Historian Walks the Underground Railroad for America's 250th — Arriving in Canada on July 4th
A historian is marking America's 250th birthday by walking the exact route enslaved people used to escape it. Anthony Cohen, 62, is making a 750-mile journey...
Bills Cut O.J. Simpson From New Stadium's Wall of Fame
The Buffalo Bills are opening a brand new stadium this fall, and they've made one thing very clear: O.J. Simpson is not invited to the housewarming. The team...
Kentucky Flash Floods Kill 4, Including Two Found Dead in a Flooded Basement
Two people drowned in a flooded basement. A motorist was swept off the road and killed. Three adults are dead in Madison County alone, and a fourth died in...
Alaska Has Two Dan Sullivan Republicans Running for Senate and the State Can't Stop It
A retired schoolteacher from a small Alaskan fishing village named Dan Sullivan just won the legal right to run against U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan in the...
BB Gun Maniac Opens Fire on LA's Naked Bike Ride
Somewhere in the great American tradition of Things That Should Not Happen, a face-tattooed man dressed head-to-toe in black showed up to Los Angeles's World...
US Bombed Iran Again After Iran Bombed a Tanker Carrying 2M Barrels of Oil
A Panama-flagged oil tanker carrying over two million barrels of crude oil took a drone strike to the hull at 4:30 in the morning, and that was the second...
NYC Serial Killer Rex Heuermann Sent to 'Little Siberia' Prison
Rex Heuermann, the Long Island architect who spent years hiding a monstrous secret behind a respectable career in Manhattan, is headed somewhere appropriately...
Influencer Filled a Pool With 50,000 Pickles and Powered Utah With Them
An influencer filled a swimming pool with 50,000 pickles, swam in it, threw a neighborhood pool party, and then converted the entire soggy mess into natural...
Chuck Schumer Might Back AOC for President, and That Tells You Everything
Chuck Schumer, the 75-year-old Senate Minority Leader who once wrote an entire book about winning back the middle class, is apparently open to backing a...
New Study: COVID Vaccine Cut Heart Attack Risk by 38% in Veterans
A study of more than one million US veterans found that people who got the 2024-2025 COVID vaccine were 57.9% less likely to die of cardiovascular causes than...
Venezuela's Earthquake Dead Near 1,000 and the Gov't Is Confiscating Donations
More than 900 people are dead from the worst earthquakes to hit Venezuela in over a century, thousands more are injured, and survivors in some areas are still...
Trump's Senate Puppet Show Hits Louisiana: Will His Pick Actually Win?
On Saturday, Louisiana Republicans will decide whether Donald Trump still runs the GOP's personnel department or whether his endorsement stamp is starting to...
Ukraine's Secret Drone Team Is Turning Russia Into an Oil Fire
On June 18, Ukraine launched its biggest drone offensive ever on Moscow, hit an oil refinery, and sent what residents described as 'oil rain' falling from the...
Pelosi Walks Away Silent as Socialists Sweep Her Party's Primaries
Nancy Pelosi once told CBS that socialism 'is not the view of the Democratic Party.' That was 2019. On Tuesday night, three socialist candidates backed by New...
Musk Threatens to Sue Congressman for Citing 4.5M Child Deaths from USAID Cuts
A sitting member of Congress cited a peer-reviewed medical journal linking Elon Musk's USAID cuts to 4.5 million child deaths. Musk's response was not a...
Stephen A. Smith Wants to Know How Obama and Clinton Got So Rich
Stephen A. Smith, a man whose entire brand is saying the loud part louder, has turned his attention from NBA trades to presidential net worths. On Wednesday's...
Thunder Lock Up Hartenstein for $75M While Quietly Selling Off the Furniture
The Oklahoma City Thunder have locked up their starting center Isaiah Hartenstein on a three-year, $75 million contract with a mutual option after the 2027-28...
Cape Verde (Pop. 500K) Just Punched Argentina in the Mouth
Cape Verde, a small island archipelago off the west coast of Africa with a population of just over 500,000, has done something no World Cup debutant has...
Tennis Star Gets 4-Year Ban for Refusing a Midnight Test She Says Terrified Her
A stranger shows up at your house late at night, doesn't identify herself, and demands a urine sample. You say no. Four years of your career disappear. This is...
Your Coffee Grounds Could Replace Coal in 90 Seconds
Every year, humanity throws away more than 10 million tons of used coffee grounds, most of it straight into landfills and incinerators, because apparently we...
Nobody Knows What the New Fed Chair Will Do, Including Probably Him
The man in charge of setting interest rates for the largest economy on Earth has been on the job for a hot minute, and nobody — not traders, not economists,...
235 Dead in Venezuela Quakes and SCOTUS Just Made It Harder to Flee
Two massive earthquakes hit Venezuela Wednesday night, killing at least 235 people, injuring more than 4,300, and leaving thousands still buried under rubble....
JD Vance Pulls $4.2M from Silicon Valley in One Night
JD Vance walked into a Palo Alto mansion on Thursday night and walked out with $4.2 million of tech money for the Republican Party. The host was Chamath...
Texas Protesters Got 50-100 Years. The Kavanaugh Assassin Got 8.
Eight people who showed up to protest outside an ICE detention facility in Texas on the Fourth of July were sentenced this week to between 50 and 100 years in...
America Just Built the Biggest Renewable Project in History. On Time. On Budget.
The largest renewable energy infrastructure project in American history just flipped on, and somehow the news cycle barely blinked. The SunZia wind and...
Slotkin to Fellow Dems: New Leadership Needed, or We Keep Losing
Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin went on SiriusXM this week and said out loud what a lot of Democratic voters have been screaming into their pillows since...
USA Loses to Turkey 3-2 But Somehow That's Fine Actually
The United States men's national soccer team lost 3-2 to Turkey on Thursday night at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, in front of what had to be a...
Budapest Hospital Worker Arrested With Human Face, Brain, and Heart in a Jar
A 30-year-old hospital worker in Budapest was arrested last week after Hungarian investigators found a human face, facial skin, a lower leg, a brain, a hand,...
RFK Jr. Pulled Flu Vaccine Ads Mid-Season, Emails Confirm
During one of the worst flu seasons in years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the CDC to kill its own flu vaccine advertising campaigns. Internal emails released...
235 Dead After Venezuela's Worst Quake in a Century Buries Hundreds in Rubble
Two massive earthquakes hit Venezuela within sixty seconds of each other on Wednesday, and if that sounds like a cruel cosmic joke, the punchline is that at...
Only 17% of Americans 'Very Proud' of U.S. — GOP Blames the Left, Not the Guy Running It
A Gallup survey found that only 17 percent of American adults described themselves as 'very proud' of their country last year, the lowest number in the poll's...
Judge Gives DOJ Until July 2 to Release Epstein Files or Explain Itself
A federal judge just gave the Department of Justice a deadline: hand over more unredacted Jeffrey Epstein records by July 2, or stand up in public and explain...
Vance: Watergate Was Just a 'Deep State' Hit Job, Actually
JD Vance stood inside the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on Thursday and told a crowd that Watergate, the scandal that ended a presidency and defined...
GOP Operative Wrote a Pro-Voter-Suppression Op-Ed and Called It 'Good Government'
A Republican political consultant published an op-ed in the New York Post this week arguing that the US Postal Service should require states to hand over voter...
China's New AI Can Hack You For Half the Price of America's
A new Chinese AI model just hit the internet, it matches the best American models at automating cyberattacks, and it costs half as much to run. Sleep tight....
RFK Jr Told Senate His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' His Colleague's Email Says Otherwise.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the United States Senate, twice, under oath, that his 2019 trip to Samoa had 'nothing to do with vaccines.' A newly obtained email...
Judge Blocks Trump's Scheme to Hold Mail Ballots Hostage to Voter Data
The Trump administration had a plan: give us your voter rolls or your constituents don't get mail ballots. A federal judge in Boston looked at that plan on...
House Conservatives Freeze the Floor Until Senate Passes Voter ID Bill Nobody Can Pass
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida has effectively shut down the House floor to force the Senate into passing a voter ID bill that the Senate's own Republican...
Supreme Court Just Made It Harder to Sue Roundup's Maker for Cancer
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday, 7-2, that if a pesticide maker doesn't bother warning you their product might cause cancer, you can't sue them in state court...
SCOTUS Rules 6-3 That You Have to Actually Be in America to Ask America for Help
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 25th that the Trump administration can legally turn asylum seekers away at the US-Mexico border before they set foot on...
Supreme Court Gives Monsanto a Golden Shield, Cancer Patients Get Nothing
The Supreme Court just told tens of thousands of cancer patients that the federal government's pesticide label is more important than their tumors. In a 7-2...
Pentagon Mandates Flu Shots Again After Making Them Optional Caused 275 Cases
Pete Hegseth made flu shots optional for military recruits in late April, citing 'medical autonomy.' By June, nearly 300 people at Air Force boot camp in San...
Trump's Mail-In Voting Crackdown Gets Smacked Down in Boston
A federal judge in Boston just threw a wrench into one of Trump's more constitutionally adventurous projects: using an executive order to rewrite who gets to...
Jamie Dimon's Succession Race Just Got a Starting Gun
Jamie Dimon has been running JPMorgan Chase since 2006, survived two presidential administrations, one global financial meltdown, and roughly ten thousand...
3 in 5 Shooting Survivors Get Zero Mental Health Care. California Has a Fix.
Three in five children who survive a shooting in America never receive a single mental health appointment afterward. They patch up the body, send you home, and...
Trump's Plan to House Homeless Vets Funds Zero Homes, Eyes Forced Institutionalization Instead
Over 30,000 American military veterans are sleeping outside tonight. Donald Trump's answer, per his own budget, is to fund exactly zero new homes for them. His...
Iran Peace Deal Means Nothing to Farmers Paying 23% More for Fertilizer
The Strait of Hormuz is open again, the Iran peace deal is tentatively in place, and fertilizer prices are finally ticking downward. Great news, except for the...
Big Oil's Newest Senator Wants to Gut Environmental Review Before His Seat Gets Warm
A man who was running a natural gas company six months ago is now a sitting U.S. Senator, and his single legislative priority is making it easier to build...
Trump Superfan Running to Lead the UN Wants to 'MUNGA'
The United Nations, that venerable institution Donald Trump has spent a decade trying to humiliate into irrelevance, may soon be run by a man who campaigned...
Louisiana Pastor Beats Neighbor's Son, Cites Bible to Explain It
A Louisiana pastor accused of punching a man 35 times on a public lawn has a simple explanation: scripture made him do it. Tony Spell, 48, pastor of Life...
455 Arrested, $6.5B in Health Care Fraud — Including a $4.6M Philippines Beach Resort
Someone billed Medicare for $3.76 billion in medical equipment they never actually provided, allegedly fled to Southeast Asia with the money, and a separate...
Senate Lets Trump Keep His Iran War Unlimited While Oil Drips Back to Normal
The Senate voted 50-47 on Wednesday to let Donald Trump keep his unchecked war-making authority over Iran, and they did it the day after four of their own...
A U.S. Public University Quietly Trained 1,500 Chinese Defense Execs for 20 Years
For more than twenty years, a public university in the Missouri heartland quietly ran an MBA program that trained over 1,500 executives connected to China's...
Trump Admin Quietly Called Frozen Embryos 'Children' in Federal Policy
Somewhere between a press release and a legal revolution, the Trump administration slipped something remarkable into the fine print last week. The Department...
OpenAI's AI Agent Is Eating ChatGPT's Lunch — And Your Job Is Next
For years, the AI industry has been telling you that the chatbot era was just the warm-up act. Turns out they weren't lying. New research published by OpenAI...
A WWII Navy Officer Saw a Girl in a Magazine and Married Her. The Girl Was a Norman Rockwell.
A Norman Rockwell painting from 1943 is finally on public view, and it turns out the thing contains multitudes: a lawsuit, at least two women who claim to be...
American Politics Is Cracking Up and Nobody's in Charge
Here's where we are: the dominant political movement of the last decade is fracturing, its opposition can't find its footing, a word that sent Democrats into a...
GDP Says We're Fine. Your Grocery Bill Disagrees.
The unemployment rate is low. GDP is humming along. And somehow, Americans feel worse about the economy than they have in years. Democrats are just now getting...
Four Years After Dobbs, Abortion Numbers Are Up. Alito Is Furious.
Four years ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and handed anti-abortion America its biggest victory in half a century. Here is what happened next:...
Medicare Has No Out-of-Pocket Cap. Democrats Want to Fix That.
Here is a fun fact about the flagship American health insurance program, the one that exists specifically so seniors don't get financially destroyed by medical...