Amid allegations of bribery and hiring prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bed, one of the Steele dossier’s most shocking claims was that Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, met secretly in Prague with Kremlin officials in August 2016 to discuss “deniable cash payments” to hackers loyal to Russia, paying them to cover up supposed ties between Moscow and the Trump campaign. (Cohen denies this accusation and Robert Mueller’s investigation did not corroborate claims that Cohen traveled to Prague.) Just last month, in October 2020, a source in the U.S. intelligence community finally revealed to the newspaper The Wall Street Journal that Christopher Steele’s information about Cohen’s alleged meeting in Prague came from a former RIA Novosti journalist named Olga Galkina. The name of the man who links Galkina to the Steele dossier — Igor Danchenko, a former senior research analyst at the Brookings Institution — had already leaked to the press earlier this year, when Republicans in the Senate Judiciary Committee published a summary of the FBI’s interviews with him from 2017. The report, declassified by President Trump’s attorney general, was redacted, but bloggers quickly used clues left visible in the document to identify Danchenko, whose lawyer now verifies that he collected opposition research for Christopher Steele and told the FBI what he knew about the report on condition of anonymity. Meduza explores how outing Igor Danchenko made it possible to identify the Steele dossier’s other sources. We then contacted these individuals to find out what they think now about their role in the report.

Milwaukee County Supervisor Ryan Clancy has apologized for promoting the Weatherizatiion Assistance Program with the rap song "WAP".

GTV, the media platform operated by Steve Bannon’s billionaire benefactor Guo Wengui (who also goes by Miles Guo), has fully embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory over the past week, carrying a YouTube series that The New York Times calls “core QAnon content” that “many QAnon believers have credited with spurring their interest in the group.”

Multiple suspects armed with rifles opened fire in Vienna on Monday, killing one and injuring several others across six locations in the city, local police said on Twitter. One of the suspects was fatally shot by officers, police said. Interior Minister Karl Nehammer called the incident an apparent terror attack and said another suspect was on the run, BBC News reported. "At the moment I can confirm we believe this is an apparent terror attack," Nehammer said. Police said the incident began near the Seitenstettengasse synagogue around 8 p.m. local time. It's unclear if the synagogue was a target of the violence. Police urged residents to keep away from the area and to avoid using public transit, saying shots were fired in the busy Inner City district.

In recent weeks, after Alma Bowman became a key witness for medical misconduct at an immigration jail, ICE moved to deport her.

A federal judge on Monday rejected another last-ditch Republican effort to invalidate nearly 127,000 votes in Houston because the ballots were cast at drive-thru polling centers established during the pandemic. The lawsuit was brought by conservative Texas activists who have railed against expanded voting access in Harris County, where a record 1.4 million early votes have already been cast. The county is the nation’s third largest and a crucial battleground in Texas, where President Donald Trump and Republicans are bracing for the closest election in decades on Tuesday. [But then Hanen has to Hanen] But Hanen still expressed doubts about whether Texas law allowed anyone to vote from their car, even in a pandemic. “If I were voting tomorrow, I would not vote in a drive-thru just out of my concern as to whether that’s legal or not,” Hanen said.

Can Cuomo kill the left’s best chance at its own political party?

J.D. Vance, the author of 'Hillbilly Elegy,' tweeted that 'daylight savings time reduces fertility' in a dog-whistle to white nationalists.

Kyle Rittenhouse cried, vomited and worried about negative social media comments after turning himself in to a far north suburban police department following the fatal shooting of two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last summer, according to newly released documents. Rittenhouse, 17, and his mother appeared in the lobby of the Antioch police station around 1:20 a.m. Aug. 26, just hours after prosecutors say the teenager shot three men with an AR-15-style rifle, killing two of them. Police reports show Rittenhouse repeatedly acknowledged his role in the shooting during his conversations with officers, though he insisted he had been protecting himself. “I shot two white kids,” he told police, according to documents obtained late Friday under a Freedom of Information Act request that village officials initially denied.

Vladimir Marugo, the owner of Meat Empire, and his partner were in a sauna when they were attacked.

Despite appeals from the president and his son, few of his supporters have shown up to watch early voting. One explanation: The task is just too boring.

The United States has become a grotesque shadow of itself. The absurd Trump regime is a symptom, not a cause.

Masked attackers killed Vladimir Marugov in the sauna at his country estate.

Enter the scenes from Alamance County in Graham, North Carolina on Saturday, where a diverse crowd of people—white, Black, even children among them—were marching to the polls and rallying along the way to encourage people to vote, until they were forcibly dispersed by cops from the Graham Police Department who decided to indiscriminately start pepper spraying them.

16 years ago, two high-profile soccer teams had a heated rivalry explode, and unlike the modern Pizzagate, there was actual pizza involved

Mulaney provided an inexplicable argument during his 'Saturday Night Live' monologue, suggesting 'nothing' would change if Biden beat Trump.

Thousands of tenants haven’t paid full rent.

The wormholes and the single black hole are inversely weighted by, basically, how much entanglement entropy they have. Wormholes have a lot, so they receive a low weighting and are thus unimportant at first. But their entropy decreases, whereas that of the Hawking radiation keeps climbing. Eventually the wormholes become the dominant of the two, and they take over the dynamics of the black hole. The shift from one geometry to the other is impossible in classical general relativity — it is an inherently quantum process. The extra geometric configuration and the transition process that accesses it are the two main discoveries of the analysis.

How long it will take long-Covid patients to recover remains unknown. Dr. Putrino said most of them won’t get better on their own, and will need at least six months of structured rehabilitation.

“Half of what you learned in college is wrong,” my biology professor, David Lange, once said. “Problem is, we don’t know which half.” How right he was.