Trump’s alien registration requirement threatens an invasion — of Americans’ privacy
May 28th, 20250 By Edward Kissam Complying with the bevvy of new immigration-related pronouncements out of the Trump White House can seem an impossible task. Instructions are either contradictory, legally incorrect or just plain confusing. More alarming, the orders and implementing regulations raise serious concerns over privacy for citizen and...
Motive for murder: There’s plenty of “anti-Semitism” to go around
May 23rd, 20250 On May 20, Israeli forces bombed two homes in Gaza, where, Reuters reports, "children were among the 18 dead." The attack was justified, the Israeli regime claims, because — who knows? — there might have been a Hamas member hiding in one of the closets or something. To criticize those killings, we're told, is "anti-Semitic", even...
Deadly shooting at Israeli Embassy event in Washington: Attacker shouts “Free Palestine”
May 23rd, 20250 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Amid ongoing international accusations of genocide against Israel in Gaza, now entering its 17th month, tensions surrounding rising hostility toward Israelis have been reignited after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. were fatally shot during an attack in which the attacker reportedly...
Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students, says thousands must transfer
May 23rd, 20250 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school, saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country. The Department of Homeland Security announced the action Thursday, saying...
Our country needs effective leadership
May 23rd, 20250 I do not remember being as concerned about the quality of our political leadership and the direction our leaders want to take the country as I am today. If you look at the places where we expect strong leadership – the courts, the Congress and, especially, the president – it’s hard not to be disappointed. And our country needs...
Can Trump end birthright citizenship legally?
May 23rd, 20250 By Selen Ozturk On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order redefining who gets to be an American. On Thursday, May 15, the Supreme Court heard arguments from challengers to Trump’s January 20 Executive Order 14160 — denying U.S. citizenship to babies born to a mother who is either...
Trump and Netanyahu clash: A summer cloud or the beginning of a storm?
May 16th, 20250 Since the beginning of this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right cabinet ministers have maintained complete silence regarding relations with the United States. This coincides with Donald Trump’s first presidential tour, which he deliberately launched as an Arab Gulf visit, starting from the Saudi capital,...
House Republicans unveil text of $880 billion cut to Medicaid
May 16th, 20250 By Sunita Sohrabji Late night on May 11 House Republicans released the text of a plan that would strip $880 billion from Medicaid, leaving at least 13.7 million people without health insurance coverage. The proposed legislation was scheduled to be heard in the House Energy and Commerce Committee May 13. It is...
Melvindale man faces terror charges over planned attack on Warren military facility
May 16th, 20252 An Arab American man from Melvindale is facing federal charges for attempting to carry out an armed attack on behalf of the terrorist organization ISIS against a military base in Warren on Tuesday. The arrest followed an undercover sting operation by two FBI agents that lasted nearly a year. The U.S. Department of Justice announced...
Trump’s Gulf tour: $4 trillion in deals and commitments over four days
May 16th, 20250 In what has been described as a "historic Gulf tour", President Trump secured record-breaking deals, investments and commitments worth nearly $4 trillion with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. In addition to these massive agreements, it was announced during the visit that sanctions on Syria would be lifted — a move...
Trump’s Yemen truce and Gaza ultimatum sidelines Netanyahu; Middle east trip to exclude Israel
May 9th, 20250 As President Trump prepares for his upcoming visit to the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself stunned and cornered following Washington’s decision to withdraw support for Israel in its confrontation with Yemen. Netanyahu now stands at a crossroads: either comply with Trump’s demand to end the war on...
Majority of Americans say Japanese internment was “shameful”
May 9th, 20250 By Christopher Alam A YouGov poll finds most Americans disapprove of the country's wartime internment of Japanese, though they remain divided on the question of reparations. Photo Credit: The National Archives Collection. Seventy years after the U.S. government forcibly interred more than 120,000 people of Japanese...
New Poll: Republican voters want Trump to press Israel to end war and occupation
May 9th, 20250 American voters want an end to the war in Gaza and for President Trump to withhold U.S. aid, if necessary, to pressure Israel to end it. During last year’s campaign, Donald Trump promised big changes in U.S. Middle East policy. He said that the Gaza war never would have happened had he been president; promised he would end it; boasted...
U.S. travel detentions: Who’s safe?
May 9th, 20250 By Selen Ozturk High-profile deportations, detentions and denials of U.S. travelers are making Americans nationwide wonder who’s safe to enter and leave the country. With these increased stops and searches at U.S. borders and airports, electronic device searches are at an all-time high. Customs and Border...
In his first appearance, Pope Leo offers three big clues about his papacy
May 9th, 20250 VATICAN CITY — From his first moments on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Leo XIV gave three important clues about what kind of leader of the 1.4-billion-member Catholic Church he will be. Leo, formerly U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost, was elected by the world's cardinals on Thursday as the new......
Pope Leo once levied criticism at Trump and Vance, MAGA reacted with disdain to his appointment
May 9th, 20250 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Before becoming pontiff, the first U.S.-born pope was not shy about criticizing President Trump and Vice President JD Vance — social media musings that pulled him into the maelstrom of divided U.S. politics on Thursday as he took on leadership of the global Catholic Church. Pope Leo...
Trump announces halt to U.S. airstrikes on Yemen
May 6th, 20250 Washington, DC. – In a surprising shift in both military and diplomatic posture, President Trump has announced a halt to American airstrikes in Yemen, citing a “reassessment of Washington’s Middle East strategy and a renewed focus on political solutions over military escalation.” In an official statement issued by the White......
Poll shows mixed ratings for Trump and Whitmer ahead of 2026 elections
May 6th, 20250 LANSING — A new statewide poll conducted by EPIC▪MRA between April 28 and May 3 offers fresh insights into Michigan voters’ views on key political figures and national issues as the 2026 election cycle heats up. The live-interviewer poll surveyed 600 likely voters, with a margin of error of ±4.0 percentage points. Trump’s...
Trump orders English proficiency requirement for all U.S. commercial truck drivers
May 2nd, 20250 WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Trump has signed an executive order requiring all commercial truck drivers in the United States to demonstrate proficiency in the English language as a mandatory condition for working in the industry. Trump described the measure as a way to enhance public safety and ensure effective communication between...
U.S.-Iran talks postponed, new date depends on U.S. approach, Iranian official says
May 2nd, 20250 A fourth round of talks between the United States and Iran, which had been due to take place in Rome on Saturday, has been postponed and a new date will be set "depending on the U.S. approach," a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Thursday. "U.S. sanctions on Iran during the nuclear talks are not helping the sides to resolve the...
Trump marks 100 days back in White House with rally in Michigan: “You haven’t seen anything yet!”
May 2nd, 20250 WARREN, HARRISON TOWNSHIP, MI — President Trump marked the first 100 days of his second term with a public rally, choosing Michigan — one of the country’s industrial heartlands — as the symbolic venue to reaffirm his economic and trade agenda and take aim at his political opponents. Addressing a crowd at Macomb Community College......
100 days of DOGE: lots of chaos, not so much efficiency
April 27th, 20250 At the Social Security Administration, lawyers, statisticians and other high-ranking agency officials are being sent from the Baltimore headquarters to regional offices to replace veteran claims processors who have been fired or taken buyouts from the Trump administration. But most of the new arrivals don't know how to do the job,...
Lincoln’s speeches glimpsed the future
April 25th, 20250 When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his second term as president, the United States was divided as never before or since. The Civil War had killed over 600,000 Americans, North and South. The end of the war was in sight, but bitterness remained. Lincoln could have celebrated the Union’s approaching victory or claimed a......
Student crackdown intensifies: Mahmoud Khalil’s case takes alarming turn as federal lawsuit filed in Michigan
April 18th, 20250 A sweeping federal crackdown on international students has intensified, with the U.S. government canceling the visas of approximately 1,000 current and recent foreign graduates from American universities. Among them is Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil, a legal U.S. resident and Columbia University graduate, whose potential deportation...
“Homegrowns are next”: Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad, El Salvador’s president would oblige
April 18th, 20250 President Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador. Speaking Monday, minutes before a press briefing alongside El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, Trump could be heard embracing the concept. "The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You've got to......
