Your 401k Is a Tax Bomb With a Timer and It's Already Ticking
You did everything right. You saved for decades, skipped the avocado toast, maxed out the 401k, dreamed of a comfortable retirement. The government has a...
NJ Dad Says Cops Arrested Him for Wearing a Hoodie While Black
A Black father in Jackson Township, New Jersey says police pulled him over and arrested him on June 2nd for one reason: he was wearing a hoodie on a warm...
Ebola Is Killing People in Congo and the World Is Barely Watching
At least 140 people are dead from an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and that number is almost certainly an undercount. Aid agencies are...
Anthropic Quietly Kills Two AI Models on Secret Trump Order
Anthropic announced Friday it is shutting down access to two of its AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, because the Trump administration told it to. Why? What...
Solar Panels That Turn Seawater Into Drinking Water Also Mine Lithium For Free
Scientists at the University of Rochester have built a solar-powered desalination system that converts ocean water into fresh drinking water, produces zero...
The Tiny Radio Station Taking On ICE at New Jersey's Detention Hellhole
While right-wing influencers were outside Delaney Hall in Newark filming fistfights for clicks and DHS was busy insisting there was nothing to see inside, a...
Trump's Name Scraped Off Kennedy Center at 2 AM After DOJ Missed Deadline
At some point in the early hours of Saturday morning, while most of America slept, workers on scaffolding were scraping Donald Trump's name off the side of one...
Elon Musk Just Hit $1 Trillion While You Can't Afford Eggs
Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire, a number so large it requires its own unit of measurement and a brief moment of sitting quietly in a dark...
Trump Just Handed ICE $70 Billion. No, That's Not a Typo.
Donald Trump signed a bill this week handing the Department of Homeland Security roughly $70 billion in new funding, enough to bankroll his mass deportation...
Trump Brags About 200 Ships. The Normal Number Is Way Higher.
Donald Trump stood at a podium and told the world that more than 200 commercial vessels had safely passed through the Strait of Hormuz, apparently expecting...
Feds Collect Grass Clippings After '86 47' Mowed Into National Mall
Federal investigators descended on the National Mall Thursday after someone etched the message "86 47" into the grass between the Washington Monument and the...
Trump Turned Your Sunday Football Into a Culture War Battlefield
There used to be exactly one thing left that could put a Republican uncle and his college-liberal nephew in the same room without somebody flipping a table....
Dems Cry 'All-White Jury' After Anthony Verdict. The Jury Wasn't All-White.
Karmelo Anthony was convicted Tuesday of stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death at a Texas high school track meet and sentenced to 35 years in prison....
Trump's $1.77B 'Anti-Weaponization' Slush Fund Blocked by Judge Who Noticed Trump Wants It Back
The Trump administration told two separate federal judges that the $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund was dead, done, and not coming back. Then Donald...
ICE Blew $38 Billion on Detention Beds Now Sitting Empty
The Trump administration spent $38 billion expanding ICE detention capacity to handle a historic surge of arrests, and the beds are now sitting empty. ICE's...
Iran Launched Attack Drones at Ships While Negotiating With the U.S.
Iran launched multiple one-way attack drones at commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, and U.S. forces had to shoot them down. This happened while...
ICE Is Deporting a 20-Year Army Vet's Wife. He Served. She Raised Their Kids. This Is the Thanks.
A man spent two decades in uniform defending this country, and the government's thank-you is threatening to deport his wife. Retired Staff Sgt. Wilmer...
MTG Says UFC at the White House Is Too Trashy. Let That Sink In.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia congresswoman who once showed up to work in a 'Stop the Steal' mask and spent years turning the United States Capitol into...
Army Vet's Wife Grabbed by ICE at Her Own Green Card Appointment
She didn't run. She didn't hide. She walked into a government office for a scheduled green card appointment, and ICE arrested her on the spot. Now her husband,...
Trump Says U.S. Military Killed Tren de Aragua's Top Boss
Late Friday night, Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce that the U.S. military had killed the leader of Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan criminal...
Trump Froze 1M+ Immigration Apps Illegally. A Judge Said Stop. They're Still Fighting It.
Over a million people were stuck in legal purgatory because the Trump administration quietly froze their immigration applications, locked them out of work...
Too Dangerous for Enemies, Too Dangerous for the Pentagon: Anthropic's AI Is Apparently Too Dangerous for Everyone
The Trump administration has decided that Anthropic's most powerful AI models are too dangerous for foreign governments to touch, which would be a perfectly...
Judge Orders Trump to Put Slavery History Back in National Parks
The Trump administration spent over a year quietly stripping plaques, signs, and exhibits about slavery, Indigenous history, and climate change from America's...
Federal Judge Says Trump Censored Your National Parks
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration engaged in censorship by tearing down materials at national parks across the country. Not trimming. Not...
Paramount and Warner Bros. Are Merging Into a $111B Media Colossus Nobody Asked For
Two of Hollywood's most battered empires are apparently deciding that the solution to both of them slowly drowning is to drown together, faster, in a single...
Spencer Pratt Lost a Mayor's Race and Declared War on LA
Spencer Pratt, a man best known for being the villain on a mid-2000s MTV reality show, just lost a Los Angeles mayoral race and responded by threatening the...
ICE Detained a Two-Tour Iraq Vet's Wife at a Routine Check-In
Wilmer Trujillo did two tours in Iraq, served nearly 20 years in the US Army and Texas National Guard, and did everything by the book his entire life. So when...
Texas Gunman Shot 10 Civilians While 'Fleeing Police' for Two Days
A 45-year-old man in Midland, Texas spent two days shooting at police, running from police, and ultimately shooting ten civilians before being found dead...
Judge Orders Trump to Put the Climate Signs Back in the National Parks
The Trump administration spent the better part of a year quietly stripping climate change information and diversity displays from America's National Parks, and...
Courts Slap Trump: His Name Gets Pried Off Kennedy Center
Somewhere in Washington DC on Friday evening, a crowd of people stood in the summer heat chanting "Take it down!" while workers in hard hats built scaffolding...
Court Orders Trump's Name Scrubbed Off Kennedy Center by Tonight
A federal appeals court just told the Trump administration to go pound sand on its last-ditch effort to keep the president's name plastered on the outside of...
DOJ Blesses $110B Media Merger Nobody Asked For
The Justice Department looked at a $110 billion deal that would fuse two of the biggest names in American media into one colossal entertainment empire, ran the...
FBI Raids Ohio Voter Registration Group 5 Months Before Midterms
The FBI raided a grassroots voter registration group in Cleveland on Thursday, seizing computers and phones and fanning out to the homes of affiliated members...
DOJ Clears $111B Warner-Paramount Merger Nobody Asked For
The Department of Justice has approved the $111 billion Paramount Skydance takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, which will hand one company control over CNN,...
DOJ Blesses $110B Paramount-Warner Merger Nobody Asked For
The Department of Justice has officially decided that combining two struggling, debt-laden, content-slashing entertainment giants into one massive struggling,...
Judge Tells UFC-at-White-House Protesters to Sit Down and Watch
Two Virginia residents walked into federal court this week and asked a judge to stop a professional cage fight from happening on the White House lawn. The...
Iran Leaked the Nuclear Deal Details and Trump Is Furious About It
Donald Trump spent Thursday celebrating a potential Iran nuclear deal he said could be signed as soon as this weekend. Then Iranian state media went ahead and...
Alaska GOP Tries to Investigate Its Way Out of a Tough Primary
When you're a Republican incumbent in trouble, apparently the move is to sic the state's top elections officials on your opponent and call it an integrity...
Musk Becomes World's First Trillionaire as SpaceX IPO Breaks Every Record
On Friday, Elon Musk became the first human being in recorded history to accumulate one trillion dollars in personal wealth, because apparently billionaire...
Dems Demand Epstein Hearings After Report White House Is Running Containment
So the White House is apparently running an Epstein damage-control operation, and the Republican who chairs the committee with actual subpoena power is just......