Three people are facing charges after allegedly threatening individuals outside a mosque in Portland with guns. Police responded to the Cumberland Islamic Center around 9 p.m. local time on Tuesday. The complaint said two people in a black BMW brandished firearms and made threats. Shortly after, authorities found the vehicle at the Maine Musli...
The Trump administration has detained Indian Muslim scholar Badar Khan Suri for supporting the cause of Palestine. Authorities say the postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University is being deported over alleged ties to Hamas and spreading antisemitic propaganda. The Department of Homeland Security claims Suri’s activities pose a threat t...
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil calls himself a “political prisoner” after being detained by U.S. immigration authorities. Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate, wrote a letter from an ICE detention center in Louisiana, describing harsh conditions. He accused the U.S. of targeting him for his activism. He was arrested M...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on President Donald Trump to take action against Israel for its airstrikes on Gaza. These have so far killed roughly 450 Palestinians, mostly women and children. CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad condemned the attacks as genocidal and accused Israel of committing mass slaugh...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The White House has denied claims that it defied a judge’s order halting the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador. The controversy centers on the deportation of Venezuelan migrants under the rarely invoked 18th-century Alien Enemies Act—an unusual and contentious move that could signal an overreac...
Three deportation flights landed in El Salvador despite a judge’s order to halt them. A U.S. federal judge barred the Trump administration from using a wartime law to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members. The judge also ordered planes that had already taken off to turn around. But flight records reviewed by The Washington Post show […...
A U.S. federal judge has ordered Customs and Border Patrol officials to appear in court. They must explain why they defied his order on the deportation of a Muslim doctor last week. Judge Leo Sorokin ruled that Dr. Rasha Alawieh should not be deported without 48 hours’ notice. But officials still sent her to Paris […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared South Africa’s Ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool, persona non grata on Friday after his remarks about President Donald Trump. In a post on X, Rubio accused Rasool of being a “race-baiting politician” and said the US has “nothing to discuss with him.” “South Africa’s...
The European Union has hit back at the U.S. with new trade tariffs. This follows the Trump administration’s move to impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports. The EU’s response includes tariffs on U.S. goods worth more than $28 billion. The list covers industrial and agricultural products, including motorcycles, peanut butter, jeans...
Harvard Divinity School is facing scrutiny after Associated Dean and Professor Hussein Rashid resigned last month alleging anti-Muslim bias. In his resignation letter, Rashid claimed Harvard failed to shield him from targeted harassment by Jewish and pro-Israel groups on campus. He claimed harassment from Hillel International and Rabbi Hirschy...
