But like many aspects of 21st-century American life, the vaccines became a partisan point of debate as often false anti-vaccine conspiracies spread to millions of people.
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Joseph Konig,
PEOPLE,
25 Aug. 2026
The result is a sprawling theory combining paranoid interpretations of current events with historical conspiracies.
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Matthew N. Hannah,
The Conversation,
25 Aug. 2026
And more than 90 organizations, including unions, Black fraternities and sororities and voting rights groups, have signed on as official partners.
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Tia Mitchell,
AJC.com,
25 Aug. 2026
In a previous statement, the fraternity — which is 115 years old and is part of the Divine Nine, a group of nine historically Black fraternities and sororities — said the three men accused were not active or financial members of the fraternity.
Increasingly, his mind was preoccupied with extremist views and conspiracy theories, including secret government cabals and false-flag operations.
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Connor Sheets,
Los Angeles Times,
24 July 2026
Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel, Shadow Ticket, set in 1932 Milwaukee, takes place in a landscape of industrial ghosts, strike-breakers, fascist sympathizers and absurdist cabals.
Reddington disputed the prosecution’s take on the elastic workout bands Clancy used to strangle her children.
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Emily Hallas,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Aug. 2026
Prosecutors allege Clancy planned the killings by sending her husband to pick up takeout food and medicine, then, while he was gone, strangling the children with exercise bands.
Mexico Government Smuggling gasoline and diesel from the United States into Mexico and reselling it tax-free is a huge money-maker for organized crime gangs, including drug cartels.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Aug. 2026
Police spokesperson Garry Desrosiers took only a handful of questions from journalists at a news conference Thursday, just days after gangs attacked Kenscoff, a once-peaceful farming community nestled in the hills near Port-au-Prince.
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