How can society police the global spread of online far-right extremism while still protecting free speech? That’s a question policymakers and watchdog organizations confronted as early as the 1980s and ’90s – and it hasn’t gone away.

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A largely overlooked directive issued by the Trump administration marks a major shift in U.S. counterterrorism policy, one that threatens bedrock free speech rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights.

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Peace is a prerequisite to the ambitious economic development plans that could transform Gaza. Securing that peace, however, requires addressing the future role of Hamas’s fighters.

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Although progress in biological sciences and technologies will offer more opportunities to improve human well-being in the coming decades, this progress may also lower barriers that are blocking bad actors from engineering pathogens to cause destruction. In severe cases, the harms of future biological attacks may approach the magnitudes of the worst plagues of history—from the devastation wrought by the Black Death to the epidemics that decimated Mesoamerican societies after initial European contact.

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President James Garfield’s life is defined by the man who ended it. Charles Guiteau, Garfield’s assassin, has been historically characterized as a megalomaniac with delusions of grandeur. However, it’s another label that helps explain why he shot the president: office seeker.

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Many people celebrated President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting “political debanking.” Yet, those same people seem to be silent now that the president created new pressures to effectively debank the left.

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Political violence among rival partisans has been a deadly and destabilizing force throughout history and across the globe. It has claimed countless lives, deepened social divisions and even led to the collapse of democratic systems.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the life sciences, accelerating breakthroughs in research, drug discovery and biotechnology. However, some of the AI tools that drive innovation can also be misused, posing significant dual-use risks.Ensuring that these technologies are developed and deployed responsibly requires a clear, structured understanding of the capabilities of individual AI-enabled biological tools and their potential misuse applications.

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Even before the Charlie Kirk assassination, the United States was facing a resurgence of politically motivated violence that is deeply intertwined with the digital sphere. A new report from NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights — Digital Aftershocks: Online Mobilization and Violence in the United States —examines how extremists across the ideological spectrum — far-right, far-left, violent Islamist, and nihilistic violent extremists (NVEs) — exploit acts of violen

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A coalition of jihadist groups affiliated with al-Qaida have laid siege to landlocked Mali’s capital.

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A group of Al Qaeda-linked militants are reportedly on the cusp of seizing control of the West African nation of Mali in what many fear could lead to a complete takeover of a national government by a designated terrorist organization.

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Even by the sorry standards of Sudanese history, the recent atrocities committed by various factions in what seems like an endless civil war stand out. In the last three weeks or so, the levels of killing and sheer cruelty have shocked aid agencies and the international community.

Recent Developments
1) Capture of al-Fashir (el-Fasher) and mass killings in North Darfur — late October 2025

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Extremists are exploiting political violence by using online platforms to recruit new people to their causes and amplify the use of violence for political goals, according to a new report that monitored social platforms after recent attacks.

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In a matter of seconds, anyone can now use popular AI video generation tools to create antisemitic and extremist content.

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Abstract: Hamas has never carried out a successful terrorist attack outside of Israel, the West Bank, or Gaza—but not for lack of plotting. Over the years, the group came close to carrying out attacks abroad several times, but these were either thwarted or aborted before execution. Now, recent criminal cases in Germany and Denmark reveal that Hamas set in motion contingency planning for possible attacks in Europe several years before the October 7 massacre, including stashing small arms in weapons caches in multiple European countries.

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From AI-driven denial-of-service attacks and adaptive malware, to drone swarms, and autonomous vehicles - the malicious use and wider adoption of machine learning and artificial intelligence, by terrorist groups, has been widely speculated in recently months. Earlier this year, the UK Government published “The Terrorism Acts in 2023 report of the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation” a report, which among other areas, considers seven categories of potential terrorism harm that may result from use of Generative AI.

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A recent report published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence in the United States, risks feeding false narratives about political violence and polarization.

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The Trump administration has been given another week to make its case to withhold more than $33 million in counter-terrorism funds for New York City’s transit system. 

U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan has extended a temporary restraining order blocking the Department of Homeland Security from clawing back the grant funding approved by Congress for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority until at least Oct. 22, as the case plays out in court. Kaplan’s previous order was set to expire on Wednesday.

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A series of recent events has sparked alarm about rising levels of political violence in the U.S. These episodes include the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk on Sept.

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