(AP) A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered the judge who oversaw Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial to investigate the defense’s claims of juror bias and determine whether his death sentence should stand. A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. […]
(Free Beacon) The Biden administration launched a civil rights investigation into anti-Muslim incidents at Harvard University based on a complaint from a Muslim legal fund that has represented convicted terrorists and pushed anti-Semitic rhetoric. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights […]
(Boston Herald) Paul Ventura was about to leave his Wakefield home Thursday morning when the FBI showed up looking for his 18-year-old son Mateo. Hours later, the dad opened up to reporters for more than 20 minutes outside the federal courthouse in […]
(Boston Herald) A Wakefield teenager is accused of buying $1,670 in gift cards to support ISIS and the terrorist organization’s fighters, allegedly sending the gift cards to an undercover FBI agent posing as an ISIS supporter. Mateo Ventura, 18, who told the […]
(AP) The chair of the U.S. Senate subcommittee on emerging national security threats said at a hearing Wednesday that much has been learned about enhancing emergency response and counterterrorism efforts in the decade since the Boston Marathon bombing, but more can still […]
(AP) With a bagpiper playing “The Bells of Dunblane” and a few runners looking on, families of those killed in the Boston Marathon bombing marked the 10th anniversary of the tragedy early Saturday by slowly walking together to the memorial sites near […]
(Jewish Insider) The consulting giant McKinsey & Company announced on Monday that it “stepped away” from last weekend’s Arab Conference at Harvard after learning of antisemitic views of one of its speakers. The firm’s statement followed a Jewish Insider report from the […]
(Boston Herald) ICE agents returned a British-born member of al-Qaida, who pleaded guilty in 2015 to trying to start a terrorist training camp in Oregon, to England. Haroon Rashid Aswat, 48, of Batley in West Yorkshire, England, had been at a federal […]
(AP) A Massachusetts charter school where an eighth grade student was written up for a uniform infraction for wearing a hijab says it understands its “handling of the situation came across as insensitive.” A family member of the Mystic Valley Regional Charter […]
(AP) Workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in Massachusetts intentionally put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman had ordered for one of her children, a civil rights organization said Wednesday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a discrimination complaint on […]
(AP) The Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The justices, by a 6-3 vote Friday, agreed with the Biden administration’s arguments that a federal appeals court was wrong to throw out the sentence of death […]
(NBC) Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hasn’t been paying fines or victims with the tens of thousands of dollars deposited into his trust fund, including a Covid-19 relief payment he received in June, federal prosecutors said in a filing Wednesday. In […]
(Religion News) In Dearborn, Michigan, where the mayor once promised to do something about the city’s “Arab problem,” Abdullah Hammoud, a Lebanese American Muslim, was elected this month to fill that post. In New York, Bangladeshi American Shahana Hanif became the first […]
(AP) Are Arab Americans people of color? The question has been bubbling beneath the surface of Boston’s historic mayor’s race, where one of the two candidates, Annissa Essaibi George, has found herself challenged on the campaign trail about her decision to identify […]
(Arab News) Arab Americans are among the thousands of candidates across the US who are seeking election to local municipal and regional offices on Nov. 2. Key races include campaign battles for the mayoralty in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Dearborn and Dearborn […]
(AP) The Supreme Court sounded ready Wednesday to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In more than 90 minutes of arguments, the court’s six conservative justices seemed likely to embrace the Biden administration’s argument that a federal […]
(AP) The Biden administration will try to persuade the Supreme Court this week to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by arguing that a jury had no need to examine evidence that the government itself relied on […]
(Fox) An Egyptian man who is accused of stabbing a rabbi outside of a Jewish day school in Boston on Thursday overstayed his student visa and lost his legal status on May 14, Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Fox News. Khaled Awad, […]
(WBZ) College roommates of Khaled Awad, the man accused of stabbing Rabbi Shlomo Noginski eight times outside a Jewish school in Brighton Thursday, say he was “violent” and “very much anti-Semitic.” Investigators say Awad approached Rabbi Noginski outside the Shaloh House Thursday […]
(Forward) A Chabad emissary was stabbed multiple times outside a synagogue and Jewish day school he heads in Brighton, Massachusetts, on Thursday afternoon. Rabbi Shlomo [Noginski], a rabbi at the Chabad House in Brighton Commons Park, known as the “Shaloh House” in […]
(Hill) The Biden administration on Monday urged the Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty against the Boston Marathon bomber in an apparent break with the president’s stated opposition to capital punishment. In a 48-page brief, the Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the […]
(AP) The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider reinstating the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, presenting President Joe Biden with an early test of his opposition to capital punishment. The justices agreed to hear an appeal filed by […]
(Reuters) The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to reinstate Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence for helping carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260 others. The department argues in its […]
(Boston Herald) Convicted ISIS terrorist David Daoud Wright of Everett — part of a terror cell out to “kill boys in blue” — was resentenced Monday to 30 years in prison and a lifetime of supervision. Wright, brought back to Boston, fought […]
(Daily Caller) Nationwide protests organized by pro-Palestine and anti-Israel groups featured anti-American rhetoric and support for known terrorist groups, videos from the protests show. Pro-Palestine protests occurred in at least 16 cities including Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Brooklyn, New York, since July 1, […]
(AP) The Justice Department will seek to reinstate a death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man who was convicted of carrying out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Attorney General William Barr said Thursday. In an interview with the Associated Press, Barr said […]
(Religion News) When Mariya Taher moved to Massachusetts five years ago, she was shocked to find out the state had no legislation in place against female genital mutilation and cutting. Taher launched a petition, which earned more than 400,000 signatures, urging the […]
(Hill) President Trump on Sunday called for the death penalty for the Boston Marathon bomber, just days after an appeals court overturned the death sentence. “Rarely has anybody deserved the death penalty more than the Boston Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,” Trump tweeted. “The […]
(AP) ”Boston Strong” remains a ”vibrant” rallying cry more than seven years after the marathon bombing killed three people and injured more than 260 others, a federal appeals court noted as it threw out the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. But even […]
(AP) A federal appeals court Friday threw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court […]
(MassLive) A bill the Massachusetts House passed on Thursday would establish criminal and civil penalties for the practice of female genital mutilation. The bill (H 4606) would set a penalty of up to five years in state prison, or a fine of […]
(Religion News) Laila Tauqeer has only been president of the Harvard Islamic Society for three months, but she has been busy. This weekend, she’s hosting the country’s first national conference for Shiite Muslim college students around the country. On Friday (Feb. 28), […]
(Fox) An Iranian student who was denied entry to the United States on arrival and deported this week, amid objections from top Democrats and left-wing activists, has family ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah, a Department […]
(AP) The Boston Marathon bomber’s lawyers urged a federal court to overturn their client’s death sentence, arguing Thursday that intense media coverage and signs of juror bias led to an unfair trial. The three-judge panel for the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of […]
(WGBH) On Thursday, lawyers representing convicted 26-year-old Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will go before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals to argue that their client did not receive a fair trial in 2015. They will also ask that […]
(Boston Globe) The people who allegedly hectored Celtics center Enes Kanter outside a mosque over his political opposition to Turkey’s president didn’t commit a crime, Cambridge police have determined. In a statement Tuesday, police announced their findings in their review of the […]
(Boston Globe) New Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter said he was harassed outside of a Cambridge mosque Friday afternoon because of his political opposition to Turkey’s president. Kanter, a 6-11 Turkish basketball player signed by Boston this summer, posted a video to […]
(Boston Globe) Yusufi Vali, who most recently ran the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury, was tapped Thursday to head the city’s Office for Immigrant Advancement, becoming the highest-ranking Muslim in city government in recent memory. The 36-year-old, whose family […]
(JNS) A number of Massachusetts Jewish and pro-Israel groups are condemning several Democratic state lawmakers for participating in an Eid al-Fitr event at the Massachusetts State House being co-hosted by the Massachusetts branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has […]
(Breitbart) Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour was ripped on social media after posting a selfie with Roger Waters on a private jet with an accompanying text extolling the Pink Floyd frontman’s “empathy” and “personal risk” in standing up for the Palestinians. Sarsour […]
(Boston Globe) As President Trump’s attacks against one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress continue to reverberate, dozens of Muslims gathered in the sunlit Great Hall of the State House this week to carry a basic message to lawmakers: […]
(Boston Globe) Stepping before the congregation, Governor Charlie Baker took the microphone at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center and softly offered “Salam,” a greeting of peace. “How’d I do?” he then asked, as light laughter rippled through the crowd. Weeks […]
(AP) Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is planning to visit a Boston mosque. Organizers say the visit Friday to the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center — the largest mosque in New England — is the first by a sitting Republican Massachusetts governor. […]
(AP) Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s convictions or death sentence should be tossed because it was impossible for him to get a fair trial in the same city where the shrapnel-packed, pressure cooker bombs exploded, his lawyers told a federal appeals court […]
(Free Beacon) Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), who was initially scheduled to speak at the same conference as controversial Women’s March organizer and liberal activist Linda Sarsour, is no longer speaking at the conference due to a scheduling conflict. Warren had been […]
(Free Beacon) Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) will attend an immigration conference next month with Women’s March organizer and liberal activist Linda Sarsour, who has come under increased scrutiny for her ties to radical Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan. Both Warren […]
(Free Beacon) Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) spoke Thursday outside the Supreme Court at a rally hosted by prominent Women’s March organizers and anti-Israel activists Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory. Sarsour and Mallory hosted the rally to show […]
(Free Beacon) Democratic congressional candidate Ayanna Pressley appeared outside a mosque that has played host to numerous radical figures during her primary campaign this year. Dr. Wesley Muhammad gave a lecture at Boston’s Muhammad Mosque No. 11 in February entitled “The Secret […]
(Springfield Republican) U.S. Rep. Richard Neal beat out challenger Tahirah Amatul-Wadud in Massachusetts’ 1st Congressional District Democratic primary Tuesday — a win that essentially guarantees the longtime congressman, who faces no Republican opponents, re-election in November. Neal, who has represented Western Massachusetts in Washington for nearly 30 […]
(Worcester Telegram) A candidate challenging U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, in the Democratic primary shared on her Facebook page an essay that maintains 9/11 and Pearl Harbor were inside jobs and that America should not have fought Hitler in defense of the […]
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