Many people are now being recruited online into all kinds of authoritarian cults, including QAnon and other derivative I AM cults that teach a version of Ascended Masters ideology. Most family and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON — In the 1980s, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas had a moment of clarity: She realized she had fallen in with a group she ...

In the second hour of the three-part Hulu docuseries “Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence,” several students who had their lives and their potential wrung out by Larry Ray, a manipulative ...

When most people think of cults (or sects, though there are differences in meaning), their minds conjure up small groups with a narcissistic cult leader. The leader is always right. He can do no wrong ...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) revealed that he has sought advice from “cult deprogrammers” on how best to communicate with his extremist Republican colleagues — and “pull them away” from their alternative ...

WASHINGTON — In the 1980s, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas had a moment of clarity: She realized she had fallen in with a group she considered “a cult” and sought to be “deprogrammed” from it, she said in ...

In the 1980s, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas had a moment of clarity: She realized she had fallen in with a group she considered "a cult" and sought to be "deprogrammed" from it, she said in decades-old ...