US Bombs Iran Again After Ship Attack, Iran Hits Four Gulf Nations Back
The United States bombed 140 targets inside Iran on Sunday morning after Iran set a container ship ablaze and forced its crew to abandon it in the Strait of...
EU Spent €50bn Extra on Fossil Fuels During Crisis. Its Fix: Blank Target by 2040
The European Commission has a bold new plan to end Europe's crippling dependence on imported fossil fuels. The centerpiece of that plan is a binding...
Germany's EV Subsidy Panic: Less Than 15% Went to Chinese Cars
German politicians are so alarmed that Chinese electric vehicles might benefit from a new €3bn subsidy scheme that they want to rewrite the rules to block them...
EU May Fine Meta $12B for Deliberately Hooking 270M Users
The European Commission has looked at Facebook and Instagram, looked at infinite scroll and autoplay and personalized recommendations designed to keep you...
Belgian Climate Minister: No Action = Revolution. Europe, Take Note.
A sitting European government minister just used the word "revolution" to describe what happens if Europe doesn't get its act together on climate. That...
EU Weighs Cutting Off West Bank Settlement Goods as Settler Attacks Hit 6 Per Day
Six settler attacks per day. Two hundred communities hit. And the European Union is still calling them "options." Ahead of Monday's foreign ministers meeting...
This English Professor Has Been Gored Multiple Times and Cannot Stop Going Back
An English professor from Chicago has spent twenty years running directly at large, angry bulls in Spain, been gored at least twice, came within three inches...
NJ Firefighters Spent 40 Years Fighting Fires With Cancer in a Can
For roughly four decades, firefighters across New Jersey ran into burning buildings wearing PFAS-soaked gear and blasting PFAS-laced foam at the flames, then...
A Jefferson Draft Shows Franklin Rewrote 'Sacred' as 'Self-Evident' With a Pen Stroke
Benjamin Franklin read Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence and basically said, 'Nice try, let me fix that.' A rare copy of that draft,...
200 Kids Airlifted by Black Hawks After '1-in-1,000-Year' Flood Swamps Missouri Summer Camp
Eight military helicopters had to airlift more than 200 children out of a Missouri summer camp this week after overnight storms dropped up to 12 inches of rain...
Gunman Opens Fire at Toronto Salsa Festival, Kills 2 and Vanishes
Someone brought a gun to a salsa festival in Toronto on Saturday night and used it. At least two people are dead, four more are wounded, and as of this...
Die-Hard 49ers Fans Just Bought Their Biggest Rival for $9.6 Billion
Vinod Khosla and his family spent thirty years as San Francisco 49ers season ticket holders, cheered against the Seahawks every single time those teams met,...
England's World Cup Goal Shouldn't Have Counted. It Did.
England is in the World Cup semifinals. Jude Bellingham has six tournament goals. And one of those goals almost certainly should not have stood, because the...
Taco Bell Just Pulled the Guac and Nobody's Laughing
A parasite that causes, and we are quoting the CDC here, "frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements" has now infected nearly 3,000 Americans across 32...
The Guggenheim Has Legionnaires'. Yes, That Guggenheim.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, one of the most recognizable buildings on earth, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece that has...
The Only Successful Coup in U.S. History Was a White Supremacist One
Here's a fact that American history classes have spent over a century quietly skipping: the only successful coup in United States history was carried out by...
RFK Jr. Wants to Pay Out Covid Vaccine Injury Claims No Court Can Ever Review
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is using control of the Department of Health and Human Services to make it easier for people to collect government money for alleged...
Man Gets Gored in the Face at Running of the Bulls, Shocked Somehow
A man voluntarily ran in front of six bulls in a narrow cobblestone street in Spain on Saturday and got stabbed in the face by a horn. Twelve other people also...
Microsoft, Amazon, Google Now Emit a Third of France's Carbon. For Chatbots.
Microsoft, Amazon, and Google collectively belched 119 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere last year, roughly a third of the...
Armed Settlers Detained a U.S. Congressman in the West Bank. The IDF Took the Settlers' Side.
A sitting United States congressman was surrounded and detained by armed Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank last week, and when the Israeli Defense...
Babies Are Bleeding to Death and RFK Jr. Won't Say Three Words
Babies are being born, skipping a routine shot that costs almost nothing, and then bleeding into their brains and dying. The federal government isn't tracking...
Puerto Rico Agency Exposed 1M Social Security Numbers, Then Lied About It
A Puerto Rico government agency accidentally put roughly 1 million people's Social Security numbers on the open internet, no username or password required....
A Heat Dome Is About to Bake Two-Thirds of America for a Week
Las Vegas is about to hit 111 degrees Fahrenheit. North Dakota, a state where summer typically means pleasant 80-degree days, will be hotter than Phoenix. And...
Trump Lets Housing Bill Become Law Without His Signature to Own the Senate Over Voter ID
Donald Trump just let a bill that passed the Senate 85-to-5 become law without his signature, not because he opposes it, but because the Senate won't pass a...
DOJ Subpoenas NYT Reporters at Home Over Qatar Jet Story
Federal agents showed up at New York Times journalists' homes to hand-deliver subpoenas, because those reporters had the audacity to write about security...
Gas Hit $4.50 and Americans Just... Kept Driving
Global oil demand just posted its first annual decline since the darkest days of COVID-19 lockdowns, the International Energy Agency reported this week. China...
Trump Threatens to 'Decimate Iran' After Funeral Mourners Wave Kill-Trump Signs
Mourners at a dead supreme leader's funeral waved signs calling for the sitting U.S. president to be killed, and the sitting U.S. president responded by going...
Barbados PM Calls British 'Pay Us Back' Demand 'Asinine'
Suella Braverman, the anti-immigration hardliner who somehow keeps getting handed microphones, suggested this month that Britain's former colonies owe the...
2 Million Return to Khartoum. There's No Power, No Water, and Mines in the Streets.
Two million people have returned to Khartoum, the Sudanese capital that was torn apart street by street over the last three years of civil war. The Sudanese...
South Africa's Anti-Migrant Protesters Are About to Shoot Themselves in the Foot
South Africa spent June marching against the migrants who quietly prop up roughly 9% of its entire economy. Now those migrants are leaving. And the economists...
Cuba's Power Grid Has Collapsed Twice in Four Days and Trump's Oil Blockade Is Why
Cuba's entire national power grid went dark on July 10 at 4:30 in the afternoon. It was the second complete collapse of the island's electrical system in four...
Nearly 2 Million Flee as Typhoon Bavi Batters Taiwan and China
A typhoon that started life as a super typhoon slamming Guam has now sent nearly two million people running for their lives across China, while killing 18 in...
Indonesia's Top Graft Cop Busted With 74kg of Gold and $19M Cash
Indonesia's top anti-corruption prosecutor has resigned after police raided his home and found 74 kilograms of gold bars, $5.8 million in US dollars, and...
Markets Party While U.S.-Iran Ceasefire Burns to the Ground
Donald Trump announced Friday that the U.S.-Iran ceasefire is 'over,' both countries are trading military strikes in the Gulf, and the Strait of Hormuz is once...
Milei Books Far-Right World Tour, Says Whole Point Is Serving U.S. Interests
Argentina's chainsaw-wielding libertarian president just announced a multi-country tour of Latin America with a stated goal so brazen it would embarrass most...
A Million-Pound Steam Train Is Outselling Every News Story Right Now
In a summer where the news has been a relentless fire hose of catastrophe, a 133-foot, 1.2-million-pound steam locomotive is crossing the United States and...
Meta Killed Its Own AI Feature in 48 Hours After Hollywood Lost Its Mind
Meta spent roughly 48 hours pretending it had invented a great new AI image tool before Hollywood reminded them that automatically using people's photos...
El Niño Is Back and Could Be the Strongest Ever Recorded
The Bureau of Meteorology has officially declared El Niño active, and the models are not being subtle about it. Australia's peak forecasting body is now...
Cuba and U.S. Are Talking While Trump's Oil Blockade Starves the Island
Cuba's government has confirmed it is holding secret bilateral talks with the United States, which is a remarkable thing to do with the country that is...
GOP Senator Calls Democrats 'Hammer-and-Sickle' Party With Straight Face
A sitting U.S. senator went on Fox News this week and said, with total sincerity, that a 'hammer-and-sickle wave' is washing over the Democratic Party. The...
Judge: Ex-Overstock CEO's Iran Bribe Story About Hunter Biden Was 'Fabricated'
A federal judge just handed Hunter Biden $1.7 million in punitive damages after finding that the former CEO of Overstock.com essentially made up a story...
EPA Chief Won't Call Climate Deniers 'Deniers,' Has No Alternative
Lee Zeldin, the man currently dismantling the legal framework for every major federal climate regulation in the country, would really appreciate it if you...
Nigel Farage Quits Parliament Over Crypto Bribe, Runs Again Immediately
Nigel Farage resigned his seat in the British Parliament after reports emerged that he's under investigation for accepting a five million pound gift from a...
Trump Tricked Democratic Governors Into Deploying His D.C. Street Army
Democratic governors sent National Guard troops to Washington D.C. for a birthday party and somehow ended up providing armed neighborhood patrols for Donald...
Typhoon Bavi Forces 1.8M to Flee as It Bears Down on a City of 10 Million
A typhoon roughly the size of France is about to make landfall on a Chinese city of 10 million people, and China has already moved 1.8 million residents out of...
Too Scared to Dance? VR Will Now Humiliate You in Private
Wedding season is here, which means millions of Americans are currently staring down the barrel of a reception dance floor with the quiet desperation of a man...
Ann Widdecombe Found Murdered at Home, Suspect Released
Ann Widdecombe, 78-year-old former British MP, prisons minister, Brexit figurehead, and unlikely reality television icon, was found murdered in her rural Devon...
Mitch McConnell Has Been Hospitalized for a Month and Nobody Will Say Why
Mitch McConnell has been in a Washington-area hospital since June 14, emergency dispatch audio captured CPR being performed at his home, and his office's...
The Khaki Nazis Who Flooded D.C. on July 4th Praise Hitler in Private
Hundreds of masked men in matching khakis and blue shirts rode the Washington D.C. Metro on the Fourth of July, surrounded commuters, marched through the...
Russia Pelts Kyiv With 131 Missiles and Drones, Injures Child
Russia sent 131 missiles and drones screaming into Ukrainian airspace overnight Friday, hitting Kyiv hard enough to injure at least 10 people, including a...
Trump Aims 1,000 Missiles at Iran and Says 'PRAISE BE TO ALLAH'
Donald Trump logged onto Truth Social on Friday and typed what might be the single most unhinged foreign policy statement ever posted on a social media...
Spain's Super-Sub Does It Again, Belgium's Backup Goalie Gifts Him the World Cup
Mikel Merino had been on the field for exactly two touches when Belgium's backup goalkeeper handed him the World Cup quarterfinal. He scored. Of course he...
A Poop Parasite Is Tearing Through 31 States and Nobody Knows Why
A microscopic parasite that causes "frequent and sometimes explosive" diarrhea has spread across more than half of all US states, and health officials still...
Man Loses Hand Cleaning Up After Other People's Fireworks
A man doing something genuinely selfless -- picking up strangers' fireworks trash off a Northern California beach -- lost his left hand when one of those...
Trump Just Made It Legal to Bulldoze Endangered Species' Homes
The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday that guts one of the most important protections in American environmental law, narrowing the definition of...
Trump Refused to Sign a Housing Bill, So It Became Law Anyway at Midnight
Donald Trump refused to sign the largest housing affordability bill in decades, called it "a big yawn," and held it hostage over an unrelated voting bill that...
Randolph Mantooth, the TV Medic Who Made America Care About Paramedics, Dies at 80
Before every firefighter-themed drama that's ever made you cry on a Tuesday night, there was 'Emergency!' And before 'Emergency!' meant anything to anyone,...
Tokyo's Robot Cafe Is Staffed by Real Humans Who Can't Leave Home
There is a cafe in Tokyo where robots bring you your food, and before you spiral into a Black Mirror episode, stop. Every single one of those robots is being...
Judge Calls Trump's Jan. 6 Views 'Fiction,' Then Erases Proud Boys Convictions Anyway
A federal judge just wiped out the seditious conspiracy convictions of four Proud Boys leaders, and he did it while explicitly saying that Donald Trump's...
Trump's DHS Fixer Corey Lewandowski May Face Criminal Referral Over Contract Scheme
Corey Lewandowski, former Trump campaign manager and professional chaos agent, walked into the Department of Homeland Security as a "Special Government...