According to a poll published on May 11, approximately a quarter of Americans believe the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in April was staged. Answers vary by party, The Washington Post reports. Among Democratic respondents, approximately one in three believe the incident...

Some social media users claim that the weather is controlled by the US government. Conspiracy theorists are using tragedies such as the Texas floods to create new conspiracy theories, The Guardian reports. Disasters and tragedies have long been the source of American conspiracy theories, both old and new.…