Reporters covered the correspondents’ dinner shooting in real time. Conspiracy theories still spread

So much information, streaming out in so little time. And still: Within minutes, conspiracy theories flooded the internet. The shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner attended by President Donald Trump on Saturday night played out in front of some of the nation’s most powerful reporters and editors who snapped into action in real time … Read more

AIPAC super PAC funded big-spending Illinois groups, as Democratic fights over Israel spread

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC seeded two anonymous groups that spent more than $14 million to influence pivotal House Democratic primaries in Illinois on Tuesday — marking a new salvo in the battle over policy on Israel within the Democratic Party. United Democracy Project, a super PAC aligned with AIPAC that receives … Read more

DOJ says it shut down websites that spread Iranian propaganda, threatened dissidents and took credit for hacks

The Justice Department says it has shuttered four websites that were allegedly used by Iranian government-linked groups to post hacked information and threaten regime critics. The move comes amid fears that the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran could expand into cyberattacks. A news agency linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards has threatened American tech … Read more

U.S. embassies ordered to ‘immediately’ review security as attacks spread

The State Department is ordering all U.S. embassies and consular posts worldwide to conduct security reviews without delay, according to a cable seen by NBC News. The order, which came from Undersecretary of Management Jason Evans and was signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, told the embassies Tuesday to undertake the security reviews “immediately,” … Read more

A young dad’s colon cancer spread to his lungs with no warning. He says a clinical trial led to a miracle.

Spencer Laird first noticed blood in his stool when he was 25. His doctor thought it was hemorrhoids caused by his work as a mechanic. Eighteen months later, a colonoscopy found colorectal cancer, which was treated with a surgery that removed 16 inches of his colon.  Two years passed, and Laird began to believe the … Read more