The shooting of an armed antigovernment activist during an Oregon wildlife refuge takeover was justified, a state investigation concluded. But the same investigation raised questions whether the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team may have fired a weapon during the deadly traffic stop. 

Last weekend, the anti-LGBT hate group Liberty Counsel held its annual conference, The Awakening, to provide a platform for anti-LGBT and anti-Muslim voices.But the event was much more than that –– at times, it seemed a call to battle. “The war wages. We cannot stand idly by,” the Counsel said in promotional materials. And true to form, the panel of speakers formed an angry chorus. 

A county prosecutor in Montana says he will defer prosecution of a Michigan man arrested a year ago after making threats on Twitter to kill Jews and school children – once boasting of hopes to exceed the number killed at Sandy Hook in 2012. 

An antigovernment extremist in Montana who used his webcast to advocate murdering public officials and other violence will spend six years in federal prison.