Lawmakers raise privacy concerns over new hacking rules
WASHINGTON — On Thursday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress on Thursday asked the Justice Department to clarify how a looming rule change to the government's hacking powers could impact privacy rights of innocent Americans. The change, due to take place on December 1, would let judges issue search warrants for remote...U.S. charges 61 over India-based IRS scam
TEXAS — The Justice Department charged 61 people and entities on Thursday with taking part in a scam involving India-based call centers where agents impersonated Internal Revenue Service, immigration and other federal officials and demanded payments for nonexistent debts. The scam, which had operated since 2013, targeted at least...Media companies want U.S. to force AT&T-Time Warner to share customer data
WASHINGTON - Media companies plan to ask U.S. regulators to force AT&T Inc (T.N) and Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) to share their trove of customer data if the telecom and content companies merge, fearing the combined behemoth would have an unfair advantage selling targeted mobile advertising, a handful of...Muslim family sues country club for rejecting their membership
CONNECTICUT- Co-founder of Edible Arrangements and his wife are suing a Connecticut country club for rejecting their membership application last year because they are Muslim. Kamran Farid and his wife, Kara, sued the Pine Orchard Yacht & Country Club in Branford in state court in August. He claimed it...Muslim pilot sues for being fired without explanation
DALLAS – A lawsuit alleges that a Muslim pilot was “suspended” and later fired by NetJets without explanation.According to the lawsuit, after seven years of exemplary service, pilot Ameer Siddiqui was suspended and later fired because an unidentified employee allegedly viewed him as a "security...Wikileaks emails reveals Netanyahu really really likes Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTON - The latest batch of Wikileaks revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu really admires Presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Netanyahu prefers the stance on Israel of Clinton than that of the current US administration, with one senior Israeli official saying Netanyahu...Wikileaks: Obama sought Muslims for top jobs
WASHINGTON - President Obama and his top aides kept lists of Muslim and Asian candidates for administration positions. The 2008 emails show his team was sent lists of Muslims and Asians to be considered for White House jobs, with Arab Christians excluded or relegated to a separate list. In the email exchange, an aide wrote, "In the...California man charged for making terrorist threats to Islamic center
CALIFORNIA — A California man has been charged with making terrorist threats to the Islamic Center of Southern California. But what’s even more disturbing is what police discovered at his home.The Los Angeles Police Department said Mark Lucian Feigin, 40, was arrested last week on the charge, which is...Spanish School vandalized with Trump rhetoric
WINDSOR, Calif. (AP) — A Spanish-language school in Sonoma County has been vandalized with graffiti criticizing immigrants and referencing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports that Cali Calmecac Language Academy Principal Jeanne Acuna says a custodian found the...Islamophobic ads target New Hampshire governor
NEW HAMPSHIRE - The Governor of New Hampshire has been the target of Islamophobic ads during her run for U.S. Senate, and she’s not even Muslim. Governor Maggie Hasan, who is running for the U.S. Senate, was the target of mailers sent by the political advocacy group One Nation, that references "Radical Islamic terrorists" and shows...14-year-old girl leaves threatening note for new refugee neighbors
MARYLAND - A 14-year-old girl has admitted that she wrote a threatening note to her new refugee neighbors in Maryland. The family recently escaped Iraq and settled in Maryland. But they were quickly unsettled when they found an anonymous threatening note on their front steps. Part of the note read, "Terrorist, Leave no one...U.S. civil rights groups to fan out on Nov. 8 to fight voter intimidation
Donald Trump supporters who plan to stake out polling sites on Election Day may find their own activities tracked closely by thousands of civil-rights activists who are mounting a nationwide effort to prevent problems at the polls.The Republican presidential candidate, who has repeatedly said that the election...Kansas trio pleads not guilty in plot to bomb apartment, mosque
Three men charged with plotting to bomb an apartment building in western Kansas where Muslim immigrants from Somalia lived and had a mosque pleaded not guilty on Monday but remained in jail, prosecutors said. Curtis Allen, 49, Gavin Wright, 49, and Patrick Eugene Stein, 47, were each charged on Friday with...Jury begins deliberations in conspiracy trial of Oregon militants
OREGON - A federal court jury began deliberations on Thursday in the trial of six men and a woman charged with conspiracy for their roles in the armed takeover of a U.S. Wildlife center in Oregon earlier this year.U.S. District Judge Anna Brown in Portland instructed members of the 12-member panel late on Wednesday on how to apply the...Final Presidential debate ends on a “nasty” note
LAS VEGAS - An estimated 71.6 million people watched the final debate between White House contenders Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on TV on Wednesday, below the audience for their first encounter but the third-largest total ever recorded. The data supplied by the Nielsen ratings agency on Thursday covered people who watched......
Man gets one year in prison for assisting in Army base bomb plot
KANSAS - A man has been sentenced to one year and four months in prison for helping in the assistance of an unsuccessful attempt to plant a bomb at an Army post in northeast Kansas. A federal judge sentenced 29-year-old Alexander Blair on Tuesday. The Topeka man was accused of loaning $100 to...Iraq war veteran gets five years for mosque arson, Planned Parenthood plot
KANSAS CITY, Miss.,-- A Missouri man who set fire to a mosque and attempted to set fire to a Planned Parenthood facility twice was sentenced to 63 months in prison for the crimes on Tuesday in federal court. Jedediah Stout, an Iraqi veteran, pleaded guilty to causing damage at the Islamic Society of Joplin mosque and two......
Man gets probation for ripping off woman’s hijab on Southwest flight
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A North Carolina man who acknowledged grabbing and pulling off a Muslim woman's hijab on a flight from Chicago to Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been sentenced to a year of probation that includes two months of home confinement. Federal prosecutors say 37-year-old Gill Parker Payne of Gastonia also was ordered...A Military college’s first Hijabi student
NORTHFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Despite being the first woman allowed to wear a Muslim headscarf beneath her military uniform at the nation's oldest private military college, Sana Hamze says she doesn't feel like a pioneer. Her focus is on learning details of life as a "rook" at Vermont's Norwich University, in the school's Corps of Cadets...Woman convicted for smashing beer-mug in Muslim woman’s face
MINNEAPOLIS — A woman plead guilty Monday to attacking another woman in a restaurant because she was speaking Swahili. The assault happened at a Coon Rapids Applebees restaurant in October 2015. Forty-four-year-old Jodie Burchard-Risch got upset when she heard Asma Mohamed Jama and her relatives speaking in their native...Man charged for vandalizing New Jersey mosque
BAYONNE, New Jesey - Police have arrested a 20-year-old man on charges of vandalism directed at a local mosque. On Friday morning, police discovered numerous acts of graffiti, written with spray paint on the exterior walls of the old St. Henry's Elementary School on Avenue C. Police said that the vandalism -- crude phrases such as......
Three Kansas men charged for plotting to bomb Mosque
KANSAS (Reuters) - Three men were arrested on Friday and charged with plotting to bomb a mosque and apartment complex in western Kansas where 120 people lived, including Muslim immigrants from Somalia who also used one apartment as a mosque, federal officials said.The three men, Curtis Allen, 49, Gavin Wright, 49 and Patrick Eugene...Arizona woman accused of helping inmate husband plot prison bombing
ARIZONA - An Arizona woman accused of smuggling publications distributed by Islamist militant groups into a prison as part of a plot to help her inmate husband build a bomb, has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism and conspiracy, court documents showed on Thursday. Michelle Bastian, 49, was taken......
Accused New York bomber pleads not guilty from hospital bed
NEW YORK - The man accused of last month's bombings in New York and New Jersey that injured dozens of people made his first court appearance on Thursday from a hospital bed, pleading not guilty to attempting to murder police officers. Ahmad Khan Rahimi, 28, whose last name had previously been reported...Sexual allegations haunt Trump campaign
NEW YORK — On Thursday, Donald Trump angrily denied several accusations of groping in a growing controversy over inappropriate behavior with women that is damaging the Republican presidential candidate's chances of winning the Nov. 8 election. Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, the New York Times and other media were engaged in a......
