Mosque shooting suspects influenced by incel rage and Raúl Castro indicted: Morning Rundown

Morning RundownMosque shooting suspects influenced by incel rage and Raúl Castro indicted: Morning RundownPlus, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin warns against giving compensation to Jan. 6 rioters through the Trump administration’s new “anti-weaponization” fund.Listen to this article with a free account00:0000:00ShareAdd NBC News to GoogleMay 21, 2026, 7:04 AM EDTBy Elizabeth RobinsonWritings believed to have been written by the San Diego mosque shooting suspects contain extremist language including neo-Nazi ideology. The Justice Department indicts former Cuban President Raúl Castro. Plus, an analysis of Texas death row inmates’ last words.Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Here’s what to know today.San Diego mosque suspects’ writings reveal influence of online extremism, experts sayAdd NBC News to GoogleInvestigators looking into manifesto left by San Diego shooting suspects03:22A 75-page document that appears to have been written by the two teenage suspects in this week’s deadly attack on a San Diego mosque is replete with neo-Nazi ideology, incel rage and racist meme culture from the darkest corners of the internet. And in an echo of the 2019 massacre at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, the gunmen appeared to have worn body cameras that livestreamed their assault, video of which circulated online.This is Morning Rundown, a weekday newsletter to start your day. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.The gunmen, identified by authorities as Caleb Vazquez and Cain Clark, killed three people in the shooting Monday at the Islamic Center of San Diego before they took their own lives, authorities said.The purported writings from Vazquez and Clark shed light on the harrowing realities of violent extremism in the early 21st century, a time marked in part by an increase in high-profile, ideologically driven shootings and magnified by the chaotic nature of the modern internet.Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a university...