Demonstrators protest police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. — About 1,500 people, some banging plastic pails or blowing whistles, marched on Wednesday afternoon to the Wisconsin corrections department in Madison to protest the fatal police shooting last week of an unarmed biracial young man. The shooting of Tony Robinson, 19, in Wisconsin's capital by a veteran White Madison...
Muslim man killed in Texas while taking photos with his wife
March 6th, 20150 DALLAS - The North Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-DFW) today called on law enforcement authorities to address community concerns about what motivated the alleged killers of a 36-year-old Muslim who was shot Wednesday. while taking pictures of the snow. A report on social media indicates that the...Ferguson policies targeted Blacks, created toxic environment
Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson is pictured in this undated evidence photo.WASHINGTON/KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A U.S. probe found systemic racial bias targeted Blacks and created a "toxic environment" in Ferguson, Missouri, but cleared a White officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black teenager there, Attorney General Eric Holder said...Californian tried to join “Islamic State” in Syria
LOS ANGELES — A Southern California man whom prosecutors say sought to travel to Syria last year in a bid to join "Islamic State" fighters was indicted on federal charges, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. The suspect, Adam Dandach, 21, of Orange, California, was indicted by a grand jury in Santa Ana, California, the...Muslim man killed in Texas while taking photos
DALLAS — The North Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-DFW) today called on law enforcement authorities to address community concerns about what motivated the alleged killers of a 36-year-old Muslim who was shot Wednesday. while taking pictures of the snow. A report on social media indicates that the...Supreme Court split over Obamacare challenge
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court appeared sharply divided on ideological lines on Wednesday as it tackled a second major challenge to President Obama's healthcare law, with Justice Anthony Kennedy emerging as a likely swing vote in a ruling. The nine justices heard 85 minutes of arguments in the case brought by conservative...Bibi speaks, America listens
So Bibi gave his talk. I wrote up an advance briefing on what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would say before Congress on March 3 and got it almost perfect. I even got some of the punch lines word-for-word. To be honest, that was an easy task. There was absolutely nothing original in this speech. As is true with...Justice Department reveals racist e-mails sent by Ferguson police
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department has concluded that the Ferguson, Missouri, police department routinely engages in racially biased practices. The investigation revealed shockingly racist, bigoted e-mails against African Americans, Latinos and Muslims sent between the department's staff, including one depicting President...New York Schools will start observing Muslim holidays
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio will officially announce Wednesday that the city's public schools will observe the two major Muslim holidays. The schools will be off for one day during Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.According to a 2008 Columbia University study, 10 percent of New York's public school students are Muslim.In a Twitter post...Netanyahu warns U.S. against Iran nuclear deal
WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned President Obama on Tuesday against accepting a nuclear deal with Iran that would be a "countdown to a potential nuclear nightmare" by a country that "will always be an enemy of America."Obama said Israeli Netanyahu did not offer any real alternative amid the ongoing...Republicans propose declaring Idaho a ‘Christian state’
SALMON, Idaho — Members of a county Republican Party are to take up a measure on Tuesday evening that would declare the state a Christian one to bolster what the proposal calls the "Judeo-Christian bedrock of the founding of the United States." The resolution to be voted on by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee is...
U.S. justices show support for Muslim woman denied job due to head scarf
February 27th, 20150 WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, a majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled support for a Muslim woman who filed a lawsuit after she was denied a job at an Abercrombie & Fitch Co clothing store in Oklahoma because she wore a head scarf for religious reasons. The nine justices heard a one-hour argument in an appeal brought by...University of Mass. backtracks on excluding Iranian engineering students
BOSTON — A university said on Wednesday it had reversed a decision to stop admitting Iranian students into its science and engineering programs after consulting with State Department officials and its own attorneys. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst early this month said it would stop admitting Iranian students into those...Obama: Strikes against extremists abroad not a war on Islam
WASHINGTON — “Muslim Americans across our country are worried and afraid,” President Obama wrote in a new op-ed to tout the “countering violent extremism” summit in Washington this week that focuses almost exclusively on homegrown Islamic terrorism. By and large, Obama’s Los Angeles Times op-ed detailed his...Suspected arson burns down Houston mosque
HOUSTON — A homeless man has been arrested and charged with arson for a fire that destroyed a building at an Islamic institute in Houston, fire officials said on Monday. The blaze early on Friday at the Quba Islamic Institute destroyed one of three buildings there, but no one was injured. Fire officials said Darryl Ferguson, 55,......
U.S. creates new agency to lead cyber threat tracking
U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees work during a guided media tour inside the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Virginia.WASHINGTON — Calling the destructive cyberattack on Sony Pictures "a game changer", a top White House official on Tuesday announced a new intelligence unit to...
White House calls climate change greater threat to country than terrorism
February 13th, 20150 White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest.WASHINGTON — According to the Washington Times, White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Americans no longer face the same threat of attack that they did prior to Sept. 11, 2001, crediting the administration's efforts to degrade organizations such as al Qaeda. Earnest said...Obama asks Congress to authorize war on “Islamic State”
President Barack Obama is flanked by Vice President Joe Biden (L) and Secretary of State John Kerry (R) as he delivers a statement on legislation sent to Congress.WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday sent Congress his long-awaited formal request to authorize military force against "Islamic State," meeting swift resistance from...ADC, AAI and CPAO to demand Boehner cancels Netanyahu’s speech
WASHINGTON — Last week Representatives Keith Ellison (D-MINN), Steve Cohen (D-TN), and Maxine Waters (D-CA) authored a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner (OH-8), voicing their disapproval of his invitation to Israeli PM Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress on March 3. Media networks and political......
House votes to repeal and eventually replace Obamacare
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives added another notch to its lengthy record of Obamacare repeal votes on Tuesday by approving a measure that would scrap the healthcare law and direct oversight committees to come up with a replacement. Defying a White House veto threat, lawmakers voted 239-186 on a measure to eliminate...Ebola virus sent out of high-security lab was likely dead
CHICAGO — An internal investigation of an Ebola incident at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory in December found that samples sent to a lower-security lab were "unlikely" to have contained live virus and posed no threat to staff, the CDC said on Wednesday. The close call followed mishaps involving anthrax......
California man arraigned in threats to Muslim civil rights group
SAN DIEGO — A San Diego-area man accused of placing a threatening phone call to one office of a Muslim civil rights group and sending a threatening message to another pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to hate crimes charges. The case against John David Weissinger stems from a profanity-laced phone message received by a staff member...Dearborn Heights teen wins first place in national essay contest
DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Zeina Condon, a 17-year-old Lebanese American senior at Dearborn High School, won first place in the Voice of Democracy essay contest. The annual contest is hosted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, a national organization for war veterans. This year’s topic focused on why veterans are important to the nation’s......
