NFL policy on anthem kneeling unchanged, despite Trump rebuke
October 19th, 20170 NEW YORK - National Football League officials weighed the fervor of players protesting racism against President Trump’s anger at their autumn meeting on Tuesday with supporters of the players kneeling outside in solidarity. The NFL did not seek commitments from its players to stop kneeling during pregame renditions of the U.S....
White man charged with hate crime in black Army officer’s murder in Maryland
October 18th, 20170 A white man was indicted on a hate crime charge on Tuesday in the stabbing death of a newly commissioned black U.S. Army officer on the University of Maryland campus in May, a county prosecutor said. Sean Urbanski, 22, of Severna Park, Maryland, had already been indicted by a grand jury on a murder charge for the death of...
Second federal judge blocks Trump’s curbs on travel to U.S.
October 18th, 20170 WASHINGTON - A second U.S. federal judge has blocked parts of President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban on people entering the United States from eight countries, dealing another legal blow to the administration’s third bid to impose travel restrictions. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland, in a ruling issued...
Family of dead Muslim recruit sues Marines for $100 million
October 18th, 20170 TAYLOR, MI — The family of a Muslim Marine recruit from Taylor who died in a fall at boot camp last year after allegedly being hazed and abused is suing the government for $100 million for his death, claiming "negligence on multiple levels of command." The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit claims the Marines...
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Americans will ‘be begging for four more years of President Trump’
October 18th, 20170 WASHINGTON - White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says that she expects America is going to be “begging” for a second Donald Trump term in about three years. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says that the Trump administration is going to have plenty of major achievements by the end of the term Sanders, during an appearance with...
Study: Refugees contributed $295M to Michigan’s economy and provided hundreds of jobs in 2016
October 18th, 20170 WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI - Refugees in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw counties are contributing to the region's economy and helping grow its population, according to a new study released Tuesday. The study by Global Detroit and the University of Michigan's School of Public Policy said, over the past decade, about 21,000 refugees...
Mother cooked two sons alive in oven and sent video to father
October 18th, 20170 ATLANTA - A mother has been accused of murdering her youngest sons by “by placing them in an oven and turning it on”, before sending footage of the aftermath to their father. Lamora Williams allegedly burned her two-year-old son Ke’Younte Penn and one-year-old baby Ja’Karter Williams to death at her home in Atlanta, the city's...
A man faces death penalty for raping and killing a Muslim teenage girl on way to mosque
October 18th, 20170 FAIRFAX, VA - A man is facing the death penalty after he was charged with raping and murdering a Muslim teenager as she was heading to a mosque with friends. Darwin Torres, 22, attacked 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen and a group of her friends in Sterling, Virginia, after they had eaten a meal together following a day-long fast during...
Federal Judge blocks Trump’s third iteration of travel ban
October 17th, 20170 SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON—A U.S. judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s latest bid to impose restrictions on citizens from several countries entering the United States, which would have taken effect this week. The open-ended ban, announced last month, targeted people from Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and...
Supreme Court tosses one of two travel ban challenges
October 13th, 20170 WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out an appeals court ruling that struck down President Donald Trump’s previous temporary travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority nations countries that has now expired. In a one-page order, the court acted in one of two cases pending before the nine justices over Trump’s...
U.S. justices question Arab Bank liability in militant attacks
October 13th, 20170 WASHINGTON—Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday signaled concern about allowing companies to be sued under American law for human rights abuses abroad in a case involving allegations that Arab Bank Plc helped finance militant attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice...
Four U.S. ‘sanctuary cities’ may be violating law: U.S. Attorney General
October 13th, 20170 WASHINGTON/NEW YORK—The U.S. Justice Department singled out four cities and a county on Thursday for allegedly having so-called “sanctuary policies” that may violate a federal law that says local governments cannot limit information sharing with U.S. immigration officials. The department said New Orleans, New York City,...
California governor signs ‘sanctuary state’ bill
October 8th, 20170 LOS ANGELES—A bill to make California a sanctuary state, by preventing police from inquiring about immigration status and curtailing law enforcement cooperation with immigration officers, was signed into law by the governor on Thursday. The signing of the bill by Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, enacts on a state-wide level...
U.S. lawmakers want to restrict internet surveillance on Americans
October 8th, 20170 WASHINGTON—A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers unveiled legislation on Wednesday that would overhaul aspects of the National Security Agency’s warrantless internet surveillance program in an effort to install additional privacy protections. The bill, which will be formally introduced as soon as Friday, is likely to revive debate in...
Trump opponents urge U.S. Supreme Court to rule on travel ban
October 8th, 20170 WASHINGTON—Challengers to President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the policy’s legality even though it has been replaced with a revised plan. In separate letters to the court, the American Civil Liberties Union and the state of Hawaii said......
The city that bears the brunt of the national terror watchlist
October 4th, 20170 With a large population of Muslim and Arab Americans, Dearborn has the most per capita residents on a shadowy and unaccountable watchlist. It is nearly impossible to find out if you’re on it, let alone get your name off. By Christopher Mathias, Rowaida Abdelaziz, Hassan Khalifeh, and Afaf Humayun DEARBORN, Mich. — There’s...
U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis recommends sticking with Iran nuclear deal
October 3rd, 20170 WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said on Tuesday the United States should consider staying in the Iran nuclear deal unless it were proven Tehran that was not abiding by the agreement or that it was not in the U.S. national interest to do so. Though Mattis deferred to President Donald Trump’s review of the......
Deadliest shooting in U.S. history: 50 dead, 200 wounded in Las Vegas
October 2nd, 20170 LAS VEGAS, Nevada - A gunman killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 200 at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, raining down rapid fire from the 32nd floor of a hotel for several minutes before he was shot dead by police. The death toll, which police emphasized was preliminary and tentative, would make...
Trump says NFL should ban player protests during anthem
September 29th, 20170 U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his fight with the National Football League (NFL) on Tuesday, calling on the league to ban players from kneeling in protest at games while the national anthem is played. “The NFL has all sorts of rules and regulations. The only way out for them is to set a rule that you can’t kneel during our...
Social media data to be collected from green card holders and naturalized citizens
September 29th, 20170 Starting Oct 18, the Department of Homeland Security will begin collecting social media data from naturalized citizens and permanent residents. Last week, there were additions to the Federal Register which require the collection of “social media handles, aliases, associated identifiable information, and search...
Trump administration proposes to cut refugee cap to 45,000
September 29th, 20170 WASHINGTON/NEW YORK—The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed admitting a maximum of 45,000 refugees next year, the lowest cap in decades, which officials said was necessary to ensure U.S. security, although Democrats and humanitarian groups blasted the decision as an abandonment of American moral authority. That figure is the......
ICE raids sanctuary cities around California, hundreds arrested
September 29th, 20170 The LA Times reported that hundreds were arrested in places where elected officials and local law enforcements have chose not to impose federal immigration laws. ICE reported that they arrested 167 people in the Los Angeles and nearby areas. Other cities targeted were San Jose and San Francisco. In the last few days, ICE said...
Bin Laden son-in-law’s conviction upheld; U.S. says ‘justice done’
September 29th, 20170 NEW YORK—A U.S. appeals court on Thursday upheld the conviction on terrorism charges of Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a Kuwaiti-born cleric who was a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and spokesman for the al Qaeda leader. Abu Ghaith, 51, who is serving a life sentence, had claimed that the evidence did not support his conviction for conspiring......
NFL players, managers defy Trump on anthem protests
September 24th, 20170 SOMERSET, N.J. ― National Football League players from the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars knelt and linked arms during the pre-game national anthem on Sunday, hours after President Trump called on fans to boycott teams that do not discipline players who protest. At the first game since Trump stepped up his criticism of...
New York’s first Arab candidate loses shot at City Council, but wins solidarity
September 14th, 20171 New York City— After a groundbreaking grassroots campaign, Yemeni activist Rabyaah Althaibani choked back tears as she mourned the defeat of the first Arab-American candidate for New York City Council on Tuesday night. “Yes we lost, but we won,” Althaibani said at a neighborhood bar, surrounded by dozens of supporters for Khader......
