Adam W. Purinton, the man who killed an Indian immigrant and wounded another two men at a bar last February as he yelled, “Get out of my country,” has been sentenced to three consecutive life prison sentences on federal hate crime and firearm charges.

On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that federal hate crime charges were filed against 21-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., who’s accused of driving his car into a crowd of people protesting the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last year. The car attack during the so-called “Unite the Right”…

The Trump administration has made clear its stance on transgender rights: in just nine months, the Justice Department has rolled back workplace protections for transgender individuals, dropped its case against North Carolina’s transphobic bathroom bill, the Education Department has withdrawn its finding that an Ohio…

On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that Cornell University is investigating the beating of black student as a possible hate crime, citing the university’s pledge to form a task force addressing “bigotry and intolerance.”

On Monday night, a 17-year-old threw a rock through Boston’s New England Holocaust Memorial, smashing a panel of glass. Bystanders wrestled the teen to the ground, staying there until police arrived.

A known white supremacist is accused of fatally stabbing two men on a light-rail train in Portland, Oregon on Friday afternoon. The attack occurred after the victims attempted to confront the suspect for screaming anti-Muslim slurs at two women, police said.

A 38-year-old Long Island man named Patrick O’Meara has been charged with a hate crime after assaulting two transgender women who were trying to enter a McDonald’s in Queens, New York on Friday.

Police are still looking for the guy who allegedly shot a Sikh man, now identified as Deep Rai, in the arm on a residential driveway in Washington state on Friday night, and are investigating this allegation as a hate crime, according to CNN affiliate KIRO.

A Trump-supporting airline passenger has been charged with multiple hate crimes for allegedly kicking and harassing a hijab-wearing Delta airport worker at JFK airport.

On Thursday afternoon, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced that the four individuals involved in a Facebook Live video that appeared to show a young man the police described as having “mental health challenges” being tied up and tortured would be charged with a hate crime.

The murder of a black 15-year-old boy by a white man outside a West Virginia dollar store on Monday is being investigated as a hate crime.

On Sunday, hundreds of shivering Brooklynites squeezed together to condemn a pair of swastikas splashed across a piece of playground equipment in Adam Yauch Park. Painted on Friday night along with the words “Go Trump,” the swastikas have since been covered over, replaced with cutout hearts bearing messages of love…

On Wednesday, Khadija Altamimi, an 18-year-old student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, reported to the police and university officials that she had been beaten, robbed, and had her hijab torn off by two men, one of whom wore a “Trump” hat.

The FBI won’t be releasing their hate crime statistics for 2015 until November. But in the the meantime the New York Times obtained an advanced copy of a new study conducted by researchers at California State University, San Bernardino that found hate crimes against Muslims and transgender people rose dramatically…

On Thursday, a 32-year-old woman, Emirjeta Xhelili, attacked two Muslim women, ages 23 and 24 years old, both wearing hijabs as they walked their babies in strollers through Bath Beach, Brooklyn. Prosecutors told the New York Daily News on Friday that Xhelili punched the women in their faces and tried to pull off…

Hours after a mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub left 50 dead and 53 wounded, President Barack Obama declared the attack both an “act of terror” and an “act of hate.”

Attorney General Loretta Lynch publicly stated on Tuesday that the Justice Department will seek the death penalty against Dylann Roof, the suspected perpetrator of the racially-motivated Charleston church shootings that occurred almost a year ago.