As more and more outlandish and implausible details of the alleged poisoning of the Skripals by an alleged Russian nerve agent emerge, and the already miniscule possibility that the Kremlin was somehow responsible is reduced to a vanishing point, our focus needs to turn to examining the details of what really happened here. It is all too easy to be drawn into this circus show, which almost seems to be playing with our imaginations.

How for instance could "they" tell that Sergey Skripal had touched his front door with his right hand, while Yulia had touched it with her left, when they were allegedly contaminated with the alleged nerve agent? Is this just to distract us from the inexplicable idea that the Skripals were hit with the most deadly nerve poison known to man, but remained unaffected for two hours?

All these details help us to establish is that the whole story is false - but we already knew that within hours of hearing about it; rather this helps us to consolidate our presumption of Russian innocence into certainty.

In fact, while the realisation that agents or states allied to the US/UK, acting with or without their governments' consent or knowledge confected this scheme to further their interests is shocking enough, it is only the first step in analysing the conspiracy. The important questions that must now be answered are these:

Who was responsible? How long were they planning this? What is their prime motive? In addition we should consider how they intend to manage the contingencies, particularly if the targeted countries do not behave as they predict, or if other unforeseen events force an alteration to their plans.

Most importantly, we should appreciate that those responsible for launching this exceptionally provocative and dangerous conspiracy quite clearly intend to prevail, by whatever means necessary. This may well include further false flag attacks, or "provocations" as Russians call them, so being forewarned is to be forearmed.

A Hampton Middle School teacher in Georgia told his students to write letters to Congress asking lawmakers to enact stricter gun control laws.

"You are trying to persuade lawmakers to have stricter gun laws to help prevent another school shooting from taking place," the assignment read, according to Fox News. "For this assignment, you are writing a letter to the lawmakers of the United States. The purpose of this letter is to pressure lawmakers to have stricter gun laws in the United States."

Blue Lives Matter secured a copy of the assignment from a police officer whose son was one of the students, Fox News reported.

It has been over five months since then 18-year-old Anna Chambers accused two on-duty NYPD officers of raping her in the back of a police van on the night of September 15th, 2017. As emphatically as she claims she was raped and did not consent to having sex with two police officers, she asserts not only have the police continued to attempt to intimidate her but the very justice system she looked to for help was set up to help the alleged rapists - until now.

On Thursday, New York lawmakers passed a bill banning cops from having sex with people they arrest. No, this is not an April Fools joke. Up until this week, cops in New York could have sex with people in custody, so long as they claimed it was consensual.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 458 points down, as Beijing slapped tariffs on US imports in retaliation for US steel and aluminum tariffs and President Donald Trump blasted online retail giant Amazon.

On Monday, Beijing imposed a 15 percent duty on 127 US products, as well as a 25 percent tariff on pork, in retaliation for Trump's recent tariffs on Chinese exports.

"China and the United States are the world's two biggest economies, and cooperation is the only correct choice," the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said announcing the tariffs, adding that it hoped the US would rescind its tariff decision "as quickly as possible."

At least two people have been killed in an incident at the Marion Municipal Airport in Indiana, after two planes collided on the runway, according to local authorities.

The deadly incident unfolded when a smaller plane that was taking off to the southeast clipped a larger plane that was landing from the north, the coroner, who was dispatched to the scene following the collision, told local WTHR 13 news.

The University of Rochester student government is now requiring all "gender-specific" student groups, such as fraternities, to justify their status annually in writing.

Starting in Fall 2019, the "Gender Exclusivity Waiver" process stipulates that all fraternities and sports teams must annually apply for permission from the Students' Association (SA) to continue excluding the opposite sex, according to a copy of the policy obtained by Campus Reform.

"Through this waiver, these groups must demonstrate that their membership policy and selection processes are integral to the mission of the organization, are openly advertised, and are non-discriminatory on all other grounds," the policy states.

Anthony Pericolo, vice president of the Kappa Delta Chapter of the Chi Phi Fraternity, explained that the policy appears to be a compromise between student efforts to ban fraternities and the efforts to make fraternities more inclusive to LGBTQ students.

Under the new rule, fraternities must apply to "waive" themselves from the school's gender non-discrimination policy annually, or else risk the loss of funding and institutional privileges.

Sixth grader Josie Orihuela got tired of her history teacher constantly trashing the American president.

So one day she recorded her teacher smearing President Trump in a 15 minute rant.

On Saturday Orihuela went on FOX and Friends Weekend to talk about it.

London police are ditching guidelines to automatically believe sexual assault complaints, the Met Police Commissioner has said.
After heavy criticism over a series of failed sex crimes cases, the force will now put their role as investigators first, Met Commissioner Cressida Dick said.

Ms Dick said: "I arrived saying very clearly that we should have an open mind when a person walks in and we should treat them with dignity and respect and we should listen to them and we should record what they say.

"From that moment on, we are investigators," she added.

An exhaustive new study has shed light on how conspiracy theories spread online and who actually believes them.

As conspiracy theories seem more widespread than ever, a team of Australian researchers tried to unravel why the often outlandish beliefs gain widespread appeal.

The researchers forensically examined every entry on the Reddit r/Conspiracy page from 2007 to 2015.

After separating the people who post on the page into various groups, the team was surprised to learn that the traditional 'monological' conspiracy theorists, who connect everything to everything else, only accounted for a small, but very vocal, proportion of the people who posted on the page.

"It is commonly believed that conspiracy believers tend to be the kind of people that connect every conspiracy to everything else, like the typical tin foil hat wearing stereotype," lead researcher Dr. Colin Klein told the Australian news site News.com.au. "We found that there are those people, but they are the tip of a much larger iceberg."

On March 24, 2018, one month and ten days after the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, student-led pro-gun control "March For Our Lives" demonstrations took place across America, including in Washington, D.C.

The word "Our" in March For Our Lives refers to students.