Texas sues U.S., relief agency, to block Syrian refugees
AUSTIN — A Texas state agency sued the U.S. State Department, a relief agency and others in federal court on Wednesday seeking to block the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state, where a relief agency plans to bring Syrians within a week. The International Rescue Committee is set to relocate two Syrian refugee families to...
Republican candidates talk tough on ‘radical Islam’ after California attack
December 3rd, 20150 CALIFORNIA - U.S. Republican presidential candidates on Thursday rushed to describe a mass shooting in California as a sign that Americans are at risk from homegrown Islamic militants, seizing on the country's deadliest massacre in three years before a motive had been firmly established. Candidates spoke to the Republican Jewish...
Record number of residents apply for guns on Black Friday
December 2nd, 20150 NEW YORK - More U.S. residents applied to purchase handguns, rifles and other firearms from licensed dealers on Black Friday than any other day on record, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation data released this week. Black Friday, the day after the U.S. Thanksgiving Day holiday, is the traditional start of the U.S....ISIS online supporters include 300 Americans
Twitter is the "platform of choice" most widely used by the active core of American ISIS supportersWASHINGTON — Active online supporters of ISIS now include about 300 people identifiable as Americans, said a study by academic experts published on Tuesday.George Washington University's Program on Extremism said in the study that the...Trump drops 12 percentage points in poll
TrumpWASHINGTON — U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump's support among Republicans has dropped 12 points in less than a week, marking the real estate mogul's biggest decline since he vaulted to the top of the field in July, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.Trump was the favorite of 31 percent of Republicans in a rolling poll in the...At least three injured in shooting near Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood
Police officers secure a road near the Planned Parenthood center in Colorado Springs, Nov. 27COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Police on Friday swarmed an area around a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Colorado Springs, where a gunman opened fire, injuring three officers and an undetermined number of civilians, police and hospital...Obama tells Americans homeland is safe as millions set off on Thanksgiving travel
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - President Barack Obama sought to reassure Americans they are safe as millions of people traveled on Wednesday for the Thanksgiving holiday, with security heightened at airports, New York City's parade festivities and other venues after the Paris attacks."Right now, we know of no specific and credible intelligence...Boy donates money from his piggy bank to vandalized Mosque
PFLUGERVILLE, Texas -- A 7-year-old boy donated $20 from his piggy bank to a Texas mosque that was vandalized on Monday.The Islamic Center of Pflugerville was vandalized by someone who tore up a Quran and covered it in feces. Police are investigating the incident as a hate crime, possibly...Ahmed ‘the clockboy’ demands $15 million in damages
TEXAS - Fifteen million dollars and apologies from the mayor and police chief.That's what an attorney says the family of Ahmed Mohamed is demanding from city and school officials in Irving, Texas, or they say they'll file a civil suit.In September, 14-year-old Ahmed made international headlines when he brought a handmade clock to...Police arrest two in shooting of Minnesota Black Lives Matter protesters
Black Lives Matter protesters at the north Minneapolis police precinct Photo: ReutersMINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis police said on Tuesday they have arrested a 23-year-old white man and a 32-year-old Hispanic male in relation to the shooting of five people near a city police station where demonstrators have gathered for more than a week...Driver attempts to run over Muslim woman in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI – The Cincinnati chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Cincinnati) today called on the FBI and local law enforcement authorities to investigate an alleged attempt to run down a Muslim woman as a hate crime.CAIR-Cincinnati said the woman, a University of Cincinnati pre-med student who wears an Islamic...Man charged for leaving fake bomb at Virginia mosque
VIRGINIA - A man left a hoax explosive device at a mosque last week in Falls Church, Virginia, Fairfax County fire investigators say.Chester H. Gore, 27, was charged with using a hoax explosive device on Thursday at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center.Gore, who has no fixed address, caused an estimated $200 damage to a gate at the mosque,...Two men blocked from boarding Southwest plane because of box of baklava
CHICAGO - Two men were temporarily blocked from boarding a Southwest flight in Chicago last week when a passenger became nervous after overhearing them speak in Arabic.Maher Khalil and Anas Ayyad were carrying a small box of Baklava when the passenger at the gate became suspicious. "If that person doesn't feel safe, let...Calls for U.S. troops to fight ISIS misguided, say experts
WASHINGTON — Americans want the Obama administration to get tougher with the ISIS following the carnage in Paris, but many of the measures now being proposed could actually make the threat worse, counter-terrorism experts said. Republican presidential candidates, lawmakers and others are calling for deploying U.S. ground forces to...
Dearborn woman on delayed Spirit flight: Airline didn’t racially profile
November 20th, 20150 BALTIMORE — A Dearborn woman who was on the Spirit flight from Baltimore to Chicago before multiple passengers were removed for suspicious activity said the airline acted accordingly. On Tuesday, Nov. 17, Spirit Airlines confirmed that early morning flight number 969 from Baltimore to Chicago was halted just before take-off......
Mayor against Syrian refugees cites WWII internment of Japanese Americans
Mayor David Bowers Photo: City of RoanokeROANOKE, Va. — Mayor David Bowers made an inaccurate, offensive analogy to justify his call to humanitarian organizations not to resettle refugees in his city in Virginia. The mayor said rejecting Syrian newcomers would be as legitimate as placing Japanese nationals in internment camps during...Spirit under fire after removing four Middle Eastern passengers from plane
BALTIMORE — An investigation is underway after four passengers - reportedly of “Middle-Eastern descent” - were forced to leave a plane after a fellow passenger reported so-called suspicious activity and alerted the crew.On Tuesday, Nov. 17, Spirit Airlines confirmed that an early morning flight from Baltimore to Chicago was......
Mosque in Canada set on fire, two Florida mosques threatened
ONTARIO - A Muslim congregation in Canada said a fire that burnt down its mosque over the weekend appears to be a hate crime.The fire at the Kawartha Muslim Religious Association’s mosque in Peterborough, Ontario, broke out Saturday evening and caused up $80,000 in damage; no one was inside at the time. Officials confirmed Sunday...Uber driver beaten after drunk passenger mistakens him for a Muslim
NORTH CAROLINA - An Uber driver from North Carolina said he was attacked by a passenger and threatened that he would be shot after the man said he believed he was a Muslim.Samson Woldemichael, a Christian Ethiopian who came to the US eight years ago, picked up the passenger early on Sunday morning from a bar in Charlotte and was...
Police say no terror tie seen in attempt to open door on Boston-bound flight
November 17th, 20150 The passenger was apparently intoxicatedBOSTON — A female passenger who was apparently intoxicated attempted to open an exit door on a Boston-bound British Airways flight on Tuesday, prompting people on the plane to restrain her, the Massachusetts State Police said.Troopers took the woman, who is about 30 years old, into custody after...NSA to end bulk call data collection by end November
WASHINGTON - The U.S. National Security Agency is ready to end later this month collecting Americans' domestic call records in bulk and move to a more targeted system, meeting a legislative deadline imposed earlier this year, according to a government memo seen by Reuters. The memo, sent on Monday from the NSA to relevant......
Clinton says would not support war declaration against ISIS
DERRY, N.H. - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday, November 10 she was not ready to support a formal declaration of war against Islamic State militants, although she said the United States needs to improve its efforts to fight the group. To have a declaration of war, she said, requires...U.S. campuses hold race protests after Missouri resignations
NEW YORK - Students will hold events to highlight racial issues at a handful of U.S. college campuses this week, spurred by the impact of protests at the University of Missouri that culminated in the resignation of the school's president and chancellor.Peaceful marches or walkouts have been held, or are planned, at Yale University,......
Salaita reaches $876,000 settlement with University of Illinois
Steven SalaitaCHICAGO — Steven Salaita reached a $875,000 settlement with the University of Illinois after he sued the school for firing him because of his tweets during the war on Gaza last year.The university fired Salaita before he started in a tenured position he was offered.Salaita has described his tweets as "passionate and...U.S. charges three Israelis in “breathtaking” cyberfraud breach
Gery Shalon (C)WASHINGTON — U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled criminal charges against three men accused of running a sprawling computer hacking and fraud scheme that included a huge attack against JPMorgan Chase & Co and generated hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal profit.Gery Shalon, Joshua Samuel Aaron and Ziv......
