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…

Postcards promoting the QAnon web of conspiracy theories arrived in the mail at thousands of New England homes recently. The card, titled “The True Story of QAnon,” features a QR code surrounded by 20 faces of famous politicians, actors and tech giants. “They’re just trying to hook people in and trick them,” said Brian Duffy of Acton, Massachusetts. The back…

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.