Trump opponents urge U.S. Supreme Court to rule on travel ban
October 8th, 20170 WASHINGTON—Challengers to President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the policy’s legality even though it has been replaced with a revised plan. In separate letters to the court, the American Civil Liberties Union and the state of Hawaii said...
The city that bears the brunt of the national terror watchlist
October 4th, 20170 With a large population of Muslim and Arab Americans, Dearborn has the most per capita residents on a shadowy and unaccountable watchlist. It is nearly impossible to find out if you’re on it, let alone get your name off. By Christopher Mathias, Rowaida Abdelaziz, Hassan Khalifeh, and Afaf Humayun DEARBORN, Mich. — There’s...
U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis recommends sticking with Iran nuclear deal
October 3rd, 20170 WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said on Tuesday the United States should consider staying in the Iran nuclear deal unless it were proven Tehran that was not abiding by the agreement or that it was not in the U.S. national interest to do so. Though Mattis deferred to President Donald Trump’s review of the...
Deadliest shooting in U.S. history: 50 dead, 200 wounded in Las Vegas
October 2nd, 20170 LAS VEGAS, Nevada - A gunman killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 200 at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, raining down rapid fire from the 32nd floor of a hotel for several minutes before he was shot dead by police. The death toll, which police emphasized was preliminary and tentative, would make...
Trump says NFL should ban player protests during anthem
September 29th, 20170 U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his fight with the National Football League (NFL) on Tuesday, calling on the league to ban players from kneeling in protest at games while the national anthem is played. “The NFL has all sorts of rules and regulations. The only way out for them is to set a rule that you can’t kneel during our...
Social media data to be collected from green card holders and naturalized citizens
September 29th, 20170 Starting Oct 18, the Department of Homeland Security will begin collecting social media data from naturalized citizens and permanent residents. Last week, there were additions to the Federal Register which require the collection of “social media handles, aliases, associated identifiable information, and search...
Trump administration proposes to cut refugee cap to 45,000
September 29th, 20170 WASHINGTON/NEW YORK—The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed admitting a maximum of 45,000 refugees next year, the lowest cap in decades, which officials said was necessary to ensure U.S. security, although Democrats and humanitarian groups blasted the decision as an abandonment of American moral authority. That figure is the...
ICE raids sanctuary cities around California, hundreds arrested
September 29th, 20170 The LA Times reported that hundreds were arrested in places where elected officials and local law enforcements have chose not to impose federal immigration laws. ICE reported that they arrested 167 people in the Los Angeles and nearby areas. Other cities targeted were San Jose and San Francisco. In the last few days, ICE said...
Bin Laden son-in-law’s conviction upheld; U.S. says ‘justice done’
September 29th, 20170 NEW YORK—A U.S. appeals court on Thursday upheld the conviction on terrorism charges of Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a Kuwaiti-born cleric who was a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and spokesman for the al Qaeda leader. Abu Ghaith, 51, who is serving a life sentence, had claimed that the evidence did not support his conviction for conspiring...
NFL players, managers defy Trump on anthem protests
September 24th, 20170 SOMERSET, N.J. ― National Football League players from the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars knelt and linked arms during the pre-game national anthem on Sunday, hours after President Trump called on fans to boycott teams that do not discipline players who protest. At the first game since Trump stepped up his criticism of...
New York’s first Arab candidate loses shot at City Council, but wins solidarity
September 14th, 20171 New York City— After a groundbreaking grassroots campaign, Yemeni activist Rabyaah Althaibani choked back tears as she mourned the defeat of the first Arab-American candidate for New York City Council on Tuesday night. “Yes we lost, but we won,” Althaibani said at a neighborhood bar, surrounded by dozens of supporters for Khader...
Trott’s retirement creates opportunity for Michigan Democrats
September 14th, 20171 WASHINGTON — As U.S. Rep. Dave Trott (R-Birmingham), known for his anti-immigrant stance, is set to retire from Congress at the end of his second term and return to the private sector, questions have been raised regarding the possibility for a Democrat to take his place. “Our country’s Founding Fathers envisioned a government...
U.S. judge presses Trump administration on Dreamer deadlines
September 14th, 20170 NEW YORK—A U.S. judge on Thursday repeatedly pressed the Trump administration to extend an October deadline for some immigrants to reapply for a program that shielded children brought to the United States illegally by their parents from deportation. President Donald Trump recently decided to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood...
U.S. will not issue some visas in four nations in deportation crackdown
September 14th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. State Department on Wednesday will stop issuing certain kinds of visas to some citizens of Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone because the nations are not taking back their citizens the United States wants to deport. The new policies, laid out in State Department cables reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday...
Justice Department warns of disaster fraud after Irma, Harvey
September 14th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Justice Department has received more than 400 fraud complaints involving relief aid after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and expects a spike in fraud complaints in the coming months, department officials said on Thursday. The majority of fraud efforts target the federal government itself as people try to......
U.S. extends some Iran sanctions relief under nuclear deal
September 14th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C.—The United States on Thursday extended some sanctions relief for Iran under the 2015 nuclear deal, the State Department said, but no decision has been made on whether to preserve the deal itself. At the same time, President Donald Trump said that Iran is violating “the spirit” of the Iran nuclear deal and the...
U.S. Appeals Court allows extra airport screening of two Arab American locals
September 14th, 20171 DETROIT — The U.S. government did not violate the Constitutional rights of two Dearborn businessmen, Nasser Beydoun and Maan Bazzi, by routinely subjecting them to extra security screening at airports, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. Beydoun and Bazzi, both U.S. citizens from Dearborn, accused the government of violating...
Trump administration sued over phone searches at U.S. borders
September 13th, 20170 WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has engaged in an unconstitutional practice of searching without a warrant the phones and laptops of Americans who are stopped at the border, a lawsuit filed on Wednesday alleged. Ten U.S. citizens and one lawful permanent resident sued the Department of Homeland Security in federal court, saying...
Irma aims full fury at Florida’s Gulf Coast, floods central Miami
September 10th, 20170 FORT MYERS/MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Irma lashed the Gulf Coast of Florida with the brunt of its fury on Sunday afternoon, knocking out electricity to 2.5 million homes and businesses statewide while flooding streets and swaying skyscrapers in Miami. Hours after barreling across the resort archipelago of the Florida Keys, the storm......
U.S. House unanimously approves sweeping self-driving car measure
September 8th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, the U.S. House unanimously approved a sweeping proposal to speed the deployment of self-driving cars without human controls by putting federal regulators in the driver's seat and barring states from blocking autonomous vehicles. The House measure, the first significant federal legislation aimed at...
Airlines scramble to evacuate residents ahead of Hurricane Irma
September 8th, 20170 MIAMI — Airlines are racing against the clock to clear as many customers as possible from the likely Florida path of Hurricane Irma, as social and political pressure mounted for carriers to play a bigger role in aiding evacuations. As the powerful storm threatened to rip through the Florida coast by Sunday, airlines ramped up the......
Filmmaker Michael Moore says Trump will ‘get us all killed’
September 7th, 20170 NEW YORK — Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is trading screen time for the stage in a one-man show now on Broadway that is a call to action over the current state of U.S. politics. The show, “The Terms of My Surrender”, uses Moore’s satirical brand of humor to target President Trump and encourage liberals to turn resentment...
From Michigan to Texas: Harvey victims find refuge among Arab and Muslim Americans
September 7th, 20170 HOUSTON, DEARBORN — Striding strenuously down a freeway, mostly mothers and their children were knee deep in water, making the journey away from their drowned homes. They carried on their shoulders only what they could save. The water rose so fast that few families in Southeast Texas were left unthreatened by Hurricane Harvey's......
