From refugee crisis symbol to conspiracy theory scapegoat, this shiny blanket means many different things to many different people.

The last train on the last line of greater Los Angeles’ Pacific Electric streetcar network made its last run on 9 April 1961. You can see the final days of this once-robust public transport system for yourself in the short film Ride the Last of the Big Red Cars. This footage of the remaining “red cars” (as the Pacific Electric’s fleet was commonly known) strikes an elegiac tone, especially to modern Angelenos. They have little more than history books and the rose-tinted memories of old-timers...

Court documents reveal new details about the man who killed three people in a Colorado Springs clinic last November. By Matt Vasilogambros.

Former Senator Bob Graham and others urge the Obama administration to declassify redacted pages of a report that holds 9/11 secrets

An Indianapolis pastor has pleaded guilty to manufacturing nearly 100 tons of ‘synthetic’ drugs in an extraordinary conspiracy that involved his fundamentalist church, a married couple who are crooked cops, a music producer and a school teacher. By Patrick Hilsman.  

Loudoun County Public Schools says after a training exercise last week, the CIA left behind an explosive substance on one of its school buses.

John Oliver wakes up the sheeple who have had the wool pulled over their eyes by the lamestream media.

The city has followed a disturbing trend by municipalities to reject fluoridation for non-scientific and conspiracy-driven reasons.

Shades of Charles Fort? A strange black substance that looks like black bird droppings has added an unwelcome decoration to one Michigan town. Residents in Harrison Township are concerned about a weird splattering covering their neighborhood and no one is sure what it is. They know based on the splash patterns it probably fell from the sky, and the fire department says that the strange, oily, ashy substance is not flammable.

Three days after Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead in his room at a luxury hunting ranch in remote West Texas, the conspiracy theories about his passing continue to swirl. People we've lost in 2016. A local judge's decision not to order a post-mortem examination have triggered a round of questions ranging from scrutiny of the procedures to the bizarre.

You're probably thinking, "Isn't Leonard Nimoy dead?" According to conspiracy theorists, that's what Spock wants you to believe. And some believe he was involved in Scalia's death.

It’s the real-life whodunnit that gripped the world over the Christmas period. Netflix’s Making A Murderer follows the story of Steven Avery, a man who spends 18 years in prison having been wrongfully convicted of rape, only to then be accused of the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach months after his release. Since then, Avery has spent ten years incarcerated following his conviction: the documentary makes the compelling argument...

The filmmakers behind "Operation Avalanche" posed as documentarians, then made what might be the greatest copyright end-around in history.

Discover the CIA history, mission, vision and values.

How one distillery worker enlisted friends, family, and a few fellow steroid enthusiasts to liberate hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of premium bourbon, one barrel at a time. By Reeves Wiedeman.

UPDATE: NatGeo Consultant Sends 'Cease and Desist' Demand, Claims She Was Fired After Breitbart Reports Project Veritas Common Core Exposé

It's difficult to keep a conspiracy under wraps, scientists say, because sooner or later, one of the conspirators will blow its cover. A study has examined how long alleged conspiracies could "survive" before being revealed - deliberately or unwittingly - to the public at large. Dr David Grimes, from Oxford University, devised an equation to express this, and then applied it to four famous collusions.

If you're thinking of creating a massive conspiracy, you may be better scaling back your plans, according to an Oxford University researcher.

"This video was originally posted on February 20, 2008 by YouTube user NibiruShock2012. The original producer of this video was compromised and his account stol...

G. Gordon Liddy once observed that the trouble with conspiracies is people can't keep their mouths shut.