Source: Time By Massimo Calabresi In the summer of 1980, Donald Trump faced a big problem. For six months, undocumented Polish laborers had been clearing the future site of Trump Tower, […]
Source: Time By Charlotte Alter Every night for 20 years, Gino Rodriguez knelt beside his three daughters’ beds and whispered an incantation. As rats the size of footballs skittered along […]
Successful test in Auckland and New Zealand paves the way for Domino’s to deliver pizzas by drone. By Alistair Charlton August 25, 2016 11:20 BST , IBTimes.co.uk Updated 4 hr ago The Domino’s pizza chain is to start delivering orders by drone later in 2016. The announcement came after it successfully demonstrated how […]
Source: Associated Press By KATHLEEN FOODY ATLANTA (AP) — A proposal to build a mosque and Muslim cemetery has so angered some residents of Newton County outside Atlanta that their commissioners have temporarily banned all building permit approvals for religious institutions. The moratorium prompted the Council on American-Islamic Relations and […]
Source: Associated Press By TOM HAYS NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department chronically skirted rules intended to protect political groups from unwarranted government surveillance while investigating Muslims, the city’s independent police monitor said in a report released Tuesday. The audit, conducted by Inspector General Philip Eure, found […]
Source: The Hill By Rafael Bernal Steve Bannon, Donald Trump‘s new campaign CEO, previously accused Catholics of supporting Hispanic immigration to prop up the church’s numbers on his radio program […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer It took petitions from everyone from schoolchildren to members of Congress, and 12 years of waiting. Soon, a long-hoped-for goal will be a […]
Source: Time (PALO ALTO, Calif.) — Stanford University officials say hard liquor is now prohibited in undergraduate on-campus parties. President John L. Hennessy and Provost John Etchemendy announced the new […]
Source: Associated Press By JEFF HORWITZ WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s paid campaign staffers have declared on their personal social media accounts that Muslims are unfit to be U.S. citizens, […]
Source: The New York Times A grand jury has returned a five-count indictment, including one for first-degree murder, against the 36-year-old man accused of the execution-style shootings of an imam […]
Source: Time By Elizabeth Dias One of the key leaders listed as part of Donald Trump’s new Hispanic Advisory Council has not actually agreed to the role, citing concerns over Trump’s […]
Source: The Washington Post By Mark Berman The man accused of killing nine black parishioners in a historic Charleston, S.C., church last year “self-radicalized” online, absorbing violent white supremacist beliefs from the […]
Source: BuzzFeed News By Talal Ansari BuzzFeed News Reporter A fire at a small one-story mosque in Tampa, Florida — originally thought to be caused by a faulty electrical cord — […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal By ARIAN CAMPO-FLORES and DAN FROSCH MIAMI—For the dozen or so pregnant women infected with the Zika virus in the care of Christine Curry, an […]
Source: Time By Halil I. Danismaz Danismaz is president of the Turkish Heritage Organization ‘To cast Turkey loose now would forfeit our influence in the region and end a decades-long alliance’ […]
Another Voice: ‘Meet a Muslim’ event helps to break down barriers By Amer Aziz A few weeks back, I got a frantic call from the president of my congregation, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, asking me to attend a dinner that evening. This dinner had a title: Meet a Muslim. It […]
A boy genius from Texas has conquered high school at the age of 12 and is off to Cornell University this fall. If Jeremy Shuler of Lubbock obtains a degree in the next four years, he may be the youngest person ever to graduate from the university in Ithaca, N.Y. […]
Source: Aljazeera Politicians and law enforcement agencies have been slow to support Muslims facing growing threat of violence. Vincent Simon, left, and Mujeeb Kazi say a recent threat against their […]
Source: Time BY Robert Redford Robert Redford is an actor, director and trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council Bear Ears, a hallowed region for Native Americans, should be a national […]
Source: Huffington Post Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post REUTERSTexas death row inmate Jeffery Wood is scheduled to be executed August 24, 2016 for a murder he did not commit. A group of nearly 50 evangelical leaders are urging the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor […]