WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump on Monday endorsed Mike Johnson to continue as Speaker of the House of Representatives. “Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man. He will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN. Mike has my Complete & Total Endorsement. MAGA!” Trump wrote on his T...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) noted a rise in harassment of San Francisco mosques in 2024. It noted a 30-year high in anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian racism. Executive Director Zahra Billoo urged officials to take stronger action against hate crimes. On Christmas Eve, a man standing outside San Francisco’s Bernal Hei...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The state funeral for Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the US, will take place on Jan. 9 at Washington National Cathedral, ABC News reported. Carter died Sunday at the age of 100, making him the longest-lived president in US history. President Joe Biden has declared Jan. 9 a National Day of […]
By Pierre Tristam In January 1977 the nuns where we used to attend church in Lebanon gifted me the only dog I ever owned, a mutt they’d called Jimmy, after the newly elected American president. American politics was the world’s most accessible entertainment even then, so Jimmy Carter was big news in Lebanon. To those […]
Former President Jimmy Carter, who served one term in the White House and devoted decades to advancing peace and human rights, passed away on Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 100. His death was confirmed by his son and followed nearly two years of hospice care after the Carter Center […]
ISTANBUL (AA) — Donald Trump’s proposal to automatically grant green cards to foreign nationals who graduate from a US college has sparked controversy. “What I want to do, and what I will do, is you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The White House has confirmed that a ninth US telecommunications company was breached as part of an extensive Chinese hacking campaign targeting critical infrastructure in the US and other nations. The cyber-espionage group referred to as “Salt Typhoon,” also known by aliases such as Earth Estries, Famo...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has advised students and families against applying to 14 universities labeled as “institutions of particular concern”. The advocacy group listed these institutions for allegedly mistreating those opposing genocide in Palestine. The advisory follows CAIR’s UnHostile Campus Campaign, ...
A new poll reveals two-thirds of Americans are limiting political news consumption due to overload. The trend is particularly notable among Democrats, with seven in 10 stepping back, compared to six in 10 Republicans and independents. The poll conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research said the television networ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump’s top border adviser said Thursday that the new administration will reintroduce family detention for migrants with children. “You knew you were in the country illegally and chose to have a child. So you put your family in that position,” Tom Homan told The Washington Post. ...
