ANKARA (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Pam Bondi for the position of attorney general has raised concerns among legal experts and Justice Department officials on potential shifts in the agency’s priorities under her leadership, according to news reports Sunday. Broadcaster NBC News suggested that the career traj...
TEXAS, United States (AA) – The Texas Board of Education has approved a new curriculum that allows public schools in the state to give Bible-based lessons, according to media reports. The curriculum gives schools the green light to teach about the Bible to students from Kindergarten through Grade 5. The syllabus includes Biblical and Chr...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump has announced his nominees to lead the Labor Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Trump said Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer is his pick to serve as the next head of the Department of Labor. “Lori’s strong support from both the Business and Labor communities will en...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump has announced Pam Bondi, a former attorney general of Florida, as his new pick for attorney general. The announcement came hours after former Rep. Matt Gaetz, who was Trump’s first pick, withdrew from consideration for the post. “Pam was a prosecutor for nearly 20 years, where sh...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Former US Rep. Matt Gaetz has withdrawn from consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump’s next attorney general. It came in a shock announcement as a House of Representatives panel weighs the release of a critical report concerning sexual misconduct allegations against Gaetz. Gaetz was on Capitol Hill on Wednesday...
A Florida man has pleaded guilty to leaving threatening voicemail messages targeting the Michigan chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Detroit. Seventy-two-year-old Michael Shaprio from West Palm Beach admitted to sending violent threats through interstate communications. These included death threats and Islamophobic ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Roughly half of Muslim college students in California have experienced harassment or discrimination, according to a recent survey. The report from the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Center for the Prevention of Hate and Bullying (CPHB) includes responses from 720 students ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Republican opposition led to the House Ethics Committee failing to release Wednesday the panel’s report on alleged sexual misconduct by former Representative Matt Gaetz, who has been chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Justice Department. The panel is comprised evenly of five Democrats and five Repu...
New York prosecutors have opposed the dismissal of President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction. However, they have expressed willingness to delay sentencing until after his second term. Trump’s legal team requested the case be dropped, citing the need for a smooth transition of executive power. The Manhattan district attorney’s...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump nominated veteran Wall Street financier Howard Lutnick on Tuesday to become the head of the Commerce Department. Lutnick will lead “our Tariff and Trade agenda, with additional direct responsibility for the Office of the United States Trade Representative,” Trump said on Truth So...
