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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – A far-right extremist from Ohio was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for firebombing a church that planned to host two drag events, a court filing showed on Tuesday. Aimenn Penny, 20, was a member of White Lives Matter, Ohio, a group with racist, pro-Nazi and homophobic views, according to the U.S. Justice Department. He was arrested last March several days after he threw Molotov cocktails at the Community Church of Chesterland in Chesterland, Ohio. Penny pleaded guilty in October to a church arson hate crime and to using fire and explosives to commit a fel…

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