At least 14 unmarked graves are suspected at the site of the former Gordon’s Indian Residential School in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. On Wednesday, George Gordon First Nations chief Byron Bitternose said the area will be a search priority in upcoming months. He added, the hope is to “be able to tell our children […]
A New Jersey couple has been convicted of harassing their Muslim neighbor for several years. On Tuesday, seventy-six-year old William Ong and his 73-year-old wife Betty were convicted of bias intimidation in Hudson County Superior Court. Investigators determined the Ongs made threatening and harassing statements to a Muslim neighbor about his ...
ANKARA (AA) – Two senior PKK members were killed in northern Syria, Turkish security sources said Friday. In an operation led by Turkiye’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT), Rodin Abdulkadir Muhammed and Ranya Henan of the PKK operating in the Ayn al-Arab (Kobani) region of Syria were killed, said the sources. Rodin Abdulkadir Muh...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli police once again stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in East Jerusalem on Friday, sparking clashes with Palestinians in which 31 people were injured. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its crews responded to 31 injured people, two of them seriously hurt. It also said 14 injured were […...
On April 9, an unknown person poured urine outside the Muslim Students Association’s prayer space at Middlebury College, Vermont. Two MSA members were inside the prayer room when the vandalism occurred during the early morning hours. The culprit or culprits attempted to forcefully enter the prayer space, according to an email sent to MSA membe...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – Dozens of people were killed in the northeastern Kunduz province of Afghanistan as an explosion struck a mosque shortly after the Friday prayers. Taliban’s interim government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said a total of 33 people, including children, were killed and 43 others were wounded by the blast and ...
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a Miranda rights case. Vega v. Tekoh, will determine whether a person can seek civil relief when an officer fails to read their Miranda rights. Miranda provides legal protections for potential criminal defendants against self-incrimination. Terence Tekoh was a nursing assistant at a ...
Sen. Bernie Sanders took to the pages of The Guardian on Friday to inveigh against legislation currently before Congress that, if approved, could provide billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space flight company with a lucrative NASA contract to build a moon lander. “At a time when over half of the people in this country live paycheck to payche...
A group of climate campaigners on Friday blockaded the entrance of a printing plant in New York City in an effort to hamper the distribution of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other corporate-owned newspapers to protest their failure to cover the planetary emergency with “the frequency it deserves.” The activists, ...
JENIN, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian youth who was shot earlier this month by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank died on Friday, Palestinian media reported. The Palestinian news agency WAFA said 20-year-old Ibrahim Lebedi was seriously wounded when Israeli forces raided the town of Al-Yamun near the city of Jenin in the northern [&helli...
