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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President Trump and his supporters portray antifa as the left's equivalent to deadly far-right extremists. Domestic terrorism data show just one fatality is linked to antifa — the attacker himself. -
The White House describes antifa as a violent mob of leftist extremists. But the government's findings show that the U.S. anti-fascist movement is linked to one death — one of its own.
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Black protesters and Boogaloo boys, both carrying weapons but offering radically different visions of America, assembled in the former capital of the Confederacy over the holiday weekend. -
Federal prosecutors say Army Pvt. Ethan Melzer tried to conspire with neo-Nazis and jihadists to ambush his own unit. Researchers say "hybrid" motivations are part of today's extremist threat.
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The actor and serial prankster Sacha Baron Cohen is suspected of infiltrating a far-right group's rally in Washington state over the weekend. -
It is no secret that the U.S. citizens are deeply divided along political lines. But a new study has found that Americans are not nearly as divided as they might think.
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U.S. Soldier Charged In Plot To Attack Own UnitA U.S. soldier is charged with passing military secrets to a white supremacist group in Europe. Prosecutors say the soldier plotted an ambush of his own unit.
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Twenty people are facing prosecution amid reports of at least 50 vehicle-ramming incidents at protests since late May. -
'Remember Who We're Fighting For': The Uneasy Existence Of Seattle's Protest CampThe open-air camp in the Capitol Hill area is more than a week old. Underneath the peace-and-love vibe is an undercurrent of anxiety that it won't end well and that black people might get the blame. -
It's been nearly a week since Seattle Police vacated their precinct in Seattle's Capitol Hill Neighborhood. Protesters now occupy the area.
