‘The Onion’’s winning bid on Alex Jones’s Infowars gets rejected by a judge. Here’s why

A federal Texas judge cited problems with the auction process. A federal judge in Texas rejected the auction sale of Alex Jones’s Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet, criticizing the bidding for the conspiracy theory platform as flawed as well as how much money families of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting stood to receive.The decision late Tuesday night is a victory for Jones, whose Infowars site was put up for sale as part of his bankruptcy case in the wake of the nearly...