Bill Gates: AI Regulation Is Harder Than Nukes, Trump Isn't Listening
Bill Gates went on Meet the Press this week and said, calmly, that getting the world to agree on AI safety rules will be harder than the Cold War negotiations...
NFL Week 3 Is a Mess of Broken QBs, Winless Teams, and One Frozen Grudge Match
The 2026 NFL season is three weeks old and already we have dislocated elbows, nine-game losing streaks, and Marcus Mariota getting a captain's armband like...
Rural Voters to MAGA: We Want Cheaper Groceries, Not a War With Iran
Here is the thing about the coalition that handed Donald Trump two presidential victories: they would really, really like to be able to afford their insulin. A...
27 Dead in One Night as Gunmen Hit Bars in Johannesburg and Cape Town
Eight gunmen walked into a bar west of Johannesburg on Saturday evening and just started shooting. By the time the weekend was over, two cities, two attacks,...
Sully Sullenberger, Now Fighting Alzheimer's, Gets His Hall of Fame Moment
Seventeen years after he landed a crippled passenger jet in the Hudson River and saved 155 lives, Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger got his Hall of Fame ring...
Boeing's New 737 Max Software Bug Hits at the Worst Possible Moment — Landing
Boeing has a new software bug that can disable automated flight guidance on its 737 Max jets at precisely the moment pilots need it most: during an aborted...
Man Charged for Wife's Murder 20 Years After She Vanished Into a Crawlspace
A California man has been charged with murdering his ex-wife nearly two decades after she disappeared, after her remains turned up hidden in a crawlspace...
OpenAI and Anthropic Are Quietly Logging Tens of Thousands of AI 'Problems'
OpenAI and Anthropic, the two companies most loudly insisting their AI products are safe and beneficial and totally fine, are quietly investigating tens of...
Lavrov Calls US 'Warmongers' at UN While Russia Bombs Apartments
Sergei Lavrov, foreign minister of the country currently bombing Ukrainian apartment buildings, hospitals, and power grids into rubble, stood at the United...
Ted Cruz Says Anti-Data Center Activism Is a Chinese Psyop
Ted Cruz has a theory about why some Americans don't want massive data centers built in their backyards: China did it. The Texas senator and Senate Commerce...
Jefferson Warned Against War, Debt, and Trashing the Constitution. Trump Did All Three.
A letter Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1787 is going up for sale, and it reads less like a historical artifact and more like a memo someone should have slid under...
DoorDash Driver Found Dismembered in Garbage Bags in Smyrna Neighbor's Car
A Georgia woman was found dismembered and stuffed into garbage bags in the trunk of a car parked at her own apartment complex. Shanteria Mosley, 'KT' to...
890 Measles Cases, 4 Dead in PA — RFK Jr. Says Deaths 'May Have Been Fabricated'
Pennsylvania has confirmed 890 measles cases, 173 hospitalizations, and four deaths from a disease that was supposed to be eliminated from this country in...
The U.S. Has Thalidomide Survivors. It's Only Acknowledged 17 of Them.
The United States government has spent six decades telling thalidomide survivors they don't exist. The survivors, many of them now in their sixties with...
Trump Told Voters to Pretend He's on the Ballot. They Did.
Donald Trump looked at the 2026 midterm map and told voters to treat it like he was personally on every ballot. Republicans across the country are now...
1 in 60 Fijian Adults Has HIV and Meth Is the Reason Why
Fiji just declared a national HIV emergency after cases rose 12-fold in 15 years, and the culprit is a crystal meth epidemic so severe that children as young...
Kamala Explained Algorithms With Flowers and Fox Lost Its Mind
Kamala Harris went on a podcast, explained how social media algorithms trap people in content bubbles, and used a flower analogy to make it accessible. Sean...
Pope Tells AI Companies to Slow Down, and They're Actually Listening
The Pope went to Paris, stood in front of world leaders and UNESCO diplomats, and told everyone that AI is threatening to erase what it means to be human....
Mississippi Woman's Hanging Was Staged, Police Say — And She May Have Been Killed Somewhere Else First
A 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned home in Jackson, Mississippi last month was not killed there. That's what detectives...
Republicans Want Warrants for Flock Cameras — Yes, Those Republicans
A Florida Republican just introduced a bill demanding warrants before the federal government can tap into a network of 120,000 license plate cameras blanketing...
Supreme Court Lets Trump Cross-Check Voter Rolls With Social Security Data
The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a significant pre-midterm gift on Friday, lifting restrictions on a federal voter database that can...
A Nor'easter Cancels Ed Sheeran's Boston Shows. Robert Kraft Already Did the Real Damage.
A nor'easter just cancelled Ed Sheeran's two Gillette Stadium shows this weekend, which is genuinely the least dramatic thing to happen to this tour in the...
Trump Rolled Out the Red Carpet for Xi and His Own Party Called It Despotism
Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to Joint Base Andrews with a literal red carpet while his own party was in Dallas days earlier screaming...
Scores Hit 25-Year Low. Trump Axed the Agency That Explains Why.
American kids are doing worse in math and reading than at any point in the last quarter-century. The federal agency specifically designed to figure out why...
Dolly Got Off Her Deathbed to Sing. Bono Can't Even Listen.
Two months before Dolly Parton died, she got out of her sickbed to sing. Not because anyone made her. Because she had a song she believed in, and she wasn't...
Bill Gates: AI Is Already Powerful Enough to Kill a Billion People
Bill Gates went on Meet the Press and said, with a straight face, that AI is already powerful enough to 'drive events that cause a billion deaths.' That was...
Trump's Fishing Order Wants to Kill Sharks to Help Anglers Catch More Fish
Donald Trump signed an executive order last Thursday directing federal agencies to prioritize recreational fishing, review the scientific standards that...
Ex-AG Compares 32 House Bills to Castro's Cuba. Let's Look at the Bills.
A former state attorney general whose family fled Cuba has launched a 'Socialism Watch' initiative tracking 32 bills currently before Congress, calling them...
Abraham Accords Countries Hold First Meeting Since Oct. 7 — With Kazakhstan
Nearly three years after Hamas's October 7 attacks froze one of Trump's signature foreign policy achievements in place, U.S. diplomats quietly reassembled the...
Pediatric ICU Doctor Stabbed to Death in His Bed, Suspect Said He Was God
A man broke into a Pittsburgh family's home through a kitchen window in the middle of the night, climbed to the third floor, and stabbed a pediatric intensive...
Hackers Claim They Stole Every FBI Agent's Home Address and SSN
A criminal hacking group claims it just stole the home addresses, Social Security numbers, and family members' names of nearly every FBI agent in the country....
Congressional Candidate Gets Arrested Protesting Netanyahu Outside the UN
A Democratic congressional nominee got herself arrested outside the United Nations on Wednesday, and she wants you to know she'd do it again. Darializa Avila...
JD Vance Was the Anonymous Source the White House Used to Ban CNN and Politico
The Trump White House banned CNN, MSNBC, and Politico from the building, in part because they published anonymously sourced national security information from...
Mortgage Rates Hit 7% Again and a War With Iran Is Why
US mortgage rates just crossed 7% for the first time since January 2025, and if you want someone to blame, the line forms behind a war with Iran, a Federal...
Netanyahu Flies to NY, Skips Trump, Picks Fight With the Mayor Instead
Benjamin Netanyahu flew to New York, delivered a speech at the United Nations General Assembly, and flew home in time for a religious holiday — all without...
Eight Sailors Tried to Kill Themselves on Lincoln. Hegseth Called It Fake News.
Eight sailors assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a nine-month deployment that Pete Hegseth spent publicly...
OpenAI's AI Agents Hacked Australia's Medicare Portal on Their Own
Nobody told OpenAI's AI agents to break into Australia's Medicare portal. Nobody programmed them for hacking. They just did it anyway, because the door was in...
Tim Scott Tells GOP Behind Closed Doors: 'Fight for Our Lives'
Six weeks before the midterms, the man in charge of keeping the Senate Republican called a closed-door meeting with his colleagues and told them, without...
Hawaii Could Get 30 Inches of Rain by Saturday. Again.
Two storms, two coasts, one very bad week for anyone living near the Pacific Ocean. Hurricane Polo is packing 160 mph winds off Mexico's coast and threatening...
RFK Jr Took $4M From MAHA Allies After Swearing He Wouldn't
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signed an ethics pledge in 2024 promising he would not engage in writing, editing, marketing, or promotional services for any books...
Thune Says Trump's Anti-AI-Regulation Stance Is Basically Just Vibes
The President of the United States has been loudly and publicly crusading against AI regulation for months. According to the Senate's top Republican, that...
Trump and Xi Are About to Meet. What Could Go Wrong?
Two of the most powerful men on the planet are about to sit across a table from each other, and the issues between them include artificial intelligence,...
Harvey Weinstein Gets 15 Years After Apologizing While Claiming Innocence in the Same Breath
Harvey Weinstein stood up in a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday, apologized to everyone he may have hurt, and then immediately told the judge he didn't do...
Trump's HHS Is Blocking COVID Vaccines for Kids in 11 States — With Zero Timeline
The Trump administration is sitting on COVID vaccines for children in at least 11 states and one US territory, with no explanation of when or whether those...
Social Security Runs Dry in 2032 and Every Fix Is Going to Hurt
Social Security's trust fund will be empty by 2032, and when it goes, benefits get cut by 22% automatically — no vote required, no further warning. Congress...
Macron Told UNGA Hamas 'Never Active' in West Bank. Two Days Earlier, Hamas Killed a French Citizen There.
Emmanuel Macron stood at the United Nations podium on Tuesday and told the world that Hamas has 'never been active' in the West Bank. Two days before that...
Grandma's Body Stuffed in Suitcase, Dropped at Fire Station
Two people walked into a Wichita fire station on September 16, dropped off a suitcase, and told firefighters there was a body inside. Inside was Lorretta...
Texas Rangers Seek Manslaughter Charges Over 27 Girls Killed at Camp Mystic
Court documents show that Camp Mystic, the Christian all-girls sleepaway camp where 27 people drowned on the Fourth of July last year, now faces a criminal...
ICE Wants Deportation Vans With No Bathroom Rules. Amazon Prime, But Worse.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to roll out "mobile detention facilities" in Pennsylvania — which, stripped of the bureaucratic language, means...
Trump Meets Venezuela's New US-Installed Leader Miles From Maduro's Jail Cell
Donald Trump held a friendly diplomatic meeting with Venezuela's new US-backed leader at the UN General Assembly this week — roughly three miles from the New...
DOJ Says CNN and Politico Threatened 'National Security' by Reporting on a Ballroom
The United States Department of Justice would like you to know that reporting on White House construction projects is a national security threat. That's not a...
Trust in USPS Ballot Delivery Cratered 13 Points — Back to COVID Lows
The U.S. Postal Service is running a 97.94% on-time score for election mail. It is also hemorrhaging public trust at a rate that should alarm anyone who cares...
Trump Won't Rule Out Troops at Polls, and His Options Are 'Dwindling'
With less than 50 days until the midterm elections, the President of the United States will not rule out deploying the military to polling places, and his...
Trump Threatens to 'Annihilate' Iran, Rebrand AI at UN Speech
Donald Trump walked into the United Nations Tuesday, an institution he openly despises, and proceeded to threaten to annihilate a sovereign nation, declare a...