Trump Slaps Brazil With 25% Tariffs After Year-Long Investigation
The Trump administration has decided Brazil is the problem, slapping a 25 percent tariff on certain Brazilian imports after a yearlong investigation concluded...
Trump's Own AG Pick Can't Get Two Republicans to Back Him
Donald Trump's pick for Attorney General walked into his Senate confirmation hearing as his former personal defense lawyer, accidentally called the President...
Republicans Want to Backdoor Voter ID Into the Budget. Again.
Lindsey Graham died, and before he did, he apparently told Donald Trump that the SAVE America Act was all set. Nobody knows what that means. But Senate...
Trump's 'Really Big' Mystery Speech Has One Clue: 'Tune In'
Donald Trump is holding a primetime address Thursday night that he has described as "really big news" and possibly one of the most important speeches of his...
Got Food Stamps? Trump Says That Might Cost You Your Green Card
The Trump administration has a new way to deny you a green card: find out if you ever used Medicaid, food stamps, or housing assistance, and hold it against...
TrumpRx Has 92 Drugs. The Companies Behind It Make 800.
The president called TrumpRx "the biggest thing to happen in healthcare in many, many decades." Nearly six months in, the site covers fewer than 12% of the...
Trump's Intel Nominee Refused to Say Who Won 2020
Jay Clayton, Donald Trump's nominee to run the entire United States intelligence apparatus, sat in front of the Senate on Wednesday and refused to say who won...
DNC Made Leaders Sign NDAs Before Talking About How Broke It Is
The Democratic National Committee, a political party that would very much like you to donate money to help them fight for democracy, made its own senior...
Oil Giants Pocketed $30M Per Hour While You Paid at the Pump
While you were wincing at the gas pump after the U.S.-Iran war sent oil prices through the roof, the world's top 100 oil and gas companies were quietly banking...
ICE Used Force in 1-in-3 Arrests. Then Shot Two Men in Their Cars.
ICE officers pushed, tackled, choked, tased, and rammed cars so often that a new ACLU report had to invent a phrase for it: 'default tool.' The report,...
Billionaires Can Now Buy a Bunker Condo With a Spa and Cigar Lounge for the Apocalypse
A Canadian crypto mogul bought a 64,000-square-foot Cold War nuclear bunker for roughly the price of a used Honda Civic and is now converting it into luxury...
Trump Frees American from Iran While Also Bombing Iran
An American citizen named Dena Karari is free after being trapped in Iran since December 2024, which is genuinely good news. The slightly surreal part is that...
Trump Is Sanctioning Americans for Talking About the ICC
The Trump administration slapped sanctions on an international war crimes court and the human rights groups that work with it. Now two American advocacy...
Uber Just Dropped $14.8B to Swallow a Global Food Delivery Empire
Uber has decided that dominating American streets wasn't quite enough, so on Thursday it launched a $14.8 billion public takeover offer for Delivery Hero, the...
Warren Buffett Says America's Gone Full Degenerate Gambler
Warren Buffett, the man who spent seven decades quietly compounding wealth while everyone else chased the next hot thing, has finally said out loud what a lot...
Messi Assists Both Goals as Argentina Breaks England's Heart Again
England led. England had sixty good minutes. England had Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham and an entire nation praying at the altar of 'this time.' Then a...
You Need a 740 Credit Score to Not Get Gouged on a Mortgage Right Now
Mortgage rates have been camped out around 6.5% for months now, and if your credit score isn't at least 740, lenders are going to charge you even more than...
Wildfire Smoke Turns NYC Sky Brown and Ranks It Among World's Most Polluted Cities
New York City ranked among the most polluted cities on Earth this week, not because of anything the city did, but because Canada and Minnesota are on fire and...
Blue States Are Taxing Vapes Up to $17.90 — Same Product Costs $0.36 in Red States
The exact same vaping product can cost you nearly eighteen dollars more in taxes depending on which side of a state line you're standing on. Minnesota and...
Trump Hits Brazil With 25% Tariffs While Exempting Brazilian Beef and Coffee
The United States is slapping 25% tariffs on Brazil starting July 22, citing unfair trade practices by the world's tenth-biggest economy. The list of exempted...
Air Conditioning Is Now a Luxury Good. People Are Dying.
Europe's heat dome killed more than 1,300 people in less than two weeks this June. The United States loses around 2,000 people a year to extreme heat. The...
Lindsey Graham Dead at 71, Sister Sworn In to Finish His Term
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the five-term South Carolina Republican who spent three decades making himself indispensable to everyone in Washington while consistently...
Man Raised by Wrong Family for 36 Years Sues Hospital That Lost the Paperwork
A Colorado man took a DNA test two years ago and discovered he had spent 36 years living with the wrong family, raised by people who were not his biological...
Day 5: Trump Says He Might Just 'Finish Off' Iran
The United States is now on its fifth consecutive day of airstrikes against Iran, a ceasefire that lasted less than a month is dead in the water, and the...
354 Leopards Left in West Africa, and They're Somehow Clawing Back
There are 354 West African leopards left on the planet. Armed jihadist groups have moved into their last major stronghold. Poachers are hunting them for their...
World Now Trusts Xi More Than Trump in 22 Countries, Including Canada
For the first time in roughly twenty years of polling, the world has decided it likes China more than the United States. Not slightly more. Not in a few...
Hegseth Orders Mandatory Testosterone Tests for Soldiers Over 30
Pete Hegseth, a man who was confirmed as Secretary of Defense despite allegations that would have disqualified him from serving in the military he now...
Jeffries and Clark Split on Israel Aid Vote, Breaking Democratic Leadership Unity
The two top House Democrats can't agree on whether to cut off U.S. aid to Israel, and they're not even pretending otherwise. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries...
Trump Killed $317M in Cancer Research. Now Black and Rural Americans Will Pay With Their Lives.
The Trump administration canceled 181 National Cancer Institute grants totaling more than $317 million, and a new report from the American Association for...
Grocery Outlet Wants to Scan Your Face to Catch Shoplifters
A grocery chain in the Bay Area has decided that the best way to catch shoplifters is to scan the face of every single person who walks through the door. Not...
Trump Endorses MyPillow Guy for Governor of a State He Might Not Live In
Donald Trump has endorsed MyPillow founder Mike Lindell for governor of Minnesota, a state where Lindell is currently losing by 17 points and which he may not...
China's Economy Posts Worst Quarter in 3 Years and the Numbers Are Ugly
China's economy grew at its slowest pace in over three years last quarter, posting a 4.3% annualized growth rate for April through June, well below the 5% clip...
Omar Pushes US to Join ICC, Two Days After Rubio Vowed to Kill It
Two days. That's how long it took for someone in Congress to formally push back after Marco Rubio announced the United States would 'systematically disable'...
Americans Say Economy Is Trash. Then They Go Shopping.
Americans are telling every pollster who will listen that the economy is a catastrophe, a disaster, a rock-bottom nightmare from which there is no escape. Then...
Biden's Memoir Drops Two Weeks After Midterms Because Why Not
Joe Biden is publishing a presidential memoir, and he has chosen to drop it exactly two weeks after the midterm elections in which Democrats are desperately...
Meta Used AI to Fire People on Medical Leave, Then Said 'Actually That Was Humans'
Meta fired roughly 8,000 people using an AI-assisted performance system that, almost by design, punished anyone who had the audacity to take medical or...
ICE Killed Two Men Who Weren't Even Their Targets. That's 11 Dead This Term.
In less than one week, ICE agents shot and killed two men who were not the targets of their operations. One was a 52-year-old builder who had lived in the...
Trump Is Using Sanctions to Make It Illegal to Help War Crime Victims
The Trump administration has found a creative new use for economic sanctions: making it legally dangerous for American citizens to help document war crimes....
120-Degree Summers, No AC, No Problem: What India Figured Out That America Never Did
While Americans melt into their couches waiting for the power grid to hold, billions of people across the Global South have been surviving 120-degree summers...
American Startups Are Quietly Ditching U.S. AI for Chinese Models Because It's 10x Cheaper
An American tech founder in San Francisco just announced he moved 100% of his company's AI traffic to a Chinese model because it was ten times cheaper than...