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Former President Donald Trump said attempts to paint him as a 'dictator' if elected in 2024 are just the latest 'hoax' and 'misinformation' pushed by foes.

Deceit, Lies, and Cover-ups: Media's Role in the Untold Story.

BRYAN, Texas—Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes entered Texas prison where she could spend the next 11 years for overseeing ...

A Texas man who told police last month that he was injured in a suspected bomb threat at ...

BOSTON—A former Northeastern University employee who said he was injured when a package he was opening on the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A Northern California mother of two was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison for faking her ...

By Eileen Kelley From South Florida Sun-Sentinel FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Drawbridge tender Artiussa Paulk tried to “hijack the truth,” ...

By Christian Martinez From Los Angeles Times Sherri Papini, whose alleged kidnapping and reappearance three weeks later made ...

Former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, who is accused of lying about an alleged hate crime, took the stand ...

A college student has admitted to spraying racist graffiti messages as an apparent hoax at a Michigan college.

Commentary As I wrote nearly three years ago: “Perhaps the second greatest libel—and certainly the most widespread—is that ...

Commentary In the early years of television, the BBC ran a sober documentary about the year’s harvest in ...

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said that Department of Justice officials involved in the sketchy Trump-Russia investigation should face ...

President Donald Trump called a new investigation into his conduct by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee a ...

Liberal actor Jussie Smollett is accused of staging a racist and anti-gay attack on himself, which Smollett blamed ...

Commentary As he had repeatedly hinted he would, President Donald Trump on Sept. 17 ordered the Office of ...

A disbarred Harvard-educated lawyer was charged with kidnapping a California woman who said attackers broke into her home

Did a time-traveler, a mouse, or a hoaxer involved in the dig leave this ring in the centuries-old ...

Ryanair says no explosives were found on a plane in Warsaw that was the subject of a bomb ...

I remember reading as a kid about Benjamin Bathurst, David Lang, and Oliver Larch. All three have strange ...

Scientists have investigated a few highly publicized cases of people who claim not to eat or drink for ...

Is there something supernormal at work in some photo-related phenomena, even though some instances have been proven as ...

Facebook has announced that it will try to beat back the swell of fake news, so what does ...

In 1917, two little girls took photos of themselves surrounded by what looked like fairies. For the next ...

With somewhere in the region of 1.3 billion users, Facebook is the largest ever internet social engagement phenomenon.

Remember this heartbreaking story from about a week ago? "Victoria Whelcher was attacked by pit bulls at her ...