WASHINGTON – The U.S. government has not kept the promise to pay Afghan families whose relatives were killed in a mistaken drone strike. 10 civilians, including seven children, were killed in the last U.S. drone strike in Kabul before the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan in 2021. The Biden administration had promised financ...
U.S. Congress: U.S. Representatives Andre Carson (D-IL), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) are all projected to win their respective races. U.S. Senate: The race for Pennsylvania U.S. Senator between Dr. Mehmet Cengiz Oz (R) and John Fetterman (D) is too early to call at the time of this release. Colorado: Incumbent, first-term Stat...
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team saw U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as their “best shot” to prevent congressional certification of the 2020 election results. That’s according to email conversations published Wednesday by Politico. A federal judge recently ordered former Trump lawyer John Eastman to share emails with the H...
David Coulson, a Muslim man who was imprisoned in California, has been released after two decades behind bars. The 55-year-old was arrested for stealing $14 dollars while he was homeless and sentenced to life in prison. Experts say thousands of inmates like Coulson remain in California prisons, sentenced to life due to legislation passed in [...
More than 10,000 Muslims met Saturday for a one-day conference in Minneapolis. It was one of the largest Muslim gatherings in the state since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several Minnesota mosques organized the event, led by Dar al-Faruq Center and the Muslim American Society. It marked the 18th consecutive annual convention aimed at [...
Israeli forces killed four Palestinians on Thursday, including an alleged attacker and Palestinian fighter, officials said. Violence flared across Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. Two Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli forces in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, authorities said. They were 14-year-old Mohammed...
Thousands of activists from Bangladesh’s main political opposition parties protested in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday. They demanded all cases against former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia be withdrawn. Demonstrators demanded Zia be allowed to run in general elections next year. Leaders and supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party ur...
Addressing Pakistanis from the hospital, Imran Khan said he knew of a planned assassination attempt a day before it happened. Khan accused U.S. diplomat Donald Lu for threatening the Pakistani ambassador that the country will face difficulties if the former premier is not removed. Protesters across Pakistan burned tires and blocked traffic fol...
Shell and ExxonMobil are selling their California wells, despite oil selling at high prices, ProPublica reports. Despite record high profits some of the world’s largest oil companies are selling assets and beginning to pull out of the state. Experts say this is because despite the strong cash flow in the short term, producers have more [&hell...
Early Friday morning, an assailant broke into the home of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco. The man, who is in custody, violently assaulted her 82-year-old husband Paul Pelosi. Pelosi was hospitalized but is expected to make a full recovery. The New York Times reports the suspected attacker was in search […]
