Friday, July 31, 2026

Tag: conspiracy theories

Shooting at press dinner fuels conspiracy spiral as political distrust deepens

An attempted assassination charge outside the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner triggered urgent security questions, but the political aftershocks spread far wider, exposing how conspiracy culture, rising extremism, and collapsing trust are reshaping responses to violence in America.

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones appeal on Sandy Hook defamation judgments

The Court’s decision leaves in place $1.4 billion in damages for the families of Sandy Hook victims as Jones faces bankruptcy, receivership, and the liquidation of Infowars assets.

Senate Democrats investigate RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine purge at CDC

Bernie Sanders and top Senate Democrats demand answers after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ousts all 17 CDC vaccine experts and installs anti-vaccine activists in their place.

Trump turns on MAGA over Epstein files as transparency backlash grows

Trump once capitalized on Epstein conspiracy theories to galvanize his base. Now, facing demands for accountability, he lashes out at the very supporters who helped propel him back into power.

Alex Jones agrees to liquidate Infowars empire to pay $1.5 billion...

This historic move follows years of misinformation and defamation by Jones regarding the tragic 2012 school shooting.

The Big Fix sticks: nothing impedes Trumpist fealty to its endlessly...

Will ANY Trump crime or conviction, no matter how heinous or despicable, alienate backers who not only believe Trump is incapable of evil but also see him as the lone savior against countless enemies?

‘Conspiracism’ poisons the rightwing fringe; progressives not immune, just much smarter

What changes before 2024 if the GOP can’t exit the pandemic-decimated, insurrectionist Trump train wreck?

The rise of partisan conspiracy theories

There may not be more conspiracies circulating, but their dissemination has become much easier and their audience much larger.

Debunking Trump and corporate media’s WHO/China coverup conspiracy theories

Persistent myths are allegations of Chinese manipulation of the World Health Organization (WHO), and blaming Chinese secrecy for the ack of early action on containing the coronavirus.

Conspiracy theorist in chief: Trump lie about 2 million illegal votes...

Trump’s conspiracy theories were so attractive that they won him the election. They could even win him a second.

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The headquarters of CalSTRS, the California teachers' pension fund at the center of The Lever's reporting. Photo: Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Watchdog reporting examines a pension officer’s fossil fuel trades and a fire truck monopoly

The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.
A crowd at an immigration protest, one person holding a hand-lettered sign and another filming on a phone.

Advocates sue Trump administration over secret dossiers compiled on ‘ICE watchers’

The Electronic Privacy Information Center and three legal observers say the agencies used facial recognition, body cameras and license plate readers to identify people who lawfully record enforcement operations, in breach of the Privacy Act of 1974.
The Mississippi State Capitol building in Jackson

Mississippi pension fund sues Apollo Global Management over downplayed Epstein ties

The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory

U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Slams U.S. “Complicity” as Trump Meets Netanyahu Despite ICC Warrant

We speak to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, about Israel’s continued impunity from international law.
A view across Kryvyi Rih, the central Ukrainian city where six people were killed in a suburb during the overnight assault. Photo: Tiia Monto / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Russia escalates bombing campaign on Ukrainian cities amid missile defense shortages

Rescuers pulled a 93-year-old woman from a damaged Lviv apartment block as Kyiv pressed allies to speed delivery of anti-ballistic interceptors.