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Hate crimes in the United States rose moderately last year, with hate-motivated incidents against several target groups, including Arabs, Muslims and transgender people, showing sharper increases, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI’s annual hate crime statistics, released Monday, showed there were 6,121 hate crime incidents in 2016, up 4.6 percent from 5,850

[youtube:2034936] Police arrested a New York man in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn last Thursday after he threatened a Jewish man as he walked past him. The incident occurred at the intersection of Albany Avenue and Eastern Parkway last Thursday afternoon. The suspect reportedly spat on the Jewish man and yelled “all you Jews

“Star Trek” icon and progressive activist George Takei has denied allegations that he groped another man at his Los Angeles condominium, saying he was “shocked and bewildered at these claims.” “The events he describes back in the 1980s simply did not occur, and I do not know why he has claimed them now,” Mr. Takei

A former prosecutor who worked alongside GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore in the 1980s said it was “common knowledge” at the time that he dated high school girls. “It was common knowledge that Roy dated high school girls, everyone we knew thought it was weird,” former deputy district attorney Teresa Jones told CNN in comments

LOS ANGELES — Some wore T-shirts with the words “Me Too” emblazoned across the front, while others held up signs that said “No more sexual abuse” and “Rape is not a joke.” On Sunday, several hundred survivors of sexual harassment and assault and their supporters gathered in front of the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood to

MANILA, Philippines—Hours after President Donald Trump taunted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Twitter, suggesting he is “short and fat,” the White House chief of staff said he doesn’t carefully follow Trump’s comments on social media and tells other aides not to react to them. “Someone, I read the other day, said we all

Voters turned away from Donald Trump last week because they hate Congress, not the president, said Mike Huckabee. The former Arkansas governor, and father of White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, described slam-dunk Democrat victories in New Jersey and Virginia as merely a vote against America’s least-loved institution, not its least-loved president. “Was that a

WASHINGTON — Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for Senate in Alabama, lost his lead in the race after allegations that he had sexual contact with teenagers years ago, and the election is now a toss-up, a new poll indicated Sunday. Moore trails Democratic candidate Doug Jones 46 percent to 42 percent among Alabama voters, a