Gunman kills 20, wounds 26 at Walmart store in El Paso, Texas
August 3rd, 20190 EL PASO, Texas - A man armed with a rifle opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, killing 20 people and wounding 26 as shoppers and employees ran for cover before the gunman surrendered to police at the scene. The suspect was officially identified as a 21-year-old white male from Allen, Texas, a Dallas suburb...
Israeli house demolitions are the true crime — not BDS
August 3rd, 20190 Israel is at it again. It remains consistent in engaging in one of its favorite activities: Stealing Palestinian land and tormenting Palestinians. On Monday, Israeli bulldozers, escorted by hundreds of Israeli soldiers, demolished no less than 16 residential buildings containing around 100 apartments in the village of Sur Baher, which...
How Biden’s secret 2002 meetings led to war in Iraq
August 3rd, 20190 Even though former Vice President Joe Biden’s favorability has declined following the first Democratic debate, he remains largely considered the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination by many mainstream media outlets and pundits. Early in the first debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders mentioned how Biden had supported the...
Presidential debate in Detroit energizes voters and organizers in Dearborn
August 3rd, 20190 DETROIT — The Democratic primary debate that took place July 30 left the audience with a comprehensive idea of which candidates seem to stand a chance of winning the nomination, what their plans entail and just how each of them could be right for Detroit, specifically, and Michigan at large. Despite competing for voters at the left...
In-vehicle infotainment systems especially distracting to older drivers
July 29th, 20190 New AAA Foundation research suggests focusing on older drivers could hold the key to safer in-vehicle technology for everyone DEARBORN — New in-vehicle infotainment technology has the potential to increase comfort and extend mobility for older drivers, but first it has to stop distracting them. On average, older drivers (ages 55-75)...
FBI’s Wray says most domestic terrorism arrests this year involve White supremacy
July 28th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. - FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that the agency has made about 100 domestic terrorism-related arrests since October, and the majority were tied to White supremacy. ”I will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we’ve investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call...
Miss Michigan World 2019 unapologetic after being stripped of title for racial and religiously charged comments
July 27th, 20190 Kathy Zhu, crowned Miss Michigan in 2019 by the Miss World America organization, was recently stripped of her title for social media posts deemed “offensive, insensitive and inappropriate” by the pageant’s state director, Laurie DeJack. Her remarks on Twitter targeted Muslims and African Americans. When the remarks came to...
Miss Michigan World was rightfully dethroned for insensitive tweets
July 27th, 20190 Kathy Zhu, a Chinese American student at the University of Michigan, was recently dethroned as Miss Michigan World by pageant representatives regarding tweets which they considered to be religiously and racially “offensive” and “inappropriate.” As we believe in freedom of speech, which includes issues that are contentious and...
National polls don’t mean much. Here’s why.
July 22nd, 20190 "Here we go with the Fake Polls," President Trump tweeted on July 15. "Just like what happened with the election against Crooked Hillary Clinton." He's complaining about several polls that show him losing the national popular vote to various Democratic presidential aspirants, in some cases by double digits. He has a point. In 2016,...
Let’s not just focus on elections, but on how we elect
July 22nd, 20190 A few years ago, I was at a polling place here in Indiana where a long line of people stood waiting to vote. A woman recognized me and called me over. “Why is it,” she asked, “that you politicians make it so hard and inconvenient to vote?” I thought of this the other day when I read the news reports about presidents Trump and...
Ethnic and minority media to play a key role in 2020 Census complete count
July 22nd, 20190 DEARBORN — Dr. Hayg Oshagan, director of New Michigan Media (NMM) and professor of communications at Wayne State University, recently sat down with The Arab American News Publisher Osama Siblani for a discussion about the 2020 Census and the role of ethnic and minority media outlets in ensuring a complete and accurate count. NMM...
The “squad of four” hits back at Trump’s bigotry
July 22nd, 20190 After President Trump directed a series of racist tweets at Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley on Sunday, the group of freshman congresswomen known as the “the Squad” rebuked the president for his bigoted remarks and vowed to continue fighting his cruel attacks on immigrants and other...
Netanyahu and Nasrallah exchange threats amid rising tensions in the region
July 22nd, 20190 BEIRUT — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke during the annual commemoration of the 2006 victory of Lebanon's second war with Israel, addressing his support for Iran and saying he sees it as a partner that not only threatens Israel, but also views itself as a proud part of an “axis of resistance” against the U.S. and its...
It’s time for a return to civility
July 20th, 20190 I cannot stand by and say nothing. I hope some friends are reading this morning, because I can feel the ugly rhetoric that may come back at me. But really, "Send her back." That is the chant at a presidential rally. Making hate and division the central point of any presidential campaign is so thoroughly bothersome to me, I cannot...
What does it mean to “love your country?”
July 20th, 20190 President Trump said last Monday that the four democratic "progressive" congresswomen have to love our country or leave it. However, the word "love" is vague and is capable of many meanings. The Oxford Dictionary defines love as "an intense feeling of deep affection for someone." Loving one's country can carry various things to......
Iran: From strategic patience to mutual action
July 20th, 20190 TEHRAN - After a pressure campaign from the U.S. and its allies on the Iranian economy, followed by a few threat exchanges, Iran has seized an oil tanker it claimed was carrying 1 million liters of "smuggled fuel," state news agency Press TV said on Thursday. The IRGC said it had initially responded to distress calls from a ship on...
Netanyahu could deny Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib entrance into Israel
July 20th, 20190 TEL AVIV - Since condemning freedom of expression with regard to the BDS (Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions) movement has been prevalent in the U.S., and with President Trump's recent unapologetic racist remarks about Democratic congresswomen of color (a remark that included U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit)),...
Tlaib and colleagues spar with Trump over racist tweets
July 17th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Ayanna S. Pressley (D-MA) came together on Monday to hold a press conference and address President Trump's recent Twitter barrage against the four congresswomen. The four have been openly critical of the...
Iran, U.S., U.K. and Israel, a nuclear game of Russian roulette
July 13th, 20190 The U.S. and Iran have had a rocky relationship for a while now, but now that Iran has "violated" a key element in the 2015 international agreement that mandated the country to limit its development of nuclear weapons, an empty shot in a game of Russian roulette between the states has begun. The Iranian state news service, Fars,......
Trump gives up on citizenship question on 2020 Census
July 13th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump took to the podium in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday to announce that the citizenship question will not be included in the 2020 Census. Instead, he has issued an executive order to every federal department and agency to provide the Commerce Department with records of the number of citizens...
Yemeni American high school soccer player earns scholarship to Division I Butler University
July 13th, 20190 DEARBORN — Edsel Ford High School senior Hammam Nasser is on his way to play soccer for the NCAA Division I Butler University in Indianapolis. Nasser, 17, who earned a scholarship to Butler, is the son of Mohamed Nasser, founder of the Michigan Yemen Sports Association (MYSA), who also organized many tournaments and programs for......
Study: Social media linked to surges in anti-minority sentiment in the Trump era
July 10th, 20190 PRINCETON, N.J. — A new study from researchers at Princeton University and the University of Warwick in England has uncovered a link between social media use, President Trump's campaign and anti-minority sentiment. Researchers set out to find direct links between anti-minority sentiment on social media, and after examining Trump's...
Woman faces 20 years in prison for licking ice cream tub in Walmart
July 5th, 20190 LUFKIN, TX — A Walmart customer who licked a tub of ice cream before putting it back in a supermarket freezer could face up to 20 years in prison, police said. The woman, whose name has not been confirmed yet, was seen outside of a Walmart store around 11 p.m. on June 28. An arrest warrant was issued on a charge of second-degree......
