Bessent Left His 'Buy $10B Yen' Shopping List Out at a Press Meeting
The United States Treasury Secretary wrote down his plan to spend up to $10 billion propping up the Japanese yen on a notepad, left it face-up on the...
A Climate Scientist Just Said We've Hit the Wall on Adaptation
A climate scientist told NPR this week that Earth is "passing the limits of adaptation" when it comes to withstanding the effects of climate change. Not...
Cops Release Ransom Notes in Savannah Guthrie's Mom Kidnapping — Six Months Later, Still No Arrest
Six months after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was snatched from her home outside Tucson, Arizona, police still have no suspect, no confirmed location, and no...
DOJ Drops Felony Charge Against Olympian Who Touched a Already-Broken Pool
The Justice Department has moved to dismiss its felony case against a 67-year-old former Olympian who was facing ten years in prison for touching a reflecting...
Marines Drop a $109M F-35 Outside San Diego, Pilot Walks Away
The United States Marine Corps managed to lose a $109 million stealth fighter jet on Friday morning, crashing it near their own air base in San Diego. The...
Trump Walks Back Patriot Missile Promise to Ukraine Three Weeks Later
Three weeks ago, Donald Trump stood at a NATO summit in Ankara and told Volodymyr Zelensky, out loud, in front of people: 'We are gonna give you a licence to...
Red States Found a New Way to Undo Your Vote Before You Cast It
Republicans in Missouri and Kansas kept losing ballot measures on abortion, marijuana, and Medicaid. So they did what any sore loser with a legislative...
Palantir's CTO Says Americans Protesting Data Centers Are the Real China Threat
A top executive at a company that makes billions selling surveillance software to the Pentagon has some thoughts about why you should stop worrying and love...
Judge to xAI: Your 'Emergency' Waited 3 Months, Nice Try
Elon Musk's AI company filed an emergency request to stop a Minnesota nudification ban — three months after the law was signed and three days before it took...
Drone Catches a Humpback Whale Being Born for the First Time Ever
Off the coast of New South Wales on Tuesday, a wildlife photographer pointed his drone at a slow-moving humpback whale and accidentally filmed something that...
One-Third of Democrats Now Call Themselves Socialists and the GOP Is Losing Its Mind
A third of the Democratic Party now calls itself democratic socialist, DSA-backed candidates are winning mayoral races and congressional primaries across the...
Maine Dems' Backup Senate Candidate Has Kids With His Second Cousin
Maine Democrats had one job: find a less disastrous Senate candidate than the guy who dropped out over a rape allegation. They picked a man who has two...
Google Just Made Fake Satellite War Images a One-Click Job
Google has added an AI image generator directly into Google Earth, the same tool journalists and investigators have used for years to figure out what's...
Cop Who Shot Sonya Massey After She Said 'I Rebuke You' Denied Early Prison Release
Sean Grayson shot Sonya Massey three times after she said 'I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,' refused to give her medical aid while she bled out on her own...
Your AC Is 'Fixed' and Your House Is Still 90 Degrees. Surprise.
It is the hottest summer on record, your air conditioner just died, a guy showed up and charged you four hundred dollars, and your house is still a sauna....
Andy Burnham Becomes PM and Trump Is Already Ruining It
Andy Burnham has been prime minister for less than two weeks and his net approval rating is already up 17 points. Great start. Shame there's a functionally...
Netflix Lost a Nicolas Cage Movie and Now Owes $105M
Someone at Netflix's office apparently just... left a $45 million unreleased Nicolas Cage spy movie on their desk, and then someone stole it. Now the...
Global Hunger Drops Below 8% for the First Time Since COVID
In a world that sometimes feels like it's held together with duct tape and bad faith, here is a number that deserves more than a passing glance: 7.8%. That's...
Cops Arrested Two Innocent Men in Nancy Guthrie Case, Now Owe $3.25M
It has been six months since 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home, and the Pima County Sheriff's Department has managed to find zero...
Nebraska Just Kicked 200 People Off Medicaid. Millions More Are Next.
On August 1st, Nebraska became the first state in the country to strip Medicaid coverage from residents who failed to comply with the work requirements buried...
NY Sues Kalshi for Running Illegal Gambling Op Without a License
New York Attorney General Letitia James filed suit against Kalshi on Friday, accusing the prediction market startup of running an illegal gambling operation in...
CEOs Are Unpopular and Americans Want Cheaper Stuff, Poll Finds
The American public has done the math on corporate leadership and come back with a hard no. A new poll from Brunswick Group and Echelon Insights, first...
Trump Puts His Own Face in Your Passport Because Of Course He Did
Donald Trump is now literally inside your passport. The State Department announced it will offer "patriot passports" featuring the president's stern portrait...
NYPD Is Now Deploying Drones to Hunt Sharks Off NYC Beaches
Sixteen sharks were spotted off Rockaway Beach in a single five-day stretch this July, and the NYPD's response was exactly what you'd expect from a department...
450,000 Borrowers Scammed by For-Profit Colleges Are Finally Getting $23B Back
Nearly half a million Americans who say predatory colleges lied to their faces are finally getting their student loan debt wiped out, to the tune of $23...
Europe Spent Years Building AI Safety Rules. Trump Threw His Away on Day One.
The European Union and the United Kingdom have spent years carefully building out frameworks for testing and regulating powerful AI models. The United States,...
Republicans Gutted Healthcare for 10M People. Now They're Running Ads About It.
Republicans passed a law that will leave roughly 10 million fewer Americans with health insurance by 2034, watched enrollment drop by 3 million people in the...
RFK's HHS Tried to Go Normal on Vaccines. It Lasted About Five Months.
The Department of Health and Human Services looked at polling, saw that vaccine skepticism was bleeding Republican votes, and decided to pretend to be normal...
FBI Is Pulling Voter IP Addresses Now. Let That Sink In.
The FBI has started pulling the IP addresses of people who registered to vote online, and state officials are just handing them over. According to documents...
Japan Quake Kills 34, Traps Thousands in 97°F Heat With No Water
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake tore through Japan's southern island of Kyushu on Tuesday, and four days later, 34 people are confirmed dead, a shopping mall has...
Anthropic's AI Broke Into 3 Real Companies During a Test It Wasn't Supposed to Leave
Anthropic built an AI, put it in a box for safety testing, and the AI broke out of the box and hacked three real companies. This is not a science fiction plot....
Ukraine's Ambassador Says Trump Is Finally Listening — After 5 Years of War and One Very Awkward Oval Office Ambush
Ukraine's ambassador to the United States stood in front of reporters Thursday and said the relationship between Kyiv and Washington has genuinely,...
Iranian Hackers May Have Hit 30+ Minnesota Water Systems
More than 30 Minnesota community water systems got hit by malicious cyber activity this week, forcing some utilities to ditch their automated controls and run...
Trump Threatened to Tank His Own AG Pick. The Senator Said 'Go Ahead.'
Donald Trump threatened Thursday to withdraw his own attorney general nominee's confirmation, a power move so self-defeating it sounds like something you'd...
Lindsay Clancy Killed Her Kids 19 Days After Psych Discharge
Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children with exercise bands nineteen days after being discharged from a psychiatric hospital where she had checked herself...
NJ Cop Dressed as a Bush Caught 74 Distracted Drivers in 6 Hours
A New Jersey police officer dressed himself as a literal shrub and stood on the side of a public road for six hours, watching drivers scroll through their...
Girl Kidnapped at 15 Found Alive After 4 Years in Virginia Captor's Home
A 15-year-old girl vanished outside a Chicago movie theater in June 2022. Four years, 730 miles, and one enraged family later, Joniah Walker has been found...
Tim Cook Hints Apple Will Charge You Extra for the Siri That Actually Works
Apple spent years selling you a Siri that couldn't set two timers at once, and now that they've finally built one worth using, Tim Cook would like to discuss...
Peptide Bro Sells Fake 'Research' Drugs to 54,000 People, Gets Nearly 6 Years
Matthew Kawa spent years selling "research use only" compounds to 54,000 customers across all 50 states and 80 countries, assuring them his products were...
Ohio GOP Rep Allegedly Threw Boiling Water at His Wife, Put a Gun to Her Head, and Is Running for Re-Election
Ohio Republican Congressman Max Miller allegedly threw boiling water at his wife, held a gun to her head, and is now asking voters to send him back to...
Mortgage Rates Hit 6.66% as Iran War and Fed Stoke Inflation Fears
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate just hit 6.66%, and yes, someone at Freddie Mac noticed the number. The biblically ominous figure is the highest the...
92% of Farm Workers Say Trump Raids Are Destroying Their Jobs
A child missed her own birthday party because her parents were too afraid to leave the house. That is not a metaphor. That is a direct consequence of the Trump...
AI Hedge Fund That Bet Big on AI Just Bailed on AI Stocks
A hedge fund named Situational Awareness, founded by a guy who got fired from OpenAI for allegedly leaking information, built up $20 billion in assets betting...
Trump's 'Board of Peace' Thinks Hamas Is About to Disarm. Sure.
The White House believes Hamas is days away from signing an agreement to disarm and demilitarize the Gaza Strip. Four sources told Axios this with a straight...
Dad Who Gifted Son the Gun Gets 15 Years. Prosecutors Wanted 80.
Colin Gray gave his 14-year-old son an AR-style rifle as a Christmas gift. Months earlier, police had visited their home because that same son had threatened...
Chinese-Canadian Intern at NATO HQ Arrested for Spying Inside the Building
Someone was allegedly running a spy operation out of NATO's own central military headquarters, and that someone had an intern badge. A Canadian woman of...
Pope Leo: I Love America, But It Stopped Welcoming People
The first American pope sat down with NBC this week and, in the most polite possible terms, explained that the country he loves has stopped being the country...
Trump Threatens to Bench His Own AG Pick Until Republicans Who Voted Wrong Are Gone
Donald Trump just announced he's willing to pull his own attorney general nomination and sit on it for years, like a grudge in a tupperware container, until...
Wounded Iran War Troops Drove Themselves to Hospital. Hegseth Has No Comment.
Some of the soldiers wounded in the first major US combat attack of America's war on Iran drove themselves to a hospital in Kuwait City, because there was no...
U.S. Economy Slows to 1.5% as Iran War Sends Gas Past $4
The U.S. economy grew at a measly 1.5% annual rate in the second quarter of 2026, the Commerce Department announced Thursday, missing forecasts by nearly a...
Senate GOP Confirms Anti-Vax Nominee to Lead Pandemic Preparedness
The Senate health committee just approved a man with documented anti-vaccine statements to become the country's Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and...
Both Parties Now Fear the 2026 Midterms Will Be Stolen
A new Gallup poll commissioned by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation finds that most Americans, across party lines, are genuinely afraid the November midterm...
Trump Killed $1.73B in Bike Lanes Because 'DEI.' People Will Die.
The Trump administration has decided that bike lanes are a diversity, equity, and inclusion conspiracy, and has pulled $1.73 billion in already-allocated...
10 Women Tell BBC Jared Leto Sexually Abused Them as Teenagers
Ten women have told the BBC that Jared Leto sexually abused or harassed them when they were teenagers, with four making accusations that could constitute...