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by Alexandra Werner-Winslow November 2, 2016 Fire fighters arrived to find Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church “heavily engulfed in flames” with the words “Vote Trump” spray-painted on the side of the building, according to Mayor Errick Simmons, who spoke at a press conference Wednesday morning. Image Source: Angie Quezada, Delta Daily News Simmons said that Tuesday’s

by Douglas Dowty November 2, 2016   Syracuse, NY -- A Syracuse man once convicted of killing a transgender woman as a hate crime tried to convince a judge this morning to overrule the state's highest court and set him free. Dwight DeLee, 28, was released after the 2009 trial because the jury convicted and

by Judy L. Thomas November 2, 2016   Something about the request just didn’t feel right to Miles Evans. Over the summer, the state commander of the Kansas Flatlanders Militia had been contacted by two men who wanted to join his group. Evans had run into the two at militia training events. But they belonged

By ADAM GOLDMAN NOV. 1, 2016 Things finally seemed to be going better for Noor Salman and her husband, Omar Mateen. He had been accepted into a police training program and had showered her with jewelry to celebrate. He had given her permission to visit her family in California and handed her spending money for

By NINA SIEGAL OCT. 31, 2016 The Dutch government’s prosecution of a far-right lawmaker for hate speech was upstaged by his continued racial vitriol on Monday before the trial could get underway. The lawmaker, Geert Wilders, whose tirades against Islam, immigration and the European Union have made him one of the most divisive figures in

Cole Miller and KOIN 6 News Staff  October 31, 2016 A pair of local churches became canvasses for hate when vandals sprayed nasty messages and anti-Semitic symbols on Monday morning. But one pastor tells KOIN 6 News he plans to use the incident as an opportunity to teach his community about the harsh reality that

by Michael Cooper and Al Baker October 30, 2016   No one had seemed more excited for the pair of Rossini operas at the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday than Roger Kaiser, a Texas opera buff who, the police believe, inadvertently created a terrorism scare that forced the Met to cut its matinee short and cancel

by Norimitsu Onishi October 27, 2016   JOHANNESBURG — After thieves broke into her car, a white South African motorist lashed out at the responding black police officers. She called black people “plain and simple useless” before unleashing the most offensive racial slur around. Not the N-word, but the K-word: kaffir. The word is South

by Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt October 26, 2016   WASHINGTON — The fight to retake Raqqa, the Syrian city that serves as the capital of the Islamic State, must begin soon — within weeks — to disrupt planning believed to be underway there to stage terrorist attacks on the West, senior Defense Department and

by Christopher Mele October 26, 2016   The president of the Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. wants the federal authorities to investigate what he described as a hate crime in which white high school students put a noose around the neck of a black student and yanked it tight. The episode happened on Oct. 13 at the football