The Biden administration has moved to crack down on violent domestic extremists over the past year. But it's given the Bundy family — whose militant actions presaged the Capitol insurrection, and who continue to illegally graze cattle on public lands — a pass.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Anti-government activist Ammon Bundy has been arrested after failing to attend his trial on charges that he trespassed during an Idaho legislative session last fall.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say a 32-year-old Nevada man with ties to anti-government activist Ammon Bundy has been arrested and accused of threatening the lives of a Las Vegas police detective and a prosecutor.
Violent acts of insurrection like the U.S. Capitol mob have been incubating in the western U.S. for years, where self-described "patriots" have led armed uprisings, often with few legal consequences.
In the rural Northwest, far-right elected officials and the militia movements they're aligned with are calling for defiance of stay-at-home orders like the one issued by Idaho's Republican governor.
Ammon Bundy, who helped lead armed standoffs at the Bundy ranch in Bunkerville and at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, has repudiated supporters of his and has said he is no longer involved with the so-called "militia movement" that seeks to take up arms against the federal governm
Nevada rancher and activist Ammon Bundy has broken with President Donald Trump over his hard-line policies and rhetoric against a migrant caravan from Central America.
W. Joseph Astarita was part of a team that was trying to capture leaders of the militia that launched the 41-day occupation in Oregon. Prosecutors say he fired his weapon but said he hadn't.
SALEM, OR (AP) — Father and son ranchers who were pardoned by President Trump after becoming the focus of a battle about public lands flew home Wednesday to Oregon and were greeted by family members and riders on horseback carrying American flags.
Less than a month after declaring a mistrial, Judge Gloria Navarro said there can be no retrial against the Nevada rancher and three other men, who led an armed standoff with federal agents in 2014.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The leader of an occupation at an Oregon wildlife refuge last year has been released from U.S. custody during his Nevada trial over a 2014 armed standoff with U.S. agents near his father's ranch.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin in Las Vegas for the long-awaited trial of Nevada cattleman and states' rights figure Cliven Bundy, two sons and one other co-defendant on charges stemming from an armed standoff with federal agents in April 2014.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jury selection has begun in federal court in Las Vegas for the retrial of four men who brought assault-style weapons to a standoff that stopped government agents from rounding up Cliven Bundy's cattle in April 2014.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A sheriff says she found no criminal violations in the treatment of states' rights advocate Ammon Bundy in federal custody at a privately-run jail 60 miles west of Las Vegas.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal jury in Nevada is deliberating the fate of six men accused of wielding assault-style rifles during cattleman Cliven Bundy's dispute with federal agents three years ago.
Two of the men who occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge last year have been convicted on felony conspiracy charges, while two others were convicted on lesser charges.
