The man who killed three Baton Rouge police officers over the weekend was a member of a black antigovernment “sovereign citizen” group whose members believe they are indigenous to the United States and beyond the reach of the federal government.

A neo-Nazi skinhead who faced the prospect of returning to prison was arrested Saturday in southwestern Washington state, a day after three people were found murdered at a home where a Confederate flag flew over the crime scene.

A demonstration during their annual conference in Wetumpka may have given the impression that the League of the South’s leadership has gained control of their rowdier members; a run-in with Montgomery’s LGBT community shows otherwise.

For the second time in less than a year, half a dozen churches in the St. Louis area have been the targets of attempted arson and what appears to be hate-related graffiti.