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Members of the public are held off at a distance as President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit the scene of a shooting at a supermarket to pay respects to victims of Saturday's shooting in Buffalo, New York, Tuesday, May 17, 2022.

A ‘transnational hate movement’ online radicalized the Buffalo shooter, extremism expert says

Extremism

Extremism expert Amarnath Amarasingam told The World’s host Marco Werman that the shooter was deeply influenced by the white supremacist who killed 51 Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.

Smoke fills the walkway outside the Senate chamber as supporters of President Donald Trump are confronted by US Capitol Police officers inside the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.

Former FBI agent: ‘Major intelligence failure’ of US Capitol breach requires 9/11-style commission

Trump administration
A sign with the written word nazi in black appears near the blue lights of a police vehicle

Misusing culture in international politics: Part II

Critical State
A woman reporters with a camera crew outside near palm trees.

Will Voice of America’s new Trump pick protect the agency’s independence?

"Trump,’ says one of Europe’s leading right-wing figures, ‘has given me back the belief in the other America that I never had."

Trump’s America shines bright for Europe’s radical New Right

Commander Jeff Schoep of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest white nationalist type groups in the country, speaks during a rally at the state capital in Little Rock, Arkansas,

White nationalism, born in the USA, is now a global terror threat

As more people embrace a xenophobic and anti-immigrant worldview, it is fueling hostility and violence toward those deemed “outsiders” — whether because of their religion, skin color or national origin.

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Steve Bannon’s ‘The Movement’ is an umbrella group of anti-establishment, populist parties in Europe

US Diplomacy

Bannon is in the process of setting up an umbrella group with a headquarters in Brussels to help support and coordinate these different nationalist parties. One of the people helping him is his friend, Benjamin Harnwell.

Richard Spencer

Poland’s right-wing nationalist government objects to visit by US white supremacist Richard Spencer

Conflict

Poland’s foreign ministry has objected to a planned visit by US white supremacist Richard Spencer.

Flowers and a photo of car-ramming victim Heather Heyer lie at a makeshift memorial in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The US car-attack in Charlottesville ‘fits definition’ of domestic terrorism, Sessions says

Conflict

An attack on a crowd of protesters using a car as a battering ram fits the definition of domestic terrorism, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday.

Supporters and critics of President Donald Trump gathered to protest outside of the Minnesota capitol building on March 4, 2017.

It took a couple of tries, but the Southern Baptists just condemned ‘white nationalism’

Religion

One of the largest religious groups in America has formally denounced racism, white nationalism and the so-called “alt-right.” The Southern Baptist Convention says these forms of ethnic hatred are incompatible with Christian scripture.