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Civil rights leaders are warning that President Biden's domestic counterterrorism strategy aimed at rooting out White supremacy harms minority communities and those expressing political dissent.

The U.S.'s largest civi rights group put out a report Thursday detailing the dangers of the Biden administration's new apparatus for dealing with domestic terrorism.

The nation’s largest civil rights organization is criticizing the Biden administration’s strategy to combat rising domestic extremism and white supremacy, saying the effort relies too heavily on methods that risk unnecessarily targeting and profiling Black and Brown communities.

The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum in Creve Coeur opens to the public in November.

Young Muslims refuse to take threats lying down. They know that these diminish them and have the potential to translate into physical attacks.

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Protesters supporting U.S. President Donald Trump break into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/TNS) Lawmakers divided over need for new domestic terrorism law Rachel Oswald, CQ-Roll Call, (TNS) WASHINGTON — More than three months after the insurrection and attack on the Capitol, lawmakers are grappling with how best to respond to the rising threat of violent white supremacy nationally. Divisions have emerged...

An Asian American hate crimes bill presents a rare opening for bipartisanship Vox.com 2 hrs ago Li Zhou © Spencer Platt/Getty Images People participate in a protest to demand an end to anti-Asian violence on April 4 in New York City. Senate Democrats on Wednesday are putting forth a key test on the limits of Republican obstruction: A bill aimed at combating anti-Asian hate crimes. The legislation, which is relatively narrow in scope, would designate a Justice Department of...

Flickr A tribute to Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who was killed by pro-Trump insurrectionists at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. The Mountain West is home to dozens of far-right extremist groups. In the wake of the U.S. Capitol riots on January 6, lawmakers are mulling how to protect the nation from domestic terrorism. Some have pushed for Congress to create a new domestic terrorism charge. But last week 135 civil rights organizations came out in opposition to expanding terrorism-rel...

/ But this week 135 civil rights organizations came out in opposition to expanding terrorism-related legal authority. "We are concerned that a new federal domestic terrorism statute or list would adversely impact civil rights and – as our nations long and disturbing history of targeting Black activists, Muslims, Arabs, and movements for social and racial justice has shown – this new authority could be used to expand racial profiling or be wielded to surveil and investigate communiti...