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Washington (AFP) - US authorities announced the arrests Monday of the co-founder of the notorious Atomwaffen neo-Nazi group and a woman he met online in the latest extremist plot to attack public electricity facilities. The FBI said Brandon Russell, who helped found Atomwaffen in 2015, was arrested in Florida, after spending four years in prison for possessing bomb-making materials. The woman, Sarah Beth Clendaniel, was arrested in Maryland where she had also spent time in prison for armed robbery. Guided by Russell, Clendaniel had planned to acquire a gun and to attack five electrical substat...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden appealed Thursday for a united front against hate-crimes and political violence in a speech building on his bid to present himself as champion of moderate values at a time of rising extremism. "We have to face the good, the bad and the truth. That's what great nations do and we're a great nation," Biden told a packed hall at the White House's United We Stand Summit. "You must choose to be a nation of hope, unity and optimism -- or a nation of fear and division and hate." Biden recounted, as often before, how he took the decision to challenge then presi...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden will host a conference on combating racist, anti-democratic and other extremist threats in September, less than two months before tense midterm elections, the White House said Friday. The "United We Stand" summit on September 15 will address "the corrosive effects of hate-fueled violence on our democracy and public safety," said Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. In addition to laying out the Biden government's response to what it says is a dangerous spread of extremist violence, it will "put forward a shared vision for a more united America," she said i...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden will host a conference on combating racist, anti-democratic and other extremist threats in September, less than two months before tense midterm elections, the White House said Friday. The "United We Stand" summit on September 15 will address "the corrosive effects of hate-fueled violence on our democracy and public safety," said Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. In addition to laying out the Biden government's response to what it says is a dangerous spread of extremist violence, it will "put forward a shared vision for a more united America," she said i...
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Washington (AFP) - About 100 members of the US military took part in some form of "prohibited extremist activity" over the past year, the Pentagon said Monday as it released new guidelines for service members. Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin ordered a review in February 2021 of the Defense Department's policies on countering extremism within the ranks. The review came after the revelation that dozens of former members of the US military took part in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol by supporters of former president Donald Trump. "The overwhelming majority of the men and women of the Departme...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Department of Homeland Security issued a new terrorism threat advisory on Friday ahead of the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks and amid a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic. The National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin said the United States faces a "heightened threat environment" from both domestic terrorists "and those inspired or motivated by foreign terrorists and other malign foreign influences." It cited increased use of "online forums to influence and spread violent extremist narratives and promote violent activity." The new advisory update...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Two men with extremist militia links have been charged with amassing an arsenal of guns and pipe bombs to attack the California headquarters of the Democratic Party, the US Justice Department said Friday. Ian Benjamin Rogers, 45, and Jarrod Copeland, 37, began planning the attack on the Sacramento headquarters shortly after Republican president Donald Trump's loss to Joe Biden in the November 3 election last year, according to the indictment unsealed in San Francisco federal court. Their plan gained pace after the January 6 Trump-inspired insurrection at the US Capitol i...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States will join an international bid to stamp out violent extremism online, the White House said Friday, some two years after the Trump administration declined to do so. Biden administration spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington "will join the Christchurch Call to Action to Eliminate Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online, a global pledge by member governments and technology partners to work together to address terrorist and violent extremist content online." The initiative is named after the New Zealand city where a far-right gunman massacred 51 people ...
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Washington (AFP) - Armed US National Guard troops patrolled the US Capitol on Thursday after officials warned of a new attack plot by extremists, but the feared show of force by those still angry over Donald Trump's election defeat did not materialize. While the House of Representatives opted to cancel its session, the Senate carried on with business as usual, as troops kept watch along the razor-wire perimeter fence encircling the grounds. Officials had warned that just two months after a deadly storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters, militia groups and QAnon followers had discussed a fr...
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Washington (AFP) - US police said they have bolstered security in Washington after intelligence uncovered a possible plot to "breach the Capitol" on Thursday, when some conspiracy-believing supporters of Donald Trump predict he will be inaugurated for another presidential term. The threat comes nearly two months after Trump supporters, including QAnon followers, stormed the Capitol building and laid siege to Congress, in an attack that left five people dead and shook the citadel of American democracy. Some followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory believe Trump was cheated out of a second term ...
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