Both Red Panda Cubs Born at Santa Barbara Zoo This Summer Are Dead
Both red panda cubs born at the Santa Barbara Zoo this summer are dead. The second cub, pulled from his mother on July 19 after staff noticed he wasn't nursing...
Six Months Gone: Savannah Guthrie Begs Her Mom's Kidnappers for Answers
An 84-year-old woman who needs daily medication was kidnapped from her home near Tucson, Arizona, six months ago. Her daughter, NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie,...
Scientists Say Cities Are Blowing a $3-Per-Dollar Return by Ignoring Trees
Dozens of scientists just published a paper arguing that trees — yes, trees, the tall wooden things you walk past every morning without looking up — should be...
A Bird Extinct for 50 Years Is Back and Raising Chicks on Its Own
A bird that hadn't nested in one of India's most famous wildlife reserves since the 1960s just bred successfully for the fourth year running, without any human...
Rubio's State Dept. Blacklists AOC, Bernie, Amazon Workers as Cuban Agents
The State Department just published a 100-page report arguing that Ben & Jerry's ice cream guy, the Amazon Labor Union, and sitting members of the United...
Lindsay Clancy Trial Opens With Her Ex-Husband's Gut-Punch Testimony
Three dead children. A paralyzed mother in a wheelchair at the defendant's table. And a father on the witness stand trying to explain why he thought things...
Hegseth Gutted the Pentagon's Civilian Casualty Team From 40 to 9 People Then Bombed a School
Pete Hegseth dismantled the Pentagon's civilian protection unit, slashed its staff by 77 percent, and scrapped the database used to track civilian deaths in...
Google Is Quietly Deleting Thousands of ICE Detention Reviews
Thousands of people detained by ICE, or their desperate family members, took the time to leave Google Maps reviews of immigration detention facilities...
House Republicans Subpoena Breakthrough News, Proving They've Run Out of Ideas
The Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee has issued a subpoena to Breakthrough News, a left-leaning independent media outlet, because apparently the...
Tribal Nations Built AI Moratoriums While Governors Were Still Googling 'Data Center'
New York Governor Kathy Hochul made national headlines on July 14 when she signed a one-year pause on data center construction, becoming the first governor in...
Idaho Killer Wants a Do-Over, Claims Innocent After DNA, Video, and a Knife Sheath Disagreed
Bryan Kohberger stabbed four college students to death, left his DNA at the scene, pleaded guilty, and is now serving four consecutive life sentences. So...
Biden Tapes Drop: 'I Just Found All the Classified Stuff Downstairs'
Joe Biden, on tape, in his own voice, telling his ghostwriter "I just found all the classified stuff downstairs" like he'd stumbled across a box of old VHS...
Wisconsin Tornado Flips Cars, Shreds Roofs, Knocks Out Power to 30,000
At 12:20 in the afternoon on Monday, the sky over northeastern Wisconsin went black as midnight. Then the roofs started coming off. A tornado confirmed by the...
Canadians Canceled the U.S. and It's Costing Billions
Canadians decided they'd rather not, thanks. After two years of tariffs, trade threats, and being told their entire country is basically a future American...
D4vd Going to Trial for Stabbing, Dismembering 14-Year-Old Fan He'd Abused Since She Was 13
A Los Angeles judge ruled Monday that singer D4vd, born David Anthony Burke, will stand trial for the murder, sexual abuse, and dismemberment of 14-year-old...
Trump's Spy Chief Pick Advances While the Actual Spy Program Sits Dark
America's most important counter-terrorism surveillance program has gone dark for the first time in its history, the guy tapped to run it couldn't say who won...
GOP Gov Calls Trump's Haiti Deportation Blitz 'A Mistake' That Sends People 'Back to Hell'
A Republican governor just looked at the Trump administration's plan to deport 300,000 Haitians and said, out loud, that it sends people 'back to hell.' Ohio...
Every AI Giant Signed the Open-Source Letter. Anthropic Didn't.
Every major player in artificial intelligence signed a letter asking Washington to keep its hands off open-weight AI models. Nvidia signed it. Microsoft signed...
Georgia Teen Stormed Capitol With Loaded Shotgun to 'Scare Congress Into Truth'
An 18-year-old from Smyrna, Georgia drove to the U.S. Capitol in February with a loaded shotgun, body armor, camouflage gear, a gas mask, and a Kevlar helmet,...
Nvidia Is Financing OpenAI While Selling It Chips. Yes, Both.
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to provide $250 billion in financing for a $500 billion OpenAI data center in Ohio, a project so large it would consume enough...
MIT Study: 20% Chance AI Kills Millions Within 5 Years
One in five. That is the probability that artificial intelligence develops dangerous weapons capabilities or causes mass harm killing millions of people within...
Authors Won $1.5B From Anthropic. AI Can Still Read Your Book.
Anthropic just agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle with authors whose work it used to train its AI models, which sounds like a massive win until you read the...
The Same Small Businesses That Beat Trump in Court Are Suing Him Again
You would think that losing a tariff case at the Supreme Court might give a president pause. You would be wrong. The same small businesses that already dragged...
Comey's Lawyers Use Trump's Own Words to Sink the Seashell Case
The Trump Justice Department is trying to send a former FBI director to trial over a beach photo. Comey's lawyers just fired back with the most satisfying...
Washington Buries Lindsey Graham, Its Most Exhausting Survivor
Lindsey Graham spent three decades outlasting every political moment that should have finished him, surviving Trump's insults, his own contradictions, and the...
McConnell, 84, Still Trapped in Rehab Six Weeks After Mystery Fall
Mitch McConnell has now been absent from the Senate for six weeks, missed 38 votes, and is still not medically cleared to leave his rehabilitation facility,...
Someone Shot at the US Consulate in Toronto. Again.
Someone fired a gun at the United States consulate in Toronto on Monday morning, the second time this has happened in less than five months. A white car with...
Cop Filmed Having Sex in School Blasted Others for 'Tainting the Badge'
A married Nashville police sergeant who filmed himself having sex with another officer inside a middle school — while children were in the building — went on a...
Fauci Called Trump 'Truly an Obnoxious Adolescent' in Secret Diary
Anthony Fauci kept a diary during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it turns out he was not a fan of his boss. The journal, released by Rand Paul in what was...
Fed May Hike Rates This Week With Zero Warning. That's New.
The Federal Reserve has spent the better part of thirty years building a reputation for being the most boringly predictable institution in American public...
Trump Paused Iran Bombing to Let Jared Kushner Do Diplomacy
The United States has paused its military strikes on Iran, and the man now helping steer the diplomatic fallout is Jared Kushner. Yes, that Jared Kushner. The...
Secret Service Agent Arrested for Frat Hazing That Left Victim Needing Skin Grafts
A Secret Service agent was arrested this weekend after allegedly spending several days beating college fraternity pledges with canes and paddles so severely...
Netanyahu and Zelenskyy Both Flying to DC to Beg Trump at a Funeral
Lindsey Graham isn't even in the ground yet and his funeral has already become the hottest diplomatic backroom in the world. Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodymyr...
Netanyahu Flies to DC in Secret After 13 Nights of US Airstrikes on Iran
Benjamin Netanyahu didn't exactly stroll through Ben Gurion Airport with his carry-on like a normal person. The Israeli Prime Minister flew out of a military...
Trump Tariffed 80 Countries to Fight Forced Labor. He's Lost 75,000 Factory Jobs.
Donald Trump this week imposed sweeping new tariffs on more than 80 countries, justified partly by concerns about forced labor abroad and partly, and this is...
The EEOC Just Voted to Stop Counting Workplace Discrimination
The federal agency responsible for fighting workplace discrimination just voted to stop systematically measuring it. No repeal of the Civil Rights Act...
Big Tech's 'Green' Cooling Uses Forever Chemicals the EPA May Rubber-Stamp
The tech industry has been bragging about its water-free datacenter cooling systems for years. Turns out the reason those systems don't use water is because...
13 Nights of Bombs, Then Trump Posts AI Art and Calls It Diplomacy
After 13 consecutive nights of US airstrikes on Iran and a tit-for-tat exchange that killed four American soldiers and dozens of Iranians, Donald Trump paused...
108 Astronauts Just Said America Is Failing Its Own Mission
When the people who have literally looked down at Earth from 250 miles up and seen a single, unified country decide to form a political action group because...
America's Top Spy Job Is Being Run by a Housing Guy
The United States currently has a housing finance regulator overseeing all 18 of its intelligence agencies. That sentence is not a joke, a hypothetical, or a...
Kalshi Calls 1849 Wisconsin Election Law 'Voter Suppression' So You Can Bet on Elections
A company worth billions of dollars looked at a Wisconsin law that has been on the books since before the Civil War, a law that simply says you cannot bet...
Elon Musk Calls Vigilante Murder of Refugees the 'Moderate Response'
Elon Musk, the world's richest person and owner of X, promoted a film about a vigilante who murders refugees and police officers across Europe, then reposted a...
Baltimore Is Rerouting 911 Calls Away From Cops to People Who Actually Help
A woman called 911 because she was in mental health crisis and wanted to go to the hospital. The last time she'd tried to get help on her own, a cop arrested...
185 Cases in One Sitting: How Trump's Courts Are Deporting People Who Never Showed Up
One immigration judge in Chicago handled 185 cases in a single sitting this summer. The previous typical load was about 20. This is not a court system...
US Fired 1,000+ Tomahawks Against Iran. It Only Bought 38 in 2025.
The United States military has fired over a thousand Tomahawk cruise missiles since a war with Iran started in February. The Pentagon bought 38 of them in the...
Trump's 'Anti-Crime' Memphis Task Force Was an ICE Raid All Along
Trump launched an anti-crime task force in Memphis last fall, loudly promising to crack down on 'dangerous career criminals.' Nobody mentioned immigration....
Jeffries: Republicans Have 'Nothing to Run On' With 18 Dead and Gas Prices Exploding
One hundred days out from the midterms, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went on CNN and said the quiet part loud: Republicans have nothing to run on...
Canadian TikToker, 49, Chose Her Own Death Before Alzheimer's Could
Rebecca Luna was 49 years old, had 90,000 followers, a wicked sense of humor, and a body that was failing her in the cruelest way imaginable. Last Saturday,...
Dear Abby Just Retired After 39 Years and Didn't Even Make It the Main Story
Jeanne Phillips, the woman who has been dispensing wisdom to tens of millions of Americans under the name Dear Abby for nearly four decades, announced her...
ICE Deported a Brain-Damaged Ex-NFL Player. Called Him 'Dangerous.'
A man who doctors described as 'acutely psychotic with traumatic brain injury' was deported by ICE in June, and the agency would like you to know it's very...
Democrats Need 4 Senate Seats. Here's Why That's Still a Coin Flip.
The 2026 midterm Senate map is taking shape, and the answer to whether Democrats can actually claw back control is: maybe, sort of, possibly, who knows....
Gunfire Erupts at Seattle's Bite of Seattle Food Festival
People came to Seattle Center on Sunday to eat dumplings and drink craft beer on the last day of the city's beloved Bite of Seattle food festival. Some of them...
Lake Mead and Powell Hit Record Lows While States Fight Over the Last Drop
America's two largest reservoirs are at the lowest levels ever recorded, seven states are deadlocked over who has to drink less, and the Trump administration...
Usher Kicked a Fan Off His Stage for Not Wanting to Fake-Seduce Him
A woman went to see Usher in Nashville, got upgraded to VIP before the show even started, got pulled onstage in front of thousands of people, and then got...