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A Colorado Christian crisis center for pregnant women was vandalized and set on fire Saturday morning, a day after the US Supreme Court reversed federal protection of abortions. Police responded to a fire at Life Choices in Longmont around 3:20 a.m., and found the building ablaze with covered with graffiti messages referencing the controversial overturning of Roe v. Wade, officials said. “If abortions aren’t safe neither are you,” one message read, accompanied by the circled “A” anarchy symbol. The saying has been written at dozens of pro-life centers since the court’s intent to overturn the 1973 ruling was leaked in...

The District Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C., announced Friday that the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is closed due to "safety concerns" after a Roe v. Wade protest blocked the bridge, which is south of the U.S. Capitol. The closure is expected to remain until further notice, according to the department. Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police Department initiated a full departmental activation through Tuesday in response to the protests at the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a statement by the D.C. police department. The department added that the D.C. Homeland Security and the Emergency Management Agency are actively monitoring the situation...

Pro-abortion rioters attempted to storm the Arizona capitol building in Phoenix while the state’s senate was in session. Pro-life Republican state Senator Kelly Townsend, who was inside the senate building, tweeted members of the Senate were “being held hostage inside the Senate building.” Townsend said during one period the senators could “smell teargas and the children of one of the members are in the office sobbing with fear.” “I expect a J24 committee to be created immediately,” she added.

More videos from WFAA on the Uvalde incident. Uvalde school massacre could have been stopped in 3 minutes, DPS says at Senate hearing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhiS-VsXscYKey takeaways from Tuesday's Uvalde school shooting hearing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPlSwA8DeQkAccording to the testimony given, Arredondo deliberately held back multiple SWAT teams. One Uvalde officer actually did press forward against orders to assault in, because it was his wife in the room. Other Uvalde officers detained him, took his gun away and kicked him out.

The FBI has opened a domestic violent extremism investigation into recent attacks on pro-life organizations that have come as the Supreme Court is expected to issue a landmark decision on abortion rights, the bureau said Friday. "The FBI is investigating a series of attacks and threats targeting pregnancy resource centers and faith-based organizations across the country," the FBI said in a statement first reported by Fox News. "The FBI takes all threats seriously and we continue to work closely with our law enforcement partners and will remain vigilant to protect our communities." The FBI’s statement comes after Republican lawmakers clamored...

@alexbruesewitz WOW: the @January6thCmtejust doctored a clip! They removed Ray Epps from the video of the protestors first breaching the police barricade. Why did they remove Ray Epps from the video?

A law enforcement source said that the former federal agent regularly stoked the accused gunman Payton Gendron with racism, anti-Semitism and other propaganda designed to inflame the deranged man. “These were like-minded people who used this chat group to talk about their shared interests in racial hatred, replacement theory and hatred of anyone who is Jewish, a person of color or not of European ancestry,” the law enforcement source stated. “What is especially upsetting is that these six people received advanced notice of the Buffalo “The FBI has verified that none of these people called law enforcement to warn them...

Deranged Texas killer Salvador Ramos had been trying to buy a gun for at least eight months — and openly chatted about his reputation as a likely school shooter in social media messages posted in the months before Tuesday’s attack, officials announced Friday. “Ramos asked his sister to help him buy a gun” as far back as Sept. 21, Texas Department of Public Safety director Col. Steven McCraw announced Friday as he detailed the killer’s online activity. Then Ramos — who legally bought the rifle he used after turning 18 last week — had numerous group chats on Instagram in...

Authorities are reportedly investigating whether a retired federal agent knew about a white supremacist’s plans to carry out his deadly attack at a Buffalo supermarket 30 minutes before the crazed gunman went on the rampage. Two law enforcement officials with knowledge of the probe told the Buffalo News that the feds believe the former agent — believed to be from Texas — was among at least six people who regularly communicated with alleged gunman Payton Gendron online about his racist views. The sources said Gendron had also invited some online acquaintances to read about his hate-fueled, imminent plan to attack...

Deranged Texas mass shooter Salvador Ramos may have hinted at his plan to gun down school children in a verbal rant after losing a violent video game, a report said. Threats from a male player that he would “shoot up a school” using an AR-15 disturbed one fellow gamer so much she reported it to the FBI, The US Sun reported Wednesday. The threats reportedly came after the player lost the video game Dead by Daylight just hours before the carnage at Robb Elementary School Tuesday, The Sun reported. Another source told The Sun Ramos threatened to shoot up schools...

The alleged Buffalo supermarket shooter shared his rambling plans for his deadly racist attack a half-hour before he gunned down 10 people on Saturday, a new report said. Payton Gendron, 18, invited people to a private chat on the Discord app that revealed his white supremacist views and outlined how he’d scouted the Tops Friendly Markets in a crazed plan to kill as many black people as possible, CNN reported.

The House passed legislation late Wednesday night that would bolster federal resources to prevent domestic terrorism in response to the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. The 222-203, nearly party-line vote was an answer to the growing pressure Congress faces to address gun violence and white supremacist attacks — a crisis that escalated following two mass shootings over the weekend. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., a member of the congressional committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol, was the lone Republican to vote in favor of the measure.

Attorney General Merrick Garland will meet with NAACP President Derrick Johnson on Friday to discuss the danger of white supremacy and how it is being fed online. The meeting comes after a gunman killed 10 people and wounded three at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., in a predominantly Black neighborhood. The suspect arrested in the killings shared plans of his attack online before the shootings and made it clear he hoped others would follow him.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., will schedule a vote next week on legislation aimed at curbing domestic terrorism following last week's mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that left 10 people dead, reports The Hill. "I announced to our caucus at lunch that we are going to file cloture on the domestic terrorism bill next week. And we hope our Republican colleagues will understand how important this is given what's going on in the country with replacement theory, with so much bigoted, bigoted voices on all of our news media, and we hope they'll join us," Schumer said Wednesday....

President Joe Biden connected the racist mass shooting in Buffalo on Saturday to the protests of Trump supporters on January 6. The president cited January 6th riots after calling all Americans to “reject white supremacy” because they were making the country look bad.

Authorities say the white 18-year-old who killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket during a rampage that targeted Black people had previously made a threat at his high school Buffalo shooter’s prior threat, hospital stay under scrutinyBy CAROLYN THOMPSON and MICHAEL BALSAMOAssociated PressThe Associated PressBUFFALO, N.Y. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white gunman accused of committing a racist massacre at a Buffalo supermarket made threatening comments that brought police to his high school last spring, but he was never charged with a crime and had no further contact with law enforcement after his release from a hospital, officials said. The...