July 4th Birthday People Have Had It With Trump's Semiquincentennial
Imagine spending your entire life sharing a birthday with the United States, building up decades of warm fuzzy feelings about fireworks and cake and the whole...
Dem Governors Tell Congress: Stop Letting Oil Giants Off the Hook for Climate Chaos
Ten Democratic governors are telling Congress to kill a bill that would hand oil and gas companies blanket immunity from climate-related lawsuits, and they're...
America Turns 250 and the Speeches That Built It Still Sting
America just turned 250 years old, and CBS News marked the occasion by rounding up the six presidential speeches that did the most to shape this country....
You're Allowed to Cheer for the USMNT Even If You Hate the Government
The US men's national soccer team is one win away from matching their best-ever run in World Cup history, playing some of the best football this country has...
DSA Would Be 'Thrilled' for AOC 2028 Run, as Squad Notches Another Primary Scalp
The Democratic Socialists of America would be 'very thrilled' if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ran for president in 2028, according to DSA New York City co-Chair...
Scientists Find Potentially Habitable Planet 25 Light-Years Away
Astronomers have found a planet twice the size of Earth, sitting in the exact zone where liquid water can exist, just 25 light-years away. They're calling it...
Iran Buries Khamenei on July 4th While Trump Brags at Mount Rushmore
Iran buried its Supreme Leader on America's birthday while Donald Trump stood in front of Mount Rushmore bragging about bombing the country. Mourners in Tehran...
America Turns 250 and Its Whole Life Story Is a Staged Photo
America turns 250 this year, and The Guardian has marked the occasion with a genuinely brilliant essay that asks the most uncomfortable birthday question...
Disneyland's 1 Billionth Guest Is an 8-Year-Old From Arizona on His Birthday
Somewhere in the multiverse, there is a child who showed up to Disneyland on his 8th birthday and got named the one billionth guest in the park's 70-year...
A 28-Year-Old Has Interviewed 3,000 WWII Vets. Only 30,000 Are Left.
Ten years ago, a kid in Southern California started driving around his neighborhood with a recorder, looking for old men with war stories. Today, Rishi Sharma...
Ronaldo's First Knockout Goal Ever Saves Portugal at 94 Minutes
Cristiano Ronaldo has played in five World Cups spanning more than two decades, and he had never once scored in a knockout round until yesterday. That changed...
Polymarket Paid Influencers to Fake $900K in Wins on Clone Sites
Somewhere out there, a guy filmed himself "winning" $100,000 on a prediction market bet about Donald Trump saying "McDonald's" on TV. Trump never said it. The...
Trump Wants His Face on Mount Rushmore. The Mountain Said No.
Donald Trump has had a federal building named after him, two naval warships, an airport, and a government savings account. He flew to Mount Rushmore on the eve...
Three Children Dead After Boat Capsizes on Geneva Lake in Fourth of July Weekend Storm
Three children are dead after a boat capsized on Geneva Lake in Wisconsin Friday when a severe storm rolled in without warning, killing them before rescuers...
AI Reads 2,000-Year-Old Burned Scrolls and Finds Lost Stoic Philosophy
A volcano destroyed these books nearly two thousand years ago and turned them into charcoal. A bunch of engineers with machine learning just read them anyway....
Poop Parasite Hits 18 States and Nobody Knows Where It's Coming From
More than 400 Americans are currently experiencing what the CDC clinically describes as 'watery diarrhea with frequent and sometimes explosive bowel...
America Turns 250 and Charges $1,330 to Join the Party
America is throwing itself a 250th birthday party this Fourth of July, full of flags and founding-father pageantry and naturalization ceremonies at George...
One Year of MAGA Tax Law: $51B for Amazon, Medicaid Cuts for You
One year ago, Donald Trump signed what he called the One Big Beautiful Bill on the Fourth of July, because of course he did. Twelve months later, the...
Happy 250th, America. Now Please Don't Die Outside.
The United States is turning 250 years old this week, and the country is marking the occasion the way it does everything now: in crisis. A punishing heat wave...
Baby Formula Recalls Mount as Trump Gutted the FDA Inspectors Meant to Stop Them
Multiple brands of infant formula have been recalled in the United States over bacterial contamination, including two cases tied to active botulism outbreaks,...
102 Degrees, a 'Really Long' Trump Speech, and a Fraud Probe: Happy 4th
America is turning 250 years old tomorrow, and to celebrate, the president is planning to deliver what he himself described as a "really long" speech outdoors...
Trump May Pardon Diddy While Definitely Pardoning Diesel Cheats
The President of the United States spent part of his Friday afternoon in a meeting about whether to free a convicted sex tourism offender, a man who helped a...
Active-Duty Air Force Major Arrested at Capitol Calling for Trump's Impeachment
An active-duty United States Air Force major was arrested Wednesday at the Capitol steps while calling for the impeachment of President Trump, knowing full...
Ukraine Is Blowing Up Whatever It Wants Inside Russia Now
Moscow residents scrambled for cover as explosions rang out and what witnesses described as 'black rain' fell over the city. This is not a metaphor. This is...
Louisiana AG Indicted for Threatening Officials Who Backed Wrongly Imprisoned Man
Louisiana's attorney general got a 16-count criminal indictment dropped on her Thursday for allegedly threatening local elected officials who tried to let an...
Colorado Fire Torches 55,000 Acres, 0% Contained, No Rain in Sight
A wildfire in southern Colorado has burned 55,405 acres, destroyed more than 180 structures, forced entire communities to flee with whatever they could grab in...
Democrat Tells Party to Stop Losing the Flag to People Who Tried to Steal the Election
A Democratic congressman from Long Island has written a Wall Street Journal op-ed urging his party to stop ceding the concept of patriotism to the political...
Princess Cruises' 3rd Norovirus Outbreak This Year Hits Alaska Trip
Nothing says 'Alaskan vacation' quite like spending the return leg of your cruise trip isolated in your cabin while the ship gets hosed down for fecal...
Michigan Kids Were Getting Fined for Lemonade Stands
Somewhere in Michigan, a health department employee looked at a child's lemonade stand, thought "I should get paid for this," and actually followed through on...
Britain's Been Sitting on a Rare Declaration of Independence for 250 Years
A volunteer at the UK National Archives sat down on an ordinary Thursday morning in May, opened a dusty folder of 18th-century Royal Navy correspondence, and...
Marriott Just Dumped Pepsi After 34 Years and Nobody Asked You
Pepsi has been evicted from over 10,000 Marriott hotels across 146 countries, ending a 34-year partnership that nobody thought to defend until it was already...
Russia Drops 570 Missiles and Drones on Kyiv in Biggest Attack of the War
Russia fired 74 missiles and 496 drones at Kyiv overnight, killing at least 21 people and wounding 85 more in the single largest attack on the Ukrainian...
Trump's DOJ Sued Philly So Feds Can Keep Wearing Masks
The Trump Justice Department, which spent years calling mask mandates tyranny, just sued a major American city to protect the right of federal agents to wear...
FBI Mobilizes 260 Agents to Relitigate Georgia 2020 Race Trump Lost Twice
The FBI has ordered every field office in the country to send analysts to Atlanta to help dig through 2020 Fulton County election records, mobilizing 260...
Trump Made $1.4B in Crypto. His Tax Bill Is a Black Box.
Donald Trump made $1.4 billion off cryptocurrency while sitting in the Oval Office and regulating the industry he was personally profiting from. His financial...
Trump's Ed Dept Is Hiding School Civil Rights Data — 7 Months and Counting
The federal government tracks which kids are getting bullied, which students can access the internet, and which schools are failing their most vulnerable...
Trump Is Now Trading AI Access for Loyalty, Like a Tech Mob Boss
Forget NATO commitments, shared democratic values, or decades of security cooperation. According to Axios, the Trump administration has found a new way to sort...
Trump Accidentally Saves the Planet By Blockading 20% of World's Oil
Donald Trump, the man who called climate change a Chinese hoax and spent his presidency trying to resurrect coal like a deranged Dr. Frankenstein, may have...
Supreme Court Spent This Term Quietly Killing Congress
The Supreme Court just wrapped up one of the most consequential terms in modern American history, and the verdict is in: Congress lost. Not on one issue. Not...
Polis Fired the Board Members Who Told the Truth About Tina Peters
Colorado Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted the prison sentence of election denier Tina Peters after pressure from Donald Trump. His own clemency board...