Nigel Farage Is Running Against a Man Dressed as a Trash Can
Nigel Farage, the man who helped blow up the European Union and spent years cosplaying as a working-class hero while cashing checks from billionaires, has...
Texas Has $27B Sitting Around But Won't Spend $1.3B to Stop Cooking Prisoners Alive
A Texas prison cell hit 149 degrees Fahrenheit. Inmates are lying in spilled toilet water on concrete floors just to feel something other than their own organs...
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 Fires the Whole Election Commission While Iran and Israel Simmer
The United States struck 170 targets in Iran over two days, Iran shot back at U.S. bases in the Gulf, and then both sides apparently decided to take a...
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...
ICE Killed the Wrong Man in Houston. He'd Lived Here 35 Years.
Federal immigration agents in Houston pulled over the wrong van, shot the driver in the abdomen, and watched him die at a hospital hours later. The two people...
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,...
Two U.S. Vultures Circle EasyJet in $7.7B Bidding War
Two American private equity firms are currently in a bidding war over a British budget airline that just reported a 27 percent deepening of its losses. Nothing...
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...
Sen. Markey Wants to Stop AI from Becoming a 'Pollution Bomb'
Senator Ed Markey has a message for the AI industry: the party is over, or at least it should be. The 79-year-old Massachusetts Democrat just unveiled a...
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...
Bear Breaks Into Alaska Mall, Steals a Peach, Craps on the Floor, Leaves
A black bear walked into a shopping mall on a military base in Anchorage, Alaska on Sunday morning, stole a peach from the grocery store, ate it, defecated 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...
DCCC Burns Donor Cash on Primaries Again, and Democrats Are Furious
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, fresh off a string of questionable primary interventions this cycle, has decided the obvious solution is to do...
Ed Dept Tries to Calm Disability Advocates, Makes Everything Worse
The Trump administration invited disability rights advocates onto a private call Thursday to reassure them that gutting special education oversight was,...
Trump's Arch Commission Chair Says Federal Height Law Doesn't Apply to Federal Buildings
The Trump administration is building a 250-foot arch near the National Mall and has landed on a creative legal theory to get around the 115-year-old federal...
Patrick Dempsey Won't Save Maine Democrats, So Who Will?
An oyster farmer won Maine's Democratic primary by the biggest margin in state history, then got taken out by a sexual assault allegation. The actor from...
OpenAI Loses Its Head of Product to a Chronic Illness That Rarely Gets Taken Seriously
OpenAI just lost one of its most powerful executives, not to a better offer or a boardroom coup, but to a chronic illness that millions of people have and that...
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...
DHS Will Yank Billions in Safety Grants From States That Won't Audit Voter Rolls
The Department of Homeland Security has figured out a creative new way to bully states into compliance with Trump's election security agenda: hold disaster...
Maine Dems Scramble for Senate Seat After Assault Accusation Torches Their Nominee
Maine Democrats had a Senate candidate. Then a sexual assault accusation happened. Now they have until July 27 to find a replacement to take on Susan Collins,...
Trump Blew Up the Iran Deal. Now He Needs Someone to Unblur It.
Donald Trump declared the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding dead, ordered two rounds of airstrikes, and announced the ceasefire was 'over.' Now, according...
LA Hired the Firm That Cleared East Palestine to Test Their Air
After a half-million-square-foot warehouse burned for a week in Los Angeles, the company that owns it hired a firm to test the air and tell everyone it was...
Eight Charged for Plot to Blow Up Trump's White House UFC Show
Someone allegedly tried to fly explosive drones into a UFC cage-fighting show staged on the White House lawn and then shoot people as they ran for their lives....
DOJ Let Alibaba Walk on Felonies for $600M and a Pinky Promise
Federal prosecutors had enough evidence to prove felony violations against Alibaba for letting dangerous drugs, chemicals, and pill presses flow to American...