A planned Muslim community, EPIC City, is set to be developed in Josephine, Texas, about 40 miles northeast of Dallas. The project, led by the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), aims to create a self-sustaining neighborhood featuring a mosque, Islamic…
Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, the leading religious institution for Sunni Islam, has issued a fatwa prohibiting the viewing of ‘Muawiya,’ a Saudi-made historical drama on the founder of the Umayyad dynasty, citing religious concerns over the portrayal of Prophet Muhammad’s companions.…
Mexico has extradited 29 high-level cartel operatives to the U.S., including infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, as it faces mounting pressure from the Trump administration to curb fentanyl trafficking. Caro Quintero, convicted of the 1985 murder of DEA agent…
The House narrowly approved a budget resolution on Tuesday that would add $100 billion in defense spending over the next decade while making deep cuts to domestic programs. The measure, part of a broader Republican effort to advance President Donald…
After spending 30 years behind bars for a murder he has always denied committing, Gordon Cordeiro was released from a Maui prison on Friday. A judge overturned his conviction after new DNA evidence excluded him as the perpetrator. One of…
Recent financial maneuvers by prominent U.S. billionaires suggest a cautious outlook on the stock market’s current valuation. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway notably sold approximately $143 billion in stocks throughout 2024, resulting in a record cash reserve of $334.2 billion by…
The Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S.) will begin laying off approximately 6,000 employees on Thursday as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to downsize the federal workforce, according to three people familiar with the plans. The cuts will primarily target recent…
Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist convicted in 1975 for the killings of two FBI agents, was released from federal prison on Tuesday after Joe Biden commuted his sentence in January. Peltier, now 80 and in poor health, had spent…
