Iran Promises to 'Punish' the U.S. After Overnight Strikes Kill a Toddler in Hormuz
The U.S. military completed what it called a "heavy wave of strikes" against Iran overnight, hitting dozens of targets across the country over two hours....
52 Dead, 65,000 Caged: The Word 'Camp' Is No Longer a Metaphor
At least 52 people have died in ICE custody since Trump's second term began. More than 65,000 are currently confined in facilities where oversight has been...
The College Republicans Are Eating Each Other — and the Far Right Is Winning
There is a war happening inside the American college Republican movement, and the people winning it think women probably shouldn't vote. The College...
Trump's Iran War Is Five Months Old, Killing Americans, and Two-Thirds of the Country Is Done With It
Donald Trump promised the Iran war would be over in a few weeks. That was February. It is now the end of July, Egypt is on fire, Kuwait just took a hit, and...
Trump's Iran War Is Now Crashing the Bond Market Too
US government borrowing costs just hit their highest level since 2007. The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady. Stocks cratered. And the war in Iran...
Melania's 'Open Channel' With Putin Brings 5 Kids Home. 19,995 to Go.
Five children are home. Somewhere between 1,200 and 20,000 are not. Melania Trump announced Thursday that her personal back-channel to Vladimir Putin has now...
Trump Brags About Buying 250 Escalades While Americans Can't Pay Rent
While the average American household is bleeding more than $1,200 from Trump's Iran war, gas prices have climbed nearly a dollar a gallon since inauguration...
Russia Kills 8 in Ukraine Including Kids, Stray Missile May Have Hit Poland
Russia fired more than 70 missiles and 280 drones at Ukraine overnight into Thursday, killing at least eight civilians including children as young as five, and...
Trump Says China Stole 220M Voter Files. Experts Say They're Free Online.
The Trump administration is accusing China of staging 'the largest compromise of election data in history' by collecting 220 million American voter...
GOP Voter Suppression Is Backfiring Spectacularly in the South
The Republican Party spent the better part of this year frantically redrawing congressional maps to dilute Black political power across the South, and the...
Trump's Asylum Approvals Hit 20-Year Low as New Rule Dumps 300K Cases
The Trump administration has spent eighteen months quietly dismantling the U.S. asylum system, and this week it took another hammer swing: a new rule that will...
China Sat Out the Oil Panic and Accidentally Saved the World Economy
Nobody planned for China to be the adult in the room. And yet, when the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran on February 28th and oil markets started...
People Are Considering Catching a Parasite to Lose Weight
Somewhere between "have you tried drinking more water" and "have you considered a tapeworm," America has located a new rock bottom. A social media trend called...
Pediatricians Are Officially Telling Parents Not to Trust the CDC
A pediatrics practice in Massachusetts has updated its website to tell patients, in plain English, that "the CDC is no longer considered to be a reliable or...
Netanyahu Flew to Washington to Yell at Vance's Face Personally
Benjamin Netanyahu, a man who has survived assassinations, indictments, and forty years of Middle Eastern politics, apparently decided that what he really...
The Odyssey Expert Who Spent 6 Years on Homer Says Nolan Shouldn't Have Written His Own Script
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is making a fortune at the box office. It is also, according to the single most qualified person on earth to have an opinion...
College Football Hall of Famer Billy Ray Smith Jr. Dead at 64 From CTE
Billy Ray Smith Jr., one of the most beloved players in San Diego Chargers history and a College Football Hall of Famer, died Wednesday at 64 years old. His...
Politicians Are Swearing More On Purpose and It's Working
Turns out the future of American political communication is just saying "shit" on camera and calling it authenticity. Axios reports that politicians across the...
A Quarter of Young Africans Think Killing USAID Might Actually Help
The Trump administration torched $60 billion in US foreign assistance and patted itself on the back for it. Now a survey of nearly 5,000 young Africans has...
16-Year-Old Lifeguard Saves Drowning Boy, Then Finishes His Shift
A 16-year-old rookie lifeguard pulled a drowning 10-year-old boy from violent surf at a California state beach on Saturday, kept him alive through repeated...
Fauci Pleads the Fifth 111 Times — While Holding a Pardon
Anthony Fauci sat before a Senate committee on Wednesday and pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times. He already has a presidential pardon. He cannot be...
Trump Fired 10,000 Wildfire Workers. Oregon Is Now On Fire.
More than a million acres are burning across central and eastern Oregon, 34 major fires are raging simultaneously, and the National Interagency Fire Center has...
Trump Sons Bought Into Kazakhstan Mining Deal Before U.S. Handed It $1.6B
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump quietly purchased a stake in a construction company that has since merged its way into a $1.6 billion U.S. government-backed...
10 Million Americans Under Flood Alerts as Northeast Gets Absolutely Hammered
Albany, New York got drenched by more than 6 inches of rain in a single stretch this week. That's not a season's worth of precipitation in some places — that's...
Musk Revives $260M Trump PAC to Flood 2026 Midterms
Elon Musk has apparently looked at the last two years of American political life and thought, yes, more of this please. According to Axios, Musk is reviving...
Meta's Free Cash Flow Fell 91% and Zuckerberg Wants to Spend More
Meta just reported that its free cash flow fell 91% in a single year, from $8.55 billion down to $784 million, and Mark Zuckerberg's response was to announce...
Rushdie's Attacker Convicted of Terrorism, Faces Life on Top of 25 Years
A jury took one look at the evidence against Hadi Matar and said yes, all of it, guilty on every count. The 28-year-old who climbed on stage at a writers'...
Iran Is Using Troops' Instagram Posts to Aim Its Next Strike
American troops in Jordan are about to have their phones taken away, and the reason is as grim as it is avoidable: Iran has been watching their social media...
St. Paul's First Female Mayor Hit With Sexual Harassment Complaint From Her Own Police Chief
St. Paul's first female mayor is seven months into office and already the subject of a formal sexual harassment investigation, after her own police chief filed...
DOJ Wants Judges to Punish Immigrant Lawyers — But ICE Attorneys Are Exempt
The Justice Department wants to give immigration judges the power to fine attorneys and their clients up to $3,500 for defying court orders. There is just one...
Six Months In, the 'Four-Week War' With Iran Is Melting Trump's Base
The war that was supposed to last four to six weeks is now six months old, draining U.S. missile stockpiles, spiking gas prices, and quietly destroying Donald...
Fed Holds Rates While Three Officials Mutiny and Markets Tank
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday, which should have been good news. Instead, stocks cratered, three central bank officials openly...
Dr. Oz Just Made Your Grandma's Drug Coverage 50% More Expensive
Dr. Mehmet Oz, television's favorite snake oil pitchman turned Medicare czar, just announced on X dot com that he is ending billions in subsidies that kept...
Trump's AG Pick Is Tanking Because DOJ Won't Kill Trump's IRS Slush Fund
Todd Blanche, the man who prosecuted seashell photos on behalf of Donald Trump and called it justice, is now watching his own confirmation collapse because the...
Epstein Was a Camper, Then a Donor, Then an Alleged Predator at the Same School
Jeffrey Epstein attended Michigan's Interlochen Center for the Arts as a camper in 1967, later donated over $400,000 to the school, got a lodge named after...
Trump and Bibi's Iran Meeting Was So Grim Even the Jokes Stopped
Something unusual happened in the Oval Office on Tuesday: Donald Trump apparently stopped cracking jokes. Senior Israeli officials who were in the room told...
"She Killed the Kids": Patrick Clancy's 911 Call Plays in Courtroom
A Massachusetts courtroom went silent Wednesday as jurors listened to Patrick Clancy's 911 call from the night he came home to find his three children...
OpenAI Is Giving 100,000 Academics Free GPT Access. What's the Catch?
OpenAI announced Wednesday that it will hand 100,000 academic researchers free access to its most powerful AI models through 2027, including GPT-5.6 Sol Pro....
FIFA Wants to Sell the World Cup to Trump's In-Laws
Gianni Infantino, the man who runs world football like it's his personal vanity project, would like to sell you the World Cup. Not metaphorically. FIFA has...
TSA Is Now ICE's Airport Snitch, and Agents Call Travelers 'Easy Targets'
An ICE source just told CBS News, out loud, on the record, that travelers at U.S. airports are "easy targets" for immigration arrests. The Transportation...
Fed Defies Trump Again, Holds Rates as He Demands World's Lowest
Donald Trump stood in front of reporters on Monday and declared that the United States "should have the lowest rates in the world." Two days later, the Federal...
Trump's $22B Dulles Makeover Includes Gold-Mirrored Ceilings
Donald Trump has personally reviewed 3D models from competing contractors and signed off on a $22 billion plan to rebuild Washington Dulles International...
Ohio GOP Gov Tells Truth About Haiti, Gets Eaten Alive By His Own Side
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine looked at the situation in Haiti, looked at the 30,000 Haitian TPS holders living and working in his state, and said the quiet part...
The Novel China Wants You to Hate Just Won the Booker Prize
A novel about Japanese colonial-era Taiwan just won the most prestigious literary prize in the world, and China is losing its mind about it. The book is a love...
DOJ Asked Sammy 'The Bull' and ChatGPT to Prove Seashells Are a Murder Plot
The United States Department of Justice, unable to confirm that the number 86 implies violence, consulted ChatGPT, Google AI, and a confessed murderer of...
Trump Wants Senate to Pass Another Megabill Before August Vacation
The ink is barely dry on the last catastrophic megabill and the White House is already back at the Senate's door with another one. According to Axios, Trump...
The Fed's Crystal Ball Is Broken and AI Broke It
The people in charge of keeping the global economy from flying into a mountain just got told that their instruments might not work anymore. According to a new...
Yes, Hospitals Can Still Send You to Collections — Here's What They Won't Tell You
The hospital saved your life. Now it wants its money, and it will absolutely hand your debt to a collections agency if you don't come up with a plan. Recent...
Howard Dumped 500 Black Students Weeks Before Move-In Day
Howard University sent disenrollment notices to 502 incoming freshmen, roughly 20% of its entire incoming class, just weeks before the August 11 move-in date....
Democrats Tour Texas Detention Holding a 2-Month-Old, Call Conditions 'Inhumane'
A group of House Democrats visited an ICE family detention center in Dilley, Texas on Tuesday and came out calling the conditions inhumane, citing a...
Trump Vows to 'Beat the F---ing S--- Out of' Iran as Dow Drops 700
Iran fired ballistic missiles at US military positions in Jordan overnight, and President Trump responded Wednesday morning by telling Fox News, on camera,...
BTS Tells the Grammys to Keep Their Trophy
The Recording Academy spent last month patting itself on the back for creating new 'Asian pop' categories at the Grammys, a bold inclusivity move that managed...
Rebel Wilson Can't Explain Why Her Company Appears in Website Smear Metadata
Rebel Wilson was shown metadata in an Australian courtroom indicating that her own production company, Camp Sugar, was listed as one of the authors of a...
Free Childcare Is Winning Elections and Republicans Have No Answer
For fifty years, Republicans killed universal childcare by calling it a threat to "family values," and Democrats mostly let them. Then the cost of daycare blew...