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With #Enough posters, students in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and across the nation protested against gun violence
March 16th, 20180 By Farah Harb The Arab American News DEARBORN – On the one month anniversary of the deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., students in various high schools across the country walked out for 17 minutes to protest gun violence with placards and T-shirts that read #Enough. The cold...
A look at Michigan’s Congressional races: Who’s running (Part 2)
March 16th, 20180 By Farah Harb The Arab American News The following is the continued list of Metro Detroit candidates running for congressional seats in the Aug. 7 and Nov. 6 elections. 10th DISTRICT Paul Mitchell (Republican incumbent) Mitchell of Dryden, replaced former U.S. Rep. Candice Miller in 2016 and has since created a system of...
Stephen Hawking, who unlocked the secrets of space and time, dies at 76
March 14th, 20180 LONDON ― Stephen Hawking, who sought to explain the origins of the universe, the mysteries of black holes and the nature of time itself, died on Wednesday aged 76. Hawking’s formidable mind probed the very limits of human understanding both in the vastness of space and in the bizarre sub-molecular world of quantum theory,...
Russia says U.S. plans to strike Damascus, pledges military retaliation
March 13th, 20180 MOSCOW - Russia said on Tuesday it had information that the United States planned to bomb the government quarter in Damascus on an invented pretext, and said it would respond militarily if it felt Russian lives were threatened by such an attack. Rebels in the enclave of eastern Ghouta were planning to fake a chemical weapons attack...
White House hosts meeting on Gaza crisis without Palestinians participation
March 13th, 20180 WASHINGTON - 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...
Trump fires State Sec. Tillerson after clashes, taps CIA Director Pompeo
March 13th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. ― President Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday after a series of public rifts over policy on North Korea, Russia and Iran, replacing his chief diplomat with loyalist CIA Director Mike Pompeo. The biggest shakeup of Trump’s Cabinet since he took office in January 2017 was announced by the...
Iran won’t negotiate with West over regional presence, missile program
March 9th, 20180 TEHRAN/PARIS — Iran will not negotiate with the West over its presence in the Middle East, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday, a few days after France's visiting foreign minister sought to raise Tehran's role in regional conflicts. Jean-Yves Le Drian flew to Tehran on Monday with a brief to reaffirm European...
Iraq’s militias formally inducted into security forces
March 9th, 20180 BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi issued a decree on Thursday formalizing the inclusion of mostly Shi'a paramilitary groups in the country's security forces. According to the decree, members of the militias, an assortment of militia groups known collectively as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), will be granted many...
UNIFIL says ‘no appetite’ for war as Lebanon, Israel talk about border dispute
March 9th, 20180 NAQOURA, LEBANON — Lebanon and Israel have been holding talks nearly every day over a border dispute that has raised tensions between the two enemy states, according to the U.N. peacekeeping force on the frontier that is mediating their discussions. "There is a full engagement from all the sides and there have been meetings almost...
Netanyahu warns U.S. lawmakers about Saudi nuclear power deal
March 9th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. and Saudi negotiators have yet to reach a deal to allow American companies to build nuclear power reactors in the kingdom, but the idea is already getting pushback from Israeli Prime Minister and Trump ally Benjamin Netanyahu. On Tuesday, Netanyahu, during a closed door meeting with the Senate Foreign...
This International Women’s Day, Palestinian women face more challenges than most
March 9th, 20180 March 8 is International Women's Day, a time to commemorate the movement for women's rights and raise awareness of some of the challenges confronted by women around the world. By Rebecca Stead Living under a 50-year-long Israeli military occupation, Palestinian women in the West Bank and Gaza face more challenges than most. Their...
Now that the court has spoken, it’s time to move on
March 9th, 20180 Now is the right time for Hussein Berry and others to reconsider what they have done, to recognize the damage their actions have caused and to join the healing efforts that this community badly needs. On Monday, a Wayne County Circuit Court judge dismissed a lawsuit against the Dearborn School District, the Dearborn Board of Education...
Florida lawmakers pass gun-school safety bill three weeks after massacre
March 9th, 20180 TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers, spurred by last month's deadly high school shooting, gave final passage on Wednesday to a bill to raise the legal age for buying rifles, impose a three-day waiting period on all gun sales and allow the arming of some school employees. Swift action in the Republican-controlled State House, where the...
Trump sets steel and aluminum tariffs, exempts Canada and Mexico
March 9th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump pressed ahead on Thursday with import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent for aluminum, but exempted Canada and Mexico and offered the possibility of excluding other allies, backtracking from an earlier "no-exceptions" stance. Describing the dumping of steel and aluminum in the U.S....
Justice Department sues California over ‘sanctuary’ policies
March 9th, 20180 WASHINGTON/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......
Former Dearborn resident Ali “HaBZ” Habhab releases debut album
March 9th, 20180 DEARBORN — Ali Habhab, a former east Dearborn resident who goes by the name HaBZ, released his first album, PaTHOGENS, in November. Habhab wrote all of the music on the album and got help producing it with his friend and fellow artist, Rajiv Dhall. Habhab, 26, graduated from Crestwood High School in 2009. After graduation, he began...
Canton student charged with terrorism and bomb threats
March 9th, 20180 CANTON — 17-year old Brendan James Sibel was arraigned on Wednesday in 35th District Court on two counts of terrorism threat, a 20-year felony, and two counts of bomb threat, a four-year felony. The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office issued the charges following a police investigation that began early this week, when students at...
CMU student charged with killing parents moved to jail
March 9th, 20180 MOUNT PLEASANT — A 19-year-old student accused of killing his parents at Central Michigan University has been transferred to jail from a hospital. Records show that James Davis Jr. was moved to the Isabella County jail on Wednesday. He heard the murder charges against him while in a hospital bed this week. Authorities say Davis...
Hamtramck free from emergency management
March 9th, 20180 By Farah Harb The Arab American News HAMTRAMCK — The financial emergency in Hamtramck has been resolved, putting the city out of emergency management and under the guidance of a transition board. In the past 14 years, Hamtramck has overcome two financial crises, under the direction of an emergency manager. In June 2013,......
Abdul El-Sayed on a mission to change the face of Michigan politics
March 9th, 20180 DEARBORN — 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...
Gubernatorial candidates meet with residents
March 9th, 20180 DETROIT — Thousands of people attended the sanctuary of Detroit's Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church on March 3 to hear from four of the gubernatorial candidates. According to Miunited.org, Democrats Bill Cobbs, Abdul El-Sayed and Gretchen Whitmer were joined by Republican Patrick Colbeck in discussions about criminal justice reform,......
Michigan legislators debate bills that could allow online voter registration
March 9th, 20180 LANSING — For those in Michigan still not registered to vote, signing up may soon become easier. The elections committees in both the State Senate and House of Representatives debated legislation Thursday to allow people who have driver's licenses or state identification cards to register to vote online. The Senate panel unanimously...
Garden City mayor announces bid for state house seat
March 9th, 20180 GARDEN CITY — Garden City Mayor Randy Walker announced he is running for the 11th district seat in the Michigan House of Representatives, which comprises Garden city, Inkster and portions of Westland, Livonia and Dearborn Heights. Walker served four two-year terms as mayor before being elected to a four-year term in......
