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Far-right Republican activist Jason Miller, who became an informal adviser to President Donald Trump in 2017 and is now a senior adviser for his re-election campaign, has been involved in…
In the previous four installments of this series, I chronicled the attempts made by an old friend to convince me of an outlandish conspiracy theory being promoted by the group…
On Wednesday morning, veteran journalist Bob Woodward released audio recordings of two damning interviews with Donald Trump, conducted in the weeks before the coronavirus pandemic swept the U.S. In those conversations, the president…
For John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Double Fantasy," the big day finally arrived on Thursday, August 7, 1980. John had not recorded any new original music at a professional recording…
A top U.S. Postal Service official warned the agency's leaders on Thursday that "supply chain" issues may prevent voters from getting their ballots on time, according to a recording to…
Attorney General Bill Barr's decision to abruptly replace a career official who led a Justice Department office that oversees the legality of national security policy with a political appointee sparked…
The Democrat-controlled House Foreign Affairs Committee announced Friday that it is launching contempt proceedings against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his "alarming disregard" for the law and ongoing defiance…
First lady Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention was overshadowed by an invitee list ripe with far-right fringe views and multiple likely violations of federal ethics laws. The…
Russian-sponsored Twitter trolls, who so aggressively exploited social media to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, didn't stop when Donald Trump was elected president. Even after the election, they remained…
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin suggested that Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris "prostituted" herself for "better press" coverage as Harris spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.…