Hannah Allam
Hannah Allam is a Washington-based national security correspondent for NPR, focusing on homegrown extremism. Before joining NPR, she was a national correspondent at BuzzFeed News, covering U.S. Muslims and other issues of race, religion and culture. Allam previously reported for McClatchy, spending a decade overseas as bureau chief in Baghdad during the Iraq war and in Cairo during the Arab Spring rebellions. She moved to Washington in 2012 to cover foreign policy, then in 2015 began a yearlong series documenting rising hostility toward Islam in America. Her coverage of Islam in the United States won three national religion reporting awards in 2018 and 2019. Allam was part of McClatchy teams that won an Overseas Press Club award for exposing death squads in Iraq and a Polk Award for reporting on the Syrian conflict. She was a 2009 Nieman fellow at Harvard and currently serves on the board of the International Women's Media Foundation.
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Two years ago, a rally in Charlottesville exposed the violence of the nation's white nationalist movement. Now, victims of that violence want the courts to hold the organizers accountable. -
Domestic extremism researchers say the manifesto linked to the El Paso shooter is intended as a call to arms to other white nationalists. Such explicit calls for violence are becoming more common.
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President Trump spoke to the nation from the White House on Monday and called this weekend's mass shootings barbaric slaughters. He named specific causes for the extremist violence.
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Minutes before the El Paso shooting, a manifesto was posted online, calling the attack as a response to an "invasion" of Hispanics into the U.S. What can authorities do to fight far-right violence?
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Police are trying to learn whether a four-page manifesto that has surfaced online was written by the suspect in yesterday's El Paso, Texas shooting.
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Investigators are looking at links between a four-page screed and the alleged El Paso shooter.
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For years, women have fought for inclusion in the national security sector. Now, there's a movement to organize those efforts and to show the risks involved when women are left out.
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A House hearing will demand answers from FBI and Homeland Security officials on why the White House has failed to acknowledge that far-right violence is now the deadliest form of domestic extremism.
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Bias-motivated crimes are rising, but few police departments are trained to identify them. A group of prosecutors is traveling from city to city, warning officers that ignoring hate crimes is risky. -
The group's news agency posted video Tuesday that purports to show the attackers. Sri Lanka's government is being criticized for not preventing the bombings, despite getting prior intelligence.
