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For years, adherents of the pro-Trump QAnon movement and MAGA influencers in its orbit spread unhinged conspiracy theories about human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children by powerful liberal elites. Many believed that Trump was engaged in a secret war with this cabal of predators and would eventually bring …

It has been more than four years since a pair of elite special operations soldiers were found murdered in the woods on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and no one has been convicted of the crime. Master Sgt. William “Billy” Lavigne II, an active-duty Delta Force operator, and Chief Warrant Officer …

Call me crazy, but I have certain expectations of any establishment calling itself a “diner.” In general, I shouldn’t have to wait for a seat. The interior ambiance should be warm and welcoming, with comfortable booths — perhaps with their padding slightly worn from years of visits from loyal customers. …

O n a long stretch of County Road 106 East, somewhere near the border of Texas and Oklahoma, three conspicuously souped-up trucks pull off to the side of the road. It’s around 6 p.m. on a warm spring evening in late April, and it just started raining, the thick drops …

The French writer Gustave Flaubert famously warned, “You mustn’t touch your idols; the gilt will come off on your hands.” The reverse is true, too. Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, who died this past Thursday at the age of 71, left gold paint fingerprints all over the childhood memories of …

Pulitzer Prize-winning podcaster Maggie Freleng has spent years advocating for the wrongly incarcerated — and her next project is a hell of a tale. A burned body, an alleged violent sexual assault, reportedly crooked cops, and a citizen sleuth with the power to potentially ruin lives, Bone Valley 3: Graves …

In August 2020, Amy Tripp, an astrologer who goes by @starheal on socialmedia, tweeted to her tens of thousands of Twitter followers that Kamala Harris would be running for president in 2024, because of the politician’s Saturn return, which occurs when Saturn is once again in the position it was …

More than three years after prediction-market startup Polymarket was blocked in the U.S. as part of a settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for failing to register as a derivatives trading platform, the company announced it had found a path back into the country. “Polymarket has acquired QCEX, a …

Zach Bryan closed out his three-night run in New Jersey with a bang. Before the musician hit the stage on Sunday, July 20, the Bruce Springsteen record “House of a Thousand Guitars” blared throughout MetLife Stadium. It was a hometown homage to the veteran artist (“I’m Goin’ Down” opened the …

There was a lot that filmmaker Dani Sloane was drawn to when she first read Matt Sullivan’s 2022 Rolling Stone feature “Before the Dentist Knows You’re Dead,” about the death of Bianca Rudolph, allegedly at the hands of her husband, Larry. “It was before any verdict was issued,” she remembers. …