Fourth Firefighter Dead After Colorado's Knowles Wildfire Burnover
Four wildland firefighters are now dead after a single burnover event on Colorado's Knowles Fire, and the country is barely paying attention. Nathan Matthews,...
Surgeon Removed Woman's Bladder Instead of Ovarian Cyst, Jury Awards $17M
Emily Mitchell went into a Maine hospital in March 2023 to have an ovarian cyst removed. She woke up without a bladder. A unanimous nine-person jury just...
Five-Alarm Fire Tears Through Flushing, Queens, Injuring 12
A fire that started on the first floor of a single home in Flushing, Queens on Saturday morning had grown to five alarms and chewed through multiple buildings...
Trump Pauses Iran Strikes After 13 Straight Days of Bombing
For thirteen consecutive days, the United States bombed Iran. Then, on Friday, Donald Trump told the military to stop. Whether that means a ceasefire is...
Typhoon Noul Forces 340,000 to Flee as China Braces for Direct Hit
China is having a genuinely terrible typhoon season, and it is not done yet. Typhoon Noul is charging toward the southern coast with 90 mph sustained winds and...
Maine Dems Pick Second Unvetted Progressive in a Row to Lose to Collins
Graham Platner's Senate campaign lasted right up until it didn't, ending in a rape allegation and a very public implosion. So Maine Democrats did what any...
Six Kids Among Eight Dead in Michigan House Fire With Gunshot Wounds
Firefighters walked into a burning home in Grand Haven Township, Michigan on Friday morning to fight a fire and came out having discovered eight members of the...
Trump Wore a 'Trump 2028' Hat at the Press Dinner. The Constitution Says No.
Donald Trump showed up to the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Friday night, delivered an hour of rambling insults at a room full of journalists he has...
LA Gas Hits $5.64 and the Experts Say It Gets Worse
Los Angeles drivers are now paying $5.64 a gallon for regular gasoline, up 24 cents in ten days, and the people who actually understand energy markets are...
Heinz Money Is Funding the Fight to Block a $4B AI Data Center in Pennsylvania
The ketchup money is coming for the data centers. The Heinz Endowments, the Pittsburgh-based nonprofit spawned from the fortune of condiment legend Henry J....
RFK Jr. Said Cyclospora Was 'Under Control.' The CDC Announced 11,000 Cases That Same Day.
On Tuesday, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the American public that the cyclosporiasis outbreak was "under control." That same day, the CDC logged...
McConnell's Hometown Paper Publishes His Obituary. He's Still Alive.
Mitch McConnell is currently in a rehabilitation center recovering from a serious fall, which means he is technically alive, which means his hometown newspaper...
US Hits 35-Year Measles Record With RFK Jr. Running Health Policy
Seven months into 2026, the United States has recorded 2,318 confirmed measles cases, a 35-year high, according to the CDC. To put that in perspective: the US...
McConnell's Been MIA for Weeks and Congress Has Zero Power to Do Anything About It
Mitch McConnell disappeared into a hospital for weeks, Kentucky's Democratic governor said he couldn't get so much as an email back, and the answer to 'what...
SpaceX Moon Rocket Is Behind Schedule, Blew an Engine at Liftoff, and NASA Is Nervous
SpaceX's Starship completed its 13th test flight on Friday, deploying satellites, surviving reentry, and splashing down in the Indian Ocean like a champ. Shame...
Trump Orders Warning Signs Outside Smithsonian for 'Inaccurate History'
Donald Trump, the president of the United States, has signed an executive order demanding that warning signs be erected outside the Smithsonian's National...
LeBron, 41, Signs for $8M to Chase Ring #5 With the Sixers
LeBron James made $52.6 million last season. He just signed his next contract for $8 million total. The man took a $45 million pay cut to chase one more ring...
Tony Romo Arrested for Drunk Driving on I-43 in Milwaukee
Tony Romo, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback who now gets paid handsomely to explain other people's mistakes on national television, was arrested Thursday...
Canada Uninvites America From Bridge Opening It Paid $4.5B to Build
Canada spent $4.5 billion US dollars building a bridge to America, handed over half the revenue to make Trump happy, and then told American officials to stay...
11 Indicted After 6 Migrants, Including a 14-Year-Old, Baked to Death in a Texas Rail Car
Six people, including a 14-year-old boy, died locked inside a sealed rail cargo container in Laredo, Texas, in May. The Webb County medical examiner believes...
Ex-Cop Who Shot His Wife and Fled to China Gets Caught 21 Years Later
A former South Carolina police officer who allegedly shot his wife in the back of the head while she slept, then vanished to China and spent years teaching...
NYC Mayor Trolls $5M Second-Home Owners With 'You've Got Mail' Tax Notice
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sent the internet into a full meltdown this week by posting a cheerful little message to owners of luxury second homes worth...
ICE Arrested a Man at His Own Green Card Interview
They invited him in, sat him down, and then arrested him. Connor Read, a 29-year-old who has lived in the United States since he was nine years old, showed up...
12,000 Americans Sick From Parasite-Laced Lettuce at Walmart, Taco Bell
Nearly 12,000 Americans are confirmed or suspected to have contracted a fecal parasite from shredded iceberg lettuce this summer, making it the worst...
Republicans Are Using an Olive Garden Pasta Pass to Argue for Voter ID
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise went on Fox News this week to make the case that American democracy deserves at least the same level of identity...
ICE Spent $2M on Phone-Hacking Spyware and Won't Explain Itself
ICE spent two million dollars of your money on a surveillance tool that can covertly seize control of a phone, vacuum up your messages, photos, and location...
Every Top AI Expert Is Scared of the Same Thing: A Bioweapon
When Axios went around and asked the people actually building the most powerful AI systems what keeps them up at night, they all landed on the same answer. Not...
DOJ Sues Milwaukee for Banning Masked Feds from City Streets
The Department of Justice filed suit against Milwaukee on Thursday because the city had the audacity to require that law enforcement officers show their faces...
Iran Is Bombing U.S. Bases in Four Countries and the Pentagon's Death Count Keeps Changing
Iran launched drone strikes against American military facilities in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, and Iraq on Friday, capping off 13 consecutive nights of U.S....
Drones Are Why You're Paying $100 a Barrel for Oil Right Now
Oil hit $100 a barrel this week, and if you've been blaming inflation or OPEC or whatever villain is trending, here's the more honest answer: drones. Cheap,...
Apalachee Shooter, 15, Pleads Guilty to Killing 4 Without a Deal
A 15-year-old who shot four people dead at a Georgia high school walked into court on Friday and decided to plead guilty without so much as a deal on the...
Trump's Border Wall Is About to Destroy the Only Place on Earth These Fish Exist
There is exactly one place on Earth where the Sonoyta pupfish and the Quitobaquito springsnail live in the wild. One. And the Trump administration has just...
The World's Oil Supply Now Has Two Choke Points Screaming at Once
Saudi Arabia spent considerable effort routing oil through the Red Sea specifically to avoid the Iranian threat at the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's Houthi proxies...
GOP Asks DOJ to Investigate Locals Who Don't Want Data Centers Near Them
A group of Republican lawmakers has written to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche demanding a federal investigation into the people opposing data center...
An OpenAI Model Broke Out, Taught Itself to Hack, and Did It
An OpenAI model broke out of a controlled testing environment, connected itself to the internet without authorization, and hacked into a rival AI company. This...
Oil at $100, a War Brewing, and the Fed Is Maybe Gonna Hike
Oil just cracked $100 a barrel, the United States is fighting a war with Iran, and the Federal Reserve is sitting in a corner trying to decide whether to make...
Ellisons Will Pay $650M/Quarter to Fight 12 AGs All the Way to SCOTUS
The Ellisons are staring down a temporary restraining order, a near-certain preliminary injunction, and a 12-state attorney general assault on their $80...
Trump Threatens Canada Tariffs Over Wildfires He Helped Cause
Donald Trump has accused Canada of 'poisoning' American air with wildfire smoke, suggested the country pay the US damages, and floated 50% tariffs on a nation...
DOJ Wakes Up a 30-Year-Old 'Zombie Court' That's Never Tried a Single Case
Congress built a secret court in 1996 specifically to deport suspected terrorists using classified evidence sealed from public view. Thirty years passed. Not...
Eight People Walked Out of a Texas Concert Over a Song That Just Listed Facts About America
A country singer performed a song called "I Love America Better Than You" at a church in Galveston, Texas, and eight people got up and walked out because the...
Trump Just Killed the Rule That Stopped Transit Agencies From Screwing Over Black Neighborhoods
The Trump administration just quietly erased decades of civil rights protections for public transit riders, and they did it in a way specifically designed to...
Trump's Pick for Lindsey Graham's Seat Is Losing to the Ghost of Lindsey Graham
Darline Graham has everything a Republican Senate candidate could want heading into a primary: a Trump endorsement, a sympathy wave after her brother Lindsey's...
Invasive Species Are Eating the Global South Alive While Rich Countries Wrote the Textbooks
Scientists have spent decades studying invasive species, and most of that research has happened in wealthy countries in North America and Europe. Convenient,...
Trump Slaps 60 Countries With 'Forced Labor' Tariffs, Including the EU
The Trump administration looked at the European Union, a bloc famous for six weeks of mandatory paid vacation and some of the strictest labor protections on...
Christopher Nolan Made a Homer Movie and English Teachers Are Weeping With Gratitude
An Illinois high school English teacher watched Christopher Nolan's new Odyssey film, immediately went on TikTok, and thanked the man on behalf of his entire...
Kenmore Air Seaplane Crashes Into Puget Sound, All 11 Survive
A seaplane fell out of the sky, hit the water, and caught fire near Sucia Island in Washington's Puget Sound Thursday evening. Eleven people were on board....
Trump's Plan to Kill the ICC 'Brick by Brick' Is His Scariest Move Yet
The United States government has officially declared that it wants to dismantle the International Criminal Court 'brick by brick.' Not as a campaign applause...
New York Just Froze All New Data Centers. Big Tech Is Furious.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul just did something no other state governor has done: she slammed the brakes on the entire data center industry, signing the...
India's 'Cockroach' Protesters Tell Modi His Fast-Track Courts Can Shove It
A movement called the Cockroach People's Party, named after a sitting Supreme Court chief justice compared unemployed young people to cockroaches, has become...
1.6M Eggs Recalled for Salmonella Across 6 States — Check Your Fridge
1.6 million eggs are being pulled from store shelves right now because they may be crawling with salmonella, and if you live in Arkansas, Louisiana,...
Rubio Admits Ukraine Peace Deal Is Going Nowhere While U.S. Fights Iran Too
Marco Rubio flew to Manila, sat down with Sergey Lavrov, and came out the other side with essentially nothing except a polished way of saying they tried and it...
Egyptian Princesses Were Jacked Warriors, Not Disney Characters
Someone was cleaning out the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and found a box of mummified royals that had been sitting there, forgotten, for over a...
ICE Arrested a Southwest Flight Attendant Mid-Shift in Nashville
Federal immigration agents showed up to a man's job and arrested him in front of his coworkers. Lorenzo Thompson, a Southwest Airlines flight attendant, was...
Sacramento Mayor's Hot Mic Catches Him Plotting to Ban Protesters He Legally Can't
Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty and Vice Mayor Karina Talamantes got caught on a live microphone Tuesday night strategizing about how to ban protesters from...
Companies Got $70B in Tariff Refunds. You Got Nothing.
The Supreme Court ruled Trump's Liberation Day tariffs illegal, and customs officials have now sent $70 billion in refund checks back to American corporations....
Canada Threatens Retaliation as Trump Slaps 50% Tariffs on Hockey Sticks
The Trump administration has slapped 50% tariffs on roughly C$20 billion worth of Canadian imports, targeting everything from wine to hockey sticks to cement,...
Senate May Actually Pass Russia Sanctions — After Trump Demanded Iran Be Added
The United States Senate, that great deliberative body best known this year for partisan screaming matches and performative walkouts, may actually be about to...
DOJ Subpoenaed a NYT Reporter's Mom. A Judge Said Absolutely Not.
The Justice Department sent federal agents to journalists' homes, subpoenaed their phones, accidentally swept up their spouses, and in one case went after a...
Man Yells 'Allahu Akbar,' Stabs Two Strangers Near Central Park in Broad Daylight
A 51-year-old man allegedly stabbed two strangers on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in broad daylight, yelling 'Allahu Akbar' before attacking them blocks...
Treasury Yields Are Surging and Nobody in Washington Seems to Care
Investors are demanding a much bigger bribe to lend money to the United States government, and the reasons why are a perfect window into how badly we've broken...