WASHINGTON (AA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the US largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, has condemned the Pentagon for misleading the public about the number of US troops deployed in Syria. “The Pentagon’s admission that 2,000 U.S. troops have been secretly operating in Syria is stunning. T...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Ed Markey are urging the Biden administration to enhance civil rights protections against algorithmic bias. This is specifically in the use of artificial intelligence by federal agencies. In a letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young, the senators highlighted that biase...
HOUSTON, US (AA) – About 90% of Americans are now aware of the Juneteenth holiday compared to 74% in 2022, according to a survey by YouGov. Juneteenth marks a significant day in US history when a quarter of a million enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned on June 19, 1865, that they had been […]
