30% of Americans Are Shoplifting Now, Mostly Food
Three in ten Americans say they have shoplifted this year. Not luxury goods. Not electronics. Food. Personal hygiene products. The basics. And according to a...
NJ's Own Software Registered 6,600 Noncitizens to Vote — and Then Said Nothing
New Jersey's own Motor Vehicle Commission software secretly registered roughly 6,600 noncitizens to vote between 2023 and 2024, and apparently nobody in state...
Italy Finds $286M of Cocaine in Bananas — Again
Italian police pulled 1,700 pounds of pure cocaine out of a refrigerated banana container at the port of Vado Ligure this week, with a street value of $286...
Spain Won the World Cup. The IRS Won Everything Else.
Spain beat Argentina 1-0 in extra time to win the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and the celebrations were barely dry before the IRS started doing math. The winning...
Hunter Biden Is Posting 23 Times a Day and America Can't Look Away
Hunter Biden is posting on X an average of 23 times a day, cracking jokes about his drug history, trolling JD Vance with ice cream photos, and telling...
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz Freeze $1B in Medicaid Funds to Blue States
The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota, and the two men announcing it are Robert F. Kennedy...
Trump's HIV Cuts Closed 1,700 Clinics and Killed 16,000 Jobs
The United States spent two decades building a global HIV program that saved 26 million lives. Donald Trump spent about a year dismantling it. Now the first...
Novo Nordisk Sues Eli Lilly for Rigging Its Own Weight Loss Drug Ads
Eli Lilly, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies on earth, apparently could not beat a competitor fair and square, so it allegedly just compared the...
Trump Subpoenaed a Reporter's Mom to Find a Leak About His Qatar Jet
The Trump administration, apparently unsatisfied with subpoenaing journalists at their homes, has now gone after their spouses and at least one reporter's...
ICE Arrested a Record 43,138 People in June — and Hid Data for 3 Months
The Trump administration arrested more immigrants in a single month than at any point since taking office, and then spent three months making sure you didn't...
The Guy Who Watched Occupy Implode Has a Theory About Why the Left Keeps Losing
Fifteen years ago, Yotam Marom helped organize tens of thousands of people into Occupy Wall Street, one of the most visible protest movements in American...
India's 'Cockroach' Protesters Get Beaten by Police and Come Back Stronger
Indian police beat students with batons, fired tear gas at thousands of young protesters, forcibly hospitalized a hunger-striking activist, and injured 60...
Bhutan Expelled Them. Pennsylvania Gave Them a Soccer Field.
A man named Kalu Singh Tamang was once a national soccer star in Bhutan. His country ethnically cleansed him, he spent nearly two decades coaching fellow...
Marco Rubio Personally Signed the Order to Deport a Grandpa of 9 for Protesting Gaza
The president of Wisconsin's largest mosque just got out of federal immigration custody after more than 80 days, having lost over 30 pounds, been denied...
Court Rules Biden's Private Tapes Must Go to Heritage Foundation
A federal appeals court ruled Monday night that Joe Biden's private conversations with his biographer belong to the Heritage Foundation now, because nothing...
Gen Z Is Paying Subscription Fees to Feel Less Alone
More than a third of 18-to-24-year-olds believe no one will ever fall in love with them. Eighty percent say they'd consider an AI romance. And Silicon Valley,...
Tennessee Tased a Homeless Man and Hit Him With a Felony for Sleeping in a Park
A 49-year-old man in Nashville got tased, arrested, and slapped with two felony counts carrying up to six years in prison. His crime: sleeping in the same...
Hegseth Marches to Congress Demanding $350 Billion More to Play With
Pete Hegseth, the Fox News host turned Secretary of Defense who has spent the better part of his tenure generating scandal faster than the Pentagon generates...
Pop Star D4vd Goes to Trial for Killing 13-Year-Old to Hide Their 'Relationship'
A Los Angeles courtroom opened its doors Tuesday for the preliminary hearing of David Anthony Burke, the TikTok-famous singer who performs as D4vd, accused of...
Trump Admin Wants to Deny Green Cards If You Used Medicaid
The Trump administration wants to punish immigrants for using health insurance. That is not a hyperbolic summary. That is literally what is happening. On...
Lebanon's President Hits the Oval Office for the First Time in 17 Years
No Lebanese president has walked into the White House since 2009. That drought ends Tuesday, when Joseph Aoun sits down with Donald Trump in the Oval Office...
Federal Judge Slams Brakes on $110B Paramount-Warner Merger
A federal judge just told two of Hollywood's oldest rivals they cannot become one giant monopoly, at least not yet. US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín...
Knife Attack Outside Athens Acropolis Museum Injures Two Greek-American Tourists
Someone went to Athens to see one of the most awe-inspiring monuments humanity has ever built, and got stabbed outside the gift shop instead. A man attacked...
DOJ Probes Harvard's $630M Chinese Donations for Excluding Americans
Harvard University has accepted more foreign money than any other American university, nearly $4.5 billion worth, including over $630 million from China alone....
Work 80 Hours or Lose Your Healthcare: Medicaid's New Cruelty Math
Here's a fun new rule from the people who brought you 'healthcare is a privilege, not a right': if you're poor and sick and on Medicaid, you now have to prove...
Johnson Swears House Won't Take Recess While Government Funding, Iran War Budget, and Defense Bill All Hang in the Air
Mike Johnson looked a Fox News reporter in the eye on Monday and said, with the full confidence of a man who has never once successfully herded his own caucus,...
Scammers Are Renting Out Houses They Don't Own for $800 a Month
Someone in the East Bay listed their neighbor's house for $800 a month on TikTok. They didn't own it. They didn't have a key to it. They just needed someone...
Dad and Son Kidnap 2 Federal Biologists at Gunpoint Over Frogs
Two U.S. Forest Service biologists were counting frogs in a Northern California forest last Thursday when a man with an AR-15 walked up and zip-tied their...
Tropical Storm Bertha Eyes New Orleans With Life-Threatening Surge
A slow-moving tropical storm is grinding toward New Orleans right now, and forecasters are not being subtle about what happens next. Tropical Storm Bertha is...
Maine Dems Pick a Logger to Replace Their Sexual Assault Guy
Maine Democrats spent approximately one week in full panic mode after their Senate nominee quit over sexual assault allegations, and then watched their entire...
Republicans Eye Third Reconciliation Bill to Restock Weapons After Iran Strikes
Congress hasn't even finished cleaning up the last reconciliation bill and Senate Republicans are already quietly floating a third one. The reason: the Iran...
FDA Fumbles Cyclospora Test But Still Blames Taylor Farms Lettuce
The FDA announced a false positive in its own lab testing for a parasite outbreak that has already sickened at least 1,644 people — and then, in the same...
Night 10: US Bombs Iran Again as Tehran Shoots at Jordan and Calls It a 'Full-Scale War'
Ten consecutive nights. That's how long the United States military has now been bombing Iran, and it just launched another round. Iran, for its part, is...
Trump Slaps Canada With 50% Tariffs, Blames Wildfire Smoke
Donald Trump is imposing 50% tariffs on a sweeping range of Canadian goods, and the justifications he's offering are so varied, so contradictory, and so deeply...
Five Dead in Ohio River After Bystanders Jumped In to Help a Swimmer
Five people are dead in a Columbus suburb after what started as a summer afternoon by the river turned into a cascading tragedy, with each person who jumped in...
GOP Congressman Gave Young Female Staffers Personalized Handguns as 'Gifts'
A Republican congressman from North Carolina thought the appropriate thing to give his young female staffers was a personalized handgun. Each. Rep. Chuck...
19-Year-Old Pvt. Gonzales and Lt. Feehan Dead. Iran Promises More.
A 19-year-old private from Carrollton, Texas and a 25-year-old lieutenant from Hawaii are dead, killed at a Jordanian air base by an Iranian attack that the...
Andrew Tate Shackled in Miami Court, Faces 59 Charges and UK Extradition
Andrew Tate, the self-proclaimed misogynist who built a social media empire telling young men that women who get assaulted bear responsibility for it, stood...
Armed Vet Sets Fire Outside ICE's NYC Office With Axes, Fireworks, and a Cart
A 43-year-old Army veteran showed up to one of the most heavily surveilled federal buildings in New York City on Monday morning carrying two axes, a machete,...
Trump Tells Wildfire-Ravaged Canada to Pay Him for the Smoke
Over 900 wildfires are raging across Canada, destroying homes, burning nearly 28,000 square kilometers of land, and forcing thousands of people to flee. Donald...
Jackie the Bald Eagle Is Hurt, Alone, and Fighting — Just Like the Rest of Us
America's most famous bald eagle has been missing for days, got jumped by two younger birds while she was down, fended them off with her talons from flat on...
El Mayo Gets Life Plus $15 Billion for Running the World's Biggest Drug Empire
The co-founder of the most powerful drug trafficking organization in human history stood in a Brooklyn federal courtroom on Monday and apologized for his...
Trump's Qatari Gift Plane Can't Stop Missiles. Whoops.
The luxury jet that Qatar's royal family gifted to Donald Trump is missing the anti-missile defense systems that protect a sitting U.S. president, and Trump...
Gulf Storm Surge Could Swamp New Orleans Region Within 48 Hours
There is a tropical depression sitting about 120 miles south of Panama City, Florida right now, and it is about to have a name. The National Hurricane Center...
Iran's President Says It's 'Full-Scale War' as Oil Hits $90
Iran's president announced Monday that his country is in a 'full-scale war' with the United States, which is roughly the sentence you never want to read before...
Trump Froze $10B in Childcare Funds Based on a Viral YouTube Video
The Trump administration froze over $10 billion in childcare and family assistance funds for five states, and the justification they kept pointing to was a...
Debt Collectors Are Calling You. You Don't Owe a Dime.
A debt collector calls. They sound official, maybe even threatening. They want money for a credit card balance you've been spending off for years. Here's the...
Armed Man Blows Up Incendiary Device Outside NYC Federal Plaza
A man rolled a cart full of weapons and fireworks up to one of New York City's most prominent federal buildings on a Monday morning and decided to make a...
Your Brain on Fire: 4 Science-Backed Ways to Stop a Meltdown Cold
You're in a screaming fight, or you just got the worst news of your life, and your brain has basically left the building. A psychiatry professor at Montefiore...
Trump's AG Pick Called Himself 'Trump's Lawyer' Mid-Hearing
Trump's nominee for attorney general accidentally called himself "Trump's lawyer" during the very hearing where he promised to restore trust to the Justice...
Ukraine Sent 400 Drones at Moscow Overnight. This War Is Not Ending.
Ukraine fired more than 400 drones at Moscow overnight Sunday into Monday, because apparently this is just what July looks like now. The attack lit up an...
EPA Tells Americans to 'Do Your Own Research' on Cancer Sludge in Food
The Trump administration just killed proposed regulations on cancer-linked 'forever chemicals' in sewage sludge spread on American farmland as fertilizer,...
JD Vance Has a Fourth Kid, First VP Baby in 156 Years
Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance welcomed their fourth child, a boy named Alec Neel Vance, on Sunday at Walter Reed National Military Medical...
AI Is Cutting Drug Development Costs by 70% and Big Pharma Is Salivating
Seventy percent. That's how much artificial intelligence is compressing both the costs and the timelines of early-stage drug development, according to a new...