Trump Pardons Diesel Mechanics Onstage at Rally, Says 'I Love Doing This Stuff'
Donald Trump stood in front of a Wasilla crowd on Tuesday night, invited two Alaska diesel mechanics onto the stage, and signed their pardons like he was...
Bank of America Admits It 'Willfully Violated' Money Laundering Law, Pays $1.2B
Bank of America, the second-largest bank in the country, has formally admitted it "willfully violated" the Bank Secrecy Act. The Treasury Department says the...
Pope Leo Tells the World About His Lung Nodule on Sunday, Gets Cancer Diagnosis Tuesday
Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer. The Vatican confirmed Tuesday that tests during surgery found lung adenocarcinoma in the 71-year-old pontiff, hours after...
Billionaire Skips Georgia Governor Debate, Gets Replaced by a Podium
Georgia's Republican nominee for governor, billionaire Rick Jackson, decided he had better things to do on Monday night than debate. So Democrat Keisha Lance...
Trump Emailed MTG 'Did I Do Something Wrong?' She Sent Back a List
Donald Trump's campaign sent Marjorie Taylor Greene an email that opened, "Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor, did I do something wrong?" She answered it. Publicly,...
New Press Secretary Calls Trump 'My Husband,' Flees Podium After 14 Minutes
New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia made her debut at the podium, took questions from exactly three reporters, and bolted after 14 minutes, one of...
Duffy Deletes Proven Road Safety Tools to Fight 'DEI Bike Lanes'
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants you to know that bike lanes are a woke plot, which is a strange thing to say about a safety measure that his own...
Anthropic Warns Self-Replicating AI Could Soon Infest Your Smart Oven
The company that makes the Claude chatbot says self-replicating AI could soon be crawling through your smart oven, your TV, and your robot vacuum, and that...
The Economics Nobel Just Went to a Guy Who Explained Inflation With an Ice Cream Menu
Sweden's most prestigious economics prize went to two professors on Monday, and to explain why, a member of the Nobel committee strolled around the stage like...
Six Flags Shuts 9 Coasters in 6 Parks After a Death on Goliath
A person died and several others were injured on a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday, and the company's response was to close nine coasters at...
ICE Picked Two Sleepy Ohio Airports So Nobody Would Notice. It Worked.
A tiny airport near the Ohio-Pennsylvania line with zero commercial flights has become one of the busiest hubs in America's deportation machine. According to...
Ken Paxton Led a Crowd in 'Where Is James Talarico?' Chants. He Had the Flu.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stood in front of a rally crowd in San Antonio and got thousands of people to chant "Where Is James Talarico?" about a man...
Trump Fat-Shames Woman Just Punched in Face at His Ohio Rally
A woman in a "Release the Epstein Files" shirt got punched in the face and grabbed by the hair at Donald Trump's rally in Youngstown, Ohio, while a crowd...
NATO Threatens to Destroy 'Anything and Everything' While Trump Waives Russian Oil Sanctions
NATO's top military commander stood in Warsaw on Monday and promised to destroy "anything and everything" that supports a Russian attack on allied territory....
Man Dies Falling Off 200-Foot Six Flags Coaster While Seated Next to a Child
A man died Monday afternoon at Six Flags Over Georgia after witnesses say he came out of his seat on the Goliath roller coaster and fell, hitting the ride...
RJ Mitte, Who Played Walt Jr. and Actually Had Cerebral Palsy, Dies at 34
RJ Mitte, the actor who played Walter White Jr. on Breaking Bad and spent two decades dragging Hollywood toward honest portrayals of disability, died Monday in...
Amazon, Apple and Nvidia Gave Trump a Ballroom. Now Congress Wants Receipts
Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia have already gotten letters from Democratic lawmakers asking exactly why they chipped in on Donald Trump's...
Trump Can't Decide If He Approved Livestreaming a Firing Squad
The Pentagon announced it would livestream a firing-squad execution. Then the president said he absolutely approved it, and a few hours later said he wasn't...
Trump Is Now Polling Below Jan. 6 in Arizona, and Gas Is $4.50
A nonpartisan Arizona pollster says Donald Trump's approval rating in the state is now lower than it was right after the January 6 attack on the Capitol. His...
Feds Raid Ilhan Omar's Home 22 Days Before Election, Cite 'No Rule' Against It
Fifteen to twenty Homeland Security agents walked out of Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington home on Monday morning, 22 days before she faces voters in the midterm...
Republicans Out-Raise Democrats by $400 Million, Whine About 'Headwinds'
Republicans have outspent Democrats by $400 million this cycle, and their own strategists are still bracing for a rough election night. The party of Donald...
AI Labs Will Build God-Brains But Won't Say a Word About Saving Democracy
The AI industry will talk your ear off about rogue superintelligence, bioweapons, and killer robots. Ask it about the health of the democracy those machines...
A Super El Niño Is Coming for Your Food, and Senate Republicans Are Cutting the Fix
Forecasters say this year's El Niño could become the strongest on record, and the farms that survive it best are the ones with something green growing in...
Senator Appointed After Her Brother's Death Says She "Feels the Pain" of $4 Gas
Sen. Darline Graham, who got her job because her brother died in July, stood on a debate stage in Columbia on Sunday and told South Carolinians she feels their...
Trump Promised Mass Deportations. Now Even Kansas Cattle Ranchers Want Out
If there is one campaign promise Donald Trump has actually kept, it's mass deportations. Two years in, the people paying for it include Kansas cattle ranchers,...
4,000 Measles Cases, 5 Dead in Pennsylvania, and Your Immunity Is a Mystery
Pennsylvania went from 12 measles cases in January to more than 1,000 cases and five deaths. Nationwide, more than 4,000 people have gotten sick this year, the...
Trump 'May' Join Saudi War After Airport Strike, Will 'Take a Look' at Midterm Timing
A missile hit a Riyadh airport terminal and killed 12 people, and the president of the United States responded on his way to a campaign rally in Tennessee by...
Accused Homecoming Shooter Walks Out of Jail After 48 Hours on $100K Bond
A teenager accused of opening fire outside a high school homecoming game, wounding two other teenagers and emptying a football stadium, was back home within 48...
DOGE's 'Big Balls' Kid Now Runs Trump's AI Site for Your Passport
Edward Coristine, the 20-year-old former DOGE engineer who goes by "Big Balls," is now the lead engineer on America.gov, the Trump administration's new...
Texas GOP Demands 'Proof of Life' From Flu Patient, Hides Own Candidate From Debates for 85 Days
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico spent two weeks off the trail with the flu. Republicans responded the way mature adults always do: by...
Ambassador Allegedly Asked a Donor to Pay Her $100K Amex 'Without a Paper Trail'
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, allegedly asked a Trump donor to wire $100,000 straight to her American Express, told him it wouldn't leave...
North Korea Fires Missiles Again as Trump's 'Great Friend' Kim Ghosts Him
North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles into its eastern waters on Monday, one of them flying more than 559 miles, because apparently the last few...
Jon Batiste Bombed His Juilliard Sight-Reading Test and Got In Anyway
Jon Batiste walked into a Juilliard audition, got handed sheet music he couldn't read, and just made something up on the spot. They let him in. Years later he...
Pete Buttigieg Has 2028 Plans and a Gloriously Empty Calendar
Pete Buttigieg has been able to campaign for Democrats across the country more than most of his potential 2028 rivals this past year, and the reason is almost...
29,000 Jobs Added, 7 Million Unemployed, and a Granola Bag at $8.50
U.S. employers added 29,000 jobs last month. That is one job for every 244 unemployed workers, which is the kind of ratio you'd expect from a game of musical...
Man Dies After Entering Tiger Enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park
A man died Saturday afternoon after entering the tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster and being attacked by one of the animals. Police say...
Trump Announces 'Energy Ceasefire' Russia Hasn't Agreed To
President Trump announced an "energy ceasefire" between Russia and Ukraine on Sunday, which would be a real diplomatic achievement if one of the two countries...
Hurricane Simon Is 2 MPH Short of Category 5 While Tourists 'Look Out the Window Hopefully'
Hurricane Simon is sitting at 155 mph, two miles per hour shy of a Category 5, and it is aimed at the west-central coast of Mexico. A Canadian tourist in...
Missile Hits Riyadh Airport, Kills 12. Saudis Still Promoting Energy Conference
A missile hit the domestic terminals at Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport on Saturday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 309, including one...
Trump Loses Nobel Prize to Woman He Calls 'Disgraceful,' Sanctions Her Court Hours Later
On Friday, Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on international law. Hours later, the Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal...
Kayaker Capsizes Under the Bay Bridge, Rescued by a Drone, Two Boats and a Fleet Week Cameo
A kayaker flipped into the cold waters of San Francisco Bay on Thursday afternoon, drifted under the westernmost column of the Bay Bridge, and got hauled out...
Man Refuses to Give Baseball to Toddler, Internet Loses Its Mind
A young man in a Dodgers jersey caught a foul ball in Atlanta, looked into a stranger's phone camera, and told millions of people he was absolutely not giving...
Two Asteroids Spin Every 5 Minutes and Scientists Are Panicking
Two asteroids more than 2 kilometres wide are completing a full rotation every 5 minutes, a speed that should have shredded them into gravel eons ago. They did...
Man Went Blind in Both Eyes on Ozempic. His Doctor Had Heard 'Nothing' About a Link
Todd Engel woke up on New Year's Eve 2023 with a black patch where his right eye used to be. His doctor said nobody had heard of any link to Ozempic, so he...
Trump Buys Putin's Diesel, Putin Bombs Kids the Next Day
One day after Donald Trump announced he'd buy millions of tons of Russian diesel from Vladimir Putin, Russian bombs hit residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia...
Waffle House Closed, Trump Bailed on Alabama, and Hurricane Isaias Has Arrived
The Waffle House closed. In the American South, that is the real emergency alert, the one that makes grown men in Navarre, Florida, put their ducks in the...
DOJ Rewrites Its Own Rules So Todd Blanche Can Moonlight as a Rally Speaker
Attorney General Todd Blanche spoke at the Republican midterm convention in September, got criticized for it, and said he wasn't violating any rule or law....
Trump Signed Russian Oil Sanctions 3 Weeks Ago. Now He's Buying Putin's Diesel.
Three weeks ago, Donald Trump signed legislation authorizing fresh sanctions and tariffs on any nation that buys Russian oil and gas. This week, he announced...
Hegseth Wants to Livestream a Firing Squad, and Even JD Vance Is Backing Away
The Pentagon wants to put a human being in front of a firing squad on December 3 and stream it to the public, a first in American history. The vice president's...
Trevor Milton Gave $750K to RFK Jr.'s PAC, Then Got a Pardon
A man convicted of lying to investors about an electric truck company donated $750,000 to RFK Jr.'s MAHA political committee, nearly $2 million to a...
Rubio: 'Either the ICC Ends Its Threats, or We End the ICC'
Hours after a former judge of the International Criminal Court won the Nobel Peace Prize, Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted a video promising to cripple...
Trump Promised $2 Gas. It's $4.37 Now, After He Started a War.
Donald Trump spent the 2024 campaign promising gasoline below $2 a gallon, mortgage rates around 2%, and electricity bills cut in half. As of October 9, the...
Dysentery Is Back, It's Sexually Transmitted, and It's Becoming Untreatable
You have died of dysentery. That joke has aged from a classic computer game gag into a live public health warning, because the bacteria behind it is now...
Trump's Immigrant Purge Could Cost Your Grandma $2,152 a Year in Social Security
Donald Trump promised to deport his way to a better America, and a new report says the bill lands on retirees: an average of $2,152 a year in lost Social...