LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber - managing editor As I write this column early on Remembrance Day in the silence of an empty newsroom with lights off to ...

The Branch Davidians, led by religious cult leader David Koresh, were suspected of stockpiling illegal weapons. It was one of the largest law enforcement operations in the U.S. at the time. In ...

Second-term retribution: At his campaign kickoff rally in Waco, Texas ... The values of a cult of personality are the values of the leader, and Donald J. Trump is an amoral, damaged person.

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A Mexico-based beverage company will open a $400 million plant in Waco employing 200 and operating within shouting distance of the $1 billion high-tech paper mill Graphic Packaging International ...

Trump's choice for director of national intelligence has been accused of being influenced by the Science of Identity ...

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A Tucson pastor built his congregation on the strict teachings of 20th-century 'prophet' William Branham, but made it so ...

This is fitting as a cult essential is “a leader who is either worshipped or greatly revered by his/her followers”. This cult leader is always charismatic and dynamic, with a playbook that may ...

‘From there, cult leaders inject shame, guilt, coercion, and fear to keep their members (victims) in line.’ Reiser, herself a survivor of narcissistic abuse, was caught up in a messy RHONJ ...