May 8th, 20170WASHINGTON ― A video of a woman appearing to tell off a Muslim shopper went viral, in which the woman told her, “I wish they didn’t let you in the country."
The encounter allegedly took place at a Trader Joe’s in northern Virginia over the weekend, according to a South Carolina-based comedian who posted the video and claimed...
May 8th, 20170RICHMOND, V.A.-Federal appeals court judges on Monday peppered a U.S. Justice Department lawyer with tough questions about President Donald Trump's temporary ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority nations, with several voicing skepticism that protecting national security was the aim of the policy, not religious bias.
Six Democratic...
May 5th, 20170President Trump's first 100 days were characterized by attempts to reject every act of President Obama's in his eight years in office.
In other words, this is also known as "Whitelash"; a rejection of everything passed by the first Black president by a reactionary reputed bigot.
In fact, the entirety of Trump's 100 days in office...
May 5th, 20170WASHINGTON, D.C. — An ad by Donald Trump's campaign that featured the president jeering at the mainstream media network CNN for being "fake news" will not be aired by the station, sources said Tuesday.
In a statement addressing the ad, CNN said that they "requested that the advertiser remove the false graphic that says the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that allows tax-exempt centers of worship to participate actively in politics, freeing religious institutions to deny their employees insurance for birth-control pills.
The order fulfills an oft-repeated campaign promise by Trump, who appealed to far-right...
May 5th, 20170SOCHI, RUSSIA — On Wednesday, the leaders of Russia and Turkey publicly re-affirmed their commitment to working together to end the conflict in Syria, despite a gas attack on a Syrian city that tested their fragile alliance
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Tayyip Erdogan, have formed a pact on Syria...
DUBAI — A majority of young Arabs see President Trump's election as the factor most influencing their region in the next five years, a survey published on Wednesday showed, and they expressed concern that the U.S. president was anti-Muslim.
Trump signed an executive order in March banning citizens from six Muslim-majority nations...
April 25th, 20170 SAN FRANCISCO ― A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Trump's executive order that sought to withhold federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities, dealing another legal blow to the administration's efforts to toughen immigration enforcement.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge William Orrick III in San Francisco said...
April 19th, 20170President Donald Trump will be ordering a thorough review of the country's high-skilled immigration visa program Thursday after having signed an executive order Tuesday targeting the H-1B program.
The move signals a further attempt at Trump to target foreign companies that typically hire foreign workers over Americans.
In the...
April 19th, 20170 DUBAI ― Emirates, the largest international airline by passenger traffic, said on Wednesday it was cutting flights on five U.S. routes after restrictions imposed by President Trump's administration weakened demand from the Middle East.
Since taking office, Trump has signed two executive orders banning refugees and citizens from...
April 10th, 20170MADISON — Police searching for a Wisconsin man considered armed and dangerous stepped up patrols on Sunday at churches near his home because of anti-religious views expressed in a manifesto he sent to President Trump, officials said.
Joseph A. Jakubowski, 32, is wanted for breaking into a gun shop called Armageddon Supplies in his...
April 8th, 20171Once more, the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002 is taking center stage. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas insisted during his speech before the recently concluded Arab League Summit in Jordan that the initiative is the only solution on the table; asserting that it will not be changed or even tweaked.
But why is this...
April 7th, 20170President Trump ordered missile strikes against a Syrian airfield from which a deadly chemical weapons attack was allegedly launched, declaring he acted in America's "vital national security interest."
The deadliest chemical weapons attack in years in Syria killed dozens of people in the rebel-held northern Idlib province on Tuesday...
March 29th, 20170SEATTLE ― The city of Seattle sued President Trump's administration on Wednesday over its executive order seeking to withhold federal funds from "sanctuary cities," arguing it amounted to unconstitutional federal coercion.
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray told reporters the Constitution forbade the federal government from pressuring cities,...
March 21st, 20170NEW YORK- A Massachusetts man has been indicted on hate crime charges after assaulting a female Muslim employee at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport in January, yelling that President Donald Trump "will get rid of all of you," prosecutors said on Thursday.
Robin Rhodes, 57, of Worcester, attacked Rabeeya Khan, who was...
March 20th, 20170DETROIT — It was a full house on a March afternoon at Freedom House Detroit.
Through the window, you can see the historic St. Anne's Catholic Church; beyond, the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit to Canada seems within reach – a prime location for the Customs and Border patrol vehicles that comb the neighborhood.
In the...
March 17th, 20170Trump's doctrine propels the U.S. into a perpetual war waged against the very fabric of a diverse America.
If Donald Trump should learn one thing, it's that sequels to bad movies are usually, if not always, equally as abysmal.
The blocking of the president's latest executive order by two federal judges— Derrick K. Watson of Hawaii...
March 17th, 20170DETROIT — On Wednesday, President Trump ordered a review of tough U.S. vehicle fuel-efficiency standards put in place by the Obama administration, handing a victory to auto industry executives and provoking criticism from Democrats and environmental groups.
In a move widely seen as a preamble to loosening fuel standards, Trump told...
March 17th, 20170WASHINGTON, DC - On Friday, President Trump greeted German chancellor Angela Merkel with a handshake upon her arrival to the White House, but appeared to ignore requests to do so as the pair sat together in front of cameras.
The pair had an awkward meeting that could help determine the future of the transatlantic alliance and shape...
March 16th, 20170HONOLULU- A defiant President Trump has pledged to appeal against a federal judge's order placing an immediate halt on his revised travel ban, describing the ruling as judicial overreach that made the United States look weak.
In granting the temporary restraining order in response to a lawsuit by the state of Hawaii, U.S. District...
March 15th, 20170HONOLULU ― A U.S. federal judge in Hawaii dealt another legal blow to President Donald Trump on Wednesday, issuing an emergency halt to his revised travel ban just hours before it was set to go into effect early on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson put out an emergency stop on Trump's executive order, which aimed to...
March 12th, 20170A federal judge in Wisconsin dealt the first legal blow to President Donald Trump's revised travel ban on Friday, barring enforcement of the policy to deny U.S. entry to the wife and child of a Syrian refugee already granted asylum in the United States.
The temporary restraining order, granted by U.S. District Judge William Conley in...
March 10th, 20170In a Fox News interview that aired on Sunday, Feb. 5, President Trump defended Russian President Vladimir Putin when host Bill O’Reilly asked him why he respects him so much if he’s a killer.
"There are a lot of killers," Trump replied. "Got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country's so innocent?"
No, our country...
March 10th, 20170DETROIT— In a frantic attempt to salvage any attempt at positive PR following the chaotic and complicated fallout of President Trump's January 27 executive order, the president issued a revised travel ban, "Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States", omitting Iraq from the list and...
March 9th, 20170JERUSALEM ― A phone call from President Trump interrupted a police inquiry into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was on Monday being questioned for a fourth time over suspicions of corruption.
Not long after sitting down with police investigators at his residence in Jerusalem, one aide said, Netanyahu briefly excused...
March 7th, 20170WASHINGTON — On Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions withdrew from any deep examination into suspected Russian interference in the 2016 general election.
Sessions asserted that he did no wrong in withholding comment during Senate testimony regarding his meeting with Russia's ambassador last year.
Sessions told reporters...
March 6th, 20170
DEARBORN — Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) called President Trump's executive order to ban immigrants and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries "outrageous" and un-American during a visit to Dearborn on Saturday, Feb. 25.
Peters, a Democrat, met with a roomful of community activists and rights group leaders at...
February 11th, 20170It has been a mere three weeks since real estate mogul Donald Trump took the oath of office as the U.S. president, and the country has already suffered the detrimental effects of poorly-implemented policy. On Friday, Jan. 27, our president exposed seemingly shrouded, but wide-spread insensible and xenophobic sentiments among the powerful...
