Tag: Nazism

Brazil security law being turned on president’s critics

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SAO PAULO — Protesters against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro defied police in the capital Friday, a day after the latest round of arrests of...

Critics of Brazil’s president being targeted by security law

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SAO PAULO — Police in Brazil are starting to employ a dictatorship-era national security law against critics of President Jair Bolsonaro, while lawyers and...

White supremacist propaganda surged in 2020, report says

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NEW YORK — White supremacist propaganda reached alarming levels across the U.S. in 2020, according to a new report that the Anti-Defamation League provided...

Germany plans legislation to ban so-called ‘enemy lists’

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BERLIN — The German government on Wednesday unveiled draft legislation that would criminalize the distribution of lists naming people as potential targets for intimidation...

White supremacists’ fake bomb threats net 3 years in prison

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FALLS CHURCH, Va. — A former Old Dominion University student who joined up with white supremacists in a swatting conspiracy that targeted a Black...

Johnson says comments about Capitol breach were not racist

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MADISON, Wis. — Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin denied Monday that he made racist comments last week when he said he...

France to return Nazi-looted Klimt to rightful Jewish heirs

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PARIS — The French government announced Monday that it will return a Nazi-looted Gustav Klimt landscape painting to its rightful owners more than 80...

Coworkers: Man charged in Capitol riot had a Hitler mustache

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WASHINGTON — An Army reservist charged with taking part in the attack on the U.S. Capitol was known as a Nazi sympathizer who wore...

Critics call Sen. Ron Johnson’s insurrection comments racist

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MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is being called racist for an interview in which the white Republican said he wasn't worried about the...

Russian folk song rejected as substitute Olympic anthem

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GENEVA — Russia's wish to use a patriotic Soviet-era folk song as a replacement anthem for the Tokyo Olympics was rejected by the Court...