Saudi state media reported today that journalist Jamal Khashoggi died inside its Turkish consulate. It is the first time the Gulf kingdom has acknowledged the regime critic’s death.
The infamous Russian troll farm in St Petersburg is stepping up its disinformation warfare in 2018, according to a criminal complaint by US authorities against the organization’s accountant.
US authorities have charged a Russian woman who works as an accountant for the infamous Internet Research Agency, a troll farm funded by a pro-Putin oligarch that has been targeting the US democratic system since 2015.
On Oct. 17, Twitter published more than 10 million tweets by around 4,600 Russian and Iranian-linked propaganda accounts, giving researchers an inside view of the countries’ disinformation efforts.
On the heels of a New York Times investigation which revealed Donald Trump may have committed tax fraud on his inheritance, ProPublica and WNYC revealed yesterday that the Trump Organization has followed a pattern of deeply questionable behavior in its licensing deals.
In 2016, Russian trolls infamously used social media to stir up divisions in America’s social fabric in an effort to help Donald Trump become president.
Donald Trump claimed on Twitter today that he has no “financial interests in Saudi Arabia.” But his financial ties to the kingdom go back a very long way.
In May 2016, two groups of protesters gathered outside a mosque in Houston. One, bearing guns and Confederate flags, was railing against the “Islamization of Texas.” The other was protesting the protest.
The late physicist Stephen Hawking’s last writings predict that a breed of superhumans will take over, having used genetic engineering to surpass their fellow beings.
As Europe nursed its wounds right after the Second World War’s end in 1945, top Burgundy producer Romanee-Conti made just 600 bottles of dark red nectar before pulling up its vines for replanting.
Members of a far-right group were filmed beating up a protester on October 12 in Manhattan, and bragging about it afterwards. New York police who arrived on the scene made no arrests, and now local politicians and civil rights groups are wondering why they didn’t do more.
President Donald Trump says the US is being “very tough” in dealing with the disappearance of a Saudi journalist in Saudi Arabia’s Turkish embassy. There’s a snag, though: The US doesn’t have an ambassador in either Ankara or Riyadh to handle the crisis.
The US public has spent the past two years riveted by high-level corruption scandals and allegations in Washington, DC. They should also be looking closer to home, according to a new report by anti-corruption NGO Coalition for Integrity.
Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has donated tens of millions of dollars to Donald Trump and the Republican party in recent years. He’s also reportedly eager to get one of a handful of gaming licenses up for grabs in Japan, which recently legalized casinos.
Back in 2016, rumors that Nikki Haley was lined up to be US secretary of State or UN ambassador were met with derision from analysts and UN insiders. The then-South Carolina governor had almost no experience outside her home state, let alone internationally.
US senator Susan Collins sought to reassure the public that Brett Kavanaugh would not overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that protects abortion rights, as she announced she would cast a key vote to confirm him as a Supreme Court justice.
John Hawkins feels so strongly about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh that he’s collected hundreds of thousands of dollars for Kavanaugh to spend anyway he wants. The only snag: Getting it to him.
If you needed any convincing that America’s tax system favors the rich, the New York Times’ investigation into Donald Trump’s inheritance should settle the matter.
Between the ages of 3 and 58, president Donald Trump inherited at least $413 million from his father’s business empire using some potentially fraudulent tax-dodging methods, a blockbuster New York Times investigation shows.
Bot and troll networks are flooding Twitter with disinformation tied to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged assault of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, researchers and analytics services tell Quartz.
Former FBI director James Comey rejected a House Judiciary and Oversight Committees’ invitation to a closed hearing today about the 2016 presidential election, instead suggesting a public meeting.
The world’s oldest leader, Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad, discussed his efforts to haul his country out of his predecessor’s crippling corruption scandal at a UN side event yesterday.
President Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy could hurt the dollar’s global primacy, according to global business leaders and the European Union’s top diplomat.
Donald Trump again used the UN stage to trumpet a policy of “principled realism,” whatever that may mean.
