March 9th, 20180WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO — The Justice Department sued the state of California over so-called "sanctuary" policies that try to protect illegal immigrants against deportation, ramping up a confrontation over whether local police should enforce federal law.
The lawsuit, filed late Tuesday in federal court in Sacramento, the California...
March 9th, 20180DEARBORN — He'd never thought politics would be in the cards for him, but Abdul El-Sayed is the first Democratic candidate to submit required signatures to the state, inching closer, aspiring to become Michigan's first Arab and Muslim American governor.
On March 6, El-Sayed, 33, a physician and epidemiologist and former director of...
March 2nd, 20180MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin announced an array of new nuclear weapons on Thursday, in one of his most bellicose speeches in years, saying they could hit almost any point in the world and evade a U.S.-built missile shield.
Putin was speaking ahead of an election on March 18 that polls indicate he should win easily. He said a...
February 26th, 20180WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday dealt a setback to President Trump, requiring his administration to maintain protections he has sought to end for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children.
The justices refused to hear the administration’s appeal of a federal judge’s Jan. 9...
February 23rd, 20180NEW YORK — On Tuesday, A New York civil rights group sued Trump administration officials over what it called prolonged detention of immigrant children, blaming recent shifts in U.S. government policy for keeping children locked up without cause.
The New York Civil Liberties Union, which filed the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court,...
February 23rd, 20180WASHINGTON / TALLAHASSEE, FL — Students galvanized by the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school confronted lawmakers on Wednesday with demands to restrict sales of assault rifles, while President Trump suggested arming teachers as a way to stop more rampages.
The unprecedented lobbying effort by groups of teenagers and...
February 19th, 20180PARKLAND, Fla. - Stunned by the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history, students mobilized across the country on Sunday to organize rallies and a national march in support of stronger gun laws, challenging politicians they say have failed to protect them.
Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a former student...
February 19th, 20180PALM BEACH, Fla. — The driver of a van carrying journalists covering President Trump was detained on Monday after Secret Service officials found a gun in his bag during a security sweep before the vehicle was to drive onto the president’s Florida property.
The Secret Service said no one had been put in danger.
The male driver told...
February 16th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, the White House rejected a bipartisan Senate proposal to protect young "Dreamer" immigrants and tighten border security, saying it would weaken enforcement of current law and produce a flood of illegal immigration.
Ahead of expected Senate votes, the White House said advisers would recommend that...
February 16th, 20180WASHINGTON — President Trump's travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries violates the U.S. Constitution by discriminating on the basis of religion, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday in another legal setback for the policy.
The Richmond, Virginia-based Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, on a 9-4 vote,...
February 16th, 20180NEW YORK — Refugee resettlement agencies are preparing to shutter more than 20 offices across the United States and cut back operations in more than 40 others after the State Department told them to pare their operations, according to plans seen by Reuters.
The slated closures, which are being reviewed by the State Department for...
February 16th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump proposed a budget on Monday that calls for cuts in domestic spending and social programs such as Medicare and seeks a sharp increase in military spending and funding for a wall on the Mexican border.
While running for president in 2016, Trump pledged to leave popular benefit programs such as...
February 16th, 20180Bringing back jobs, improving the economy, education, immigration and infrastructure are some of the most prominent issues on Michigan voters' minds this upcoming election season.
The pool of Democratic gubernatorial candidates is distinctly diverse – a Muslim Arab American, an Indian American, an African American and a...
February 9th, 20180WASHINGTON — The United States does not plan to contribute any money at a conference in Kuwait next week to fund Iraq's reconstruction drive after the war against ISIS militants, U.S. and Western officials said, a move critics say could deal a new blow to American standing internationally.
"We are not planning to announce anything,"...
February 9th, 20180By Lee H. Hamilton
Have you already made up your mind about how you're going to vote — at least by party — in this year's important elections? I hope not.
Because to serve our nation well at this troubled time in its political history, you should be looking for certain qualities in the politicians you favor. Ideology, party...
February 9th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Homeland Security called on authorities in a draft report from late January to continuously vet Sunni Muslims coming into the U.S. who fit an "at-risk" demographic profile.
The report, obtained by Foreign Policy Magazine, reviews 25 terrorist attacks in the United States between October 2001 and...
February 9th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration is considering making it harder for foreigners living in the United States to get permanent residency if they have received certain public benefits such as food assistance, in a move that could sharply restrict legal immigration.
The Department of Homeland Security has drafted rules seen...
February 2nd, 20180WASHINGTON — The number of Americans without healthcare insurance rose by 3.2 million people between 2016 and 2017, or 1.3 percentage points to 12.2 percent, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday, the biggest jump in the uninsured rate in nearly a decade.
Several factors likely contributed to the jump, Gallup said,...
February 2nd, 20180"Accurate Census information ensures equal opportunity access to public resources, particularly for historically marginalized groups." -ADC
DEARBORN — A promising decade-long endeavor by America's most targeted communities to gain political and social leverage hit a roadblock after the U.S. Census Bureau rejected the addition of a...
January 31st, 20180WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took a decision to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 7,000 Syrian beneficiaries residing in the U.S. Today’s decision only allows current TPS holders to renew their status and remain temporarily in the U.S. However, DHS refuse to...
January 26th, 20180By Mohamed Mohamed
It is regrettable that the most basic human needs of millions of Palestinian refugees are now being used as a weapon in the Trump administration's political assault on Palestinians.
On January 16, the administration decided to withhold $65 million of a planned $125 million in U.S. funding for the United Nations...
January 26th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — Targeted by the Syrian government after providing humanitarian supplies to civilians fleeing air strikes, Mohammad Alala and his wife escaped in 2012, eventually obtaining student visas to enter the United States.
They received a form of temporary protected status (TPS) extended to Syrians in the United States...
January 26th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump is ready to sign on to a plan that would open a path to citizenship for as many as 1.8 million "Dreamers," young immigrants brought illegally to the country as children, senior White House officials said on Thursday.
The White House presented the offer as a major concession aimed at attracting...
January 26th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. has dropped to eighth place in U.S. News and World Report's "Best Countries" ranking.
This is the second straight year that the U.S. has dropped in the rankings. In 2017, the U.S. came in seventh place. Switzerland came in at the top spot for the second year in a row.
U.S. News said the drop can be...
January 19th, 20180By Amer Zahr
It's quite popular these days to declare that Donald Trump's racist views on immigration are "un-American."
He only wants White people coming here. "Why can't we have more people from Norway?"
He wants to get rid of Latinos and Black people. "Do we really need more Haitians?"
He devalues, denigrates and...
January 19th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — Haitians will no longer be eligible for U.S. visas given to low-skilled workers, the Trump administration said on Wednesday, bringing an end to a small-scale effort to employ Haitians in the United States after a catastrophic 2010 earthquake.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the change less than...
January 19th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressional Republicans struggled to line up support on Thursday for a short-term extension of government funding that would avert a politically embarrassing shutdown, after President Trump offered mixed signals on the stopgap plan.
Trump complicated the talks by saying a six-year extension of funding for the...
January 16th, 20180WASHINGTON - The United States will give a U.N. agency $60 million in aid for Palestinians but will withhold a further $65 million “for future consideration,” a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
In keeping back some of the aid, Washington appeared to carry out a threat made by President Trump in a Twitter post on Jan. 2 in which he...
