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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

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

FILE—In this Aug. 4, 2019 file photo, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley speaks during a news conference regarding a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio. Whaley announced Monday April 19, 2021, she will try to unseat Ohio's Republican governor after her effort to work with him on gun reforms in the aftermath of a mass shooting in her city stalled. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley says she's running for Ohio governor

By Dan Sewell Apr. 19, 2021 08:58 AM EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2015, file photo, Confederate flag supporters climb Stone Mountain to protest what they believe is an attack on their Southern heritage during a rally at Stone Mountain Park in Stone Mountain, Ga. The Stone Mountain Memorial Association has denied a gathering permit from the Sons of Confederate Veterans, who were looking to host their annual Confederate Memorial Day service at Stone Mountain Park outside Atlanta. The gathering was slated for Saturday, April 17, 2021, but a March 31 letter from memorial association CEO Bill Stephens denied the necessary permit, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)
Stone Mountain Park denies permit for Confederate event

Apr. 13, 2021 08:39 AM EDT

Retired Hinds County Circuit Judge L. Breland Hilburn, is photographed June 12, 2015, presiding at a trial in Pascagoula, Miss. Hilburn was 79 when he died April 5, 2021, at University of Mississippi Medical Center of complications from COVID-19. Hilburn in 1994 handed down a life sentence to the white supremacist convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Evers. (Tim Isbell/The Sun Herald, via AP)
Judge from Mississippi civil rights murder trial dies at 79

Apr. 08, 2021 12:45 PM EDT

Abraham Lincoln High School is seen in San Francisco, on Jan. 27, 2021. The embattled San Francisco school board is poised to reverse a decision to rename 44 schools in an effort to avoid costly litigation and tone down national criticism. In a Tuesday, April 6, 2021, meeting, the board will vote on a resolution to rescind a controversial January decision to rename schools and revisit the matter after all students have returned full-time to in-person learning. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)
San Francisco school board suspends plan to rename schools

By Jocelyn Gecker Apr. 07, 2021 01:50 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 13, 2021, file photo, Chinese-Japanese American student Kara Chu, 18, holds a pair of heart balloons decorated by herself for the rally "Love Our Communities: Build Collective Power" to raise awareness of anti-Asian violence outside the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles. Asian Americans, already worn down by a year of racist attacks fueled by the pandemic, are reeling but trying to find a path forward in the wake of the horrific shootings at three Atlanta-area massage businesses that left eight people dead, most of them Asian women. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
Asian Americans grieve, organize in wake of Atlanta attacks

By Terry Tang Mar. 18, 2021 12:04 AM EDT

Law enforcement officials confer outside a massage parlor following a shooting on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, in Atlanta. Shootings at two massage parlors in Atlanta and one in the suburbs have left multiple people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Public reaction to killings at Atlanta-area massage parlors

By The Associated Press Mar. 17, 2021 05:04 PM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo a violent mob of Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. Violent extremists motivated by political grievances and racial biases pose an “elevated threat” to the U.S. homeland, officials said Wednesday, March 17, in a unclassified intelligence report released more than two months after a violent mob of insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/John Minchillo File)
Officials: Violent extremists pose 'elevated threat' to US

By Eric Tucker Mar. 17, 2021 03:54 PM EDT

A police officer watches as a body is taken from the Gold Spa massage parlor after a shooting, late Tuesday, March 16, 2021, in Atlanta. Shootings at two massage parlors in Atlanta and one in the suburbs left multiple people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said. A 21-year-old man suspected in the shootings was taken into custody in southwest Georgia hours later after a manhunt, police said. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
The Latest: Suspect's church: 'Heartbroken for all involved'

Mar. 17, 2021 11:45 AM EDT

Flowers, candles and signs are displayed at a makeshift memorial outside of the Gold Spa in Atlanta, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. According to authorities, three Asian women were found dead inside of the Gold Spa on Tuesday night and another Asian woman was found dead at Aromatherapy Spa across the street. Police in the Atlanta suburb of Gwinnett County say they've begun extra patrols in and around Asian businesses there following the shooting at three massage parlors in the area that killed eight, most of them women of Asian descent. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
Man charged with killing 8 people at Georgia massage parlors

By Kate Brumback And Angie Wang Mar. 17, 2021 05:09 AM EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2020, file photo, protesters and counterprotesters face off in Stone Mountain Village, Ga. White supremacist propaganda reached alarming levels across the U.S. in 2020, according to a new report that the Anti-Defamation League shared with The Associated Press. (Jenni Girtman/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)
White supremacist propaganda surged in 2020, report says

By Aaron Morrison Mar. 17, 2021 03:05 AM EDT

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks at a National Remembrance Service, Saturday, March 13, 2021, in Christchurch, New Zealand. The service marks the second anniversary of a shooting massacre in which 51 worshippers were killed at two Christchurch mosques by a white supremacist. (Mark Tantrum/Department of Internal Affairs via AP)
New Zealand marks 2 years since Christchurch mosque killings

By Nick Perry Mar. 12, 2021 11:32 PM EST

The bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest is displayed in the state capitol Wednesday, July 1, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee announced Wednesday that a state panel that has the authority to help remove the bust of the former Confederate general and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan will take up the issue next week. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Tennessee moves vote on Confederate bust in Capitol to March

By Jonathan Mattise Feb. 17, 2021 01:04 PM EST

FILE - In this Sunday, July 10, 2016 file photo, a parishioner at First Baptist Church, a predominantly African-American congregation, leaves after a worship service in Macon, Ga. According to a Pew study released on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, Black Americans attend church more regularly than Americans overall, and pray more often. Most of them attend churches that are predominantly Black -- yet many would like those congregations to become racially diverse. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)
Survey: Black Americans attend church and pray more often

By David Crary Feb. 16, 2021 12:03 PM EST

Editorial Roundup: Idaho

By The Associated Press Feb. 05, 2021 03:15 PM EST
Recent editorials from Idaho newspapers: This line the Republican Party will not cross Feb. 4 The...

FILE- This May 1, 2018, file photo shows Merck corporate headquarters in Kenilworth, N.J. Merck posted a big fourth-quarter loss, mainly due to much higher spending on research, production and overhead, and announced longtime chief executive, Kenneth Frazier, will retire on July 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Longtime Merck CEO, minority advocate Ken Frazier to retire

By Linda A. Johnson Feb. 04, 2021 07:23 AM EST

Blue skies and favorable weather greets the thousands of fans attending the festivities at Curtis Hixon Park during the NFL's Super Bowl 55 Experience on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021 in Tampa. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
Officials: no Super Bowl threat amid rise of white supremacy

By Curt Anderson Feb. 03, 2021 03:30 PM EST

Proposed Maryland legislation expands hate crime law

By Kimberly Seif Of Capital News Service Feb. 02, 2021 05:36 PM EST
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Judges will be allowed to require people charged with hate crimes to complete anti-bias education programs if a bill to expand the...

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, people march with those who say they are members of the Proud Boys as they attend a rally in Washington in support of President Donald Trump. In its annual report set to be released Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, the Southern Poverty Law Center said it identified 838 active hate groups operating across the U.S. in 2020. The SPLC’s report comes out nearly a month after a mostly white mob of Trump supporters and members of far-right groups violently breached the U.S. Capitol building. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Hate groups migrate online, making tracking more difficult

By Aaron Morrison Feb. 01, 2021 03:00 AM EST