PHOENIX (AP) — Ron Watkins, one of the most prominent figures in the QAnon conspiracy movement, said Monday he is running for Congress in Arizona because the state is at the forefront of the fight by many Republicans over the 2020 election results.
PHOENIX (AP) — Ron Watkins, a prolific promoter of false conspiracies about the 2020 election who is closely tied to the QAnon movement, says he is running for Congress as a Republican in Arizona.
Like many Donald Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Dona Sue Bissey has promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory on social m…
Like many Donald Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Dona Sue Bissey has promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory on social media. But the judge sentencing her Tuesday to 14 days in jail said it was for her actions, not her beliefs.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Glenn Youngkin has not talked much lately about President Donald Trump’s lies about voter fraud, the insurrection on Jan. 6 or his party’s eroded trust in elections. But when he has, it has not gone smoothly.
PHOENIX (AP) — A Republican-backed review of the 2020 presidential election in Arizona’s largest county ended Friday without producing proof to support former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election.
PHOENIX (AP) — Donald Trump supporters hired by Arizona Senate Republicans to review the 2020 vote count are preparing to deliver their findings on Friday, the climax of a bizarre quest to find evidence supporting the former president’s false claim that he lost because of fraud.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul on Thursday accused Republicans of chasing conspiracy theories with a $680,000 taxpayer-funded investigation into the 2020 election instead of passing gun control measures polls have shown have broad public support.
Your Turn: The crazification of the Republican Party is real.
A sign on a Browns Valley Road sidewalk strip that states false information about COVID-19 vaccine deaths is under investigation by the city of Napa for being in the public right-of-way.
Modern conspiracy theories echo deadly lies from the past, historian Edna Friedberg says.
QAnon exploits the well-known rules of "alternate reality games," science columnist Faye Flam says.
Letters: Time to move forward and allow our new government to run our country.
QAnon is huge and dangerous because social media platforms empowered it for their own profits and power, tech author and investor Roger McNamee says.
Editor Sean Scully looks back at the "Paranoid Style of American Politics," which is as startlingly true today as when it was written in 1964.
A new report has found that support for conspiracies surged alongside the rise in COVID-19 infections.
A plague of conspiracy theories is attacking scientific facts about the pandemic, and replacing them with fake theories that will undermine efforts to tame it, columnist Trudy Rubin says.
What makes this so scary is that these politicians don't see the risk of mainstreaming conspiracy delusions as the basis for White House policy.
To be clear, readily repeatable experiments show the Earth is round. Yet the flat-Earth conspiracy theory continues to grow. Now experts are w…
He's learning the difference between promoting myths that are merely incendiary or hateful and more broad-based conspiracy theories that test the limits of the law.
Access to the highest levels of intelligence in the world can't seem to deter the president of the United States from depending on unreliable right-wing sources to inform his decisions in high office.
When we approach an ancient object such as the Voynich Manuscript, we tend to bring our preconceptions with us to the table. The more we burden the manuscript with what we want it to be, the more buried the truth becomes.
With a pair of weekend retweets, President Donald Trump amplified another unfounded conspiracy theory.