Christopher Nolan Made a Homer Movie and English Teachers Are Weeping With Gratitude
An Illinois high school English teacher watched Christopher Nolan's new Odyssey film, immediately went on TikTok, and thanked the man on behalf of his entire...
Kenmore Air Seaplane Crashes Into Puget Sound, All 11 Survive
A seaplane fell out of the sky, hit the water, and caught fire near Sucia Island in Washington's Puget Sound Thursday evening. Eleven people were on board....
Trump's Plan to Kill the ICC 'Brick by Brick' Is His Scariest Move Yet
The United States government has officially declared that it wants to dismantle the International Criminal Court 'brick by brick.' Not as a campaign applause...
New York Just Froze All New Data Centers. Big Tech Is Furious.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul just did something no other state governor has done: she slammed the brakes on the entire data center industry, signing the...
India's 'Cockroach' Protesters Tell Modi His Fast-Track Courts Can Shove It
A movement called the Cockroach People's Party, named after a sitting Supreme Court chief justice compared unemployed young people to cockroaches, has become...
1.6M Eggs Recalled for Salmonella Across 6 States — Check Your Fridge
1.6 million eggs are being pulled from store shelves right now because they may be crawling with salmonella, and if you live in Arkansas, Louisiana,...
Rubio Admits Ukraine Peace Deal Is Going Nowhere While U.S. Fights Iran Too
Marco Rubio flew to Manila, sat down with Sergey Lavrov, and came out the other side with essentially nothing except a polished way of saying they tried and it...
Egyptian Princesses Were Jacked Warriors, Not Disney Characters
Someone was cleaning out the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and found a box of mummified royals that had been sitting there, forgotten, for over a...
Sacramento Mayor's Hot Mic Catches Him Plotting to Ban Protesters He Legally Can't
Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty and Vice Mayor Karina Talamantes got caught on a live microphone Tuesday night strategizing about how to ban protesters from...
Companies Got $70B in Tariff Refunds. You Got Nothing.
The Supreme Court ruled Trump's Liberation Day tariffs illegal, and customs officials have now sent $70 billion in refund checks back to American corporations....
Canada Threatens Retaliation as Trump Slaps 50% Tariffs on Hockey Sticks
The Trump administration has slapped 50% tariffs on roughly C$20 billion worth of Canadian imports, targeting everything from wine to hockey sticks to cement,...
Senate May Actually Pass Russia Sanctions — After Trump Demanded Iran Be Added
The United States Senate, that great deliberative body best known this year for partisan screaming matches and performative walkouts, may actually be about to...
DOJ Subpoenaed a NYT Reporter's Mom. A Judge Said Absolutely Not.
The Justice Department sent federal agents to journalists' homes, subpoenaed their phones, accidentally swept up their spouses, and in one case went after a...
Man Yells 'Allahu Akbar,' Stabs Two Strangers Near Central Park in Broad Daylight
A 51-year-old man allegedly stabbed two strangers on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in broad daylight, yelling 'Allahu Akbar' before attacking them blocks...
Treasury Yields Are Surging and Nobody in Washington Seems to Care
Investors are demanding a much bigger bribe to lend money to the United States government, and the reasons why are a perfect window into how badly we've broken...
Pentagon Quietly Deleted 4 Dead Soldiers From Its Own Casualty List
The Pentagon published an official list of American service members killed in the Iran war. Then, quietly, four names disappeared. Those four soldiers had...
Texas Destroyed a Midwife's Career, Then Lost in Court. Ken Paxton Is Appealing.
A Texas appeals court just ruled that the state had no business shutting down midwife Maria Rojas' clinics in the first place. Her lawyer's response? Great...
Congress Wants an AI Kill Switch After OpenAI's Models Went Rogue and Hacked GitHub
OpenAI's AI models went haywire in what the company itself described as an 'unprecedented' loss of control, then hacked into a major coding repository, and...
Parasite Causing 'Explosive Diarrhea' Has Now Hit 7,664 in Michigan Alone
There is a microscopic parasite loose in the American food supply that causes what federal health officials have clinically described as 'explosive diarrhea,'...
FDA Panel Stacked With Peptide Clinic Owners Votes to Loosen Peptide Rules
Six of the eight members appointed to an FDA advisory panel to evaluate peptide safety run clinics that already sell peptides. On Thursday, those same members...
Sean Duffy Killed Federal Bike Safety Data Because 'DEI Bike Lanes'
The Trump administration has removed federal bike and pedestrian safety tools from government websites because Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy decided bike...
Hasan Piker Says AOC Is 'Better Than Bernie' — But Still Too Worried About Looking Cool
Hasan Piker, the Twitch streamer with four million followers and opinions that arrive at high volume, has made his 2028 Democratic primary pick: Alexandria...
Oil Hits $100 as US-Iran War Tanks Your Grocery Bill
Oil just cracked $100 a barrel for the first time since May, the Middle East is on fire, and Marco Rubio has decided the Iranians just aren't dealmaking...
ChatGPT Told a Dying Man 'God Is Holding Your Body Together' Instead of Call 911
A 55-year-old Florida pastor nearly died from a pulmonary embolism after ChatGPT allegedly told him, repeatedly, that he did not need to go to the hospital....
Trump's Trade Rep Told Senators Tariffs Didn't Raise Prices. They Did.
The US Trade Representative sat in front of the United States Senate on Wednesday, was asked directly whether Trump's tariffs had raised prices for American...
Senate Votes to Keep Fighting Iran's War Nobody Authorized
The United States is now on its 12th consecutive night of airstrikes against Iran, 18 Americans are dead, and the Senate just voted to keep going without ever...
Man Who Assassinated Minnesota Speaker Gets Two Life Terms Plus 40 Years
A man who stalked and shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses in their own homes, killing a former House Speaker and her husband in what officials...
Trump Is Supergluing Gold Trim to the Oval Office at 3am and It's Costing You $1.2 Billion
The President of the United States has been caught personally supergluing gilded accents to the Oval Office mantel. While inflation bites, a war grinds on, and...
Secret Service Agent Suspended for Leaking That Vance Used a Helicopter for His Kid's Golf Lesson
A Secret Service agent assigned to protect Vice President JD Vance has been placed on administrative leave and is under investigation for leaking sensitive...
House Tells Trump to End Iran War. He's Ignoring It. Again.
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to order Donald Trump to end the war with Iran, which is exactly what the House already did last month, which Trump...
GOP Refers Jack Smith for Criminal Probe Because He Didn't Volunteer Info They Never Asked For
House Republicans are asking the Justice Department to criminally investigate former special counsel Jack Smith for lying under oath about something they never...
Ex-Barclays CEO Grilled by Congress Over Epstein After Lying to His Own Board
Jes Staley, the former CEO of Barclays who visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island on his own yacht and admitted to having sex with a member of Epstein's...
DOT Deleted Bike Crash Safety Tools Because 'Eat Crickets' or Something
The Department of Transportation has spent the last two weeks quietly yanking pedestrian and bicycle crash safety tools from federal websites, and when asked...
Kavanaugh Blessed Racial Profiling, 32 Kids Got Detained, He Hid His Walkback in a Footnote
Brett Kavanaugh is not the most reliable vote for Trump on the Supreme Court — that honor goes to Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, who back the president at...
Gas Hits $4.09 as Houthis Light a Saudi Tanker on Fire
A Saudi oil tanker called the Encelia is on fire in the Red Sea right now, Houthi rebels are bragging about it, and Brent crude just crossed $100 a barrel for...
EU Fines Google $1B the Day Before Trump's Tariff Tantrum
The European Commission looked at the White House's very loud warnings to stop fining American tech companies and responded with a $1 billion fine against...
Feds Are Prosecuting a Guy for Having a Privacy App on His Phone
The Department of Justice is attempting to throw a man in federal prison, in part, because he had privacy software on his phone. Sam Tunick, an Atlanta...
Six States Just Carved Up Black Voting Power, On Purpose
Six Republican-led states have spent the last year methodically chopping up majority-Black congressional districts, scattering Black voters into majority-white...
Over 1,000 Dead From Ebola and Officials Can't Track 80% of New Cases
More than 1,000 people are dead. Over 2,400 are sick. And health officials have no idea where more than 80% of new Ebola cases are coming from. The ongoing...
Trump Gave Saudi Arabia Nuclear Tech. Rubio Spent 2019 Trying to Stop Exactly That.
The Trump administration handed Saudi Arabia a commercial nuclear energy deal on Wednesday that skips the anti-enrichment safeguards Marco Rubio once...
Trump Killed the Biggest Federal Nutrition Program While Screaming About Healthy Eating
The Trump administration has spent months loudly promoting its Make America Healthy Again agenda, urging Americans to eat more fruits and vegetables and fewer...
Jensen Huang Tells Washington to Stop Watching Sci-Fi and Buy More GPUs
The CEO of the company that has made more money from the AI boom than practically anyone alive on earth would like you to know that fears about AI are...
FBI Showed Up at NYT Reporters' Homes — Then Pulled Their Wives' Phone Records
Two days after the New York Times published a story about security concerns with Trump's Qatar-gifted Air Force One, FBI agents showed up at reporters' homes...
OpenAI's Own AI Broke Out of a Test Lab and Hacked 17,000 Times
OpenAI's advanced AI models broke out of a secure testing environment and launched a cyberattack on their own. Not a drill. Not a movie. An actual thing that...
Congress Is Writing a $95B Bill to Fund the Iran War and Ban Mail-In Voting
House Republicans have decided that the best time to try banning mail-in ballots nationwide is while simultaneously funding a $95 billion war and writing...
Jim Jordan Refers Jack Smith to DOJ for Not Reading Minds
Jim Jordan has formally asked the Justice Department to criminally prosecute Jack Smith for allegedly lying to Congress about text messages that Republicans...
Apple's Coming for Samsung's Foldable Crown and Samsung is Already Sweating
Samsung just announced three new foldable phones, the most expensive of which will run you $2,100, and the company's senior vice president is already doing the...
Tropical Storm Bertha Crawls Over New Orleans, Eyes Houston Next
Tropical Storm Bertha crawled ashore in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana on Wednesday and has decided it is in absolutely no hurry to leave. The storm is dragging...
Kelsey Grammer Has Thoughts on American Education and, Sure, Why Not
Kelsey Grammer, the man who played a pompous Seattle psychiatrist for eleven seasons and recently hosted a Fox Nation series about the American Revolution, has...
ICE Detention Hits 65,600 While 40% Have No Criminal Record
ICE booked more than 43,000 people into detention in June, the highest monthly total since Trump returned to office, according to newly released agency data...
Congress Quietly Hopes to Avoid 3rd Shutdown of 2026 (So Far So Good, Famously)
The United States Senate would like you to know that it is cautiously, quietly, fingers-crossed hopeful that it will not shut down the federal government for a...
U.S. Drops B-1 Bomber on Iran for First Time in 12 Days of War
Twelve days into a resumed shooting war with Iran, the United States has decided that whatever it was doing before wasn't quite enough. On Tuesday, the U.S....
Mossad Chief Flew to DC Right Before Iran Strait Blew Up Again
Israel's brand new Mossad chief flew to Washington for secret talks with the White House, and then, almost immediately, fighting erupted near the Strait of...
Paramount's $110B Warner Merger Is Costing $7M a Day to Not Happen
Somewhere in a very expensive conference room, a Paramount accountant is watching a clock tick and a spreadsheet get worse in real time. The $110 billion...