Alleged New Zealand mosque gunman linked to far-right group backed by Steve King
Austrian authorities announced Wednesday that they had discovered a financial link between the alleged New Zealand mosque shooter and a white nationalist group frequently championed by members of the U.S. far right, including Rep. Steve King (R-IA). Prosecutors in the south of the country said the Identitarian Movement, a white nationalist group that first originated […]
Austria Considers Dissolving Far-Right Group After It Received Donation From Suspected New Zealand Mosque Attacker
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS 12:14 PM EDT (VIENNA) — The Austrian government is considering dissolving a far-right group after it emerged that one of its leading members received a donation in the name of the suspected New Zealand mosque gunman, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Wednesday. Austrian police on Monday searched the home of the head of the Identitarian […]
After New Zealand mosque shootings and civil rights backlash, Facebook bans white nationalism, separatism
SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook is banning explicit praise, support or representation of white nationalism and white separatism on Facebook and Instagram, including phrases such as “I am a proud white nationalist,” following deadly attacks at two New Zealand mosques and a backlash from black history scholars and civil rights groups. “Over the past three months, our conversations with members […]
Muslim Charity Gives $5K To Repair Vandalized Jewish Cemetery
A Jewish cemetery in Massachusetts that was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti last week received a $5,000 donation from a Muslim charity to help repair the damage. That charity, CelebrateMercy, has over the past two years given $115,000 to vandalized Jewish cemeteries and memorials in Missouri, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts and Colorado, and facilitated the donation of around $238,000 to the Tree […]
I gave up my gun after the New Zealand mosque shootings. Why are Americans mad at me for it?
By John HartJohn Hart is a farmer in Masterton, New Zealand.March 27 at 6:00 AM After the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, some 310 miles from my home, I decided to give up my semiautomatic rifle. When mass shootings occurred in other countries, they’d always seemed like terrible abstractions to us, so it was incredibly […]
REVEALED: FBI investigated whether Trump broke campaign finance law — for Fox’s Judge Jeanine Pirro
The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday released a large cache of documents compiled on the Trump Organization. The FBI released the documents after a Freedom of Information Act request and was heavily redacted and difficult to read. For example, page 106 is entirely redacted. So is page 107. Page 108 is not redacted, but […]