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Sean Kirkpatrick ran the government’s investigation into UFOs, so he knows a lot about how misinformation and disinformation become grist for Congress and an unthinking news media
Column: Trump and his family jump into crypto, which the FBI calls a hive of ‘pervasive’ criminality
A new FBI report says the U.S. is the world center of crypto fraud. Donald Trump and his family just announced a big crypto venture.
JD Vance claims he “created stories” about Haitian immigrants to get the news media’s attention. Citing the ‘inner truth’ of lies for propaganda purposes is a technique perfected by the Nazis.
The Trump administration ended eligibility for overtime pay protection for 8.2 million workers. That makes his proposal to make OT pay tax-free hollow indeed
The NFL Players Assn. says DraftKings reneged on a bet on player NFTs, something the company would never allow its own customers to do.
After Boeing became a company run by finance executives instead of engineers, its planes began falling out of the sky. Will its new commitment to engineering and machinist workers change its trajectory?
Trump remembers, dimly, that Marco Rubio and Ivanka Trump wanted to take your Social Security to pay for family leave, and he thinks that was a good idea.
Shares in AI companies have powered a huge runup in the stock market this year, but users are beginning to question whether the craze will fall flat.
Donald Trump claims that schools are subjecting pupils to gender-changing surgery without their consent, which is his exclusive fantasy.
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Trump and Vance claim that tariffs are paid by foreign companies and that economists are divided on the topic. They’re wrong on both counts
