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...
Phillies' Interim Manager Wants the Real Job, and His Son Gets to Decide
The Philadelphia Phillies fired their manager in April, replaced him with his bench coach on an interim basis, went on one of the best runs in baseball, and...
Egypt Says World Cup Refs Were Rigged for Messi. FIFA Disagrees.
Egypt came back from the future to 2-0 up against Argentina in the World Cup round of 16, then watched Argentina score three goals in thirteen minutes, and...
Kirk Murder Suspect's Roommate Got Immunity After 'I Am, I'm Sorry' Texts
Before Tyler Robinson turned himself in to a Utah sheriff's office, he had already texted his roommate a confession. The roommate, it turns out, had also found...
Burger King Is Charging $18 for a Bacon Sandwich and Chili's Is Done Being Polite About It
Somewhere out there, a Burger King franchise is charging $18.19 for a Bacon King meal, and a stranger on the internet had the audacity to post the receipt....
Trump Fled Turkey on Old Plane With Blinds Down While Iran Had Missiles Pointed at Him
The President of the United States flew home from a NATO summit with the window blinds down, on a backup plane, because his shiny new $400 million jet...
Nearly 1,000 Michiganders Have a Poop Parasite and Nobody Knows Why
Nearly a thousand people in Michigan are currently dealing with a parasitic infection that causes, and we are quoting the CDC here, "frequent and sometimes...
Man Walked Out of UCLA Library With $216K in Ancient Chinese Manuscripts By Swapping Them With Fakes
A California man spent roughly seven months swapping priceless ancient Chinese manuscripts from UCLA's rare book collection with hand-crafted fakes, flying...
Trump Accounts Are Real Now. Here's What to Know Before You Sign Up.
As of this past weekend, you can open a federally branded investment account for your child, watch it grow in the stock market, and eventually let them spend...
Maine's Democratic Senate Hope Quits 48 Hours After Sexual Assault Allegation
Graham Platner, the oysterman-turned-Marine who somehow beat a sitting governor to become Democrats' nominee for Maine's Senate seat, is done. Forty-eight...
Baldoni Breaks Silence With 'Gratitude' Video While Lively's Team Chases $8M in Legal Fees
Justin Baldoni, the man currently staring down an $8 million legal fee request from Blake Lively's attorneys, has broken his 13-month Instagram silence to post...
Europe's Deadliest June Ever: 1,300 Dead, 11,000 Acres Burning, and We're Just Getting Started
More than 1,300 people died from heat across Europe in the last ten days of June alone. Wildfires chewed through over 11,000 acres of southern France. People...
ICE Shot a Texas Dad on His Way to Work. His Family Found Out From the News.
A 52-year-old construction worker named Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston on Tuesday morning while on his way to pick up...
Ivanka and Jared's Albanian Beach Resort Is Causing a Revolution
Albania is in the middle of its biggest political crisis since the fall of communism, and the inciting incident is a luxury mega-resort backed by Jared Kushner...
Day Two: U.S. Bombs Iran Again, This Time Wider
The United States bombed Iranian military targets for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, and this time the strikes were bigger. Bandar Abbas. Sirik....
Trump Blew Up the Iran Ceasefire and Now Inflation Is Back on the Menu
The ceasefire with Iran lasted about as long as a Trump press conference apology. President Trump declared it over, the U.S. military hit dozens of targets...
Trump's Memphis Taskforce Has Now Killed 4 People in 2 Months
Four people are dead in two months, and the body count keeps climbing. Federal agents with Donald Trump's Memphis Safe Task Force shot and killed a man at an...
Trump Blew Up the Iran Ceasefire and Now Gas Prices Are Going Up Again
Two days after the Dow Jones hit a record high, Trump declared the Iran ceasefire over, the U.S. military attacked dozens of targets along the Iranian...
Court Tells Trump His Name Stays Off Kennedy Center
A federal appeals court just told Donald Trump he cannot put his name back on the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts while his legal fight plays out. The...
SCOTUS Gutted Voting Rights. Now Trump Wants Your Birth Certificate.
The Supreme Court spent its spring session systematically dismantling the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Donald Trump watched that happen and thought: great...
DOJ Threatens to Criminally Charge State Election Officials Over a Problem That Doesn't Exist
The Department of Justice just threatened to criminally prosecute election officials in all 50 states and DC for allowing noncitizens to vote. There is no...
Meta's AI Datacenter Pumped Bacteria Into Wyoming's Water Supply
Mark Zuckerberg's company is building a massive AI datacenter in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and its contractor's idea of being a 'good neighbor' apparently included...
Trump Promises Ukraine Patriot Licenses, Forgets to Tell Lockheed Martin
Donald Trump stood next to Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit in Ankara on Wednesday and announced that the United States will license Ukraine to build its...
Trump's $3.8B Lawsuit Against WaPo Tossed by His Own Appointee
Donald Trump sued the Washington Post for $3.8 billion over a story linking his social media startup to a bank that specialized in processing payments for...
Man Lived 8 Years in National Forest With 1,000 Lbs of Trash, Got Probation
An Arizona man spent eight years building what can only be described as a garbage kingdom inside a protected national forest, racking up six federal arrest...
America's Cheapest Theme Park Costs Less Than a Round of Drinks at Disney
While Disney World is busy charging families north of $300 to stand in line for three hours in the Florida heat, a 118-year-old amusement park in Connecticut...
Accused Dem Senate Nominee Still Won't Quit, Now Trying to Pick His Own Replacement
Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, is facing a sexual assault allegation he denies, demands to withdraw from Bernie Sanders, Chuck...
Ex-DHS Chief Says Chinese Cartels Run 80% of Oklahoma's Weed Farms
Here is a sentence you did not expect to read today: according to the White House's own 2026 National Drug Control Strategy, Chinese criminal organizations now...
ICE Deported a Vision-Impaired Dad. He Signed the Papers Without His Glasses.
Last summer, ICE agents in masks and body armor fanned out across Los Angeles and started making people disappear. One year later, the families left behind are...
Venezuela's Quake Survivors Are Sick, Homeless, and Inheriting a Healthcare System That Was Already Dead
Venezuela's June 24 earthquakes killed at least 3,535 people, left 18,000 homeless, and injured more than 16,700. Now, the survivors are fighting a second...
Anthropic Got Caught Spying on Chinese Users and Called It 'Abuse Prevention'
Here's a sentence you don't read every day: China caught an American AI company spying on its users, and the American AI company basically said, yeah, fair...