The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has urged media outlets to feature Palestinian and Palestinian-American guests on talk shows. A report by The Nation revealed that since Oct. 7, Palestinians have been absent from popular TV programs like NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week, and CNN’s State of the Union. Israeli officials, inc...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Pentagon has said that there are 2,000 US troops in Syria, more than double the number it had previously acknowledged. Spokesperson Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said that in addition to the 900 troops that were deployed to Syria on a longer-term basis to aid in counter-ISIS operations, 1,100 others were sent […]
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on the Knox County Sheriff’s Office in Tennessee to stop photographing Muslim women without their hijabs during booking procedures. It follows a lawsuit by Layla Soliz, a Muslim woman whose uncovered photo was taken and published online after her arrest during a peaceful Free Palestin...
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from TikTok on a law that could ban the social media app in the US. The court gave the company and prosecutors until Dec. 27 to file their initial briefs ahead of oral arguments scheduled for Jan. 10. At issue is whether the law violates […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared Wednesday that an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus within the state’s dairy cattle constitutes an emergency. Bird flu has been detected in cattle in 16 states after it was first identified in stocks in Texas and Kansas in March this year. While no person-to-person transmiss...
HOUSTON, United States (AA) – Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are urging Republicans in Congress to vote against a bipartisan measure that would prevent a government shutdown at the end of the week, media outlets reported Wednesday. The continuing resolution (CR) to fund the federal government through March 14 was agreed to late Tuesday by...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The White House issued a stark warning to lawmakers on Capitol Hill Wednesday evening, telling them a government shutdown would result in widespread instability across the country as President-elect Donald Trump attempts to scuttle a funding deal. Spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement that a shutdown “woul...
Nearly 10 million children across 12 Republican-led states may face hunger next summer as $1.14 billion in federal funding to alleviate hunger remains unclaimed. SUN Bucks program provides $120 per child during the summer to buy food. According to the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC), Tennessee, Texas, and Florida are poised to declin...
President-elect Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against The Des Moines Register and pollster J. Ann Selzer over a pre-election day poll. The poll suggested Vice President Kamala Harris led Trump in Iowa by three points. Trump ultimately won the state by a 14-point margin. The lawsuit, filed in Iowa state court, accuses the pollster […...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A man convicted of murdering four people, including his brother and his sister’s fiance, has been executed in the US State of Indiana, marking the state’s first execution in 15 years. Joseph Corcoran, 49, was found guilty of the July 1997 shootings that killed his 30-year-old brother, James Corcoran; his sister’s fi...
