Every Flight in America Grounded Until Further Notice, Cause Unknown
Every commercial flight in the United States was grounded on Friday afternoon "due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety," and as of this writing nobody official can tell you what those circumstances are. The FAA says a communications problem is hitting every...
Trump: 'We Don't Need a Deal With Iran' While Asking Putin to Broker One
President Trump declared on Thursday that "We don't need a deal with Iran," the same week Iran's chief negotiator told Al Jazeera that U.S....
Netanyahu's Spy Chief Flies to D.C. to Lobby Trump for More Iran War
The head of Israel's foreign intelligence service is in Washington this Friday with one job: help convince the president of the United...
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Every Flight in America Grounded Until Further Notice, Cause Unknown
Every commercial flight in the United States was grounded on Friday afternoon "due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety," and as...
Trump: 'We Don't Need a Deal With Iran' While Asking Putin to Broker One
President Trump declared on Thursday that "We don't need a deal with Iran," the same week Iran's chief negotiator told Al Jazeera that U.S. officials...
Netanyahu's Spy Chief Flies to D.C. to Lobby Trump for More Iran War
The head of Israel's foreign intelligence service is in Washington this Friday with one job: help convince the president of the United States to...
What Your Poop Schedule Says About You
Somewhere in Seattle, a team of scientists looked at 1,425 healthy adults and their bathroom schedules and came back with a verdict: one or two a day...
Scientists Kill the 'Dead Layer' That Stalled Low-Power AI Chips
The AI industry is burning through electricity like a frat house burns through a keg, and the usual answer from Big Tech is to build more power...
Microsoft's 'Automated Health Checks' Took Down Email for Half the Planet
Microsoft's servers failed their own health checks, and then the whole world got sick. For about 12 hours, Outlook, Teams and Copilot went dark for...
Nvidia CEO Dated Alleged Chinese Spy; Commerce Chief Lutnick Kept Going Easy on Nvidia
The CEO of the most valuable chip company on Earth was in a relationship with a woman U.S. intelligence agencies believe is a Chinese spy, and she...
Chris Van Hollen Will Challenge Chuck Schumer For Senate Majority Leader
Democrats just flipped eight Senate seats and will walk into January with at least 55 senators, which by any normal standard means everyone gets a...
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Chris Van Hollen Will Challenge Chuck Schumer For Senate Majority Leader
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Pence Says GOP Lost Over 'Air of Corruption,' Not the Iran War
Mike Pence, the man who once certified an election while a mob built a gallows outside, has now emerged as the GOP's most unlikely truth-teller about why...
Nvidia CEO Quits After Two Affairs, One With a Suspected Chinese Spy
The man who built the chips that power the entire artificial intelligence economy just resigned as CEO of Nvidia after reports that he had two extramarital...
Five Shot at a Gym a Mile From the White House, Suspect Holed Up Upstairs
At least five people were shot Thursday morning in Washington's Logan Circle neighborhood, at and outside a Vida Fitness gym roughly one mile north of the...
Trump Calls Wind Turbines 'Major Losers' While Skipping the Climate Summit Entirely
Donald Trump said wind turbines are "a major loser." John Kerry, standing in a Turkish resort city where almost every other country on Earth showed up to...
Cindy Hyde-Smith Told Voters to 'Pick Another Protein.' They Picked Another Senator.
A cattle rancher and former state agriculture commissioner told Mississippians struggling with beef prices that they had "so many other proteins to choose...
Tariff Refunds Have Outrun Tariff Revenue Since May, a $15 Billion Net Loss
Since May, the federal government has handed back more in tariff refunds than it has collected in new tariffs. Treasury's own numbers show $134.4 billion refunded against $119.0 billion collected...
Heating Oil Could Jump 70% This Winter, Thanks to Your Friendly Iran War
Nearly 5 million American households that heat with oil could see their winter costs jump 70 percent, to about $2,977, and the reason is a war most of them...
Hinojosa Said 'Texas Is Not for Sale.' Two Days After Winning, It's 'Our Terms.'
In October, Gina Hinojosa told Texans that Greg Abbott was "handing over our land to the world's only trillionaire" and that "Texas is not for sale." Two days...
Democrats Win Congress, Then Immediately Try to Fire Chuck Schumer
One week after Democrats won the majority in Congress, the party's own Senate leader is fighting for his job. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen is calling...
Palantir CEO Calls Himself a Progressive 8 Times While Powering ICE Deportations
Palantir CEO Alex Karp told Politico that he is a progressive. Then he said it again. Eight separate times in one post-midterms interview, according to...
Air Force Major Jailed for Holding an 'Impeach Trump' Sign, Alone 24 Hours a Day
An Air Force major stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol with a sign that said "Impeach. Convict. Remove." and has now spent months in solitary confinement...