One Woman’s Journey from Dubai to Beijing, and Why I Still Won’t Apologize for “Lesbianese”
The city was buzzing with a new kind of currency. It’s not the dollar, not the euro, but the click. It is the swipe, perhaps, the DM slide. For so long, my...
Iran Says It's Closing Hormuz. JD Vance Says Record Oil Just Moved Through It.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps announced Saturday that it was closing the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which roughly a fifth of the world's...
Louisiana Pastor Gets 80 Years for Abuse — His Third Conviction
A Louisiana pastor just got sentenced to 80 years in prison for sexually molesting two boys. That sentence is horrifying enough on its own. The part that...
Three Sumatran Tiger Cubs Born in UK Zoo With Only 400 Left on Earth
There are fewer than 400 Sumatran tigers left alive on this planet, which means three cubs born at a Canterbury zoo in April and just now waddling out of their...
Trump's Treasury Chief Called Zelenskyy 'Mr Bean on Crack' Then Compared Trump to Soros
Scott Bessent, the United States Secretary of the Treasury, reportedly called the president of a wartime ally a 'little fucker,' a 'special-needs child,' and...
A Double Highway Saved This Man's Life. No, Really.
Joe Gillette thought COVID had messed with his eyes. He was right that something was wrong. He was spectacularly wrong about what it was. On his 57th birthday,...
Trump Spent $14M to Turn the Lincoln Memorial Pool Bright Green
Donald Trump wanted the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool painted 'American flag blue' for a patriotic Fourth of July photo op. He spent $14 million of your...
Americans Describe Customer Service in 2026: 'Debilitating, Depressing, Enraging. Ugh'
A licensed attorney in Indiana spent weeks trying to get his Samsung oven repaired, failed completely, bought a second stove just to cook Thanksgiving dinner,...
Obama Center's 5-Foot Letters Have the Internet Losing Its Mind
The Barack Obama Presidential Center officially opened to the public in Chicago on Friday, and the internet immediately did what the internet does: lost its...
82,000 Nuns Served Africa Their Whole Lives. They're Dying Without Diapers.
They were doctors, nurses, teachers, and social workers. They gave their entire lives to communities that needed them. Now they are old and dying in convents...
UK Bans Kids From Social Media While Parents Are Right There Doomscrolling Next to Them
Keir Starmer this week announced a sweeping ban on social media for everyone under 16 in the UK, covering Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, X, and...
90% of Gaza's Soccer Infrastructure Is Gone. These NJ Kids Still Play.
Palestinian officials told NPR that 90% of Gaza's sports infrastructure has been destroyed and 450 people connected to soccer, players, coaches, referees, and...
Billionaire Frank Stronach, 93, Guilty of Sexual Assault. His Lawyer Called It 'Very Minor.'
A Canadian billionaire was found guilty of sexually assaulting two women, and his lawyer's response was to call it no big deal. Frank Stronach, 93-year-old...
A Kennedy Who Wrote 7 Vogue Articles Is Running for Congress
New York's 12th congressional district is holding what should be a routine Democratic primary for a safe Manhattan seat, and instead has somehow produced a...
JD Vance Wrote a Whole Book About His Faith While Quietly Hoping His Hindu Wife Converts
JD Vance has written a memoir about finding God, discovering the Catholic Church, and becoming a genuinely better human being. He'd also really like it if his...
Ceasefire in Lebanon Lasts About Six Hours Before Israel Kills Two Kids
A ceasefire in Lebanon materialized and then evaporated in roughly the same news cycle on Saturday, as Israeli strikes killed at least seven people in southern...
The Iran 'Deal' Has Been Signed Three Times and Nobody Knows What It Says
The United States and Iran have now signed the same peace agreement at least twice, possibly three times, in three different locations, and as of this week the...
Trump's $600M DC Makeover Turns National Mall Into a Construction Site for His Birthday Party
Donald Trump wanted to beautify Washington DC in time for America's 250th birthday. What he actually built was a chain-link fence maze around some of the most...
Jack Osbourne to UFC Critics: 'I'm Sorry You Weren't Invited'
Jack Osbourne went to a fight at the White House, got some sad tweets about it, and has now recorded a YouTube video telling everyone to shut the hell up. The...
ICE Shot This Man Near His Elbow. Eight Months Later, His Treatment Is Motrin and Muscle Rub.
A federal agent shot Carlitos Ricardo Parias near his left elbow during an immigration arrest in Los Angeles. Eight months later, he is still in detention,...
Three Hikers Dead in One Week as Grand Canyon Hits 109°F
Three people are dead after hiking into one of the hottest places on earth during a week when temperatures in the Grand Canyon's inner canyon exceeded 109...
Trump Bombed Iran, Then Begged It for a Deal. Iran Won.
Benjamin Netanyahu walked into the Oval Office and told Donald Trump that one more push would collapse the Iranian regime like a house of cards. Four months...
One Dead After Fire Rips Through Dominican Resort Full of Tourists
A luxury beach resort in the Dominican Republic erupted in flames Friday morning while nearly 1,700 guests were on the property, killing one person and...
Tech Bros Call You a Luddite. They Have No Idea What That Means.
A White House adviser went on a podcast recently and called anyone worried about AI killing jobs a "Luddite," as if that settled the argument. It didn't settle...
Newsom Promised Tax Returns in 2018. A DOJ Probe Just Found Them.
Gavin Newsom spent eight years calling tax transparency a 'moral duty,' then quietly stopped releasing his own returns for four-plus years, and is now suddenly...
MLB Warned a Pitcher for Writing 'Charlie Kirk' on His Hat, Then Did the Same to Bible Verse Guys
A Major League Baseball pitcher wrote a dead conservative commentator's name on his hat to honor him and got a call from the league telling him to knock it...
The NFL Kid Who Hid His Soccer Ball Just Scored at the World Cup
A 21-year-old kid who used to hide his love of soccer from his NFL legend father just scored a World Cup goal on home soil and helped send the United States...
Trump Called Anthropic a National Security Threat. It's American.
At some point last week, the President of the United States decided that Anthropic, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company founded by Americans...
James Burrows, Who Basically Invented the TV Sitcom, Dead at 85
James Burrows, the man who directed over a thousand episodes of American television comedy and won eleven Emmy Awards doing it, died peacefully on June 19th...
Bush Hands Michelle Obama Altoids at Obama Center and America Briefly Feels Human Again
George W. Bush showed up to the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago on Thursday and handed Michelle Obama a tin of Altoids. That's the whole...
Trump Endorses Both Candidates in Same Race Because Why Not
Donald Trump, a man who once staked his entire political identity on being a winner, has decided that the safest way to stay a winner is to endorse everyone....
DOJ Plans to Strip Citizenship From 250 Americans by October
The Trump administration wants to strip citizenship from hundreds of Americans, and it wants to do it fast. The Justice Department is preparing to file at...
Gabbard's Fauci Parting Shot Lands While a Housing Guy Takes Over U.S. Intel
Tulsi Gabbard spent her last days as Director of National Intelligence doing what she always does: making everything about Anthony Fauci. While bipartisan...
Two Trains Collide Near London, Passengers Describe 'Blood Everywhere'
Two trains slammed into each other Friday between Luton and Bedford, about 56 miles north of London, and the passenger accounts coming out are exactly as bad...
DOJ Tells Judge to Trust Them on $1.8B Slush Fund. Under Oath? Nah.
The Trump Justice Department created a $1.8 billion fund, got sued over it, told Congress it was dead, told a judge it was dead, and is now refusing to say any...
Trump Canceled a Senate Hearing. The Senate Cannot Be Canceled.
At just before 4 a.m. on Wednesday, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he was canceling a United States Senate hearing. The Senate, as a co-equal branch...
DOJ Sues Virginia for Requiring ICE Agents to Show ID
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Virginia last week for passing laws that would require federal immigration agents to wear visible...
Trump Reads List of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Says 'Sounds Good to Me'
The President of the United States read a document comparing him favorably to Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and his official response was 'Sounds good to me!' This...
Trump's 'More Powerful Than Hitler' Doc Was Written by a Golf Caddy
Donald Trump, the 47th President of the United States, once proudly showed reporters a document claiming he was more powerful than Adolf Hitler. He later...
7,300 Dead and Counting: The Iran War's Brutal Human Cost
A US missile struck a school in the Iranian town of Minab on the opening day of the war, killing 168 people, including 110 children. That was February 28th. It...