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The FBI has elevated its assessment of the threat posed by racially-motivated violent extremistsin the U.S. to a national threat priority for fiscal year 2020, FBI director Christopher Wray said Wednesday. He said the FBI is placing the risk of violence from such groups on the same footing as threats posed to the country by foreign terrorist organizations such as ISIS and its sympathizers. Not only is the terror threat diverse mdash; it s unrelenting, Wray said at an oversight hearing before the House Judiciary Committee.Racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, or domestic terrorists motivated by racial or religious hatred, make up a huge chunk of the FBI s domestic terrorism investigations, Wray said in statements be stanley cup fore the Senate Homeland Security Committee last November. The majority of those attacks are fueled by some type of white supremacy, he said. stanley cup Wednesday, Wray said combating domestic terrorism and its close cousin, hate crimes, are at the top of the priority list for the FBI.His statements indicate the FBI is just as concerned about racially-motivated violent extremists, including white supremacists, as it is about the threat posed by homegrown violent extremists inspired by foreign te stanley cup rrorist organizations. Wray said both pose a grave threat because the perpetrators are often lone actors, self-radicalized online, who often look to attack soft targets such as public gatherings, retail locations or Bacf Why CDC advisers voted to add COVID vaccines to list of routine immunizations
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Oscar Taveras, the St. Louis Cardinals outfielder regarded as one of the majors top prospects, died Sunday in a car accident in his native Dominican Republic. He was 22.Taveras was driving a 2014 Chevrolet Camaro at the time of the crash on a highway between the beaches of Sosua and C adidas campus abarete in Puerto Plata, about 215 miles north of the capital of Santo Domingo, said Col. Diego Pesqueira of the Metropolitan Transportation Agency. He wasn t carrying documents at the time of the accident, but his body was identified by family members, Pesqueira said. National police spokesman Jacobo Mateo Moquete said he was told by the mayor of Sosua that Taveras lost control of his vehicle and went off the road. Edilia Arvelo, 18, who was in the car with Taveras, also died in the accident, Pesqueira said.Taveras made his major league debut this year. He hit .239 with three homers and 22 RBIs in 80 games for the NL Central champions. I simply can t believe it, Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak said in a release. I first met Oscar when he was 16 years old and will forever remember him as a wonderful young man who was a gifted athlete with an infectious love for life who lived every day to the fullest. Cardinals ch adidas campus airman Bill DeWitt Jr. said the organization was stunned and deeply saddened. Oscar was an amazing talent with a bright future who was taken from u mizuno s well before his time, DeWitt said. Our