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ReAwaken America brings together some of the U.S.' most prolific conspiracy theorists

Some of the biggest proponents of conspiracy theories about vaccines and elections regularly tour the country together. Many of the speakers are closely tied to former president Donald Trump.

Netanyahu poised for a comeback, with most votes counted in Israel

Israel's fifth election in under four years may give right-wing former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu his return to power - though Tuesday's vote is still being counted.

21 more unmarked graves are discovered in the Tulsa Race Massacre investigation

Historians say up to 300 Black people were killed in the 1921 attack and the days that followed. Nearly all are believed to have been buried in mass graves approved by white authorities of the time.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz enters the courtroom for his sentencing hearing at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. Cruz was sentenced to life in prison for murdering 17 people more in 2018. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool)

At an emotional hearing, the Parkland shooter is formally sentenced to life in prison

After a jury recommended the sentence, the judge could not change it. But she did allow victims and families to speak directly to Nikolas Cruz for the first time to express their anger and grief.

A customer is handed Powerball lottery tickets to purchased at Lichine's Liquor & Deli in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. The jackpot for Monday night's drawing soared to $1 billion after no one matched all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing. It's the fifth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

'Predatory gambling' has helped the lottery reach sky-high jackpot, critics say

The estimated jackpot total is the second-largest prize in Powerball's history and the fourth-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history, officials say.

Two Powerball playslips sit on top of a piece of scratch paper at Bluebird Liquor in Hawthorne, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. The fourth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history could soar to the largest ever if no one wins the top prize in Wednesday night's Powerball drawing. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

The Powerball prize rises to $1.5 billion, the 3rd-largest ever in the U.S.

With no Powerball winner announced on Wednesday, the prize has grown even larger to $1.5 billion ahead of the next drawing on Saturday night.

New district maps could help Democrats in the upcoming election

In a few key battleground states, new district voting maps may help Democrats pick up some state legislative seats in this midterm election.

Photo taken on Aug. 11, 2022 shows the U.S. Department of Justice building in Washington, D.C., the United States. The U.S. Department of Justice DOJ filed a motion on Thursday to unseal the search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence. (Photo by Liu Jie/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Guards who sexually abuse inmates haven't been punished harshly enough, DOJ memo says

The Justice Department report urges an overhaul in the way the Bureau of Prisons works to prevent and investigate sexual abuse by prison employees against women in their custody.

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 02: Senior Advisor to the President for Policy Stephen Miller talks to reporters about President Donald Trump's support for creating a 'merit-based immigration system' in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House August 2, 2017 in Washington, DC. Earlier in the day President Donald Trump signed bipartisan legislation into law placing new sanctions on Russia and reducing his ability to lift the sanctions on Moscow. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Right-wing groups spend millions of dollars on ads targeting transgender kids

America First Legal, an organization launched by former Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller, is the group behind many of the political ads.

Thomas Löb, 55, is a local activist and politician from Grünheide, carefully tracking Tesla’s moves. He is concerned that the new factory is posing a risk to the groundwater, forest and wildlife around it, and that processes around the establishment of the Tesla plant have not been transparent, with local politicians and Tesla itself giving out little information about developments. In 2020 Tesla opened its first German factory in Grünheide, a community of eight villages about 20 miles southeast of Berlin. While some people are thrilled to have a major tech company in the rural neighbourhood, others worry that the permission to build and produce cars has not taken into account long term environmental effects. The area is characterised by its forests and small lakes, and some of it has been designated a nature reserve and a ‘drinking water protection site.’ Moreover, Brandenburg, the county surrounding the factory, is expected to become one of the driest areas of Germany in the next few years. Car manufacturing of cars is a water intensive enterprise, but the local water works are already working close to capacity. Local activists feel the German government is acting too hastily and relying much too heavily on self-regulation for maintaining good air and water quality. Tesla however, has been pushing forward, at times without having secured permission, in order, it seems, to create ‘facts on the ground.’ Grünheide, Brandenburg, Germany, October 26, 2022.

Tesla's first European factory needs more water to expand. Drought stands in its way

The manufacturing plant is in the east German state of Brandenburg, one of the most water-scarce regions of the country. Residents fear an expansion would lead to a water shortage.

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