September 11th, 20170WASHINGTON ― Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday put a temporarily hold on limits imposed by a lower court on President Trump’s order barring most refugees from entering the United States.
Kennedy acted in response to the Justice Department’s challenge to the part of a Thursday ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th...
September 8th, 20170DETROIT — "I'm 16 years old and I am undocumented," said a young Detroit woman at the Defend DACA rally at Clark Park on Tuesday.
Jose Franco, a founding member of One Michigan, organized the event as a response to President Trump's executive order to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
DACA was enacted...
September 8th, 20170WASHINGTON — On Thursday, President Trump said he would be willing to step in and mediate the worst dispute in decades among the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab states and Qatar, and said that he thinks a deal could come quickly.
"If I can help mediate between Qatar and, in particular, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, I would be willing to do so,...
September 7th, 20170NEW YORK — Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is trading screen time for the stage in a one-man show now on Broadway that is a call to action over the current state of U.S. politics.
The show, “The Terms of My Surrender”, uses Moore’s satirical brand of humor to target President Trump and encourage liberals to turn resentment...
September 3rd, 20170WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department said it had no evidence to support the unsubstantiated claim made in March by President Donald Trump that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.
There has never been any evidence to support Trump’s assertion on Twitter that...
August 30th, 20170GENEVA - President Donald Trump’s criticism of journalists amounts to an attack on the freedom of the press and could provoke violence against reporters, the United Nations’ human rights chief said on Wednesday.
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said Trump had also made worrying remarks about women, Mexicans and Muslims and went on to...
August 23rd, 20170PHOENIX ― Police fired pepper spray to disperse protesters outside a rally by President Trump in Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday after being pelted with rocks and bottles, police said.
Police have not given an estimate of the number of protesters, but Arizona media said there were several thousand. Police did not say whether the pepper...
August 22nd, 20170SAN FRANCISCO ― The city of Los Angeles on Tuesday sought to join a lawsuit against the Department of Justice over federal restrictions on some law enforcement grants to so-called sanctuary cities, according to a court filing.
The state of California and city of San Francisco earlier this month filed legal challenges that accused the...
August 22nd, 20170WASHINGTON — President Trump committed U.S. troops to an open-ended war in Afghanistan, a decision the Afghan government welcomed on Tuesday but which Taliban insurgents warned would make the country a "graveyard for the American empire".
Trump offered few specifics in a speech on Monday but promised a stepped-up military campaign...
August 18th, 20171WASHINGTON, D.C. — On July 25, the Pew Research Center released a report on Muslim Americans and their concerns regarding their place in society; despite the data showing high concern from U.S. Muslims, 92 percent of them are proud to be American.
The survey was conducted between January and May. It showed that half of Muslim...
August 18th, 20170CHARLOTTESVILLE/DEARBORN — Dearborn residents assembled in healing and solidarity with Charlottesville, Virginia on August 13 and 16, against White supremacy — reemphasizing the city's cohesive nature in visible diversity that trumps hate.
The first peaceful vigil, in which at least 100 demonstrators gathered on Sunday, was...
August 16th, 20170WASHINGTON ― Several leading members of Trump's Republican Party and ally Britain sharply rebuked the president on Wednesday after he insisted that white nationalists and protesters opposed to them were both to blame for deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Trump's remarks on Tuesday, a more vehement reprisal of what had...
August 4th, 20170MICHIGAN — On August 2, President Trump approved a major disaster declaration for Michigan, which makes federal disaster funding available to the areas harmed by severe storms and flooding from June 22 to June 27.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced the availability of assistance, which will aid Bay, Gladwin,...
July 27th, 20170WASHINGTON - Questions have once again been raised over President Donald Trump’s grasp on foreign policy after he appeared to misunderstand the political and militery role played by the pwerful Lebanese party of Hezbollah in the Middle East’s complex geopolitics.
During a news conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad...
July 27th, 20170Early October 2016, Misbah Abu Sbeih left his wife and five children at home and then drove to an Israeli police station in occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem.
The 39-year-old Jerusalemite was scheduled to hand himself over to serve a term of four months in jail for, allegedly, trumped up charges of "trying to hit an Israeli...
July 21st, 20170By Ramzy Baroud
Early October 2016, Misbah Abu Sbeih left his wife and five children at home and then drove to an Israeli police station in occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem.
The 39-year-old Jerusalemite was scheduled to hand himself over to serve a term of four months in jail for, allegedly, trumped up charges of "trying to hit...
July 7th, 20170It has been more than a month since four Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia decided to cut off ties with their neighbor, Qatar. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE imposed severe diplomatic and economic sanctions on the tiny Gulf state that heavily depends on imports for its daily consumption of necessary goods.
The...
June 30th, 20170By Stephen Martin
DEARBORN — The ever-changing global perception of the United States is having an impact on the education industry.
CNN, The Hechinger Report and Inside Higher Ed have respectively reported in recent years on a decline in H1B work visas, a decline in international student applications and increased competition...
June 26th, 20170WASHINGTON ― The Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Trump by reviving parts of his travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries and refugees and agreeing to decide its legality later this year in a major test of presidential powers.
The justices narrowed the scope of lower court rulings that had...
June 22nd, 20170WASHINGTON ― President Trump said on Thursday he did not make and does not possess any tapes of his conversations with James Comey, after suggesting last month that he might have recordings that could damage the former FBI director.
"With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking...
June 13th, 20170From the incomprehensible "covfefe" to a post labeling fired FBI director James Comey a "leaker," President Donald Trump's tweets would be preserved as presidential records if a Democratic lawmaker's proposed COVFEFE Act becomes law.
Representative Mike Quigley of Illinois introduced on Monday the "Communications Over Various Feeds...
June 12th, 20171WASHINGTON- Former FBI Director James Comey accused President Donald Trump on Thursday of firing him to try to undermine the agency's investigation of possible collusion by Trump's campaign with Russia's alleged efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election.
In the most eagerly anticipated U.S. congressional hearing in years,...
LANSING — The number of refugees re-settled in Michigan has dropped sharply over the past six months, mirroring a national trend, according to new analysis of U.S. State Department data from the Pew Research Center.
Last October Michigan re-settled 563 refugees. As of April, that number has fallen to 168. Nationally, 9,945 refugees...
June 2nd, 20170By Dawud Walid
Donald Trump's first visit abroad as president was marked by several statements which explicitly and implicitly stated that he wished to put America first. In the first leg of his trip in Saudi Arabia, he stated, "Our first priority is always the safety and security of our own citizens."
As there definitely are...
June 2nd, 20171WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Thursday he would withdraw the United States from the landmark 2015 global agreement to fight climate change, a move that fulfilled a major campaign pledge but drew condemnation from U.S. allies and business leaders. Trump, tapping into the "America First" message he used when he was elected...
June 2nd, 20170WASHINGTON-The Trump administration has rolled out a new questionnaire for U.S. visa applicants worldwide that asks for social media handles for the last five years and biographical information going back 15 years. The new questions, part of an effort to tighten vetting of would-be visitors to the United States, was approved on May 23 by...
June 1st, 20170WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an order on Thursday to keep the U.S. Embassy in Israel in Tel Aviv temporarily instead of relocating it to Jerusalem, despite his campaign pledge to go ahead with the controversial move.
After months of fierce debate within his administration, Trump chose to continue his predecessors' policy of...
May 30th, 20170WASHINGTON-The United States might ban laptops from aircraft cabins on all flights into and out of the country as part of a ramped-up effort to protect against potential security threats, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said on Sunday.
In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," Kelly said the United States planned to "raise the...
