The FBI has arrested members of a motorcycle gang accused to have hacked and stolen over 150 Jeep Wranglers from Southern California, which they later crossed the border into Mexico to have stripped down for parts. By Catalin Cimpanu. (May 31, 2017)

Mensch is the paranoid bard of the age of Trump. By Katy Waldman.

Last name Smoke, first name… Never? This might be the biggest conspiracy in the history of rap.

When Jim Kreindler got to his midtown Manhattan office on Friday, July 15, 2016, he had a surprise waiting for him. Twice in the previous eight years, Kreindler had been in the room as then-President Barack Obama promised Kreindler’s clients he would declassify a batch of documents that had taken on near mythic importance to those seeking the full truth of who had helped plan and fund the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Now, Kreindler learned, “the 28 pages” as they were known, were open for inspection and it was up to his team to find something of value.

Fears for a missing student’s whereabouts have lead to theories that he may have been ‘abducted by aliens’. According to a post on Imgur, Bruno Borges from Brazil had kept his room locked for a month. When it was finally opened he wasn’t there but what they found was some insanely freaky shit.

This researcher at Cambridge has a PhD and still had to take time to prove why the Nazi Antarctic UFO base is a hoax. By Daniel Oberhaus.

A prominent Russian opposition activist has been hospitalised with organ failure, two years after he almost died of suspected poisoning. Journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who works for pro-democracy group Open Russia, fell ill at about 05:00 local time (02:00 GMT). Mr Kara-Murza's wife told the BBC she was on her way to hospital where her husband is in a medically-induced coma.

The Office of Congressional Ethics was saved from the landfill, but few noticed a change that did make it into the new House rules passed Tuesday [January 3rd]. By Ashley Balcerzak. (Jan. 5, 2016)

Some mysterious vanishings manage to strike a perfect balance between the weird, the unexplained, and the victim’s life in general. In some cases these disappearances seem almost fitting, as if they were fated to be and that they could not have happened any other way. One such case surely must be the disappearance of a talented author who wrote extensively of the world of the supernatural and strange vanishings, only to follow suit… By Brent Swancer.

Just because you think they are out to get you doesn't mean they are not!

Friends: When I first joined the Illuminati, I thought I’d work here forever... By Jason O. Gilbert.

From Early Climate Change Researcher to Epic Climate Denier.

As the bank reels in the court of public opinion, it has been able to stop lawsuits from defrauded customers by moving the cases to arbitration. By Michael Corkery and Stacy Cowley.

Large oil companies must possess considerable scientific expertise. In that respect as in others, Exxon has always been an industry leader: the company today says it employs about 16,000 scientists and engineers. So it is no surprise that by the late 1970s and early 1980s, Exxon scientists largely understood climate change—not only its basic mechanism but many of its implications, including its potential implications for the oil business—and had explained it to the company’s leaders. By David Kaiser and Lee Wasserman.

Uncovering the dating habits of conspiracy theorists and the challenges they face. By Sabine Heinlein.

More than the president’s brother and attorney general, Robert F. Kennedy was his lead hand on the hardest matters, the ones that made them some dangerous foes. After the assassination, he was left to wonder if one among them had done it. By Bryan Bender and Neil Swidey. (Nov. 24, 2013)

Before a single vote was cast, the election was fixed by GOP and Trump operatives. Starting in 2013 —€“ just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act —€“ a coterie of Trump operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color… By Greg Palast.

How did a Bavarian professor end up creating a group that would be at the center of two centuries of conspiracy theories? By Isabel Hernández.

The FBI on Tuesday -- one week from Election Day -- released heavily redacted files from its 2001 investigation of President Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich. By Tom LoBianco and Pamela Brown.

Some buttons, such as the door-close button on an elevator, are mere artifices — placebos that promote an illusion of control but in reality do not work. By Christopher Mele.