Maine Dem Drops Out, Signs Off With 'F*ck ICE. Free Palestine.'
Graham Platner filed his official withdrawal from Maine's Senate race on Thursday, two days after announcing he was out following rape allegations from a...
Fetterman and His Republican BFF Just Opened a Joint Bank Account
John Fetterman and Republican senator Dave McCormick have officially opened a joint fundraising committee together, because apparently crossing the aisle to...
Afghanistan's Ex-Deputy Speaker Sold the DEA 2kg of Meth, Then Asked for 3 Days to Deliver RPGs
A man who served as deputy speaker of Afghanistan's National Assembly and as a general in its paramilitary Border Force was arrested and charged Friday with...
Iran Keeps Shooting at Ships. Trump Wants Them to Say Sorry.
The United States signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran three weeks ago, apparently under the assumption that Iran would, at minimum, stop shooting at...
Trump Picks 'Climate Alarmism' YouTuber to Run America's Climate Report
The Trump administration has appointed a man who calls himself a 'professor-in-exile,' makes videos for PragerU, and believes climate scientists are 'selling...
Iran Told Trump: 'We Screwed Up' After Shooting at Ships in Hormuz
Iran's government privately walked up to Trump's team, hat in hand, and said the quiet part out loud: "We screwed up. We made a mistake. Let's keep talking."...
Trump Just Made It Legal to Bulldoze Endangered Species Out of Existence
The Trump administration just quietly repealed the part of the Endangered Species Act that protected where animals actually live, eat, and raise their young....
NEA Killed a Mexican Folk Music Grant, Then Funded It Again After the Band Agreed to Sing About Reagan
The National Endowment for the Arts rescinded a $20,000 grant from a Chicago Mexican folk music ensemble because corridos weren't patriotic enough. Then the...
ICE Killed a Man With No Criminal Record. Their Cameras Were Off.
A man who had lived in the United States for nearly 35 years, had no criminal history, and was on his way to a construction job got shot and killed by ICE...
Trump Is Turning the White House Into a Bunker and Calling It a Reno
The White House is getting a new front door. And new fences. And fortified walls. And scaffolding that will be up for months. Call it what you want, but when...
Ryanair Passenger's Head Was Literally Outside the Plane at 30,000 Feet
A 61-year-old man's head and shoulders were outside a Ryanair airplane window somewhere over North Macedonia on Friday morning before fellow passengers...
1,173 Lbs of Cocaine Found Hiding in a Cabbage Shipment at Texas Border
Someone looked at a truckload of cabbage crossing the Texas border and thought: perfect. Nearly 1,200 pounds of cocaine, 477 packages, stuffed inside a...
Pentagon Drops UFO Footage of Star-Shaped Object Over Yellow Sea
The United States government has released infrared military footage of a six-pointed star-shaped object flying over the Yellow Sea, and the official...
Rubio Deports Man His Victim Forgave Because Minnesota Pardoned Him
The Trump administration just deported a man whose own victim wrote a letter asking the government to let him stay. Marco Rubio announced Friday that Tou Lue...
ICE Shot a 52-Year-Old Construction Worker. No Body Cams. No Video.
A 52-year-old Mexican immigrant left his Houston home before dawn on Tuesday to pick up construction workers for a job site. Federal immigration agents...
Gas Was $2.98 Before Trump's Iran War. Now It's Climbing Again.
Before the United States started a war with Iran in late February, you were paying $2.98 a gallon for regular gas. This Friday, according to AAA, that number...
JD Vance's 72-Acre Estate Not Quite Enough, Needs Second Home
JD Vance, the man who wrote a whole book about the dignity of working-class struggle, is apparently finding it difficult to make do with his free 72-acre...
Trump Flies His Own Poop Home From Turkey Like Putin and Kim Jong Un
Donald Trump attended a NATO summit in Ankara this week, and when he boards his $400 million Air Force One to fly home, his luggage will include something that...
Mike Johnson Lost His 9th Floor Vote. His Own Party Did It.
Mike Johnson has been Speaker of the House for less than three years, and his own party has already killed nine of his floor votes. The latest one went down...
Trump Backs Russian Oil Tariffs as Ukraine Starts Winning
Something genuinely surprising happened this week: Donald Trump, the man who spent years treating Vladimir Putin like a pen pal he was too nervous to...
British MP Ann Widdecombe, 78, Found Dead at Home, Murder Probe Launched
Ann Widdecombe, the 78-year-old former British MP, prisons minister, reality television contestant, and Reform UK firebrand, was found dead in her home on the...
Andy Burnham Inherits Starmer's Mess and Trump's Contempt
Donald Trump once dismissed Andy Burnham as 'the mayor of a town.' Now that mayor is about to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and his first truly...
Trump's DOJ Is Racing to Release Biden's Private Tapes to the Heritage Foundation
The Trump Justice Department was, until a federal appeals court stepped in Friday, about to hand over Joe Biden's private recorded conversations to a...
Mortgage Rates Hit 6.5% and the Inflation Report Won't Save You
Back in early March, the average 30-year mortgage rate had fallen to 5.75%. That was a nice number. A hopeful number. The kind of number that makes people dust...
Fed Chair Warsh's Fix for Groupthink: Five Task Forces Full of Non-Fed People
The Federal Reserve, an institution that has spent decades perfecting the art of talking to itself, is about to hear from some people who have never worked...
Dead Broke: How Your Debt Can Loot Your Own Grave
Here's a fun thing nobody tells you at the estate planning seminar: dying doesn't make your debt disappear. It just makes it someone else's problem to sort...
Pentagon UFO Drop: A Nuke Plant Lockdown, a 28-Year Vet Stumped, and a Six-Pointed Star Over the Yellow Sea
The Pentagon dropped 40 new UFO files on Friday and buried inside them is a story about an unidentified object buzzing a nuclear weapons facility in Texas...
Texas Dem Running for AG: Giving Musk 99% of $110M in Grants 'Sure Looks Like' Corruption
A Texas Democrat is putting something genuinely unusual on the ballot this November: an investigation into Elon Musk. Nathan Johnson, who won the Democratic...
Feds Charge 15 Minneapolis Protesters With Conspiracy for Alerting Neighbors to ICE
The Trump Department of Justice has indicted 15 Minneapolis residents for the crime of telling their neighbors where ICE agents were. One person in a...
Delta CEO: High Airfares Are 'Sustainable' Even After Oil Drops
Delta CEO Ed Bastian went on CNBC Friday and said the quiet part loud: even if oil prices fall, he expects high airfares to stick around. The average domestic...
Trump Screamed at NATO, Got a Standing Ovation, and Somehow That's the Point
Donald Trump showed up to the NATO summit, told allied leaders he was "very disappointed" in them, demanded Greenland, insulted Spain, and declared that the...
They Stole a City: The 1898 Coup America Still Won't Reckon With
In 1898, a group of white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina overthrew a democratically elected multiracial government, murdered Black residents in the...
Elton John Was Gay-Coding Your Radio Since 1972 and You Had No Idea
A new book argues that Elton John spent the entire early 1970s hiding in plain sight, stuffing queer longing into chart-topping hits that millions of straight...
Democrats Rallied Behind a Rape Apologist Because He Owned a Boat
Graham Platner, the Maine oyster farmer Democrats were ready to send to the United States Senate, suspended his campaign this week after a woman he once dated...
ICE Shot the Wrong Man Dead. He Was Driving to Work.
A 52-year-old man drove himself and three coworkers to a construction site in Houston on Tuesday morning and was shot dead by federal immigration agents who,...
Netanyahu Wants 70% of Gaza. The Crowd Wanted 100%. He Said 'Let's Go.'
There is technically a ceasefire in Gaza. There has been one since October. And yet, per NPR's on-the-ground reporting, Israeli tanks are shelling residential...
Charlie Kirk Murder Trial Hinges on DNA, a Rooftop, and a Roommate Who Talked
A judge is now sitting with a pile of evidence that includes a DNA match on a murder weapon, rooftop surveillance footage, and a former roommate who says the...
Nigel Farage Is Running Against a Man Dressed as a Trash Can
Nigel Farage, the man who helped blow up the European Union and spent years cosplaying as a working-class hero while cashing checks from billionaires, has...
Texas Has $27B Sitting Around But Won't Spend $1.3B to Stop Cooking Prisoners Alive
A Texas prison cell hit 149 degrees Fahrenheit. Inmates are lying in spilled toilet water on concrete floors just to feel something other than their own organs...
Manhattan Gained More New Residents Than Anywhere in America and Still Lost $922M
Manhattan pulled off a genuinely impressive feat between 2022 and 2023: it attracted more new tax filers than any other county in the entire country, and...
Trump Fires the Whole Election Commission While Iran and Israel Simmer
The United States struck 170 targets in Iran over two days, Iran shot back at U.S. bases in the Gulf, and then both sides apparently decided to take a...
Trump Spent $3.8B Killing Wind and Saving Coal. Your Power Bill Is the Point.
The Trump administration has spent $2.7 billion in taxpayer money to kill offshore wind projects and another $1.125 billion to keep coal on life support, and...
Dr. Oz Says Blue States Turned Medicaid Fraud Into a 'Feature.' Sure, Mehmet.
The guy who sold miracle weight loss supplements on daytime television for fifteen years would like you to know that blue state governors are running a...
ICE Killed the Wrong Man. No Body Cams. Brother Still Detained.
ICE agents in Houston shot and killed a man on his way to work Tuesday morning, and the Department of Homeland Security has since confirmed he was not the...
Taliban Bans Smartphones After Protest Video Goes Viral
The Taliban have banned smartphones for government employees, judges, police, and military personnel across Afghanistan, after video of their own forces...
ICE Killed the Wrong Man in Houston. He'd Lived Here 35 Years.
Federal immigration agents in Houston pulled over the wrong van, shot the driver in the abdomen, and watched him die at a hospital hours later. The two people...
Trump Called Iran's Leaders 'Scum' at NATO, and That's Not Even the Weirdest Part
Donald Trump showed up to the NATO summit in Ankara, called Iranian leaders 'scum,' ordered US warplanes to bomb targets along the Strait of Hormuz, threatened...
FCC May Kill School Internet Program Over 'Too Much Screen Time'
The FCC is reviewing whether to gut or eliminate E-Rate, the federally mandated program that has connected nearly every school and library in America to the...
Maine Dems Need a Logger, Not Another Suit
Graham Platner just blew a hole in Maine's Senate race by dropping out, and the Democratic Party now has a choice: find someone who actually speaks to...
DSA Wants to Abolish the Senate and Let Congress Pick the President
The Democratic Socialists of America are about to drop a platform update that would abolish the U.S. Senate, eliminate the independently elected presidency,...
Two U.S. Vultures Circle EasyJet in $7.7B Bidding War
Two American private equity firms are currently in a bidding war over a British budget airline that just reported a 27 percent deepening of its losses. Nothing...
Trump Says He'd Be 'The Greatest Communist in History'
Donald Trump, standing at a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, told the world that communism is the greatest threat America has faced since its founding and then,...
AI Is Making a Few People Gods and Everyone Else Slightly Less Annoyed at Their Inbox
While a small group of power users are using AI to conjure entire companies out of thin air, most Americans are using it to avoid typing a full email. Axios is...
Sen. Markey Wants to Stop AI from Becoming a 'Pollution Bomb'
Senator Ed Markey has a message for the AI industry: the party is over, or at least it should be. The 79-year-old Massachusetts Democrat just unveiled a...
Waymo Snitched on Two 15-Year-Olds and the Privacy Nightmare Is Just Getting Started
A driverless car called the cops on its own passengers. That sentence is real, it happened in San Mateo, California this week, and it is either completely...
EasyJet Dumps £5.2bn Suitor After Bigger One Flashes £5.7bn
EasyJet just ghosted one American suitor for a richer American suitor, and the whole thing took less than 72 hours. The Luton-based budget airline agreed in...
Bear Breaks Into Alaska Mall, Steals a Peach, Craps on the Floor, Leaves
A black bear walked into a shopping mall on a military base in Anchorage, Alaska on Sunday morning, stole a peach from the grocery store, ate it, defecated in...
Ebola Is Spreading Into New Congo Regions With No Vaccine and 600 Dead
Six hundred people are dead, 1,759 confirmed cases are on the books, and a strain of Ebola with no approved vaccine and no approved treatment is now showing up...
U.S. Bombs Iran While Burying Its Supreme Leader, Hits Bridge on the Funeral Route
The United States launched airstrikes on 90 targets inside Iran on Thursday, including, per the Revolutionary Guard, two bridges on the route to Mashhad where...
Trump EPA Guts Truck Pollution Rules, Calls It $12B Gift to Families
The Trump administration announced this week it wants to gut Biden-era heavy-duty truck emissions rules, promising the move will save the trucking industry...