U.S. judge halts deportation of Iraqi immigrants
July 11th, 20170 DETROIT- On Tuesday, a U.S. judge ruled that the government cannot immediately deport nearly 200 Iraqi immigrants arrested last month who argued they would face persecution if they were removed from the country. U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith in Michigan said he had the authority to order the government to keep the Iraqis in the...
Trump Jr. email chain cites Russian support for his father
July 11th, 20170 WASHINGTON- Presidential candidate Donald Trump's eldest son eagerly agreed last year to meet a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have information incriminating Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as part of Russian government support for his father, according to an email chain released on Tuesday. The email...
Obituary: Jack Shaheen, who fought against Arab stereotyping
July 11th, 20170 Charleston, S.C.—Renowned scholar Jack Shaheen, who spent his life breaking stereotypes of Arab Americans and Muslims in the media, died Sunday, July 9 at Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He was 81. Shaheen was an internationally acclaimed author, lecturer and media critic considered to be a pioneering voice...
Trump’s son says ‘happy’ to work with Senate intelligence panel on Russia
July 10th, 20170 WASHINGTON- On Monday, President Trump's eldest son offered to talk to a Senate committee investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, after he acknowledged meeting a Russian lawyer during the campaign. "Happy to work with the committee to pass on what I know," Donald Trump Jr. wrote on...
Trump administration defends interpretation of travel ban ruling
July 4th, 20170 NEW YORK- The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump opposed opening the door to grandparents from six Muslim-majority countries on Monday, arguing in a court filing that the government's interpretation of how to implement its temporary travel ban is based on U.S. immigration law. The U.S. Supreme Court in a ruling last Monday...
U.S. deaths by police gunfire on track to reach 1,000 in 2017
July 2nd, 20170 Police officers across the United States shot 492 people dead in the first half of 2017, on track to approach 1,000 such incidents for the third year in a row, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. The Post, which has been tracking all fatal shootings by police since 2015, said the tally on June 16 of this year was identical to...
Republican healthcare bill imperiled, with 22 million seen losing insurance
July 1st, 20170 WASHINGTON— Twenty-two million Americans would lose insurance over the next decade under the Republican-controlled Senate’s healthcare bill, a nonpartisan congressional office said on Monday, complicating the path forward for the already-fraught legislation. After the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score, Senator Susan Collins,...
Gunman kills doctor, wounds six in a New York City hospital rampage
July 1st, 20170 NEW YORK- A doctor who had lost his job at a New York City hospital opened fire with an assault rifle inside the building on Friday, killing another physician and wounding six other people before taking his own life in a burst of apparent workplace-related violence, officials said. The gunman, wearing a white medical lab coat, stalked...
Travel ban bars grandparents, fiancés from six Muslim countries
June 29th, 20170 WASHINGTON- Grandparents, grandchildren and fiancés of people in the United States will be barred from getting U.S. visas under President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban against citizens of six Muslim-majority countries taking effect on Thursday, U.S. officials said. The administration also narrowly interpreted which refugees...
U.S. judge halts deportation of Iraqis nationwide
June 27th, 20170 DETROIT- A federal judge halted late on Monday the deportation of all Iraqi nationals detained during immigration sweeps across the United States this month until at least July 10, expanding a stay he imposed last week. The stay had initially only protected 114 detainees from the Detroit area. U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith...
Texas man charged with hate crime for January mosque fire
June 25th, 20170 VICTORIA, TX —A federal grand jury in Victoria, Texas, has charged Marq Perez, 25, with a hate crime on suspicion of setting fire to a mosque there on Jan. 28, the Justice Department said on Thursday. If convicted, Perez faces up to 20 years in federal prison, 10 years for possessing an unregistered destructive device and another 10...
Trump: No tape conversations with former FBI head Comey
June 22nd, 20170 WASHINGTON ― President Trump said on Thursday he did not make and does not possess any tapes of his conversations with James Comey, after suggesting last month that he might have recordings that could damage the former FBI director. "With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking...
Memorial for Nabra Hassanen burned in Virginia
June 21st, 20170 WASHINGTON-A memorial for slain teen Nabra Hassanen has been burned down where it had been erected in the DuPont Circle on Connecticut Ave NW in Washington, D.C. The DC Fire department responded to the scene at about 8:30 AM on Wednesday. Additionally, the remains from the memorial of 17-year-old Hassanen were found on fire at the...
Qatar signs $12 billion deal to buy F-15 jets from U.S
June 19th, 20170 WASHINGTON—Qatar's Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday the country signed a deal to buy F-15 fighter jets from the United States for $12 billion. The deal was completed despite the Gulf country being criticized recently by President Trump for supporting terrorism. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and representatives from Qatar were...
Special prosecutor investigating business dealings of Trump’s son-in-law
June 19th, 20170 WASHINGTON — The finances and business dealings of Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and adviser, are being investigated by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is as part of probes into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, officials familiar with the matter told The Washington Post. FBI agents and......
Virginia teen murdered, thrown in pond while walking back to prayer
June 19th, 20171 HERNDON, VA-A body found Sunday afternoon in a pond in the 21500 block of Ridgetop Circle in Sterling, Virginia, is 17-year-old girl Nabra Hussein from Reston, Virginia, who was reported missing in the area hours earlier. Police discovered a female body in the pond about 3 p.m. The pond is 2 to 3 miles away from the original...
Chaldean, Iraqi communities across Metro Detroit scramble to act following ICE detentions
June 16th, 20171 SOUTHFIELD — On Monday, June 12, dozens gathered outside the Mother of God Chaldean Catholic Church in Southfield to protest a recent wave of ICE raids that targeted, captured and detained dozens of Iraqi immigrants at multiple locations across Metro Detroit, including local churches, homes and even a hospital. Shocked and outraged...
Six Michigan officials charged with manslaughter in Flint water crisis
June 14th, 20170 FLINT ― Six current and former Michigan and Flint officials were criminally charged on Wednesday for their roles in the city's water crisis that was linked to an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that caused at least 12 deaths, the state's attorney general said. Five of the officials, including Michigan Health and Human Services...
U.S. intelligence contractor pleads not guilty to leaking charge
June 12th, 20171 AUGUSTA, GA.- A U.S. intelligence contractor accused of illegally leaking a classified report on Russian interference in U.S. elections to a media outlet pleaded not guilty on Thursday to an espionage offense, and a federal judge denied her request for bail. Reality Leigh Winner, 25, is accused of passing the top secret National......
Texas teacher let go for giving mock ‘terrorist’ award to student
June 12th, 20170 HOUSTON- A teacher at a Houston-area school is out of a job after presenting mock awards to seventh-grade students, including one for being "most likely to be a terrorist," the school district said on Wednesday. "We have concluded our investigation and the teacher responsible is no longer employed by the district," the Channelview...
Suspect in Oregon train stabbings claims self-defense
June 12th, 20170 PORTLAND- The man accused of murdering two men and wounding a third on a Portland, Oregon, train was led away from a courtroom on Wednesday by sheriff's deputies as he shouted that he had acted in self defense. Jeremy Christian, 35, had stood quietly in a glass-walled holding cell in the courtroom throughout a brief appearance until......
Comey says Trump fired him to undermine FBI Russia investigation
June 12th, 20171 WASHINGTON- Former FBI Director James Comey accused President Donald Trump on Thursday of firing him to try to undermine the agency's investigation of possible collusion by Trump's campaign with Russia's alleged efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election. In the most eagerly anticipated U.S. congressional hearing in years,...
First Institute of Arab and Islamic Art opens in New York
June 12th, 20170 NEW YORK — The city of New York had no institute to showcase the modern and contemporary art of Arab and Muslim artists. But, that changed this May when the Institute of Arab and Islamic Art opened with a four-woman show of work by Dana Awartani, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Zarina and Nasreen Mohamedi. For now, it is temporarily......
