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U.S.A

Trump indicates deescalation with Iran, promises further economic sanctions

January 8th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. - At the White House on Wednesday, President Trump seemed to simmer down days of heated rhetoric and said the U.S. would not respond to early morning missile attacks on Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops with military force. Early Wednesday, both Iranian authorities and U.S officials confirmed Tehran launched a series of...

U.S.A

Iran responds with missile attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq

January 7th, 20200 TEHRAN - Tensions came to a head on early Wednesday as Iran retaliated against the U.S. killing of Iran Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani by launching a series of surface-to-surface missiles at two Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops. Reuters reports the firing of more than a dozen ballistic missiles from Iranian...

COMMUNITY

Trump manipulates civil rights protections to crack down on BDS on college campuses

December 26th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C – In an extraordinary move that flies in the face of civil rights protections, President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to interpret Judaism as a nationality. The order expands Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protections against discrimination to prosecute cases of perceived anti-Semitism on...

COMMUNITY

DACA beneficiaries could stay in the U.S. for years

December 26th, 20191 LOS ANGELES — While hundreds of thousands of immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) permits await the decision of the Supreme Court on the future of the program, lawyers and immigrant advocates argue that the vast majority of them have sufficient legal rights to remain in this country for several years and maybe...

COMMUNITY

Police arrest Florida man for threatening calls to Tlaib, others

April 24th, 20190 Washington — Police have arrested a Florida man and charged him with making threats by phone last week to freshman U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Detroit, and two other Democratic lawmakers in Congress. Police say John J. Kless of Tamarac, Florida, called Tlaib and left threatening and profane voicemail messages. Sen. Cory Booker...

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Summit between Trump, North Korean leader ends without a deal

March 1st, 20190 HANOI, VIETNAM— A summit between President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un was cut short on Thursday after no agreement was reached. Kim reportedly asked for an end to all U.S. sanctions on his country. The two leaders canceled a planned signing ceremony and departed after what White House press secretary Sarah Sanders called...

U.S. Politics

Trump declares national emergency to build border wall, Michigan Democrats criticize decision

February 15th, 20190 LANSING - Prominent Michigan Democrats are responding to President Trump’s national emergency declaration to pay for a wall at the southern border. Despite Congress refusal to grant him, Trump declared a national emergency at the border on Friday to access billions of dollars to build a border wall that...

COMMUNITY

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib speaks about explicit remarks, impeaching Trump and first month in office

February 8th, 20190 DEARBORN — U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), sat down with The Arab American News on Saturday, Feb. 2 to discuss her first month in office and her explicit remarks in November about impeaching President Trump. She said she faced criticisms, received hate mail and a death threat before making the remarks and during her...

Opinions

Preventing Palestine: A must read history of failed peace-making

October 1st, 20180 Seth Anziska’s Preventing Palestine: A Political History From Camp David to Oslo is a deeply insightful and profoundly disturbing book that traces the tortuous path of Middle East peace-making during the past four decades. It was quite painful to read. Having been a close observer and sometimes participant in many of the...

Opinions

Hold the plaudits, John McCain’s 2008 campaign paved the way for Donald Trump

August 31st, 20180 What if John McCain hadn’t run for president in 2008? Donald Trump might not be sitting in the White House today. At first glance, that might sound odd. The six-term Republican senator, who passed away Saturday, has been hailed as an outspoken opponent of the president, while Trump himself despised McCain and famously claimed the...

Palestine

France says Middle East is ‘explosive,’ criticizes U.S. policy and unjustified Israeli violence

May 15th, 20180 PARIS - French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Tuesday described the situation in the Middle East as “explosive” and criticized the United States for unilateral acts in the region and Israel for what he said was an unjustified level of violence. Thousands of Gaza residents turned out on Tuesday for the funerals of...

Sports

NFL policy on anthem kneeling unchanged, despite Trump rebuke

October 19th, 20170 NEW YORK - National Football League officials weighed the fervor of players protesting racism against President Trump’s anger at their autumn meeting on Tuesday with supporters of the players kneeling outside in solidarity. The NFL did not seek commitments from its players to stop kneeling during pregame renditions of the U.S....

U.S.A

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Americans will ‘be begging for four more years of President Trump’

October 18th, 20170 WASHINGTON - White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says that she expects America is going to be “begging” for a second Donald Trump term in about three years. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says that the Trump administration is going to have plenty of major achievements by the end of the term Sanders, during an appearance with...

In Our Opinion

Trump steers the wheel to the country’s downfall

September 3rd, 20170 Since his presidential campaign last year, President Trump stirred controversy with his racist and hateful rhetoric towards minorities. Then, his election pulled the trigger on an abysmal spike in racism and hate crimes— making the country’s years of shameful discrimination and bigotry acceptable again. On Wednesday, Aug. 30, Fox...

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Trump seeks crackdown on ‘Made in America’ fakes

July 19th, 20170 WASHINGTON- President Trump is looking for ways to defend American-made products by certifying legitimate U.S. goods and aggressively going after imported products unfairly sporting the "Made in America" label, the White House said on Tuesday. Trump, who campaigned on reviving the U.S. manufacturing sector, vowed on Monday that his...

National Election

CNN won’t air Trump’s ‘100 days’ ad

May 4th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C.-AN ad by Trump's campaign that featured the President jeering at the mainstream media network CNN for being "fake news" will not be aired by the station, sources said Tuesday. In a statement addressing the ad, CNN said that they “requested that the advertiser remove the false graphic that says the mainstream media...

International

Trump: Saudis not paying fair share for U.S. defense

April 29th, 20170 WASHINGTON — President Trump complained on Thursday that U.S. ally Saudi Arabia was not treating the United States fairly and Washington was losing a “tremendous amount of money” defending the kingdom. In an interview with Reuters, Trump confirmed his administration was in talks about possible visits to Saudi Arabia and Israel in...

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Highlights of Trump’s first week in office

January 29th, 20170 WASHINGTON D.C. - On Tuesday, Trump signed orders reviving the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, rolling back Obama’s executive actions to halt further construction on the pipeline. Applauding Trump’s order was the North Dakota Petroleum Council’s president, Ron Ness, who said, “We think this is a...