Latest attack happened amid Islamophobic blowback against Arab and Muslim Americans running for office

Nashid Shakir describes how assailants used wire cutters to break into the Westwood Islamic Community Center in the early hours of 3 August.

“They cut the wire and broke the window to get in. They broke into the office, too. It was total disarray,” says Shakir, a board member, and member, at the community center since the 1960s.

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© Photograph: Cincinnati Islamic Community Center

© Photograph: Cincinnati Islamic Community Center

© Photograph: Cincinnati Islamic Community Center

The devices, which will make it easier for authorities to locate immigrants in Springfield if large-scale deportations begin, have intensified a sense of dread.

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Vice President JD Vance traveled to his hometown, Middletown, Ohio, and spoke at a steel factory where his grandfather once worked.

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A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.

Chemical tanks had ruptured during the incident but officials said there was no immediate threat to the Toledo area.

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Prosecutors led by Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, argued that Melissa Farris posed a flight risk and asked the court to reverse its decision.

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