Kaepernick's Knee Was Eric Reid's Idea, Not the Veteran's — He's Setting the Record Straight
Ten years after a quiet act of sitting on a bench during a preseason game detonated one of the most ferocious cultural firestorms in American sports history,...
The Support Group Helping People Quit MAGA Like a Drug Addiction
A former MAGA pundit who wrote Donald Trump's 2016 campaign call scripts, donated money, and went on Fox News to sell the movement now runs a non-profit...
900 Dead, 4,400 Missing: Nepal's Glacier Didn't Collapse, We Melted It
A wall of mud moving at 40 miles per hour buried entire families alive in Nepal and Tibet this summer, and the death toll has now passed 900 with more than...
RFK Jr Called Babies' Measles Deaths 'Fabricated.' CDC Erased Them.
A newborn baby died shortly after birth in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His mother had measles so severe it sent her into labor a month early. Robert F....
Dolly Planned Her Own Goodbye — and It's a Two-City Festival
Dolly Parton died on August 25th at the age of 80. And even that she handled better than any of us would. While the rest of the world was still processing the...
FTC Says Amazon Secretly Rigged Its Own Ad Auctions for $69B
Amazon has been quietly running one of the most lucrative scams in advertising history, according to the federal government. The FTC and a bipartisan coalition...
Keffe D Convicted of Tupac's Murder — His Own Book Did Him In
Nearly thirty years after Tupac Shakur bled out in a Las Vegas hospital, a jury took less than three hours to decide that Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, 63, organized...
Army Secretary Quits, Blaming Hegseth for Firing the Generals
The Army Secretary just rage-quit the Pentagon, and he apparently told the White House exactly who to blame. Dan Driscoll submitted his resignation after...
Times Square Stabber Told Cops 'I'd Rather Kill You' — They Took Her at Her Word
A 49-year-old Queens woman walked into Times Square on Monday with two knives, stabbed two strangers without warning, and then told the police officers trying...
GOP's First Day Back From Vacation Is a Sexual Misconduct Vote
Welcome back from summer vacation, Republicans. Your first order of business: a vote on whether to formally censure one of your own members for sexual...
Man Allegedly Conned 26 Women Out of $1.3M By Faking 49ers Career
A 35-year-old man allegedly convinced 26 women he was a San Francisco 49ers player and the heir to one of Switzerland's richest families, then talked them into...
New Mexico's Electric Bills Are 22% Cheaper Than Yours. Solar Did That.
While the rest of the country has been watching its electricity bills climb 32% over the last five years, New Mexico somehow went the opposite direction —...
Dolly Parton's Free Book Program Makes Kids 17x More Likely to Read
While politicians argue about education funding and commission reports that gather dust, Dolly Parton has been quietly mailing free books to children every...
Social Security Runs Dry in 2033: Your $500 Monthly Cut Is Already Scheduled
The Social Security Administration has confirmed, in writing, that the program's trust fund will run dry and that benefits will be automatically slashed to 78...
Dolly Parton Buried Quietly as Family Mourns the Woman Who Called at 4 AM
Dolly Parton, one of the most beloved human beings to ever walk this earth, was buried on Friday in a private ceremony attended only by family. She was 80...
85,000 Acres Burning in North Texas While Molson Coors Assures You the Beer Is Fine
A wildfire that started as a 25-acre brush fire outside the small town of Ross, Texas just before lunch on Monday has exploded into an 85,000-acre catastrophe...
Seven Kids, One House in Nottingham, Zero Grand Plan: Meet Classical Music's Unlikeliest Dynasty
Seven children. Seven instruments. One semi-detached house in Nottingham where every room is occupied by someone practicing Bach at full volume. The...
Ted Cruz Wants Venezuela Democracy — Just Not More Than Its Oil
Ted Cruz went on Meet the Press Sunday to demand free and fair elections in Venezuela. He also made clear, in the same breath, that the United States does not...
USDA Kills Cyclospora Research Mid-Outbreak After 17,000 Fall Sick
While more than 17,000 Americans have gotten sick from a parasitic outbreak sweeping 48 states, the Trump administration is busy shutting down the government...
Flash Flood Destroys Grand Canyon's Phantom Ranch, 20+ Still Missing
Half an inch of rain fell in thirty minutes at the Grand Canyon on Saturday, and the canyon did what canyons do with half an inch of rain in thirty minutes: it...
U.S. Bombs Iran Again to Stop New Hormuz Mines, One Week After 'Zero Tolerance' Warning
The United States military has bombed Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz again, this time to stop Iran from putting new mines in the water that the U.S....
A 13-Pound Marmot Named Dawn Just Won Fat Marmot Week and Honestly We Need This
A six-year-old yellow-bellied marmot named Dawn, described by researchers as a father who enjoys the taste of rocks, has won the inaugural Fat Marmot Week...
Aaron Donald, 35, Comes Out of Retirement to Terrorize the NFL One More Time
Aaron Donald retired two years ago with 111 sacks, a Super Bowl ring, and the reasonable expectation that offensive linemen across America could finally sleep...
85 Americans Missing in Nepal After Flood Kills 750, 3,000 Still Lost
A catastrophic flood near the Nepal-Tibet border has killed at least 750 people, swallowed entire villages whole, and left 85 Americans unaccounted for, the...
CIA Chief Ratcliffe Flew Secret to Moscow to Propose Trump-Putin-Zelensky Summit
The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency quietly flew to Moscow this week and proposed a three-way summit between Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and...
Ohio Comic Shop Paid $16K in Illegal Tariffs and Won't See a Dime Back
The Supreme Court ruled that a big chunk of Trump's tariffs were illegal, and the federal government is sitting on more than $160 billion in refunds it owes...
Trump Renamed Lake Ontario 'Lake America' and Now Everyone Is Yelling
Donald Trump, locked in a trade war with Canada that just escalated to 50% tariffs, has decided the real problem is the name of a Great Lake. On Thursday, he...
Gunman Opens Fire at Swiss Rave, Kills One, Still at Large
Someone pulled out a gun at a rave in Switzerland early Sunday morning and opened fire, killing one person and wounding five others, some of them seriously....
Mike Lindell Lost by 45,000 Votes and Won't Accept That Either
Mike Lindell spent years screaming that Donald Trump had the 2020 election stolen from him by voting machines. Now the MyPillow guy has lost his own race by...
Lithium-Ion Battery Blast Kills Teen at Brooklyn Public Housing
A lithium-ion battery explosion tore through the 12th floor of a Crown Heights public housing complex Friday evening, killing an 18-year-old man and sending...
Rabid Petting Zoo Goats Exposed Kids and Elderly Across NC Counties
A mobile petting zoo in North Carolina let children and elderly visitors cuddle baby goats that were, unbeknownst to anyone, incubating rabies after being...
SCOTUS Just Made It Nearly Impossible to Prove Racial Gerrymandering
The Supreme Court didn't repeal the Voting Rights Act. They just made it functionally useless by requiring plaintiffs to prove something nearly impossible to...
ICE Deports Milo Yiannopoulos, Who Spent Years Demanding ICE Deport People
Milo Yiannopoulos spent years screaming into the internet that America needed to deport millions of people, calling for 'on the spot deportation for anyone who...
NASA Launched a $4.3B Telescope That Makes Hubble Look Like a Toy
While the rest of the federal government has spent the last two years lighting itself on fire, NASA somehow built a $4.3 billion space telescope, survived a...
From the Temple of Set to Turning Point: A Symbolic Sacrifice in the Network of American Power
On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), was fatally shot during a TPUSA event in Utah. Official authorities classified...
Sony and Warner Sue Anthropic for 'History's Biggest IP Theft'
Late on a Friday night, because that's when you drop news you want people to miss, units of Sony Music and Warner Music filed a federal lawsuit against AI...
Michigan GOP Senate Candidate: I Saw Bin Laden's Body. He Saw a Photo.
Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers sent a fundraising email telling supporters he saw Osama bin Laden's dead body "with my own eyes." He did not....
Pete Hegseth Is Apparently Running for President Now. Sure.
Pete Hegseth, the Defense Secretary best known for making the Pentagon's chaos look like a controlled demolition, is now telling people he wants to be...
Trump Skipping Ground Zero Because He Can't Have the Mic
The 25th anniversary of September 11th is two weeks away, and the President of the United States is not going to Ground Zero. He's going to the Pentagon. He...
Meta's $17 Billion 'We Didn't Do It' Apology Bans Kids From Instagram at Night
Meta has agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion to settle a federal lawsuit claiming the company designed Facebook and Instagram to be addictive for children, while...
NY's 15 Sheriffs Sue Hochul Over ICE Ban While She Countersues Back
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a law banning local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE, and now 15 county sheriffs are suing her over it. She...
Lindsay Clancy Saw 13 Meds, 70 Witnesses, and Zero Actual Help
Lindsay Clancy called a suicide hotline, went to the emergency room, was turned away from inpatient treatment, saw multiple psychiatrists, and was put on 13...
Someone Stole 40,000 Pounds of PBR and Pabst Is Not Playing
Someone in Montclair, California has stolen a truck carrying 40,000 pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer — more than 50,000 cans — in what may be the single...
Trump Skips Ground Zero on 9/11 After Organizers Won't Let Him Give a Speech
On the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Donald Trump will skip Ground Zero in his hometown of New York City and head to the Pentagon instead. The...
Harvard Researchers Are Fleeing to Canada and Honestly, Can You Blame Them?
The United States is losing dozens of its top researchers to Canada, a country Americans spent the last century condescending to about hockey and politeness. A...
Trump's Fed Chair Hints at Rate Hikes While Inflation Still Burns
Kevin Warsh, Donald Trump's hand-picked Federal Reserve Chair, stood at the annual Jackson Hole retreat on Friday and told the world that inflation is still a...
RFK Jr Says Pennsylvania's Two Measles Deaths Might Be 'Fabricated'
The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services looked at two confirmed measles deaths — one of them a newborn — and his public contribution was to...
King Harald V of Norway, Europe's Oldest Monarch, Dies at 89
King Harald V of Norway died Friday morning at the National Hospital in Oslo, ending a 35-year reign that began in exile, survived Nazi occupation, and...
OpenAI and Anthropic Warn Their Own AI Could Wreck Hospitals in Months
The people who built the most powerful AI systems on the planet just published an open letter warning that those same systems could soon be used to devastate...
Iran Built Fake Americans on Instagram to Trash Republicans
Iran ran a network of fake Americans on Facebook and Instagram designed to look like your neighbors, your coworkers, your cousin who won't stop posting about...
Tropical Storm Dolly Forms Two Days After Dolly Parton Dies
Dolly Parton died on August 25. Two days later, the Atlantic Ocean named a tropical storm after her. Nobody planned this, nobody scheduled it, and yet here we...
Andy Burnham Called Trump 'Poisonous' and Has Zero Plans to Apologize
Andy Burnham once told Donald Trump he wasn't welcome in Manchester and could take his poisonous politics elsewhere. Now Burnham is Britain's prime minister,...
Diesel Hits $5.65 a Gallon and Trump's 'Affordable Housing' Pledge Is Quietly Burning Down
Diesel fuel is now $5.65 a gallon nationally, up almost two dollars from a year ago, and the fuel that powers every bulldozer, lumber truck, and concrete mixer...
Meta Pays $17 Billion to Settle 'We Knew It Was Hurting Kids' Era
Meta has agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion to settle claims that it knowingly made its platforms addictive and harmful to children, in what is now among the...