Trump's Press Secretary Quits to 'Spend Time With Family' Two Months After Maternity Leave
Karoline Leavitt returned to the White House in July after taking maternity leave for the birth of her second child. She will leave again at the end of August,...
Rob Reiner's Son Indicted for Stabbing Both Parents to Death in Brentwood
Nick Reiner, 32, stood in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to stabbing his father, director Rob Reiner, and his mother, Michele Reiner,...
Luigi Mangione Plea Deal Rumors Heat Up Days Before Murder Trial
With his New York murder trial three weeks away, Luigi Mangione's legal team and federal prosecutors just filed a surprise joint request for a hearing in...
Lakers Sold Again — This Time to Jared Kushner's Brother for $12.5B
The Los Angeles Lakers have been sold. Again. Fourteen months after Mark Walter bought the franchise for a then-record $10 billion, former Disney CEO Bob Iger...
USS Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard After 250 Days at Sea
Sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to jump overboard during a record-breaking deployment that has kept 5,000 crew members at sea for 250...
Inflation Dipped in July Because a Lettuce Recall Made Salad Cheaper
The good news is that inflation cooled in July. The bad news is that one of the main reasons inflation cooled in July is that a foodborne illness outbreak made...
Ohio Haitians Fitted With Ankle Monitors After Supreme Court Killed Their Status
Monsanto Maler walked out of an ICE facility in Blue Ash, Ohio on Sunday morning, looked down at the metal box freshly bolted to his ankle, and collapsed on...
They Want to Build a 600MW Data Center Next to the Everglades
Somewhere in the universe there is a person who looked at the Florida Everglades, a fragile, irreplaceable wetland that the federal government and state of...
Andrew Tate Is in a Florida Prison. His MAGA Friends Have Gone Quiet.
Andrew Tate spent years cultivating powerful friends in Trump's America, appearing on Tucker Carlson, building ties to Capitol Hill, and watching his fanbase...
Trump's 50% Canada Tariffs Start Aug. 19 — And a Factory 2.5 Miles From the Border Is Already Packing
A Canadian factory so close to the American border you could almost throw a cable spool across the St. Lawrence River is now seriously considering moving to...
Eli Lilly Suing 6 Companies Selling Its Unapproved Weight-Loss Drug — That Bodegas Are Stocking
Eli Lilly is suing six companies for selling an unapproved version of its experimental weight-loss drug retatrutide, a drug that hasn't cleared FDA review,...
Inflation Still Beating Your Paycheck, Gas Still $4+, Fed About to Make Your Mortgage Worse
Wages are growing at 3.2%. Inflation is running at 3.4%. If you're doing that math and feeling vaguely nauseous, you are doing the math correctly. The Bureau...
Trump Cut USAID for the Poor, Now Sends $12M to Jacob Rees-Mogg's Thinktank
The Trump administration shut down USAID, the agency that feeds starving children and responds to humanitarian disasters, on the grounds that it was wasting...
Spain's First Total Solar Eclipse in 121 Years Hits Today at 8:32 PM
Spain hasn't seen a total solar eclipse since 1905, which means everyone alive in that country today gets to witness something their great-great-grandparents...
3 Dead, 1M Without Power as 'Ring of Fire' Torches the Midwest
Three people are dead, a 4-year-old boy among them, after a ferocious storm system ripped through the Midwest on Tuesday, knocking out power for more than a...
Kansas Dad Called 911 to Announce He'd Killed His Wife and 4 Kids
A Kansas man called 911 Tuesday morning to announce he had just murdered his wife and four children, the youngest of whom was three years old, and that he was...
Klobuchar Wins MN Governor Primary With 86% of the Vote
Amy Klobuchar didn't win Minnesota's Democratic gubernatorial primary so much as she absorbed it. With 86% of the vote and six other candidates apparently...
Lindsey Graham's Sister Beats Three Politicians to Win SC Senate Runoff Spot
Six weeks ago, Darline Graham was running a state agency for the blind. Today she is a sitting United States senator who just beat a congressman, another...
Trump Signs Order Cutting Kids' Vaccines While Claiming MMR Is 'Quite Lethal'
Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday cutting the number of recommended childhood vaccines from 18 diseases down to 11, and to celebrate the occasion...
Judge Blocks Trump From Using USPS to Kneecap Mail-In Voting Nationwide
A federal judge in Boston just told the U.S. Postal Service it cannot help Donald Trump decide which Americans get their ballots delivered and which ones...
Trump Fled Iran Threat on Secret Jet, Left Staff and Press to Die as Decoy
Donald Trump snuck off Air Force One during last month's NATO summit in Turkey to dodge a credible Iranian assassination plot, and the people he left behind on...
The Sky Is Doing Something Incredible This Week and You Have No Excuse
The universe is putting on a double feature this week and it is free, it requires no subscription, and it will not ask for your data. The Perseid meteor shower...
AI Hackers Are Coming. Corporate Security Chiefs Are Just... Standing There.
The people whose entire job is to protect your data from hackers have bigger budgets than ever, a ticking clock, and a clear and present threat. They have...
SSA Quietly Does Something Good: 14 More Conditions Get Fast-Track Disability
If you have a rare, devastating illness and you need Social Security disability benefits, the federal government will normally make you wait six to eight...
Kennedy Center Must Pay Musician $252K It Sued for Skipping a Free Concert
The Kennedy Center sued a jazz musician over a free concert he didn't play, lost, and now owes him $252,479.70 in legal fees. This is the part where you laugh,...
Millions of Medicare Recipients Are Leaving Free Drug Money on the Table
There is a federal program that will cap what you pay for generic prescription drugs at $5.10, wipe out your Part D premium entirely, and eliminate your...
DOJ Just Made Trump's Shady Outside Advisers Untouchable
The Justice Department quietly dropped a 21-page opinion Monday that could shield everyone in Donald Trump's orbit from congressional investigators, whether...
Alito Made $2.9M From Oil and Now Gets to Rule on Big Oil's Biggest Case
Samuel Alito has made up to $2.9 million from oil and gas assets since joining the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is about to hear a massive case about...
Russia Frees American Held in 'Dissociative Stupor' for 47 Days
A 32-year-old American military veteran spent 47 days in a dissociative stupor, handcuffed to a hospital bed and fed through a tube, inside a Russian medical...
Rights Groups Sue Trump for Criminalizing ICC War Crimes Work
The Trump administration has been sued in federal court for running what four major human rights organizations are calling a 'blatantly illegal attack on...
HCA Made $6.8B in 2025. Its Janitors Choose Between Water and Gas.
HCA Healthcare cleared $6.8 billion in profit last year, handed its CEO $26.5 million in compensation, and then authorized a $10 billion stock buyback program....
Luigi Mangione's Murder Trial Starts Sept. 8 and Nobody Knows What His Defense Actually Is
Less than a month out from the most-watched murder trial since O.J. Simpson wore that glove, Luigi Mangione's defense team still hasn't told anyone what their...
Hegseth Put Two Men on the Pentagon's Advisory Board Who Both Have Ties to Trump Jr.'s Venture Fund
Pete Hegseth just stocked the Pentagon's premier advisory board with two men who have direct financial ties to a venture capital fund co-run by Donald Trump's...
Man Asks AI to Book a Gym Class, It Commits Cybercrime
An Australian man asked his AI assistant to book him a spot in a sold-out fitness class. The AI, apparently deciding that rules are more of a suggestion,...
Lindsey Graham's Sister Is Running for His Senate Seat With Trump's Blessing
Lindsey Graham died on July 11, and South Carolina Republicans decided the most logical next step was to hand his Senate seat to his sister. Darline Graham, a...
AI Is Making Your RAM Cost More. There Is No End in Sight.
The AI boom has a bill, and you're the one paying it. Memory chip prices are surging at a scale Axios describes as "unprecedented," and the ripple effects are...
Syria Sentences Assad to Death for Half a Million Murders
A Syrian court handed down a death sentence Tuesday to Bashar al-Assad, the man who spent fourteen years turning his own country into a mass grave. Assad,...
Homicides Down 17% and Trump Is Somehow Taking a Bow
Homicides across America's largest cities dropped 17.2% in the first half of 2026 compared to the same period last year, according to preliminary data reviewed...
AI Is Making Oil Companies Drill Faster Than It's Saving the Planet
The tech industry spent years telling us AI was going to save the planet. Turns out it might be doing the opposite, and not just because of the monstrous...
Nvidia Just Convinced Wall Street to Treat AI Chips Like Roads and Bridges
Nvidia just got Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to collectively agree that AI chips are basically the new highway system, and...
Iran Tried to Missile Air Force One. Trump Escaped in a Catering Truck.
Iran had a credible plan to shoot a missile at Air Force One as it left Turkey. The President of the United States escaped by hiding in an airport catering...
Republicans Are Ghosting Their Own Voters This August
After voters spent last year showing up to town halls and making their representatives visibly uncomfortable, House Republicans have landed on a solution: stop...
NIH Chief Blamed CBS for CDC Shooting. The White House Cheered.
A gunman fired 200 rounds into six CDC buildings in August 2025, killing a police officer, after his father said he was convinced the COVID vaccine had made...
Zuckerberg's $390M Yacht Ignored a Distress Call. A 42-Year-Old Tugboat Saved the Day.
Mark Zuckerberg owns a $390 million, 387-foot superyacht with four engines pumping out nearly 24,000 combined horsepower. Last week, in Alaskan waters, the...
Zuckerberg Publishes 6,500-Word Essay Explaining Why You Should Trust Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg would like you to know that superintelligence is coming, it's going to be great, Meta is going to lead it, and you definitely shouldn't be...
$905M Powerball Jackpot Drawn With No Winner in Sight
Monday night, someone theoretically could have won $905 million. The odds were 1 in 292,201,338. Nobody has won since May. The numbers were 6, 37, 54, 55, 64,...
A Toddler Just Cancelled a Flight for 100+ People and We Have Questions
A Porter Airlines flight from Victoria to Toronto was cancelled on August 6th because a small child refused to sit down and buckle up, and the plane missed its...
Trump Hid in a Catering Cart to Sneak Off Air Force One During Iran Threat
The President of the United States hid inside an airport catering truck to sneak off Air Force One during a NATO summit in Turkey last month, while journalists...
Judge Blocks Mamdani's Tax on $5M Second Homes After Rich Homeowners Cry Foul
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani tried to make wealthy absentee homeowners pay their way, and a state judge just told him to pump the brakes. A temporary...
Trump's Social Media Company Lost $238M While Selling Wall Street Early Access to His Posts
Donald Trump's media company lost $238 million in a single quarter — more than ten times its loss from the same period last year — and its big new revenue idea...
Lauren Boebert's Son Arrested for Filming Sex With a 17-Year-Old
Tyler Boebert, the 21-year-old son of Rep. Lauren Boebert, was arrested Sunday on charges of sexually exploiting a child after allegedly recording himself...
Noah Wyle Walks Out on Agency That Forgot to Tell Him His Agent Left
Noah Wyle, current Emmy darling and star of HBO Max's "The Pitt," just fired his talent agency. The reason? They forgot to tell him his own agent had quit. In...
Trump Just Quietly Gutted the Childhood Vaccine Schedule
On Monday, Donald Trump signed an executive order cutting the recommended childhood vaccine schedule from 18 diseases down to 11, ending COVID vaccine...
Gold Just Lost $1,000 an Ounce. Here's Why Your Portfolio Is Sweating.
Gold, the investment that's supposed to be your financial panic room, is currently sitting more than $1,000 below its January 2026 peak. As of this month, you...
Silicon Valley Billionaires Have Decided Democracy Is Inconvenient
A small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have apparently looked at American democracy, weighed it against their own preferences,...
July 2026 Was the Hottest Month in 131 Years of U.S. Records
The United States just cooked itself through the hottest July in 131 years of recorded history, and the margin wasn't even close. Federal climate scientists...
Bernie Sanders Threatens to Regulate AI Out of Existence If Zuckerberg, Altman, and Amodei Won't Stop It Themselves
An 84-year-old democratic socialist from Vermont is currently the most credible threat to the trillion-dollar AI industry, and that sentence should tell you...
Trump's FDA Wants to Put America's Men on Testosterone. Doctors Say Slow Down.
The Trump administration wants to rewrite FDA rules so that virtually any man with low testosterone and a flagging libido can qualify for hormone therapy,...
7.4 Earthquake Hammers Western Colombia, Injures Unknown Numbers in Quibdó
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake tore through western Colombia on Monday, strong enough that people felt the ground move in Bogotá, 250 miles away, and all the way...
Maine Women Voters Gave Collins Her Last Win. Can Jackson Take Them Back?
Susan Collins is the only sitting Republican senator up for reelection in a state that Donald Trump lost in 2024. Democrats handed her opponent slot to a guy...