Lindsay Beyerstein
Award-winning documentary filmmaker & investigative journalist. Host of The Breach podcast. Sidney Judge for @SidneyHillman. (inglés y español)
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White House Spox: Statement Claiming Trump Ended the Pandemic Was ‘Poorly Worded’
The average number of daily new cases has hit a staggering 71,832, but Alyssa Farah still insisted “we are rounding the corner on the virus.”
Want Nonpartisan Court Reform? Add 4 Liberal Justices.
Manufacturing a liberal majority is likely a prerequisite for preventing the Roberts Court from striking down unprecedented nonpartisan reforms.
Gun-waving St. Louis couple seek to remove top prosecutor from case
Mark and Patricia McCloskey were indicted by a grand jury on Oct. 6, on charges of unlawful use of a weapon and tampering with evidence. Over the summer, the couple made headlines for confronting protesters with an AR-15 rifle and a semiautomatic...
Marquette poll shows Biden up 5 in Wisconsin
About 48 percent of likely voters favor the former vice president, compared to 43 who back Trump, according to the poll.
Hurricane Zeta's record-breaking New Orleans landfall
Zeta intensified quickly overnight and now poses one of the biggest hurricane threats to the city since Katrina in 2005.
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Representing the Rust Belt: Covering Working Class Voters in Wisconsin. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
On Wednesday October 28th at 6:30 ET/5:30 CT, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP) and the Election Integrity Project at the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will co-host a panel to examine coverage of...
Militia groups, other far-right extremists growing more likely to create violence around election
According to a just-released study, the risk of interference in the coming election by far-right “Patriot” militiamen heavily aligned with Donald Trump is not only real, it’s growing intense in over half the states in the nation, with five...
Implicit Social Cognition
In the last 20 years, research on implicit social cognition has established that social judgments and behavior are guided by attitudes and stereotypes of which the actor may lack awareness. Research using the methods of implicit social cognition has...
New Hampshire Woman Impersonated Prosecutor in Failed Attempt to Drop Criminal Case, Officials Say
A New Hampshire woman is accused of one of the most audacious hoodwinking attempts in recent memory: impersonating a county prosecutor and filing false documents with the court declaring that the drug possession and stalking charges against were...
Lindsay Beyerstein
Was she a sovereign citizen or something?
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Man’s Halloween decor so gruesome cops are called several times
Death-themed Halloween decor — think skeletons, zombies and tombstones — is tame enough for schools and theme parks, but one man’s yard display is so horrifying that passers-by have called police several times.
Idaho Mayoral Candidate and Woman Found Dead in Coffee Shop, and Police Say It Was Murder-Suicide
Jared Murphy, 28, was running for mayor of the small town of Bellevue, Idaho, and 34-year-old Ashley Midby was the manager at a coffee shop
King County Elections
King County, with more than 1.2 million registered voters, is the largest jurisdiction in the United States to conduct all elections by mail.
Billy Joe Shaver, Seminal Outlaw Country Songwriter, Dead at 81
Best known as the songwriter of Waylon Jennings’ 1973 album ‘Honky Tonk Heroes,’ the colorful Texas raconteur had his songs recorded by Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley
How Syria's disinformation wars destroyed the co-founder of the White Helmets
The long read: In November 2019, James Le Mesurier, the British co-founder of the Syrian rescue group, fell to his death in Istanbul. What led an internationally celebrated humanitarian to take his own life?
An Expedition Deep Into an Underworld of Online Hate
In “Culture Warlords,” Talia Lavin immerses herself among white supremacists and neo-Nazis, then tells us what she found.
Thousands of Trump supporters stuck on freezing Omaha airfield after rally
Many of those at Eppley Airfield faced hours in long lines to get in and clogged parking lots and busy crowds to get out.
U.S. Agency Targets Its Own Journalists' Independence
In a late-night move to assert editorial control, the CEO of the U.S. international broadcasting agency rescinded a rule which established a "firewall" between the newsroom and political appointees.
Trump’s campaign website hacked by cryptocurrency scammers – TechCrunch
President Trump’s campaign website was briefly and partially hacked Tuesday afternoon as unknown adversaries took over the “About” page and replaced it with what appeared to be a scam to collect cryptocurrency. There is no indication, despite the...
Early Data Shows Mail-In Ballots Are Moving Quickly Through Post Office
First-class mail is moving slowly. But postal workers promise they're treating voters' ballots "like gold."
Alabama’s Most Populous County Says It’s Trying To Contact Voters Who Received Instructions That Would Invalidate Their Ballots
Voting rights lawyers were worried that absentee voters who received special instructions risked having their ballots tossed after an appeals court reinstated Alabama’s witness requirement.