Captain Packed 14 People on a 22-Foot Boat. A Mom and Her Baby Are Dead.
A 22-foot motorboat. Fourteen people on board. Just before 10 p.m. on a Saturday night in New York Harbor. The math on this was always going to be...
Anti-Pill Influencers May Be Fueling the Abortion Rise They Hate
Here is a sentence that should break the internet: abortion rates have gone UP since Roe v. Wade was overturned. And one possible explanation is that the same...
Cassidy Admits IRS Shield for Trump Family Is 'Totally Wrong,' Then Votes Yes Anyway
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy went on national television Sunday morning, looked into the camera, and said that giving Donald Trump's family special...
AOC Won't Rule Out 2028 Run — or Primarying Schumer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on ABC Sunday and declined to rule out either running for president in 2028 or kneecapping her own Senate colleague Chuck Schumer...
Gay Talese, 90, Still the Best Reporter Alive. Here's the Proof.
Gay Talese once spent 33 days interviewing more than 100 people to write a profile of a man who refused to talk to him. The piece became one of the most famous...
Senate Democrats Are War-Gaming Election Armageddon Scenarios
Chuck Schumer and a roomful of senior Senate Democrats recently sat down with legal experts to plan their response to scenarios including AI deepfakes of voter...
Axios CEO: 'My Confident Line of Sight Is Six Weeks, Tops'
The CEO of one of the most plugged-in news organizations in America just told his own board that his confident view of the future extends exactly six weeks....
Luigi Mangione's Lawyers Are Already Burning It Down Before Trial Starts
The Luigi Mangione murder trial is still a month away and his lawyers are already circulating letters full of claims that journalists covering the case...
Ex-Wife's New Boyfriend Dismembered Her Husband. She Says She Had No Idea.
A Washington D.C. photographer disappeared on Labor Day 2023, and investigators found what appeared to be his remains in his ex-wife's new boyfriend's truck,...
FL 8th Grader Built 3 Ghost Guns, Kept Christchurch Manifesto
A 14-year-old middle schooler in St. Johns County, Florida was arrested in April with three homemade firearms, suspected explosive components, makeshift...
ICE Arrested a 23-Year-Old for Mowing Lawns. His Town Declared War.
Gerson Turcios had just finished mowing lawns in Rhinebeck, New York when immigration officers pulled up in dark SUVs, photographed his face, slapped him in...
No One Won $863M Powerball. Britain Is Involved Now.
Saturday night's Powerball drawing hit $863.8 million, the largest jackpot of the year and the eighth-biggest in Powerball history, and as of the drawing, it...
Leprosy Is Making a Comeback in Florida and Armadillos Are Suspects
Florida has given us hurricanes, election chaos, and Guy Fieri. Now it's giving us leprosy. State health data shows 17 active cases so far this year, on the...
Britney Spears' Botox Left Her Eye Droopy for Four Weeks and She Has Notes
Britney Spears would like you to know that her Botox doctor messed up her left eye so badly that it drooped for four full weeks, and she went on Instagram to...
Pregnant Woman Hides Indoors as U.S. Deports Her to a Country She Left at Age 6
A 29-year-old woman who has lived in the United States for 23 years, is pregnant with a high-risk pregnancy, and has no family left in Haiti is currently...
Solar Eclipse Next Week: Europe Gets Totality, America Gets 4%
On Wednesday, August 12, people in Spain will witness the first total solar eclipse visible from the country's mainland in 121 years. Americans in Washington,...
Tankers Still Trapped Near Hormuz as 'Agreement' Stays a Fantasy
Sailors aboard tankers near the Strait of Hormuz are still in danger, still in limbo, and still waiting for a resolution that, according to the shipping...
Flesh-Eating Bacteria Kills 5 in Louisiana, 5x the Usual Death Toll
Five people are dead in Louisiana this year from a flesh-eating bacterial infection that typically kills about one person in the state annually. Nine total...
Scientists Say This Winter's El Niño Will Be the Worst of the Century
Climate scientists are calling this winter's incoming El Niño the strongest of the century, and they are not being dramatic about it. The last time California...
Delta Passengers Evacuate Via Slide After Smoke Fills Cockpit Over Atlanta
Two hundred people were on a Delta flight to Orlando on Saturday morning when smoke started filling the cockpit and the crew decided it was time to turn this...
NYC Rats Down 22% But the Ones Left Have 'Reset Their Clocks'
New York City is winning its war on rats, if your definition of winning is 'the rats have learned to hide better.' The city is on track to record the fewest...
Jorge Messi, Lionel's Father and Lifelong Architect of His Career, Dies at 68
Jorge Messi, the father who carried his son from the youth fields of Rosario to the pinnacle of world football and never really left his side, died early...
Naked College Swimmer Arrested for Killing Maui Security Guard at 1:45 AM
A 20-year-old college swimmer was found wandering naked through the streets of Maui at 3 a.m. Thursday. Surveillance footage, according to NBC News, placed him...
Hunter Biden: Dad's Cancer Is in His Bones and 'Debilitating'
Joe Biden's prostate cancer has spread into his bones and is causing him significant pain, his son Hunter revealed in an emotional BBC interview broadcast...
James Harden's Gun Charge Quietly Disappears After He Does Some Community Service
James Harden had a gun sitting in plain view in his car in Houston, got arrested for it, and has now walked away without so much as a misdemeanor on his...
Meet the Doctor Who Botched a Tennessee Execution for 75 Minutes
A Tennessee doctor spent one hour and fifteen minutes repeatedly stabbing a condemned man in his arms, feet, and shoulder, failed to complete the procedure,...
Common Task, or What Transgender Lives Reveal About Our Transhuman Future
For nearly a quarter-century, a gaunt, unpaid-by-choice librarian named Nikolai Fedorov cataloged books by day at Moscow's Rumyantsev Museum and, by night,...
Courts to Trump: You Can't Just Demolish the White House for a Ballroom
In October 2025, Donald Trump demolished a 120-year-old wing of the White House to make room for a $400 million ballroom. He did not ask Congress. He did not...
Puerto Rico Has Lost Water 118 Days This Year. Now It's Rationing.
San Juan just endured its driest July in over 120 years, and as of Friday, more than 180,000 households and businesses in Puerto Rico are now on a mandatory...
Phil Mickelson MIA at Trump's Golf Club While LIV Scrambles to Survive
Phil Mickelson, the six-time major winner who helped build LIV Golf into a thing that exists, was nowhere to be found this week as the league played its New...
Two Women and a 9-Year-Old Lost on Michigan River for Days Found Safe
For more than two days, two 28-year-old women and a 9-year-old child were somewhere on or near the Muskegon River in Michigan, and nobody knew where. A broken...
16-Year-Old Lifeguard Who Saved Drowning Boy Gets Baywatch Jacket from Stephen Amell
A 16-year-old rookie lifeguard pulls a drowning child from a pounding California surf, and the world apparently decides this is the wholesome story it...
Skip Cigarettes, Control Your Blood Pressure, Keep Your Brain for 13 Extra Years
A massive 26-year study just handed us about the most actionable piece of medical news in recent memory, and it has nothing to do with a miracle drug or a...
Jobs Report Looks Fine Until You Look At It
The July jobs report landed Friday and the headline number wasn't a catastrophe, which is the new bar we're apparently measuring success against. But Axios...
Economy Lost 23,000 Jobs in July While Experts Expected to Gain 83,000
The U.S. economy shed 23,000 jobs in July. Economists had forecast a gain of 83,000. That is not a miss. That is a different planet entirely. And it landed on...
U.S. Intel: Putin May Invade NATO This Fall, and We're Out of Ammo
U.S. intelligence is warning that Vladimir Putin may launch an attack on a NATO-allied country as early as this fall, according to the Wall Street Journal. The...
Trump Said Oil Companies Made 'Too Much Money.' He Built Them the Money Printer.
Donald Trump looked at the oil companies that have made billions off a war his administration is running, a war that has cost American families $78 billion...
Apple Got $2.2B in Tariff Refunds. Your iPhone Price Stayed Up.
The Supreme Court ruled Trump's tariffs were unconstitutional, the government has already sent more than $100 billion back to corporations, and Apple alone...
Trump Calls Hegseth 'One of My Best' While His Own Allies Say He Can't Run a War
With the United States six months into an unpopular war with Iran, Donald Trump rang up NBC News to personally vouch for the man running the Pentagon. "I think...
Murkowski Calls Blanche a Yes-Man, Blows Up His AG Nomination
With a 6 a.m. post to X on Friday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) drove what may be the final nail into Todd Blanche's bid to become the next Attorney General...
Trump's Own Inner Circle Thinks He's Trapped in Three Unwinnable Disasters
Donald Trump's approval rating just hit 32% in a Quinnipiac poll, an all-time low, and according to Axios, even people inside his own circle are privately...
GOP's Big Midterm Play: 'Sure We're Bad, But Have You Seen Them?'
The Republican Party, currently helmed by a president with approval ratings in the 30s who is running an active war in Iran, has landed on its closing argument...
Ted Cruz Wants to Arm Iranian Protesters. He Has No Idea Who They Are.
Six months into an active war with Iran, Ted Cruz has a plan: hand out guns to Iranian protesters, watch the regime collapse, and figure out the rest later....
50+ Rotting Bodies Found in Chicago Funeral Home Run by Family Who Already Did This Once
More than 50 decomposing human bodies were discovered inside a Far South Side Chicago funeral home this week, stored without refrigeration in conditions...
FCC Just Killed the Rule Stopping One Company From Owning Your Entire Local News
The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to eliminate the rule that stopped any single company from owning TV stations reaching more than 39% of...
Meta Hit With $567M Judgment for Knowingly Wrecking Kids' Brains
A New Mexico court just handed Meta a $567 million bill for what jurors already decided in March: the company knowingly damaged children's mental health and...
Trump's Endorsement Loses in Tennessee as Ogles Gets Booted
Tennessee Republicans looked at their Trump-endorsed congressman and said, politely but firmly, no thanks. Rep. Andy Ogles, a second-term MAGA loyalist, lost...
Netflix Locked a Guy in a Billboard for 3 Days to Sell You a Movie
Netflix took a man, put him inside a fake house bolted to a billboard thirty feet above Sunset Boulevard, and left him there for three days. This is a real...
Tennessee Gerrymandered Its One Blue Seat Out of Existence, Then Dared Democrats to Win It Back
Tennessee Republicans redrew their congressional map, carved Memphis into three separate Republican-leaning districts, forced the state's only Democratic...
Capybaras Keep Crashing Brazil's Legislature and Honestly Same
Two enormous, completely unbothered capybaras waddled through the doors of a Brazilian state legislature last week and interrupted an active voting session,...
A Flesh-Eating Fungus Is in 27 States and Kills Up to 60% of Its Victims
There is a drug-resistant fungus spreading through American hospitals and nursing homes right now, it has shown up in 27 states, and depending on which study...
McConnell Discharged After 8 Weeks, Won't Say What's Wrong
Mitch McConnell has been discharged from a rehabilitation facility after vanishing from public life for nearly eight weeks, and his big announcement is that...
Coco Gauff Calls Out People Using Trans Athletes as an Excuse to Just Be Cruel
Coco Gauff stood in front of reporters at a tennis tournament this week and did something almost no prominent athlete is willing to do right now: she told the...
Trump's Own Park Service Says His Vanity Arch Wrecks 37 Historic Sites
Donald Trump wants to stick a 250-foot arch between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, and this week his own National Park Service told him...