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‘We must work to root out the hatreds’: Biden admin. announces plan to combat domestic terrorism

In this Wednesday, June 9, 2021, file photo, President Joe Biden speaks to American service members at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, England. The Biden administration says it will enhance its analysis of threats from domestic terrorists as part of a nationwide strategy to combat domestic terrorism. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times 17 minutes ago

The Biden administration unveiled an aggressive plan Tuesday for federal agencies to crack down on the threat of domestic terrorism and White supremacists.

Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are fenced in a secure area as a box is delivered to be examined and recounted by contractors working for Florida-based company, Cyber Ninjas, Thursday, May 6, 2021, at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, Pool) ** FILE **

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

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Security personnel manned the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit this week by a team from the World Health Organization. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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In the file photo: a sampling of books that are used at Our Lady Of Fatima Catholic School, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020 in Lafayette, La. America's understanding of racism and the part it played in our country's history are undergoing a change, and that should be reflected in how students are taught in social studies, educators say. But parents rights groups warn that all too often school systems are promoting an agenda on the sly, keeping parents unaware of the content of antiracism materials used in the classroom. (Scott Clause/The News-Star via AP) **FILE**

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In this March 30, 2020, file photo, My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell speaks as President Donald Trump listens during a briefing about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

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This Jan. 26, 2015, file photo shows Lisa Banes, in Park City, Utah. The "Gone Girl" and "Cocktail" actor has died after being injured in a hit-and-run accident in New York. A police spokesperson says the 65-year-old Banes died Monday, June 15, 2021, at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital. She was struck by a scooter or motorcycle while crossing a street on June 4. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP, File)

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In this Wednesday, June 9, 2021, file photo, President Joe Biden speaks to American service members at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, England. The Biden administration says it will enhance its analysis of threats from domestic terrorists as part of a nationwide strategy to combat domestic terrorism. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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In this March 10, 2011, file photo, then-Vice President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia. Central and Eastern European nations are anxious about the Wednesday, June 16, 2021, summit meeting between now-U.S. President Biden and Putin, wary of what they see as hostile intentions from the Kremlin. (RIA Novostia/Alexei Druzhinin/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

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Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are fenced in a secure area as a box is delivered to be examined and recounted by contractors working for Florida-based company, Cyber Ninjas, Thursday, May 6, 2021, at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, Pool) ** FILE **

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In this Jan. 19, 2021, file photo, a Honduran migrant child is helped off an Army truck after being returned to El Florido, Guatemala, one of the border points between Guatemala and Honduras. The reasons Hondurans continue to flee their country have been well documented: pervasive violence, deep-seated corruption, lack of jobs and widespread destruction from two major hurricanes that struck the region last November. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros, File)

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In this Feb.14, 2019, file photo, an Airbus A380, left, and a Boeing 747, both from Lufthansa airline pass each other at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. The United States and the European Union on Tuesday appeared close to clinching a deal to end a damaging dispute over subsidies to Airbus and Boeing and lift billions of dollars in punitive tariffs. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

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