Walz Pardoned a Child Rapist to Stop Deportation. Rubio Deported Him Anyway.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz used his clemency powers to pardon a man convicted of repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl, apparently in an effort to prevent his...
Trump Cuts Foreign Journalist Visas to 240 Days, Chinese Press Gets 90
The Trump administration just decided that foreign journalists covering the United States should get eight months to do their jobs, down from five years, and...
Epstein Survivors Say AG Nominee Blanche Treated Them Like a To-Do List Item
Jeffrey Epstein's survivors finally got a meeting with the man who wants to be America's top law enforcement officer. According to Axios, they walked out...
Britain's Getting Its 7th PM Since 2016 and He's Never Held a Press Conference
Andy Burnham was declared leader of Britain's Labour Party on Friday, making him the country's prime minister-in-waiting until Monday, when Keir Starmer...
Lindsey Graham, 71, Dies: From 'Stinkball' to Trump's Lap Dog
Lindsey Graham, the senator who stole beer off strangers' tables as a child, spent forty years in public life, and somehow managed to be both a profile in...
Pakistan Kills 24 Taliban Militants in 24 Hours After Suicide Car Bomb
A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into police officers and civilians in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday. By Friday, 24 militants were...
Nobody Is Moving: Iran War Shuts Down the Strait of Hormuz
A Greek maritime CEO who monitors one of the world's most critical shipping chokepoints just said, flatly, "nobody is willing to move." Six consecutive nights...
Science Found a Better Way to Eat Your Corpse (It's Worms)
Scientists at a natural history museum in Iran have discovered that finger-sized beetle larvae will cheerfully eat the flesh off any dead animal you put in...
U.S. Bombed Six Bridges in Iran. Iran Shot at Kuwait. Oil Is Up 10%.
The United States bombed six bridges in Iran on Friday. Iran responded by launching missiles and drones at Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman. Pete Hegseth posted a...
8 Dems Fight to Inherit the Throne of a Guy Who Just Imploded
Graham Platner is gone, disgraced, out of the Maine Senate race. And yet, on Thursday night, eight Democrats stood on a stage and competed over who loves his...
Hegseth's 'High-T War Dept' + Vance's Corn Dog Secret = America
The United States is currently fighting a rebooted war with Iran, and the Secretary of Defense's big strategic innovation is mandatory testosterone screening...
Trump Held a Primetime Address to Show Zero Evidence of Voter Fraud
Donald Trump commandeered primetime television Wednesday night to warn America that its elections are vulnerable to being "rigged and stolen" -- and then...
Trump Says China Rigged 2020. China Says He's Making It Up.
Donald Trump stood in front of the country Thursday night and told them China spent years trying to destroy his presidency, that the intelligence community...
12 AGs Sue to Kill the $111B Paramount-Warner Merger Nobody Asked For
Twelve state attorneys general filed suit Monday to block the $111 billion merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery, arguing the deal violates...
Elon Musk Said Name One Kid Who Died. Here Are Three.
Elon Musk went on X at the end of June and issued a challenge: critics of the USAID shutdown "cannot cite a single name" of someone who died, he wrote. He...
GOP's Third 'Big Beautiful Bill' Is Already Falling Apart
Republicans just finished congratulating themselves on the one-year anniversary of the 'big, beautiful bill' and have already started breaking each other's...
NBA Boss: GOP Turned Caitlin Clark Into a 'Political Football'
NBA commissioner Adam Silver went to a panel event in New York this week and said the quiet part out loud: the relentless national debate about fouls committed...
Putin Jails His Own Fanboy After Anti-War Manifesto Goes Viral
Ilya Remeslo spent years being exactly the kind of loyal, loudmouth blogger the Kremlin loves. He attacked dissidents on demand, even testified against Alexei...
Trump Demands Networks Lose Licenses for Not Airing His Speech
Donald Trump gave a primetime televised address Thursday night, and three of the biggest networks in America looked at their schedules and said, no thanks....
The Fed Came to Wisconsin to Find Out Why Americans Still Buy $400 Wrenches
Some people get their ashes stored in miniature Snap-on toolboxes. That sentence is true, and it tells you almost everything you need to know about why the...
ICE Grabbed a Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Mid-Amazon Route
A man who escaped a Chinese government crackdown on human rights lawyers, filed for asylum in the United States, and spent the last several years delivering...
Big Tech's AI Super PAC Has Millions to Burn Before November
Silicon Valley has decided that buying Congress is actually a pretty good investment. According to Axios, pro-AI super PACs are sitting on millions of dollars...
GOP Outspends Dems $53M to $17M on Immigration Ads—and Counting
Republicans have spent $53 million on immigration-related political ads since January. Democrats have spent $17 million. That gap is not a rounding error — it...
Wildfire Smoke Turns NYC and Chicago Skies Orange Again
The sky over New York City is orange again. Chicago too. Toronto. The smoke rolling in from wildfires burning across northern Minnesota and Canada is coating...
Royal Caribbean Ditching Haiti Stop Through 2027 as Gang Violence Wins
Royal Caribbean has officially punted on Haiti for another year, extending its suspension of visits to Labadee through June 2027 as the country remains trapped...
Xi Plays Global AI Savior While US Hands Him the Script
While Washington was busy congratulating itself on blocking China from advanced chips, Xi Jinping walked into Shanghai on Friday, gathered leaders from across...
ICE Shot a Man Going to Work. The 'Meth' Was Salt.
A 52-year-old father of three was driving to work in Houston on July 7th when federal immigration agents stopped his car, shot him, and left him dying in the...
Trump's Big Election Fraud Speech Had One Problem: The Fraud
Donald Trump commandeered primetime television Thursday night to tell America its election system is a catastrophe, backed by a fresh dump of newly...
Starship Flight 13 Aborted With 1 Second to Go as Engines Refuse to Fire
The world's biggest rocket, on its 13th flight, got one second from liftoff before the engines said no. SpaceX's Starship scrubbed Thursday's test flight after...
Trump's Primetime Speech Blames China for 2020 — His Own Intel Said Otherwise
Donald Trump stood in the White House Thursday night, in front of his assembled cabinet, with no journalists allowed to ask questions, and delivered a...
Memorial Cruise for Dead Friend Kills Three More in SF Bay Capsize
Twenty people boarded a boat in San Francisco Bay to scatter a dead friend's ashes and say goodbye. Three of them are now dead themselves, and two more are...
Johnson Plans to Lose a Budget Vote on Purpose
Mike Johnson has apparently decided that the best way to win is to lose first, on purpose, in public. The House Speaker is planning to hold a spending vote he...
Trump Threatens to Kill NBC and ABC Licenses for Skipping His Speech
Donald Trump threatened Thursday to revoke the broadcast licenses of ABC and NBC because they declined to drop their regular programming and air his speech...
Bird Strike Killed Six on Hudson Tour — Their Copter Had a Bird-Strike Light With No Switch
A bird strike almost certainly tore a sightseeing helicopter apart over the Hudson River last April, killing a Spanish family of five and their pilot, the...
Trump Claims Intel Agencies Hid China's 2020 Election Meddling
On Thursday night, Donald Trump stood in the White House and told America that its own intelligence agencies have been lying to everyone about China and the...
Chicago Had the World's Worst Air Quality Last Night, Thanks to 180 Canadian Wildfires
Chicago had the worst air quality of any city on the entire planet Thursday evening. Not worst in the Midwest. Not worst in the US. Worst. On. Earth. That was...
Trump Is Literally Selling Wall Street Early Access to His Own Words
The president of the United States is about to get a cut of the money banks pay to read his tweets faster. Trump Media announced this week that it will launch...
Trump's Prime-Time Election Speech Is Built on Intel His Own Agencies Debunked
Donald Trump took over prime-time television Thursday night to tell America, once again, that the 2020 election was stolen from him, and to promise new...
China's New 2.8-Trillion-Parameter AI Just Gave Silicon Valley a Panic Attack
A Chinese AI startup just dropped a 2.8-trillion-parameter model onto the internet and walked away like it was nothing. Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is being...
GOP Write-In Candidate, Ex-Marine, Arrested for Threatening to Kill Trump in God's Name
A man running as a Republican candidate for Congress in Florida was arrested this week for allegedly posting videos of himself, in full military uniform,...
MSG Sues Wired, Claims Reporters Built the 'Gay Celeb List' Themselves
Madison Square Garden is suing Wired Magazine in Manhattan Supreme Court, and the lawsuit contains a genuinely wild allegation: that Wired's reporters didn't...
40-Year-Old Bones in the Desert Finally Name Themselves: LA Millionaire's Remains ID'd
An 80-year-old millionaire walks out of her home in 1981 to find her cat and never comes back. Her killer goes to prison for life. And for the next 45 years,...
Trump Gives Primetime Election Speech While Refusing to Say He'll Accept Results
The man who has spent six years lying about losing the 2020 election is giving a primetime address tonight about election integrity. When a reporter asked his...
NY Bill Would Kill Copays, Deductibles, and Out-of-Network Bills Forever
A doctor in upstate New York racked up $6,000 in medical bills during a high-risk pregnancy, despite having what she herself describes as "good insurance." Her...
103 Democrats Voted to Cut Israel Aid. Jeffries' Own Whip Was One of Them.
Hakeem Jeffries wrote his caucus a letter. He personally lobbied against the amendment. Then his own second-in-command voted the other way anyway. Wednesday's...
Trump's Teleprompter Guy Made $100K Betting on Trump's Own Words
The man who scrolls Donald Trump's words across a screen before Trump says them allegedly turned that job into a nearly $100,000 prediction market windfall....
Tillis Won't Vote to Confirm Trump's AG Until He Meets Epstein Victims
The man Donald Trump wants as his permanent Attorney General can't get out of committee because a Republican senator is demanding he first sit down with the...
Billionaires Are Begging Dave Portnoy to Run for NYC Mayor
Dave Portnoy, the pizza-rating, beef-starting, staff-abusing founder of Barstool Sports, is reportedly being courted by a parade of billionaires who want to...
857 Fires, 'Hazardous' Air, and a World Cup Final in the Crosshairs
Detroit currently has the worst air quality of any city on Earth. Not Beijing. Not Jakarta. Detroit. Meanwhile, 857 wildfires are burning across Canada, a...
GOP Senators Can't Confirm Mitch McConnell Is Alive and Functioning
The United States Senate cannot confirm the operational status of one of its own members. Senator Mitch McConnell has been absent since June 14, his colleagues...
Trump Wants a Permanent Fence Around the Last Place You Can Yell at Him
The Trump administration has formally proposed installing permanent 8-to-9-foot fencing around Lafayette Park, the seven-acre plot directly north of the White...
Yale's Secret Trump Deal Shows Who Universities Really Work For
Yale's leadership started quietly negotiating with the Trump administration, and for a brief, illuminating moment, we all got to watch a supposedly free...
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...