CHICAGO, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's inauguration has become a rallying call for hate groups, experts say.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- White supremacist activity and racial incidents have skyrocketed since U.S. President-elect Barack Obama won the Nov. 4 election, experts say.

DETROIT, May 12 (UPI) -- The leader of the largest U.S. neo-Nazi group says he plans to use the economic downturn in Detroit to recruit members.

MONTGOMERY, Ala., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A Civil War memorial on the grounds of the Alabama statehouse was vandalized, with the face of a Confederate soldier painted over.

CHICAGO, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The United States is playing host to hundreds of foreign-language Internet sites used to spread hate messages outlawed in many countries.

EAST LANSING, Mich., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A vocal Michigan State University student group has landed alongside Klan factions and neo-Nazis on the Southern Poverty Law Center's active hate groups list.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The prolific hangman's noose threatens to replace the burning cross as the reigning symbol of hate in the United States,

AMARILLO, Texas, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The Ku Klux Klan has raised its profile in many U.S. states, including Texas and Indiana, using anti-immigrant sentiment as an issue, a report said Friday. The Klan has held rallies or distributed fliers in many U.S. cities during the past year, including

BISBEE, Ariz., Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A jury in Arizona has awarded almost $100,000 to two Mexican-American hunters who claimed they were threatened by an anti-immigration activist.