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Court Slashes Award Alex Jones Was Ordered to Pay Sandy Hook Parents

21 août 2026 à 18:05
An appeals court reduced the award to the parents of one victim to $6 million from $49 million, citing a Texas damages cap. The conspiracy theorist owes over $1 billion in other cases.

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For years, Alex Jones spread conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax perpetrated by the government and the victims’ families.

Giorgia Meloni Cuts the Hard Right a Path to Power

21 août 2026 à 05:01
In a rare interview, the onetime political outcast reflects on her route from “the uncomfortable side of history” to the threshold of leading Italy’s most durable postwar government.

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Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at Palazzo Chigi in Rome last month.

Targeted by an Islamophobic Provocateur, a City’s Muslims Are on Edge

20 août 2026 à 20:28
Jake Lang has descended four times on Dearborn, Mich., which is majority Arab American. His rhetoric and protests have stirred fear among residents.

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Jake Lang, the far-right agitator, outside a City Council meeting on Tuesday in Dearborn, Mich.

‘The Necessary Conversation’ Puts Family Political Arguments On Full Display

20 août 2026 à 14:27
“The Necessary Conversation,” a podcast and YouTube show, is a very public example of the political disputes families are having all across the country.

For Chad Kultgen and his family, fighting feels like progress.

In Wyoming’s G.O.P. Primaries, an Emphatic Rebuke of the Hard Right

19 août 2026 à 20:51
The Wyoming Freedom Caucus had ambitions for a total takeover of elected state government. But its candidates were rejected from the governor’s mansion to the Legislature.

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At least a dozen Freedom Caucus incumbents were ousted from the Wyoming Legislature.
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