China's Economy Posts Worst Quarter in 3 Years and the Numbers Are Ugly
China's economy grew at its slowest pace in over three years last quarter, posting a 4.3% annualized growth rate for April through June, well below the 5% clip...
Omar Pushes US to Join ICC, Two Days After Rubio Vowed to Kill It
Two days. That's how long it took for someone in Congress to formally push back after Marco Rubio announced the United States would 'systematically disable'...
Americans Say Economy Is Trash. Then They Go Shopping.
Americans are telling every pollster who will listen that the economy is a catastrophe, a disaster, a rock-bottom nightmare from which there is no escape. Then...
Biden's Memoir Drops Two Weeks After Midterms Because Why Not
Joe Biden is publishing a presidential memoir, and he has chosen to drop it exactly two weeks after the midterm elections in which Democrats are desperately...
Meta Used AI to Fire People on Medical Leave, Then Said 'Actually That Was Humans'
Meta fired roughly 8,000 people using an AI-assisted performance system that, almost by design, punished anyone who had the audacity to take medical or...
ICE Killed Two Men Who Weren't Even Their Targets. That's 11 Dead This Term.
In less than one week, ICE agents shot and killed two men who were not the targets of their operations. One was a 52-year-old builder who had lived in the...
Trump Is Using Sanctions to Make It Illegal to Help War Crime Victims
The Trump administration has found a creative new use for economic sanctions: making it legally dangerous for American citizens to help document war crimes....
120-Degree Summers, No AC, No Problem: What India Figured Out That America Never Did
While Americans melt into their couches waiting for the power grid to hold, billions of people across the Global South have been surviving 120-degree summers...
American Startups Are Quietly Ditching U.S. AI for Chinese Models Because It's 10x Cheaper
An American tech founder in San Francisco just announced he moved 100% of his company's AI traffic to a Chinese model because it was ten times cheaper than...
Trump's Intel Nominee Agrees Elections Are a Fraud-Fest, So That's Fun
The good news is that Trump's pick to run America's entire intelligence apparatus is considered a reasonable, steady choice by members of both parties. The bad...
ICE Suspends Traffic Stops After Its Own Agents Got People Killed
ICE has suspended traffic stops following deadly shootings, which is the kind of sentence that should make every American stop whatever they are doing and read...
Anthropic Is Hiring People to Stop Its Own AI From Ending the World
Anthropic, the company that has publicly warned its own technology might destroy civilization, is now hiring 32 people specifically to prevent that from...
Israel Is Literally Holding a Dead Body Hostage
Israel has informed its own court system that it is refusing to return the body of a Palestinian man who died in Israeli detention, because the corpse might be...
Hochul Hits Pause on Data Centers. Every Dem Gov Is Taking Notes.
Kathy Hochul just did something no governor in the country had done before: she hit a hard pause on data center expansion across the entire state of New York....
Trump's Personal Lawyer Wants to Run the DOJ He Already Broke
Todd Blanche spent years keeping Donald Trump out of prison. Now he wants the keys to the entire Justice Department, permanently. His confirmation hearing...
Iraq Found $10.6M Hidden in a Drain. That's Just the Start.
Someone in Iraq's oil ministry stuffed ten million dollars in American and Iraqi currency into a rainwater drainage pit and hoped nobody would check. They...
Man Robbed a Bank With a Stolen Kitten and Lost Both
A man in Beltsville, Maryland allegedly stole a three-and-a-half-month-old tuxedo kitten named Magnolia from a pet store, carried her across a parking lot, and...
Mystery Buyer Drops $50M on T. Rex While Museums Watch Helplessly
Someone with $50 million burning a hole in their pocket just bought a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, and they don't want you to know who they are. The...
Trump's 'Really Big' Election Speech Is Exactly What You Think It Is
Donald Trump, a man who has now been president twice and still cannot stop relitigating an election he lost six years ago, will deliver a primetime address...
Want to Tour America? That'll Be $3K, a Year of Waiting, and Good Luck
The average wait time for the U.S. government to process a performing artist's visa petition is now eleven and a half months. The government won't accept...
We Asked 7 Teens About AI. Their Answers Should Embarrass Every Adult in the Room.
A 16-year-old from Fort Worth, Texas just summed up the entire AI debate better than any think-piece published in the last three years. 'It makes it to where...
America's Busiest Airport Shut Down 4 Hours So Iraq's PM Could Ride Past It
On Tuesday, more than 300 flights were delayed and at least 126 were outright canceled at Reagan National Airport because the Iraqi prime minister's security...
Abu Dhabi's AI Gov App Just Does Your Paperwork Without Being Asked
The government of Abu Dhabi has built an app that renews your national ID, pays your parking tickets, books your doctor's appointments, and handles your...
Dead Relatives Can't Take Your Money — But These 5 Myths Might
Total U.S. consumer debt just hit $18.23 trillion, credit card rates are sitting at nearly 22%, and inflation is still chewing through everyone's paycheck at...
7,000 People Waited 3 Hours to Smell a Plant That Reeks of Corpses
Seven thousand people drove to San Marino, California, stood in line for up to three hours, and paid for the privilege of smelling something that reeks of a...
7,000 Americans Have Explosive Diarrhea and Nobody Knows Why Thanks to RFK's CDC Cuts
Nearly 7,000 Americans across 34 states are currently experiencing frequent, explosive, watery diarrhea from a parasitic outbreak, and public health officials...
Three Dead in One Week: ICE's Killing Spree Has a New Twist
A 28-year-old man is dead after running from federal immigration agents in a Florida parking lot and getting struck by a semi truck on a busy highway. It is...
Congress Finally Noticed It Had Ghosts. Now There's a Bill.
One senator and one congressman disappeared from their jobs for months, told nobody why, and the American public was just supposed to be cool with that. They...
Trump Ditches His Own Hormuz Toll After Gulf Leaders Call Him
Donald Trump declared himself guardian of the world's most critical oil chokepoint on Monday, slapped a 20% fee on every ship that passes through it, and then...
Trump Slaps Brazil With 25% Tariffs for Daring to Moderate Elon's App
Brazil's Supreme Court told Elon Musk's X and Mark Zuckerberg's Meta to stop hosting hate speech and coup-adjacent propaganda, because Brazil had just survived...
Threats Against SCOTUS Justices Up 38% and Climbing Fast
The Supreme Court Police Department is bracing for a 38% surge in threats against justices this year, on top of a 25% increase the year before. Justice Elena...
Trump Finally Pays E. Jean Carroll Her $5.6M After Three Years of Stalling
A jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in 2023. It is now 2026, and she has just collected the money. Three years of appeals,...
Boosie Paid $600K for a Trump Pardon That Never Existed
Louisiana rapper Boosie Badazz paid two Washington lobbyists $600,000 to get him a Trump pardon. The lobbyists told him Trump had already signed it. The White...
Amy Coney Barrett Wore a Bulletproof Vest Home and Had to Explain It to Her 12-Year-Old
Amy Coney Barrett sat before Congress on Tuesday and described putting on a bulletproof vest before going home, then trying to explain to her 12-year-old son...
FBI Subpoenas NYT Reporters at Home Over Qatar Jet Story
Federal agents showed up at the homes of New York Times journalists on Friday with subpoenas, the direct result of an eight-hour White House meeting where the...
New Fed Chair Says 'Inflation's a Choice' While It Sits at 3.5%
Kevin Warsh walked into his first congressional testimony as Federal Reserve Chairman on Tuesday with a bold message: inflation is a choice. Great. Someone go...
Barrett Told Her Kid What a Bulletproof Vest Was. SCOTUS Did That.
Amy Coney Barrett brought a bulletproof vest home from work, set it on her bedroom table, and her 12-year-old son walked in and asked what it was. That...
Fed Chair Warsh Tells Congress Absolutely Nothing About Rates
The Federal Reserve chairman walked into Congress on Tuesday, sat down in front of the American people's elected representatives, and told them essentially...
Hegseth's Navy Beard Meltdown Is Exactly as Pathetic as It Sounds
The Secretary of Defense of the United States of America boarded a Navy warship, spotted some beards, and had a meltdown. According to a CNN report cited by...
Inflation Drops to 3.5% — Then Trump Blew Up the Strait of Hormuz
For one brief, shining moment on Tuesday morning, the economic news was actually good. Then, roughly in the same news cycle, Donald Trump announced he was...
Lindsey Graham Dies, Takes Trump's Voter ID Bill With Him
Lindsey Graham wasn't just a cheerleader for Trump's voter ID legislation. He was the Senate Budget Committee chair, the one person holding together the...
ICE Killed the Wrong Man in Maine. His Daughter Watched in Bluey PJs.
ICE agents shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine on Monday morning while his toddler daughter, still in her Bluey pajamas, watched....
New York Just Hit Pause on Big Tech's Power Grab — Literally
New York just became the first state in the country to tell the tech industry to sit down and wait. Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday...
RFK Jr Froze the Kids' Tobacco Panel While Big Vape Got Flavors Back
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has built a brand around protecting children from corporate poison, has spent over a year preventing a federal health panel from...
Republicans Want 60% to Pass Amendments, But 51% to Pass Theirs
Republican lawmakers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Missouri are asking voters this year to make it harder for those same voters to pass...
Trump Bans Americans From Flying Home as Ebola Patient Gets Sent to Germany
The Trump administration is blocking American citizens in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from flying home on commercial flights, even as the US quietly...
Trump Drained the Reflecting Pool to Fix Damage He Can't Prove Was Vandalism
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been drained for repairs after weeks of Donald Trump insisting that roving vandals slashed it open with knives and...
Trump Ballroom Donor Gets $200M Armenia Fund Job He Happens to Already Profit From
A Russian-born Chicago investor who donated $12 million to Trump's political operation and an undisclosed sum to Trump's ballroom project has been appointed...
U.S. Just Unleashed Robot Boats on Iran's Navy for the First Time
The U.S. military sent a small fleet of autonomous robot boats into an Iranian naval base and blew things up, and somehow that sentence is not from a Tom...
412 Verified Cases: ICE Crowd Control Weapons Blinded and Brain-Damaged Protesters
A damning new report documents 412 verified incidents of federal and local law enforcement misusing crowd control weapons on immigration protesters across the...
Maine Dems Have 11 Days to Replace Their Rape-Accused Senate Candidate
Maine Democrats had their guy. He won the primary handily, he was galvanizing voters who'd given up on politics entirely, and he had a real shot at unseating...
Two Climbers Found Dead at Bottom of 65-Foot Alpine Crevasse
Two Romanian climbers who went missing in the Italian Alps last week were found Monday morning at the bottom of a crevasse roughly 65 feet deep, authorities...
Supreme Court Just Let Trump Fire Anyone Who Disagrees With Him
Rebecca Slaughter found out she'd been fired from the Federal Trade Commission while helping run lines for her kid's elementary school production of Beauty and...
Trump Says Strait Is 'Open.' Experts Say It'll Take 50,000 Troops.
Donald Trump went on Truth Social Monday morning to announce that the United States would 'probably run' the Strait of Hormuz and charge foreign ships a 20%...
Trump Says the U.S. Will Now Collect Tolls in the Strait of Hormuz
Donald Trump has announced that the United States will impose a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz and begin collecting tolls from ships passing through one of...
Trump's Personal Lawyer Is Now Acting AG. Senators Must Stop Him.
The man who personally defended Donald Trump against federal criminal charges is now acting as the nation's top law enforcement officer, and he wants to make...
NYC Council Votes Itself 18% Raise Days After Passing $126B Budget
The New York City Council just approved a $126 billion budget, looked at all that money, and apparently thought: yes, but what about us? Days later, council...
Lindsey Graham Called Trump a 'Jackass.' Then Became His War Whisperer.
In 2015, Lindsey Graham called Donald Trump a jackass, Trump retaliated by reading Graham's personal cell number aloud at a campaign rally, and somehow,...
Google's AI Boss Wants a Regulator He'd Help Pay For
The man who built one of the world's most powerful AI systems would like a regulator to oversee AI systems, please. He'd also like that regulator to be funded...
Inflation's Still Burning and the AI Boom Is Making It Worse
The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases June inflation data Tuesday morning, and the headline number might look better than last month's ugly reading of 4.2%....