NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — With just over two weeks until voting begins, Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz firmly asserted their standing atop the GOP race in a fiery debate, overshadowing a crowded field of rivals still grappling for a way to overtake the front-runners. Trump stuck with his controversial call for temporarily…
Howard County’s school board voted unanimously this week to markedly expand its schedule of religious and cultural holidays, a decision members said recognized the growing diversity of the suburban Maryland school system. Students will get days off next school year for two Jewish holy days, following a debate over whether to end the longtime practice….
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An Iraqi-born man living in California swore that “America will not isolate me from my Islamic duty” as he used a social media account associated with the Islamic State group to plot a return to Syria, according to court documents made public Friday. Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab was indicted in Sacramento Thursday…
New York City police are investigating an assault in which a man wearing traditional Muslim clothing was beaten by teenagers, who allegedly shouted “ISIS, ISIS” during the attack. Police say Mujibur Rahman, 43, was walking with his 9-year-old niece in the Bronx on Friday when he was “punched several times in the head, knocked down and kicked…
MILWAUKEE — An American-Islamic civil liberties group is asking a Wisconsin manufacturer to back away from a policy that doesn’t allow an extra break for prayer for Muslim employees. Ariens Co., however, said Tuesday that it can handle the matter internally and that it’s not interested in negotiating through the Council for America-Islamic Relations. The…
