Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man wears a QAnon T-shirt in New Hampshire in August 2020 (AFP via Getty Images) The Justice Department asked a federal court on ...

Journalists and academics have been warning about the potential for misinformation to wreak havoc on the 2024 election. But QAnon, arguably the most consequential political conspiracy theory in recent ...

It’s hard going to read compounding tales of people ruining their marriages and relationships with their children; losing their friends; getting ostracized from their communities; turning family ...

On a Saturday afternoon in October 2020, in a small hotel conference room just outside Phoenix, Arizona, the mood was buoyant. A gentleman wearing an unusual and elaborate headpiece scoffed and ...

The Calif. surf instructor, charged with killing his 2-year-old son Kaleo and 10-month-old daughter Roxy in Mexico in 2021, is currently considered incompetent to stand trial Matthew Taylor Coleman, a ...

The most enduring conspiracy theories often contain kernels of truth, though it is debatable whether any popularly theorized conspiracy has later been proven as real by unassailable facts. But if one ...

For many of Donald Trump‘s supporters, today is a dark day indeed: The president pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts today after being formally arrested in a Manhattan courtroom. But for those in ...

I once met a former Scientologist at a backyard barbecue who explained to me how L. Ron Hubbard, the mediocre science fiction author who founded the Church of Scientology in the 1950s, got his ...

The Justice Department asked a federal court on July 18, 2025, to unseal grand jury transcripts in Jeffrey Epstein’s case. The direction from President Donald Trump came after weeks of frustration ...