St. Paul's First Female Mayor Hit With Sexual Harassment Complaint From Her Own Police Chief
St. Paul's first female mayor is seven months into office and already the subject of a formal sexual harassment investigation, after her own police chief filed...
DOJ Wants Judges to Punish Immigrant Lawyers — But ICE Attorneys Are Exempt
The Justice Department wants to give immigration judges the power to fine attorneys and their clients up to $3,500 for defying court orders. There is just one...
Six Months In, the 'Four-Week War' With Iran Is Melting Trump's Base
The war that was supposed to last four to six weeks is now six months old, draining U.S. missile stockpiles, spiking gas prices, and quietly destroying Donald...
Fed Holds Rates While Three Officials Mutiny and Markets Tank
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday, which should have been good news. Instead, stocks cratered, three central bank officials openly...
Senate Unanimously Tells Trump: No Pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell
Every single United States Senator, Republican and Democrat alike, just went on record saying Donald Trump should not pardon a convicted child sex trafficker....
Dr. Oz Just Made Your Grandma's Drug Coverage 50% More Expensive
Dr. Mehmet Oz, television's favorite snake oil pitchman turned Medicare czar, just announced on X dot com that he is ending billions in subsidies that kept...
Trump's AG Pick Is Tanking Because DOJ Won't Kill Trump's IRS Slush Fund
Todd Blanche, the man who prosecuted seashell photos on behalf of Donald Trump and called it justice, is now watching his own confirmation collapse because the...
Epstein Was a Camper, Then a Donor, Then an Alleged Predator at the Same School
Jeffrey Epstein attended Michigan's Interlochen Center for the Arts as a camper in 1967, later donated over $400,000 to the school, got a lodge named after...
Trump and Bibi's Iran Meeting Was So Grim Even the Jokes Stopped
Something unusual happened in the Oval Office on Tuesday: Donald Trump apparently stopped cracking jokes. Senior Israeli officials who were in the room told...
"She Killed the Kids": Patrick Clancy's 911 Call Plays in Courtroom
A Massachusetts courtroom went silent Wednesday as jurors listened to Patrick Clancy's 911 call from the night he came home to find his three children...
OpenAI Is Giving 100,000 Academics Free GPT Access. What's the Catch?
OpenAI announced Wednesday that it will hand 100,000 academic researchers free access to its most powerful AI models through 2027, including GPT-5.6 Sol Pro....
FIFA Wants to Sell the World Cup to Trump's In-Laws
Gianni Infantino, the man who runs world football like it's his personal vanity project, would like to sell you the World Cup. Not metaphorically. FIFA has...
TSA Is Now ICE's Airport Snitch, and Agents Call Travelers 'Easy Targets'
An ICE source just told CBS News, out loud, on the record, that travelers at U.S. airports are "easy targets" for immigration arrests. The Transportation...
Chiefs OC's Son Shot His Mom. She Still Called 911 Herself.
A 57-year-old woman was shot inside her own home by her 27-year-old son, and her first move was to pick up the phone and call 911 herself. That woman is Mia...
Fed Defies Trump Again, Holds Rates as He Demands World's Lowest
Donald Trump stood in front of reporters on Monday and declared that the United States "should have the lowest rates in the world." Two days later, the Federal...
Trump's $22B Dulles Makeover Includes Gold-Mirrored Ceilings
Donald Trump has personally reviewed 3D models from competing contractors and signed off on a $22 billion plan to rebuild Washington Dulles International...
Ohio GOP Gov Tells Truth About Haiti, Gets Eaten Alive By His Own Side
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine looked at the situation in Haiti, looked at the 30,000 Haitian TPS holders living and working in his state, and said the quiet part...
The Novel China Wants You to Hate Just Won the Booker Prize
A novel about Japanese colonial-era Taiwan just won the most prestigious literary prize in the world, and China is losing its mind about it. The book is a love...
DOJ Asked Sammy 'The Bull' and ChatGPT to Prove Seashells Are a Murder Plot
The United States Department of Justice, unable to confirm that the number 86 implies violence, consulted ChatGPT, Google AI, and a confessed murderer of...
Trump Wants Senate to Pass Another Megabill Before August Vacation
The ink is barely dry on the last catastrophic megabill and the White House is already back at the Senate's door with another one. According to Axios, Trump...
The Fed's Crystal Ball Is Broken and AI Broke It
The people in charge of keeping the global economy from flying into a mountain just got told that their instruments might not work anymore. According to a new...
Yes, Hospitals Can Still Send You to Collections — Here's What They Won't Tell You
The hospital saved your life. Now it wants its money, and it will absolutely hand your debt to a collections agency if you don't come up with a plan. Recent...
Invasive Mussels Are Eating the Great Lakes Alive, Five Years Left
Biologists are now warning that the lake whitefish, a fish so central to Great Lakes identity that an 1888 Ohio town literally called it their pride and joy,...
Howard Dumped 500 Black Students Weeks Before Move-In Day
Howard University sent disenrollment notices to 502 incoming freshmen, roughly 20% of its entire incoming class, just weeks before the August 11 move-in date....
Democrats Tour Texas Detention Holding a 2-Month-Old, Call Conditions 'Inhumane'
A group of House Democrats visited an ICE family detention center in Dilley, Texas on Tuesday and came out calling the conditions inhumane, citing a...
Trump Vows to 'Beat the F---ing S--- Out of' Iran as Dow Drops 700
Iran fired ballistic missiles at US military positions in Jordan overnight, and President Trump responded Wednesday morning by telling Fox News, on camera,...
BTS Tells the Grammys to Keep Their Trophy
The Recording Academy spent last month patting itself on the back for creating new 'Asian pop' categories at the Grammys, a bold inclusivity move that managed...
Rebel Wilson Can't Explain Why Her Company Appears in Website Smear Metadata
Rebel Wilson was shown metadata in an Australian courtroom indicating that her own production company, Camp Sugar, was listed as one of the authors of a...
Free Childcare Is Winning Elections and Republicans Have No Answer
For fifty years, Republicans killed universal childcare by calling it a threat to "family values," and Democrats mostly let them. Then the cost of daycare blew...
The Yellow School Bus Is Dying and Nobody in Charge Seems to Care
In 34 Ohio school districts, fewer than 10% of vacant bus driver positions have been filled. Across the country, nine states have already cut or proposed...
Iran Shoots Missiles at Jordan While Iraq Burns: The Middle East Is Fully on Fire
Iran fired ballistic missiles at Jordan on Wednesday. Jordan shot them down. Hours earlier, the United States and Saudi Arabia were bombing militia sites...
Trump Pushes RFK Jr to Cut Even More Vaccines as Measles Hits 30-Year High
Measles is at its highest rate in 30 years. Whooping cough deaths are rising. Flu and tetanus are killing more Americans than they were a few years ago. Donald...
Iran Fires Missiles at U.S. Troops While Trump Hosts Netanyahu for 'Productive' Chat
While Donald Trump was busy calling his White House meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu 'productive,' Iran launched a volley of missiles at U.S. forces somewhere...
A Ghost Gun With a 33-Round Mag Killed Two Bystanders at a Cotton Candy Line
A woman was standing in line for cotton candy with her daughter at a free food festival when someone opened fire and ended her life. Two other people are dead,...
Trump Hosts Zelensky and Netanyahu in Same Day White House Blitz
Donald Trump held back-to-back meetings at the White House on Tuesday with two of the world's most complicated relationships in American foreign policy:...
11,000 Sick From Parasite in Lettuce While MAGA Tells You to Eat Whole Foods
More than 11,000 Americans have been infected with a intestinal parasite linked to lettuce this summer, spanning over 40 states, in what is now the largest...
MAGA Is Done With Vance and the Replacement Is Marco Rubio
JD Vance is losing the Republican Party and gaining a sauerkraut diet, which about sums up where his 2028 presidential ambitions currently stand. The...
10 Women Accuse Jared Leto of Preying on Teen Girls for Over a Decade
A BBC documentary airing this week features ten women accusing Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto of sexual misconduct spanning more than a decade, with alleged...
Trump Killed the Agency That Saved 20,500 Lives and $7.7B — to Save Nothing
Congress gave the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality $345 million this year. The Trump administration spent less than $15 million of it, fired...
Fauci's Diary Called Trump 'Truly an Obnoxious Adolescent' and Six Other Things
Anthony Fauci, 85 years old and apparently done being polite about it, is headed to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to face a Senate grilling from Rand Paul about...
Trump's Senate Doormat May Soon Have Even Less to Stand On
John Thune has somehow managed to tell Donald Trump "no" and still wake up every morning with his job intact. That trick is getting harder to pull off, and...
Supreme Court Hits Record-Low 33% Approval, Completing the Trifecta of Failure
Congratulations are in order. For the first time in modern polling history, all three branches of the United States government are simultaneously drowning in...
Trump Bans Chinese Robot Imports Because They Might Spy on You
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is banning imports of foreign-made humanoid robots, because apparently the dystopian future we were promised...
300,000 Haitians Lose Legal Status While State Dept. Still Warns: Don't Go to Haiti
The Trump administration is stripping legal status from 300,000 Haitian immigrants on the grounds that Haiti is now safe enough for them to return. The State...
China Is Shipping Iran 400 Missile Launchers Through Pakistan (Which Totally Isn't Happening)
China is sending Iran up to 400 shoulder-fired missile launchers, routed through Pakistan, in a $60-70 million deal designed to help Tehran shoot down the...
Tupac's Accused Killer Wrote a Book Confessing. Now It's Evidence.
A man who allegedly helped orchestrate the murder of Tupac Shakur, then wrote a memoir about it, then gave a police interview about it, is now upset that...
7.1 Quake Kills 13 in Japan, Mall Still Burning, More Shocks Coming
A magnitude-7.1 earthquake tore through Japan's Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday afternoon, killing at least 13 people, partially collapsing a shopping mall, and...
Trump Recited Graham's Phone Number at His Own Funeral
Senator Lindsey Graham died earlier this month. On Tuesday, at his state funeral inside the Washington National Cathedral, President Donald Trump paid his...
Comey Says DOJ Tracked His Phone Illegally to Build a Seashell Case
The federal government may have illegally tracked James Comey's phone to build a criminal case against him over a beach photo. The Secret Service agents they...
GOP Leaders Rush to Dallas to Hug the Man Burning Their House Down
Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson are flying to Dallas in September to wrap their arms around a president who has made their jobs...
ICE Agents Called Immigrants 'Tonks' and 'Wets' in Group Texts While Raiding LA
While ICE agents were out in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July 2025, at least one of them was busy texting his colleagues about all the 'tonks' selling food in...
Treasury's New Fraud Hotline Pays Snitches — But Bessent Is Already Comparing Somalis to the Mafia
The Trump Treasury Department launched a shiny new whistleblower portal on Monday, promising Americans up to 30% of whatever fraud penalties the government...
Chip Stocks Shed 15% While Apple Hits $5 Trillion and Nobody Blinks
Samsung and SK Hynix lost more than 15% of their value in a single morning. Kioxia dropped 18%. Dell fell 13%. And somewhere in the middle of all that carnage,...
Nvidia's Jensen Huang Summoned to DC as Feds Probe His China Chip Sales
Jensen Huang, the leather-jacket-wearing CEO of the most valuable semiconductor company on Earth, spent his Tuesday in Washington getting grilled by the Trump...
AI Isn't Driving the Productivity Boom. Oops.
Everyone has been telling you that artificial intelligence is turbocharging the American economy. The charts, the TED talks, the breathless CNBC segments, the...
Barron Trump May Be Subpoenaed Over His Tate Brothers Ties
Barron Trump, the 20-year-old crypto millionaire who has carefully avoided saying anything publicly since he told a crowd he liked his suitcase at age four,...
The Rock Star Who Killed Her Own Party: Charli xcx's Anticelebrity Turn on Music, Fashion, Film
Charli xcx was the party for two years. "Brat summer" was a full-blown media event—a lime-green fever that took over political campaigns, group chats, and...
Kentucky Gov. Demands McConnell Prove He's Alive or Quit
Mitch McConnell has not been seen outside of staged photographs released by his own office in more than 40 days, and Kentucky's Democratic governor has finally...
Reagan's Own FCC Chair Says Trump's ABC License Hunt Is Unconstitutional
When the guy Ronald Reagan put in charge of the FCC calls your media crackdown unconstitutional, you have officially lost the argument. A coalition of former...
NYC Braces for 5 Inches of Rain and Life-Threatening Flash Floods
New York City is under a Flood Watch Tuesday, with the National Weather Service warning of life-threatening flash flooding across the five boroughs and most of...