Several members of a Bay Area group of computer savants and vegan activists have been investigated, criminally charged or deemed persons of interest in violent incidents that have resulted in six ...

In the Bay Area, a place teeming with brainy computer scientists, an intellectual movement called “the rationalists” debates ...

Border Patrol agent David "Chris" Maland will be interred at Fort Snelling National Cemetery on Saturday in his native ...

The group, which espouses rationalist philosophy, are connected to at least 6 homicides in the U.S., potentially including ...

Jack "Ziz" Lasota, 34, who lived in Berkeley for a time, was arrested Sunday along with Michelle Zajko, 33, and Daniel Blank, ...

Jack Lasota, 34, who allegedly leads a group of a few dozen followers known as Zizians, was arrested on Sunday alongside ...

A journalist who has studied the Zizian movement since a border agent was killed in Vermont in January says little is ...

The FBI is investigating a string of killings across the nation possibly linked to a group that one expert says has hallmarks ...

The Zizians have been tied to the killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland near the Canadian border in January.

Jack “Ziz” LaSota, the alleged leader of the Zizian "murder cult" and two others, 26-year-old Daniel Blank and 32-year-old ...

A criminologist explains how vulnerable individuals are drawn to online cults, emphasizing the role of social media.