Axel Rudakubana was 17 when he murdered three young girls in Southport back in July 2024. The horrific attack came after years of Rudakubana watching extreme and violent content online, without any supervision. A new report from the Southport Inquiry…[Continue Reading...]
The recent arrest of a self-styled godman from Maharashtra on charges of sexually exploiting multiple women once again exposes a deeply troubling reality: the growing menace of fraudulent spiritual leaders, strutting with impunity and bawdy bravado, and preying on faith,…[Continue Reading...]
ABC News’ Linsey Davis spoke with Josh Owens, former employee of Alex Jones and author of, “The Madness of Believing” about how Jones was able to captivate his audience with misinformation. Watch video interview https://abcnews.com/video/132045036/[Continue Reading...]
As MAGA media turns against Donald Trump, it was only a matter of time before the president denounced the nation's highest profile right-wing influencers as 'losers,' 'troublemakers' and 'nut jobs.' Name-calling aside, a new book sheds light on the real-life…[Continue Reading...]
Lena Dunham's new memoir, Famesick, debuted on Tuesday, April 14, 2026. The new tell-all book details her experience filming her hit 2012 HBO series Girls, navigating health battles, intimate details from her five-year relationship with Grammy-winning producer Jack Antonoff, and…[Continue Reading...]
Most artists write from what they know. Franni Cash writes from what she survived. In her own words: "My senior year of high school, my family and I walked out of the religious cult I'd grown up in after some…[Continue Reading...]
North Korea has launched an intensified cult of personality campaign around leader Kim Jong Un following the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), held in February 2026, sidelining the ideological legacies of his predecessors and generating widespread…[Continue Reading...]
“I don't pay attention to the world ending. It has ended for me many times, and began again in the morning,” the poet Nayyirah Waheed writes in her book Salt. It’s a powerful quote about how things that can seem…[Continue Reading...]
A Donegal woman who is one of the leaders of the Church of Scientology in Ireland which has members such as Hollywood actors Tom Cruise and John Travolta has been involved in the opening of the new Scientology center in…[Continue Reading...]
A bizarre new TikTok trend is sending thrill-seeking influencers sprinting straight into Church of Scientology buildings across LA — racking up millions of views while blurring the line between prank and trespass. The viral craze, dubbed the “Scientology run,” challenges…[Continue Reading...]
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