Accused gunman in Charleston church shooting proposes guilty plea
An attorney for the man accused of gunning down nine people at a historic Black church in South Carolina in June said on Wednesday his client is willing to plead guilty to state murder charges if that would spare him a death sentence. A guilty plea by Dylann Roof, 21, in exchange for a sentence of life in prison without parole also...General says he never ordered ISIS intelligence manipulation
The head of the U.S. military's Central Command on Wednesday told a Senate hearing on the conflict against ISIS that he never asked for intelligence reports to be skewed to present a more positive view of military operations in Iraq and Syria. General Lloyd Austin made the comments after the Pentagon's inspector general confirmed last...US companies plead guilty for misbranding halal products
Two related companies that distribute and certify halal food products have pleaded guilty to conspiring to export misbranded beef products for sale in Malaysia, Indonesia and elsewhere.Midamar Corp and Islamic Services of America each entered guilty pleas in federal court in Cedar Rapids to one count of conspiracy to make false...Americans divided on accepting Syrian refugees
Few Americans want their country to take in more Syrian refugees even though many believe the United States should do more to help those fleeing the Middle Eastern country's brutal civil war, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.As European countries struggle to cope with an influx of Syrians fleeing their...Texas Muslim student arrested for “bomb” that was a clock
Ahmed Mohamed in handcuffs, wearing a NASA t-shirtIn Texas, innovation is rewarded with handcuffs. After a 14-year-old Muslim student in Irving, Texas brought a homemade digital clock to school, he was detained and suspended because his teacher thought the clock looked like a bomb. Ahmed Mohamed, an aspiring engineering student,...Research finds a drastic increase in shark population on the east coast
MIAMI — U.S. shark researchers caught and tagged 2,835 sharks along the East Coast this spring, a record number which they say reflects a growing population thanks to federal protections. It surpassed the 1,831 sharks captured and tagged in 2012 during the survey which is conducted every three years by the National Oceanic and...
H & M features hijabi model in new fall campaign
September 10th, 20150 H & M's fall campaign features a Muslim women and a Sikh man. This week, H&M surprised many when they launched a brand new denim collection featuring a Muslim woman in a headscarf and Sikh men in turbans. In the photo, the Muslim woman stands in a doorway, in big round movie star shades with wide legged palazzo pants,...
Two brothers killed in Florida convenience store
September 9th, 20150 The Family of the Yousef brothers grieving at the scene of the crime. PALMETTO- Two brothers were killed in their convenience store in Palmetto Florida on Monday, September 6 by a lone gunman.23-year old Khasen and 17-year old Faares Yousef, were killed execution style at "Snappy's Convenience Store" by a man who has now been identified...Is Obama America’s first Muslim president? Republicans think so
54 percent of Republican voters still think that President Obama is a Muslim, despite numerous times where he identified himself as a Christian. The poll was taken by the left-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP).Asked whether they thought Obama is a Christian or Muslim or if they were unsure, 32 percent said they were unsure. Only 14...Appeals court asked to halt NSA phone spying program
A U.S. appeals court appeared reluctant on Wednesday to put an immediate halt to the federal government's collection of millions of Americans' phone records, with the controversial spy program set to expire in November. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York found the program illegal in May, ruling that the Patriot Act did...Teenager faces manslaughter charges for convincing boyfriend to commit suicide
Text messages from a teenager accused of manslaughter are alleged to show that she pressured her boyfriend into killing himself, according to reports. Prosecutors have said that Michelle Carter, 18, understood that messages she sent to Conrad Roy III’s phone were incriminating if found by police. Carter had allegedly asked Roy in a...Tennessee Sheriffs criticized by Muslim civil rights groups for bigoted comments
Several statewide civil liberty and immigrant rights organizations are denouncing recent comments made by two Tennessee sheriffs concerning Muslims in the state. Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond and Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals each made comments considered disparaging during recent appearances before local conservative...Virginia TV journalists killed by suspect with ‘powder keg’ of anger
MONETA, VA. — Two television journalists were killed during a live broadcast in Virginia on Wednesday, shot by a suspect who was a former employee of the TV station and who called himself a "powder keg" of anger over what he saw as racial discrimination at work and elsewhere in the United States. The suspect, 41-year-old Vester...White House fence jumper killed in Pennsylvania court attack
WASHINGTON — A man arrested for climbing a White House fence earlier this year was shot and killed at a suburban Pennsylvania courthouse on Tuesday after he sliced a sheriff's deputy with a knife, the local district attorney said.Curtis Smith, 34, is accused of entering the lobby of the Chester County Justice Center at about 11 a.m....Chelsea Manning found guilty of violating military prison rules
WASHINGTON — Soldier Chelsea Manning, who is serving 35 years in a military prison for leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, was found guilty on Tuesday of violating jail rules and given three weeks of recreation curbs, the American Civil Liberties Union said. The former intelligence analyst was convicted in 2013 of providing......
New York man plotted to harm Muslims, Obama with X-ray device
ALBANY, N.Y. — A Ku Klux Klan member conspired to use a remote-controlled X-ray device hidden in a truck, which he called "Hiroshima on a light switch", as a weapon of mass destruction to harm Muslims and President Barack Obama, a prosecutor told jurors on Monday. But a lawyer for Glendon Scott Crawford said at the start of his trial...Oklahoma man at ‘Muslim Free’ gun store accidentally shoots himself
OKLAHOMA CITY — A man helping out at a self-proclaimed "Muslim Free" gun store in the rural town of Oktaha, Oklahoma, accidentally shot himself in the arm after dropping his gun, authorities said on Wednesday. The man involved in the Tuesday incident has not been identified and his injuries are not life-threatening, Muskogee County...Riot-torn Ferguson, Missouri to remain in state of emergency
Young men demonstraiting in Ferguson on Aug. 12.ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, the site of a year of occasionally violent protests over the police killing of an unarmed black teen, remained under a state of emergency through Wednesday night.The state of emergency, which gives county police oversight of...Fifty eight House members to make trip this month to Israel
Fifty eight House members — 22 Democrats and 36 Republicans — are making a trip this month to Israel, right before Congress is set to consider the controversial Iran nuclear deal. The trip is being paid for by the American Israel Education Foundation, the charitable arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee......
Newlyweds arrested for planning to join ISIS
August 12th, 20150 OXFORD, Miss. (Reuters) - A Mississippi couple, accused of seeking to join the militant Islamic State group on a planned honeymoon trip, remained in custody on Tuesday after being denied bond in federal court.Jaelyn Delshaun Young, 20, and Muhammad Oda Dakhlalla, 22, were charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support...Obama defends Iran nuclear deal as diplomacy winning over war
WASHINGTON — President Obama defended the U.S.-led international nuclear deal with Iran on Wednesday against a furious lobbying effort by political opponents and Israel and said abandoning the agreement would open up the prospect of war. Invoking the Cold War peacemaking initiatives of former Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald......
Police fatally shoot ax-wielding man at Nashville movie theater
NASHVILLE — A man with a history of mental health issues who wielded an ax and a pellet gun at a Nashville-area movie theater was shot dead by police on Wednesday, authorities said. The man, identified by Nashville police as Vincente David Montano, 29, was pronounced dead outside the back door of the theater, which was showing "Mad...Majority of Americans say more must be done to fight racism
WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans, White and Black, believe that more needs to be done to fight racism in the United States, following a year of protests over the treatment of minorities by police, according to a Pew Research Center survey released on Wednesday. The national survey found that roughly six in 10 Americans feel the......
