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Supporters of Haifa attend a group E Europa Conference League soccer match between 1. FC Union Berlin and Maccabi Haifa FC in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
Haifa fans face antisemitic abuse in Berlin's Olympiastadion

By Ciarán Fahey Oct. 01, 2021 05:43 AM EDT

FILE - In this July 17, 2021, file photo, banners with the words "I still have the support of 50 million Korean people," are removed from balconies at the the Olympic athletes' village in Tokyo. South Korea removed the banners that the IOC ruled to be provocative, Seoul said it received an IOC promise that the displaying of the “rising sun” flag would also be banned at stadiums and other Olympic venues. (Jin Sung-chul/Yonhap via AP, File)
EXPLAINER: Why Japan 'rising sun' flag provokes Olympic ire

By Hyung-Jin Kim And Mari Yamaguchi Jul. 22, 2021 08:42 PM EDT

This undated photo released by Tokyo 2020 shows Kentaro Kobayashi, a key director of Tokyo Olympics’ opening ceremony. The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee dismissed the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday, July 22, 2021 because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. (©Tokyo 2020 via AP)
Olympic opening ceremony director fired for Holocaust joke

By Mari Yamaguchi Jul. 21, 2021 11:18 PM EDT

A commuter walks down stairs leading to a subway station before the start of the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Team USA chiropractor sorry for COVID protocol-Nazi post

By Jake Seiner Jul. 21, 2021 05:55 AM EDT

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and German Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas, right, sign an agreement during a ceremony for the launch of a U.S.-Germany Dialogue on Holocaust Issues at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Thursday, June 24, 2021. Blinken is on a week long trip in Europe traveling to Germany, France and Italy. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)
US, Germany confront rising antisemitism, Holocaust denial

By Matthew Lee Jun. 24, 2021 07:53 AM EDT

FILE - This file photo released April 19, 2013, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted for carrying out the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombing attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. The most prominent step on the death penalty by an administration led by a president who pledged during campaigning to eradicate capital punishment came this week when it asked the Supreme Court to reinstate the Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence. (FBI via AP, File)
Biden's silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray

By Michael Tarm Jun. 18, 2021 06:00 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 20, 2021, file photo Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks in Brooklyn Center, Minn., during a news conference at the site of the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright by a police officer during a traffic stop. A group of Jewish House Democrats are accusin Omar of likening the U.S. and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban. The 12 Democrats say her comparison shows prejudice and gives ”cover to terrorist groups." Their criticism comes after Omar asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken about atrocities she says have been committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan and the Taliban. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
Dems, GOP edging away from fight over Reps. Greene, Omar

By Alan Fram Jun. 16, 2021 01:06 PM EDT

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer addresses the media during a press conference on the 'Constitution Protection Report 2020' in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, June 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, pool)
Rise in far-right extremists seen in Germany last year

By Frank Jordans Jun. 15, 2021 06:01 AM EDT

Aranka Engel, 103, left, holds the hand of fellow Holocaust survivor Jean Kurz, 81, while watching Orthodox Jewish singer Yaakov Shwekey perform at a concert honoring them and dozens of other Holocaust survivors on Monday, June 14, 2021, at the Yeshivah of Flatbush theater at Joel Braverman High School in the Brooklyn borough of New York. It was the first large gathering for New York-area Holocaust survivors after more than a year of isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
NY Holocaust survivors celebrated at concert after isolation

By Luis Andres Henao Jun. 14, 2021 08:57 PM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 12, 2021, file photo, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Greene apologized Monday, June 14, 2021, for affronting people with recent comments comparing the required wearing of safety masks in the House to the horrors of the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Rep. Greene apologizes for comparing safety masks, Holocaust

By Alan Fram Jun. 14, 2021 07:41 PM EDT

FILE - In this June 7, 2021, file photo, demonstrators at Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital in Baytown, Texas, wave at cars that honk at them to support their protest against a policy that says hospital employees must get vaccinated against COVID-19 or lose their jobs. A federal judge dismissed their lawsuit, saying if workers don’t like the rule, they can go find another job. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Workers push back against hospitals requiring COVID vaccines

By Juan A. Lozano And Brian Melley Jun. 14, 2021 03:22 PM EDT

People gather to protest Houston Methodist Hospital system's rule of firing any employee who is not immunized by Monday, June 7, 2021, at Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital in Baytown, Texas. Houston Methodist staff who have refused the COVID-19 vaccine so far and their supporters participated in a gathering and march. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Judge tosses hospital workers' vaccine requirement challenge

Jun. 13, 2021 12:20 PM EDT

Ex-Aryan Brotherhood leader charged with California fraud

Jun. 09, 2021 10:20 PM EDT
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A one-time top member of the notorious Aryan Brotherhood who claimed to have turned his life around after 45 years in prison is now...

Minnesota candidate backs move to block COVID shots for kids

May. 28, 2021 12:18 PM EDT
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen signed onto a lawsuit seeking to stop COVID-19 vaccinations for 12- to 15-year...

Newly-elected House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., second from left, watches as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
GOP leaders condemn Greene over Holocaust comments

By Brian Slodysko May. 25, 2021 12:34 PM EDT

Today in History

By The Associated Press May. 12, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Wednesday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2021. There are 233 days left in the year. Today’s...

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2021 file photo, Holocaust survivor Joseph Zalman Kleinman gestures to the arm he prefers to receive the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19, in Jerusalem. Kleinman who lived through through the Auschwitz death camp and testified against Adolf Eichmann in the Nazi commander's trial in Jerusalem, died Tuesday in Israel. He was 91. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
Holocaust survivor who testified against Eichmann dies at 91

By Ilan Ben Zion May. 04, 2021 02:26 PM EDT

German intel agency starts observing COVID conspiracy groups

By David Rising Apr. 28, 2021 05:53 AM EDT
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's domestic intelligence agency has put under observation some adherents of a disparate group that has attacked the country's lockdown...

Rabbi Shai Cherry poses for a photograph at Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Elkins Park, Pa., Monday, April 26, 2021. Antisemites adopted a new tactic for spewing their hate when the COVID-19 pandemic closed synagogues and Jewish schools and community centers: Hijacking video conferences. On the morning of June 27, 2020, Rabbi Shai Cherry was leading a Shabbat service on Zoom for his congregation in a Philadelphia suburb when several guests with suspicious usernames began posting pornographic images and antisemitic messages like "Hitler should have finished the job." One of them posted Cherry's home address. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Report: Pandemic gives rise to antisemitic 'Zoom bombing'

By Michael Kunzelman Apr. 27, 2021 12:05 AM EDT

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, center, lays down a wreath during commemorations marking the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, Sunday, April 11, 2021. On April 11, 1945 the US Army liberated the concentration camp Buchenwald. At left is Steinmeier's wife Elke Buendenbender. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
German president: Buchenwald a reminder of Nazi 'barbarism'

Apr. 11, 2021 06:54 AM EDT