Attorney General William Barr on Monday asked Apple to give the Justice Department access to two iPhones owned by the gunman behind a deadly shooting last month, the New York Times reported, a request likely to revive a bitter dispute over a similar incident in 2015. Barr said the rampage, in which a Saudi air force officer shot and killed three sailors and wounded three others on a military...
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I first stumbled upon the collective delusion we now refer to as QAnon in November 2017, just a few weeks after it began as a series of conspiratorial posts on one of the internet’s more untamed bulletin boards. In a sprawling discussion thread on 4chan titled “Calm Before the Storm”—a reference to a quote from the prior month by then-President Donald Trump—an...
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