A Tennessee man whose criminal acts seem to fit an antigovernment, survivalist profile has pleaded guilty to illegally possessing explosive material found in plastic bags found last October at the Asheville, North Carolina, airport.
Nevada rancher Cliven D. Bundy, his two sons and a militia commander were tried on charges that they led an armed standoff with federal agents in 2014. Read the Hatewatch staff's live updates from the trial below.
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center, Shanksville, and the Pentagon in 2001, U.S. counterterrorism policies have overwhelmingly focused on international threats emanating from terrorists, such as al-Qaeda, the Islamic State (IS) and their affiliates.
Federal prosecutors are urging a Nevada judge to not dismiss criminal charges against Cliven Bundy, the Nevada cattleman and antigovernment icon, and three other men, claiming the government’s failure to release certain records was merely inadvertent.
A group of “sovereign citizens” in Pennsylvania have handed down an “indictment” and are seeking the possible execution of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, movie producer Harvey Weinstein and others.
The defense claimed that Lyle Jeffs’ actions were like taking a plate of covered food to a church potluck.
As white supremacists funding plots go, logging federal lands and robbing pimps probably aren’t the most lucrative ideas out there.
On an unseasonably warm and clear afternoon in Anchorage, Alaska, in early December, Anna Maria Riezinger, aka Anna von Reitz, a self-proclaimed judge and internet guru in the anti-government extremist sovereign citizen movement, concludes a three-hour interview in a suburban home with a complex series of prescriptions for the visiting Hatewatch reporter.
Over the past six months, authorities in Iron County, Utah, have been investigating two unrelated events reportedly involving the illegal activities of doomsday preppers.
An underground book of religious justification of antigovernment ideology emerges as the Bundy trial unfolds in Nevada
