U.S. appeals court: Potheads can be denied guns
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld federal regulations that prevented a woman with a medical marijuana card from buying a firearm in Nevada, in a ruling that cited the government's interest in preventing gun violence. In upholding a lower-court ruling, a three-judge panel of the San...Mexico president blasts Trump’s policies as ‘huge threat’ after meeting
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's president rebuked Donald Trump as a threat to his country just hours after painting a positive picture of talks the two held on Wednesday to try to defuse tensions over the U.S. presidential hopeful's anti-Mexican campaign rhetoric. President Enrique Pena Nieto had on Wednesday...Clinton hacker sentenced to 4.5 years in prison
WASHINGTON - The hacker known as Guccifer - but better known for exposing Hillary Clinton's private email server - was sentenced today by a U.S. court to four years and four months in jail. Federal District Court Judge James Cacheris passed down the sentencing in Alexandria, Virginia, on Thursday morning,...Suspect pleads not guilty to killing Imam, assistant
NEW YORK - The man accused of killing a Queens imam and his associate faced a judge on Thursday as his defense attorney raised questions about the case.Members of the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque filled the courtroom as Oscar Morel, 35, entered a not guilty plea.Morel is charged with one count of first-degree murder, two counts of...Muslim woman stabbed to death in Queens
NEW YORK - An NYPD officer’s aunt was stabbed to death while taking a walk with her husband in Queens Wednesday night, and the victim’s family believes it could have been a hate crime. Nazma Khanam, 60, was walking around 9 p.m. in Jamaica Hills when she was stabbed in what may have been an attempted robbery. She was taken...Christian woman files lawsuit after being forced to remove headscarf
ALABAMA - The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsuit accusing Alabama county officials of violating a Christian woman's religious rights by forcing her to remove her headscarf before taking her driver's license photo. Yvonne Allen, of Tuskegee, said a court clerk told her when she sought a license renewal last...Obama administration meets goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration met its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year a month ahead of schedule and is working with Congress to increase the target by a few thousand in 2017, the White House said. The 10,000th Syrian refugee arrived in the United States on Monday afternoon, national security advisor...Mother charged for allowing boyfriend to rape, kill 10-year-old daughter
NEW MEXICO - When police were called on Wednesday to an apartment complex in Albuquerque, New Mexico, they thought they were responding to a battery call.Instead, they found 10-year-old Victoria Martens. She had been killed hours before her 10th birthday party.The girl's mother, Michelle Martens, 35; Martens's boyfriend, Fabian...Man arrested for killing two nuns
DURANT, Miss. - A man suspected in the slayings of two nuns found dead in their Mississippi home confessed to the killings, a sheriff said Saturday.Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, Mississippi was arrested and charged in the deaths of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill. Both women were 68.Mississippi Department of...Florida dad murdered on second date by woman he met online
There was no reason for Adam Hilarie to believe anything but the obvious: He had just been on a promising first date with a pretty girl.Hilarie had met Hailey Rose Bustos on PlentyOfFish, which bills itself as the largest dating site in the world. He'd picked her up and they went bowling in Winter Haven, Florida, at Cypress Lanes,...Illinois man charged with bomb attempt ruled mentally unfit
A U.S. judge ruled on Thursday that a Chicago-area man was mentally incompetent to stand trial on charges he tried to set off what he thought was a car bomb outside a bar. The suspect, Adel Daoud of Hillside, Illinois, sincerely believes that his lawyers are Freemasons, U.S. District Judge Sharon...N.Y. police regularly violated rules on probing Muslim groups
NEW YORK - The New York City Police Department routinely violated court-mandated rules on handling investigations of political activity, particularly Muslim groups or individuals, the department's watchdog said in a report released on Tuesday. The 64-page report by the Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD found police...Trump, Clinton feud over minority voters
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clashed on Thursday over who would make a better U.S. president for minority voters, accusing each other of posing a threat to the interests of blacks and Latinos.Clinton needs to retain support from minority voters to defeat her Republican rival in the Nov. 8 election and was delivering a...Mentally ill man stabs two people, media assumed he was a terrorist
The FBI is investigating a double stabbing by a Virginia man who shouted the Muslim phrase "Allah Akbar," while authorities on Tuesday denied media reports that the attack may have been an attempted beheading. The suspect, Wasil Farooqui, 20, of Roanoke, is charged with randomly attacking a man and woman with...U.S. judge blocks Obama transgender school bathroom policy
A U.S. judge blocked an Obama administration policy that public schools should allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice, granting a nationwide injunction sought by 13 dissenting states just in time for the new school year.While a setback for transgender advocates, the ruling is only the latest salvo in a larger......
Phoenix area Muslims pay for ‘ISIS sucks’ billboard
PHOENIX - A large electronic billboard has a simple message directed at ISIS: "Hey ISIS, you suck." The billboard was paid for by a national Muslim-American non-profit with help from the Muslim community in Arizona. Local Muslims in the state said they want to condemn the terrorist organization in a very public way. They said...Muslim inmate sues Indiana sheriff’s office over halal diet
LEBANON, Ind. — A Muslim inmate is using Indiana’s religious freedom statute in part to sue a central Indiana sheriff for denying him a diet that follows Islamic dietary laws.The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed the federal lawsuit on behalf of Gannon Thomas against the Boone County Sheriff’s Office over its...Clinton’s top aide scrutinized for ties to Saudi magazine
WASHINGTON - The top campaign aide to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is being scrutinized for her ties to a Saudi-sponsored magazine. Huma Abedin, 40, has for years been one of Clinton’s closest confidantes. She began her career as an intern in the White House in 1996, when Hillary Clinton was first lady, and was...Islamic charity vandalized
ATLANTA - The Council On American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is asking police to investigate a vandalism incident in Atlanta targeting a Muslim charity. Sometime during the evening of August 17, an unknown number of vandals shattered the glass entry door to the Stone Mountain office of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA),......
Michigan Muslim woman outraged at CNN for featuring her in ISIS video
MICHIGAN - A local Muslim woman and her family are outraged after discovering that her face was being used in a CNN video about ISIS recruitment. The woman's husband recognized his wife's face in the clip. Though she has no ties to ISIS, the woman's face was featured in the clip for a few seconds. The identity of the...Muslim woman gets thrown out of Trump rally…again
A Muslim woman has been ejected from a Donald Trump rally after handing out pens inscribed with the word “peace”. Rose Hamid said a member of the Republican Presidential candidate’s security staff removed her from the event in Charlotte, North Carolina, because she was causing a “disturbance”. “I just wanted to let people......
Mexico’s president says he’s willing to meet with Trump
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Tuesday he was willing to meet with Donald Trump, months after comparing the Republican presidential candidate to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. "Yes, I would meet with him," Pena Nieto said, referring to Trump in a pre-taped television interview broadcast on Tuesday night. "I have...Trump calls for African-American support
MILWAUKEE — On Tuesday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump delivered his most aggressive call yet to woo African American voters, vowing to restore law and order, only days after a fatal police shooting of a Black man sparked more street violence. Speaking a few miles from Milwaukee, which was rocked by weekend riots,......