In 1992, hundreds of armed federal agents surrounded a family of white separatists in a ramshackle mountaintop cabin. Eleven days later, three people were dead—and the story of Ruby Ridge was just ...

Long before Waco became synonymous with federal standoffs and years before Ruby Ridge entered the American consciousness, another violent confrontation unfolded in the mountains of Utah, one that many ...

Uphaar Cinema fire tragedy in 1997 to US Black Supreme Court justice nominated in 1967. Take a look at the key events held on ...

In August 1992, six U.S. marshals set out to arrest Idaho survivalist Randy Weaver over a missed court date on a firearms charge, partly caused by a clerical error ...

Why Is the Right So Obsessed With the Apocalypse?In a new book, Chris Jennings tells the story of the Ruby Ridge siege and how the threat of the Rapture shaped American politics.

From a distance, Vicki Weaver looked like an angel. One indistinct photograph is all most of us have ever seen of her, and in that image, taken by FBI surveillance, her face is as white as her long ...

Chris Jennings discusses his new book "End of Days." The 1992 Ruby Ridge siege was an 11-day armed standoff between federal agents and the Weaver family that ended in 3 deaths. In his book "End of ...

Atlantic writer Robert Kagan takes a look at America’s impact on the global world order as of late. Delroy Lindo discusses his role in the Oscar-nominated thriller “Sinners.” Chris Jennings explains ...

More than 30 years ago, a standoff with a white separatist family in Idaho led to federal rules on deadly use of force. Some say Renee Macklin Good's death in Minnesota offers a similar opportunity.

This stirring account from Jennings (Paradise Now) posits that the fatal 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho was a flash point for contemporary political and religious extremism. Vicki and Randy Weaver ...

Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 627, authored by San Francisco Democrat Scott Wiener, which bans federal officers from wearing masks as they perform law enforcement duties.