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A Houston-area imam has sparked both outrage and concern after launching a campaign to pressure Muslim-owned stores to stop selling pork, alcohol, and lottery tickets. The campaign, led by Imam F. Qasim ibn Ali Khan of Masjid At-Tawhid, was captured in a viral video showing him confronting a store employee and accusing the business of selling 'haram' products forbidden under Islamic law. Khan, who leads a Nation of Islam-affiliated mosque warns business owners they will face boycotts and public protests if they refuse to comply.

You have 30 days to stop selling alcohol and pork.

42-year-old Texas man is facing a murder charge in the shooting of an 11-year-old boy after the victim and his friends banged on the suspect's door late Saturday night in what police described as a "ding-dong-ditch" prank that has been trending on TikTok and other social media platforms, authorities said. The suspect, Leon Gonzalo Jr., was arrested and booked at the Harris County Jail on Tuesday morning, charged with one count of murder, according to Harris County court records.

An 11-year-old boy was pronounced dead at a hospital Sunday after he was shot while running from a home he had rung the doorbell on, Houston city officials said. The boy had been ringing doorbells Saturday night in the area and running as part of a game known as “doorbell ditch,” the city said in a statement. “A witness stated the male was running from a house, after ringing the doorbell, just prior to suffering a gunshot wound,” it said. Officers responding to the shooting on the 9700 block of Racine Street released a person who had been detained for...

Despite the ongoing budget concerns, commissioners voted 4–1 this week to allocate funding for the 2025 Gay Softball World Series. The measure, sponsored by Garcia, dedicates $468,610 to the tournament, with Ramsey casting the lone “no” vote. Garcia said the money would come in part from a tourism fund designed to attract events that bring visitors to the county. However, while part of the funding does come from that tourism fund, the other part comes from Precinct 2’s General Fund—largely supported by property taxes. In effect, at least 50 percent of the $468,610 will come from local property tax revenue...

Oil giant Shell USA allegedly ousted all the white employees from its corporate security team in Houston — replacing them with less qualified people of color in what amounted to a discriminatory purge, according to a bombshell lawsuit. Kevin Taylor and Gulf War veteran Michelle Romak, who are both white, claim they were booted from their jobs earlier this year despite each having more than a decade of relevant experience at Shell, according to the lawsuit filed in the US Southern District of Texas on Tuesday. They are suing Shell and Wayne Hunt, a regional security manager – alleging they...

A Chinese doctor was busted at a Texas airport for allegedly attempting to smuggle US-funded cancer research back to his home country – and could face federal charges for the brazen theft. Yunhai Li, 35, was nabbed at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on July 9 after border patrol discovered the sensitive confidential medical records on his laptop during an inspection ahead of his flight to China, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday. The Chinese national, who was employed as a researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center since 2022, was reportedly working on a vaccine to prevent...

Two masked suspects who allegedly impersonated police officers were shot and killed by a homeowner in Houston on Friday night after they attempted to enter a residence under false pretenses, according to local news station KHOU and the Houston Police Department (HPD). Newsweek reached out to the HPD via email on Saturday for comment. **SNIP** What To Know The incident occurred around 11 p.m. on Bellnole Drive in southeast Houston, according to the HPD, with both suspects, believed to be in their 30s, pronounced dead at the scene after exchanging gunfire with the homeowner. The suspects approached the home claiming...

Shenghua Wen, 42, received around $2 million (€1.7 million) from North Korean officials to ship firearms and ammunition from California. A Chinese national in California has been sentenced to eight years in prison for shipping firearms and ammunition to North Korea. North Korean officials paid Shenghua Wen around $2 million (€1.7 million) to ship two containers of weapons and other items from Long Beach in California to North Korea via Hong Kong in 2023, according to the US Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. The 42-year-old pleaded guilty in June to one count of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic...

EXCLUSIVE: Despite the US saying we are not accepting Palestinian “refugees” into the United States under the Trump administration, I have obtained video footage of Palestinians who claim to be refugees from Gaza coming into the United States via San Francisco and Houston, Texas this month. The Palestinians traveled from Gaza to the US with the help of a group called “Heal Palestine”.

Roland Mehrez Beainy, owner of the recently opened Trump Burger restaurant in Houston, is currently facing deportation after failing to leave the U.S. on time and being arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE confirmed that Beainy, 28, originally from Lebanon, entered the United States in 2019 on a non-immigrant visitor visa but failed to depart as required by February 12, 2024. He was arrested on May 16, 2025, and placed into immigration proceedings. An immigration judge granted him bond on June 13 while his case continues. Trump-inspired burger joint just opened in Houston — Here’s what you can...

A federal judge has denied terror suspect Mohamed Elzahabi's request for an acquittal or new trial. Elzahabi was convicted in August of possessing and using a fraudulent immigration document to get a job in Minnesota. Evidence submitted during the trial showed Elzahabi had paid an exotic dancer in Houston to marry him so he could obtain the green card. U-S District Judge John Tunheim wrote that a reasonable jury could find Elzahabi guilty. Elzahabi was arrested as part of a terrorism investigation. The F-B-I says he acknowledged that he attended a jihad training camp, fought in Afghanistan as part of...

News of Abdul Niazi’s death arrived in a chilling phone call. It was March 26, nearly the end of Ramadan, and his wife wanted to know when to expect her husband, a former U.S. military interpreter who lost both legs in a bomb blast in Afghanistan and became one of Houston’s most well-known advocates for new Afghan migrants. It was almost time to break the day’s fast, recalled Niazi’s cousin, but he hadn’t returned home. So she called his cellphone. “I’m not your husband,” the man on the other end of the line said, according to Rizwanullah Niazi, Niazi’s cousin....

Democrat Texas Judge Lina Hidalgo derailed a meeting Thursday at the Harris County Commissioners Court over a failed tax hike, encouraging children to descend on the courtroom to ask commissioners how they planned to vote. A tax increase proposal, supported by Hidalgo, was brought forward Thursday to fund certain child care and education training programs previously covered by COVID-era funding, according to Houston Public Media. During the meeting, Commissioner Tom Ramsey was seen in footage from KHOU11’s YouTube page saying he would vote no to put forward the proposal on the next ballot, casting doubt on the county’s budget being...

A Texas cop vowed to give “everyone” a ticket after she didn’t get laid the night before, according to a since-deleted viral TikTok. The post showed uniformed Harris County Constable Precinct 5 Deputy Jennifer Escalera writing on a notepad with the caption, “Didn’t get cracked last night so everyone is getting a ticket” — a nod to her apparently unfulfilling sex life. The cop blurred parts of her uniform but left her nametag visible in her post.

From NBC12 News A federal appeals court in Richmond is set to hear arguments in the case of a convicted Al Qaeda supporter. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is a U.S. citizen born to a Jordanian father. He was raised in Falls Church. He was convicted in November 2005 of conspiracy to assassinate the president, conspiracy to hijack an aircraft and providing support to Al Qaeda. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

The abortion business Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast will close two Houston-area abortion centers, including its 78,000-square-foot Prevention Park facility, once the largest abortion center in the Western Hemisphere, in a move pro-life advocates hailed as a “tremendous victory” for their movement. The closures, set for September 30, come amid financial pressures and political challenges, leaving four other Houston-area clinics to be acquired by Planned Parenthood’s largest Texas affiliate. With Texas having banned abortions for a few years now, and President trump signing the bill to defund the abortion giant, its two main sources of funding have dried up. Shawn Carney,...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 1,361 illegal immigrants in the Houston area in June, which included individuals previously convicted of hijacking an airplane, homicide, sexual assault and more, the agency revealed. ICE said in a press release that the illegal immigrants arrested in the Houston area in June are either currently charged with or have been convicted of a criminal offense. Of those arrested, 32 were previously convicted of child sex offenses, nine for homicide-related offenses, and 16 believed to be gang or drug cartel members. One person arrested by ICE was convicted of hijacking an airplane headed to...

University of Houston professor David McNally proposed renaming his school to "George Floyd University" and abolishing tuition and grades at the Socialism 2025 conference Saturday. While wearing a keffiyeh, McNally spoke on a panel in Chicago about what fighting the state would look like in the "context of growing an insurgent mass movement."

A former member of Houston’s Food Insecurity Board, Sade Perkins, has been removed from her position after posting a highly controversial and racially charged video mocking the victims of the tragic July 4th weekend flash floods along the Guadalupe River. The floods killed at least 82 people, including over two dozen children attending Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian camp near Kerrville, Texas. Perkins, who was appointed to the board in 2023 by then-Democratic Mayor Sylvester Turner, uploaded the video to her TikTok account, "sades_world8," before making it private. In the video, she made a series of inflammatory statements, drawing a...