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In a rare public appearance, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his long-term partner, Heather Milligan, were spotted together at the opening of the 8th Austrian World Summit in Vienna, Austria.

The summit, themed “Be Useful: Tools for a Healthy Planet,” was held at the prestigious Hofburg Palace, and the couple’s presence underscored their continued commitment to each other and their shared interests.

Schwarzenegger, 76, and Milligan, 49, have been a couple for over a decade as they first linked in 2013, shortly after Schwarzenegger’s separation from his ex-wife, Maria Shriver. The former Governor of California described Milligan as someone he “thinks the world of” and who shares his drive and independence.

The couple’s appearance at the Austrian World Summit was marked by their coordinated and stylish attire. Milligan wore a pale denim, double-breasted suit with slacks and a white shirt, accessorized with a beige Dior purse, while Schwarzenegger opted for a sharp hunter-green blazer,...

The foreword of the book The Revivalist Manifesto, written by House Speaker Mike Johnson, has come under scrutiny, along with his subsequent promotion of the book on social media and his podcast.

Authored by local Louisiana political blogger Scott McKay, the book espouses baseless conspiracy theories embraced by the far-right, such as the debunked “Pizzagate” hoax which alleged Democratic officials’ involvement in a trafficking ring.

The book makes unsubstantiated claims, such as the implication that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was blackmailed and connected to disgraced trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Additionally, the book defends podcaster Joe Rogan from racism charges after it was revealed that he used racial slurs. It goes on to disparage poor voters.

Johnson’s 300-word foreword praises McKay’s book as a valuable contribution that resonates with “freedom-loving Americans.”

Johnson’s endorsement extended beyond the foreword, as he actively promoted the book on his public social...

In the recent chronicles of Elon Musk’s bizarre behavior, his tweets reviving the #Pizzagate conspiracy theory have been overshadowed by his endorsement of an antisemitic post, and the billionaire’s subsequent call for corporations that have pulled advertising from the X platform to “go fuck yourself.”

But Musk’s Pizzagate tweets had an astonishing effect, according to a new paper from researchers at Montclair State University in New Jersey. The academics charted a more-than 9,500 percent increase in Pizzagate traffic on X (formerly Twitter) in November compared to the previous month.

If endorsing antisemitic posts wasn’t enough, Elon Musk has now advanced several rungs in the batshit conspiracy ladder into engaging with a post pushing Pizzagate.

Last week, Musk wrote “You have said the actual truth” in response to a post from an X user claiming Jewish people were responsible for promoting “dialectical hatred against whites.” The X owner promoting the antisemitic conspiracy theory drew widespread backlash, including from the White House.

The following morning, Media Matters, a nonprofit progressive media watchdog, published a study showing that X had been...

It was weird enough that misogynistic lifestyle influencer Andrew Tate, 36, and climate activist Greta Thunberg, 19, were engaged in a Twitter spat at year’s end, weeks after Tate had been reinstated on Twitter by new owner Elon Musk following a five-year suspension. Baited by this preening man-baby into a fight over carbon emissions, Thunberg thrilled the internet by delivering a knockout blow that, with 3.6 million likes, is now the fifth most-liked tweet of all time. Direct and to the point, she roasted Tate for his “small dick energy” and extreme loser vibes.

Seoul, Dec 4 (Ians) South Korea’s Trade Minister Ahn Duk-geun will visit the US for talks on the US Inflation Reduction Act (Ira) that excludes electric vehicles assembled outside North America from tax incentives, the Ministry said on Sunday.

Ahn is set to hold meetings with US Trade Representative Katherine Tai, John Podesta, the senior Adviser to the US President for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation, as well as US lawmakers during a five-day visit that begins on Monday, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.

Ahn’s visit came just days after South Korea sent its second official written opinion to Washington on tax benefits for clean hydrogen and fuel production and commercial eco-friendly cars over the weekend, Yonhap news agency reported.

South Korea provided its first official comments on EVs and related sectors in November.

The Ira, signed by US President Joe Biden in August, gives...

Decades of willfully moronic Republicans bringing snowballs onto the Senate floor to argue that climate change is a hoax. Decades of debate about carbon taxes and carbon offsets. Decades of rallies in D.C. and hoping that the next hurricane or drought or heat wave will wake up Americans to the risks of living on a superheated planet. Decades of coral reefs crumbling and species disappearing and the curve of CO2 in the atmosphere rising ever upward. Decades of loss, of rage, of fragile hope.

But now, with the climate...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-w.Va.) will oppose his party’s proposed economic package due to its inclusion of tax increases on corporations and the wealthy and funding for climate change initiatives, continuing his seemingly never-ending quest to repeatedly derail even the most moderate of legislative moves from his fellow Democrats.

The news was confirmed by both the Associated Press and The Washington Post, who cited unnamed sources familiar with the Democrats ongoing negotiations. As the Post notes, the move marks the second time Manchin has rejected a Democrat-negotiated economic package,...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s obsession with defending Russian President Vladimir Putin and former president Donald Trump hit a new low on Monday’s edition of Carlson’s nightly show. During his opening monologue, Carlson recycled a baseless conspiracy theory that it wasn’t Russia that carried out a cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential campaign, but instead a Democratic insider who stole DNC emails “from within the building” and “who wanted to show the world how Bernie Sanders was being shafted by the very same...

In a polarized and fractured society, the truth can be a subjective thing. In this panel, Rolling Stone Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief Andy Kroll talks to Vice journalist Anna Merlan (Republic of Lies), writer and producer Billy Ray (The Comey Rule), PBS News Hour White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, and writer and director Cullen Hoback (Q: Into the Storm) about how the challenges of presenting the truth have transformed in modern society, and why people have such a hard time exiting...

The inaugural Truth Seekers Summit brought together some of the brightest minds in filmmaking, music, and current events to speak on topics ranging from the impact of misinformation in media to the evolving language of documentary filmmaking. Co-hosted by Rolling Stone and Variety in partnership with Showtime, the summit featured panels, Q&a’s, and keynote discussions from marquee names in the world of documentary filmmaking. Check out 10 of the most thought-provoking moments from this week’s event.

Errol Morris on Breaking Rules

The dean of American documentary filmmaking Errol...

Rolling Stone and Variety are pleased to announce additional programming for the inaugural “Truth Seekers” virtual summit on August 26th, presented by Showtime Documentary Films. RZA will participate in a keynote conversation about creating, executive-producing, and composing Wu-Tang: An American Saga, a series that examines the Wu-Tang Clan’s formation, mega-success, and cultural influence.

Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Todd Haynes will take part in a keynote conversation about his new documentary feature, The Velvet Underground, and give an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at his creative process in telling the story of the legendary rock band.

If the truth is out there, you may be able to find it in the upcoming government report reveal on unexplained aerial phenomena. And you’ll definitely be able to find it on Discovery, Science Channel and Travel Channel.

The Discovery, Inc.-owned cable networks plan to simulcast a three-hour live event on Wednesday, June 30, exploring the report’s findings, TheWrap has learned. That is, if the highly anticipated report leaves anything unredacted.

Even if said report proves to be a dud, well, Josh Gates and the gang are going to have plenty to talk about anyway.

Gates, the face of Discovery’s “Expedition Unknown,” is set to host the live event. He’ll question top experts including NASA administrator Bill Nelson, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, former counselor to President Obama John Podesta and retired senior intelligence officer Bob Wallace. There’s also astrophysicist Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi, physicist and astronomer Robert Weryk,...

This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

The Earth’s climate has always been a work in progress. In the 4.5 billion years the planet has been spinning around the sun, ice ages have come and gone, interrupted by epochs of intense heat. The highest mountain range in Texas was once an underwater reef. Camels wandered in evergreen forests in the Arctic. Then a few million years later, 400 feet of ice formed over what is now New York City. But amid this geologic mayhem,...

Updated: “And it ends just as it began.” Jimmy Kimmel has enlisted the help of Billy Bush in a return to that notorious Access Hollywood bus incident to bid farewell to Donald Trump.

Kimmel posted a preview clip of tonight’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! in which Bush invites Trump aboard the Access Hollywood bus to make his escape from D.C. and the White House. The faux news clip, captioned “And it ends just as it began,” starts with Trump waving farewell to the press corps as he walks toward the Access Hollywood Across America Tour bus and Bush, as Bush waves Trump aboard. “Donald, hey look at you, you big lug. Get in there, come on. Game over,” Bush exclaims. “Very fine seats on both sides!” The last comment clearly was a nod to Trump’s infamous quote defending white nationalists who protested in Charlottesville in 2017, proclaiming that the...

The pandemic has seen a proliferation of conspiracy theories related to Covid-19 vaccines, 5G cellphone towers, and furniture companies promoting human trafficking. But the conspiracy theory that has perhaps gotten the biggest boost from the commander-in-chief is QAnon, the far-right belief that prominent left-wing Democratic politicians and sundry celebrities are involved in a child trafficking ring, and that President Trump is lying in wait to arrest them all. (JFK Jr., who has been dead for more than 20 years, and Beyoncé are also, somehow, involved.) The “Q” in question is an...

Update: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that their explanation for why they blocked access to the New York Post’s Hunter Biden story was “not great.”

“And blocking URL sharing via tweet or Dm with zero context as to why we’re blocking: unacceptable,” Dorsey wrote on Twitter, amid the furor over steps that the platform took as questions were raised about the veracity of the claims in the piece.

Twitter clarified that the Post article included images that contained “personal and private information — like email addresses and phone numbers — which violate our rules.” It also said that it violated their hacked materials policy, which “prohibits the use of our service to distribute content obtained without authorization. We don’t want to incentivize hacking by allowing Twitter to be used as distribution for possibly illegally obtained materials.”

The Trump campaign said that Twitter also locked the personal account of Kayleigh McEnany,...

“70 years of secrecy has led to this.”

— Jacques Vallee, world renowned scientist and UFO researcher

Movies about visitors from another world have been common place in the zeitgeist of popular culture since the likes of The Thing From Another World, The War Of The Worlds, The Day The Earth Stood Still and Invasion Of The Body Snatchers hit cinemas in the 1950’s

Now comes the explosive documentary The Phenomenon.

From director James Fox, this film being hailed as the most revealing and credible examination of the long-standing global cover up and mystery involving unidentified aerial phenomenon. Including shocking testimony from high-ranking government and military officials, NASA Astronauts, and riveting never-before seen footage, the timely film also reveals the monumental events behind the NY Times’ recent bombshell disclosure of The Pentagon’s secret UFO Program, and provides eye-opening evidence that mankind is not alone in the universe.

See it on October 6th.

Hackers from three countries — Russia, China, and Iran — are attempting to infiltrate campaign staffers, think tanks and consultants in order to influence the U.S. presidential election, according to Microsoft.

The software company shared a blog post saying that Microsoft detected cyberattacks “targeting people and organizations involved in the upcoming presidential election.” Those attacks came from three separate groups operating from three countries, wrote Tom Burt, corporate vice president of customer security and trust.

Contradicting an assessment by the director of national intelligence that claimed China preferred a Biden victory,...

This article was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration.

The period between April and December 2019 was a magical time for climate activists. The more than 20 Democratic candidates vying for the party’s nomination couldn’t stop trying to one-up each other. Candidates promised Green New Deals and millions of green jobs, initiatives to save the oceans and drilling bans on public lands. But to paraphrase Ecclesiastes, there’s a time to dream and a time to get down to business — and that...

In one of the most chilling sequences of “After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News” (there’s plenty of competition), we see dash-cam footage of Edgar Maddison Welch, the assault-rifle-toting “avenger” at the center of the Pizzagate insanity, as he drives from Salisbury, N.C., to Washington, D.C., to put an end to what he thought was a child sex-slave ring being run out of a popular restaurant. Bearded and resolved, with hipster rings on his fingers and a wool cap pulled down to his eyebrows, the 28-year-old Welch, staring at the highway ahead, looks and sounds like a meaner version of Bradley Cooper in “A Star Is Born.” Which made me think: Wouldn’t it be riveting to see an actor like Cooper play a wing-nut like Welch? Not to caricature him, but to understand him.

It’s often alleged, by those on the right, that...

Washington — Republican lawmakers took to the airwaves Sunday to defend their leader, President Trump, after a week of compelling and at times damning testimony in the House’s ongoing impeachment inquiry.

The most absurd and delusional of these appearances came on Fox News anchor Chris Wallace’s show. Wallace had invited on Republican Senator John Neely Kennedy (R-La.). At one point in the interview, Wallace showed an excerpt of former National Security Council staffer and impeachment witness Fiona Hill’s testimony this week when she chided members of the Intelligence...

1091 Media has acquired North American and digital rights to the UFO documentary The Phenomenon, with a nationwide theatrical release set for June of next year, followed by a digital release in September.

The film takes an expansive looks at 70 years' worth of history behind proving the existence of UFOs, right up to the latest discoveries.

The Phenomenon features never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with key eyewitnesses, experts and officials. Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, President Clinton’s White House chief of staff John Podesta, former Deputy Undersecretary for Defense Intelligence Christopher Mellon, and former U.S. Energy Secretary ...

1091 Media has acquired North American and digital rights to the UFO documentary The Phenomenon, with a nationwide theatrical release set for June of next year, followed by a digital release in September.

The film takes an expansive looks at 70 years' worth of history behind proving the existence of UFOs, right up to the latest discoveries.

The Phenomenon features never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with key eyewitnesses, experts and officials. Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, President Clinton’s White House chief of staff John Podesta, former Deputy Undersecretary for Defense Intelligence Christopher Mellon, and former U.S. Energy Secretary ...

It’s Roger Stone’s “time in the barrel.”

Former Trump campaign manager and White House strategist Steve Bannon testified in the Roger Stone trial on Friday, and it did not go well for Stone. Bannon, who was subpoenaed as a witness, told the court that Stone claimed to be in contact with Wikileaks prior to the release of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails, something Stone denied to the Mueller investigation and Congress.

“He had a relationship, or told me he had a relationship with WikiLeaks,” Bannon, who...

Washington — In the past year, political campaigns, parties, and pro-democracy groups around the world have faced more than 800 cyberattacks, according to new data provided to Rolling Stone by tech giant Microsoft.

“The threat is real and it’s not stopping,” Tom Burt, a vice president of customer security and trust at Microsoft, tells Rolling Stone. “Anyone involved in the democratic process needs to know that it’s likely not a question of if they’ll be targeted but whether they will be breached, and there’s a lot they can...

If there’s a worse idea than the Pentagon becoming Editor-in-Chief of America, I can’t remember it. But we’re getting there:

From Bloomberg over Labor Day weekend:

Fake news and social media posts are such a threat to U.S. security that the Defense Department is launching a project to repel “large-scale, automated disinformation attacks,” as the top Republican in Congress blocks efforts to protect the integrity of elections.

One of the Pentagon’s most secretive agencies, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), is developing “custom software...

Washington — With just a sentence or two, Robert Mueller could demolish one of the most viral and cruel conspiracy theories of the Trump era.

On Wednesday, the former special counsel will testify before the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees about his final report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and any conspiracy between Russia and members of the Trump campaign. The Justice Department has urged Mueller to “remain within the boundaries” of his report, and Mueller, a former FBI director and career G-man, will surely avoid any questions that stray...

When alleged mob boss Frank Cali was brutally gunned down in Staten Island last March, people automatically assumed that it was a Mafia-related killing by a young upstart eager to advance in the Gambino crime family, or a harbinger of a coming Mafia war. That narrative was significantly complicated, however, when details emerged that Anthony Comello, the 24-year-old man accused of murdering Cali, was alleged to not have had any Mafia ties at all, but did have a relationship with Cali’s niece, of which the Mob boss apparently did not approve.

It’s easy to laugh at and dismiss conspiracy theories as relatively harmless cranks: the idea that the earth is flat, or that aliens live on a military base in Nevada, or that JFK Jr. is still alive and disguising himself as an Italian guy from Pittsburgh, are so ludicrous on their face that it’s hard to engage with them seriously. That arguably changes, however, when kids start getting involved, as was demonstrated last night.

The baby in question appeared at the Trump rally in Greenville, North Carolina last night.

Consider, if you will, a sliding scale of celebrities. On one end of this spectrum are those who are still alive, including but not limited to: Jennifer Aniston, Justin Bieber, nine-tenths of the original cast of Beverly Hills, 90210. On the other end are those who are dead, also including but not limited to: Elvis Presley, John Belushi, and (arguably) Tupac.

On this scientific scale, John F. Kennedy Jr. falls somewhere in between Judy Garland and former Minnesota Twins center fielder Kirby Puckett; all of which is to say, he is extremely,...

Twenty years ago this month, Blink-182 released Enema of the State, an album that sold more than 15 million copies worldwide and “reimagined Green Day’s Dookie as one big, undeniably catchy fart joke” according to Rolling Stone’s list of the 40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time. Guitarist Tom DeLonge has spent the two decades since on one of the wildest paths in rock history. In the mid-2000s, DeLonge left Blink to start an an ambitious space-rock band called Angels and Airwaves. He then started seriously investigating space himself,...

Washington — Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted final report drove a dagger through the heart of one of the most notorious conspiracy theories of the Trump era: that a murdered DNC staffer named Seth Rich — not Russia — stole tens of thousands of Democratic Party emails and gave them to WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential race.

But don’t hold your breath for an apology, correction or retraction from high-profile promoters of the now-disproven theories like Sean Hannity or WikiLeaks. In the aftermath of Mueller’s report, they’ve gone silent on the subject of Seth Rich.

Alejandro Rojas May 28, 2019

History’s new UFO series features the guy who ran the Pentagon’s UFO program, but why does it also feature rockstar Tom DeLonge?

On May 31, 2019, History will premiere Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation, a new series that focuses on the ongoing UFO investigations of Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon’s UFO project, and the organization he now works for, To the Stars Academy (Ttsa). The program also includes rockstar Tom DeLonge, best known for being the front man of Blink-182. It may seem odd to see the rocker among the former government officials conducting serious investigations into the UFO phenomenon. Without DeLonge, however, the world may have never known about the Pentagon’s secret UFO project.

Back in 2017, everyone thought Tom DeLonge was crazy...some still do. For years, his obsession with UFOs made headlines. Rarely were those headlines flattering. In 2015, DeLonge...

Two days after Special Counsel Robert Mueller finished his nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and any ties between the Russian government and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, Attorney General William Barr delivered a four-page letter to Congress summarizing Mueller’s final report.

Barr’s letter claims that Mueller offers no evidence of conspiracy or collusion between members of the Trump campaign and Russia.

According to Barr — whose letter outlines the “principal conclusions” of the special counsel’s probe — Mueller finds that “[T]he investigation did not establish...

Fox News Channel has signed its former punching bag, aka Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile as a contributor.

In Monday’s announcement, the cable news network noted the veteran Dem strategist will offer political analysis across both Fnc and Fox Business Network’s daytime and primetime programming. Announcement was made just hours before her first scheduled appearance on Monday’s The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino.

“I know I’m going to get criticized from my friends in the progressive movement for being on Fox News,” Brazile said, accurately, in announcement.

“My response is that, if we’ve learned anything from the 2016 election, it is that we can’t have a country where we don’t talk to those who disagree with our political views. There’s an audience on Fox News that doesn’t hear enough from Democrats. We have to engage that audience and show Americans of...

Hillary Clinton will not seek a rematch with Donald Trump. The popular-vote winner from 2016 told reporters for News 12, a Hudson Valley station in New York, that she is not a going to be a candidate in 2020: “I’m not running,” Clinton said — but quickly added: “I’m going to keep speaking out. I’m not going anywhere.”

Speculation about a Clinton 2020 bid had quieted in recent weeks after former campaign manager John Podesta said a run was not in the cards, and after top fundraisers and loyalists like...

Washington – The family of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer whose unsolved murder in 2016 spawned a wave of conspiracy theories, has notched another legal victory against the proponents of baseless theories about Rich.

On Monday, pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi retracted a nearly year-old column published on the website Infowars, run by another notorious conspiracy peddler, Alex Jones, that promoted the unfounded claim that Rich and his brother participated in the hack of the DNC and leaked documents to WikiLeaks. In addition to the retraction, Corsi apologized to the Rich family.

Update 3 p.m. Et: A federal magistrate ordered Christopher Paul Hasson held in custody for 14 days as the government considers additional charges against him, the Washington Post reports. His public defender classified Wednesday’s filing as a “histrionic mischaracterization of Mr. Hasson.” Original story below.

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The shock begins with the opening line — “The defendant intends to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country” — and does not subside.

A detention memo filed in federal court Tuesday in the case of alleged “domestic terrorist” Christopher Paul Hasson...

Updated with Anderson Cooper remarks: A Coast Guard officer stationed in Washington, D.C., stands accused of plotting a mass terrorist attack whose intended victims include prominent journalists at MSNBC and CNN and Democratic politicians.

For now, the suspect is being held only on weapons and drug charges, but at the very top of their detention memo filied today with the U.S. District Court in Maryland, prosecutors wrote: “The defendant intends to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country.”

Lt. Christopher Hasson, 49, was arrested last week at his home in Silver Spring, MD. The court documents say authorites found a hit list on his computer that named prominent media personalities including CNN’s Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo and Van Jones and MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, Chris Hayes and Ari Melber.

Also named were politicians including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; Sens. Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker,...

Washington — For the second time in six months, Microsoft publicly announced that it detected what appeared to be Russian intelligence agents attempting to hack into think-tank organizations that have been critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime.

The tech company revealed on Tuesday night that more than 100 of its accounts were targeted. The accounts in question belonged to European employees of three think tanks: the German Council on Foreign Relations, the Aspen Institute affiliates in Europe and the German Marshall Fund. Microsoft said the attacks took the form...

It’s official. The Bern is in.

Ending a lengthy period of deliberation, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who won over 1,800 delegates and captured 43 percent of the Democratic Party vote in 2016, announced his candidacy in an email to supporters this morning.

“Brothers and Sisters,” Sanders writes. “I have decided to run for president of the United States.”

Sanders goes on to promise “an unprecedented and historic grassroots campaign” that will “begin with at least a million people from across the country.”

The email contains a lengthy list of policy positions...

As Democratic candidates announce their intent to run against President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, none yet has really been a surprise. But, according to CNN’s Jeff Zeleny, one unexpected contender may still enter the race: Hillary Clinton.

“Clinton is telling people that she’s not closing the doors to the idea of running in 2020,” Zeleny said on Inside Politics. “I’m told by three people that as recently as this week, she was telling people that, given all this news from the indictments, particularly the Roger Stone indictment,...

The lies appear to have finally caught up to Roger Stone.

On Friday morning, the former Trump adviser and longtime Republican operative was indicted as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s coordination with Russia during the 2016 election. Stone was charged with seven counts — including obstruction of justice, witness tampering and making false statements to Congress — stemming from his connection to WikiLeaks, the organization that published thousands of hacked Democratic emails prior to the 2016 election.

The pre-dawn arrest was made in dramatic fashion, with...

Washington — John Podesta has given it a lot of thought and believes the best way to deal with the trolls is to ignore them. His wife, Mary, however, takes a different approach. When angry people call their home in the middle of the night, she has a conversation with them.

“She sits on the phone and talks to them, which is disconcerting actually to most of the people who are calling just to leave a nasty message on your voicemail,” Podesta says. “When somebody actually engages them and says, ‘Why are you doing this?...

Here are things Roger Stone denied in his interview with George Stephanopoulos on This Week on Sunday:

That he ever communicated with Julian Assange, despite multiple emails and video of public remarks by Stone himself that claim otherwise That he knew anything about Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta’s emails leaking before it happened That there was any collusion between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia That he has had any contact with the Robert Mueller investigation

The interview begins with Stephanapoulos lining up emails where Stone claims he...

Vice President Mike Pence tweeted, and soon deleted, a photo on Friday showing him with a police officer who wore a patch with a “Q” patch, signaling belief in the QAnon conspiracy, prominently displayed on his uniform. QAnon is an internet-based baseless anti-government conspiracy theory that has been pushing the lie that President Donald Trump is in cahoots with military officials to target members of what they consider to be the government’s “deep state,” who they believe run pedophile rings.

The conspiracy theory started on internet message board 4Chan with mysterious,...

Washington — Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and “pit bull” for President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress about a potential real-estate development in Moscow that he tried to broker for the Trump Organization.

In a 10-page “criminal information” filing, Special Counsel Robert Mueller describes how Cohen misled the House and Senate intelligence committees about the details and timing of the proposed “Moscow Project,” as it’s referred to in the filing.

In August 2017, Cohen sent a two-page letter to both intel committees in which he...

Jerome Corsi thinks he’s taking the high road. The conspiracy theorist staring down a perjury indictment said on Monday that he’d rather “sit in prison and rot” than take the plea deal offered to him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his “thugs.” Mueller’s office reportedly has proof that Corsi lied to investigators about whether he knew details of WikiLeaks’ plan to release hacked Democratic emails prior to the 2016 election. Though it has become clear that he did know about the leak ahead of time, Corsi has...

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly offered conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi a plea bargain in connection with his investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. Corsi, a vocal birther during the Obama years and an early proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory, proclaimed his innocence on Twitter Sunday.

“I continue to support Donald Trump and I did not lie to Mueller’s inquisition. I invite you all to watch, starting tomorrow. Q attackers join hard-left in trashing me. #Maga,” he wrote.

In an interview with the New York Times,...