Trump Tells Ohio Crowd to 'Pretend' He's Running, Crowd Half-Empty
Donald Trump stood in a high school gymnasium in Vandalia, Ohio on Saturday night and told voters their best strategy for winning the midterms was to pretend...
Newsom Hits ICE Detention Centers With 25% Tax, Says California Won't Be Trump's Cage
California Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a law slapping a 25% tax on every dollar private detention centers earn from their ICE contracts, and he did it...
Gina Hinojosa Is Up 3 on Greg Abbott and the DGA Is Still Sitting on Its Wallet
Gina Hinojosa is beating Greg Abbott in Texas, and the Democratic Governors Association is responding to this news the way it responds to most good news: by...
Cornell Cops Busted Chi Phi for Drugs 22 Hours Before the Alleged Gang Rape
Cornell University police responded to the Chi Phi fraternity house for a drug-related arrest at 1 a.m. on October 19, 2024. Twenty-two hours later, a former...
LA Mails Out Ballots While MAGA Screams the Sky Is Falling
Los Angeles County has started mailing ballots for the November 3 general election, and if you think that's going to happen quietly, you have clearly not been...
Store Clerk Sold Kratom Pills Then Warned Buyer 'People Are Dying From Them'
A store clerk in Oxford, Mississippi sold kratom pills to an undercover informant, warned him that 'people were dying from them,' hid the product when other...
Bishop Who Told Trump to Have Mercy Is Calling It a Day
The Episcopal bishop who stood at a pulpit during Donald Trump's second inauguration and asked him, out loud, in front of God and everyone, to have mercy on...
GOP Rep Says Democrats Are Literally on Iran's Side Because They Hate Trump
A sitting United States congressman went on Fox News and told voters that casting a ballot for a Democrat is the same as voting for Muslim terrorists. Florida...
TSA Bans Chairs for Officers Who Just Worked 76 Days Without Pay
The Transportation Security Administration has decided that the best way to reward airport security officers who just survived a 76-day government shutdown —...
OpenAI Told 100+ Companies Its AI Already Hacked Them
OpenAI sent out a round of notifications last week informing more than 100 organizations that its AI agents may have broken into their systems during...
DHS Paid Equatorial Guinea $7.5M to Take Deportees Nobody Else Wants
The Department of Homeland Security paid the government of Equatorial Guinea, a country that has been under the iron grip of the same dictator since 1979, $7.5...
Trump Slashed Science Funding, Now Wants Credit for a 'Golden Age of Science'
The same administration that proposed cutting the National Science Foundation's budget in half just co-signed a 16-nation declaration calling for a shiny new...
Trump's $90 Election Bribe for Seniors Is So Cheap It's Almost Impressive
With the midterms six weeks out and his approval rating in the gutter, Donald Trump has landed on a bold political strategy: send 20 million elderly Americans...
Iran War Sends Midwest Diesel to Record Highs, and Farmers Are Paying $12,500 Per 1,000 Acres
Joe Hamilton is about to fire up four tractors, two combines, and five semi-trucks on his 2,500-acre Indiana farm, and the fuel bill alone will be a record...
Sen. Schmitt Called Jack Smith a Perjurer Over a Team Name He Got Wrong
A sitting United States senator accused a former special counsel of perjury this week because he confused the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawkeyes. Then he...
Hawaii's 550-Year-Old Hōlei Sea Arch Is Gone, and Nobody Saw It Happen
Sometime in the last week of September, a 90-foot arch of volcanic rock that had been standing since before Columbus reached the Americas quietly fell into the...
Guy Pays $15, Digs Up a $250K Diamond in Arkansas
Jack Pearadin paid fifteen dollars to fill a bucket with rocks and walked out of a state park in Arkansas with a 6.03-carat diamond he's calling the American...
Trump May Demolish the Kennedy Center. It Just Fled the Building.
A ceremony that has been held in the same building every single year since 1978 is packing up and moving this December, not because the venue is being...
Marco Rubio's Ex-Housemate Gets 10 Years for Secret $50M Maduro Lobbying Gig
A former Republican congressman who shared a house with Secretary of State Marco Rubio was sentenced Friday to 10 years in federal prison for secretly running...
The 20-Something DOGE Kid Who Showed Up at the IRS Demanding Everything
A young man in a black hoodie showed up unannounced in the lobby of the IRS carrying four laptops and a backpack full of government phones, demanded immediate...
Brazil's Election Is a Referendum on Whether Coup Plotters Get to Win Anyway
The man convicted of plotting a coup to stay in power is sitting in a prison cell while his son runs for president on an explicit promise to set him free. That...
Pope Leo XIV Tells the Church to Pick a Side: Humans Over AI
The Pope walked up to the microphone and said what a lot of people have been thinking but nobody with institutional power has actually said out loud: human art...
KJP Tells Trump He's Making Biden's Mistake. She's Not Wrong.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the woman who spent years behind the most-watched podium in American politics, has written a New York Times op-ed telling the Trump White...
Fired Climate Scientists Built a Secret Jobs Network the White House Can't Touch
The Trump administration fired thousands of climate scientists and figured that was the end of it. It was not the end of it. A secretive,...
Dengue Fever Declares 3 Florida Counties an Emergency Zone
Three Florida counties along the Gulf Coast have declared states of emergency after locally acquired dengue fever cases surged to levels the region has never...
AI Is Drinking the Grid Dry and You're Getting the Bill
New Jersey residents are staring down a 20% electricity rate hike starting June 1, and one of the biggest reasons is that tech companies need unfathomable...
Alaska Democrat Leads Governor's Race as Trump's Approval Craters 22 Points
Alaska, a state Donald Trump won by 13 points just two years ago, may be about to elect a 37-year-old Democrat as governor. A bipartisan AARP poll puts...
Judge Orders DOJ to Hand Over FBI Notes on Teen Sexual Assault Claim Against Trump
A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to release handwritten FBI notes from four separate interviews with a woman who says Donald Trump forced her...
Trump Asked a Chatbot Whether to Invade Venezuela. Then He Did It.
In December 2025, roughly one month before the United States invaded Venezuela and captured its president, Donald Trump sat in a secret meeting with Elon Musk...
Letitia James Named Special Prosecutor in Cornell Gang-Rape Case
The district attorney who decided not to prosecute an alleged gang-rape at Cornell University apparently made that call without ever reading the victim's...
Diesel Hits $6.38 a Gallon and Even Republicans Are Begging Trump to Do Something
Diesel fuel is now averaging $6.38 a gallon nationally, up from $3.60 just a year ago, and the situation has gotten so dire that Republican members of Congress...
Roy Cooper Sent $100M in Hurricane Relief to Housing Non-Victims
More than a thousand North Carolina families spent years sitting in temporary homes after two devastating hurricanes, waiting for the state to rebuild what the...
Dog Drags Cop Half a Block to Save Owner Who'd Been on the Floor 3 Hours
A dog in Leawood, Kansas, did something last week that most people won't do for their neighbors: it stood in the middle of the road and flagged down a cop....
Mortgage Rates Hit 7.28% as Iran War Torches the Housing Market
Mortgage rates just hit 7.28%. That is not a typo, and it is not a blip. It is the highest level in nearly three years, and it is happening because a war in...
NYC Mayor Mamdani Calls Netanyahu 'Architect of Genocide' on Theo Von's Podcast
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani went on a comedian's podcast this week and called the sitting Prime Minister of Israel 'the architect of a horrific...
Hamas Operative Raised $1.7M by Telling Donors He Was Buying Food for Starving Gazans, Prosecutors Say
A man prosecutors describe as a senior Hamas military operative allegedly raised $1.7 million for the terrorist group by telling donors he was buying food for...
Google Just Launched an AI Data Center Into Space
Google just strapped four of its own AI chips to a refrigerator-sized satellite and shot it into orbit, because apparently building data centers on Earth —...
Nike Lost Mbappé to a Swiss Startup. Yes, That Nike.
Nike signed Michael Jordan before he played a single NBA game, built an empire on his back, and spent forty years convincing the world it was the only brand...
NASA Crew-13 Blasts Off With a Canadian Whose Wife Is Due in November
SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Thursday, and the most quietly remarkable detail in the whole mission is this: Canadian...
Man City Found Guilty of 100+ Cheating Charges, Clippers Caught Paying Kawhi $28M Off the Books — Rich People Are Having a Month
In the span of a single month, two of the richest sports franchises on earth got caught cheating on a scale so brazen, so sustained, and so thoroughly...
Lake Mead Is 27% Full and the Colorado River Talks Just Collapsed
The largest reservoir in the United States is less than a quarter full, a 175-foot white mineral ring is now the only record that it was ever higher, and the...
Trump Admits Weapons Running Low, Won't Rule Out Post-Election Iran Escalation
Seven months into a war he promised would last 'four to five weeks,' Donald Trump has now admitted US munitions stocks are 'a little bit lower' than before —...
Rick Ross Arrested for Choking Woman Over an Instagram Tag
Rick Ross, the 50-year-old rapper who built a career rapping about power and untouchability, surrendered to Miami Beach police Thursday morning and was booked...
Hegseth Creates 'Office of Religious Affairs,' Hands Chaplains His Cell Number
Pete Hegseth stood at a podium in Quantico on September 30th and announced that the United States military is, in his words, 'putting on the full armor of...
Family Sues Stephen Miller for Renee Good's ICE Killing
The family of Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman shot dead by an ICE officer in January, has filed two civil lawsuits naming the federal government, the...
Harvard Prof: Trump's Conspiracy Playbook Is Literally Stalin's
Donald Trump called AI safety researchers a "HOAX" conspiracy, banned three major news outlets from the White House, and is spending Justice Department...
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz Are Now Redesigning Clinical Trials
The Trump administration has decided that the people best positioned to reimagine America's drug development pipeline are Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mehmet Oz....
Maine's Senate Race Is a Toss-Up and a War Nobody Wanted Is Why
A war in Iran is making it harder for a Maine theater owner to heat his building, for local farmers to buy fertilizer, and for Susan Collins to win a sixth...
Jon Stewart to Schumer and Jeffries: 'Do Something With It, You B-----ds'
Jon Stewart looked at the prospect of Democrats winning a historic midterm landslide and his first instinct was dread. Not because of the victory itself, but...
Jim Carrey, 64, Secretly Married for the Third Time
Jim Carrey got married again, and most of the internet only just found out he had a girlfriend. The 64-year-old comedian and actor quietly wed his longtime...
Kristi Noem Files for Divorce After Husband's Fake-Breasts Photos
Kristi Noem, the former homeland security secretary who got fired by Donald Trump and then watched her husband get photographed wearing inflatable fake breasts...
Cornell Frat Gang Rape Case: DA Never Got 'I Was Raped' Statement
A 20-year-old woman says seven Cornell University fraternity members drugged and gang-raped her for four hours while one of them texted a group chat to invite...
Cornell Rape Case Exposes How Cops Are Trained to Doubt Victims
A former Cornell University student says she was drugged and gang-raped by seven men in 2024. Prosecutors declined to charge anyone. Now, two years later, the...
Fed IG Clears Powell: The 'Criminal' Renovation Case Was a Sham
The Federal Reserve's inspector general just released a 121-page report concluding that Jerome Powell committed no crimes, which would be a boring...