Marianne McCune

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The American Civil Liberties Union is filing a civil rights suit on behalf of several dozen Muslim Americans who attended a conference called Reviving the Islamic Spirit last December.

The conference was in Toronto, and when participants came back across the Canadian border, agents detained, photographed ...

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New York City will honor the marriages and civil unions of same-sex couples who made their status official in places where it's legal.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's special counsel says this city has joined five others in New York that will recognize the same-sex marriages and civil ...

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Attorneys will go back to court today to make their final arguments in the case of a teenager accused of murdering a Chinese-food delivery man. As WNYC's Marianne McCune reports, the trial has drawn attention across the Pacific Ocean as well as in New York.

Three ...

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A Hudson County prosecutor has charged two men in the murders of a family of Coptic Christians from Egypt. The gruesome murders inflamed tensions between Jersey City’s Muslims and Coptic Christians, some of whom jumped to the conclusion that Muslim extremists were responsible. But prosecutors ...

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The upstairs neighbor of an Egyptian Coptic Christian family of four was charged today, along with another man, with their murders.

Edward McDonald pleaded not guilty. He rented a second floor apartment above Hossam Armanious and his family.

Hamilton Sanchez also pleaded not guilty. During a court ...

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A professor at Queens College has been pushing a group of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian students to learn and talk about the Middle East conflict ... together.  Professor Mark Rosenblum is a longtime behind-the-scenes negotiator with the Israeli group Peace Now.  In order to get ...

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Some residents of the New York metropolitan area have flown back to Mexico this weekend to vote in that country's elections. Though President Vicente Fox says he wants Mexicans living abroad to be able to vote by absentee ballot, currently they cannot. But Mexican New ...

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Yankee fans across New York may have noticed some of their neighbors cheering at all the wrong times this past week. Turns out there are more than a few Red Sox fans in this city, and not just Boston transplants. Among Dominican-New Yorkers, the Medias ...

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In the last two weeks, hundreds of immigrants sworn in as new U.S. citizens were told they could not vote in the upcoming election. That was incorrect. While most New Yorkers had to register to vote by October 8th, a little known state law allows ...

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Africans from the Darfur region of Sudan are still pouring into refugee camps. They tell journalists and aid workers the same story again and again: first Sudanese military planes came to bomb their villages, and soon after armed militia known as the Janjaweed arrived to ...

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While there are fewer than a hundred men and women from Darfur, Sudan living in New York and New Jersey, there are thousands of people who came here to escape crises in their own countries. Marianne McCune asked one 19 year old from Rwanda to ...

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The more than half a million Haitians in the Tri-State area are not a wealthy group. And even when there's no disaster in Haiti, most send part of what they earn here to family members they left behind. So, few have much to spare for ...

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The more than half a million Haitians in the Tri-State area are not a wealthy group. And even when there's no disaster in Haiti, most send part of what they earn here to family members they left behind. So, few have much to spare for ...

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Some New York Times staffers were in tears yesterday as the paper's Executive and Managing editors stepped down. Inside the Times, there's been anxiety over former reporter Jayson Blair's made-up stories and then Rick Bragg's use of a stringer to report major portions of at ...

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New York's police commissioner says the department will issue a report in the next few days detailing changes it will make after its mistaken and fatal raid on Harlem resident Alberta Spruill's apartment. Now that Commissioner Kelly and Mayor Bloomberg are facing some high profile ...

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Click here to see photographs of Javaid Iqbal as well as pictures from "Going Home in Handcuffs: Part 1".Most of the Middle Eastern and South Asian men now being picked up and deported for immigration violations are held in standard detention centers ...

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Click here for a slide show inspired by Going Home in Handcuffs: Part 1.Last week as part of WNYC's series Going Home in Handcuffs, we aired the story of some of the more than 1000 Pakistani men who've been deported from the ...

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Click here for a slide show.The United States has enlisted Pakistan as a friend in its effort to combat terrorism. But domestically, Pakistanis are among those being sought out and deported for immigration violations that used to be overlooked. More than a ...

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Friday was "Poem in Your Pocket Day." The idea was for New Yorkers to carry a poem that holds meaning to them and share it with someone else. It didn't take off in all corners of the city. But WNYC found within the walls of ...

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New York City's subway and bus riders will have to pay 2 dollars a ride beginning this May, up from a dollar fifty. Cuts won't be as drastic for unlimited and discount cards. Tolls on bridges and tunnels will also increase, but drivers were not ...