The New York Police Department on Wednesday charged a Muslim teenager whose story about being harassed on the subway by a group of Donald Trump supporters had gone viral with filing a false report. The backlash was swift.

Officials who blocked the construction of a proposed mosque in Bernards Township, New Jersey disparaged Muslims and Islam in private emails, according to court documents filed by lawyers for the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge (ISBR).

Before arriving armed last week at a Washington D.C. pizza restaurant to investigate a bogus online conspiracy theory, a North Carolina man tried to recruit friends to join him and appeared to bid farewell to his family in case he was killed in the course of his mission.

Since the Islamic Center of Culpeper was founded in northern Virginia in 2011, worshippers met for daily prayers and holidays at a cramped, ill-equipped house located on the site of a used car dealership.

After a five-year effort to find a permanent site that was economical and large enough to house its congregants, the ICC applied for a sanitation permit to begin construction on a mosque on a stretch of land on Rixeyville Road. But in April, after receiving a flood of complaints from residents, county supervisors voted to block the permit, effectively blocking construction of the building.

According to a lawsuit the U.S. Justice Department filed Monday in federal court in Virginia, that decision represented a discriminatory effort on the part of Culpeper County to keep Muslim worshippers from having a permanent place to gather and to pray.

It took just one day for a Fox Business guest's unsubstantiated claims about compounds of Islamic extremists stockpiling weapons across the U.S. to lead to a personal attack on one Muslim family in Alaska.

Civil rights groups are asking President-elect Donald Trump to swat down discussion among his backers of reinstating a registry of Muslim immigrants, which one surrogate favorably compared to the forced internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

In the wake of Donald Trump’s upset presidential win, the small yet vocal cohort of white nationalists who supported his campaign are refocusing their efforts from trolling liberals online to running for elected office.

Their reasoning: If a candidate who appealed to the tide of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim sentiment surging on the country’s right could win over voters, why not one who is openly "pro-white"?

A state court judge in Nevada on Tuesday expressed skepticism about a lawsuit filed by the Donald Trump campaign the day before that alleged that the closing times at certain early voting poll sites in Las Vegas had been illegally extended.

The judge, Gloria Sturnam, denied the Trump campaign's request for a court order after it had already received an informal confirmation that the information about poll workers at the sites relevant to the case would be preserved.

"I am not going to issue any order. I am not going to do it," Sturnam said.

The Donald Trump campaign filed a lawsuit Monday against election officials in Clark County, Nevada, which includes Las Vegas, CNN reported.

The Trump campaign is suing Joe P. Gloria, the Clark County registrar of voters, claiming that he kept polling locations open for “two hours beyond the designated closing time,” according to CNN.

Early voting surged in the Las Vegas area, particularly in locations in Latino communities, like a Hispanic grocery store where voters waited in lines for hours, according to reports.

Nevada elections officials deny the Trump campaign's claims. A Clark County spokesman told CNN that officials only allowed those who arrived at the polling place by the official closing time to vote. He denied that the closing times were extended.