Gregg Phillips, who spread unsubstantiated claims of mass voter fraud in the 2016 election, will join the agency’s leadership, the Trump administration confirmed. By Scott Dance Reporting from ...

Last week, the two top officials at the National Institutes of Health—the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research—debuted a new plan to help Americans weather the next pandemic: getting ...

For many educators, the term constructivism brings to mind a core principle from their teacher preparation. This foundational learning theory is a frequent topic in academic literature, appearing in ...

Much of the speculation around the death of the right-wing activist is being promulgated by conspiracy-minded personalities he helped elevate. By Richard Fausset Six days after the right-wing activist ...

Baseless conspiracy theories about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk have exploded on social media in the week since the shooting, with partisans from both sides pushing a dizzying ...

Exactly three years ago today, Elon Musk tweeted that 90 percent of his tweet replies on what was then called Twitter were bot accounts. His insistence that Twitter was essentially one large bot farm ...

A first-of-its-kind lawsuit against three influential reading professors and their controversial literacy curricula has been dismissed, after a U.S. District Court declined to wade into the murky ...

Federal agencies and scientists suspecting that Covid-19 began with a laboratory leak in China were effectively boxed out of a key presidential briefing and report assessing the possible origins of a ...

The man who allegedly shot United Healthcare’s CEO has inspired a seemingly never-ending flood of conspiracy theories about everything from his eyebrows to the number 286. This is the online world of ...

Right now, the only thing standing between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and being the head of the Department of Health and Human Services is a confirmation hearing with a soon-to-be Republican-dominated ...