On Tuesday night, outside the Rome hospital where Pope Francis is being treated for a complex lung infection, the 8th King of Rome, a self-described “trash influencer” embarked on a secret mission. He wore a wig, hid his pink-and-blue-dyed beard behind a surgical mask and then ventured inside the hospital to show his followers what…
Since taking office, President Trump has threatened European countries’ security and economies, angled to take control of Greenland, and promised to “definitely” slap the nations with tariffs. Even parties that would seem to be his natural allies are nervous. Some have quietly tiptoed back from the American president. But Saturday was not the day for…
President Trump on Friday ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white, “Afrikaner refugees” into the United States because of what he called actions by the country’s government that “racially disfavored landowners.” In the order, Mr. Trump said that “the United States shall…
Los Angeles County fire crews try to take advantage of favorable weather in wildfire battle Los Angeles County fire crews try to take advantage of favorable weather in wildfire battle 04:25 While investigators work to find out what caused multiple wildfires in the Los Angeles area, some conspiracies about the fires’ origins have spread on…
Steve Bannon got out of prison exactly a week before Election Day. He was released before dawn and immediately headed to a remote studio to tape War Room, his podcast and streaming show, so as to waste no time getting back to his audience, the MAGA faithful. He had been in prison for almost four…
Social media start-up Bluesky is exploding as academics, journalist, and left-leaning politicians abandon Elon Musk’s X in search of bluer skies. Now, the platform has surpassed Meta’s Threads in user numbers, yet Threads still leads in app usage. According to data from Similarweb, app and website usage of Bluesky in the United States rose more…
On November 9, a parish priest was stabbed with a knife as he presided over mass at a Catholic church in Singapore. While the priest survived, and the attacker was subdued at the scene and subsequently handed over to the police, the vicious act shocked the city state, which is unaccustomed to such high-profile acts…
After the election, a new theory spread quickly on TikTok that a heroic presidential candidate was quietly investigating corrupt deep-state actors who rigged the results, waiting in the wings until those corrupt actors could be rounded up and tried for their crimes. If that theory sounds familiar, it’s because it’s reminiscent of QAnon. But the…
An election conspiracy theory is spreading on social media alleging that billionaire Elon Musk hacked the 2024 election in favor of President-elect Donald Trump using his Starlink satellite internet company. Conspiracy theorists allege that Starlink, a satellite constellation developed by Musk’s SpaceX designed to provide high-speed broadband internet across the globe, was connected to the…
BERLIN (Reuters) – German police have arrested eight suspected members of a right-wing militant group driven by racist ideology and conspiracy theories who had been training in warfare for the downfall of the modern German state, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The suspects are part of an organisation formed no later than November 2020 called “Saechsische…