GOP Rep Vanished for 142 Days. Turns Out It Was Depression.
For 142 days, a sitting member of Congress simply disappeared. No explanation. No timeline. Not even his own aides knew what was going on. On Tuesday, Rep. Tom...
Four Guys, 10 Days, $529K: The ATM Heist That's Almost Impressive
Four men allegedly walked up to ATMs along Interstate 95 in Connecticut, cracked the hoods open like they were checking the oil, loaded in some malware, and...
SCOTUS Takes Up AR-15 Bans, and Sandy Hook Families Brace
The Supreme Court has agreed to rule on whether states can ban AR-15-style rifles, which is a perfectly normal thing to have to litigate in a country where...
The 'Big Beautiful Bill' Just Blew Up Student Loans for Millions
Starting this week, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act tears up the federal student loan rulebook for millions of Americans, eliminating repayment options, capping...
Supreme Court Lets Parties Raise Unlimited Cash AND Coordinate With Candidates
The Supreme Court handed American democracy another gut punch Tuesday, striking down decades-old limits on how much money political parties can raise and spend...
SCOTUS to Trump: You Can't Just Un-American Kids With a Pen
The Supreme Court told Donald Trump on Tuesday that he cannot use an executive order to strip birthright citizenship from children born on American soil, which...
AI Is Making You Boring, and It's Doing It on Purpose
A Columbia Business School researcher just published a study analyzing over 110,000 real-world decisions, and the conclusion is as funny as it is terrifying:...
Supreme Court Says States Can Ban Trans Girls From Girls' Sports
The Supreme Court handed down its ruling in West Virginia v. B.P.J. on Tuesday, and it is exactly as bad as it sounds. States can now legally ban transgender...
Buffett Freezes Gates Foundation Billions Over Epstein Ties
Warren Buffett has donated roughly $48 billion to the Gates Foundation over two decades without missing a single year. This is the year he missed. The Wall...
Man Who Legally Named Himself Santa Claus Busted in Child Predator Sting
A 75-year-old New Orleans man who legally changed his name to Santa Claus was arrested last weekend after allegedly using a dating app to solicit sex from...
ICE Detained a Nun Walking to Church in Her Habit
A Roman Catholic nun was arrested by ICE officers while walking to morning mass in her full religious habit in McAllen, Texas. She was dressed as a nun. Going...
Trump's Loan Caps Could Kill the Healthcare Career of a Man a PA Once Saved
Benjamin Pinckney survived a drive-by shooting at 20, made a promise to the physician assistant who saved his life, spent decades working sanitation and...
Harry Wants to Bring His Kids to the UK. Britain Says Pay for Your Own Bodyguards.
Prince Harry wants to bring his wife and kids to the United Kingdom next month. The British government's response, delivered with the full dignity of a...
The Iran Peace Deal Is Already Falling Apart and Nobody's Even in the Same Room
Jared Kushner, the man who once claimed he'd solved the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with a PowerPoint, flew to Doha this week to negotiate a historic peace...
U.S. Murder Rate Hits Record Low and Nobody's Giving Biden or Trump Credit Correctly
The United States is on track to record its lowest murder rate in history, and somehow this genuinely good news has become yet another front in the culture war...
DEA Watched 74,000 Fentanyl Pills Hit Albuquerque and Did Nothing
A DEA special agent turned whistleblower says federal drug agents sat and watched a deal involving 74,000 fentanyl pills go down in an Albuquerque mobile home...
U.S. Brain Scientists Are Fleeing to Britain and Taking Pay Cuts to Do It
American scientists are taking pay cuts to leave the country. Let that sink in. Tenured professors at major research universities are voluntarily earning less...
Supreme Court Set to Rule on Birthright Citizenship and Trans Athletes Tuesday
Tuesday is the day the Supreme Court either defends 150 years of constitutional precedent or hands Donald Trump one of the biggest legal wins of his...
Trump's DOJ Is Fighting a Judge to Hide Notes About a 13-Year-Old's Rape Allegation
A woman who told the FBI she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump when she was between 13 and 15 years old is currently living off the grid, terrified of...
Kash Patel Blew a Sealed FBI Case to Write a Better Tweet
The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may have violated federal law and his own agency's disciplinary code so he could post a brag tweet faster....
Congress Unlocked Free College Money for Workers. Almost No One Qualifies.
Congress passed a big expansion of federal Pell Grants to help low-income workers pay for short-term job training, slapped a July 1 launch date on it, and sent...
Supreme Court Hands Trump the Keys to Every Agency Congress Ever Built
In one ruling, the Supreme Court wiped out a 91-year-old precedent, nullified a 112-year-old law, and handed Donald Trump the power to fire the heads of...
The 'Central Bank for Central Banks' Says the AI Boom Looks Like Every Bubble That Ever Popped
The Bank for International Settlements, which is essentially the central bank that other central banks call when they need an adult in the room, just issued a...
A Tick Can Give You Brain Damage in 15 Minutes. Cases Hit Record High.
A tick can infect you with a potentially fatal, brain-damaging virus in the time it takes to make a cup of coffee. There is no vaccine. There is no cure. And...
Thomas and Gorsuch Want to Kill the Law That Lets You Criticize the President
Two sitting Supreme Court justices just published a formal call to demolish the foundational legal protection for press freedom in America, and they did it in...
America Has Abandoned Aperol for a Pale Green Spritz Nobody Had Heard of Last Month
America's most recognizable summer cocktail just got dethroned by something most people couldn't have named sixty days ago. According to Google Trends data...
Bomb Blast in Monaco Targets Ukrainian Tycoon Sanctioned for Russia Ties
Someone planted a bomb at the front door of a Monaco apartment building Monday night, blew up a Ukrainian construction billionaire and his family, and then...
America Turns 250 and Small Towns Can't Afford the Party
America is throwing itself the biggest birthday bash in its history, and if you live in a small town, you might be watching it on someone else's television. As...
CBS Crew Attacked With Racial Slurs and a Dog in Broad Daylight Chicago
Three men pulled up to a CBS News Chicago crew in a white tow truck on Monday afternoon, shouted racial slurs at the Black photographer, and ordered their dog...
1,300 Dead From Heat and Europe Is Debating Whether AC Is Too Rude to the Planet
More than 1,300 people have died from heat in Europe since June 21, most of them elderly, according to the World Health Organization. France alone has linked...
Ford Fired Its Best Engineers, Hired AI, Then Had to Beg the Engineers to Come Back
Ford spent years quietly losing its most experienced engineers, bet big on AI to fill the gap, and then watched the AI fail badly enough that the company had...
47 Ronin Director Spent $638K of Netflix's Money on Two Mattresses
A Hollywood director asked Netflix for $11 million to finish a sci-fi series, spent $638,000 of it on two mattresses, and is now headed to prison for two and a...
House Passes Kids Online Safety Bill Senate Plans to Ignore
The House just passed a kids' online safety bill with 267 votes, a genuinely rare show of bipartisan agreement in a chamber that can barely agree on lunch....
Soccer Star Dug Through Rubble for 3 Days. He Found His Wife and Kids Dead.
For three days, a professional soccer player clawed through the ruins of a collapsed building in Venezuela, looking for his wife and two kids. He found them....
Trump's New Labor Secretary Threatened to Defund States With Zero Proof of Fraud
Donald Trump has nominated Keith Sonderling as his permanent Secretary of Labor, a man whose most notable recent achievement was threatening to financially...
Private Equity Bought Up Every Wheelchair Repair Shop. Now People Are Dying in Bed Waiting.
Destiny Maxam was on a breathing machine for two weeks after her wheelchair broke and she was stuck in bed. When she came off the ventilator, the first thing...
Daveigh Chase, 35, Dead From AIDS. Hollywood Did Nothing.
Daveigh Chase voiced Lilo. She crawled out of a television set and scared an entire generation. She won an Annie Award and an MTV Movie Award before she was...
Trump's Task Force Is Using Michigan's Guard Troops. Whitmer Wants Them Back.
Michigan sent 161 National Guard members to Washington, D.C. to help with Fourth of July celebrations. Then a video surfaced of those same troops patrolling...
Supreme Court Hands Trump Power to Fire Anyone in the Executive Branch
The Supreme Court just handed Donald Trump the keys to the entire executive branch, striking down nearly all limits on his ability to fire federal agency...
Venezuela's Earthquake Dead Wrapped in Garbage Bags While Army Sets Up Roadblocks
At least 1,719 people are dead after back-to-back earthquakes devastated Venezuela's Caribbean coast, and the government's response has been so...
America's Emergency Oil Stash Is Half-Empty and Falling Apart
The United States government's emergency oil reserve, the thing we're supposed to crack open when the world goes sideways, is sitting at less than half its...
SCOTUS Just Effectively Killed a Program Protecting 1 Million+ People
The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a ruling on June 25th that immigration experts say could wipe out Temporary Protected Status entirely by the...
Supreme Court Tells Trump to Keep Paying E. Jean Carroll's $5M
The Supreme Court looked at Donald Trump's request to throw out a $5 million civil verdict finding he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll, and said no....
Supreme Court Says Cops Can't Dragnet Your Location Data Without Cause
The Supreme Court just told police they cannot point at a map, demand Google hand over the location history of every person who walked by, and call that a...
Supreme Court Won't Touch Fired NY Healthcare Workers' Vax Case
The Supreme Court looked at a case involving healthcare workers who got fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds, shrugged, and walked...
AI Has Turned Every Script Kiddie Into a Hacker. We're All Cooked.
The Five Eyes intelligence agencies, the exclusive English-speaking spy club that includes the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, released a joint...
Supreme Court Saves Mail-In Ballots 5-4, Roberts and Barrett Break With MAGA
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can count mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day and received up to five business days later, handing the...
SCOTUS Just Handed Trump a Blank Check on Immigration
The Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a significant boost to his immigration agenda this weekend, a ruling that arrived at roughly the same moment the United...
Americans Are Flying the Flag Upside Down for the 250th Birthday
America is turning 250 years old, and the birthday party looks a little different this year. People are flying the flag upside down, replacing it with state...
Alaska's 'Parent of the Year' Charged With 47 Counts of Child Sex Abuse
The man Alaska honored as Parent of the Year in 2019 has been indicted on 47 criminal counts of sexually abusing teenage girls over a sixteen-year period....
TSA Is Quietly Handing Airport Security to Private Contractors and Hoping You Don't Notice
The people checking your ID and scanning your bags at Kansas City International Airport are not federal employees. They work for a private company called VMD...
Melania's $26M Inauguration Scapegoat Is Back, With a TV Show
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff got fired by Melania Trump, got blamed for a $26 million inauguration spending scandal, wrote a book about the whole humiliating...
Dems Fear Their Own Trump Is Coming. They Built the Runway.
Democratic Party leaders are now openly worried they're watching their own Tea Party moment unfold in slow motion, and according to Axios, they don't think...
Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport 1.3M People to Countries the U.S. Says Are Too Dangerous to Visit
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration can end Temporary Protected Status for more than 1.3 million immigrants, potentially deporting...
Socialists Just Took NYC. Now They're Coming for Colorado, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
The Democratic Socialists of America spent last week knocking off two sitting Democratic members of Congress in New York City. They posted their victory lap on...
Biden Calls Trump 'A Loser' and Says He's Wrecked America's Global Standing
Joe Biden has apparently decided that retirement is overrated. The former president stood up at a Maryland Democratic Party gala on Saturday and called Donald...
49ers WR Calls His Coach a 'F---ing Toddler,' His GM a 'Predator,' and His Union Full of Liars
Brandon Aiyuk has an arrest warrant in California, hasn't been to the 49ers facility since last year, and just called his head coach a 'f---ing toddler' on...
Heat Dome Cooking Two-Thirds of America Straight Through July 4
The National Weather Service is warning that 'dangerous to record-setting heat' will blanket the eastern two-thirds of the United States through the July 4...
Trump's Secret Web Team Tracked You on Voter and Passport Sites
A secretive White House office staffed by DOGE veterans quietly rebuilt some of the most sensitive websites the American government operates, then installed...
JD Vance Calls Watergate a Deep State Hit. Reagan Said the Same Thing.
JD Vance walked into the Richard Nixon Presidential Library last week, cracked open his new book about finding God, and casually declared that Watergate was a...