by Melissa Etehad June 19, 2017 Investigators looking into the killing of a 17-year-old Virginia girl celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan said Monday that the attack does not appear to have been a hate crime but rather a brutal case of road rage. Nabra Hassanen was reported missing early Sunday morning by
by Sarah Parvini June 11, 2017 Balmeet Singh stepped outside a burger shop in a strip mall to wish his 13-year-old cousin a happy birthday when the stranger squared up against him. “So, you’re going to blow up this country?” the man said. “You’re trying to blow up this country?” He threw a drink
by James Queally and Matt Pearce June 20, 2017 Two men were charged with attempted murder Tuesday in the stabbing of a man who works as a bodyguard for a nationally known figure popular among the alt-right, prosecutors said. Edgar Khodzhasaryan, 30, of Glendale, and Arsen Bekverdyan, 31, of Burbank, were charged with attempted
by Daniel Burke June 12, 2017 (CNN)What motivated the man who killed two people on a Portland train after shouting anti-Muslim slurs? What prompted the person, or people, who spray-painted the N-word on an NBA star's home? What ideas would incite an Israeli teen charged with threatening dozens of Jewish centers in the US, throwing communities into chaos and
by Matt Stevens June 9, 2017 A white man accused of opening fire on two Indian immigrants at a Kansas bar in February in a shooting that heightened international concern about American hostility toward foreigners has been indicted on federal hate crime charges, the Justice Department announced Friday. Adam W. Purinton was kicked out of a
by Associated Press June 19, 2017 In an attack that British Muslims say was aimed directly at them, a man plowed a van into a crowd of Muslim worshipers outside a north London mosque early Monday, injuring 10 people. London police are investigating it as a terrorist incident. Police said another man died at
by Max Fisher June 19, 2017 When a 48-year-old man rammed a van into a crowd near a London mosque on Monday morning, controversy quickly erupted over whether the attack would be treated as less significant than others because it was committed against Muslims but not by them. Such debates have typically played out
by Matthew Haag June 20, 2017 A 22-year-old man accused of killing a Muslim teenager with a baseball bat in Virginia on Sunday is an undocumented immigrant who entered the United States illegally, federal authorities said on Tuesday. The man, Darwin Martinez Torres, who was charged with murder in the death of Nabra Hassanen,
by Dan Bilefsky June 19, 2017 LONDON — The authorities in Britain said on Monday that they were treating an early morning attack near a mosque in London as an act of terrorism against Muslims, amid fears of retaliation for several recent assaults in the country attributed to Islamist extremists. Shortly after midnight, a
Bureau of Justice Statistics June 29, 2017 WASHINGTON — U.S. residents experienced an average of 250,000 hate crime victimizations each year from 2004 to 2015 and the majority of these were not reported to police, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. There was no statistically significant change in the rate of violent