Year: 2023

Swing-state Muslim Americans threaten to vote against Biden

As Israel’s U.S-backed war against Hamas intensifies and Palestinian civilian deaths mount, a growing number of swing-state Muslim American and Arab American leaders are warning President Joe Biden that he is losing support from their communities in ways that could cost him in next year’s election. Muslim Americans overwhelmingly backed Biden in 2020 and would…

Ex-Republican state senator charged with traveling for sex with minor, receiving child sex abuse images

BISMARCK, N.D. — A retired Republican state senator from North Dakota has been charged with traveling to Europe with the intent of paying for sex with a minor and with receiving images depicting child sexual abuse, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday. Longtime state Sen. Ray Holmberg, 79, was arrested Monday and released after…

Putin’s Russia left reeling as Ukraine ‘strikes air defence system’ in Crimea

Ukraine may have dealt another blow to  army as it reportedly struck part of the Russian air defence system located in . The Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communications said in a statement shared on social media: “The armed forces successfully hit a strategic object of the air defence system on the western coast of occupied…