President Donald Trump spent months earlier this year playing up the promise of the old anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in the fight against COVID-19. And along the way, he convinced the right-wing media to go along with him, boosting the drug even though there was no real proof of its efficacy against the virus.  Now that Trump is fighting his own case of COVID-19 without his miracle drug, the hydroxychloroquine advocates who followed his lead are pretty frustrated.  Dr. Stella Immanuel, the Houston-based doctor and preacher who specializes in demons and alien DNA, was part of a group of doctors who in July falsely declared hydroxychloroquine a “cure” for COVID-19. Trump shared a video of the group on his Twitter account and subsequently called Immanuel “very impressive.” 

Jason Gelinas lived a normal suburban life with a plum Wall Street gig. He also ran the conspiracy theory’s biggest news hub.

Leaders of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn, the country's third most popular party in parliament during the debt crisis, were found guilty of running a criminal group, a Greek appeals court ruled on Wednesday. The court ruled that seven former Golden Dawn MPs, including its leader, Nikos Michaloliakos, were guilty of leading a criminal organisation, while the others were found guilty of participation in one. Earlier, the court found Golden Dawn sympathiser Yiorgos Roupakias guilty of killing 34-year old anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas in 2013. Roupakias confessed to the stabbing, which triggered the party’s demise as public outrage reached a tipping point and prompted a crackdown against the Golden Dawn. More than 15,000 people gathered for an anti-fascist rally outside the Athens courthouse on Wednesday. Applause broke out in and outwith the courtroom as Roupakias, who was found to have delivered the final stab wounds, was found guilty. Some 2,000 police officers have been brought into the city over fears that violence would break out between anti-fascists and Golden Dawn supporters. Riot police fired tear gas into the crowds as people chanted anti-fascist slogans, with observers from Amnesty International describing police use of the chemical weapon as “indiscriminate". Nils Muižnieks, Amnesty International’s Europe Director, said the ruling sends a message that violence and hate crimes will be ignored.

How an aspirational slogan for men rejects the anxiety of gender

In an effort to fight deplatforming by big tech, right-wing blogger Dave Rubin launched a site called Locals. Let's see how it's going.

A professor, Craig Chapman, was placed on leave after he was exposed for allegedly posing as an 'immigrant woman of color' on Twitter.

The boy was dragged into Lake Victoria from Mbita in Kenya by a hippo while horrified men and women stood on the shore launching sticks and stones at the animal There is no honor in killing a defenseless tiny human calf.

President Donald Trump is once again warning voters that Democrats would "shut our economy and jobs down" if they win in November.

The West Wing and the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room received a deep cleaning by a White House employee on Monday after President Trump was discharged from Walter Reed.

The government art competition now requires hunting imagery, a change that some wildlife painters say undermines its conservation message.

A member of the Fort Worth school board’s Racial Equity Committee struck a nerve with some residents when he argued in a column that “wealthy white folks” are controlling the back-to-school debate, with some saying his column labeled a large swath of people as racist. Max Krochmal serves as a volunteer co-chair of the school board-appointed committee. On Sept. 22, the day the school board was set to vote again on the back-to-school date, an opinion column by Krochmal about the online learning debate appeared in the Fort Worth Weekly. He wrote that “the demands for ‘rigor’ and ‘choice’ and now ‘in-person’ activities from the ultra-privileged have a habit of steamrolling other voices and our collective conversations on equity.” Krochmal, who is an associate professor of history at TCU, said “wealthy white folks demand in-person learning” without regarding the cost to marginalized communities, who might not have health insurance or be able to pay for medical care if they contracted COVID-19. “The folks in Tanglewood, Benbrook, and — worse — those who have already abandoned FWISD are insulated from the full effects of COVID,” he wrote. Krochmal argued that some people demanding in-person learning were showing “dripping paternalism and, yes, racism toward Black and Brown families.” Petition calls for removal Suzanne Asfar started a petition calling for Krochmal’s removal from the Equity Committee. As of Tuesday morning, 197 people had signed.

By national measures, those making $400,000 or more a year belong to a rarified group. But in a city, people with that income aren't exactly living large.

Top department officials were “a driving force” behind President Trump’s child separation policy, a draft investigation report said.

Stephen Miller, a top policy adviser to President Donald Trump, has tested positive for coronavirus, he confirmed in a statement Tuesday.

Electrek can confirm that Tesla has dissolved its PR department — technically becoming the first automaker who doesn’t talk to the press. It’s something that we have discussed on our podcast several times over the last few months, but now that reporters are publicly complaining about it, we thought we’d clear things up in an […]

Amazon’s safety team knew there was a problem at its fulfillment center in Thornton. A cache of company records obtained by Reveal — including internal safety reports and weekly injury numbees.

The change is a significant escalation over its previous actions targeting QAnon and one of the broadest rules the social media giant has put in place in its history.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A grand jury on Tuesday indicted the St. Louis couple who displayed guns while hundreds of racial injustice protesters marched on their private street. Al Watkins, an attorney for the couple, confirmed to The Associated Press the indictments against Mark McCloskey, 63, and his wife, Patricia McCloskey, 61. A spokeswoman for Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner declined comment.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out Representative Tulsi Gabbard over Twitter on Tuesday for Gabbard's role in magnifying Project Veritas' alleged voter fraud story. Last week, the conservative media organization released a video accusing campaign workers for Rep. Ilhan Omar and Minneapolis City Councilman Jamal Osman of harvesting primary ballots for money and intimidating elderly voters in Minnesota. The video featured footage of Liban Osman, Osman's brother, driving around with what appears to be dozens of mail-in ballots while talking about money in politics. On Monday, Liban told FOX affiliate KMSP that he was "set up" and that had previously been offered a bribe of $10,000 from Omar Jamal, a community activist and alleged "insider" for Project Veritas.

Just because almost every gadget or appliance can be connected to the internet, doesn’t mean they should be. Outages can render these “smart” devices useless, and many use weak security that can make them easily hackable. And as security researchers recently found out, the consequences of having a major security flaw in one popular sex toy could have been catastrophic for tens of thousands of users. U.K.-based security firm Pen Test Partners said the flaw in the Qiui Cellmate internet-connected chastity lock, billed as the “world’s first app controlled chastity device,” could have allowed anyone to remotely and permanently lock in the user’s penis. The Cellmate chastity lock works by allowing a trusted partner to remotely lock and unlock the chamber over Bluetooth using a mobile app. That app communicates with the lock using an API. But that API was left open and without a password, allowing anyone to take complete control of any user’s device. Because the chamber was designed to lock with a metal ring underneath the user’s penis, the researchers said it may require the intervention of a heavy-duty bolt cutter or an angle grinder to free the user.