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Three white men accused of attacking a group of Hispanics in a Los Angeles County park on Sunday were charged with hate crimes this week, the authorities said. Five Hispanic men were playing soccer and speaking Spanish in Stephen Sorensen Park in Lake Los Angeles, an area roughly 80 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, when they were attacked by …

Only days after a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Florida, the judge in a hate-crime murder case in New York invoked the massacre on Tuesday as he sentenced a man to 40 years to life in prison. The defendant, Elliot Morales, 36, was convicted in March of murder as a hate crime for killing Mark Carson, a gay …

The massacre in Orlando, where 49 people were gunned down at an L.G.B.T. nightclub and dozens of others were wounded, came at the hands of a coward and a monster, but make no mistake: This was our monster. The shooter, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, was born and raised in America. He killed other Americans using at least one American-made gun — …

OWNVILLE, S.C. — A 14-year-old boy opened fire with a handgun at a school playground injuring two children and a teacher Wednesday afternoon before he was stopped by a longtime volunteer firefighter, authorities said. Two 6-year-old boys were wounded, one critically, along with a teacher at Townville Elementary School while Jeffrey Osborne, the father of the teenager, was found shot to death at a home about three …

ORLANDO, Fla. — A man who called 911 to proclaim allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, and who had been investigated in the past for possible terrorist ties, stormed a gay nightclub here Sunday morning, wielding an assault rifle and a pistol, and carried out the worst mass shooting in United States history, leaving 50 people dead and 53 …

Ángel Franco had been staking out a medical facility in Orlando, Fla., photographing grieving families who had just identified relatives slain in one of the nation’s largest mass shootings, when he found himself thinking: “What am I doing here?” Mr. Franco, a New York Times staff photographer, was among the many journalists from around the nation who rushed to Orlando …

A rally by a white nationalist group at California’s State Capitol in Sacramento became violent on Sunday when protesters clashed with the group, leaving at least 10 people injured, two of them critically, fire officials said. Videos posted on Twitter showed members of the nationalist group, the Traditionalist Worker Party, which had obtained a permit to demonstrate, brawling on the …

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dylann Roof, who police say opened fire and killed nine people during a prayer meeting at a historic African American church here, was arrested Thursday, more than 13 hours after the chilling attack. Roof, a 21-year-old high-school dropout from Eastover, S.C., was taken into custody in North Carolina not long after law enforcement officials identified him as the sole suspect in …

The man who a Tulsa family said “terrorized” them for years and called them racially offensive names has been charged with murder and a hate crime in the shooting death of 37-year-old Khalid Jabara, according to authorities. Stanley “Vernon” Majors, 61, was charged with first-degree murder in Jabara’s death and possession of a firearm after a formal conviction of a …

The mother of an Alabama high school student says her 17-year-old son was attacked and badly beaten after standing up for police. Brandi Allen tells WBRC-TV that son Brian Ogle responded to students wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts at Sylacauga High School with “Blue lives matter,” a defense of police officers. Ogle also posted pro-police items on Facebook. Police Chief …