Irawati Karve led a life that stood apart from those around her. Born in British-ruled India, and at a time when women didn’t have many rights or freedoms, Karve did the unthinkable: she pursued higher studies in a foreign country, became a college professor and India’s first female anthropologist. She also married a man of […]
Every day for the past week, Kim Kwon-seop, 72, has joined thousands of others gathered near the home of South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol. They were determined to shield Mr. Yoon from prosecutors who wanted to detain him on insurrection charges stemming from his short-lived declaration of martial law last month. To them, […]
Who is Aaron Rodgers? It’s a complicated question and one that Netflix and directors Gotham Chopra and Liam Hughes dedicate three hours to answering in Enigma, the streamer’s revelatory new documentary series. Over the course of three episodes — “Becoming,” “Awakening” and “Reckoning” — Rodgers welcomes viewers to draw their own conclusions by inviting cameras into his […]
In one particularly testy exchange on a conspiracy theories subreddit, two hair stylists clashed over Mangione’s eyebrows. “I was a hairstylist for 20 years back in the day, no one’s eyebrows grow that fast in three days,” one user wrote. “It was on the state board test. Hair on your head grows a quarter of […]
Kash Patel during the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference in Fort Washington, Md. on Feb. 23, 2024. President-elect Trump has nominated Patel to lead the FBI even though the agency’s current director, Christopher Wray, has more than two years left on his term. Dominic Gwinn/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dominic Gwinn/AFP via […]
In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 victory, online misinformation claiming the election was rigged in his favor has proliferated — including theories about missing votes and voting machine dysfunction. As was the case with election denialism following the 2020 election, these conspiracy theories about election fraud are false. According to the Cybersecurity and […]
While at publication time the Associated Press’ vote count was indeed 16 million votes lower than that for the 2020 election, the explanation is trivially simple: The entirety of the vote hasn’t been tabulated yet. “Election denial is anti-democratic, whether it comes from the left or the right,” David Becker, executive director of the nonpartisan […]
So when voters in Oregon heard earlier this month that the state’s Democratic secretary of state, LaVonne Griffin-Valade, had removed Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, from her website, they believed it was part of a plan to undermine Trump. The narrative was boosted by right-wing influencers and Trump supporters on platforms like X […]
RENO, Nev. — One morning last month, Cari-Ann Burgess did something completely unremarkable: She made a quick stop at a coffee shop on her way to work. For Burgess, the top election official in a northern Nevada county, such outings could be precarious. As she waited for a hot tea and breakfast sandwich, an older […]
Liam Payne died Wednesday in Buenos Aires, leaving fans around the globe mourning the former One Direction singer — and grappling with chaos, conspiracy theories, and controversy in the wake of the 31-year-old’s death. Argentine police confirmed that Payne, who came to Buenos Aires two weeks ago to attend a concert by his former bandmate […]
