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Des Moines Register DES MOINES, Iowa — A woman charged with intentionally hitting two children with her vehicle in December 2019 — because of their skin color — pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to two hate crime charges. Nicole Poole Franklin, 43, of Des Moines, Iowa, was charged after a string of incidents on Dec. 9, 2019, during which police said she hit a 12-year-old boy, who is Black, and a 14-year-old girl, who is Latina, with her car and yelled racial and ethnic slurs ...

A woman was told to put on a mask inside a Florida Walgreens. Instead she went on a racist and Islamophobic rant against other customers. INSIDER 3 days ago salarshani@businessinsider.com (Sarah Al-Arshani) © Associated Press/Ted S. Warren Protesters hold a signs at a rally in Seattle on June 10, 2017. Associated Press/Ted S. Warren A woman unleashed an Islamophobic and racist rant on a group shopping at a Florida Walgreens. The rant started after employees told the woman t...

Rolling Stone Menu GOP Lawmaker Uses 9/11 to Troll Ilhan Omar The congressman has since deleted the gutless Islamophobic social media post By Sipa USA via AP Murphy responded to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s post about the death of Capitol Police Officer William Evans, who was fatally injured in a car-ramming attack near the Capitol building. “Heartbroken to learn another CP was killed while protecting the Capitol. My thoughts and prayers go out to the officer’s family and the entir...

A police officer was killed when a suspect rammed him and another officer with his car outside the Capitol on Friday. The suspect wielded a knife and was shot dead. The other officer hit by the car survived. The attack came not quite three months after supporters of Donald Trump attacked the Capitol on 6 January, seeking to overturn the election. A police officer was one of five people who died as a direct result. Omar was at the Capitol that day. In January, she told the Guardian she “didn�...

Police will allege the 19-year-old attempted to engage in a terrorist act. Police say they suspect two incidents that occurred earlier in the year – a fire lit on February 18 in bushland outside of Melbourne and a public assault on a person in metropolitan Melbourne on March 10 – could have been motivated by religious extremism. Victoria Police Counter Terrorism Command Assistant Commissioner Michael Hermans said investigators believed the risk posed by the three individuals had been ...

Two Melbourne men charged with attempting a terrorist attack Normal text size Advertisement Two young men are due to face court in Melbourne on Thursday with counter-terrorism police to allege the pair attempted a terrorist attack. Investigators escort a suspect to be interviewed by police. Credit:Nine On Thursday overnight the 19-year-old was charged with attempting a terrorist act, intentionally causing injury, acting in preparation of terrorist act and membership of a prescribed terrorist o...

The man accused in Friday’s attack on a gas station employee in Southeast Portland involving anti-Muslim slurs and death threats has been charged with multiple counts of bias crime, officials said.

President Joe Biden signs his first executive order in the Oval Office. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday revoking the Trump administrations travel bans restricting visitors from predominantly Muslim and African countries. Biden’s executive order — making good on a campaign promise to rescind former president Donald Trump’s travel bans on day one of his administration — instructs the State Department to restart processing visas for people from countries like Lib...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Fraternal Order of Police president John Catanzara defended the pro-Trump protest that turned into a riot, with supporters storming the Capitol Wednesday and trashing the sacred halls of democracy. He said while he was horrified at the chaos, the vast majority of people in attendance were "peaceful protesters." Catanzara insisted it was "a handful of people" who were the problem, despite video of massive crowds swarming and breaking into the halls of Congress. "Disgraceful," Ca...

Michigan prisons sued for ID photos of Muslim women without hijabs By Taryn Asher and FOX 2 Staff Published  "Its embarrassing it is humiliating and it is degrading for Muslim women," said Amy Doukore. Lawsuit filed against state prison system for mugshots of convicts without Muslim headscarves Out of respect for the women, FOX 2 has blurred some of the pictures that appear on the websites offender search that have now sparked a federal class action lawsuit against the MDOC. More than 15...