In 2014, militias from around the country rallied to support the Nevada ranching family in the biggest armed standoff against the government in decades. In the desert town of Bunkerville, they saw ...

The militia movement, they say, is in the midst of a massive growth spurt at levels even greater than in the early 1990s after the Waco, Texas, standoff and the siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. It peaked ...

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Militia groups are in the spotlight after the revelation of an alleged plot to kidnap the Michigan governor, storm the state capitol building and start a civil war. Some of the men charged in that ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — In the weeks before a gunman allegedly killed two officers in separate shootings last year in California, prosecutors say he and other members of an extremist militia known as the ...

ANACONDA — Travis McAdam says he was first introduced to philosophies of the radical right wing and militia movement while working on a group project in college. "It was my first exposure to the whole ...

Beirich said that the biggest expansion of anti-government groups came after the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, when 168 people were killed by militia-movement sympathizers ...

When it comes to militia members taking over Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Range, many people are confused by what’s perceived as a random act, or they pass it off as the actions of some renegade ...