Kimi Antonelli secured victory at the Belgian Grand Prix, extending his championship lead. However, his Mercedes teammate George Russell was eliminated early after a collision with Lewis Hamilton, attributing the incident to a persistent lack of straightline speed in his car, an issue not affecting Antonelli.
Jim Marchant, a vocal proponent of election conspiracy theories, secured the Republican nomination for Nevada Secretary of State. He will face incumbent Democrat Cisco Aguilar in November, overseeing elections in a key battleground state.
Colorado Democrats overwhelmingly censured Gov. Jared Polis for commuting Tina Peters' sentence. Peters, an election conspiracy theorist convicted of tampering with election systems, will be released June 1. The party cited concerns about setting a precedent for election interference.
The Onion has reached a deal to take over Infowars, Alex Jones's far-right media company, pending approval by a Texas judge. The satirical website plans to transform the conspiracy theory platform into a parody of itself, paying $81,000 monthly to license the Infowars.com domain. The Sandy Hook families, who won a nearly $1.3 billion defamation judgment against Jones for claiming they faked their children's deaths, support the deal as a way to strip Jones of his platform and potentially collect some owed damages. Jones has criticized the deal and could continue broadcasting under a different name if the sale proceeds.
