New senate bill aims to ban anti-Israeli movement on college campuses
December 1st, 20161 ANN ARBOR - The BDS movement continues to grow at a fast rate, much to the discontent of university and college officials who continue to deny students' organized requests to divest from Israel. Now, a bill is headed towards the senate that aims to label any such movement as "Anti-Semism."The Senate is due to consider the...
Minority groups cause gun sales to hit record high on Black Friday
December 1st, 20160 NEW YORK - Americans stormed their local gun stores following their thanksgiving meals to load up on their second amendment rights. Guns were the hot ticket and interest in firearms on America's biggest shopping day seemed to hit its highest yet.The cause of the frenzy may be attributed to minority groups who fear they want to...
Supreme Court divided in immigration dispute
November 30th, 20160 WASHINGTON - A divided U.S. Supreme Court struggled on Wednesday with how to resolve a dispute over whether immigrants detained by the U.S. government for more than six months while deportation proceedings take place should be able to seek their release.The case takes on additional importance with the expectation that President-elect...
Trump appoints two more Islamophobes to team
November 30th, 20160 WASHINGTON - President-Elect Donald Trump’s white house is looking more and more like a Fox News program by the day. The President elect has appointed two more individuals to his team with a long history of hateful comments about Muslims. Katharine Gorka has been selected to be a part of his transition team that will meet...
North Carolina teacher allegedly assaults Muslim kindergartner
November 24th, 20160 RALEIGH, N.C. -- Charlotte’s public school system is investigating allegations that a kindergarten teacher singled out a 5-year-old student for harassment because he’s Muslim. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said Wednesday that the teacher grabbed the student by the neck at one point and called him a “bad Muslim boy”...
After criticizing the New York Times, Trump meets with staff
November 24th, 20160 NEW YORK — After President-elect Donald Trump went on a rant on Twitter about The New York Times and canceled a meeting with the newspaper's officials, he tweeted that was set for 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. "Mr. Trump's staff has told us that the president elect's meeting with The Times is on again," Eileen Murphy, a Times spokeswoman,...
Mobile device makers seek avenues to disable phones while driving
November 24th, 20160 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Transportation Department issued voluntary guidelines for makers of mobile devices, asking them to help keep eyes on the road by developing a "driver mode" that would disable some distracting functions in moving cars. The guidelines also ask manufacturers to make it easy to pair mobile devices with in-vehicle...
Driver in deadly school bus crash told passengers ‘y’all ready to die?’
November 24th, 20160 TENNESSEE — The driver charged with homicide in a Tennessee elementary school bus crash that killed five children and critically injured 12 others appeared to be speeding in the moments leading up to the wreck, police said. Johnthony Walker, 24, was driving the bus full of students home from Chattanooga's Woodmore Elementary School...
Pittsburgh man arrested after assaulting Indian “Muslim” man
November 24th, 20160 PITTSBURGH- An Indian man was assaulted at the Red Robin Restaurant at the South Hills Village because he was thought to be Muslim.Officers arrived at the scene where Ankur Mehta, the victim, directed them to the suspect, Jeffrey Burgess.Police said the 54-year-old spoke incoherently and reeked of alcohol.Mehta told police that he was...
Trump appoints two women to Cabinet
November 24th, 20160 Betsy DeVos WASHINGTON — Donald Trump on Wednesday named South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a former critic who has little foreign policy experience, to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at a time of uncertainty over America's international role under his presidency. He also named west Michigan GOP mega donor and...
Meet Trump’s male cabinet picks so far
November 24th, 20160 FlynnWASHINGTON — While much discussion has been focused on President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet, only five names have been officially confirmed. In the weeks to come, Trump must choose thousands of appointees to oversee security, economy, foreign affairs and domestic policies during his term. But much disarray has already gone...
Civil rights groups condemn ‘Muslim registry’ talks
November 24th, 20160 WASHINGTON — Civil rights group are citing growing concerns in regards to talks of a 'Muslim registry' within President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, called on Trump to repudiate a prominent supporter who cited...
Trump names Indian American woman as envoy to U.N.
November 23rd, 20160 WASHINGTON - Donald Trump on Wednesday named South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a former critic who has little foreign policy experience, to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at a time of uncertainty over America's international role under his presidency.Haley, one of two women chosen for a job in Trump's Cabinet, is...
Man pulls off woman’s winter scarf because he thought she was Muslim
November 23rd, 20160 New York - A New York woman was making a quick run to a local Starbucks on a cold morning last week when she became the target of a hate crime. Jennifer Simonetti ,35, is not a Muslim. But she was wearing a scarf as she was headed to the Starbucks in West Brighton because of low temperatures. After parking down the street, she was...
Homeless man attacks Muslim woman on bus ride
November 23rd, 20160 URBANA — Urbana police have identified a 58-year-old homeless man as the offender who allegedly harassed a Muslim woman earlier this month by pulling off her head scarf on a Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District bus in Urbana, Illinois.Clifford Gottschall was already in custody in the Champaign County Jail when police alerted him......
Fifth grader brings air pistol on school bus, threatens to kill Muslim student
November 23rd, 20160 MINNESOTA - The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) is calling for increased protection of Muslim students statewide after an incident with two students from Afton-Lakeland Elementary School, where a fifth-grader allegedly threatened to shoot a Somali-American Muslim third-grade student.The fifth...
Police: Saudi student’s death “not a hate crime”
November 22nd, 20160 MENOMONIE — Police said they have identified a suspect in the death of 24-year-old UW-Stout student Hussain Saeed Alnahdi – but the man hasn’t been arrested nor has he been charged with a hate crime. His name also hasn’t been released to the public. Police Chief Eric Atkinson confirmed Monday the citations in the......
Muslim woman disqualified from boxing tournament because of hijab
November 21st, 20160 MINNEAPOLIS - The Council on American-Islamic Relations is speaking out after an Oakdale boxer was denied fighting in a match in Florida Sunday because she was wearing a hijab. CAIR says 16-year-old Amaiya Zafar was about to enter the ring at the Sugar Bert Boxing National Championships in Kissimmee when an official disqualified her...
Grand Rapids Taxi driver assaulted by Trump touting passenger
November 19th, 20160 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Police are looking for several witnesses to a possible hate crime against a taxi cab driver in downtown Grand Rapids. The Grand Rapids Police Department said the Grand Rapids Taxi driver, Yemaj Adem, was picking up five women outside The B.O.B. on Monroe Avenue just before 2:30 a.m. Saturday when a man...
California woman with lupus robbed, called a ‘hijab wearing b*tch”
November 18th, 20161 CALIFORNIA - A California woman who is being treated for lupus was robbed and mistaken for a Muslim woman because of her headscarf. Nicki Pancholy, a non-Muslim who lost her hair from treatments for the chronic autoimmune, returned to her car after a hike and found her car window smashed with a note left on it. “Hijab wearing...
Three teen girls charged with hate crime for attacking woman with “immigrant accent”
November 18th, 20160 BOSTON - Three 15-year-old girls have been arraigned after they allegedly assaulted a woman they thought was an immigrant on an MBTA train Nov. 7, Suffolk County district attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office said. The girls — two from Dorchester, one from Mattapan — were all charged with assault and battery with a dangerous......
ISIS threatens New York Thanksgiving parade
November 18th, 20160 NEW YORK — New York City police sought to reassure residents and tourists on Monday that they would be safe attending the city's Thanksgiving Day parade despite the militant group Islamic State calling on its followers to attack the event with trucks. The largest U.S. city has prepared for such attacks in the past and will be...
Poll: Americans want Trump to focus on healthcare first
November 18th, 20160 WASHINGTON — A recent poll shows what priorities Americans would set on the new president, but it does not measure exactly what people want him to do. A Kaiser Health Tracking Poll found in late October that most Americans want cheaper prescription drugs and access to larger networks of doctors and hospitals. Only a minority, 37......
NBA star LeBron James giving $2.5 million to Muhammad Ali exhibit
November 18th, 20160 WASHINGTON — LeBron James is donating $2.5 million to support a Muhammad Ali exhibit at the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History in Washington, D.C., the basketball star and the museum announced on Thursday. The Cleveland Cavaliers forward said he was a longtime fan of Ali, one of the most beloved sports...Trump taps Islamophobe Lt. Gen. Flynn as national security adviser
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump has tapped retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to become his national security adviser, a source with knowledge of the matter has revealed.The source told NBC Wednesday evening that Trump had settled on Flynn, who was also being considered for the secretary of defense post.Earlier in the evening,......