From 1946-1956, many Americans mailed money to a man alleging he was a still-alive Hitler, plotting a revolution with “invisible spaceships.” He signed his letters “Furrier No. 1.” | Continue reading
A military contractors’ report circulating on Capitol Hill claims to have evidence that COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab. It’s filled with information that’s just plain wrong. | Continue reading
More than a dozen sources in Trump’s orbit said they could not say whether the Silicon Valley luminary was going to play any meaningful role in the election, like he did in 2016. | Continue reading
They’re Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid without the charm but with all of the bravado. | Continue reading
The president and members of his task force are skeptical of the numbers and want the methodology changed. | Continue reading
Welcome to the Trump-era Patriot Act: a law that protects politicians while giving the government greater knowledge of the websites you searched for and visited. | Continue reading
The more Pompeo publicly blames a Chinese lab for the coronavirus pandemic, one State Department official said, “the higher the chances of an Iraq intel repeat happening.” | Continue reading
“You don’t want something like this out on the street before it needs to be,” one GOP said. “It just makes it much harder to do.” | Continue reading
Wartime president? His only war is the same one it’s been all his life: against truth, against facts, against anything that might expose the warped reality of who he is. | Continue reading
The president wants to get back on the trail. His aides are trying to figure out how. | Continue reading
John Ratcliffe’s campaign Twitter account follows Pizzagaters, JFK Jr. conspiracists, and a 9/11 Truther account with just one follower besides himself. | Continue reading
A homeless professional model conducted a sting operation and, posing as a famous musician, attempted to seize a hotel suite in the Ritz-Carlton on May Day. | Continue reading
Palantir, a longtime partner of intelligence agencies, co-founded by major Trump backer Peter Thiel, is helping build “the single source for [coronavirus] testing data.” | Continue reading
The company misconfigured a server so that anyone with an internet connection could access its source code, a security firm found. | Continue reading
Anti-vaxxers are ready to pounce if the furious push for a COVID-19 fix runs into trouble. | Continue reading
The Fox News star took to both Twitter and his radio show to seethe with rage about a column lamenting his role in the spread of coronavirus misinformation. | Continue reading
The tweets by Donald Trump’s personal attorney now link to a message: “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules.” | Continue reading
“We’ve been in this space a long time where there is a lot of misinformation that takes on a life of its own, and governments use it for propaganda purposes.” | Continue reading
“We’re being seen as walking Petri dishes.” | Continue reading
“We’re on the Italian track,” of mass infection among healthcare providers, one expert said. | Continue reading
A State Department cable obtained by The Daily Beast says the U.S. and the American people are the “greatest humanitarians the world has ever known.” | Continue reading
The Georgia Republican is the second senator who has gotten rid of their holdings right as the stock market went bad. | Continue reading
Kushner was tasked with carrying out research into the coronavirus to help Trump decide what to do next. | Continue reading
Many large events are canceled or banned, but some people think they have answers to a deadly pandemic—even if it means getting in a room together. | Continue reading
Manning is still set to appear in court for a hearing on Friday, where a federal judge will rule on a motion to terminate civil contempt sanctions against her. | Continue reading
Some people see the prospect of a deadly virus and a 14-day quarantine and run far, far away. Others see the deal of a lifetime. | Continue reading
She was picked to replace Arianna Huffington as chief editor of the news outlet in 2016. | Continue reading
Hopes were high last year, with so many well-qualified female candidates. Now, we have two very old white men. | Continue reading
It was one of the surest signs yet that the highest levels of the U.S. intelligence community were treating the coronavirus outbreak like a significant operational concern. | Continue reading
Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got “unauthorized access” to its list of customers. | Continue reading
Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got “unauthorized access” to its list of customers. | Continue reading
Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got “unauthorized access” to its list of customers. | Continue reading
Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got “unauthorized access” to its list of customers. | Continue reading
“You don’t want people with a contagious illness deciding, ‘I’m too afraid.’” | Continue reading
The U.S. government is working on an atomic rocket to send satellites into the vast space between Earth and the moon—before Beijing gets there with its own spacecraft. | Continue reading
Obama was set to try the Sept. 11 co-conspirators in Manhattan. Bloomberg backed it—until cops and real-estate developers turned closure for an atrocity into a NIMBY concern. | Continue reading
“If all the candidates want to get rid of super PACs, count me in. I’ll lead the charge,” Sen. Warren said in Las Vegas on Thursday. | Continue reading
The move came amid pressure from New Yorker staffers to eliminate the controversial practice, which the magazine had famously exposed in its reporting on Harvey Weinstein. | Continue reading
While defending against charges of sexism, Bloomberg declared he pays women the same as men. But publicly available information shows that may not be true. | Continue reading
Lawyers acting for the WikiLeaks founder said Dana Rohrabacher, a former Republican congressman, had brought the message to London from Trump. | Continue reading
Lawyers acting for the WikiLeaks founder said Dana Rohrabacher, a former Republican congressman, had brought the message to London from Trump. | Continue reading
“I watched his wife on television,” Trump said of his decision to pardon Blago after seeing his spouse on Fox. The network seems to have influenced several of Tuesday’s pardons. | Continue reading
“I think he feels like the chains are off now,” said one senior administration official. “Everything that used to be hush hush is now just…out in the open.” | Continue reading
Kim Jong Un canceled a big parade with no real explanation just as the South Korean press reports coronavirus has hit North Korea hard and could explode there. | Continue reading
From Argentina to Canada, there is no religious movement growing faster, says an expert. But how serious is worshipping ‘Saint Death?’ | Continue reading
The newspaper’s Kobe Bryant tweet mess last week wasn’t the first time WaPo bosses got into heated clashes with reporters over social-media policy. | Continue reading
Two weeks ago, Cosmos 2542 started tailing a secret Pentagon space reconnaissance telescope. Analysts wonder if it’s some kind of preparation for an attack. | Continue reading
If there was ever a case for hating the messenger, not the message, this would be it. | Continue reading