Man pleads guilty to ripping off woman’s hijab on southwest flight
May 13th, 20160 WASHINGTON – A North Carolina man pleaded guilty Friday in the U.S. District Court in New Mexico to ripping off a Muslim woman’s headscarf on a flight from Chicago to Albuquerque, New Mexico in December 2015. Gill Parker Payne, 37, of Gastonia, pleaded guilty to one count of using force or threat of force to intentionally...HRW: Syrian refugees beaten, shot by Turkish border guards
ANKARA — Turkish border guards have beaten and shot Syrians trying to reach Turkey, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, as fighting in the border province of Aleppo intensifies threatening to force more people to flee.HRW said in March and April, five people, including a child were killed and 14 were seriously injured as a...Minnesota men worked hard to help ISIS
Three Somali-American men accused of trying to assist Islamic State put a lot of effort and planning into their attempts to travel overseas to fight with the militant group in Syria, and they also talked openly of killing people, prosecutors said on Wednesday.Minnesota residents Mohamed Farah, Abdirahman Daud and Guled Omar are charged...
Nevada candidate Sbaih aiming to be the first Arab immigrant in Congress
May 11th, 20160 Jesse Sbaih with his familyLas Vegas has often been called the “City of Lights” but these days Jesse Sbaih is shining just as brightly. His story is one of hard work, dedication and giving back to the community. He also could be making history later this year as the first Arab American immigrant and Muslim American immigrant to...Sanders beats Clinton in West Virginia
Bernie SandersWASHINGTON - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton on Tuesday in West Virginia's primary, winning over voters deeply skeptical about the economy and signaling the difficulty Clinton may have in industrial states in the general election. The loss slows Clinton's march to the...
Polls show Clinton and Trump in virtual tie
May 11th, 20160 Donald Trump's support has surged and he is now running nearly even with Democrat Hillary Clinton among likely U.S. voters, a dramatic turnaround since he became the Republican party's presumptive presidential nominee, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday. The results could signal a close fight between the two...Military college won’t let Muslim woman wear Hijab
CHARLESTON, S.C. — An American Muslim student admitted to the Class of 2020 Corps of Cadets at The Citadel will not be allowed to wear a religious headscarf with the military college's standard uniform.In a statement released by Citadel President Lt. Gen. John Rosa, the decision to reject the request...Florida man sentenced for threats against mosques
Martin Alan SchnitzlerTAMPA — A Florida man was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for threatening to bomb two mosques and shoot their congregants, a federal hate crime, shortly after November's deadly attacks in Paris, U.S. Justice Department officials said on Monday.Martin Alan Schnitzler, 43, of Seminole, pleaded guilty in...Arizona student arrested for exposing genitals in yearbook
ARIZONA - An Arizona prosecutor will not press criminal charges against a Phoenix-area high school student arrested for exposing his penis in a football team photograph published in the school’s yearbook, police said on Wednesday.The case against Hunter Osborn, 19, will be dropped after the Maricopa County...Woman who painted unflattering Trump portrait assaulted
LOS ANGELES - A young artist who depicted Donald Trump in the buff with a less than flattering depiction of the newly “presumptive” Republican presidential nominee’s genital claims to have been violently assaulted by Trump supporters in Los Angeles.24-year-old artist Illma Gore painted a portrait of Trump in February, called...Donald Trump stresses on Muslim ban
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump, in a Wednesday interview on “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, doubled down on his previous calls to stem the tide of Muslim immigration – calls that set him at fierce odds with civil-rights activists and pro-Muslim organizations – and said he didn’t care so much about hurting his...John Kasich drops out of the Republican race
KasichWASHINGTON — Donald Trump's last remaining challenger for the Republican Party presidential nomination, John Kasich, dropped out of the race on Wednesday, leaving the presumptive nominee with the task of uniting a fractured party around his White House bid.Even before winning his home state of Ohio in March, Kasich was facing...Obama visits Flint as questions linger
President Barack Obama on Wednesday visited Flint, as questions linger over whether his environmental regulators could have acted more urgently to address the lead poison water crisis.Obama will get updates from federal officials on the response in Flint, a mostly African-American city where more than 40 percent of the city's 100,000...
Sanders wins Indiana
May 4th, 20160 Bernie SandersINDIANAPOLIS — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders won the Indiana primary in an upset over Hillary Clinton, who had led the Hoosier State in polling.Sanders led 53 percent to 47 percent, with 92 percent of precincts reporting, according to The Associated Press."The past few weeks the corporate media has...
Ted Cruz drops out of presidential race, clears Trump’s path
May 4th, 20160 INDIANAPOLIS — Senator Ted Cruz of Texas announced Tuesday that he was ending his presidential campaign, bowing to the reality that his crushing loss in Indiana all but assured the nomination of Donald J. Trump. “From the beginning, I have said that I will continue on as long as there is a viable path to......
California high school selects Muslim student as prom queen
Zarifeh Shalabi SAN BERNARDINO - A California Muslim student, who lives a few miles from the site of the deadly San Bernardino shooting, received the symbol of teenage acceptance after she was crowned prom queen at Fontana's Summit High School.The Muslim prom queen attributed her victory to...Six killed in Palestine, Texas floods
PALESTINE, TEXAS - A grandmother and four of her grandchildren were killed and another person also died in floods in Texas caused by storms that unleashed tornadoes, damaging hail and torrential rains on several central U.S. states, officials said on Saturday.The woman and her grandchildren died in Palestine, Texas, 100 miles (160 km)......
Judge kicks Muslim woman out of courtroom for wearing Hijab
Louisiana - An unidentified Muslim woman said she was humiliated by being told to wait outside a Louisiana courtroom to pay a ticket at a traffic hearing this week because she refused to remove her headscarf. However, Judge Raylyn Beevers, who confirmed the Tuesday incident at Jefferson Parish Traffic Court, said it resulted from a...Muslim immigrant gives 2,000 employees shares of billion dollar company
Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya.Chobani, the yogurt maker, is giving its workers a stake in the privately held company.The company is offering shares to employees that would amount collectively to 10 percent of Chobani’s future value in the event of a sale or an initial public offering, the Associated Press reported. The...Half of Americans think presidential nominating system ‘rigged’
WASHINGTON - More than half of American voters believe that the system U.S. political parties use to pick their candidates for the White House is "rigged" and more than two-thirds want to see the process changed, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. The results echo complaints from Republican front-runner...FBI would gain new hacking power if search warrant rules change
U.S. judges will be able to issue search warrants giving law enforcement agents power to access computers in any jurisdiction, potentially even overseas, under a controversial rule change likely to be approved by the Supreme Court by May 1. Magistrate judges can normally only order searches within......
Boehner calls Cruz ‘Lucifer in the flesh’
John BoehnerFormer House Speaker John Boehner stepped out of retirement on Wednesday to weigh in on the 2016 presidential campaign – and he had no qualms about speaking his mind.Boehner, a Republican who stepped down from his post atop the U.S. House of Representatives in the fall, made a face when asked about Republican presidential...Florida university faces backlash for “Muslim gun woman” scare
ORLANDO —Several Muslim groups are calling for an investigation and an apology from University of Central Florida police, saying the department was wrong to use the term "Middle Eastern" in early warnings about what was going on at the campus library Tuesday. A social media post about a woman with a gun praying inside......
Muslim couple found murdered in California home
SAN JOSE - A community is shocked after a bengali couple was found brutally murdered in their home. The bodies of Golam and Shamima Rabbi were discovered in their home on Sunday. At the brutal crime scene was also a note that said “Sorry, my first kill was clumsy.” The funerals of the San Jose couple might be delayed,...Trump sweeps northeast, Clinton wins big
PENNSYLVANIA - Donald Trump swept primaries in five Northeastern states on Tuesday, moving closer to winning the Republican presidential nomination as he easily defeated rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich.Trump scored victories in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware, U.S. television networks projected. His......