Lawyer says suspect in the killing of a human rights lawyer and a journalist has confessed

Lawyer: Man says he killed lawyer, journalist

Danish film of neo-Nazi gay affair wins top prize at Rome festival, Mirren wins best actress

ROME — A Danish movie about a gay love affair between two members of a neo-Nazi group won top honors Friday at the Rome Film Festival, while Helen Mirren won the best actress award.

Supreme Court receptive on arguments to reinstate death sentence for neo-Nazi who killed 3

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed receptive Tuesday to reinstating the death sentence of a flamboyant neo-Nazi convicted of murdering three men in Ohio more than a quarter century ago.

US judge in Va. orders neo-Nazi leader released on bond, but prosecution appeals ruling

ROANOKE, Va. — A U.S. magistrate judge in Virginia has ordered the release of an avowed white supremacist, but prosecutors have appealed.

In letter from prison, shooter in LA Jewish center attack expresses remorse, renounces racism

LOS ANGELES — A white supremacist who killed a postal worker and wounded five people at a Los Angeles area Jewish community center in a 1999 shooting spree says he has renounced his racist views.

Historic eastern Idaho courthouse won’t remove pre-Nazi swastika tiles

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — Images of red swastikas built into tiles in the early 1920s in the Bonneville County Courthouse won’t be removed during a remodel of the building, officials said.

Prosecutors: White supremacist accused in Holocaust museum shooting has ‘nothing to lose’

WASHINGTON — An 89-year-old white supremacist charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was ordered to remain in jail Wednesday after prosecutors said the frail man was still dangerous because he had “no true friends” and “nothing to lose.”

White supremacist accused of killing DC Holocaust museum guard appears in court for 1st time

WASHINGTON — A white supremacist charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum appeared in court Wednesday in a wheelchair, the first time he has been seen publicly since the June shooting.

High court upholds sentence of notorious German neo-Nazi convicted of Holocaust denial

BERLIN — A German federal court on Tuesday upheld the Holocaust denial conviction of a founding member of a left-wing terrorist group turned neo-Nazi, saying he must serve his six-year sentence.

Aryan Nations organization long gone from northern Idaho, but reputation still stains area

HAYDEN LAKE, Idaho — The house where Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler lived has been demolished. So has the church where he preached his racist religion. Cows graze where hundreds of white supremacists used to burn crosses in the summer.

Southern Poverty Law Center asks Congress to investigate troops’ presence on supremacist sites

WASHINGTON — One of the country’s main monitors of hate groups asked Congress Friday to investigate possible racial extremism in the military, after finding U.S. service members participating on a social networking site advertised as being for white people only.

German justice minister asks foreign ISPs to block neo-Nazi sites

BERLIN — Germany’s Justice Minister is calling for Internet service providers in the U.S. and elsewhere to remove neo-Nazi images, text and other content that can be viewed inside the country in violation of laws forbidding any Nazi symbols.

White supremacist blogger charged with threatening to kill 3 federal appeals judges

CHICAGO — A white supremacist blogger was arrested at his New Jersey home Wednesday and charged with threatening to assault or murder three Chicago-based judges who refused to overturn local ordinances banning handguns.

Mo. measure would rename highway adopted by neo-Nazis after rabbi who fought for civil rights

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The state’s litter prevention program got an unusual ally last year: A neo-Nazi group adopted a half-mile section of highway in Springfield and picked up the trash.

Experts: Holocaust museum shooter reflects increasing racial violence from threatened whites

Crazies. Lone nut jobs. Isolated loonies. Those are frequent descriptions of people like James Von Brunn, the 88-year-old white supremacist who opened fire at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and killed a black guard.

Man accused of Holocaust museum shooting spewed hate for decades, slain guard had opened door

WASHINGTON — James von Brunn carried a lifetime of hatred and an aging rifle to the entrance of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, authorities say, and was met with a simple act of kindness: a security guard opening the door for him.

Holocaust museum shooting signal of increasing violence from threatened whites, some say

Crazies. Lone nut jobs. Isolated loonies. Those are frequent descriptions of people like James von Brunn, the 88-year-old white supremacist accused of opening fire at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and killing a black guard.

Elderly man charged with murder left signed anti-Semitic screed in car outside Holocaust Museum

WASHINGTON — An 88-year-old white supremacist was charged with murder Thursday, a day after officials said he left a signed anti-Semitic screed in his car outside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, then gunned down a security guard who opened the door to let him in.

Officials: Anti-Semitic screed left in car of supremacist charged in Holocaust museum shooting

WASHINGTON — An 88-year-old white supremacist was charged with murder Thursday, a day after officials said he left a signed anti-Semitic screed in his car outside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, then gunned down a security guard who opened the door to let him in.

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke detained in Prague on suspicion of Holocaust denial

PRAGUE — Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was detained by police in the Czech Republic on Friday on suspicion of denying the Holocaust.