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'I don't know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Epstein. I never went to his island. I never went to his homes,' Hillary said after her testimony on Thursday. 'It then got, at the end, quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizza-gate, one of the most vile bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet.' Pizza-gate is a debunked conspiracy theory that claimed a pedophilia ring involving high-ranking Democratic Party officials was operating out of the basement of a Washington, DC pizza parlor. Bill...

There is a reason some modern political slogans feel impossible to challenge without sounding cruel, un-Christian, or “extreme.” It’s not because they are true. It’s because they are designed to stop you from thinking. That insight comes from James Lindsay, who recently explained a sloganeering concept most Evangelicals have never heard of but encounter every day: tifa. The word comes from Chinese Communist political strategy and refers to short, emotionally loaded slogans engineered to hijack moral instincts and shut down critical thought.

Former Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was on the receiving end of an embarrassing fact check when she attempted to attack President Donald Trump over his trip to Qatar on Wednesday. In an X post, Clinton suggested that Trump was being blackmailed by Qatar after the oil-rich Persian Gulf nation offered a luxury plane valued at $400 million as a gift to the United States. The Department of Defense is expected to retrofit the Boeing 747-8 luxury jet to be used as Air Force One. Democrats have attempted to claim the plane was offered to President Trump personally, which...