Fox News retracts Seth Rich story — but will Sean Hannity stop promoting the conspiracy theory around his death?

The far right has been collectively fixated on one conspiracy theory for the past two weeks: that a Democratic National Committee staffer was murdered on the orders of Hillary Clinton (or something along those lines). 

Now, even Fox News — which helped kickstart the recent revival of the conspiracy — is distancing itself from the story. 

Fox News on Tuesday announced a retraction of the story it published on May 16 about the staffer. In that post, Fox News claimed that a "federal investigator" had seen evidence that Seth Rich had been a source for WikiLeaks. That fed conspiracy theorists who believed this caused Democrats/Hillary Clinton to have Rich murdered.  Read more...