Democratic lawmakers and political observers said late Thursday and Friday that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has been exposed as a “liar” not once but twice in the past 24 hours following the release of audiotapes confirming that the California Republican said former President Donald Trump should resign in the wake of the J...
Open internet defenders cheered this week after a federal appeals court rejected an industry-backed petition to block the enforcement of California’s net neutrality law. Internet service providers (ISPs) wanted a hearing before all the judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit after a three-judge panel of that court in Ja...
A New Jersey couple has been convicted of harassing their Muslim neighbor for several years. On Tuesday, seventy-six-year old William Ong and his 73-year-old wife Betty were convicted of bias intimidation in Hudson County Superior Court. Investigators determined the Ongs made threatening and harassing statements to a Muslim neighbor about his ...
On April 9, an unknown person poured urine outside the Muslim Students Association’s prayer space at Middlebury College, Vermont. Two MSA members were inside the prayer room when the vandalism occurred during the early morning hours. The culprit or culprits attempted to forcefully enter the prayer space, according to an email sent to MSA membe...
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a Miranda rights case. Vega v. Tekoh, will determine whether a person can seek civil relief when an officer fails to read their Miranda rights. Miranda provides legal protections for potential criminal defendants against self-incrimination. Terence Tekoh was a nursing assistant at a ...
Sen. Bernie Sanders took to the pages of The Guardian on Friday to inveigh against legislation currently before Congress that, if approved, could provide billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space flight company with a lucrative NASA contract to build a moon lander. “At a time when over half of the people in this country live paycheck to payche...
A group of climate campaigners on Friday blockaded the entrance of a printing plant in New York City in an effort to hamper the distribution of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other corporate-owned newspapers to protest their failure to cover the planetary emergency with “the frequency it deserves.” The activists, ...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – A couple in the US state of New Jersey was convicted of harassing their Muslim neighbor for several years. William Ong, 76, and his 73-year-old wife Betty were convicted of harassment and intimidation in Hudson County Superior Court. Investigators determined the Ongs made threatening and harassing statements to a Mu...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Muslim Americans gave an estimated $1.8 billion in charity in 2021, according to a report. The average Muslim gave $2,070 in what is known as ‘Zakat’_ compulsory charity, which is one of the five pillars of Islam. The findings were part of the report released last week by the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative [...
Florida’s Republican-controlled House voted along party lines Thursday to approve a congressional map drawn by the office of right-wing Gov. Ron DeSantis, a move that came after state Democrats staged a sit-in on the chamber’s floor to condemn the redistricting plan as unconstitutional and racist. The map, which cleared the state S...
