Chris Whitcomb can vividly recall the moment he had a clear shot of doomsday cult leader David Koresh. It was 1993 and Whitcomb was a sniper with the FBI Hostage Rescue Team. A gun battle had been ...

In two series timed to the 30th anniversary of the events, the fallout from a standoff between federal agents and an apocalyptic religious sect gets a second look. By Chris Vognar Thirty years ago, a ...

“Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco,” by Stephan Talty. “Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco” by Stephan Talty; Mariner Books (464 pages, $30) In ...

Donald Trump held a rally in Waco, Texas, this weekend during the 30 year anniversary of the federal government’s siege on the Branch Davidian compound in 1993. Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz said ...

This cover image released by Mariner Books shows "Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy of Waco" by Stephan Talty. (Mariner Books via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — “Koresh: The True story of ...

Jeff Guinn begins his gripping new book “Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage” with an epigraph from the historian Rick Perlstein: “A fog of crosscutting motives and ...

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Thirty-two years ago, nearly 80 people died as a result of the Waco Siege. But where the responsibility of those deaths lies remains a point of contention between federal law enforcement and the last ...

In 1984, Vernon Howell revealed that God had been speaking to him since he was a child. And he announced he was “the Seventh and Final Angel,” who would lead Branch Davidians through the Apocalypse.

"David Koresh was very complex. There were times where we had good positive conversations. And there were other times where he was extremely angry, extremely paranoid, always narcissistic," says a ...

The Branch Davidians were a bunch of weird people who just wanted to be left the fuck alone. The buzzing hivemind of the mainstream maelstrom will scream otherwise on every conceivable platform that ...