Pamela Evette still remembers the first time she saw herself doing something she had never done. In a dim, claustrophobic room, she sat under harsh lighting with sensors attached to her body, her face drawn and anxious. A polygraph machine hummed beside her, tracing jagged lines on paper. Then, as she watched, the machine burst into flames. The video was a political advertisement, designed to make her look deceptive and desperate. In small print, it said the dramatization was generated with artificial intelligence. But Evette, South Carolina’s lieutenant governor, quickly learned that small print was not enough. She told Noticias…

It has been a while since a news story could still shock you. But even in a political era that has grown numb to strange headlines, the latest development in the long and tangled Hunter Biden laptop saga stands out. According to reporting from WTVG and other outlets, two former FBI officials, Timothy Thibault and Elvis Chan, have been charged with making false statements about their handling of the laptop in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election. Federal prosecutors say the two men, both of whom once worked inside the FBI’s high-stakes national security and cyber divisions, lied to…