Trump targets U.S. birthright citizenship as elections loom
November 4th, 20180 WASHINGTON — With congressional elections a week away, President Trump said on Tuesday that he'll seek to scrap the right of citizenship for U.S.-born children of non-citizens and illegal immigrants as he tries again to dramatically reshape immigration policies. Reviving his support for a legally questionable theory, Trump told...
Mysterious deaths of Saudi sisters found bound with duct tape in Hudson River
November 2nd, 20180 NEW YORK — New York City investigators believe that the two sisters from Saudi Arabia whose bodies were found bound together with duct tape floating along the Hudson River last week were alive when they entered the water, two police sources told ABC News. Detectives are checking to see if any surveillance cameras captured the moment...
Research: New vehicle technologies double repair bills for minor collisions
November 2nd, 20180 DEARBORN — According to new research from AAA, vehicles equipped with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) such as automatic emergency braking, blind spot monitoring, lane departure warning and others, can cost twice as much to repair following a collision due to expensive sensors and their calibration requirements. Even minor...
Suspicious packages target Trump critics
October 29th, 20180 WASHINGTON - At least 10 suspicious packages have been sent to eight U.S. Democrats and critics of President Trump. None of the devices exploded, but authorities stepped up their manhunt for the would-be serial bomber with crucial U.S. Congressional elections less than two weeks away in what has become a contentious campaign...
Pentagon may send troops to U.S.-Mexico border to stop migrant caravan
October 26th, 20180 WASHINGTON — The Trump administration may send up to 1,000 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to stop a caravan of migrants, administration officials said on Thursday, as President Trump hammered away at the issue of illegal immigration ahead of the mid-term elections. Trump’s threat was sparked by the advance of a...
U.S. lawmakers consider bill to ban arms sales to Saudi Arabia
October 26th, 20180 WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday that would stop most U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia in response to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, U.S. Representative James McGovern (D-MA) said on his website. The bill said that President Trump could request...
Almost half residents in America’s largest cities speak a foreign language
October 26th, 20180 WASHINGTON - Newly released Census Bureau data for 2017 shows nearly half (48.2 percent) of residents in America's five largest cities now speak a language other than English at home. Overall, the number of U.S. residents speaking a foreign language at home reached a record of nearly 67 million. The total number is up seven million since...
Basic requirement for green card has changed — and it helps legal immigrants
October 26th, 20182 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has updated a key requirement to obtain a green card effective Nov. 1. The policy changes announced this week will affect the medical and vaccination examination for immigration purposes, which makes sure there are no health issues that would deem the applicant inadmissible to...
Here is why U.S. courts abruptly tossed 9,000 deportation cases
October 22nd, 20180 Liliana Barrios was working in a California bakery in July and facing possible deportation when she got a call from her immigration attorney with some good news. The notice to appear in court that Barrios had received in her deportation case hadn’t specified a time or date for her first hearing, noting that they would be determined...
Bill Ford cancels plan for Saudi investor event following Khashouggi’s disappearance
October 19th, 20180 NEW YORK — JP Morgan & Chase Company Chief Executive Jamie Dimon and Ford Motor Company Chairman Bill Ford canceled plans to attend a Saudi investor conference, the companies said on Sunday, the latest such high-profile announcements after the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The cancellations could add...
It’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
October 19th, 20180 October is spooky enough with its ghouls and goblins. National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is here to remind us how to stay safe and secure from real (and maybe even scarier) threats — malware and scammers. Help us celebrate by joining a Twitter chat we’ll be participating in on October 18 at 3 p.m. EST. In this chat, you’ll...
California school district has contract with firm linked to ICE
October 16th, 20181 A small school district in affluent Marin County in California, serving about 2,000 youngsters in the bucolic West Marin towns of Fairfax and San Anselmo, has contracted with Thomson Reuters — a firm linked to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — to check on the residential status of its students. Ross Valley School...
Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme Court of divided U.S.A.
October 6th, 20180 WASHINGTON - A deeply divided U.S. Senate on Saturday confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, as Republicans dismissed accusations of sexual misconduct against the conservative judge and delivered a major victory to President Trump. By a vote of 50-48, the Senate gave a lifetime job to Kavanaugh, 53, after weeks of fierce...
Survey finds only one in three Americans can pass U.S. Citizenship Test
October 4th, 20180 PRINCETON N.J. — According to a national survey released Wednesday by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, just one in three Americans can pass a multiple choice test consisting of content taken from the U.S. Citizenship Test. Only 13 percent of individuals surveyed knew when the Constitution was ratified, most of...
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell proposes legislation to fight scam phone calls
October 4th, 20180 WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) introduced legislation to give the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) tools to combat scam calls targeting vulnerable people. Last year the FTC received 4.8 million consumer complaints about robocalls and the number continues to rise. Scammers disregard the National Do Not Call......
Rashida Tlaib, Abdul El-Sayed arrested at Fight for $15 rally in Detroit
October 2nd, 20180 DETROIT — During a pro-labor rally in Detroit Tuesday afternoon, Rashida Tlaib, the expected replacement for former U.S. Rep. John Conyers and Abdul El-Sayed, former Democratic candidate for governor, were arrested on Tuesday, October 2, with 16 other protesters. The protest, part of a national walkout of fast-food workers organized...
Pentagon: U.S.-led fight against ISIS killed over 1,100 civilians
September 30th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 1,100 civilians have been killed in U.S.-led strikes against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria since the operation began in 2014, the U.S. military said on Thursday. The coalition fighting ISIS militants said in a statement that during the month of August it had determined that an additional 53 civilians...
Federal court blocks Arizona anti-BDS law
September 30th, 20180 PHOENIX — On Thursday, Sept. 27, a federal court blocked an Arizona law that requires state contractors to certify that they won't boycott Israel, finding that the law likely violates state contractors’ free speech rights under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. “A restriction of one’s ability to participate in...
Amidst community hopes and fears, Dayton races to prepare for Census 2020
September 28th, 20180 Dayton, OH — The city that gave America and the world aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright and their friend, poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar, is still ahead of the curve. Aware of a steep price to be paid if it can’t up its game, Dayton’s new Dayton-Montgomery County Complete Count Committee is the first organization in the state......
President of Zionist Organization of America doubles down on his “filthy Arabs” slur
September 25th, 20180 Facing criticism over his use of the slur “filthy Arab” in a tweet last week, Zionist Organization of America national president Morton Klein repeated the phrase in a voicemail to the Forward — and pointedly refused to back down. Klein asserted in the lengthy voicemail that he had meant that “Arab murderers are filthy...
Feds shut down fake document sellers
September 24th, 20180 Beware of fake document sellers. When you apply for credit, a mortgage, a place to live, government benefits or tax refunds, most likely you need documents showing your income, employment and other personal information. But not everyone plays by the rules. Some businesses sell fake documents to people who use them to get products and......
Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate believes America should not ‘provide entitlements’ to refugees
September 24th, 20180 Immediately after progressive Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum became the first African American major party candidate for governor of Florida, his GOP opponent, Trump-loving Rep. Ron DeSantis, caused outrage when he said Florida should not "monkey this up" and vote for Gillum. DeSantis insists there was nothing racial about the...
Israeli burger franchise to open in Arab American neighborhood
September 22nd, 20184 DEARBORN — Walk on the border of Dearborn and Detroit, near Warren Avenue and Greenfield Road, and you'll be surprised by a sign announcing the upcoming opening of Burgerim, a local branch of a franchise that entered the fast food world in 2015 and is owned by Israeli restaurant entrepreneur Oren Loni. Following an investigation,......
