Trump Is Taxing Hockey Sticks Now, Using a Law From 1930
The United States is about to tax Canadian hockey sticks, plywood, wine, and dairy using a 96-year-old law that no president has ever touched before. Talks...
California May Let Kids Sue TikTok for Making Them Addicted to TikTok
California is about to make it illegal to algorithmically addict a child, and then let that child's parents take the company to court over it. Two bills...
Supreme Court Tells Trump to Just Pay E. Jean Carroll Already
The Supreme Court has, for the second time this year, looked at Donald Trump's request to erase a jury's $5 million finding that he sexually abused E. Jean...
Gen Z Is Too Broke to Date and Honestly, Same
A $150 tab for two entrees, two drinks, an appetizer, and tip is apparently enough to make an entire generation swear off romance. According to multiple recent...
UK's New PM Got Catfished by a Fake Trump Aide in His First Month
Andy Burnham became UK Prime Minister on July 20. By August 17, we were already learning he spent part of his first month in office trading messages with...
AI Satellites Are Catching Wildfires Before Anyone Dials 911
A wildfire the size of a beach bonfire. That is what the new FireSat satellite network is designed to detect, from orbit, faster than your neighbor can find...
Trump Said USS Lincoln Hasn't Been Deployed 'Nearly Long Enough.' Sailors Are Running Out of Soap.
The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for nearly nine months, its sailors running short on food, hygiene products, and mental health support, while their...
Trump Killed $15M in Alzheimer's Research Because It Surveyed Black Patients
The Trump administration just canceled $15 million in Alzheimer's disease research at two leading universities because the grants studied how racism affects...
Gen Z Is Going Outside to Read Books in Silence Together
A generation raised on Tinder swipes and Instagram DMs has apparently reached its breaking point, and the solution they've landed on is going outside to watch...
GOP States Are Banning Student IDs at Polls With Zero Evidence of Fraud
A federal judge looked at Indiana's ban on student IDs at polling places and wrote that it "looks more like a solution in search of a problem." That's the...
Hayden Panettiere, 'Heroes' and 'Nashville' Star, Dead at 36
Hayden Panettiere, who spent her entire life in front of a camera and her last few years bravely dismantling the myth that any of it was easy, died Sunday...
The Secret War Hiding Inside Mardi Gras Nobody Tells You About
Every Mardi Gras, while the rest of the country thinks New Orleans is just drunk college students catching plastic beads on Bourbon Street, something genuinely...
7.7 Quake Kills 53 in Indonesia, Nearly 1,000 Aftershocks Follow
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake ripped through eastern Indonesia's Flores region early Saturday morning, killing at least 53 people, destroying more than 900 homes,...
Margaret Atwood's Books Are Banned in 135 Districts. She Lit One on Fire.
Margaret Atwood is 86 years old, has written 64 books, won more than 50 awards, and her work has been banned from 135 American school districts. Her response...
Kushner Meets Hamas in Egypt to Demand Guns-Down on Gaza
Jared Kushner, the man who once said he could solve Middle East peace in his spare time while running a real estate empire, sat down with Hamas leadership in...
Flock Safety's AI Spy Network Is Getting So Big Even Cops Are Getting Sued
A private company has quietly built one of the largest vehicle surveillance networks in American history, and it turns out people are not thrilled about it....
Minneapolis Mayor Dances at Black Business Fair, Fox News Has a Meltdown
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey attended a celebration of Black-owned businesses last week, danced a little, and conservative media spent the next several days...
Taxi Drivers Rarely Die of Alzheimer's. Your GPS Is Killing Your Brain.
Out of 443 occupations studied across nearly 9 million death certificates, taxi and ambulance drivers came in dead last for Alzheimer's risk. Not doctors. Not...
Tommy John, the Pitcher Who Rewrote Baseball Medicine, Dies at 83
Tommy John died Saturday at his home in Bradenton, Florida, surrounded by family, at 83 years old. He was a four-time All-Star who won 288 games over 26...
Robot Border Guards: The Pitch Is Wild, the Contract Is Fake
A tech CEO went on Fox News to announce that humanoid robots could soon patrol the southern border, which sounds extremely science fiction until you read the...
Feds Take Tribal Land for Border Wall Using Teddy Roosevelt's 1907 Loophole
The federal government just got a judge to greenlight building a border wall on Native American land by citing a proclamation Teddy Roosevelt signed when...
NYC Council Freaks Out Over Housing Pick Who Called Them 'Cartels'
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has nominated a housing official who once called wealthy homeowners blocking new development "cartels" to chair a powerful...
Trump's AG Refuses to Promise DOJ Will Act Independently of Trump
The Attorney General of the United States went on national television Sunday and refused to promise that the Justice Department would act independently of...
GOP Rep. Bacon Breaks With Trump: Tariffs Are a Tax, $4 Gas Isn't Fine
On a Sunday morning political show, a Republican congressman from Nebraska publicly told his own president that tariffs are a consumer tax and that bragging...
Andy Beshear Calls for Abolishing the Electoral College and Term Limits for SCOTUS
Kentucky's Democratic governor went on national television Sunday morning and casually announced he wants to abolish the Electoral College, impose term limits...
Trump's AG Says POTUS Will 'Never' Ask Him to Do Anything Illegal
Todd Blanche, the attorney general of the United States, went on national television Sunday and said, with a straight face, that Donald Trump will 'never' ask...
A Food Safety Law Sat Idle for 15 Years. Then 30,000 People Got Sick.
Congress passed a law in 2011 to make it easier to trace contaminated food back to the source before it kills people. Fifteen years later, the law still isn't...
Ukraine Sends 600 Drones at Moscow in One of the War's Biggest Strikes
Ukraine sent somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 drones toward Moscow overnight Sunday, in what is shaping up to be one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of...
Alaska Woman Fights Off Brown Bear Mid-Run With Bear Spray
A woman went for a solo trail run in Anchorage this week and came back in an ambulance, which is honestly still a better outcome than it sounds. She survived a...
Rubio Has the Power to Stop Three Wars. He's Choosing Not To.
Marco Rubio holds more diplomatic leverage than any American alive right now. He could end a war in Ukraine that's now grinding into its fifth year, push for a...
Hurricane Lala Could Be First Storm to Hit Big Island in 155 Years
The last time a hurricane made landfall on Hawaii's Big Island, Abraham Lincoln was still alive. According to the New York Post, that 155-year streak is now...
Robotaxis Are 68% Safer Than You, But Will Block Traffic for 4 Minutes
The good news: robotaxis are finally real, expanding into cities across America, and according to independent research, they crash 68% less often than human...
Indiana Floods Smash 1913 Records, Kill 5, Rescue 91 People and 45 Pets
The White River crested nearly two feet above a record that had stood since 1913, and Indiana is still counting its dead. At least five people are gone, 91...
Russia Lost 43,000 Soldiers in July. Putin Is Recruiting Africans Now.
Russia lost 42,860 soldiers in a single month. Not the war. One month. July 2026 was the fourth bloodiest month of the entire conflict since 2022, according to...
NJ Man Charged After Drunk Boating Killed Two Kids, Ages 7 and 9
A 63-year-old New Jersey man has been charged with reckless vessel homicide after police say he was drunk at the wheel of a 30-foot boat when it slammed into a...
FEMA's Flood Maps Miss 98% of Homes — Midwest Is About to Find Out the Hard Way
The White River in Anderson, Indiana just hit 24.9 feet, shattering a flood record that had stood since 1913. At least three people are dead, more than 150,000...
45 New AI Billionaires in One Year, and the Oldest Is 32
Forty-five people became billionaires from artificial intelligence in the past twelve months alone. The oldest profiled in this new crop is 32. One of them had...
Trump Wants to Privatize Hacking. What Could Go Wrong?
The Trump administration has issued a memo that would let private American companies hack foreign cybercriminals on behalf of the U.S. government, which is...
Trump Wants to Claim the Strait of Hormuz. Iran Has Notes.
Standing in front of a crowd of law enforcement officers at a Nassau County police academy, Donald Trump announced that he would soon declare the Strait of...
1.6M Dozen Eggs Recalled as Salmonella Hits 98 People in 17 States
Nearly 1.6 million dozen eggs have been slapped with the FDA's highest-risk recall classification, meaning the agency believes eating them carries 'a...
USS Lincoln Sailors Hit 260 Days at Sea With Broken Toilets and Food Shortages
The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for more than 260 consecutive days, a record, and according to sailors' families, the conditions aboard have gotten...
USDA Chief Pulled Fire Planes From Other Blazes to Protect His Ranch
The man who runs the US Forest Service reportedly spent July on the phone pressuring agency officials to send nine aircraft, including air tankers and...
Consumer Confidence Just Fell Off a Cliff Again
Americans were briefly feeling slightly less terrible about the economy. Then August arrived. The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index dropped 8%...
Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty, Admits He Emailed UnitedHealthcare to Find His Target
Luigi Mangione walked into a Manhattan federal courtroom on Friday and told a judge, out loud, in public, that he emailed UnitedHealthcare pretending to be a...
Wages Can't Beat Inflation Again, Gas Is Up 25%, and the Debt Just Hit $40 Trillion
The federal government is barreling toward a $40 trillion debt load, gasoline costs 25% more than it did a year ago, and American workers just lost the...
A Man in a Trash Can Just Got 27% Against Nigel Farage
A man who wears a garbage can on his head and whose campaign platform includes nationalizing Adele just received 9,455 votes in a British parliamentary...
Someone Bubble-Bombed the WWII Memorial and Spray-Painted It Pink
Someone filled the National World War II Memorial fountain with soapy bubbles and spray-painted 'Clean hands dirty $' in pink across the stone, and yes, that...
Expelled for Gun Protest, Justin Pearson Just Won a Primary Against Elon Musk's Backyard
Justin Pearson got expelled from the Tennessee state legislature for protesting gun violence. Three years later, he just won a Democratic congressional primary...
Feds Infiltrated a Church Gym and Dropped Their Spy Recorder on the Floor
The Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents to infiltrate private Signal chats, community meetings, and a sparring session at a church gym to...
5,000 Sailors Stuck at Sea for 250 Days While Trump Bets on His Own Words
More than 5,000 American sailors have been floating in the Middle East for 250 days, running low on fresh food, rarely seeing sunlight, and losing their minds...
Trump Flies to New York to Take Credit for Crime Stats While Iran War Drags On
With an unpopular war in Iran grinding forward and his approval ratings circling the drain, Donald Trump has chosen this particular moment to fly to Long...
Florida Deputized Every Single County to Do ICE's Job For $72 a Day
Every single county in Florida has signed a cooperation agreement with ICE. All 67 of them. The state didn't just embrace the Trump administration's mass...
JD Vance Says Cheap Gas Is 'Goal Number One' in a War That Made Gas 40% More Expensive
JD Vance went on Fox News Thursday to explain that keeping oil and gas cheap for Americans is now "goal number one" in the Iran war. The average gallon of gas...
Netanyahu's Own Aide Lied to Trump's Face About His Polls
Two weeks ago, in the Oval Office of the United States of America, an aide to Benjamin Netanyahu looked Donald Trump in the eye and said his boss was winning...