Senate Republicans Scared of Their 4th Shutdown in 12 Months
Three government shutdowns in the past year, and Senate Republicans are already in full panic mode about a fourth. It's July. The fiscal year doesn't end until...
Maine Dem Drops Out, Signs Off With 'F*ck ICE. Free Palestine.'
Graham Platner filed his official withdrawal from Maine's Senate race on Thursday, two days after announcing he was out following rape allegations from a...
Afghanistan's Ex-Deputy Speaker Sold the DEA 2kg of Meth, Then Asked for 3 Days to Deliver RPGs
A man who served as deputy speaker of Afghanistan's National Assembly and as a general in its paramilitary Border Force was arrested and charged Friday with...
Trump Is Turning the White House Into a Bunker and Calling It a Reno
The White House is getting a new front door. And new fences. And fortified walls. And scaffolding that will be up for months. Call it what you want, but when...
Ryanair Passenger's Head Was Literally Outside the Plane at 30,000 Feet
A 61-year-old man's head and shoulders were outside a Ryanair airplane window somewhere over North Macedonia on Friday morning before fellow passengers...
1,173 Lbs of Cocaine Found Hiding in a Cabbage Shipment at Texas Border
Someone looked at a truckload of cabbage crossing the Texas border and thought: perfect. Nearly 1,200 pounds of cocaine, 477 packages, stuffed inside a...
Gas Was $2.98 Before Trump's Iran War. Now It's Climbing Again.
Before the United States started a war with Iran in late February, you were paying $2.98 a gallon for regular gas. This Friday, according to AAA, that number...
Trump Flies His Own Poop Home From Turkey Like Putin and Kim Jong Un
Donald Trump attended a NATO summit in Ankara this week, and when he boards his $400 million Air Force One to fly home, his luggage will include something that...
British MP Ann Widdecombe, 78, Found Dead at Home, Murder Probe Launched
Ann Widdecombe, the 78-year-old former British MP, prisons minister, reality television contestant, and Reform UK firebrand, was found dead in her home on the...
Andy Burnham Inherits Starmer's Mess and Trump's Contempt
Donald Trump once dismissed Andy Burnham as 'the mayor of a town.' Now that mayor is about to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and his first truly...
Trump's DOJ Is Racing to Release Biden's Private Tapes to the Heritage Foundation
The Trump Justice Department was, until a federal appeals court stepped in Friday, about to hand over Joe Biden's private recorded conversations to a...
Mortgage Rates Hit 6.5% and the Inflation Report Won't Save You
Back in early March, the average 30-year mortgage rate had fallen to 5.75%. That was a nice number. A hopeful number. The kind of number that makes people dust...
Fed Chair Warsh's Fix for Groupthink: Five Task Forces Full of Non-Fed People
The Federal Reserve, an institution that has spent decades perfecting the art of talking to itself, is about to hear from some people who have never worked...
Dead Broke: How Your Debt Can Loot Your Own Grave
Here's a fun thing nobody tells you at the estate planning seminar: dying doesn't make your debt disappear. It just makes it someone else's problem to sort...
Pentagon UFO Drop: A Nuke Plant Lockdown, a 28-Year Vet Stumped, and a Six-Pointed Star Over the Yellow Sea
The Pentagon dropped 40 new UFO files on Friday and buried inside them is a story about an unidentified object buzzing a nuclear weapons facility in Texas...
Delta CEO: High Airfares Are 'Sustainable' Even After Oil Drops
Delta CEO Ed Bastian went on CNBC Friday and said the quiet part loud: even if oil prices fall, he expects high airfares to stick around. The average domestic...
Elton John Was Gay-Coding Your Radio Since 1972 and You Had No Idea
A new book argues that Elton John spent the entire early 1970s hiding in plain sight, stuffing queer longing into chart-topping hits that millions of straight...
Charlie Kirk Murder Trial Hinges on DNA, a Rooftop, and a Roommate Who Talked
A judge is now sitting with a pile of evidence that includes a DNA match on a murder weapon, rooftop surveillance footage, and a former roommate who says the...
Manhattan Gained More New Residents Than Anywhere in America and Still Lost $922M
Manhattan pulled off a genuinely impressive feat between 2022 and 2023: it attracted more new tax filers than any other county in the entire country, and...
Trump Spent $3.8B Killing Wind and Saving Coal. Your Power Bill Is the Point.
The Trump administration has spent $2.7 billion in taxpayer money to kill offshore wind projects and another $1.125 billion to keep coal on life support, and...
Dr. Oz Says Blue States Turned Medicaid Fraud Into a 'Feature.' Sure, Mehmet.
The guy who sold miracle weight loss supplements on daytime television for fifteen years would like you to know that blue state governors are running a...
ICE Killed the Wrong Man. No Body Cams. Brother Still Detained.
ICE agents in Houston shot and killed a man on his way to work Tuesday morning, and the Department of Homeland Security has since confirmed he was not the...
Taliban Bans Smartphones After Protest Video Goes Viral
The Taliban have banned smartphones for government employees, judges, police, and military personnel across Afghanistan, after video of their own forces...
Trump Called Iran's Leaders 'Scum' at NATO, and That's Not Even the Weirdest Part
Donald Trump showed up to the NATO summit in Ankara, called Iranian leaders 'scum,' ordered US warplanes to bomb targets along the Strait of Hormuz, threatened...
FCC May Kill School Internet Program Over 'Too Much Screen Time'
The FCC is reviewing whether to gut or eliminate E-Rate, the federally mandated program that has connected nearly every school and library in America to the...
Maine Dems Need a Logger, Not Another Suit
Graham Platner just blew a hole in Maine's Senate race by dropping out, and the Democratic Party now has a choice: find someone who actually speaks to...
DSA Wants to Abolish the Senate and Let Congress Pick the President
The Democratic Socialists of America are about to drop a platform update that would abolish the U.S. Senate, eliminate the independently elected presidency,...
Trump Says He'd Be 'The Greatest Communist in History'
Donald Trump, standing at a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, told the world that communism is the greatest threat America has faced since its founding and then,...
AI Is Making a Few People Gods and Everyone Else Slightly Less Annoyed at Their Inbox
While a small group of power users are using AI to conjure entire companies out of thin air, most Americans are using it to avoid typing a full email. Axios is...
Waymo Snitched on Two 15-Year-Olds and the Privacy Nightmare Is Just Getting Started
A driverless car called the cops on its own passengers. That sentence is real, it happened in San Mateo, California this week, and it is either completely...
EasyJet Dumps £5.2bn Suitor After Bigger One Flashes £5.7bn
EasyJet just ghosted one American suitor for a richer American suitor, and the whole thing took less than 72 hours. The Luton-based budget airline agreed in...
Ebola Is Spreading Into New Congo Regions With No Vaccine and 600 Dead
Six hundred people are dead, 1,759 confirmed cases are on the books, and a strain of Ebola with no approved vaccine and no approved treatment is now showing up...
U.S. Bombs Iran While Burying Its Supreme Leader, Hits Bridge on the Funeral Route
The United States launched airstrikes on 90 targets inside Iran on Thursday, including, per the Revolutionary Guard, two bridges on the route to Mashhad where...
Trump EPA Guts Truck Pollution Rules, Calls It $12B Gift to Families
The Trump administration announced this week it wants to gut Biden-era heavy-duty truck emissions rules, promising the move will save the trucking industry...
Trump Fires the Entire Election Watchdog Board 4 Months Before Midterms
Four months out from the midterm elections, Donald Trump just fired the entire leadership of the federal agency responsible for certifying voting systems and...
ICE Killed the Wrong Man. No Body Cams. Now They're Blaming Democrats.
ICE agents in Houston shot and killed a man on his way to work Tuesday morning. He had lived in the United States for 35 years, had no criminal record, and was...
His Wife 'Fell Overboard.' Feds Think She Made It Back to the Boat.
Brian Hooker told authorities his wife bounced off a dinghy in the dark waters off the Bahamas and was swept away. The Coast Guard now thinks she may have made...
Trump on Rape Accuser: 'It's Really a Question of Whether You Believe the Woman'
Donald Trump, a man with his own extensive bibliography of sexual misconduct allegations, climbed aboard Air Force One on Wednesday and offered his hot take on...
MIT Built a Robot Puffin That Flies, Swims, and Launches Out of the Water in Under a Second
Scientists at MIT built a robot the size of a seabird that can fly through the air, swim through the ocean, and launch itself out of the water using nothing...
Trump Held a Housing Bill Hostage and Prices Just Hit $440K
The median price of an existing home in America is now $440,660, an all-time record, and the price has gone up for 36 consecutive months. Congress actually...