How one woman uncovered a dark secret that shocked Ireland youtu.be/g9FetGYJcv0?si… via YouTube

Either Trump is playing dumb here and hoping he can wish the Epstein obsession away — or perhaps this is a remarkable instance of the 79-year-old president not fully grasping how profoundly he has stoked and encouraged the conspiratorial beliefs of many in his base.

"On their face, conspiracy theories can seem stupid, like vapid online chatter... But they don’t go away and neither do the people who passionately believe in them. President Trump may be learning that the hard way." –@Donie cnn.com/2025/07/16/med…

The disconnect on Epstein between Trump and his hyper-online base shows that while the president is a prolific poster -- he perhaps isn't as savvy a consumer of social media. Discussion w/Kaitlan Collins & Dasha Burns Column from me on this here: cnn.com/2025/07/16/med…

.Donie O'Sullivan cites on CNN my ongoing tracker of Trump's amplifications on Truth Social of QAnon-promoting accounts, which has now crossed the 1,000 mark. x.com/AlKapDC/status…

Long chat with Elle Reeve here -- check it out and let us know what you think. Here for the hate. Thank you for your attention to this matter. youtube.com/watch?v=9o3XF-…

A brilliant conversation about two important subjects: The particular kind of journalism involved in covering extremism and conspiracy theories, and the impact that covering these subjects has on the journalists themselves.

A buried scandal that's haunted Ireland for decades, with excavations now underway for the remains of hundreds of babies at a home for unwed mothers— their remains hidden in a septic tank beneath a housing estate. CNN’s Donie O'Sullivan on this painful story.

Analysis: QAnon shows the staying power of Epstein theories. Trump should know they won’t go away cnn.com/2025/07/16/med…

"You want a white nation? Build a white town. It can be done. And we're doing it." We went inside Return To The Land, up in the Ozark mountains in Arkansas.

French president sues Candace Owens over claims his wife is a man cnn.com/2025/07/23/us/… Kaitlan Collins

Trump on New York: “It’s so bad, so sad to see. He’s a lunatic, and we just have to stop it. These people come in, you never want to see a thing like that happen. And we’ve expressed our opinions very, very strongly. Terrible thing."

We went back to the White House to check in on how MAGA media is covering -- or not covering -- the Epstein story. Watch: cnn.com/2025/07/30/pol…

Virginia Giuffre’s brother, Sky Roberts, says, “She wasn’t stolen. She was preyed upon.”

How streamers like Destiny | Steven Bonnell II are trying to take on Charlie Kirk -- with or without the help of the DNC cnn.com/2025/08/07/pol…

Charlie Kirk v. Destiny? Possibly coming to a college campus near you this fall? We go inside the weird and wild world of online debater culture. youtu.be/q3OBS6w0x8Q

We met some of the master debaters in real life. Watch: youtu.be/q3OBS6w0x8Q

ICYMI: We met the master debaters. youtu.be/q3OBS6w0x8Q?si…

At 9 p.m. ET tonight, we'll be live from Anchorage, Alaska on the eve of the Trump-Putin summit. We'll have the latest on what to expect when both leaders touch down here tomorrow with our reporters on the ground.

Boy Crisis of 2025, Meet the ‘Boy Problem’ of the 1900s nytimes.com/2025/08/15/opi… via @NYTOpinion