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Gunman targets Pittsburgh synagogue in ‘hate crime;’ at least 11 dead
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, said, “This is likely the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the history of the United States.”
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Trump, offering no evidence, suggests Twitter biased against him
Trump on Friday accused Twitter Inc of targeting his account on the social media network but did not offer any evidence, and suggested that the company’s actions could be a sign of bias.
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Trump accuses the media of using pipe-bomb case to score political points against him
Donald Trump accused the media on Friday of using the actions of a man suspected of sending at least 14 bombs to prominent critics of the president to score political points against him.
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From tweets to bombs, suspect’s rage at Trump foes escalated including racist diatribes
In recent months, Sayoc, a registered Republican, railed against Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on Facebook and posted venomous broadsides against liberal philanthropist George Soros on Twitter. One anti-Soros tweet came on Wednesday, two days after federal authorities say he mailed a bomb to Soros’ home. Sayoc’s social media accounts are filled with anti-Democrat sentiments and racist diatribes.
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Targets of suspicious packages in the United States
Following are the figures targeted, starting with the most recent. Many packages used the return address of Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.
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Fingerprint, DNA lead to Florida man’s arrest in bombs sent to Trump critics
By Zachary Fagenson and Bernie Woodall PLANTATION, Fla. (Reuters) – FBI agents used DNA and a fingerprint to identify the Florida man suspected of sending at least 14 bombs to critics of U.S. President Donald Trump days ahead of congressional elections. Cesar Sayoc has been charged with five federal crimes including threats against former presidents…
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Bomb suspect is Trump supporter with lengthy criminal past including domestic violence arrests
The man suspected of sending at least a dozen parcel bombs to high-profile critics of U.S. President Donald Trump is a registered Republican with a lengthy criminal past and a history of posting inflammatory broadsides on social media against Trump’s political enemies.
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Suspect in bombs case is Florida Republican with criminal history
The man suspected of sending at least a dozen parcel bombs to high-profile critics of U.S. President Donald Trump is a 56-year-old registered Republican in Florida with a lengthy criminal history.
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Suspicious package sent to Senator Harris being investigated: CNN
Authorities in Sacramento, California, are investigating a suspicious package sent to U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat who has criticized Republican President Donald Trump, CNN reported on Friday.
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Trump says “‘Bomb’ stuff” slowing Republican momentum at polls
Donald Trump said on Friday that news coverage of the suspicious packages targeting high-profile Democratic politicians and critics of the president had slowed momentum for Republican candidates ahead of congressional elections.
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Two more Trump critics get suspicious packages
Police found two more suspicious packages on Friday addressed to U.S. Senator Cory Booker and James Clapper, the former U.S. director of national intelligence, as the hunt for the person who mailed bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of U.S. President Donald Trump focused on Florida.
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FBI searches Florida mail center in hunt for sender of package bombs
By Mark Hosenball and Gabriella Borter WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal agents searched a U.S. mail facility near Miami on Thursday night in the race to find who sent 10 pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of U.S. President Donald Trump as leads pointed to Florida as the packages’ possible origin. Investigators treated the…
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Design for bombs sent to Trump critics came from internet: source
The instructions for such explosive devices are widely available on websites and in propaganda distributed by militant groups such as Islamic State and al-Qaeda, said the second law enforcement official and a former federal government bomb expert.
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Sarah Sanders Blames The Media Telling The Truth About Trump For Bombings
Sarah Sanders told reporters that Trump is ‘not responsible’ for the bombs sent to Trump’s favorite Democratic targets. She blamed “negative”, that is to say accurate, media coverage of Trump for the bombs. Speaking to reporters on the White House driveway, Sarah Sanders refused to take any responsibility for Trump’s vitriolic and hostile attacks on…
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Bombs sent to Trump critics Biden, De Niro as U.S. manhunt intensifies
By Susan Heavey and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The two bombs sent to former Vice President Joe Biden and a third to actor Robert De Niro on Thursday were similar to the devices intended for several other high-profile Democrats and critics of U.S. President Donald Trump, authorities said. None of the 10 devices…
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U.S. probe of suspicious packages targeting Trump critics focusing on Florida: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. investigation of suspicious packages sent to prominent Democrats and critics of Republican President Donald Trump is focusing on leads in Florida, a federal law enforcement source said on Thursday. The law enforcement source also said investigators believe all 10 of the suspicious packages found so far went through the U.S….
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U.S. House office building evacuated: congressional official
An office building adjacent to the U.S. Capitol that houses lawmakers’ offices was evacuated on Thursday, according to a congressional official who did not cite a reason for the action.
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Congresswoman Waters says her office was target of suspicious package
Democratic U.S. Representative Maxine Waters said on Wednesday that her Washington office was the target of a suspicious package.
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U.S. white nationalist leader, three others charged with conspiracy
Rundo, 28, of Huntington Beach and co-defendants Robert Boman, 25, of Torrance; Tyler Laube, 22, of Redondo Beach; and Aaron Eason, 38, of Anza are accused of attacking protesters, journalists and a police officer at political rallies across California.
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No suspicious package addressed to White House: source
There was no suspicious package addressed to the White House on Wednesday, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Reality Check: It’s not a ‘Liberal Mob’ It’s Right Wing Terrorism and It’s Dangerous
The following is an editorial by PoliticusUSA’s co-publisher Sarah Jones. The mob is real; it’s Republican, and it’s dangerous. The media needs to do its job regarding Trump and the Republicans’ dangerous rhetoric against Democrats and liberals. Today, Wednesday October 24th just two weeks before the Nov. 6 elections, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force…
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Andrew Gillum Under Racist Barrage In Florida As GOP Calls Him ‘Negro’ and ‘Monkey’
As Democrat Andrew Gillum is up 54 percent to Republican Ron DeSantis’ 42 percent in Florida, the Democrat is being targeted by new racist robocall.
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Stacey Abrams Burned a White Supremacist Flag And Conservatives Are Losing Their Minds
Conservatives are apparently outraged that Stacey Abrams burned “the old *Georgia* flag, which had been designed specifically by white supremacists as a show of defiance to desegregation in 1956.” That is to say, the Confederate “battle flag,” the “banner for Dixiecrats and white supremacists.”
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Trump praises U.S. congressman from Montana who body-slammed reporter
Donald Trump heaped praise on a U.S. congressman from Montana who body-slammed a reporter during a campaign for a special election in 2017.
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Here Are The Facts: Right Wing Political Violence Far Outweighs Left Wing ‘Angry Mobs’
- black lives matter, Editors' Picks, Far right/White nationalists, Featured News, Feminism, Gun control
Republicans can’t talk about the issues that really matter to voters, so they gin up false narratives to get out the vote. This midterm, they’ve come up with “liberal mobs” and “antifa” coming to get everyone. In reality, the “liberal mobs” are angry about rape and jailed babies; they want a dialogue, they aren’t even…
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GOP Coast To Coast Meltdown As Scott Wagner Threatens Violence Against PA Gov. Tom Wolf
Republican candidate Scott Wagner threatened Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf: “You better put a catcher’s mask on your face because I’m going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes.”
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Trump Acting EPA head liked ‘racist’ photo of Obamas: report
The acting head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency liked a controversial Facebook photo five years ago of then-President Barack Obama that a civil rights group called racist, the Huffington Post reported on Tuesday.
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U.S. arrests four men in connection to 2017 Charlottesville rally
Four men linked to a white supremacist group were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the white nationalist rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year, authorities said.
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Man who threatened Boston Globe also called NY Times, NFL: prosecutor
U.S. investigators are probing whether a man accused of threatening to kill journalists at the Boston Globe after calling them “the enemy of the people” made similar threats to the New York Times and National Football League, a prosecutor said on Monday.
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Republicans Have Become So Toxic 6 Siblings of AZ Rep Paul Gosar Back His Democratic Opponent
- Editors' Picks, Elections, Far right/White nationalists, Featured News, U.S. House of Representatives
Republicans have become so toxic in the age of Trump that six of Republican Rep. Paul Gosar’s siblings are endorsing his Democratic opponent, Dr. David Brill, in ads.
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PayPal ends business dealings with Alex Jones’s Infowars
(Reuters) – Payments processor PayPal Holdings Inc said on Friday it decided to end its business relationship with popular U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones‘s Infowars website after finding instances of hate speech and discriminatory content on the site. The move makes PayPal the latest tech company to take action against Jones, a deeply controversial right-wing…
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Texan running 3-D printed guns company apprehended in Taiwan
By Jon Herskovitz and Yimou Lee AUSTIN, Texas/TAIPEI (Reuters) – A Texan running a 3-D printed guns company who flew to Taiwan as police investigated an accusation that he had sex with an underage girl was apprehended in Taipei on Friday after U.S. authorities annulled his passport, officials said. Cody Wilson, 30, was taken to…
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Texas man behind controversial 3-D printed guns charged with sex assault of minor
A Texas man whose plan to sell blueprints for 3-D printed plastic guns spurred national controversy was charged on Wednesday with paying an underaged girl for sex at a hotel, according to court documents.
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Russian police detain nearly 300 protesting against pension reform: rights group
By Andrey Kuzmin and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Thousands of supporters of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny protested across Russia on Sunday against planned increases to the pension age, with a rights group saying at least 291 of them had been detained by the police. The protests, which police sometimes broke up by beating…
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Anti-immigration party set for election gains as Sweden swings right
By Simon Johnson and Johan Sennero STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedes voted on Sunday in an election dominated by fears over asylum seekers and welfare, with the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats vying to become the biggest party in a country long seen as a bastion of liberal values. Far-right parties have made spectacular gains throughout Europe in…
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Twitter says permanently bans Alex Jones and website Infowars
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc said on Thursday that it had permanently banned U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his website Infowars from its platform and Periscope. The company said in a tweet that the accounts violated its behavior policies. Last month, Twitter banned Jones and Infowars for seven days, citing tweets that it said violated…
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Sarah Palin Resurfaces To Make John McCain’s Death All About Her With Rant About Disloyal People
Palin continued to criticize McCain, after saying he had been in the DC bubble for too long. “I think that’s unfortunate because he had some strange people around him and… disloyal people, and you know, I don’t say that as like hate speech or griping about it, it’s just a fact they were just some not nice people.”
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Twitter bans Alex Jones from tweeting for seven days
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc has banned U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from tweeting for seven days, saying one of his tweets violated its rules against abusive behavior. The microblogging site had asked Jones on late Tuesday to delete the tweet that contained a video, which according to a spokesman had a segment at the end…
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Pictures: Washington white nationalist rally sputters in sea of counterprotesters
By Ginger Gibson and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A white nationalist rally in the heart of Washington drew two dozen demonstrators and thousands of chanting counterprotesters on Sunday, the one-year anniversary of racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. A large police presence kept the two sides separated in Lafayette Square, in front of the…
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Washington braces for far right rally a year after Charlottesville clashes
By Ginger Gibson and Joseph Ax WASHINGTON/CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Reuters) – Washington was bracing for a white nationalist rally on Sunday organized to coincide with the anniversary of last year’s racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. The “Unite the Right 2” event was set to take place at 5:30 p.m. in Lafayette Square, across the street…
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Pictures: Hundreds take to Charlottesville streets a year after far-right rally
By Joseph Ax CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Reuters) – Hundreds of students and left-wing activists took to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, as a rally to mark the anniversary of last year’s white nationalist gathering turned largely into an anti-police protest. [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”24″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_slideshow” gallery_width=”600″ gallery_height=”400″ cycle_effect=”fade” cycle_interval=”10″ show_thumbnail_link=”1″ thumbnail_link_text=”[Show thumbnails]” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included”…
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One year after Charlottesville rally, Trump finally says he condemns all racism
Donald Trump said on Saturday he condemns “all types of racism and acts of violence,” appealing for unity ahead of the anniversary of a deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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California police chief’s son charged in beating of Sikh man
The estranged son of a northern California city police chief was formally charged on Friday with attempted robbery and abuse of a 71-year-old Sikh man who was beaten and spat upon in an unprovoked attack caught on video, prosecutors said.
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Anniversary of fatal Charlottesville rally puts city, D.C. on edge
Officials in Charlottesville have vowed a massive police presence – with some 1,000 personnel assigned – to deter any violence.
The “Unite the Right” rally last August, called to protest the removal of a Confederate statue, turned the picturesque Virginia college town into a chaotic scene of street brawls, and one woman was killed when an Ohio man rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters.
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Pictures: Charlottesville confronts identity one year after white supremacist killed a woman
As Charlottesville prepares for the one-year anniversary this weekend, it is still agonizing over clashes last year in which one woman was killed when an Ohio man drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters.
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Right wing Patriot Prayer group and anti-fascist opponents square off in Portland
Scores of right-wing and anti-fascist demonstrators squared off on Saturday in Portland, Oregon, where four people were injured in similar rallies on June 30.
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Georgia Republican lawmaker who used racial slurs on prank show resigns
(Reuters) – A Georgia state lawmaker who yelled racial slurs and dropped his pants on a prank cable TV show after being told it would intimidate terrorists offered a terse resignation letter to the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives late Tuesday. Fellow Republicans had called on state Representative Jason Spencer to resign after…
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Papa John’s shares fall as board adopts ‘poison pill’
The implementation of the stockholder rights plan, which aims to stop investors from amassing more than a 15 percent stake in the company, follows Schnatter’s resignation as chairman in a row over his use of a racial slur in an internal conference call.
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Roseanne Completes Her Ode to Trump Racism With, ‘I thought the b*tch was white!’ Rant
Roseanne completed her ode to President Trump and his white supremacist ideology with a rant during which she yelled, “I thought the b*tch was white!” to justify her racism against Valerie Jarrett.
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Read Boris Johnson’s resignation letter to British PM Theresa May:
Boris Johnson stepped down as Britain’s foreign minister on Monday, warning that Britain will end up like a colony to the European Union after the government announced plans for a close trading relationship with the bloc after Brexit next year.
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Trump to urge colleges to ignore race in admissions: media
The Trump administration plans to encourage colleges to ignore race in their admissions process, abandoning guidelines that called on universities to consider race as a way of promoting diversity, the Wall Street Journal and New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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Oregon right-wingers clash with anti-fascists at march in Portland
Anti-fascist and right-wing activists clashed in Portland, Oregon on Saturday night as violence broke out during a march in support of a conservative Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, media reported.
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Organizer of deadly far-right Charlottesville rally plans follow-up in Washington
The organizer of a far-right rally last year in Charlottesville, Virginia, that turned deadly is planning to hold a rally near the White House in Washington on the first anniversary of the event, federal officials said on Wednesday.