California man charged for killing gay son
A 69-year-old North Hills man suspected of killing his son outside a house where the man’s wife was found stabbed to death, was charged Friday with murder, and with a hate crime allegation that he killed his son because he was gay. Shehada Issa, 69, was charged in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday with willful, deliberate...CIA accidentally left explosives on school bus
VIRGINIA - The CIA left behind inert explosives in a Virginia school bus used for a canine training exercise and students were transported in it before the materials were found, officials said. The inactive explosives were discovered in the engine compartment when the Loudoun County Public Schools bus was undergoing maintenance, the...New York woman in headscarf lied about being slashed
NEW YORK - A woman in a headscarf who reported being slashed across the cheek by an attacker who called her a terrorist has admitted she lied, police said on Friday. The 20-year-old woman inflicted the wound on herself and was taken to Bellevue Hospital for care, police said. Anti-Muslim bias crimes in the United States have tripled...Alaska first graders plotted to poison classmate
ALASKA — Police in Anchorage, Alaska, said they had investigated a plot by two young school children to poison a classmate. The two first grade students had planned to sprinkle what they thought were "poison packets" into a classmate's lunch, Anchorage police said in a statement. The packets were determined to be silica, which is...New York Muslim woman’s face slashed by stranger
NEW YORK - A blade-wielding wacko called a Muslim woman a “terrorist,” then sliced open her face as she left a downtown Manhattan cosmetology school, police said.The woman, 20, is a student at the Make-up Designory on Broadway near Rector St. and was leaving the building and walking toward Trinity Church at 4:50 p.m. when her...Sanders: Party leaders may ‘rethink’ after string of wins
WASHINGTON — Fresh from Democratic presidential primary wins over the weekend in three states, Bernie Sanders said on Sunday he had political momentum that could help him win the backing of Democratic power brokers in his race against Hillary Clinton. Sanders easily won nominating contests in Alaska, Washington and Hawaii on...American couple pleads guilty in attempt to join ISIS
MISSISSIPPI - A Mississippi woman pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to trying to join Islamic State in Syria, 2-1/2 weeks after her husband entered the same plea. Jaelyn Delshaun Young, 20, was arrested at a Mississippi airport in August 2015 while attempting to board a flight to Turkey with her husband, Muhammad Oda...
Homeland Security chief: Campaign rhetoric on Muslims harms U.S. security
March 29th, 20160 Trump and CruzWASHINGTON — Harsh rhetoric about Muslims by Republican candidates in the presidential election campaign is undermining national security efforts, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Tuesday.Asked about comments by Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, Johnson told MSNBC in an interview that singling out a...Trump campaign manager charged with battery of reporter
WASHINGTON - U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was charged with battery in Florida on Tuesday after allegations that he forcefully grabbed a reporter at a campaign event. Police in Jupiter, Florida, charged Lewandowski, 42, with intentionally grabbing and bruising the arm of...Israeli firm helping FBI to unlock iPhone
NEW YORK — Israel's Cellebrite, a provider of mobile forensic software, is helping the FBI's attempt to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California shooters, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported on Wednesday. If Cellebrite succeeds, then the FBI will no longer need the help of Apple Inc, the Israeli daily said,...Obama honors Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ victims; faults U.S. on human rights
ARGENTINA — President Obama said the United States was too slow to condemn human rights atrocities during Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship as he honored victims of the "Dirty War" on Thursday, but he stopped short of apologizing for Washington's early support for the military junta. Obama's state visit to Argentina coincided with...New ISIS propaganda video features Trump
WASHINGTON - A new video that claims to have been released by the Islamic State group's propaganda wing opens with a map of the globe on fire, before flipping to images of carnage in Brussels as voices of newscasters and pundits, as well as GOP front-runner Donald Trump, speak about the devastation caused by the...Officer demands Muslim woman remove her hijab at public library
WASHINGTON - Jessica Raven told WJLA Channel 7 that she was inside the Shaw Library in NW DC Wednesday afternoon when she witnessed a Library police officer humiliate a woman in a hijab. A DC Public Library police officer threatened to handcuff the Muslim woman if she did not remove her hijab. "He came towards her and he took out his...Trump, Cruz trade threats over wives
Melania Trump, as she appeared in the adWASHINGTON — Donald Trump threatened to "spill the beans" about Ted Cruz's wife after a super PAC ran an ad shaming the real estate mogul's spouse for posing nude in photo shoot from 2000.Melania Trump is a Slovene American jewelry designer and a former model. "Lyin' Ted Cruz just used a...
Trump: Muslims not doing enough to prevent attacks
March 23rd, 20160 WASHINGTON - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Muslims were not helping to prevent attacks such as those that killed at least 30 people in Belgium, drawing a rebuke from Britain's government and from Muslim groups in the country. In an interview broadcast on Britain's ITV television on Wednesday, Trump was asked......
Brussels attack raises concerns at U.S. airports
WASHINGTON - Major U.S. transportation hubs were on alert on Tuesday with police out in force, and part of Denver International Airport's main terminal was evacuated in response to a possible security threat there after deadly suicide bombings in Brussels killed at least 30 people. The evacuation area at...Bernie Sanders urges Israel to end Gaza Blockade
WASHINGTON — the only American presidential candidate who skipped the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) conference in Washington Monday night — hit out at the Israeli government for its continuing expansion of settlements in the West Bank during a speech in Utah. The Vermont senator...Clinton criticizes Trump’s neutral stance on Israel
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton attacked Republican Donald Trump on Monday for taking a neutral stance toward Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, in a preview of a possible general election battle between them. On a day Trump was visiting Washington, Clinton told the American...Arizona man found guilty in ‘Draw Mohammed’ event shooting
An Arizona man was found guilty on Thursday of plotting with others to attack a "Draw Mohammed" cartoon contest in Texas last year and providing material support to the Islamic State group, prosecutors said. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, 44, was convicted on all five charges against him by a federal jury in U.S. District Court......
Obama selects Merrick Garland for Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — President Obama selected Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court on Wednesday, choosing a centrist judge meant to win over recalcitrant Senate Republicans whose leaders wasted no time in spurning the Democratic president. A bruising political fight is brewing over the nomination, which also promises to figure in the...Milwaukee man kills three neighbors for not speaking English
MILWAUKEE- A bigoted Milwaukee man told his neighbors “you guys got to go” before allegedly shooting three of them dead after learning at least one of the victims didn’t speak English. Dan J. Popp, 39, has been charged with three counts of first-degree homicide for the murders of Jesus Manso-Perez, 40, Mai Vue, 32, and Phia Vue,......
Muslim teens in New York may be expelled for fighting bullies
NEW YORK - Two Muslim teens at a New York School may be expelled for fighting back against bullies who targeted them because of their religion. Adam and Jameel Siam said they have suffered anti-Muslim harassment for at least two years at Williamsville East High School, but they said administrators have done nothing to address...
Trump, Clinton win big delegates
March 16th, 20160 WASHINGTON - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump won a crucial nominating contest in Florida and knocked rival Marco Rubio out of the race on Tuesday, but lost Ohio to John Kasich in a mixed result that set the stage for a long contested race. Trump, a businessman who had hoped for a five-state......
