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Former President Donald Trump’s lies about election fraud and enthusiasm for his re-election drove supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a study from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center. In the most comprehensive study
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Listen 7 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article Over the Fourth of July weekend, more than 100 members of the white-supremacist group Patriot Front marched along Boston’s Freedom Trail, wearing uniforms and carrying flags, riot shields and signs
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LAS VEGAS — An influential network of conservative activists fixated on the idea that former President Donald J. Trump won the 2020 election is working to recruit county sheriffs to investigate elections based on the false notion that voter fraud
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image: “Conspiracy” typed out on a typewriter. view more Credit: Markus Winkler, Unsplash, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) A new analysis contradicts popular thinking about beliefs in conspiracy theories, suggesting that such beliefs may not have actually increased over time. Joseph Uscinski of the
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A new analysis contradicts popular thinking about beliefs in conspiracy theories, suggesting that such beliefs may not have actually increased over time. Joseph Uscinski of the University of Miami, Florida, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS
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Violence can seem to be everywhere in the United States, and political violence is in the spotlight, with the 6 January 2021 insurrection as exhibit A. Now, a large study confirms one in five Americans believes violence motivated by political
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Republican activists in Washington state are organizing surveillance of election ballot drop boxes, raising concerns about possible voter intimidation. Signs were posted over the weekend near ballot boxes in several Seattle-area locations, with red letters warning the boxes are “Under
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On Thursday afternoon, former President Donald Trump reported on his app TruthSocial that his ex-wife, the New York City socialite Ivana Trump and mother to his three eldest children, had died at the age of 73 after being found at
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The Jan. 6 committee revealed Tuesday that Donald Trump has attempted to contact a witness who was in discussions with the panel about its investigation of the former president and the 2021 attack on the Capitol. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said
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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES Mike Jensen keeps a database of bad guys. As a senior researcher at the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), part of Jensen’s
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