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After a social media firestorm based on misinformation, a proposal to create a new housing authority to help rebuild after January's wildfires fails to pass in the state Legislature.
A Fox News reporter held White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s feet to the fire on Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday. A day after President Donald Trump complained on Truth Social that MAGA supporters fixated on the “Jeffrey Epstein hoax” were “buying into bulls--t,
Gov. Tim Walz sat down with FOX9 for his first TV interview since the assassinations of Melissa and Mark Hortman. He says he pushed through grief, but it hits when he doesn't expect it. He dismissed some conspiracy theories about the accused gunman and addressed criticism of his sometimes heated remarks aimed at President Trump.
Kat Timpf, who learned she had breast cancer hours before giving birth to her son, is taking more time off from Fox News' 'Gutfeld!' for reconstructive surgery.
The problem with a conspiracy theory is, of course, the more you talk about it, the more interest people take in it. The whole thing is born of distrust — so who wants to listen to someone telling them there’s nothing to see, even if that someone is Trump himself?
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When you’re a true-blue conspiracy theorist, none of that matters. What’s real is only what you want to believe, not what the evidence shows.But when it comes to one of the most popular conspiracy theories in American history—the explosive case of Jeffrey Epstein—the rules of conspiracism only partly apply.
The letter seemed to endorse a persistent conspiracy theory: that cloud seeding “could have played a role” in causing the floods in Texas that have killed at least 132 people. The Florida law — and Uthmeier’s letter underscoring it — is the latest example in a surge of right-wing support for conspiracy theories that have spread across social media in recent years.
Escalating import tariffs are beginning to show up in the prices that consumers pay. The President has backtracked on his promise to release government's files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and the Senate has approved a cut of more than one billion dollars for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – which provides money to NPR,