Jan 15 Capitol rioters included highly trained ex-military and cops By Associated Press At least 21 current or former members of the U.S. military or law enforcement have been identified as being at or near last week's Capitol riot, with more than a dozen others under investigation. Continue reading
Jan 13 Watch 12:03 National Guard bolsters security in nation’s capital ahead of inauguration Thousands of members of the National Guard will be in Washington, D.C. for President-elect Biden's inauguration after the violent attack at the U.S. Capitol last week raised concerns over security. Many of those worries also extend to 50 state capitols,… Continue watching
Jan 11 Watch 12:15 Capitol attack forces reckoning with radical, right-wing political factions The Department of Homeland Security last year classified white supremacy as the greatest domestic terror threat to the U.S., and last week's Capitol insurrection by pro-Trump groups has renewed those concerns. Cynthia Miller-Idriss, who runs the Polarization and Extremism Research… Continue watching
Jan 06 Watch 5:22 Trump’s false election claims are ‘red meat’ for extremist groups Hours after a pro-Trump mob broke into the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, the president continued to make false claims about the election results. Mary McCord, former acting assistant attorney general for national security at the Department of Justice. She now teaches… Continue watching
Dec 03 Right-wing users flock to Parler as social media giants rein in misinformation By Alex Newhouse, The Conversation Parler is similar to Twitter but doesn’t control or discourage hate speech or calls to violence. Continue reading
Feb 21 Germany shooting prompts calls for action against far-right extremism By David McHugh, Frank Jordans, Associated Press Germany's top security official said authorities would step up the police presence throughout the country and keep a closer watch on mosques and other sites, in a first reaction to the rampage. Continue reading
Sep 18 Facebook still auto-generates Islamic State and al-Qaida pages By Desmond Butler, Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press On Wednesday, U.S. senators on the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will be questioning representatives from social media companies. Continue reading
Jul 11 Watch 10:37 After failed census legal fight, how Trump plans to get citizenship information President Trump announced Thursday that he’s backing down from his legal fight to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Instead, he'll use an executive order to demand citizenship information from other government agencies. Yamiche Alcindor, Lisa Desjardins and… Continue watching
May 23 Watch 7:40 Release of ‘American Taliban’ raises questions about U.S. efforts to deradicalize John Walker Lindh, who became known as the "American Taliban," was released from federal prison Thursday, three years short of his 20-year sentence. President Trump criticized the release, saying Lindh was still an extremist. Nick Schifrin reports and talks to… Continue watching
May 15 Facebook limits livestreaming in effort to crack down on extremism By Sylvie Corbet, Masha Macpherson, Associated Press Facebook said it's tightening up the rules for its livestreaming service with a "one strike" policy applied to a broader range of offenses. Continue reading