Hegseth Put Two Men on the Pentagon's Advisory Board Who Both Have Ties to Trump Jr.'s Venture Fund
Pete Hegseth just stocked the Pentagon's premier advisory board with two men who have direct financial ties to a venture capital fund co-run by Donald Trump's...
Man Asks AI to Book a Gym Class, It Commits Cybercrime
An Australian man asked his AI assistant to book him a spot in a sold-out fitness class. The AI, apparently deciding that rules are more of a suggestion,...
Lindsey Graham's Sister Is Running for His Senate Seat With Trump's Blessing
Lindsey Graham died on July 11, and South Carolina Republicans decided the most logical next step was to hand his Senate seat to his sister. Darline Graham, a...
AI Is Making Your RAM Cost More. There Is No End in Sight.
The AI boom has a bill, and you're the one paying it. Memory chip prices are surging at a scale Axios describes as "unprecedented," and the ripple effects are...
Syria Sentences Assad to Death for Half a Million Murders
A Syrian court handed down a death sentence Tuesday to Bashar al-Assad, the man who spent fourteen years turning his own country into a mass grave. Assad,...
Homicides Down 17% and Trump Is Somehow Taking a Bow
Homicides across America's largest cities dropped 17.2% in the first half of 2026 compared to the same period last year, according to preliminary data reviewed...
AI Is Making Oil Companies Drill Faster Than It's Saving the Planet
The tech industry spent years telling us AI was going to save the planet. Turns out it might be doing the opposite, and not just because of the monstrous...
Nvidia Just Convinced Wall Street to Treat AI Chips Like Roads and Bridges
Nvidia just got Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to collectively agree that AI chips are basically the new highway system, and...
Republicans Are Ghosting Their Own Voters This August
After voters spent last year showing up to town halls and making their representatives visibly uncomfortable, House Republicans have landed on a solution: stop...
NIH Chief Blamed CBS for CDC Shooting. The White House Cheered.
A gunman fired 200 rounds into six CDC buildings in August 2025, killing a police officer, after his father said he was convinced the COVID vaccine had made...
Zuckerberg's $390M Yacht Ignored a Distress Call. A 42-Year-Old Tugboat Saved the Day.
Mark Zuckerberg owns a $390 million, 387-foot superyacht with four engines pumping out nearly 24,000 combined horsepower. Last week, in Alaskan waters, the...
Zuckerberg Publishes 6,500-Word Essay Explaining Why You Should Trust Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg would like you to know that superintelligence is coming, it's going to be great, Meta is going to lead it, and you definitely shouldn't be...
$905M Powerball Jackpot Drawn With No Winner in Sight
Monday night, someone theoretically could have won $905 million. The odds were 1 in 292,201,338. Nobody has won since May. The numbers were 6, 37, 54, 55, 64,...
A Toddler Just Cancelled a Flight for 100+ People and We Have Questions
A Porter Airlines flight from Victoria to Toronto was cancelled on August 6th because a small child refused to sit down and buckle up, and the plane missed its...
Trump Hid in a Catering Cart to Sneak Off Air Force One During Iran Threat
The President of the United States hid inside an airport catering truck to sneak off Air Force One during a NATO summit in Turkey last month, while journalists...
Judge Blocks Mamdani's Tax on $5M Second Homes After Rich Homeowners Cry Foul
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani tried to make wealthy absentee homeowners pay their way, and a state judge just told him to pump the brakes. A temporary...
Lauren Boebert's Son Arrested for Filming Sex With a 17-Year-Old
Tyler Boebert, the 21-year-old son of Rep. Lauren Boebert, was arrested Sunday on charges of sexually exploiting a child after allegedly recording himself...
Noah Wyle Walks Out on Agency That Forgot to Tell Him His Agent Left
Noah Wyle, current Emmy darling and star of HBO Max's "The Pitt," just fired his talent agency. The reason? They forgot to tell him his own agent had quit. In...
Trump Just Quietly Gutted the Childhood Vaccine Schedule
On Monday, Donald Trump signed an executive order cutting the recommended childhood vaccine schedule from 18 diseases down to 11, ending COVID vaccine...
Gold Just Lost $1,000 an Ounce. Here's Why Your Portfolio Is Sweating.
Gold, the investment that's supposed to be your financial panic room, is currently sitting more than $1,000 below its January 2026 peak. As of this month, you...
Silicon Valley Billionaires Have Decided Democracy Is Inconvenient
A small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have apparently looked at American democracy, weighed it against their own preferences,...
July 2026 Was the Hottest Month in 131 Years of U.S. Records
The United States just cooked itself through the hottest July in 131 years of recorded history, and the margin wasn't even close. Federal climate scientists...
Bernie Sanders Threatens to Regulate AI Out of Existence If Zuckerberg, Altman, and Amodei Won't Stop It Themselves
An 84-year-old democratic socialist from Vermont is currently the most credible threat to the trillion-dollar AI industry, and that sentence should tell you...
Trump's FDA Wants to Put America's Men on Testosterone. Doctors Say Slow Down.
The Trump administration wants to rewrite FDA rules so that virtually any man with low testosterone and a flagging libido can qualify for hormone therapy,...
Maine Women Voters Gave Collins Her Last Win. Can Jackson Take Them Back?
Susan Collins is the only sitting Republican senator up for reelection in a state that Donald Trump lost in 2024. Democrats handed her opponent slot to a guy...
Med Students Are Letting AI Think For Them Before They Learn To Think
Two-thirds of American doctors are already using an AI chatbot called OpenEvidence to diagnose patients and check drug interactions. Now medical students and...
70 Abuse Allegations. 50 Adults. One Elite Arts School. Epstein Was Just the Start.
Everyone already knew Jeffrey Epstein used the Interlochen Center for the Arts as a hunting ground. What they didn't know — what a new independent report has...
Divers Find 2,000-Year-Old Roman Ship Untouched Off Sicily
Somewhere at the bottom of the Mediterranean, about three miles off the coast of Sicily and 150 feet below the surface, a Roman cargo ship has been sitting...
Taylor Farms' Salmonella Recall Hits Walmart, Target, Whole Foods in 26 States
Taylor Farms, a company already enjoying the distinguished honor of being linked to a deadly cyclospora outbreak, is back in the food safety headlines. This...
Florida Is Building an Underwater Highway to Save Its Dying Seas
Florida's coastline is functionally falling apart — bleached coral, vanishing manatees, gender-scrambled turtles, oyster beds wiped out by hurricanes — and the...
Zuckerberg Launches AI Model, Begs Washington to Help Him Beat China
Mark Zuckerberg published something he called a manifesto on Monday, dropped two new AI models, and asked the US government to please stop making it hard for...
Nolan's Odyssey Hits $1.1B and Now Americans Are Googling 'Is Troy Real'
Christopher Nolan made a billion-dollar movie about an ancient Greek poem, and the immediate cultural response from a significant chunk of the viewing public...
Fed Chair Warsh Tanked Markets by Being Vague at a Press Conference
The Federal Reserve chairman managed to spook markets and embarrass himself at a single press conference last month, which is genuinely impressive when you...
Thai Ex-MP Shoots Official Then Calls a Live YouTube Stream to Brag About It
A former Thai lawmaker allegedly shot a local government chairman and his driver on Monday, and then, apparently feeling the moment deserved an audience,...
162-Year-Old Guinness Found in Shipwreck Might Still Be Drinkable
A Belgian diver was poking around a 19th century shipwreck in the English Channel and found something that will make your local craft brewery weep: a bottle of...
Trump 'Semi-Negotiating' With Iran While It Demands Full War Reparations
Donald Trump is playing what he calls a 'chess game' with Iran, which would be a more reassuring metaphor if one side weren't blockading a waterway that moves...
Outspent 9-to-1 by Chevron and AIPAC, El-Sayed Won Anyway
A Muslim son of immigrants just won the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan after being outspent nine to one by a coalition that included Chevron, Philip...
72,000 People Crossed Into a City of 84,000 in 48 Hours — and Europe Is Losing Its Mind
Imagine your entire city of 84,000 people suddenly had to absorb 72,000 new arrivals — most of them swimming or floating across open water — in under two days....
Trump's Micro-Reactors Are Coming. The Safety Watchdog Lost Its Staff.
This summer, three companies at Idaho National Laboratory switched on new types of nuclear reactors, marking the first real movement in American nuclear energy...
A 7-Year-Old Had to Represent Himself in Deportation Court Because Trump Defunded His Lawyers
A federal immigration judge in suburban Virginia last week looked out at his courtroom and asked, "Where's the 7-year-old?" The clerk pointed to Moises, a...
Demi Vollering Wins Tour de France, Makes Rival Eat 78 Seconds of Dust
Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney started the final stage of the Women's Tour de France just eight seconds behind Demi Vollering. She finished it one minute and...
AOC Freezes Her Eggs, Conservatives Immediately Lose Theirs
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced Saturday that she is freezing her eggs, sharing the deeply personal process on Instagram to open up a broader conversation...
Netanyahu Torches Trump's Gaza Peace Plan in Cabinet Meeting
Benjamin Netanyahu stood up in a cabinet meeting on Sunday and, in case anyone missed it the first time, rejected Donald Trump's 15-point Gaza peace plan...
Astronaut Mark Kelly Gets Drafted for 2028 by Group Tired of Anti-Science Government
A liberal organization that exists specifically to get scientists into elected office has decided that the antidote to RFK Jr. running public health policy...
Three Firefighters Dead, 300K Acres Ash: The West Is on Fire Again
Two helicopter pilots died fighting a Utah wildfire on Friday. A bulldozer operator died battling a different fire in Oregon the same day. Sixty thousand...
Accused of Abuse, Ohio Rep. Max Miller Misses His Own Exit Ramp
Ohio Congressman Max Miller, facing domestic abuse allegations from his ex-wife and a public resignation demand from his own father-in-law, had one job: decide...
NIH Chief Tells Parents to Vaccinate Kids While His Boss Keeps Lying About It
The director of the National Institutes of Health went on national television Sunday and told parents to vaccinate their kids against measles. This should not...
Dubai's Most Wanted Just Landed in Dublin in Handcuffs
For years, Daniel Kinahan ran an international cocaine empire from a luxury base in Dubai, apparently untouchable. On Sunday, an Irish Air Corps plane landed...
Lake Mead Hits Lowest Level in 90 Years and It's Still Dropping
Lake Mead just hit the lowest water level recorded since the reservoir was filled roughly ninety years ago. Not a seasonal dip. Not a bad month. The lowest...
A Smart Bra That Detects Breast Cancer Is Being Tested, and It Actually Works
Researchers in France and Switzerland have built a bra that screens for breast cancer using thermal sensors, electrical impedance, and artificial intelligence,...
Trump Posted a Side-by-Side of Himself and a Muslim Candidate to Say 'Two VERY DIFFERENT Americas' — The Candidate Said 'Yeah, He's Right'
Donald Trump posted a side-by-side photo of himself and Melania next to Abdul El-Sayed and his hijab-wearing wife on Truth Social, captioned "Two VERY...
NYC's Hottest Office Block Has Zero Tenants and No Apologies
Hudson Square is apparently the hottest office neighborhood in New York City right now, home to Disney's new Manhattan headquarters, Google's St. John's...
GOP Senators Are Calling Their Own Colleague a 'Degenerate Sociopath'
A sitting Republican congressman's ex-wife says he threw her against a wall, held a gun to her head, and poured hot water on her. His own party's senators are...
Young Conservatives Admit the Economy Sucks, Then Vote Republican Anyway
A group of young conservatives gathered in Washington this summer to talk about how unaffordable housing is, how hopeless their generation feels, and how the...