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Austrian police officers stand in front of a new police station which is located in Adolf Hitler’s birth house in Braunau am Inn, Austria, Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Adolf Hitler’s birthplace in Austria reopens as a police station to deter Nazi pilgrimages

July 22, 2026 at 4:40 p.m.

Adolf Hitler’s birthplace in Austria was officially inaugurated as a police station on Wednesday in an effort to destroy the building’s appeal as a site of pilgrimage for people who...

FILE – Taylor Swift performs at the Paris Le Defense Arena during her Eras Tour concert in Paris, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, File)

Suspect in Taylor Swift Vienna concert attack plot convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison

May 28, 2026 at 3:45 p.m.

An Austrian court has convicted a man of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna nearly two years ago.

FILE – Austrian police officers watch a gathering of Taylor Swift fans in the city centre in Vienna on Aug. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader, File)

Man pleads guilty to plotting attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna

April 28, 2026 at 12:49 p.m.

A man accused of pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and plotting to attack one of superstar singer Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna nearly two years ago pleaded guilty as his trial began...

Rescue service personnel attend the scene of a shooting at a school in Graz, Austria, Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (Kleine Zeitung via AP)

A former student opens fire at an Austrian school, killing 10 and taking his own life

June 10, 2025 at 4:08 p.m.

A former student opened fire at a school in Austria’s second-biggest city on Tuesday, fatally wounding 10 people and injuring many others before taking his own life, authorities said.

Markus Soeder, Prime Minister of Bavaria, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Dieter Reiter (SPD),Mayor of Munich, from right, bring flowers to the site where a car crashed into a Ver.di demonstration the day before, Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Prosecutors see an Islamic extremist motive in the Munich car-ramming attack

February 14, 2025 at 8:33 a.m.

The suspect in the car-ramming attack in Munich that left more than 30 people injured appears to have had an Islamic extremist motive, but there’s no evidence that he was...

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