Neo-Nazism
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

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...

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. 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

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a speech during a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
UN chief urges global alliance to counter rise of neo-Nazis

By Edith M. Lederer Jan. 25, 2021 10:04 PM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2019, file photo, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer speaks during the California GOP fall convention in Indian Wells, Calif. California Democratic leaders are being criticized after attempting to link the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol with efforts to recall Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. The Republican Party of Orange County Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, launched a new round of fundraising appeals for the proposed recall. Among potential GOP candidates, Faulconer has established a committee to begin raising money. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)
California Democrats see backlash after recall 'coup' claims

By Michael R. Blood Jan. 13, 2021 07:40 PM EST

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials

By The Associated Press Jan. 13, 2021 02:47 PM EST
Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Jan. 13 Time to get youngest students back to school A survey of students, parents...

FILE - In this Jan 8, 2016, file photo, Burns resident Steve Atkins, left, talks with Ammon Bundy, center, one of the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, following a news conference at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore. Cliven and his sons Ryan and Ammon have engaged in armed standoffs with the federal government, first in a fight over grazing permits on federal land in Nevada in 2014, and then in a 40-day occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in 2016. Those standoffs drew the sympathies of some Western ranchers and farmers who feared they were losing the ability to prosper financially. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Mix of extremists who stormed Capitol isn't retreating

By Rebecca Boone, Gillian Flaccus And Michael Kunzelman Jan. 13, 2021 02:26 PM EST

In this photo provided by the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights, a swastika sticker is seen on a sculpture at the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial in Boise, Idaho, on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. Boise police are investigating after the memorial was defaced by swastika stickers earlier this week. The stickers, which included the words, "we are everywhere" as well as the Nazi insignia, were discovered Tuesday morning by a visitor to the memorial in downtown Boise. (Wassmuth Center for Human Rights via AP)
Idaho Anne Frank Memorial defaced with swastika stickers

By Rebecca Boone Dec. 09, 2020 06:11 PM EST

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks during an interview, Wednesday Oct. 21, 2020, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
UN chief urges global fight against pandemic and hatred

By Edith M. Lederer Nov. 09, 2020 09:35 PM EST

People gather at the Victory Column as they attend a protest rally in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020 against new coronavirus restrictions in Germany. Police in Berlin have requested thousands of reinforcements from other parts of Germany to cope with planned protests at the weekend by people opposed to coronavirus restrictions. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
Far-right extremists try to enter German parliament

By Frank Jordans Aug. 29, 2020 04:44 PM EDT

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Riley County (Kansas) Police Department shows Jarrett Smith. Smith, a former U.S. soldier described by prosecutors as a Satanist has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for distributing information through social media about building a bomb and making napalm. A federal judge on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, rejected a request from Smith's attorney for a lenient sentence of 15 months. Smith pleaded guilty in February to two felony charges of distributing explosives information.   (Riley County Police Department via AP,File)
'Satanist' ex-soldier sentenced to 2 1/2 years in bomb plot

By John Hanna Aug. 19, 2020 05:27 PM EDT

UN chief warns COVID-19 provides opportunity for terrorists

By Edith M. Lederer Jul. 06, 2020 08:22 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that the COVID-19 pandemic provides new opportunities for the Islamic State...

FILE- In this Oct. 15, 2019 file photo, Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the National Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington. An internet registrar is delisting a website that is a leading promoter of white nationalist and anti-immigration views. The move would make the site, VDARE.com, accessible only to diehard users willing to use a special browser to find it on the dark web. Clarke sent letters urging Network Solutions to drop VDARE for their "anti-immgrant and anti-Black hate." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
Online registrar threatens to drop anti-immigration website

By Michael Kunzelman Jun. 22, 2020 05:01 PM EDT

This undated booking photo released by Loveland Police Department shows Scott Gudmundsen. Authorities have arrested the Colorado man they say held at gunpoint two roofing-company employees knocking on doors in his neighborhood. Both were wearing blue polo shirts with a local roofing company logo when Gudmundsen forced them to the ground on Thursday, June 11, 2020, police told KUSA-TV. (Loveland Police Department via AP)
Colorado man arrested after holding 2 people at gunpoint

Jun. 14, 2020 04:49 PM EDT

People protest against crimes committed by the police against black people in the favelas, outside the Rio de Janeiro's state government, Brazil, Sunday, May 31, 2020. The protest, called "Black lives matter," was interrupted when police used tear gas to disperse people. "I can't breathe", said some of the demonstrators, alluding to the George Floyd's death. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Police disperse anti-Bolsonaro protesters in Brazil

May. 31, 2020 03:34 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 2, 2020, file photo, people, including those with the boogaloo movement, pray as they demonstrate against business closures due to concern about COVID-19, at the State House in Concord, N.H. It's a fringe movement with roots in a online meme culture steeped in irony and dark humor. But experts warn that the anti-government boogaloo movement has attracted a dangerous element of far-right extremists. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
Virus restrictions fuel anti-government 'boogaloo' movement

By Michael Kunzelman May. 13, 2020 02:23 PM EDT

FILE -- In this Oct. 10, 2019 file photo, candles and flowers are placed in front of a synagogue in Halle, Germany after a heavily armed assailant ranting about Jews tried to force his way into the synagogue in Germany on Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day, then shot two people to death nearby in an attack. Sign reads, "Jews in Halle - We stay next to you! You are not alone." Israeli researchers in their annual report released Monday, April 20, 2020, reported that the global outbreak of the coronavirus has sparked a rise in anti-Semitic expression blaming the Jews for the spread of the disease and the economic recession it has caused. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File),
Experts: Coronavirus brings spike in anti-Semitic sentiments

By Aron Heller Apr. 20, 2020 05:04 AM EDT

3 accused white supremacists denied bond amid virus concerns

Apr. 16, 2020 08:00 PM EDT
ROME, Ga. (AP) — Three Georgia men accused of belonging to a white supremacist group and of plotting to kill a couple were denied bond Thursday after...