September 25th, 20250Congress created the United States Department of Defense in 1949 as part of a comprehensive effort to modernize the military and adapt to the international order that was taking shape after World War II. Now President Trump wants to change its name to the Department of War, its former name. That’s a mistake.
National defense is and...
September 12th, 20250From Gaza and the West Bank to Lebanon, Syria and Yemen — and even reaching Qatar — Israeli arrogance continues to violate Arab lands and their sovereignty without restraint, while the U.S. administration appears either helpless or complicit with Benjamin Netanyahu’s madness. He has escalated his “eternal war” into a new phase...
August 29th, 20250WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. State Department has launched what it called a sweeping security review of more than 55 million individuals holding various visas in an unprecedented move aimed at identifying violations that could justify visa revocation or deportation. At the same time, immigration authorities have begun enforcing new...
August 22nd, 20250WASHINGTON – Under the "Big Beautiful Bill" signed by President Trump in July, tax exemptions on overtime wages officially went into effect this week, retroactive to cover overtime hours worked since the beginning of the year.
The measure, one of Trump’s campaign promises, is part of a broader package of tax reforms designed to ease...
August 15th, 20250DEARBORN – Dozens of Arab American children and their families held a rally on Tuesday evening in solidarity with the hungry children of Gaza, in front of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. They carried empty pots and food containers in protest against Israel’s starvation policies imposed on the Strip’s residents since...
August 8th, 20250Israel’s far-right government decides to expand war to fully occupy Gaza as Lebanon faces crisis over Hezbollah disarmament proposal pushed by the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Occupation of Gaza
After 10 hours of deliberations, Israel’s Security Cabinet — in the early hours of Friday, August 8 — approved Prime Minister...
December 13th, 20240
WASHINGTON, D. C. – FBI Director Christopher Wray will step down from his post early next year, he said on Wednesday, after President-elect Trump signaled his intent to fire the veteran official and replace him with firebrand Kash Patel.
His resignation makes him the second straight FBI director driven...
November 3rd, 20240In a six-minute YouTube video posted on Oct. 28, titled Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that a vote for Kamala Harris is the better choice for those angry about the war in Gaza.
“I understand that there are millions of Americans who disagree with President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on the terrible war in Gaza; I am one of...
September 20th, 20240Former President Trump was the target in what the FBI believes to be an attempted assassination. While Trump was golfing at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida on Sunday, Secret Service agents fired shots at a man after seeing his rifle in the bushes of the Trump International Golf Club.
Trump was reported unharmed and safe....
July 19th, 20240Thomas Crooks was pacing next to a warehouse building outside the Butler Farm Show grounds as a crowd gathered for one of former President Trump's signature outdoor rallies.
Crooks had already been flagged as suspicious by law enforcement. By the time two police officers walked over to check him out, he was on the roof, belly...
August 18th, 20230Americans are pessimistic about our democracy, according to a recent poll. It’s a worrisome finding. Of course, it’s easy to watch the news and conclude our government isn’t working. But we must not get to the point where we think we can’t solve our problems in a democratic fashion. That’s a danger line.
The poll, by The...
February 6th, 20230KHARTOUM – Israel and Sudan have finalized a deal to normalize relations, with a signing ceremony expected following a transfer of power from the military to a civilian government in Khartoum, the Israeli foreign ministry said on Thursday.
Sudan's foreign ministry earlier said the deal was agreed during a visit by Israeli Foreign...
November 21st, 20220- This story was originally published in Business Insider
Donald Trump's daughter Tiffany, 29, wed billionaire Michael Boulos before 250 guests at the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on November 12.
Boulos, 25, joins the family after he and Tiffany began dating in 2018. They were engaged in January 2021 with Tiffany...
November 19th, 20220By Peter White
Despite new laws to keep people from voting and gerrymandering election districts to take away the power of minority communities, the Republican “red wave” that pollsters predicted ahead of last week’s midterms didn’t happen.
Ethnic Media Services debriefed six experts on their reactions to the election...
November 9th, 20220By Lee H. Hamilton
Watching Brazil’s presidential election from the U.S. has been like looking into a funhouse mirror. The image looks a lot like us, for better or for worse.
According to official results, challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ousted the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, and will take office Jan. 1. But the margin was...
November 9th, 20220Governor Whitmer enters her second term with Democrats likely to control all levels of power in the State Capitol for the first time since the 1980s and backed by a dramatic show of voters’ support for keystone Democratic issues, including abortion and voting rights.
But even as state Democrats celebrated their sweep of state...
November 3rd, 20220Former President Trump is considering launching a third bid for the White House this month and is speed-dialing confidantes to hash out possible scenarios as he looks to benefit from expected Republican wins in Tuesday's midterms, three Trump advisers said.
"I think like a moth to a flame, Trump will run in 2024," one senior adviser...
October 31st, 20220U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called "Deal of the Century" was meant to represent a finality of sorts, an event reminiscent of Francis Fukuyama’s premature declaration of the ‘End of History’ and the uncontested supremacy of western capitalism. In effect, it was a declaration that ‘we’ – the U.S., Israel and a few allies...
October 26th, 20221The following op-ed was submitted by James Pocock, major general, U.S. Army, retired; Thomas N. Edmonds, brigadier general, U.S. Air Force, retired; Axel A. Johnson, III, brigadier general, U.S. Army, retired; Mark A. Montjar, brigadier general, U.S. Army, retired; Donald Schenk, brigadier general, U.S. Amy, retired and Valerie...
October 14th, 20220GRAND RAPIDS — The candidates for governor of Michigan criticized each other’s positions on abortion Thursday, with Governor Whitmer saying women’s “fundamental rights” are at risk and GOP challenger Tudor Dixon calling the Democrat’s support for abortion rights “extremely radical.”
Dixon is a former commentator for a...
October 7th, 20220— This article, by Sunita Sohrabji for Ethnic Media Service, has been edited for style
Last week, the Biden administration gutted the signature Trump-era policy known as public charge, which effectively imposed a wealth tax on people seeking to gain permanent residency in the U.S.
The new rule will go into effect on Dec. 23. It...
September 3rd, 20220WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Wednesday the U.S. will never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon, the White House said, as Tehran seeks stronger guarantees from Washington for the revival of a nuclear deal with world powers.
Israel opposes a return to the 2015 deal, which imposed curbs on...
September 1st, 20220LANSING — A Michigan elections board rejected an abortion rights initiative on Wednesday after its two Republican board members voted against putting the proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot.
The two Democrats on the Board of State Canvassers voted in favor, but getting the measure on the ballot required at...
August 30th, 20220— Mike Shesterkin is executive director of the Southeast Michigan Sustainable Business Forum.
On Jan. 6, 2021 the world witnessed the chaos that gripped our nation’s capital. What took place that day was clearly an attempt to overthrow a duly elected president.
What enabled the chaos of January 6, and the brazen attempt to ignore...
July 28th, 20220To judge U.S. President Biden’s recent visit to Israel and Palestine as a “failure” in terms of activating the dormant “peace process” is simply a misnomer. For this statement to be accurate, Washington would have had to indicate even a nominal desire to push for negotiations between the Israeli government and the Palestinian...
July 16th, 20220A new CNBC poll, conducted by the same polling firms that helm the NBC News poll, finds President Biden’s overall approval rating sinking to 36 percent among all adults, while his approval rating for handling the economy has fallen to 30 percent — both all-time lows for the president in CNBC polling.
What’s more, Biden’s ratings...
July 8th, 20220A new report by a Muslim civil rights and political organization shows significant disapproval among Muslim voters of President Biden’s performance, but a projection that voters will prefer Democrats in the coming midterm election.
The report was released this week by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) — which calls...
June 9th, 20220ALLENDALE — The FBI arrested Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley on Thursday over misdemeanor charges stemming from his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by throngs of then-President Trump's supporters, the Justice Department said.
Kelley, 40, of Allendale, is one of five Republicans in the...
