U.S. Bombs Iran as Congress Packs for Vacation
The United States carried out a wave of military strikes against Iran this weekend as the conflict between the two countries continued to escalate, according...
Gas Hits $4 Again Because Trump's Iran War Is Going Great
Congratulations, America. Gas is $4 a gallon again. The national average crossed that threshold today, per AAA, right on schedule with the Trump...
Fetterman to Trump: Stop Whining About 2020, You Have a War to End
Six years after losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden, Donald Trump gave a primetime televised address blaming China for rigging it against him. Pennsylvania...
Deloitte Took $768M to Run Michigan's Medicaid System and Denied Disabled People Coverage
A global consulting firm collected $768 million in Michigan taxpayer money to run the state's Medicaid eligibility system, and what disabled residents got for...
Democrats Are Terrified of Their Own Voters on Israel
Something genuinely significant happened in the House last week, and it did not get nearly enough attention. A vote over U.S. aid to Israel turned into a...
Spain Beats Argentina 1-0 to Win the 2026 World Cup at MetLife
Spain outshot Argentina 20-3, dominated every single statistical category for 90-plus minutes of regulation, and still couldn't score until the 106th minute....
FDA's Lettuce Test Was Wrong While 1,600+ People Got Explosive Diarrhea
The Food and Drug Administration ran a test on contaminated lettuce, got a positive result, and then announced the test was wrong. Meanwhile, more than 1,600...
60 Minutes Chased 60 Million Butterflies Up an 11,000-Foot Mountain and Almost Got Nothing
Sixty million monarch butterflies roosted in a four-and-a-half-acre patch of forest on the side of a Mexican mountain, and Anderson Cooper rode a horse up...
Trump Tried to Crash Spain's World Cup Party and Got Booed Off the Pitch
The United States co-hosted the World Cup, Spain won it in extra time, and Donald Trump celebrated by trying to plant himself in the middle of Spain's trophy...
Another U.S. Soldier Dead in Iran War — That's 17 Now
A U.S. service member is dead in northern Iraq after a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian drone went catastrophically wrong. He...
Congress Has Passed Fewer Bills Than Almost Any Before It — And It's Getting Worse
The 119th Congress has passed fewer bills than almost any Congress in modern history, handed a sitting president the power to start wars and set tariffs...
Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Trick for Killing Billions in State Grants
The Trump administration found an obscure little clause buried in federal grant contracts and decided it was a skeleton key for canceling billions of dollars...
Trump's Gold-Plated Airport Rename Is Already Falling Apart
Donald Trump got a Florida law passed to rename an international airport after himself, strong-armed a reluctant county commission into signing a trademark...
GOP Insider Admits 2026 Plan: 'Voters Have to Hate Dems More Than They Hate Us'
A Republican operative connected to Donald Trump's political operation just told Axios, out loud, using their actual mouth, that the party's entire 2026...
Your Apartment Is a Shoebox. Here's How to Stop Hating It.
The average New York City apartment is roughly the size of a parking space with delusions of grandeur. But according to interior designers speaking with NPR, a...
Messi vs. Mbappé: One Golden Boot, One World Cup Final, Zero Chill
Lionel Messi is 90 minutes away from winning both the World Cup Final and the Golden Boot, the kind of ending that would break the internet so thoroughly it...
British Runner Shatters Mile Record That's Stood Since 1999
Josh Kerr told the world in March he was going to break the mile world record. On Saturday in London, he did exactly that, running 3 minutes and 42.66 seconds...
Trump Backed Her, But This Guy's Running Anyway
Lindsey Graham has been dead for one week, and the scramble for his South Carolina Senate seat is already a full-on Republican civil war. Donald Trump told the...
Andrew Tate Arrested in Miami: 7 Rape Counts, 19 Child Porn Charges
Andrew Tate, the internet's most famous rape apologist, was arrested Saturday in Miami on a sealed federal warrant connected to British extradition proceedings...
Iran Kills 2 U.S. Troops in Jordan, One Still Missing
Two American service members are dead, one is missing, and four more were medevaced to hospitals after Iran launched a wave of ballistic missiles and attack...
The U.S. Has Fought Wars for 20 of the Last 25 Years and Won Basically None of Them
The United States has been at war for more than 20 of the past 25 years, fought three massive conflicts in the same region, and has essentially nothing to show...
China's Kimi K3 Just Made OpenAI Look Like a Luxury Brand Nobody Asked For
Silicon Valley spent a decade telling everyone that building the smartest AI in the room was the whole game. China just changed the rules. Moonshot AI's Kimi...
Detroit's Air Was Literally the Worst on Earth This Week
On Friday morning, the air quality index in Detroit hit 435, making it the single worst air of any major city on the planet. Not Phoenix in a dust storm. Not...
Science Confirms You're Miserable Because You Have Too Many Choices
You have access to 2,000 pairs of jeans, every Netflix show ever made, and a dating app with literally millions of potential partners, and somehow you are more...
Darline Graham, Senator for 24 Hours, Is Already Eyeing a Full Term
Lindsey Graham died on July 11. His sister Darline was sworn into his Senate seat on July 15. By July 17, according to the Associated Press, she was already...
Taco Bell's Lettuce Has Given 1,644 People Parasite Diarrhea
Somewhere in America, right now, a person who just wanted a Crunchwrap Supreme is lying on a bathroom floor with a parasite. At least 1,644 people have been...
Night Seven: The US Is Bombing Iran Every Single Night Now
The United States bombed Iran for the seventh night in a row on Friday. Not a typo. Seven consecutive nights of American airstrikes against a sovereign nation,...
Con Ed Left a Manhole Uncovered. A Woman Fell In and Burned to Death.
A 56-year-old overnight cleaner parked her car in midtown Manhattan, stepped out onto the sidewalk, and fell ten feet into an open manhole. She did not die...
DOJ Says TikTok Ban on Gov Devices Is Dead Now, Actually
The Justice Department has officially decided that the federal law banning TikTok from government devices does not, in fact, apply to TikTok anymore. This is...
One Dead as Legionnaires' Outbreak Hits NYC's Priciest Zip Code
One person is dead and at least 67 are sick after a Legionnaires' disease outbreak took hold in Manhattan's Upper East Side, the kind of neighborhood where the...
Americans Can't Tell Real Photos From AI Fakes, Score 50/50
A professional investigative journalist with nearly a decade of experience just scored 25% on a quiz designed to tell real photos from AI fakes. That's worse...
Biden Judge Just Killed New Jersey's AR-15 Ban. Yes, Really.
A Biden-appointed federal judge just wrote the opinion that gun control advocates have been dreading for years. On Friday, the full Third U.S. Circuit Court of...
GOP Redraws Alabama Map, Erasing the District That Finally Gave Tuskegee a Voice
A 19-year-old in Tuskegee, Alabama recently decided to let a gashed, bleeding arm go untreated rather than travel to the nearest hospital and pay a bill he...
Europe and US Are Baking Alive. Phoenix Found a Fix. Nobody's Listening.
France recorded over 2,000 extra deaths during a record-breaking heatwave in late June. England and Wales have lost an estimated 2,700 people to heat since...
Lockheed Martin Is Paying $6M to Build Trump a Helipad He Doesn't Have Permission For
Donald Trump is installing a 100-foot-wide black granite helipad on the White House South Lawn, skipping congressional approval, bypassing the Commission of...
Your AC Bill Is Eating You Alive. Here's How to Stop It.
It's 100 degrees outside, you've been blasting your AC all day, and somewhere in a utility company office, a middle manager is looking at your account and...
7.3 Quake Rattles Mexico-Guatemala Border, Tsunami Alert Lifted
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake slammed the southern Mexican Pacific coast on Friday morning, shaking everything from Mexico City to El Salvador, triggering a...
Beshear Got Calls Saying McConnell Was Dead Before McConnell Said Anything
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear says he received calls from two separate agencies suggesting Mitch McConnell had died — and this happened before McConnell's...
Taco Bell Warned the SEC About 'Explosive Diarrhea Parasite' Then 7,000 People Got It
Yum! Brands, the parent company of Taco Bell, told the Securities and Exchange Commission that cyclospora, the parasite responsible for weeks of "explosive"...
12 Million People Think FIFA Rigged the World Cup for Messi
More than 12 million people have signed a petition demanding FIFA disqualify Argentina from the 2026 World Cup, because apparently that's where we are now....
Florida Let a Teacher Convicted of Sex Abuse Open a Private School With Public Money
A Florida teacher lost her license a decade ago after sexually abusing a 16-year-old student. Last year, she opened a private school. The state knew. The state...
Melbourne Is the World's Priciest City for Beer and Smokes, and Australians Are Shrugging
Congratulations, Melbourne. You have beaten every other city on earth at something, and that something is making a beer and a pack of smokes eye-wateringly,...
Cameroon Says Companies Hid $680B in Gold Tax. Yes, Billion.
Cameroon just announced it is going after roughly $680 billion in unpaid tax and customs revenues from its gold sector. That number is not a typo. The...
ICE Hired a Guy His Own Family Says Never Should Have Had a Gun
An ICE officer shot a Colombian man in Maine this week. His own relatives told the Associated Press he struggled with serious mental health issues since early...
ICE Shooter Had Suicide Attempts, Bipolar Diagnosis, and Threw Boiling Water at His Wife Holding Their Baby
The ICE officer who shot and killed a 25-year-old Colombian man in his car in Biddeford, Maine this week threw boiling water at his ex-wife while she was...
Trump Cited a CIA Report That Directly Contradicts His Own Claim
Donald Trump stood in front of the country during a prime-time White House address and cited a CIA report as proof that Venezuela manipulated its elections....
Xi Tells the World AI Shouldn't Be One Country's Toy, While Building China's AI Empire
Xi Jinping stood in front of more than a thousand Chinese tech firms on Friday and declared that artificial intelligence 'should not be a solo performance by a...
Indonesia's Trans Women Are Being Hunted in the Streets While Cops Ghost the Press
Mobs of up to 20 people are chasing, beating, stripping, and throwing bottles of urine at transgender women in Bogor, Indonesia, while the local police chief...
ICE Agents Handcuffed a Man at Vegas Airport, Then Pulled Up Their Hoods and Fled
Two plainclothes ICE agents handcuffed a screaming man on the floor of a Las Vegas airport terminal, then pulled hoodies over their faces and walked away when...
Ransomware Hackers Just Killed America's Fairlife Milk Supply
Someone hacked into the production systems of America's most expensive milk brand and shut the whole thing down. Coca-Cola confirmed Thursday that a ransomware...
Maine Dem Debate Moment: 'I'm a Songwriter' Is Her Senate Pitch
A Maine Democratic Senate candidate was asked what qualifies her to serve in the United States Senate on Thursday night, and she answered, in part, that she is...
Trump's Midterm Speech Was a 2020 Rerun Nobody Asked For
Donald Trump gave a primetime address to the nation this week and spent it relitigating a six-year-old election he lost. With November's midterms approaching...
ICE Agents Say Traffic Stops Are Safer — Trump Agreed Before the Bodies Were Cold
Two ICE officer-involved shootings happened in a single week. The Department of Homeland Security responded by pausing vehicle stops. Then Donald Trump got on...
Court Lets Pentagon Keep Babysitting Reporters Like Toddlers at a Museum
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Pentagon can keep requiring journalists to be escorted around its own headquarters like shoplifting suspects at...