NATO's Top Commander: 'The Math Is Not in Favor of the West'
NATO just pledged 900 Patriot missiles and $40 billion in new air defenses at its summit in Ankara. Days later, the alliance's own top transformation commander...
AI Companies Now Print More Money Than McDonald's and Starbucks Combined
Two companies that didn't exist in any meaningful commercial form five years ago are now collectively printing money faster than the golden arches and the...
You're Not Broke, You're Just Doing It Wrong: The Debt-and-Savings Trap Explained
Here is a thing millions of Americans are doing wrong right now: throwing every spare dollar at their credit card balance while their savings account sits at...
Trump Wants SCOTUS to Kill Mail Voting in 23 States Before November
Donald Trump signed an executive order in March giving himself the power to decide who gets a mail ballot in America. Two courts have now told him to go pound...
7.1 Quake Traps People in Collapsed Japanese Mall, Derails Train
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake tore through southern Japan on Tuesday afternoon, trapping people inside a collapsed shopping mall, derailing a cargo train, and...
ICE Force-Fed a Hunger Striker. There's a Receipt.
The Trump administration didn't just ignore hunger strikers in immigration detention. According to a government document reviewed by the Guardian, they...
Wall Street Is Already Picking AI Winners and Losers — and It's Not Just Tech
Sam Altman wants to sell you intelligence the way your utility company sells you electricity, and a new economic study tracking 380 trillion AI tokens suggests...
ICE Shot a Man, Jailed the Witnesses, and a Judge Just Said No
An ICE officer shoots a 52-year-old Mexican homebuilder during a traffic stop in Houston. The man's passengers, who watched him die, get thrown into federal...
Netanyahu and Zelenskyy Both Show Up to Graham's Funeral to Hit Up Trump for Weapons
Lindsey Graham died on July 11, and Washington is burying him today with all the pomp a 30-year Senate career can buy. But if you're wondering why both...
Five Months In, Americans Are Paying For Trump's Iran War at the Pump and the Food Pantry
Five months ago, the Trump administration sold America a war against Iran that was going to wrap up in a matter of weeks. It has not wrapped up. What it has...
She Raised Money for AOC. Now She Votes Trump and Wrote a Book About It.
Evan Barker raised money for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, and Jasmine Crockett. She was seven months pregnant, standing in Tom Steyer's San Francisco...
Democrats Are Doing the Republican Surrender Playbook Page by Page
Republicans didn't wake up one morning and decide to become a cult of personality. According to Axios, they surrendered to Donald Trump one stage at a time,...
Trump Made a Billion Dollars in Year One. Half of Swing Voters Shrugged.
Donald Trump made more than a billion dollars in his first year back in office, struck a deal with his own government to stop the IRS from auditing his family,...
J&J Will Pay $5.5B for Baby Powder Cancer Claims It Still Swears Are Fake
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay up to $5.5 billion to settle roughly 76,000 lawsuits claiming its baby powder gave people ovarian cancer. The company would...
7.1 Quake Hits Japan at Maximum Intensity, Tsunami Warnings Issued
Japan got hit with a 7.1-magnitude earthquake Tuesday afternoon that registered at the absolute maximum level on the country's own seismic intensity scale....
Nvidia Lost the 'World's Most Valuable' Crown to Apple in One Day
Nvidia spent months as the crown jewel of the global economy, the living symbol of AI mania, worth more than any company on earth. Then Monday happened. One...
Two Pacific Storms at Once: Hawaii on Watch as Cat 5 Churns Nearby
The Pacific Ocean is running two storms simultaneously this week, and one of them just briefly hit Category 5, the first East Pacific storm to do so in two...
Cracker Barrel CEO Out After Logo Fiasco That Even Trump Weighed In On
A restaurant chain managed to anger its customers so thoroughly over a new logo that the President of the United States took time out of his schedule to...
Fox Poll: 70% of Voters Don't Want a Data Center Near Them
The AI boom has a public relations problem, and it is a big one. A new Fox News poll finds that by a 40-point margin, American voters do not want a data center...
Both Red Panda Cubs Born at Santa Barbara Zoo This Summer Are Dead
Both red panda cubs born at the Santa Barbara Zoo this summer are dead. The second cub, pulled from his mother on July 19 after staff noticed he wasn't nursing...
Six Months Gone: Savannah Guthrie Begs Her Mom's Kidnappers for Answers
An 84-year-old woman who needs daily medication was kidnapped from her home near Tucson, Arizona, six months ago. Her daughter, NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie,...
Scientists Say Cities Are Blowing a $3-Per-Dollar Return by Ignoring Trees
Dozens of scientists just published a paper arguing that trees — yes, trees, the tall wooden things you walk past every morning without looking up — should be...
A Bird Extinct for 50 Years Is Back and Raising Chicks on Its Own
A bird that hadn't nested in one of India's most famous wildlife reserves since the 1960s just bred successfully for the fourth year running, without any human...
Rubio's State Dept. Blacklists AOC, Bernie, Amazon Workers as Cuban Agents
The State Department just published a 100-page report arguing that Ben & Jerry's ice cream guy, the Amazon Labor Union, and sitting members of the United...
Hegseth Gutted the Pentagon's Civilian Casualty Team From 40 to 9 People Then Bombed a School
Pete Hegseth dismantled the Pentagon's civilian protection unit, slashed its staff by 77 percent, and scrapped the database used to track civilian deaths in...
Google Is Quietly Deleting Thousands of ICE Detention Reviews
Thousands of people detained by ICE, or their desperate family members, took the time to leave Google Maps reviews of immigration detention facilities...
Cancer Patients Must Prove They're Dying Correctly to Keep Medicaid
The Trump administration has found a new way to take healthcare away from dying people, and it is almost elegant in its cruelty. A rule just issued by the...
House Republicans Subpoena Breakthrough News, Proving They've Run Out of Ideas
The Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee has issued a subpoena to Breakthrough News, a left-leaning independent media outlet, because apparently the...
Tribal Nations Built AI Moratoriums While Governors Were Still Googling 'Data Center'
New York Governor Kathy Hochul made national headlines on July 14 when she signed a one-year pause on data center construction, becoming the first governor in...
Idaho Killer Wants a Do-Over, Claims Innocent After DNA, Video, and a Knife Sheath Disagreed
Bryan Kohberger stabbed four college students to death, left his DNA at the scene, pleaded guilty, and is now serving four consecutive life sentences. So...
Biden Tapes Drop: 'I Just Found All the Classified Stuff Downstairs'
Joe Biden, on tape, in his own voice, telling his ghostwriter "I just found all the classified stuff downstairs" like he'd stumbled across a box of old VHS...
Wisconsin Tornado Flips Cars, Shreds Roofs, Knocks Out Power to 30,000
At 12:20 in the afternoon on Monday, the sky over northeastern Wisconsin went black as midnight. Then the roofs started coming off. A tornado confirmed by the...
Canadians Canceled the U.S. and It's Costing Billions
Canadians decided they'd rather not, thanks. After two years of tariffs, trade threats, and being told their entire country is basically a future American...
D4vd Going to Trial for Stabbing, Dismembering 14-Year-Old Fan He'd Abused Since She Was 13
A Los Angeles judge ruled Monday that singer D4vd, born David Anthony Burke, will stand trial for the murder, sexual abuse, and dismemberment of 14-year-old...
Trump's Spy Chief Pick Advances While the Actual Spy Program Sits Dark
America's most important counter-terrorism surveillance program has gone dark for the first time in its history, the guy tapped to run it couldn't say who won...
Iran Is Running Out of Gas. Iran. The Oil Country.
One of the most oil-rich nations on earth is experiencing gasoline shortages. Let that sentence fully load before you keep reading. Iran, sitting on the...
GOP Gov Calls Trump's Haiti Deportation Blitz 'A Mistake' That Sends People 'Back to Hell'
A Republican governor just looked at the Trump administration's plan to deport 300,000 Haitians and said, out loud, that it sends people 'back to hell.' Ohio...
Every AI Giant Signed the Open-Source Letter. Anthropic Didn't.
Every major player in artificial intelligence signed a letter asking Washington to keep its hands off open-weight AI models. Nvidia signed it. Microsoft signed...
Georgia Teen Stormed Capitol With Loaded Shotgun to 'Scare Congress Into Truth'
An 18-year-old from Smyrna, Georgia drove to the U.S. Capitol in February with a loaded shotgun, body armor, camouflage gear, a gas mask, and a Kevlar helmet,...
Nvidia Is Financing OpenAI While Selling It Chips. Yes, Both.
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to provide $250 billion in financing for a $500 billion OpenAI data center in Ohio, a project so large it would consume enough...
MIT Study: 20% Chance AI Kills Millions Within 5 Years
One in five. That is the probability that artificial intelligence develops dangerous weapons capabilities or causes mass harm killing millions of people within...
Authors Won $1.5B From Anthropic. AI Can Still Read Your Book.
Anthropic just agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle with authors whose work it used to train its AI models, which sounds like a massive win until you read the...
The Same Small Businesses That Beat Trump in Court Are Suing Him Again
You would think that losing a tariff case at the Supreme Court might give a president pause. You would be wrong. The same small businesses that already dragged...
Comey's Lawyers Use Trump's Own Words to Sink the Seashell Case
The Trump Justice Department is trying to send a former FBI director to trial over a beach photo. Comey's lawyers just fired back with the most satisfying...
France's First Fire-Generated Thunderstorm Shows Up, Politicians Look Away
France just experienced its first pyrocumulonimbus, a fire-generated thunderstorm that makes wildfires nearly impossible to predict or contain, and which until...
Washington Buries Lindsey Graham, Its Most Exhausting Survivor
Lindsey Graham spent three decades outlasting every political moment that should have finished him, surviving Trump's insults, his own contradictions, and the...
McConnell, 84, Still Trapped in Rehab Six Weeks After Mystery Fall
Mitch McConnell has now been absent from the Senate for six weeks, missed 38 votes, and is still not medically cleared to leave his rehabilitation facility,...
Someone Shot at the US Consulate in Toronto. Again.
Someone fired a gun at the United States consulate in Toronto on Monday morning, the second time this has happened in less than five months. A white car with...
Cop Filmed Having Sex in School Blasted Others for 'Tainting the Badge'
A married Nashville police sergeant who filmed himself having sex with another officer inside a middle school — while children were in the building — went on a...
Fauci Called Trump 'Truly an Obnoxious Adolescent' in Secret Diary
Anthony Fauci kept a diary during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it turns out he was not a fan of his boss. The journal, released by Rand Paul in what was...
Fed May Hike Rates This Week With Zero Warning. That's New.
The Federal Reserve has spent the better part of thirty years building a reputation for being the most boringly predictable institution in American public...
Trump Paused Iran Bombing to Let Jared Kushner Do Diplomacy
The United States has paused its military strikes on Iran, and the man now helping steer the diplomatic fallout is Jared Kushner. Yes, that Jared Kushner. The...
Secret Service Agent Arrested for Frat Hazing That Left Victim Needing Skin Grafts
A Secret Service agent was arrested this weekend after allegedly spending several days beating college fraternity pledges with canes and paddles so severely...
Hackers Shut Down Fairlife Milk Plants and Stole Data from a $7B Brand
Someone hacked the milk. No, really. Hackers hit Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy brand with a ransomware attack so severe it shut down four U.S. production plants...
Netanyahu and Zelenskyy Both Flying to DC to Beg Trump at a Funeral
Lindsey Graham isn't even in the ground yet and his funeral has already become the hottest diplomatic backroom in the world. Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodymyr...
Netanyahu Flies to DC in Secret After 13 Nights of US Airstrikes on Iran
Benjamin Netanyahu didn't exactly stroll through Ben Gurion Airport with his carry-on like a normal person. The Israeli Prime Minister flew out of a military...
Trump Tariffed 80 Countries to Fight Forced Labor. He's Lost 75,000 Factory Jobs.
Donald Trump this week imposed sweeping new tariffs on more than 80 countries, justified partly by concerns about forced labor abroad and partly, and this is...
The EEOC Just Voted to Stop Counting Workplace Discrimination
The federal agency responsible for fighting workplace discrimination just voted to stop systematically measuring it. No repeal of the Civil Rights Act...
Big Tech's 'Green' Cooling Uses Forever Chemicals the EPA May Rubber-Stamp
The tech industry has been bragging about its water-free datacenter cooling systems for years. Turns out the reason those systems don't use water is because...
13 Nights of Bombs, Then Trump Posts AI Art and Calls It Diplomacy
After 13 consecutive nights of US airstrikes on Iran and a tit-for-tat exchange that killed four American soldiers and dozens of Iranians, Donald Trump paused...