Former US Army soldier with apparent plot to 'physically remove' racial minorities pleads guilty to separate gun charge

A former US Army soldier accused of plotting to “physically remove” Black and brown people in several North Carolina counties is now facing up to a decade in prison after pleading guilty to a separate, gun-related charge, federal prosecutors announced. Noah Edwin Anthony, 23, pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered short-barrel rifle during his Tuesday arraignment, a release from the US Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of North Carolina said. When the illegal firearm was discovered in March 2022, Anthony was stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina as...