Night Seven: The US Is Bombing Iran Every Single Night Now
The United States bombed Iran for the seventh night in a row on Friday. Not a typo. Seven consecutive nights of American airstrikes against a sovereign nation,...
Con Ed Left a Manhole Uncovered. A Woman Fell In and Burned to Death.
A 56-year-old overnight cleaner parked her car in midtown Manhattan, stepped out onto the sidewalk, and fell ten feet into an open manhole. She did not die...
DOJ Says TikTok Ban on Gov Devices Is Dead Now, Actually
The Justice Department has officially decided that the federal law banning TikTok from government devices does not, in fact, apply to TikTok anymore. This is...
One Dead as Legionnaires' Outbreak Hits NYC's Priciest Zip Code
One person is dead and at least 67 are sick after a Legionnaires' disease outbreak took hold in Manhattan's Upper East Side, the kind of neighborhood where the...
Americans Can't Tell Real Photos From AI Fakes, Score 50/50
A professional investigative journalist with nearly a decade of experience just scored 25% on a quiz designed to tell real photos from AI fakes. That's worse...
Biden Judge Just Killed New Jersey's AR-15 Ban. Yes, Really.
A Biden-appointed federal judge just wrote the opinion that gun control advocates have been dreading for years. On Friday, the full Third U.S. Circuit Court of...
Trump's '250K Illegal Voters' Number Is Made Up and He Knows It
The Trump administration is claiming that 250,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in four states, a number so alarming it prompted a nationally televised...
GOP Redraws Alabama Map, Erasing the District That Finally Gave Tuskegee a Voice
A 19-year-old in Tuskegee, Alabama recently decided to let a gashed, bleeding arm go untreated rather than travel to the nearest hospital and pay a bill he...
Europe and US Are Baking Alive. Phoenix Found a Fix. Nobody's Listening.
France recorded over 2,000 extra deaths during a record-breaking heatwave in late June. England and Wales have lost an estimated 2,700 people to heat since...
Lockheed Martin Is Paying $6M to Build Trump a Helipad He Doesn't Have Permission For
Donald Trump is installing a 100-foot-wide black granite helipad on the White House South Lawn, skipping congressional approval, bypassing the Commission of...
Your AC Bill Is Eating You Alive. Here's How to Stop It.
It's 100 degrees outside, you've been blasting your AC all day, and somewhere in a utility company office, a middle manager is looking at your account and...
7.3 Quake Rattles Mexico-Guatemala Border, Tsunami Alert Lifted
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake slammed the southern Mexican Pacific coast on Friday morning, shaking everything from Mexico City to El Salvador, triggering a...
Beshear Got Calls Saying McConnell Was Dead Before McConnell Said Anything
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear says he received calls from two separate agencies suggesting Mitch McConnell had died — and this happened before McConnell's...
Taco Bell Warned the SEC About 'Explosive Diarrhea Parasite' Then 7,000 People Got It
Yum! Brands, the parent company of Taco Bell, told the Securities and Exchange Commission that cyclospora, the parasite responsible for weeks of "explosive"...
12 Million People Think FIFA Rigged the World Cup for Messi
More than 12 million people have signed a petition demanding FIFA disqualify Argentina from the 2026 World Cup, because apparently that's where we are now....
Taco Bell's Shredded Lettuce Is Giving People Explosive Diarrhea in 5 States
The CDC's official description of cyclospora infection includes the phrase "frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements," which is exactly the kind of...
Florida Let a Teacher Convicted of Sex Abuse Open a Private School With Public Money
A Florida teacher lost her license a decade ago after sexually abusing a 16-year-old student. Last year, she opened a private school. The state knew. The state...
Melbourne Is the World's Priciest City for Beer and Smokes, and Australians Are Shrugging
Congratulations, Melbourne. You have beaten every other city on earth at something, and that something is making a beer and a pack of smokes eye-wateringly,...
Cameroon Says Companies Hid $680B in Gold Tax. Yes, Billion.
Cameroon just announced it is going after roughly $680 billion in unpaid tax and customs revenues from its gold sector. That number is not a typo. The...
ICE Hired a Guy His Own Family Says Never Should Have Had a Gun
An ICE officer shot a Colombian man in Maine this week. His own relatives told the Associated Press he struggled with serious mental health issues since early...
ICE Shooter Had Suicide Attempts, Bipolar Diagnosis, and Threw Boiling Water at His Wife Holding Their Baby
The ICE officer who shot and killed a 25-year-old Colombian man in his car in Biddeford, Maine this week threw boiling water at his ex-wife while she was...
Trump Cited a CIA Report That Directly Contradicts His Own Claim
Donald Trump stood in front of the country during a prime-time White House address and cited a CIA report as proof that Venezuela manipulated its elections....
Xi Tells the World AI Shouldn't Be One Country's Toy, While Building China's AI Empire
Xi Jinping stood in front of more than a thousand Chinese tech firms on Friday and declared that artificial intelligence 'should not be a solo performance by a...
Indonesia's Trans Women Are Being Hunted in the Streets While Cops Ghost the Press
Mobs of up to 20 people are chasing, beating, stripping, and throwing bottles of urine at transgender women in Bogor, Indonesia, while the local police chief...
Taco Bell's Shredded Lettuce Is Giving People 'Explosive' Diarrhea Across 5 States
Nearly 1,000 people in Michigan alone are suffering from a parasitic illness that causes what health officials are clinically describing as 'explosive'...
ICE Agents Handcuffed a Man at Vegas Airport, Then Pulled Up Their Hoods and Fled
Two plainclothes ICE agents handcuffed a screaming man on the floor of a Las Vegas airport terminal, then pulled hoodies over their faces and walked away when...
Ransomware Hackers Just Killed America's Fairlife Milk Supply
Someone hacked into the production systems of America's most expensive milk brand and shut the whole thing down. Coca-Cola confirmed Thursday that a ransomware...
Maine Dem Debate Moment: 'I'm a Songwriter' Is Her Senate Pitch
A Maine Democratic Senate candidate was asked what qualifies her to serve in the United States Senate on Thursday night, and she answered, in part, that she is...
Trump's Midterm Speech Was a 2020 Rerun Nobody Asked For
Donald Trump gave a primetime address to the nation this week and spent it relitigating a six-year-old election he lost. With November's midterms approaching...
ICE Agents Say Traffic Stops Are Safer — Trump Agreed Before the Bodies Were Cold
Two ICE officer-involved shootings happened in a single week. The Department of Homeland Security responded by pausing vehicle stops. Then Donald Trump got on...
Court Lets Pentagon Keep Babysitting Reporters Like Toddlers at a Museum
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Pentagon can keep requiring journalists to be escorted around its own headquarters like shoplifting suspects at...
Walz Pardoned a Child Rapist to Stop Deportation. Rubio Deported Him Anyway.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz used his clemency powers to pardon a man convicted of repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl, apparently in an effort to prevent his...
Trump Cuts Foreign Journalist Visas to 240 Days, Chinese Press Gets 90
The Trump administration just decided that foreign journalists covering the United States should get eight months to do their jobs, down from five years, and...
Epstein Survivors Say AG Nominee Blanche Treated Them Like a To-Do List Item
Jeffrey Epstein's survivors finally got a meeting with the man who wants to be America's top law enforcement officer. According to Axios, they walked out...
Britain's Getting Its 7th PM Since 2016 and He's Never Held a Press Conference
Andy Burnham was declared leader of Britain's Labour Party on Friday, making him the country's prime minister-in-waiting until Monday, when Keir Starmer...
Lindsey Graham, 71, Dies: From 'Stinkball' to Trump's Lap Dog
Lindsey Graham, the senator who stole beer off strangers' tables as a child, spent forty years in public life, and somehow managed to be both a profile in...
Pakistan Kills 24 Taliban Militants in 24 Hours After Suicide Car Bomb
A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into police officers and civilians in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday. By Friday, 24 militants were...
Nobody Is Moving: Iran War Shuts Down the Strait of Hormuz
A Greek maritime CEO who monitors one of the world's most critical shipping chokepoints just said, flatly, "nobody is willing to move." Six consecutive nights...
Science Found a Better Way to Eat Your Corpse (It's Worms)
Scientists at a natural history museum in Iran have discovered that finger-sized beetle larvae will cheerfully eat the flesh off any dead animal you put in...
Taco Bell's Shredded Lettuce Is Giving People Explosive Diarrhea in 5 States
The CDC's official description of cyclospora infection includes the phrase "frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements," which is exactly the kind of...
U.S. Bombed Six Bridges in Iran. Iran Shot at Kuwait. Oil Is Up 10%.
The United States bombed six bridges in Iran on Friday. Iran responded by launching missiles and drones at Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman. Pete Hegseth posted a...
8 Dems Fight to Inherit the Throne of a Guy Who Just Imploded
Graham Platner is gone, disgraced, out of the Maine Senate race. And yet, on Thursday night, eight Democrats stood on a stage and competed over who loves his...
Hegseth's 'High-T War Dept' + Vance's Corn Dog Secret = America
The United States is currently fighting a rebooted war with Iran, and the Secretary of Defense's big strategic innovation is mandatory testosterone screening...
Trump Held a Primetime Address to Show Zero Evidence of Voter Fraud
Donald Trump commandeered primetime television Wednesday night to warn America that its elections are vulnerable to being "rigged and stolen" -- and then...
Trump Says China Rigged 2020. China Says He's Making It Up.
Donald Trump stood in front of the country Thursday night and told them China spent years trying to destroy his presidency, that the intelligence community...
12 AGs Sue to Kill the $111B Paramount-Warner Merger Nobody Asked For
Twelve state attorneys general filed suit Monday to block the $111 billion merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery, arguing the deal violates...
Elon Musk Said Name One Kid Who Died. Here Are Three.
Elon Musk went on X at the end of June and issued a challenge: critics of the USAID shutdown "cannot cite a single name" of someone who died, he wrote. He...
GOP's Third 'Big Beautiful Bill' Is Already Falling Apart
Republicans just finished congratulating themselves on the one-year anniversary of the 'big, beautiful bill' and have already started breaking each other's...
Trump Gives Primetime Speech Blaming China for 2026 Election Loss He Hasn't Had Yet
Six years after losing to Joe Biden, Donald Trump took to primetime television to relitigate 2020, accuse China of stealing it from him, and declare the entire...
NBA Boss: GOP Turned Caitlin Clark Into a 'Political Football'
NBA commissioner Adam Silver went to a panel event in New York this week and said the quiet part out loud: the relentless national debate about fouls committed...
Putin Jails His Own Fanboy After Anti-War Manifesto Goes Viral
Ilya Remeslo spent years being exactly the kind of loyal, loudmouth blogger the Kremlin loves. He attacked dissidents on demand, even testified against Alexei...
Trump Demands Networks Lose Licenses for Not Airing His Speech
Donald Trump gave a primetime televised address Thursday night, and three of the biggest networks in America looked at their schedules and said, no thanks....
The Fed Came to Wisconsin to Find Out Why Americans Still Buy $400 Wrenches
Some people get their ashes stored in miniature Snap-on toolboxes. That sentence is true, and it tells you almost everything you need to know about why the...
ICE Grabbed a Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Mid-Amazon Route
A man who escaped a Chinese government crackdown on human rights lawyers, filed for asylum in the United States, and spent the last several years delivering...
Big Tech's AI Super PAC Has Millions to Burn Before November
Silicon Valley has decided that buying Congress is actually a pretty good investment. According to Axios, pro-AI super PACs are sitting on millions of dollars...
GOP Outspends Dems $53M to $17M on Immigration Ads—and Counting
Republicans have spent $53 million on immigration-related political ads since January. Democrats have spent $17 million. That gap is not a rounding error — it...
Wildfire Smoke Turns NYC and Chicago Skies Orange Again
The sky over New York City is orange again. Chicago too. Toronto. The smoke rolling in from wildfires burning across northern Minnesota and Canada is coating...
A Player's Butt Ended a World Cup Dream. FIFA Thinks This Is Fine.
An Iranian player scored a World Cup goal. FIFA's video referee system reviewed it. The goal was disallowed because the player's butt was in an offside...
Royal Caribbean Ditching Haiti Stop Through 2027 as Gang Violence Wins
Royal Caribbean has officially punted on Haiti for another year, extending its suspension of visits to Labadee through June 2027 as the country remains trapped...
Xi Plays Global AI Savior While US Hands Him the Script
While Washington was busy congratulating itself on blocking China from advanced chips, Xi Jinping walked into Shanghai on Friday, gathered leaders from across...