Kate Douglass Swims 23.49, Breaks Her Own World Record Before Lunch
Kate Douglass showed up to a preliminary heat at the Pan Pacific Championships on Saturday and, apparently not content to just qualify like a normal person,...
Indiana Floods Smash 1913 Records, Kill 5, Rescue 91 People and 45 Pets
The White River crested nearly two feet above a record that had stood since 1913, and Indiana is still counting its dead. At least five people are gone, 91...
Russia Lost 43,000 Soldiers in July. Putin Is Recruiting Africans Now.
Russia lost 42,860 soldiers in a single month. Not the war. One month. July 2026 was the fourth bloodiest month of the entire conflict since 2022, according to...
NJ Man Charged After Drunk Boating Killed Two Kids, Ages 7 and 9
A 63-year-old New Jersey man has been charged with reckless vessel homicide after police say he was drunk at the wheel of a 30-foot boat when it slammed into a...
FEMA's Flood Maps Miss 98% of Homes — Midwest Is About to Find Out the Hard Way
The White River in Anderson, Indiana just hit 24.9 feet, shattering a flood record that had stood since 1913. At least three people are dead, more than 150,000...
45 New AI Billionaires in One Year, and the Oldest Is 32
Forty-five people became billionaires from artificial intelligence in the past twelve months alone. The oldest profiled in this new crop is 32. One of them had...
Trump Wants to Privatize Hacking. What Could Go Wrong?
The Trump administration has issued a memo that would let private American companies hack foreign cybercriminals on behalf of the U.S. government, which is...
Trump Wants to Claim the Strait of Hormuz. Iran Has Notes.
Standing in front of a crowd of law enforcement officers at a Nassau County police academy, Donald Trump announced that he would soon declare the Strait of...
1.6M Dozen Eggs Recalled as Salmonella Hits 98 People in 17 States
Nearly 1.6 million dozen eggs have been slapped with the FDA's highest-risk recall classification, meaning the agency believes eating them carries 'a...
Three-Minute Museum Heist Nets Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse — Thieves Caught Because a Pickaxe Had a Serial Number
Five suspected members of an organized crime group pulled off one of the slickest museum heists in recent European memory — three priceless paintings in under...
USS Lincoln Sailors Hit 260 Days at Sea With Broken Toilets and Food Shortages
The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for more than 260 consecutive days, a record, and according to sailors' families, the conditions aboard have gotten...
USDA Chief Pulled Fire Planes From Other Blazes to Protect His Ranch
The man who runs the US Forest Service reportedly spent July on the phone pressuring agency officials to send nine aircraft, including air tankers and...
Consumer Confidence Just Fell Off a Cliff Again
Americans were briefly feeling slightly less terrible about the economy. Then August arrived. The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index dropped 8%...
Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty, Admits He Emailed UnitedHealthcare to Find His Target
Luigi Mangione walked into a Manhattan federal courtroom on Friday and told a judge, out loud, in public, that he emailed UnitedHealthcare pretending to be a...
Wages Can't Beat Inflation Again, Gas Is Up 25%, and the Debt Just Hit $40 Trillion
The federal government is barreling toward a $40 trillion debt load, gasoline costs 25% more than it did a year ago, and American workers just lost the...
A Man in a Trash Can Just Got 27% Against Nigel Farage
A man who wears a garbage can on his head and whose campaign platform includes nationalizing Adele just received 9,455 votes in a British parliamentary...
Someone Bubble-Bombed the WWII Memorial and Spray-Painted It Pink
Someone filled the National World War II Memorial fountain with soapy bubbles and spray-painted 'Clean hands dirty $' in pink across the stone, and yes, that...
Expelled for Gun Protest, Justin Pearson Just Won a Primary Against Elon Musk's Backyard
Justin Pearson got expelled from the Tennessee state legislature for protesting gun violence. Three years later, he just won a Democratic congressional primary...
AI Is Blowing Up Both Parties at Once and Nobody Has a Clue
New York just became the first state to slap a moratorium on data centers, and the coalition that made it happen — a centrist governor and a progressive state...
Feds Infiltrated a Church Gym and Dropped Their Spy Recorder on the Floor
The Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents to infiltrate private Signal chats, community meetings, and a sparring session at a church gym to...
5,000 Sailors Stuck at Sea for 250 Days While Trump Bets on His Own Words
More than 5,000 American sailors have been floating in the Middle East for 250 days, running low on fresh food, rarely seeing sunlight, and losing their minds...
Trump Flies to New York to Take Credit for Crime Stats While Iran War Drags On
With an unpopular war in Iran grinding forward and his approval ratings circling the drain, Donald Trump has chosen this particular moment to fly to Long...
Florida Deputized Every Single County to Do ICE's Job For $72 a Day
Every single county in Florida has signed a cooperation agreement with ICE. All 67 of them. The state didn't just embrace the Trump administration's mass...
JD Vance Says Cheap Gas Is 'Goal Number One' in a War That Made Gas 40% More Expensive
JD Vance went on Fox News Thursday to explain that keeping oil and gas cheap for Americans is now "goal number one" in the Iran war. The average gallon of gas...
Netanyahu's Own Aide Lied to Trump's Face About His Polls
Two weeks ago, in the Oval Office of the United States of America, an aide to Benjamin Netanyahu looked Donald Trump in the eye and said his boss was winning...
Julianne Hough Went to Sardinia and Had a Whole Reckoning About Hustle Culture
Julianne Hough went to Sardinia for a girls trip, posted the requisite bikini photos, and then had a surprisingly candid public breakdown about whether she has...
36 Million Under Flood Alerts as Historic Rain Buries the Midwest
A 70-year-old Indiana man finished renovating his home two months ago. This week it filled with floodwater, and he told CBS News, simply, "I'm cooked." He is...
A Bird, a Broken Window, and a Man Half Out of a Plane at 16,000 Feet
A 61-year-old man was partially sucked through a shattered airplane window at 16,000 feet while other passengers grabbed his body and physically held him...
Judge Tosses Nevada Fake Electors Case, Calls Fraud 'Political Theater'
Six Nevada Republicans signed a fraudulent certificate handing Donald Trump electoral votes he did not win, broadcast the whole thing on video, and a judge...
7th Appeals Court Torches ICE's 'Detain Everyone' Policy in 460-54 Rout
At this point it is less a legal debate and more a sustained judicial beatdown. A seventh federal appeals court has now ruled against the Trump...
Trump's Own Pollster Tells Republicans: Drop SAVE Act, Talk Health Care
Donald Trump's own campaign pollster just told Senate Republicans, in a private briefing, to stop talking about the thing Donald Trump won't shut up about....
Kushner, Tony Blair, and a Guy Named Mladenov Walk Into Gaza
Jared Kushner, the man who once promised to solve the Middle East in his spare time between real estate deals, is boarding a plane to the region again. This...
Hawaii Braces for Hurricane Lala's 25-Inch Rain Threat This Weekend
A tropical storm that didn't even exist 48 hours ago is about to become a hurricane and park itself directly over one of the most geographically vulnerable...
Surveillance CEO Sorry Cops Used His 120,000 Cameras to Stalk Women
A company that built a network of 120,000 license plate cameras across America and sold access to police departments is very sorry that some of those police...
ICE Is Getting Electric Shock Gloves. Yes, You Read That Right.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to spend up to $20 million on gloves that electrocute people on contact, dropping them to the ground and...
White House Gave Rubio a Framed Collage of 68 Memes Mocking Him
Marco Rubio has three official jobs in the Trump administration and is apparently the punchline of a fourth. For his 55th birthday, White House staffers and...
DHS Sent Undercover Agents to Spy on Peaceful Protesters — One Tried to Recruit Them to Build Weapons
The Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents to infiltrate anti-ICE community meetings, join Signal chats, and obtain the financial records of...
Congress Has Proposed 68 Constitutional Amendments This Term. Zero Will Pass.
Sixty-eight. That is the number of constitutional amendments members of Congress have proposed this term. One got a floor vote. It failed. The Constitution...
OpenAI's Revenue Chief Quits Ahead of IPO. So Did the Last Guy. And Three Before That.
OpenAI's Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser is leaving the company she joined less than a year ago, the New York Post reports, making her the second senior...
July Was the Hottest Month Ever. The Bill Is Already Here.
A brewery in Duluth, Minnesota lost multiple days of peak summer revenue in July because the heat dome sitting on top of the Midwest killed its air...
USS Lincoln Sailors Are Jumping Overboard. The Navy Says Morale Is Fine.
The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for over 200 consecutive days, breaking records nobody wanted to break. Sailors are allegedly attempting to jump...
Clinton's Nuclear Football Carrier: Air Force One Leaker Was 'Highly Placed'
The man who literally carried the nuclear football for Bill Clinton is praising Trump's Ankara decoy operation as "brilliant" — and then immediately warning...
Kennedy Center Board Defies Federal Judge, Slaps Trump's Name Back On
A federal judge said no. Congress never said yes. So the Kennedy Center board just went ahead and did it anyway. On Thursday, the board voted to slap Donald...
Third Person Dies at Delaney Hall After ICE Changed Rules to Stop Counting
A Guatemalan immigrant named José Chajón-Raxón had a seizure at a Newark ICE detention facility, got hospitalized, got released from custody, and then died....
Judge Throws Out Trump's Harvard Antisemitism Suit, Calls Evidence Too Thin
The Trump administration marched into federal court to sue Harvard University for billions of dollars over alleged antisemitism on campus, and a federal judge...
GOP Rep Shared Nude Baby Photo With 400K Strangers to Save His Career
Ohio Republican congressman Max Miller, already facing allegations that he held a gun to his ex-wife's head, poured boiling water on her, and broke their...
Putin Ordered a Hit on a U.S. Citizen in Warsaw. Poland Stopped It.
Russia tried to have a U.S. citizen killed on the soil of a NATO ally, and the only reason we're reading about it instead of mourning it is that Polish...
Luigi Mangione Expected to Plead Guilty Friday to Federal Charges
Luigi Mangione, the 28-year-old accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson dead on a Manhattan sidewalk in December 2024, is expected to plead...
Dick Cheney's Longtime Cardiologist Says Trump Doesn't Look Well
The White House says Donald Trump, who turned 80 in June, is in "excellent health." His doctor used 22 medical specialists to reach that conclusion and won't...
Flock Safety Tracks Billions of Plates Monthly, Offers You One Less Week of It
Flock Safety, the company quietly logging the movements of virtually every car in America, announced this week that it will hold your location data for one...
Flock Safety Cuts Cop Data Access After Admitting 'Police Abuse Has Been a Problem'
A company that built one of the largest vehicle surveillance networks in American history just admitted the people operating it cannot be trusted to use it...
Trump Made $2.2B From His Presidency in 2025 While His Crypto Investors Lost $3.8B
Donald Trump made $2.2 billion in personal revenue during his second presidential term's first year, according to financial disclosures reviewed by the...
Surrogate Gives Birth in Texas After Parents Ordered Abortion. Now She Can't Hold the Baby.
A surrogate mother who refused to abort a baby with a heart defect, fled her home state of Alaska, and triggered a multi-state legal war gave birth Wednesday...
Army Gynecologist Pleads Not Guilty to Secretly Recording 93 Patients
An Army gynecologist accused of secretly recording women during pelvic and breast exams stood before a military judge at Fort Hood on Wednesday and pleaded not...
Fox Poll: Maine Voters More Scared of Collins+Trump Than Jackson Being Too Left
Susan Collins has survived everything Maine politics could throw at her for nearly three decades, but a new Fox News poll out Wednesday suggests her biggest...
DC Bomb Squad Spends Two Hours Defusing a $300 Sex Toy
Washington DC's finest bomb disposal experts spent the better part of Wednesday morning's rush hour locked in a tense standoff with a $300 automated sex toy....
Swastikas Spray-Painted Inside UCSD Jewish Frat House in Hate Crime
Someone broke into a Jewish fraternity house at UC San Diego and spray-painted swastikas, 'KKK,' and racial slurs across both the interior and exterior walls....
Another Day, Another Georgia School Shooting. One Student Down.
A student was shot on the campus of Warner Robins High School in central Georgia on Wednesday afternoon, the Houston County Sheriff's Office confirmed. One...
Army Apache Crashes Near Fort Hood, Kills Both Crew Members
A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter went down in a field south of Salado, Texas on Wednesday afternoon, killing both crew members on board and igniting...
Three Dead at Minneapolis Daycare in Stabbing, Including a Child
A parent drove up to drop their kid off at daycare Wednesday morning and found three people dead inside. Two adults and a young child were killed at Brown Bear...