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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From President Trump's phone call to Georgia officials demanding to "find" more votes to Trump supporters heading to D.C. to reject the election results — disinformation is playing a key role.
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Police in Nashville, Tenn., were warned in 2019 that Anthony Warner was building explosive devices. Authorities had previously said Warner, who detonated a bomb on Christmas Day, was unknown to them.
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The many unknowns in the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville, Tenn., have raised questions about whether the incident should be classified as a terrorist act.
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Terrorism analysts warn that the country's polarization isn't just damaging to U.S. politics — it's a national security threat. -
A group of bipartisan, former national security officials are warning that the ever deepening political divisions in the U.S. are a true national security threat.
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The latest national rallies to protest the 2020 election results drew crowds of President Trump's most ardent supporters to Washington, D.C., and several state capitols.
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Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged in the shooting deaths of protesters in August, is free on $2 million bail. The money was raised mostly by right-wing donors, who portray him as a hero.
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The data for 2019 show a slight overall increase but offenses were more violent than in previous years. About half of the 51 bias-motivated homicides stemmed from the Walmart mass shooting in Texas. -
The Million MAGA March drew a mix of conservative Republicans, far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists. Extremism analysts say their cooperation is a troubling sign. -
Thousands of President Trump's supporters were out in Washington, D.C., on Saturday for a day of rallying to echo the false assertion that the 2020 presidential election was marked by fraud.
