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...
Trump Fires the Entire Election Watchdog Board 4 Months Before Midterms
Four months out from the midterm elections, Donald Trump just fired the entire leadership of the federal agency responsible for certifying voting systems and...
ICE Killed the Wrong Man. No Body Cams. Now They're Blaming Democrats.
ICE agents in Houston shot and killed a man on his way to work Tuesday morning. He had lived in the United States for 35 years, had no criminal record, and was...
His Wife 'Fell Overboard.' Feds Think She Made It Back to the Boat.
Brian Hooker told authorities his wife bounced off a dinghy in the dark waters off the Bahamas and was swept away. The Coast Guard now thinks she may have made...
DCCC Burns Donor Cash on Primaries Again, and Democrats Are Furious
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, fresh off a string of questionable primary interventions this cycle, has decided the obvious solution is to do...
Ed Dept Tries to Calm Disability Advocates, Makes Everything Worse
The Trump administration invited disability rights advocates onto a private call Thursday to reassure them that gutting special education oversight was,...
Trump's Arch Commission Chair Says Federal Height Law Doesn't Apply to Federal Buildings
The Trump administration is building a 250-foot arch near the National Mall and has landed on a creative legal theory to get around the 115-year-old federal...
Patrick Dempsey Won't Save Maine Democrats, So Who Will?
An oyster farmer won Maine's Democratic primary by the biggest margin in state history, then got taken out by a sexual assault allegation. The actor from...
OpenAI Loses Its Head of Product to a Chronic Illness That Rarely Gets Taken Seriously
OpenAI just lost one of its most powerful executives, not to a better offer or a boardroom coup, but to a chronic illness that millions of people have and that...
Trump on Rape Accuser: 'It's Really a Question of Whether You Believe the Woman'
Donald Trump, a man with his own extensive bibliography of sexual misconduct allegations, climbed aboard Air Force One on Wednesday and offered his hot take on...
MIT Built a Robot Puffin That Flies, Swims, and Launches Out of the Water in Under a Second
Scientists at MIT built a robot the size of a seabird that can fly through the air, swim through the ocean, and launch itself out of the water using nothing...
Trump Held a Housing Bill Hostage and Prices Just Hit $440K
The median price of an existing home in America is now $440,660, an all-time record, and the price has gone up for 36 consecutive months. Congress actually...
DHS Will Yank Billions in Safety Grants From States That Won't Audit Voter Rolls
The Department of Homeland Security has figured out a creative new way to bully states into compliance with Trump's election security agenda: hold disaster...
Maine Dems Scramble for Senate Seat After Assault Accusation Torches Their Nominee
Maine Democrats had a Senate candidate. Then a sexual assault accusation happened. Now they have until July 27 to find a replacement to take on Susan Collins,...
Trump Blew Up the Iran Deal. Now He Needs Someone to Unblur It.
Donald Trump declared the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding dead, ordered two rounds of airstrikes, and announced the ceasefire was 'over.' Now, according...
LA Hired the Firm That Cleared East Palestine to Test Their Air
After a half-million-square-foot warehouse burned for a week in Los Angeles, the company that owns it hired a firm to test the air and tell everyone it was...
Eight Charged for Plot to Blow Up Trump's White House UFC Show
Someone allegedly tried to fly explosive drones into a UFC cage-fighting show staged on the White House lawn and then shoot people as they ran for their lives....
DOJ Let Alibaba Walk on Felonies for $600M and a Pinky Promise
Federal prosecutors had enough evidence to prove felony violations against Alibaba for letting dangerous drugs, chemicals, and pill presses flow to American...
81% Chance of Historic El Niño and It's Already Breaking Records
The National Weather Service just handed us a number that should make everyone put down their phones and pay attention: an 81% chance that a historic El Niño,...
Japan Spends a Year Saving a Tree's Roots Before Moving It. America Just Cuts Them Down.
Japan sometimes spends over a year preparing the root system of a single ancient tree before moving it out of the path of development. Not cutting it down....
Israel Killed the Man Organizing Gaza's World Cup Parties
Mohamed Al-Wahidi spent the 2026 World Cup giving Palestinians something almost incomprehensibly precious under the circumstances: a reason to sit together,...
White House Calls the Smithsonian 'Radical' in 162-Page July 4th Tantrum
On the Fourth of July, while most Americans were burning hot dogs and watching fireworks, the Trump White House's Domestic Policy Council released a 162-page...
Dog Wins Standoff That Took Cops Over an Hour
Human police officers spent over an hour trying to get a man out of a car in a San Bernardino strip mall parking lot. Then they sent the dog, and the whole...
Congress Tells RFK Jr.: Make Sure Hospices Aren't Pressuring Sick People to Die
A bipartisan group of members of Congress sent a letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week warning that elderly people, disabled people, and...
EPA Kills Rule That Made Dirty Trucks Clean Up Their Act
The Trump EPA just proposed gutting the rules that force heavy-duty trucks to actually keep their pollution controls working, and its own math says the move...
Trump Posts Iran Strike Memes While Scrambling to End the War He Started
The United States is actively bombing Iran, and the President of the United States is posting memes about it. According to Axios, while fresh American strikes...
AIPAC Spent Millions to Bury Cori Bush. She's Back.
Two years ago, AIPAC poured money into Missouri's 1st Congressional District and knocked Cori Bush out of Congress. Now she's running again, AIPAC is spending...
DOJ Killed Baby Formula Criminal Case While Abbott's Law Firm Did Pro-Bono Work for Trump
Federal prosecutors wanted felony charges. The assistant attorney general of the DOJ's own Criminal Division backed them up. And then senior leadership at the...
Secret Service Told Trump Not to Fly His Qatari Gift Jet Out of a War Zone
The Secret Service advised President Trump to leave Turkey on the old Air Force One instead of his shiny new Qatari-gifted jet, because the $400 million plane...
Kirk Shooter Told Roommate He Regretted It the Next Day
The man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk told his roommate the day after the shooting that he wished he hadn't done it, according to recordings played...
Grok Made 7,000 Child Abuse Images From One Photo. SpaceXAI Told Nobody.
A stepfather used Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to generate approximately 7,000 sexually explicit images and videos of his stepdaughter from a single photograph...
U.S. Drone Tech Is Guiding Ukraine's Strikes Deep Into Russia
While the Trump administration was busy pulling U.S. intelligence support from Ukraine last year, an American defense company's surveillance drones quietly...
Charlie Kirk's Widow Begs Judge to Show All Evidence Before Conspiracy Theories Do
The widow of Charlie Kirk walked into a Utah courtroom to watch evidence presented in her husband's murder case and was reportedly denied a clear view of some...
Microsoft's Emissions Up 25% While It Tells You to Save the Planet
Microsoft has a climate pledge. Microsoft also has a 25% increase in greenhouse gas emissions, per its own environmental report released this week. Those two...
California Colleges Stockpile AR-15s and 'Voice of God' Weapons, Then Hide the Paperwork
California public universities are sitting on stockpiles of AR-15s, stun grenades, and sonic weapons so loud the military calls them the 'Voice of God' -- and...
Meta's New Patent Would Log Every Sigh and Laugh You Make
Mark Zuckerberg's company has filed a patent for a wearable AI device that would listen for your sighs, log your laughter, and note what time you take your...
Olympian Charged for Touching Trump's $14M Reflecting Pool Disaster
The Trump administration just spent $14 million renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, watched it immediately fill up with algae and peeling paint,...
Air Force Tells 135 Troops They Got Promoted, Then Takes It Back
The United States Air Force called 135 service members, told them they had earned promotions, and then called them back to say never mind. The culprit,...
The Stocks That Carried the Market Are Now Eating It
For the first half of 2026, a specific class of high-flying stocks did most of the heavy lifting for the broader market rally. Now, according to Axios, those...
NYC Has Gone Subtropical and Now 28 People Have Legionnaires'
New York City's own health commissioner just stood up and said, out loud, that New York is now a subtropical climate, and the proof is 28 people on the Upper...
ICE Has Now Fatally Shot 10 People in 18 Months. No Accountability Yet.
A 52-year-old man kissed his dog goodbye, packed the meal his wife made him, picked up three coworkers, and drove to a construction site. ICE shot him dead...
Queens Man Arrested With 2 Extra Molotovs After Firebombing Two Churches
A 36-year-old man in Queens spent his Wednesday night firebombing two separate religious buildings less than a mile apart, and when police caught up with him,...
Iran Stashed 300 Killer Drones in Cuba Before the War Even Started
So while the U.S. and Iran were busy blowing each other's proxies up across the Middle East, Tehran apparently found the time to quietly park 300 kamikaze...
U.S. Strikes Iran's Nuclear Plant Perimeter While Trump Says Tehran 'Wants a Deal'
The United States hit the area surrounding Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant on Thursday, Iranian state media reported, while President Trump told the...
Trump's Iran War Is Accidentally Saving the Planet
Donald Trump bombed his way into an accidental climate policy. Four months into the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, countries across Asia and Africa are abandoning...
Maine Dems Scramble for Nominee After Senate Pick Quits Over Assault Allegations
Maine Democrats had a Senate candidate. Then they had a sexual assault scandal. Now they have until July 27 to figure out who the hell is going to take on...
AI Arms Race Goes Full Cold War as US and China Both Eye the Kill Switch
Here's a sentence you didn't expect to read today: the United States and China have found something they agree on, and it's that maybe nobody should have...
Your 'No Income Tax' State Is Still Taking Your Money, Moron
You moved to Florida or Texas specifically to escape income taxes, and you have told everyone about it at least twice. Here is the thing they didn't put in the...
Mbappé's Team Is Flying on ICE's Deportation Airline
Kylian Mbappé has spent years positioning himself as one of soccer's loudest voices against the far right, calling anti-immigration politicians "catastrophic"...
Harvard Doctors Want Surgeons to Kill Patients Mid-Transplant
A Harvard Medical School physician and bioethicist has published a formal proposal in the New England Journal of Medicine arguing that surgeons should be...