Police protections urged after threatening letters to mosques
Roundup reports CAIR LA and CAIR Bay Area ask for enhanced police protection for mosques after letters threatening Muslims and praising Trump were sent to the Islamic Center of Long Beach Islamic Center of Claremont and Evergreen Islamic Center in San Jose. The handwritten note called Muslims vile and foretold a reckoning.
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Los Angeles
Council On American-Islamic Relations
Donald Trump
California
Islamic Center of
Long Beach
Claremont
CAIR
Greater
Evergreen Islamic Center
San Jose
San Francisco Bay Area
Cair-La
America
Trump
Bay Area
Iraq votes to fully legalize Shiite militias under state force
Iraqs parliament approved a law to make Shiite militias an independent armed force under the prime minister and report to the military, granting salaries and pensions equal to the military while banning political activity. Sunni lawmakers denounced the move as excluding them and widening sectarian divides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baghdad
Iraq
Islamic State Group
Sunni Arab Politi
Cians
Osama al-Nujaifi
Ahmed al-Masary
Jaafar al-Husseini
Hezbollah
Mohammed Saadoun
Protests vow to stay camped on federal land at Cannonball
Dakota Access Pipeline protesters led by Standing Rock Sioux leaders vow to ignore a U S Army Corps of Engineers directive to vacate federal lands north of the Cannonball River The encampment remains on Corps land as winter approaches with a self sustained camp and ongoing nonviolent demonstrations.
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Cannonball
N.D
Dakota
Standing Rock Sioux
Dave Archambault
Oceti Sakowin
Archambault
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Cannonball River
Isaac Weston
South Dakota
Corps
North Dakota
Missouri River
California approves tax on e cigarettes under Prop 56
California becomes the seventh state to tax electronic cigarettes as Prop 56 adds a 2 per pack cigarette tax atop 87 cents. Critics warn prices could rise over 60 percent, potentially deterring smokers from switching to vaping. Health experts debate e cigarettes as a public health tool versus riskier use.
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San Diego
California
Gregory Conley
American Vaping Association
United States
University of Michigan Public Health
Kenneth Warner
Britain
U.S
Public Health Department
Stanton A. Glantz
Center For Tobacco Control Research and Education
University of California San Francisco
Stanton
Militants Attack Mosque At Army Camp In Khar Pakistan
Four militants and two soldiers were killed in a mosque attack at Ghalani Camp in Mohmand near Afghanistan. The army said 14 troops were wounded, and a search was underway for accomplices as Jamaatul Ahrar claimed the attack to target the outgoing army chief Gen Raheel Sharif.
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Khar
Pakistan
Ghalani
Mohmand
Bor
Dering
Afghanistan
Jamaatul Ahrar
Taliban
Ahsanullah Ahsan
Raheel Sharif
Sharif
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John E Kennedy
Dallas
Lee Harvey Oswald
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Kennedy
Jim Riddlesperger
Texas Christian University
Gerald Hill
Hill
Texas Schoolbook Depository
Africa
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Tanzania
Endangered Wildlife Trust
South Africa
Cannon Ball
Pipeline
Federal
James MacPherson
Associated Press
Dallas Goldtooth
Indigenous Environmental Network
Army Corps of Engineers
Cannon Ball, N.D
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