Source: NJ.com By Dave Hutchinson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com BERNARDS — The lawsuit filed last week alleging that Bernards Township violated federal law by rejecting plans for a mosque […]
Source: RNS By Emily McFarlan Miller STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. (RNS) In the Sioux creation narrative, water was one of the first beings the Creator made, and it became a […]
Source: BBC A white man accused of killing nine black people at a South Carolina church will be allowed to represent himself at trial, a federal judge has said. US […]
Source: The Atlantic By LEIGH ERIC SCHMIDT For over a decade, Fox News has made it a talking point that Christmas is under siege from liberals. Bill O’Reilly has promoted the […]
Source: Longreads Why did the forced removal of African Americans seem so plausible in Forsyth County, Georgia in 1912? Was it because it had all happened before? Detail from a map of Cherokee territory over time. The green line designates their territory at the point of their forced removal. Red […]
Source: The Atlantic By ANDREW MCGILL By now, you’ve heard about the great American divide that ushered Donald Trump into office. It’s probably been pitched as a matter of money and wealth— prosperous city dwellers against the rural poor, or the white working class versus everyone else. But that’s the wrong […]
Source: Tedium By Ernie Smith Computers often seem like they’re above the supply chain. Putting aside hot devices like the latest iPhone and the different variants of the Microsoft Surface, it’s generally easy to get a computer of some kind that will allow you to do all sorts of interesting […]
Source: Time BY Norman Y. Mineta & Ann Burroughs Norman Y. Mineta is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum and the Secretary of Transportation under George […]
Source: Cnet.com by Carrie Mihalcik All that fake news you saw during the election may have been part of a “sophisticated” Russian propaganda campaign. The abundance of fake news in the lead up to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory earlier this month has become a hot button issue, entangling tech giants […]
Source: Economic Times WASHINGTON: After disbelief, anger and grief, the US tech sector is looking to come to grips with the presidency of a man described by many of its […]
Source: The verge By Andrew Liptak Keith Mann faces the same problem each year: frost. The icy condensation is detrimental to his crop in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the […]
Source: Cnet. com Amazon.com is reportedly in talks to acquire the Arab world’s version of itself, Souq.com, for about $1 billion. The deal, which Bloomberg reported on Thursday citing people familiar with matter, would help the retail giant gain traction in the fast-growing Middle East market. Amazon is considering a […]
Three California Mosques Receive Letters Praising Trump, Threatening Genocide By Daniel Politi slate.com The letter that was sent to three California mosques over the past week.CAIR The Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling for police to increase protection of mosques after at least three in California received identical handwritten letters that vow President-elect Donald […]
Source: Asian Review BY HIROSHI MURAYAMA, Nikkei senior staff writer Various news reports have recently suggested that Hon Hai Precision Industry, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer of Apple products, is considering shifting production from China to the U.S. The speculation is nothing new. But this is the first time it has […]
Source: Time While the President-elect retreated to Palm Beach with his family for Thanksgiving. The scramble to shape his administration underway, President-elect Donald Trump’s team has simultaneously begun turning its attention to raising tens of millions of dollars for festivities related to his Washington inauguration. Trump, who vowed during the […]
Source: Time “We have an escalating situation where safety is a concern for everybody.” Protesters opposed to an oil pipeline planned to run beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota must vacate an area where thousands of demonstrators have been camped by Dec. 5 or […]
Source: Fortune by Mahita Gajanan He also took aim at Democrats Donald Trump continued to criticize the election recount effort by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein via Twitter on Sunday. “The Green Party scam to fill up their coffers by asking for impossible recounts is now being joined by the […]
Source: Aljazeera Suspected hate crimes targeting Muslims carried out as anti-Islam rhetoric swells in the US following Paris attacks. By Patrick Strickland More than 4.2 million Syrians have fled their country as the civil war continues [Santi Palacios/AP] Several mosques have been vandalised and a number of suspected hate crimes targeting […]
Source: Aljazeera Being told to get off plane in front of passengers was “humiliating”, says Kameelah Rasheed, who alleges discrimination. BY Anealla SafdarKameelah Rasheed is one of several Muslims who has been forced to leave planes in America over the past two weeks [Rasheed] Correction Nov. 26, 2015: This article originally […]
Source: CNN By Michael D’Antonio (CNN)Two weeks into his transition from President-elect to America’s commander in chief, Donald Trump has signaled his priorities and demonstrated the habits of mind he will bring to the most powerful position in the world. The clues tell us we shouldn’t expect this 70-year-old showman […]