In California, a man is accused of a series of unprovoked attacks on homeless people. In Arizona, a Democratic congressman’s aide breaks the ankle of a Republican wearing a Make America Great Again hat. In Connecticut, a police officer has ...

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An abaya-wearing Muslim teenager on her way home from a mosque was beaten to death with a metal bat before her body was found dumped in a pond. Her Sunday morning killing is being investigated as an extreme case of ...

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Sometimes a tweet is just a tweet in the online world, and other times it can amount to an assault in the “real” world. At least, that’s the difficult lesson learned by John Rayne Rivello, a Maryland man who was ...

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Threats, vandalism and recent shootings across the country have sparked outrage and have been quickly decried as hate crimes: The lethal stabbing of a homeless man in New York City on Monday by a white Maryland man who police said ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dylann Roof was convicted Thursday of last year’s grisly massacre at a historic black church in South Carolina that left nine parishioners slain at a Bible study. A federal jury found Roof guilty of all 33 counts, ...

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  ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has directed the New York State Police to create a special unit to investigate reports of hate crimes in the wake of what he said is “a whirlwind of hate and division all across ...

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