of leaders, I have decided to pass the torch in the U.S. Senate," she said in a statement on Jan. 5. "I am announcing today that I will...
U.N. World Arabic Language Day: Americans’ desire to learn Arabic grows
December 24th, 20220 December 18 marked the 10th United Nations World Arabic Language Day, which celebrates the language spoken by more than 300 million people, primarily in the Middle East and North Africa. Arabic is also the fastest-growing language in the United States, according to Census data. Arabic has become the eighth-most taught language in U.S....
Businessman Nasser Beydoun announces U.S. Senate exploratory committee and statewide tour
December 23rd, 20220 DETROIT – On Thursday, businessman, author and small business advocate Nasser Beydoun announced the Beydoun for Senate Exploratory Committee and Statewide Listening Tour to explore the feasibility of a primary candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Senator Debbie Stabenow. “As I embark on this venture, I have decided...
U.S. Postal Service to transform delivery fleet with 66,000 electric vehicles by 2028
December 20th, 20220 On Tuesday, the U.S. Postal Service said that it intends to purchase at least 66,000 electric delivery vehicles as part of a push to transform its delivery fleet. The electric vehicles would amount to more than half the 106,000 vehicles it plans to acquire for delivery between now and 2028. The new vehicles will start to replace...
U.S. court decision against Lebanon’s banks gives hope to depositors
December 20th, 20220 A U.S. court of appeals determined this week that cases against Lebanese commercial banks can be tried outside Lebanon, paving the way for more cases by depositors seeking to unlock their frozen funds. The court decision, issued on Thursday in a case brought by Lebanese depositors against leading lender Bank Audi, overturned a federal...
Tlaib introduces Restaurant Workers Bill of Rights to improve the lives of restaurant workers nationwide
December 20th, 20220 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Monday, U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) introduced House Resolution 1528, the Restaurant Workers Bill of Rights, in partnership with worker members of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United, recognizing restaurant workers’ rights to thriving wages, healing, rest, a safe and dignified working...
How to protect yourself from winter weather hazards as a snow storm targets the Midwest
December 20th, 20220 How to protect yourself from winter weather hazards
Peters Joins firefighters and local officials in Dearborn to highlight efforts to support Michigan fire departments
December 19th, 20220 DEARBORN – U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, toured Dearborn Fire Station 2 to discuss the need to pass his bipartisan legislation to renew federal grants programs that are set to expire in the coming years. During the visit, Peters highlighted how the Staffing for...
$67,499 yearly is the highest salary that young Michiganders expect to earn – ever, survey reveals
December 17th, 20220 While there is more to life than money, in an ideal world we’d all be doing a job we love and being compensated handsomely for it. Of course, when you’re young, you start at the bottom of the career ladder and have to take the salary that goes with it. But, given the chance to dream big, what is the highest salary you could hope to...
Sendwave app: Send money to loved ones in Lebanon without charging them fees!
December 17th, 20220 By Eric Schloeffel Sending money to Lebanon traditionally includes fees on both sides: You pay a fee to send and your loved one pays a 2 percent fee to receive. But the app from Boston-based company Sendwave has disrupted the U.S.-Lebanon transfer market by eliminating fees for recipients in Lebanon while also offering...
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...
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...
Assyrian American comedian’s humor unites different Middle Eastern cultures
December 10th, 20220 — This article was contributed by Sarah Moosazadeh, special to The Arab American News A pair of reading glasses, headscarf and a dose of Middle Eastern humor are all traits Assyrian American comedian and influencer Ramina Odicho uses to post comedic TikTok clips that depict her Assyrian roots and build ties with other......
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...
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......
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...
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...
Why the decision of the FBI to investigate Abu Akleh’s murder is unprecedented
November 26th, 20220 The recent decision by the United States Department of Justice to open an investigation into the killing, last May, of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is not a game-changer, but important and worthy of reflection, nonetheless. Based on the long trajectory of U.S. military and political support of Israel, and......
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......
Voters of color and women saved the Democrats from disaster
November 19th, 20220 By Peter White Despite new laws to keep people from voting and gerrymandering election districts to take away the power of minority communities, the Republican “red wave” that pollsters predicted ahead of last week’s midterms didn’t happen. Ethnic Media Services debriefed six experts on their reactions to the election...
FBI to investigate Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder; Israel says it won’t cooperate
November 18th, 20220 The U.S. Department of Justice has decided to investigate the killing of renowned Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, with Israel saying it does not plan to cooperate. The investigation by the FBI comes after months of pressure from rights groups, Democrats and Abu Akleh’s family on the Biden administration to push......
