First woman Muslim U.S. Judge found dead in New York’s Hudson River
April 12th, 20170 NEW YORK - A judge, who became the first Muslim woman in US history to serve on the bench, was found dead Wednesday — washed up on the Manhattan side of the Hudson River, sources said. Sheila Abdus-Salaam, 65, was discovered floating in the water near 132nd Street and Hudson Parkway at around 1:45 p.m., according to police...
Battered passenger sues United over forceful removal
April 12th, 20170 NEW YORK - Lawyers for the passenger dragged from a United Airlines plane in Chicago filed an emergency request with an Illinois state court on Wednesday to require the carrier to preserve video recordings and other evidence related to the incident. Citing the risk of "serious prejudice" to their client, Dr. David Dao, the lawyers...
Spicer says he let Trump down with comments comparing Assad and Hitler
April 12th, 20170 WASHINGTON-White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Wednesday he had let down President Donald Trump with his "inexcusable and reprehensible" comments comparing Syria's president's alleged use of poison gas to Adolf Hitler's atrocities. "I made a mistake. There's no other way to say it. I got into a topic that I shouldn't have and I...
SCAM ALERTS: The FTC won’t offer to fix your computer
April 11th, 20170 WASHINGTON, DC - Some cons send pop-up computer warnings to pitch unnecessary – and sometimes harmful – tech support services. Some make phone calls. Others – like one scammer the FTC just sued – send spam emails that falsely claim the FTC hired them to help remove problem software. In this case, announced today, the court...
California gunman kills wife, self as she teaches class; student also dead
April 10th, 20170 SAN BERNARDINO- A special education teacher and one of her students were fatally shot by her estranged husband when he opened fire with a high-caliber revolver before killing himself in her classroom at a San Bernardino, California, elementary school, police said. A second student was badly wounded by the gunman, who authorities said...
Video captures forced removal of United Airlines customer from overbooked flight
April 10th, 20171 CHICAGO ― An overbooked flight from Chicago to Louisville, KY ended in a bloodied uprooting of a customer from his seat and dragged down the aisle towards the entrance of the aircraft. After passengers were seated on the Sunday flight with no seats to spare for a few staff members, the airline announced that it needed to take...
Passenger dragged from United Airlines flight in ‘upsetting event’
April 10th, 20170 NEW YORK- A doctor trying to return home to his patients was dragged by his hands from an overbooked United Airlines (UAL.N) flight, according to social media, embroiling the carrier in its second public relations nightmare in less than a month. The airline was one of the top-trending topics on Twitter as users took to the website to...
Feds hunt gun shop burglar who sent manifesto to Trump
April 10th, 20170 MADISON — Police searching for a Wisconsin man considered armed and dangerous stepped up patrols on Sunday at churches near his home because of anti-religious views expressed in a manifesto he sent to President Trump, officials said. Joseph A. Jakubowski, 32, is wanted for breaking into a gun shop called Armageddon Supplies in his...
17 states challenge Trump over climate change regulation
April 8th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. — A coalition of 17 states filed a legal challenge on Wednesday against efforts by President Trump's administration to roll back climate change regulations, deepening a political rift over his emerging energy policies. Led by New York State, the coalition said the administration has a legal duty to regulate...
Trump administration no longer considering separating women, children at border
April 8th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration is no longer considering separating women and children at the southern U.S. border as a means of deterring their migration, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman said on Wednesday. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly was questioned by a Senate panel on Wednesday, but only said it...
Trump defends O’Reilly after sexual harassment accusations
April 8th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, President Trump defended Fox News TV anchor Bill O'Reilly after a report that the conservative commentator and his employer, 21st Century Fox, paid five women to settle claims he sexually harassed them. "I think he's a person I know well — he is a good person," Trump said of O'Reilly in an...
GOP mega donor persuaded Bannon not to resign
April 8th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. - According to a Politico report, White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, a former executive at Breitbart News, has been bickering with fellow White House staff so much recently that a GOP mega donor had to persuade him to think about the “long term” instead of resigning. Five people told Politico that Bannon has...
Orlando nightclub gunman’s widow to face federal charges
April 6th, 20170 ORLANDO— The widow of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida has agreed to return to the state from California to face federal charges, her lawyer said on Wednesday. Noor Salman, the widow of Omar Mateen, had been due to argue in court on April 10 against the transfer. But on Tuesday she waived her...
Suspect pleads not guilty in fatal New York stabbing of Black man
April 6th, 20170 NEW YORK— A White man who police said traveled to New York City to harm Black people pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a charge of murder "as a crime of terrorism" for the fatal stabbing of an African American on a Manhattan sidewalk last month. James Jackson, 28, turned himself in to police on March 22 after authorities circulated...
Trump welcomes Egyptian President Sisi to the White House: “He has done a fantastic job”
April 3rd, 20170 WASHINGTON, DC - President Donald Trump met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the White House. Trump said the Egyptian President had done a "fantastic job" and declared his support for Egypt and the Egyptian people. He also said he was “very much behind” Sisi and been very close to him since the first time they......
U.S. appeals court sets May hearing on revised Trump travel order
April 3rd, 20170 WASHINGTON, DC - A U.S. appeals court said on Monday it would hold a hearing in May over a Hawaii federal judge's order that blocked President Donald Trump's revised travel restrictions on citizens from six Muslim-majority countries. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals previously upheld a Seattle judge's block of Trump's first...
Trump tastes failure as his healthcare bill collapses
April 3rd, 20171 WASHINGTON- President Donald Trump suffered a stunning political setback on Friday in a Congress controlled by his own party when Republican leaders pulled legislation to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, a major 2016 election campaign promise of the president and his allies. House of Representatives leaders yanked the bill after a......
Seven individuals added to U.S. terrorism list
April 3rd, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C.- A high profile British Islamist preacher who was sentenced to prison last year for inviting support for the ISIS militancy was added to the U.S. global counter-terrorism list, the U.S. Treasury said on Thursday. Anjem Choudary, 50, who was imprisoned in Britain in September for five and a half years for encouraging...
Child killed, 12 people injured by carbon monoxide in Michigan motel
April 3rd, 20170 NILES- A 13-year-old boy was killed and 12 people were taken to hospitals for treatment due to a carbon monoxide leak in a Michigan motel on Saturday, police and hospital officials said. Six of those taken to hospitals for treatment were children between the ages of 12 and 14 years old, police said. Emergency officials received...
Yemeni Americans stage New York protest, urge U.S. to rethink Saudi alliance
April 2nd, 20170 NEW YORK CITY — On a cold, snowy Sunday morning, more than 100 Arab Americans gathered outside the United Nations headquarters to protest the United States' support for Saudi Arabia, which they say is the culprit responsible for extreme devastation and famine in Yemen. Dozens of Yemeni, Lebanese and Iraqi American demonstrators met...
Two JDL members arrested for brutally beating Palestinian man outside AIPAC conference
April 1st, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. ― A 55-year old Palestinian-American instructor at a North Carolina community college was “brutally beaten” by members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) whil e walking through a protest outside the AIPAC conference in Washington D.C. on Sunday. The man was identified as Kamal Nayfeh. The JDL members......
Israel Lobby and American Policy conference offers counterpoint to national AIPAC conference
March 31st, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C.— Days before AIPAC’s national policy conference, a wide coalition of groups assembled for a counter-conference in Washington to address Israel’s ongoing P.R. ploy of mobilizing support for its policies and quelling dissent through Congress. The counter-conference, called “the Israel Lobby and American...
U.S. ambassador to U.N.: Washington no longer focusing on removing Assad
March 30th, 20171 NEW YORK - The United States is no longer making removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a focus of its policy in the war-torn country, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said on Thursday. "Our priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out," Ambassador Nikki Haley told a small group of reporters. "Our......
Seattle sues Trump over threat to sanctuary cities
March 29th, 20170 SEATTLE ― The city of Seattle sued President Trump's administration on Wednesday over its executive order seeking to withhold federal funds from "sanctuary cities," arguing it amounted to unconstitutional federal coercion. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray told reporters the Constitution forbade the federal government from pressuring cities,...
House votes to overturn internet privacy protections
March 29th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C.-On Tuesday, Congress moved forth in finalizing its overturn of some of the most significant online privacy protections in a 215-2015 vote drawing itself along party lines. The vote marked a victory, however, for telecommunications companies, such as Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast, of regulations passed last year that......
