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The chairman of the New Black Panther Party announced the group will attend pre-RNC events carrying firearms for self-defense. "If it is an open state to carry, we will exercise our second amendment rights because there are other groups threatening to be there that are threatening to do harm to us," Hashim Nzinga, chairman of the New Black Panther Party, told Reuters in a telephone interview. "If that state allows us to bear arms, the Panthers and the others who can legally bear arms will bear arms." The group says it expects "a couple hundred" members to attend a...

Gangs of wilding teens terrorized straphangers this week in a violent spate of daytime robberies and assaults on Manhattan subways -- another indicator the city could be sinking back to the bad old days that once gripped the Big Apple with fear. Eight teens were arrested in the spree, which included a stabbing and four cellphone robberies on the B and F trains in Midtown Tuesday. The rash of crimes came two days after an alarmingly violent prior week, when subway felonies jumped 131 percent, from 22 to 51, compared to the same period last year.

The normal routine of the League was interrupted Friday afternoon, when an anonymous caller called to say he owned guns and his next target was the former director of the League, Mike Heath (above). The death threat was apparently related to the recent win on Question 1, which revoked the right of homosexuals to be married in Maine. The caller said the following: “I am calling about Mr. Mike Heath, the Executive of your Christian Civic League of Maine. He thinks that gay people should have our rights revoked that we already have. Well I can tell him this...