December 17th, 20211Hundreds of Fairfax High School students in the town of Fairfax, Virginia walked out on Thursday and demanded their school take action following a disturbing attack on one their Muslim schoolmates by a fellow student.
On Tuesday, a boy reportedly pushed a Muslim girl to the ground, took off her Islamic head scarf or hijab and beat her...
April 3rd, 20210This week, a federal appeals court in Virginia enshrined the federal government's use of the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB). After a lower court ruling held that the TSDB's application deprived Americans, especially those of Arab and Muslim descent, the right to due process under the law, this appeals court declared that the right...
November 17th, 20190RICHMOND — Virginia elected its first Muslim state senator last week. Ghazal Hashmi, who migrated with her family to the United States at the age of 4, won over a Republican incumbent in a district that includes suburban Richmond.
Her victory is a part of a blue shift in Virginia. Democrats clenched key victories on election...
August 16th, 20170WASHINGTON ― Several leading members of Trump's Republican Party and ally Britain sharply rebuked the president on Wednesday after he insisted that white nationalists and protesters opposed to them were both to blame for deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Trump's remarks on Tuesday, a more vehement reprisal of what had...
June 19th, 20171HERNDON, VA-A body found Sunday afternoon in a pond in the 21500 block of Ridgetop Circle in Sterling, Virginia, is 17-year-old girl Nabra Hussein from Reston, Virginia, who was reported missing in the area hours earlier.
Police discovered a female body in the pond about 3 p.m. The pond is 2 to 3 miles away from the original...
