A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Monday urged top Democrats and Republicans in the House to swiftly bring legislation banning Congress from owning or trading stock to the floor. The call came in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat who has faced criticism for defending her husband’s trades and existing […...
As the trials of J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao opened, prosecutors said none of the three intervened to prevent the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. The three Minneapolis police officers are charged with depriving Floyd of his civil rights and failing to provide or access any medical intervention as he […]
The US Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear challenges to two college admissions policies that take into consideration an applicant’s race. The practice, known as affirmative action historically, has been used to help minorities, particularly Black and Latino students, during college admissions processes. The high court decided to hear chal...
A Muslim-American advocacy group on Thursday urged any Pentagon official directly involved in a botched airstrike in Afghanistan last August to resign. The Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR called for the resignation of U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and “any military officials who had a direct role in approving the drone stri...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A bicameral group of Democratic lawmakers urged President Joe Biden on Thursday to overhaul the US’ international counterterrorism operations, including its drone targeting criteria, as he carries out a policy review. “We strongly urge your Administration to review and overhaul U.S. counterterrorism policy t...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday denied former President Donald Trump’s attempt to block the release of White House records to a House of Representatives panel investigating last year’s deadly attack on the US Capitol. The high court’s 8-1 decision clears the way for the National Archives to share over 700 documents with t...
Two attempts by Democrats failed to pass a bill on voting rights Wednesday evening. Democrats needed 10 Republicans to vote with them to clear the 60-vote threshold to break a filibuster. They failed to achieve that. Then their attempt to temporarily weaken the filibuster rule to allow a majority to pass the bill also failed […]
President JoeBiden on Wednesday nominated Nusrat Choudhury to serve as a federal judge. She will be the first Muslim woman to do so. She was among the eight judicial nominees announced by the president. Choudhury currently serves as the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. She will be a U.S. judge […]
An Indonesian court sentenced a Muslim cleric to five months in prison for blasphemy against Christians. Muhammad Yahya Waloni is a Muslim convert from Christianity. On Jan. 11, a South Jakarta District Court convicted Waloni of posting hate speech online that could cause interreligious divisions. Waloni called the Holy Bible a work of fictio...
In another setback to the President, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority blocked a Biden administration rule requiring 80 million workers to get COVID-19 vaccine shots or periodic tests. The court, however, allowed the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most healthcare workers in the US. Meanwhile, hospitals have ...
