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Muslim workers are often left out of consideration of workplace diversity initiatives, says Insider reporter Marguerite Ward. She joined LX News to share more from her recent article where Muslim leaders offered advice to CEOs on creating a more accommodating and inclusive workplace for people of all faiths.

After an excavation that lasted more than 150 years, an underground building constructed around A.D. 20 is set to open to the public in December.

CNBC asked former CIA, military and diplomatic personnel what they feel America has learned — and failed to learn — since Sept. 11, 2001.

A record number of American Muslims ran for office in 2018 after Trump’s Trump’s ban on travelers from 13 countries with significant Muslim populations. That followed more than a decade of prejudice after the 9/11 attacks. NBCLX Storyteller Ngozi Ekeledo looks back at the history of how the nation treated Muslims following the attacks, and ties it to the present.

Emirates REIT’s lenders blocked its planned changes and raised “serious concerns” about its transparency and governance. 

Activists and lawmakers of both parties have called on President Joe Biden to bow out of the 2022 Olympics in protest.

Muslims in many parts of the world are marking the start of Ramadan as coronavirus cases spike in some countries

A Russian man has been charged in California with attempting to provide support to a foreign terrorist organization, authorities said Friday.

Activists rallied in Paris to demand that the French government abandon a bill aimed at rooting out Islamist extremism that the protesters say would trample on religious freedom and make all Muslims into potential suspects.

It’s the latest in a series of dramatic economic and social reforms launched by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman aimed at modernizing the kingdom.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of three Muslims who said they were placed on the no-fly list in retaliation for refusing to spy on their communities.

Saudi Arabia cut travel to Islam’s holiest sites, South Korea toughened penalties for those breaking quarantines and airports across Latin America looked for signs of sick passengers as a new virus troubled places around the globe. With the number of sick and dead rising, the crisis gave way to political and diplomatic rows, concern that bordered on panic in...

An Iranian woman who removed her obligatory Islamic headscarf in a public protest has been sentenced to one year in prison but pardoned by the supreme leader, her lawyer said Sunday. A court sentenced Vida Movahed in March after finding her guilty of encouraging public “corruption,” her lawyer, Payam Derefshan, told The Associated Press. Movahed was arrested in November. Derefshan,...

President Donald Trump on Friday declined to join expressions of concern about white nationalism, saying “I don’t, really” when asked whether he thought it was a rising threat around the world.

President Trump reacted to the Supreme Court’s ruling Tuesday morning upholding the third version of his travel ban during a meeting with lawmakers that was focusing on immigration.

For Muslims all over the world, June 15 marks Eid al-Fitr, the holiday at the end of Ramadan’s month of fasting. It brings festivals, food, gifts and prayers.

The Associated Press has found evidence that five military wives who received death threats in 2015 were targeted not by jihadists but by the same Russian hacking group that intervened in the American election and exposed the emails of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta....
The brazen false flag is a case study in the difficulty of assigning blame in...

Assailants opened fire at a U.N. security team visiting the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria, an official said Wednesday, forcing it to retreat to its base and further delaying a fact-finding mission by outside experts to examine the claims. Gunmen shot at the U.N. team in Douma on Tuesday and detonated an explosive, leading it to...

Suspected poison gas was used to attack the last remaining foothold for the Syrian opposition in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, killing at least 40 people, including families found in their homes and shelters, opposition activists and local rescuers said Sunday. The attack on the besieged town of Douma came almost exactly a year after a chemical attack in the...

A journal made public by the CIA and apparently handwritten by one of Osama bin Laden’s daughters offers a glimpse into how the al-Qaida leader viewed the world around him and reveals his deep interest in the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions unfolding in the months before he was killed in a U.S. raid. He talks about Libya becoming a pathway...