WASHINGTON (MNTV) – Senior advisers to President Donald Trump joked about seeking asylum in Israel during a private meeting days before Republicans suffered a sweeping defeat in the midterm elections, The New York Times reported. More than two dozen of Trump’s top political strategists joined a private video call six days before th...
WASHINGTON (MNTV) — An overwhelming 93% of Muslim respondents reported voting in Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections, reflecting high political participation among those surveyed. The United States is home to an estimated 8 million Muslims, accounting for roughly 2% of the country’s population, with more than 2 million estimated to be...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian authorities demolished structures in two residential colonies in a Muslim-majority neighborhood of Haryana state on Tuesday, leaving families facing displacement and prompting accusations of religious discrimination from residents who said officials refused to examine their property documents. The demolition to...
By MNTV Staff Writer At least 36 Muslim candidates won or were leading in races across the United States’ 2026 midterm elections, according to preliminary results available Wednesday. Voters elected Muslim representatives to federal, state and local offices. Eight of the winners are headed to Congress: one to the US Senate and seven to the [&h...
By MNTV Staff Writer Governments around the world reacted on Wednesday to US midterm elections that handed Democrats control of both chambers of Congress — a stinging setback for President Donald Trump — with Iran casting the result as a rejection of war, Israel’s opposition seizing on it against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and ma...
WASHINGTON (MNTV) – Abdul El-Sayed has become the first Muslim elected to the US Senate, defeating former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers in Michigan and holding onto a crucial Democratic-held seat, according to projections by US media. With about 80% of the vote counted early Wednesday, El-Sayed led with 51.73% — 2,051,991 votes — to Rogers’...
NEW YORK (MNTV) – Aber Kawas, a Palestinian American community organizer from Queens, has been elected to the New York State Senate, making her the first Palestinian Muslim woman to win a seat in the state legislature. Kawas announced her victory on Instagram on Tuesday night. The win caps an improbable rise for the first-time […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – Polling stations closed across most of the US on Tuesday, with election officials continuing to count ballots in midterm elections that will determine control of Congress. By 9 pm Eastern Time (0200GMT Wednesday), voting had ended in 42 of the country’s 50 states, including New York, Wisconsin, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, ...
WASHINGTON (MNTV) – Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Hakeem Jeffries and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won reelection to the US House of Representatives on Tuesday, according to Associated Press projections. Tlaib defeated Republican challenger James D. Hooper in Michigan, while Jeffries retained his seat in New York’s 8th Congressional Distri...
WASHINGTON (MNTV) – US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Washington plans to end its annual financial assistance to Israel by the end of this year, citing an agreement reached with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In an interview with Fox News, Trump said the two leaders had agreed months ago to phase out the […]
