Final Presidential debate ends on a “nasty” note
LAS VEGAS - An estimated 71.6 million people watched the final debate between White House contenders Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on TV on Wednesday, below the audience for their first encounter but the third-largest total ever recorded. The data supplied by the Nielsen ratings agency on Thursday covered people who watched...Man gets one year in prison for assisting in Army base bomb plot
KANSAS - A man has been sentenced to one year and four months in prison for helping in the assistance of an unsuccessful attempt to plant a bomb at an Army post in northeast Kansas. A federal judge sentenced 29-year-old Alexander Blair on Tuesday. The Topeka man was accused of loaning $100 to...Iraq war veteran gets five years for mosque arson, Planned Parenthood plot
KANSAS CITY, Miss.,-- A Missouri man who set fire to a mosque and attempted to set fire to a Planned Parenthood facility twice was sentenced to 63 months in prison for the crimes on Tuesday in federal court. Jedediah Stout, an Iraqi veteran, pleaded guilty to causing damage at the Islamic Society of Joplin mosque and two...Man gets probation for ripping off woman’s hijab on Southwest flight
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A North Carolina man who acknowledged grabbing and pulling off a Muslim woman's hijab on a flight from Chicago to Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been sentenced to a year of probation that includes two months of home confinement. Federal prosecutors say 37-year-old Gill Parker Payne of Gastonia also was ordered...A Military college’s first Hijabi student
NORTHFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Despite being the first woman allowed to wear a Muslim headscarf beneath her military uniform at the nation's oldest private military college, Sana Hamze says she doesn't feel like a pioneer. Her focus is on learning details of life as a "rook" at Vermont's Norwich University, in the school's Corps of Cadets...Woman convicted for smashing beer-mug in Muslim woman’s face
MINNEAPOLIS — A woman plead guilty Monday to attacking another woman in a restaurant because she was speaking Swahili. The assault happened at a Coon Rapids Applebees restaurant in October 2015. Forty-four-year-old Jodie Burchard-Risch got upset when she heard Asma Mohamed Jama and her relatives speaking in their native...Man charged for vandalizing New Jersey mosque
BAYONNE, New Jesey - Police have arrested a 20-year-old man on charges of vandalism directed at a local mosque. On Friday morning, police discovered numerous acts of graffiti, written with spray paint on the exterior walls of the old St. Henry's Elementary School on Avenue C. Police said that the vandalism -- crude phrases such as...Three Kansas men charged for plotting to bomb Mosque
KANSAS (Reuters) - Three men were arrested on Friday and charged with plotting to bomb a mosque and apartment complex in western Kansas where 120 people lived, including Muslim immigrants from Somalia who also used one apartment as a mosque, federal officials said.The three men, Curtis Allen, 49, Gavin Wright, 49 and Patrick Eugene...Arizona woman accused of helping inmate husband plot prison bombing
ARIZONA - An Arizona woman accused of smuggling publications distributed by Islamist militant groups into a prison as part of a plot to help her inmate husband build a bomb, has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism and conspiracy, court documents showed on Thursday. Michelle Bastian, 49, was taken...Accused New York bomber pleads not guilty from hospital bed
NEW YORK - The man accused of last month's bombings in New York and New Jersey that injured dozens of people made his first court appearance on Thursday from a hospital bed, pleading not guilty to attempting to murder police officers. Ahmad Khan Rahimi, 28, whose last name had previously been reported...Sexual allegations haunt Trump campaign
NEW YORK — On Thursday, Donald Trump angrily denied several accusations of groping in a growing controversy over inappropriate behavior with women that is damaging the Republican presidential candidate's chances of winning the Nov. 8 election. Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, the New York Times and other media were engaged in a...
Palestinian journalist writes kids’ storybook in colloquial Arabic
October 14th, 20160 Makhoul's daughter reading "The Girl Who Lost Her Imagination" NEW YORK — Wars and violence in the Middle East have caused the birth of numerous babies in the diaspora, which, in turn, drastically decreases the number of Arabic-speaking children. Many Arab parents in America have a hard time teaching their children...
Muslim woman speaks out about vicious attack targeting her baby
October 13th, 20160 NEW YORK- A Muslim woman who was attacked while strolling her baby in Brooklyn last month, is finally speaking out. In an interview with New York local affiliate PIX11, the woman disguised herself out of fear of retaliation. As she and another Muslim woman walked in Bath Beach, Brooklyn,...
Muslim boy was beaten on school bus for refusing to eat non-halal sandwich
October 11th, 20160 NORTH CAROLINA -New details have emerged in a case involving the beating of a 7-year-old boy on a school bus because he was Muslim.Abdul Usmani was bruised and battered on a school bus when he refused to eat a sandwhich that wasn’t halal.According to Usmani’s father, Dr. Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, a classmate had tried to force...
Autistic teen pleads guilty to terrorism charges following FBI sting
October 11th, 20160 ARIZONA - An Arizona teenager who the FBI said professed himself to be an "American jihadist" has agreed to plead guilty to terrorism and conspiracy charges stemming from a suspected plot to bomb a state motor vehicle office, court documents showed on Monday. Mahin Khan, 18, jailed since his arrest in July, reached a deal with......
Hotel clerk not charged for suspecting guest was a terrorist
October 10th, 20162 AVON, Ohio -- A Lorain County grand jury chose not to indict the hotel desk clerk accused of falsely reporting that an Emirati guest pledged his allegiance to ISIS. The grand jury opted not to indict the clerk or anyone else involved in the June 29 arrest of Ahmed Al Menhali at the Fairfield Inn and Suites on Colorado Avenue,...New York Muslim man attacked while walking with mother
BRONX — Police are searching for three individuals connected to an assault that occurred in the Bronx in September and involved anti-Muslim slurs. On Sept. 15 right before midnight, the 25-year-old victim and his mother were walking and crossing the street in front of 2481 Creston Avenue in the Fordham Manor section of the...Trump threatens jail time, Clinton says rival’s campaign is ‘exploding’
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump, defiant amid a tide of criticism of his sexually aggressive remarks about women, said Hillary Clinton would go to jail if he were president and attacked her husband for his treatment of women in a vicious presidential debate less than a month before the U.S. election. The Sunday...Police chief under fire by Muslims for “bacon grease bullets” Facebook posts
ALABAMA - A Police chief in Alabama faces scrutiny after a Muslim rights organization called him out for his Facebook activity. The Alabama chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations is asking federal authorities to investigate "anti-Muslim bigotry expressed" on social media posts allegedly made by the Gurley Police chief......
Sikh man attacked by group of men
NEW YORK: "Cut his f*****g hair," yelled a group of men before brutally attacking a Sikh American, knocking off his turban and cutting his unshorn hair with a knife. Maan Singh Khalsa, 41, an IT professional in California, was driving home on the night of September 25 when a group of men in car threw a beer can at his vehicle....U.S. road deaths jump 10.4 percent in first half of 2016
WASHINGTON - U.S. traffic deaths jumped 10.4 percent in the first six months of 2016 to a "crisis" level, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday. NHTSA said road deaths in the first half totaled 17,775 and said the number was likely to be higher in the second half......
Dozens of Afghani troops gone missing in the U.S.
WASHINGTON - Forty-four Afghan troops visiting the United States for military training have gone missing in less than two years, presumably in an effort to live and work illegally in America, according to a report by Reuters. Although the number of disappearances is relatively small -- some 2,200 Afghan...Deadly Hurricane Matthew strikes
ORLANDO - Matthew, the first major hurricane threatening a direct hit on the United States in more than 10 years, blasted the Bahamas on Thursday as it headed for Florida after killing at least 140 people in the Caribbean, mostly in Haiti. Matthew, carrying winds of 140 mph (220 kph), pounded the......