QAnon

A QAnon believer who chased U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced Friday to five years in prison.

On June 1, David Leavitt, the prosecuting attorney for Utah County, stood behind a lectern in his windowless Provo office before a gaggle of reporters. Wearing a gray suit and an exasperated look, he wanted to make something categorically clear: Neither he nor his wife were guilty of murdering or cannibalizing young children. It was, by all accounts, a strange…

An Indiana hairdresser linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory has been sentenced to 14 days in jail and 60 hours of community service for joining the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Jacob Chansley — who wore horns and carried a 6-foot pole with a spearhead into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to federal prosecutors — pleaded guilty Friday to obstructing an official proceeding during the Capitol riot. Chansley, 34, faced six charges including felony counts of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding, NBC News reported. He pleaded…

The California man shot and killed his two kids with a fishing spear on a ranch in Mexico, federal authorities say.

A new federal intelligence report warns that adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory could target Democrats and other political opponents for more violence as the movement’s false prophecies increasingly don’t come true

The U.S. has a long history of domestic terrorist attacks. And many of them are directly rooted in racism and white supremacy. Kurt Braddock of American University joined LX News to explain to help explain why white supremacy and domestic terrorism is such a persistent problem for our country — and why our digital lives are making people susceptible to...

Police have made an arrest following a 15-month-long investigation into vandalism at a group of rock configurations in New Hampshire called “America’s Stonehenge.”

U.S. Capitol Police has alerted state and local law enforcement agencies of a “possible plot to breach the Capitol by an identified militia group” on Thursday.

As QAnon and other conspiracy theories spread online, more people are losing friends and family to these cult-like networks of misinformation. NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway talked to people who have lost loved ones to conspiracies, and to experts like Mick West, author of “Escaping the Rabbit Hole” about how people get caught in this web — and whether it’s possible...

The bizarre theories of the fringe conspiracy group QAnon have become so pervasive on social media that they’ve reached many of our neighbors, friends and family members. Stuart Thompson, a reporter and editor for The New York Times, spent three weeks inside a QAnon chat room to learn more about what draws people into its web. He joined LX News...

A high-ranking official with the Hawaii Republican Party has resigned after posting a series of tweets about the QAnon conspiracy theory on the official party account.

President Joe Biden’s inauguration has sown a mixture of anger, confusion and disappointment among believers in the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory.

Federal prosecutors say the pro-Trump mob that stormed the U_S_ Capitol aimed to “capture and assassinate elected officials.”

As social networks and app stores crack down on disinformation purveyors and calls for violence, sensational, QAnon-based lies have found a new way to go viral: forwarded text messages. It’s not clear just how many people have sent or received the texts, as person-to-person messaging services are difficult for researchers to track. NBC News received numerous tips and screenshots...

President Donald Trump has never been one to acknowledge he’s lost. By his own words, he hates losing. The storming of the Capitol by his partisans this week was the culmination of months of denials that he was beaten in the election — and his lifetime aversion to acknowledging defeat.

After Wednesday’s deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol, false rumors have spread among right wing commentators online that Antifa activists were to blame rather than supporters of President Trump. PolitiFact’s Daniel Funke joined NBCLX to fact-check this claim he rated as “pants on fire,” and other misleading news following the riots at the U.S. Capitol.

As we turn the page on 2020 here are a few of the topics we covered that we hope don’t follow us into the new year.

One of the men had a gun permit for Virginia, which is not valid in Pennsylvania. The other man had no permit at all, authorities said. NBC10’s Matt DeLucia reports.

Police arrested two men in Center City Philadelphia late Thursday after receiving a tip that they were making threats against the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where the city’s mail-in ballots were still being counted.