Sendwave app: Send money to loved ones in Lebanon without charging them fees!
December 17th, 20220 By Eric Schloeffel Sending money to Lebanon traditionally includes fees on both sides: You pay a fee to send and your loved one pays a 2 percent fee to receive. But the app from Boston-based company Sendwave has disrupted the U.S.-Lebanon transfer market by eliminating fees for recipients in Lebanon while also offering...
Sen. Peters’ bill to better predict severe weather, flooding and protect Michiganders heads to the president to be signed into law
December 16th, 20220 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Gary Peters’ (D-MI) bipartisan legislation to establish a National Integrated Flood Information System is headed to the president to be signed into law, after passing in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Flood Level Observation, Operations and Decision Support (FLOODS) Act – which Peters...
Pan Am Flight 103 bombing suspect taken into U.S. custody, formally charged in connection with the December 1988 terrorist attack
December 16th, 20220 WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Libyan man accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people after it blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 is in custody in the United States, Scottish and U.S. law enforcement officials said on Sunday. Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi was taken into custody about two years after...
Assyrian American comedian’s humor unites different Middle Eastern cultures
December 10th, 20220 — This article was contributed by Sarah Moosazadeh, special to The Arab American News A pair of reading glasses, headscarf and a dose of Middle Eastern humor are all traits Assyrian American comedian and influencer Ramina Odicho uses to post comedic TikTok clips that depict her Assyrian roots and build ties with other...
Arab American voters are often ignored by political candidates, but not by Pennsylvania Governor-elect Josh Shapiro
December 7th, 20220 The day former President Trump issued his travel ban in 2017, all Nagi Latefa could see were his daughters’ faces. Sunken. Disappointed. Scared. The executive order banned travelers from six majority Muslim countries from visiting the United States. Latefa and his family, who are Palestinian Muslims, felt vulnerable. The Muslim...
Seattle man, 22, sentenced to four years in prison for attempting to join ISIS
December 6th, 20220 SEATTLE — A 22-year-old Seattle man was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison after being arrested while trying to board a flight to join the Islamic State group last year. Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams was arrested at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as he checked in for a flight to Cairo and later pleaded guilty to...
Police chase in Dearborn ends in crash with driver dead, missing Tennessee woman found dead in trunk
December 6th, 20220 DEARBORN — A traffic stop in Dearborn has resulted in the death of the driver and the discovery of a dead body in the trunk of the vehicle after a pursuit ended in a crash. Police say they initiated a traffic stop on a Dodge Charger involved in an endangered missing investigation on Sunday afternoon when the suspect fled until...
Biden appoints Arab American as advisor to the deputy undersecretary of the U.S. Army
December 6th, 20220 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Alia Awadallah, an Arab American who has worked in international security, counterterrorism and U.S. policy in the Middle East, has been appointed by President Biden's administration to work as an advisor to the deputy undersecretary of the army. The incoming political appointee made the announcement on Twitter Monday,...
Supreme Court to consider who runs elections
December 6th, 20220 By Mark Hedin On Dec. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case a leading conservative federal judge, now retired, has called “the single most important case for American democracy in the nation’s history.” The case, Moore v. Harper, was brought by Republican legislators from North Carolina alleging that the so-called...
Why the decision of the FBI to investigate Abu Akleh’s murder is unprecedented
November 26th, 20220 The recent decision by the United States Department of Justice to open an investigation into the killing, last May, of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is not a game-changer, but important and worthy of reflection, nonetheless. Based on the long trajectory of U.S. military and political support of Israel, and...
Americans celebrate Thanksgiving under the shadow of two more mass shootings
November 25th, 20220 The U.S. marked the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday with traditional feasts, parades and American football, taking a moment to celebrate in a week shadowed by gun violence. The official holiday dates to the Civil War, when President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a day to give thanks and seek healing. U.S....
Who is Michael Boulos? Trump’s new Lebanese son-in-law
November 21st, 20220 - This story was originally published in Business Insider Donald Trump's daughter Tiffany, 29, wed billionaire Michael Boulos before 250 guests at the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on November 12. Boulos, 25, joins the family after he and Tiffany began dating in 2018. They were engaged in January 2021 with Tiffany...
Voters of color and women saved the Democrats from disaster
November 19th, 20220 By Peter White Despite new laws to keep people from voting and gerrymandering election districts to take away the power of minority communities, the Republican “red wave” that pollsters predicted ahead of last week’s midterms didn’t happen. Ethnic Media Services debriefed six experts on their reactions to the election...
FBI to investigate Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder; Israel says it won’t cooperate
November 18th, 20220 The U.S. Department of Justice has decided to investigate the killing of renowned Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, with Israel saying it does not plan to cooperate. The investigation by the FBI comes after months of pressure from rights groups, Democrats and Abu Akleh’s family on the Biden administration to push...
Michigan man charged with providing support to ISIS
November 18th, 20220 DETROIT - Federal officials charged a former Metro Detroit man with attempting to provide material support to ISIS of Iraq and al-Sham, a terrorist organization, and for being a felon in possession of a destructive device. The indictment, which was unsealed Tuesday in the Eastern District of Michigan, accused Aws Mohammed Naser, 34,......
New report says DHS, FBI failed to adequately track domestic terror threats like White supremacy
November 17th, 20220 A report says the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have failed to track data on domestic terrorism, including White supremacist violence, despite being required by a new law to do so. This week, U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a new report...
Michigan voters hand Democrats historic victory, deal a blow to the MAGA movement
November 11th, 20220 The midterm elections shocked most observers and political experts throughout the nation. While Republicans gained a few seats in the Congress, and may perhaps still win the majority there, nothing like the widely predicted "Red Wave" came to fruition. The Senate is still up for grabs, and Democrats scored a number of major victories...
Federal agency releases report on how TSA can curb discriminatory practices at ports of entry
November 10th, 20220 DETROIT — A federal agency has released a report, after a 2020 request from U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-Michigan), on how the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) can eliminate the potential for discrimination in travel screenings. The report comes out of years of requests by Arab Americans and Muslim Americans to their...
Demonstrators in Washington, D.C. call on Egypt to #FreeAlaa
November 9th, 20220 By Laura Albast WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some 40 community members gathered at Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. on Monday night. Holding candles and signs, they called for the Egyptian military regime to release Alaa Abd El-Fattah, a British-Egyptian writer and political prisoner. Abd El-Fattah entered the public eye during the 2011......
Michigan Election Day guide and endorsements: Who deserves our vote
November 5th, 20220 Michigan's midterm election is on Tuesday, Nov. 8, and among the races at stake are for governor, secretary of state and attorney general. There are also three ballot proposals that could change the state's constitution, all 13 seats in the U.S. Congress and all the State House and Senate seats. The midterm elections will likely...
Analysis: What’s at stake in the midterm elections
November 5th, 20220 Control of Congress is at stake in Tuesday's midterm elections, along with President Biden’s agenda for the two years remaining in his term. Republicans stand a strong chance of taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives, while Democrats retain a slim hope of keeping a majority in the Senate. Republican control of either......
Trump considering launching fresh White House bid after midterm elections
November 3rd, 20220 Former President Trump is considering launching a third bid for the White House this month and is speed-dialing confidantes to hash out possible scenarios as he looks to benefit from expected Republican wins in Tuesday's midterms, three Trump advisers said. "I think like a moth to a flame, Trump will run in 2024," one senior adviser...
Israel, Lebanon finalize maritime demarcation deal without mutual recognition; Hezbollah mobilization to end
October 28th, 20220 BEIRUT — Lebanese and Israeli leaders finalized a U.S.-brokered maritime demarcation deal on Thursday, bringing a measure of accommodation between the enemy states as they eye offshore energy exploration. Leaders from Lebanon, Israel and the U.S. have all hailed the deal as "historic" but the possibility of a wider diplomatic......
