Sheila Abdus-Salaam: New Yorkers mourn judge’s death
Tributes were paid on Thursday to Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first Muslim woman judge in the United States and first black woman to serve on New York’s highest court. Police pulled Abdus-Salaam’s fully clothed body from the Hudson River on Wednesday, a day after she was reported missing. The 65-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. […]
US drops ‘mother of all bombs’ on ISIL in Afghanistan
The United States has dropped a massive GBU-43 bomb, the largest non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat, in eastern Afghanistan on a series of caves used by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), according to the Pentagon. The bomb was dropped on Thursday from a MC-130 aircraft in the Achin district […]