WASHINGTON (AA) – US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for the coronavirus, her spokesman said Thursday. “After testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic. The Speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is thankful for the r...
ANKARA (AA) – The US Congress voted Thursday to revoke Russia’s “most favored nation” trade status, and banned oil and natural gas imports from Russia. After both bills passed the Senate, they cleared the House of Representatives and are headed for President Joe Biden’s desk. One suspends normal trade relations with Rus...
Leaders at Buffalo Public Schools in New York are pushing to allow Muslim students to take off from school for their religious holiday. Muslims across the U.S. and globally are now observing Ramadan. The month of fasting ends in early May this year, with the Eid al-Fitr festival, including a big celebration attended by thousands […]
A Jewish-owned bakery in southwest Houston is offering support to the city’s Muslim community during the month of Ramadan. Sara Brook, founder of Dessert Gallery Bakery & Café, is offering hand-decorated Ramadan butter cookies to Muslims breaking their fast. The inspiration came from her involvement with a group called The Sisterhood of S...
On Wednesday, U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar pressed one of President Biden’s most senior diplomats about America’s silence on India’s mistreatment of Muslims. Omar asked Wendy Sherman, deputy secretary of state, how U.S. support for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is “promoting a free and open region,” Omar lambas...
On Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden warned that Russia may use chemical weapons in Ukraine, repeating earlier allegations from the White House. The caution comes ahead of a series of summits in Europe on Russia’s war in Ukraine. The last time chemical weapons were used during a conflict was in Syria, when rebels sought to […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The US under the Joe Biden administration has approved yet another arms sale to self-ruled Taiwan. The arms sale “will help improve the security of the recipient and assist in maintaining political stability, military balance, economic progress in the region,” said the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) in a statemen...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The United States has urged Tunisian President Kais Saied to make a “quick” return to democratic rule in the country. The call was made by US Ambassador Donald Blome during his meeting with the Tunisian president at the Carthage Palace on Tuesday evening at the end of his tenure in the […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – Russia could have been deterred from waging a war on Ukraine with US military forces’ presence in the country, a top American general said Tuesday. Testifying alongside Defense Chief Lloyd Austin at a hearing by the House Armed Services Committee, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Russi...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken departed Tuesday for a key meeting of NATO foreign ministers, saying that recent visual evidence made it clear the mass atrocities in Ukraine were not the “random act of a rogue unit.” “It’s a deliberate campaign to kill, to torture, to rape, to commit atrocities. T...
