Trump supporter attacks Muslim women with babies, rips off their hijabs
NEW YORK - An angry Trump supporter allegedly attacked two Muslim women who were pushing their baby strollers through Brooklyn. 32-year-old Emirjeta Xhelili yelled Islamophobic slurs at two Muslim women who were out on a walk with their babies near her Brooklyn home. “Get the f*ck out of here,” the woman yelled, according to...Texas mattress store under fire for ‘disgusting’ 9/11 sale video
TEXAS - A Texas mattress store that used bedding to stage a mock collapse of New York City's Twin Towers in an ad for a Sept. 11 sale has come under a barrage of protests that described it as a tasteless pitch and called for the business to go bankrupt. In the social media video ad that has since been pulled by San Antonio's Miracle...Is Israel pushing for a Palestinian civil war?
Avigdor Lieberman.Division within Palestinian society has reached unprecedented levels, becoming a major hurdle on the path of any unified strategy to end Israel's violent occupation or to rally Palestinians behind a single objective. Newly-appointed Israeli ultra-nationalist, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, understands this too...Hillary Clinton finally holds a press conference
NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton has finally broken her silence. The Democratic Presidential nominee held her first press conference in 278 days on Thursday, September 8. Of course, she used most of that time to chastised Republican rival Donald Trump for talking about things he learned in classified intelligence briefings, calling it...Texas schoolgirl shoots fellow student then kills herself
TEXAS — A 14-year-old girl shot and wounded a fellow student at Alpine High School in rural West Texas on Thursday and then died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Brewster County sheriff told reporters. The wounded girl, thought to be 16, was taken to a local hospital and is expected to survive. No names have been released and...Lower Manhattan rebounds 15 years after Sept. 11 attacks
NEW YORK — Lower Manhattan's population has more than doubled and the number of children living there has tripled since just before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks hit the financial district, a report on the neighborhood's rebirth showed. Employment growth in the area has equaled one in 10 of Manhattan's private sector jobs, with a more...Man gets 15 years for attacking Somali cafe
NORTH DAKOTA — An American man who threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of a Somali restaurant in North Dakota was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday over what federal prosecutors said was an act of "hate violence." Matthew Gust, a 26-year-old of Grand Forks, North Dakota, pleaded guilty to arson and hate-crime...
Muslim man acquitted for shaking stranger’s hand and talking about ‘Allah’
September 8th, 20160 Muslet (center) with his attorneys. FLORIDA – A Muslim Man in Palm Beach has been acquitted from charges after a 65-year-old man believed he was a 'radical Muslim' who posed a threat on him during a brief encounter.50-year-old Yousef Mohammad Muslet was found not-guilty of burglary with a battery and battery on a...Man charged for following Muslim man home and attacking him
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —A 37-year-old Canadian citizen of Egyptian heritage said he was confronted by an angry man and woman in a Wal-Mart parking lot, and then followed home where he was attacked in his driveway. The attack started as a flash-in-the-pan road rage incident about 5:45 p.m. Saturday in the West Lafayette Wal-Mart...Missouri woman charged with killing blind and autistic son
Missouri - Forty-two-year-old Kimberly Lightwine was charged with second-degree murder in the death of her 19-year-old son Austin Anderson, who was blind and autistic.Police found her August 29 in a field lying about 20 feet away from her dead son, who was wearing a diaper. According to police reports, Austin Anderson died from...Muslim group demands “Islamic terrorists” be removed from 9/11 monument
NEW YORK - A group of Muslims in the New York town of Owego are upset by a new 9/11 memorial honoring those who died on Sept. 11, 2001. Members of the Islamic Organization of the Southern Tier took issue that the memorial refers to the attackers as “Islamic terrorists” — a phrase they believe encourages hatred toward...Obama nominates first ever Muslim to become a federal judge
Abid QureshiPresident Obama nominated the first ever Muslim to become a federal judge.Pakistani American immigrant Abid Qureshi is a partner at law firm Latham and Watkins LLP and works as global chair of the company’s pro bono committee, one of the largest in the world.The Senate must approve the nomination. “I am pleased to...Poll shows Trump ahead of Clinton
WASHINGTON — After Hillary Clinton was leading by a significant margin over the past few weeks, a new poll showed the former secretary of state is two points behind her Republican opponent Donald Trump.The contest sparking sharp divisions along demographic lines, according to the new CNN/ORC Poll.Trump tops Clinton 45 percent to 43...U.S. court voids $655 million verdict against PLO over Israel attacks
NEW YORK - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday threw out a $655.5 million verdict against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization for damages suffered by American families from terrorist attacks in Israel.By a 3-0 vote, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a lower court judge erred in...U.S. appeals court: Potheads can be denied guns
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld federal regulations that prevented a woman with a medical marijuana card from buying a firearm in Nevada, in a ruling that cited the government's interest in preventing gun violence. In upholding a lower-court ruling, a three-judge panel of the San......
Mexico president blasts Trump’s policies as ‘huge threat’ after meeting
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's president rebuked Donald Trump as a threat to his country just hours after painting a positive picture of talks the two held on Wednesday to try to defuse tensions over the U.S. presidential hopeful's anti-Mexican campaign rhetoric. President Enrique Pena Nieto had on Wednesday...Clinton hacker sentenced to 4.5 years in prison
WASHINGTON - The hacker known as Guccifer - but better known for exposing Hillary Clinton's private email server - was sentenced today by a U.S. court to four years and four months in jail. Federal District Court Judge James Cacheris passed down the sentencing in Alexandria, Virginia, on Thursday morning,......
Suspect pleads not guilty to killing Imam, assistant
NEW YORK - The man accused of killing a Queens imam and his associate faced a judge on Thursday as his defense attorney raised questions about the case.Members of the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque filled the courtroom as Oscar Morel, 35, entered a not guilty plea.Morel is charged with one count of first-degree murder, two counts of...Muslim woman stabbed to death in Queens
NEW YORK - An NYPD officer’s aunt was stabbed to death while taking a walk with her husband in Queens Wednesday night, and the victim’s family believes it could have been a hate crime. Nazma Khanam, 60, was walking around 9 p.m. in Jamaica Hills when she was stabbed in what may have been an attempted robbery. She was taken...Christian woman files lawsuit after being forced to remove headscarf
ALABAMA - The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsuit accusing Alabama county officials of violating a Christian woman's religious rights by forcing her to remove her headscarf before taking her driver's license photo. Yvonne Allen, of Tuskegee, said a court clerk told her when she sought a license renewal last...Obama administration meets goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration met its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year a month ahead of schedule and is working with Congress to increase the target by a few thousand in 2017, the White House said. The 10,000th Syrian refugee arrived in the United States on Monday afternoon, national security advisor......
Mother charged for allowing boyfriend to rape, kill 10-year-old daughter
NEW MEXICO - When police were called on Wednesday to an apartment complex in Albuquerque, New Mexico, they thought they were responding to a battery call.Instead, they found 10-year-old Victoria Martens. She had been killed hours before her 10th birthday party.The girl's mother, Michelle Martens, 35; Martens's boyfriend, Fabian...Man arrested for killing two nuns
DURANT, Miss. - A man suspected in the slayings of two nuns found dead in their Mississippi home confessed to the killings, a sheriff said Saturday.Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, Mississippi was arrested and charged in the deaths of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill. Both women were 68.Mississippi Department of......
Florida dad murdered on second date by woman he met online
There was no reason for Adam Hilarie to believe anything but the obvious: He had just been on a promising first date with a pretty girl.Hilarie had met Hailey Rose Bustos on PlentyOfFish, which bills itself as the largest dating site in the world. He'd picked her up and they went bowling in Winter Haven, Florida, at Cypress Lanes,...Illinois man charged with bomb attempt ruled mentally unfit
A U.S. judge ruled on Thursday that a Chicago-area man was mentally incompetent to stand trial on charges he tried to set off what he thought was a car bomb outside a bar. The suspect, Adel Daoud of Hillside, Illinois, sincerely believes that his lawyers are Freemasons, U.S. District Judge Sharon......