January 30th, 20260WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Monday, former Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib —whose nomination as U.S. ambassador to Kuwait had encountered broad opposition in the United States Senate in October — officially began a new federal role in Washington, D.C.. He is now serving as senior advisor for strategic partnerships at AmeriCorps, following...
January 23rd, 20260By Mohamad Ozeir
This week marked the first anniversary of President Trump’s return to the White House for a second term, after a forced four-year interruption. That comeback was loaded — during those loud and turbulent years — with authoritarian promises, racist delusions, totalitarian programs, distorted ideas and hotheaded...
January 23rd, 20260President Trump might be popping corks, toasting “one of the most stunning, effective and powerful displays of American military might and competence in American history.” Celebrations, however, are premature. In reality, the assault on Venezuela and kidnapping and transfer of President Maduro to stand trial in U.S. court are by no...
January 16th, 20260In a Reuters Oval Office interview, President Trump dismissed concerns about Greenland, the economy and a probe into Fed Chair Jerome Powell, offered limited clarity on Iran, acknowledged obstacles in the Gaza and Ukraine peace efforts, defended ICE operations and warned Republicans could lose seats in the midterms.
Here are some...
January 9th, 20260
Minnesota officials want to investigate ICE’s killing of a mother in Minneapolis. Team Trump has been planning for a moment like this.
By Asawin Suebsaeng and Prem Thakker
Donald Trump and his administration have always known the time would come that they would have to protect one of their Immigration and...
January 9th, 20260
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday. The woman, a legal observer identified as Renee Nicole Good, was in her vehicle, apparently attempting to leave the scene. As she did so, an agent emerged, aimed his gun, and shot her in the...
January 9th, 20260Owen Shroyer has never been a figure built for quiet loyalty. His rise came inside the loud and confrontational universe of populist media, a space where certainty is prized and compromise is treated as weakness. Yet in recent months, Shroyer has turned that confrontational style inward, directing it not at liberals or the political...
December 25th, 20250WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an effort to encourage undocumented immigrants to voluntarily “self-deport”, the Trump administration announced on Monday that it is tripling the financial incentive offered to those who choose to leave the United States on their own, increasing the payment from $1,000 to $3,000.
The U.S. Department of...
December 5th, 20250WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Trump has signed an executive order directing his administration to begin the process of formally designating certain branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations.
Under this executive order, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent must work with...
December 5th, 20250WASHINGTON, D.C. – In highly hostile and openly racist remarks directed at immigrants of Somali origin, President Trump said during a lengthy administration meeting on Tuesday that he does not want any more Somali immigrants in the United States, claiming Somali Americans “do not contribute anything” and that “about 88 percent...
November 22nd, 20250President Trump's approval rating has fallen to its lowest in his second term, largely due to discontent with the economy and his ties to notorious pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, which lasted four days and ended on Monday, saw Trump's approval rating fall to 38 percent.
On Tuesday, the...
November 7th, 20250A grassroots revolution in America’s most powerful city challenges the old political order from within
By Ali MansourThe Arab American News
Zohran Mamdani’s stunning and historical election as mayor of New York City is far more than a change in name or a passing victory for a new progressive figure.
It is a seismic political...
November 1st, 20250Senate Republicans cite the Hamtramck mayor’s past statements on Israel and Jews as reason for disqualification
WASHINGTON / HAMTRAMCK — Following a tense and combative hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the chances of Amer Ghalib, the mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, being confirmed as U.S. ambassador to...
November 1st, 20250Francesca Albanese recognized for her courage in defending Palestinian rights; event spotlights Arab American advocates for justice and peace
DEARBORN — The American Human Rights Council (AHRC-USA) held its annual “Spirit of Humanity” Awards Gala on Friday, October 24, at the Fairlane Banquet Center in Dearborn, honoring...
October 24th, 20250WASHINGTON, D.C. — On October 20 the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) started implementing new changes introduced by President Trump’s administration to the oral portion of the U.S. naturalization test.
Under the revised rules for the civics test, which measures green card holders’ knowledge of U.S. history,...
October 24th, 20250DETROIT — President Trump recently announced the appointment of Chaldean American businessman Mark Savaya, owner of one of Michigan’s largest marijuana production and distribution companies, as special envoy to Iraq.
“Mark’s deep understanding of the relationship between Iraq and the United States, and his broad network of...
October 10th, 20250WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Michel Issa as the new U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, succeeding Ambassador Lisa Johnson. Issa is expected to arrive in Beirut by the end of October to formally begin his duties, according to an official notification delivered to the Lebanese government.
Issa —...
October 10th, 20250SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — After several days of negotiations in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh over the details of U.S. President Trump’s plan to end the devastating war in Gaza — and coinciding with the second anniversary of Israel’s genocidal war launched in response to the “Al-Aqsa Flood” attack on October 7...
October 9th, 20250President Trump got one thing right in his combative speech to the United Nations General Assembly last month. The U.N., he said, had such great promise, but it has failed to live up to its potential. Few reasonable people would disagree.
But Trump’s approach to the organization’s perceived failures is exactly wrong. Insulting its...
September 26th, 20250WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has given about 6,000 Syrian nationals living in the United States a 60-day deadline to leave the country after announcing the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which had allowed them to remain in the U.S. since 2012, last Friday.
Homeland Security Secretary...
September 26th, 20250While Netanyahu heads to Washington amid intensifying Israeli offensives in Gaza, Trump unveils elements of a U.S. plan to halt the war, block West Bank annexation and reshape the regional landscape. Europe’s symbolic recognitions of Palestine and a sweeping U.N. declaration raise new political fault lines.
WASHINGTON — President...
September 25th, 20250Congress created the United States Department of Defense in 1949 as part of a comprehensive effort to modernize the military and adapt to the international order that was taking shape after World War II. Now President Trump wants to change its name to the Department of War, its former name. That’s a mistake.
National defense is and...
September 12th, 20250From Gaza and the West Bank to Lebanon, Syria and Yemen — and even reaching Qatar — Israeli arrogance continues to violate Arab lands and their sovereignty without restraint, while the U.S. administration appears either helpless or complicit with Benjamin Netanyahu’s madness. He has escalated his “eternal war” into a new phase...
August 29th, 20250WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. State Department has launched what it called a sweeping security review of more than 55 million individuals holding various visas in an unprecedented move aimed at identifying violations that could justify visa revocation or deportation. At the same time, immigration authorities have begun enforcing new...
August 22nd, 20250WASHINGTON – Under the "Big Beautiful Bill" signed by President Trump in July, tax exemptions on overtime wages officially went into effect this week, retroactive to cover overtime hours worked since the beginning of the year.
The measure, one of Trump’s campaign promises, is part of a broader package of tax reforms designed to ease...
August 15th, 20250DEARBORN – Dozens of Arab American children and their families held a rally on Tuesday evening in solidarity with the hungry children of Gaza, in front of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. They carried empty pots and food containers in protest against Israel’s starvation policies imposed on the Strip’s residents since...
August 8th, 20250Israel’s far-right government decides to expand war to fully occupy Gaza as Lebanon faces crisis over Hezbollah disarmament proposal pushed by the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Occupation of Gaza
After 10 hours of deliberations, Israel’s Security Cabinet — in the early hours of Friday, August 8 — approved Prime Minister...
December 13th, 20240
WASHINGTON, D. C. – FBI Director Christopher Wray will step down from his post early next year, he said on Wednesday, after President-elect Trump signaled his intent to fire the veteran official and replace him with firebrand Kash Patel.
His resignation makes him the second straight FBI director driven...
