August 20th, 20200NEW YORK (REUTERS) — Donald Trump cannot block a prosecutor’s subpoena for eight years of his tax returns, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, in the latest setback in the U.S. president’s longstanding effort to keep his finances under wraps.
U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in Manhattan rejected Trump’s claims that the...
August 14th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C — A new report by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) shows the breadth of changes to immigration policy enacted during the Trump administration.
The report collects for posterity and analysis of broad sweeping changes and technical adjustments to the immigration system in the U.S., with more than 400 executive...
August 5th, 20200BEIRUT — On Wednesday, Lebanese rescue teams pulled out bodies and hunted for missing people in the wreckage caused by a massive warehouse explosion that sent a devastating blast wave across Beirut, killing at least 135.
Prime Minister Hassan Diab declared three days of mourning from Thursday as early investigations blamed...
July 22nd, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — After a three-month break from his infamous COVID-19 press conferences from the White House, President Trump took to the podium on Tuesday to give both sobering and hopeful news.
"Some areas of country doing very well, others doing less well," Trump said of the disease caused by what he repeatedly called the...
July 21st, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) — U.S. lawmakers and White House officials headed into a day of negotiations on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, aimed at hammering out an agreement on new coronavirus aid legislation as infections and deaths surged to record levels across the country.
The Republican-led Senate and Democratic-controlled House of...
July 20th, 20200DETROIT — State leaders are denouncing President Trump’s threats to send federal officers to crack down on-going protests against police brutality in cities, including Detroit.
The warning came Monday as Trump spoke to reporters inside the White House about protests in major cities across the U.S., where, according to Trump,...
January 24th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — The White House said in a statement on Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the White House next Tuesday to meet with President Trump about Trump’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan. Trump confirmed the news, telling reporters on Air Force One that he will release the details of the...
January 20th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump’s legal team filed arguments that it plans to use as the impeachment trial is set to begin in earnest in the Senate on Tuesday. This is only the third impeachment trial of a president in U.S history. The defense team plans to argue that the president should be cleared of the two charges of abuse of...
January 16th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C.— House Democrats set the stage for the impeachment trial of President Trump, only the third trial of its kind in U.S. history, as they carried articles of impeachment to the Senate chambers in a hand-off which takes impeachment proceedings from the Democratic-run House to the Republican-majority Senate.
House...
January 14th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C — A new report by NBC News claims President Trump authorized the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani seven months ago with the condition that Trump would have final signoff on any specific plans to kill the general. The information was provided by five current and former senior...
April 30th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump is working to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, the White House said on Tuesday, which would bring sanctions against Egypt’s oldest Islamist movement.
“The president has consulted with his national security team and leaders in the region who share his concern...
June 29th, 20180DEARBORN – On June 27, Plymouth-based attorney Dana Nessel, who won the Michigan Democratic Party’s nomination for attorney general in April, spoke to Arab American supporters and local officials at a fundraising event held at La Pita Restaurant in Dearborn, reaffirming her commitment to “tenaciously” champion civil and immigrant...
June 15th, 20181The author of the Declaration of Independence had sought to protect not just Christians, but Americans of all faiths.
After last year’s deliberate break with tradition, President Trump has resumed the iftar dinner—the sundown meal during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. An estimated 3.3 million American Muslims celebrate...
June 8th, 20181WASHINGTON, D.C. — After declining to mark Ramadan last year with a traditional iftar dinner, which breaks the daily fast during the Islamic holy month, the White House held one Wednesday night with a few dozen guests, many of them ambassadors from Muslim nations.
Meanwhile, some Islamic groups that were not invited, led by the...
May 25th, 20180By Kaveh L. Afrasiabi
It is now perfectly clear that this administration has no diplomatic track with Iran and is simply bent on regime change, which will only wreak havoc on regional and global peace and stability.
The scene at the Heritage Foundation on Monday could have come from the film “The Ugly...
March 20th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. ― President Trump and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will discuss tensions with Iran and a Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen which has come under criticism in Congress when they meet on Tuesday.
Their talks at the White House are part of the first visit by the prince to the United States since...
March 13th, 20180WASHINGTON - The White House on Tuesday hosted 19 nations, including Israel and Arab Gulf states, to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, but the Palestinian Authority boycotted the meeting, angered by the Trump administration’s policies on Jerusalem.
President Trump reversed decades of U.S. policy in December, when he decided to...
March 9th, 20180WASHINGTON D.C. — On March 4, hundreds chanted "Free, Free Palestine" as they marched from the north lawn of the White House to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, where the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) held its annual policy conference.
AIPAC's website describes the conference as, "the largest gathering...
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...
November 1st, 20170WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has not ruled out adding Uzbekistan to a list of countries named in a presidential travel ban, following Tuesday’s deadly truck attack, allegedly by an Uzbek immigrant, in New York City, a White House spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
“Look, that’s maybe something that’s looked at, but that...
October 18th, 20170WASHINGTON - White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says that she expects America is going to be “begging” for a second Donald Trump term in about three years.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says that the Trump administration is going to have plenty of major achievements by the end of the term
Sanders, during an appearance with...
April 19th, 20170 DUBAI ― Emirates, the largest international airline by passenger traffic, said on Wednesday it was cutting flights on five U.S. routes after restrictions imposed by President Trump's administration weakened demand from the Middle East.
Since taking office, Trump has signed two executive orders banning refugees and citizens from...
March 21st, 20170Washington, D.C.-Brigitte Gabriel, founder and leader of ACT for America, an organization whose mission is to "protect America from terrorism," plans to meet with the White House, according to reports.
Gabriel also tweeted that she was "In D.C., preparing for my meeting at the White House. What topics would you like me to...
March 17th, 20170WASHINGTON, DC - On Friday, President Trump greeted German chancellor Angela Merkel with a handshake upon her arrival to the White House, but appeared to ignore requests to do so as the pair sat together in front of cameras.
The pair had an awkward meeting that could help determine the future of the transatlantic alliance and shape...
February 10th, 20170Julia Kassem
The Arab American News
LANSING— In response to the growing tide of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim legislation put forth by Donald Trump’s executive orders, Michigan legislators have pushed forth— as well as against— legislation pertaining to Trump’s immigration ban and assault on sanctuary cities.
Arab...
January 26th, 20170
WASHINGTON — In his last hours in office, the Obama administration transferred $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that despite opposition from GOP members of Congress, officials say.
A State Department official and several congressional aides told the Associated Press that the outgoing administration and former Secretary of...
January 19th, 20170
President Obama spent his final hours as president boasting approval ratings nearing 60 percent—comparable to those he had when he entered the White House in 2009.
His popularity is a reflection of a legacy of many monumental precedents set by the Harvard Law School graduate and University of Chicago law professor as the first...
January 13th, 20170
Last Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly supported a proposal condemning a recent U.N. Security Council Resolution reprimanding Israel for its illegal settlement activities in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The U.N. Security Council resolution passed 14-0, with the U.S. abstaining, citing that...
