Estados Unidos elimina grupos terroristas nacionales del programa de lucha contra el extremismo

El programa revisado omite fondos para varios grupos centrados en el extremismo estadounidense, como Life After Hate, que trata de alejar a los jóvenes del extremismo de extrema derecha.

Jason Ditz
Por Jason Ditz
Dylann Roof, responsible for a politically motivated killing rampage in a black church is rarely defined as a terrorist by most media.

The US Department of Homeland Security today announced that they are changing the focus of their counter-extremism grant program, shifting funding away from groups that focus on combating general domestic extremism in favor of groups specifically targeting Islamist extremism. This isn’t an unexpected move, as President Trump was said to have

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Rights Groups: Georgia ‘Terrorism’ Bill Targets Right To Protest

Under the bill, one could be charged with a “terroristic threat” if they cause a “serious public inconvenience.”

Kevin Gosztola
Por Kevin Gosztola
Demonstrators hold signs at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport during a demonstration to denounce President Donald Trump's executive order that bars citizens of seven predominantly Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, in Atlanta. (AP/Branden Camp)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. State legislation introduced in Georgia would expand what is considered “domestic terrorism” and make it possible for state authorities to further criminalize Muslim and immigrant rights groups, which may engage in boycotts, sit-ins, and other forms of protest. The American Civil Liberties Union

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Pressure Mounts Over Trump’s Refusal To Address Right-Wing Terrorist Threats

Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked domestic terrorist plots and attacks in the United States. It lists more than 100, including the slaying of nine black churchgoers during a 2015 prayer meeting in Charleston, S.C.

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Police tape surrounds the parking lot behind the AME Emanuel Church as FBI forensic experts work the crime scene where nine people where shot by Dylann Storm Roof, 21, in Charleston, S.C. Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked domestic terrorist plots and attacks in the United States. It lists more than 100, including the slaying of nine black churchgoers during a 2015 prayer meeting in Charleston, S.C. (AP/Stephen B. Morton)

OKLAHOMA CITY (REPORT) — Bud Welch knows something about the human cost of terrorism. His 23-year-old daughter was killed when a rental truck packed with explosives destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building. That was in 1995, when domestic terrorism seemed to be the nation's most immediate security threat. Now President Donald Trump sees

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Militia Members Arrested For Plot To Bomb Muslims

In a profanity-laced conference call that law enforcement monitored, one militia member said the only way «this country’s ever going to get turned around is it will be a bloodbath.»

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Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall announced Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, a major federal investigation stopped a domestic terrorism plot by a militia group to detonate a bomb at a Garden City apartment complex where a number of Somalis live.Two Liberal men and a Dodge City resident were arrested and charged in federal court with domestic terrorism charges.

WICHITA, Kan. --€” Three members of a Kansas militia group are accused of plotting to bomb an apartment complex that's home to Somali immigrants in the western Kansas meatpacking town of Garden City, a thwarted attack prosecutors say was planned for the day after the November election. A complaint unsealed Friday charges Curtis Wayne Allen,

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Poll: Majority Of Young Blacks, Hispanics Fear Violence By White Extremists

Sixty-two percent of young African-Americans and 55 percent of Hispanics surveyed said they were very concerned about the threat of violence committed by white extremists, compared to one-third of whites and 41 percent of Asian-Americans.

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Members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross burnings after a "White Pride," rally, in rural Paulding County near Cedar Town, Ga. The Ku Klux Klan is trying to raise its hooded head 150 years after it was founded following the Civil War.

BATON ROUGE, La. - The threat of violence by people inspired by foreign extremists invokes fear in a majority of young Americans across racial groups. But for young people of color, particularly African-Americans, that fear is matched or surpassed by worries about violence from white extremists. A new GenForward poll of Americans age 18-30 shows

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Americans — Not Foreigners — Have Committed 80 Percent Of Terrorist Attacks In The US Since 9/11

US citizens have committed 80 percent of terrorist attacks since 9/11

Sarah Frostenson | Vox
Por Sarah Frostenson | Vox
Dylann Roof, responsible for a politically motivated killing rampage in a black church is rarely defined as a terrorist by most media.

Omar Siddiqui Mateen, the gunman who killed 49 people in Sunday's horrific massacre, was an American-born citizen. He was raised in the US and he legally obtained his assault rifle. Mateen did reportedly claim allegiance to ISIS during his attack, but the FBI hasn't found evidence that he received direction from abroad. All evidence available

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