Century-Old Pipe Explodes Under Sunset Strip, Swallows Buses
A water pipe installed before West Hollywood even existed as a city decided Thursday was the day to stop pretending everything was fine. The 36-inch riveted...
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...
Trump Just Gave PhD Students 4 Years to Finish or Get Out
The Trump administration has finalized rules that give foreign students four years in the United States before they need federal permission to stay, a policy...
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...
ICE Has Killed 4 People With No Body Cams. DHS Blames Democrats.
Four people are dead at the hands of federal immigration agents, none of the officers involved were wearing body cameras, and the Department of Homeland...
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...
Republicans Want to Backdoor Voter ID Into the Budget. Again.
Lindsey Graham died, and before he did, he apparently told Donald Trump that the SAVE America Act was all set. Nobody knows what that means. But Senate...
Got Food Stamps? Trump Says That Might Cost You Your Green Card
The Trump administration has a new way to deny you a green card: find out if you ever used Medicaid, food stamps, or housing assistance, and hold it against...
TrumpRx Has 92 Drugs. The Companies Behind It Make 800.
The president called TrumpRx "the biggest thing to happen in healthcare in many, many decades." Nearly six months in, the site covers fewer than 12% of the...
Trump's Intel Nominee Refused to Say Who Won 2020
Jay Clayton, Donald Trump's nominee to run the entire United States intelligence apparatus, sat in front of the Senate on Wednesday and refused to say who won...
DNC Made Leaders Sign NDAs Before Talking About How Broke It Is
The Democratic National Committee, a political party that would very much like you to donate money to help them fight for democracy, made its own senior...
Oil Giants Pocketed $30M Per Hour While You Paid at the Pump
While you were wincing at the gas pump after the U.S.-Iran war sent oil prices through the roof, the world's top 100 oil and gas companies were quietly banking...
ICE Used Force in 1-in-3 Arrests. Then Shot Two Men in Their Cars.
ICE officers pushed, tackled, choked, tased, and rammed cars so often that a new ACLU report had to invent a phrase for it: 'default tool.' The report,...
Billionaires Can Now Buy a Bunker Condo With a Spa and Cigar Lounge for the Apocalypse
A Canadian crypto mogul bought a 64,000-square-foot Cold War nuclear bunker for roughly the price of a used Honda Civic and is now converting it into luxury...
Trump Frees American from Iran While Also Bombing Iran
An American citizen named Dena Karari is free after being trapped in Iran since December 2024, which is genuinely good news. The slightly surreal part is that...
Uber Just Dropped $14.8B to Swallow a Global Food Delivery Empire
Uber has decided that dominating American streets wasn't quite enough, so on Thursday it launched a $14.8 billion public takeover offer for Delivery Hero, the...
Warren Buffett Says America's Gone Full Degenerate Gambler
Warren Buffett, the man who spent seven decades quietly compounding wealth while everyone else chased the next hot thing, has finally said out loud what a lot...
Messi Assists Both Goals as Argentina Breaks England's Heart Again
England led. England had sixty good minutes. England had Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham and an entire nation praying at the altar of 'this time.' Then a...
You Need a 740 Credit Score to Not Get Gouged on a Mortgage Right Now
Mortgage rates have been camped out around 6.5% for months now, and if your credit score isn't at least 740, lenders are going to charge you even more than...
Wildfire Smoke Turns NYC Sky Brown and Ranks It Among World's Most Polluted Cities
New York City ranked among the most polluted cities on Earth this week, not because of anything the city did, but because Canada and Minnesota are on fire and...
Blue States Are Taxing Vapes Up to $17.90 — Same Product Costs $0.36 in Red States
The exact same vaping product can cost you nearly eighteen dollars more in taxes depending on which side of a state line you're standing on. Minnesota and...
Trump Hits Brazil With 25% Tariffs While Exempting Brazilian Beef and Coffee
The United States is slapping 25% tariffs on Brazil starting July 22, citing unfair trade practices by the world's tenth-biggest economy. The list of exempted...
Air Conditioning Is Now a Luxury Good. People Are Dying.
Europe's heat dome killed more than 1,300 people in less than two weeks this June. The United States loses around 2,000 people a year to extreme heat. The...
Man Raised by Wrong Family for 36 Years Sues Hospital That Lost the Paperwork
A Colorado man took a DNA test two years ago and discovered he had spent 36 years living with the wrong family, raised by people who were not his biological...
Day 5: Trump Says He Might Just 'Finish Off' Iran
The United States is now on its fifth consecutive day of airstrikes against Iran, a ceasefire that lasted less than a month is dead in the water, and the...
354 Leopards Left in West Africa, and They're Somehow Clawing Back
There are 354 West African leopards left on the planet. Armed jihadist groups have moved into their last major stronghold. Poachers are hunting them for their...
World Now Trusts Xi More Than Trump in 22 Countries, Including Canada
For the first time in roughly twenty years of polling, the world has decided it likes China more than the United States. Not slightly more. Not in a few...
Hegseth Orders Mandatory Testosterone Tests for Soldiers Over 30
Pete Hegseth, a man who was confirmed as Secretary of Defense despite allegations that would have disqualified him from serving in the military he now...
Jeffries and Clark Split on Israel Aid Vote, Breaking Democratic Leadership Unity
The two top House Democrats can't agree on whether to cut off U.S. aid to Israel, and they're not even pretending otherwise. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries...
Trump Killed $317M in Cancer Research. Now Black and Rural Americans Will Pay With Their Lives.
The Trump administration canceled 181 National Cancer Institute grants totaling more than $317 million, and a new report from the American Association for...
Grocery Outlet Wants to Scan Your Face to Catch Shoplifters
A grocery chain in the Bay Area has decided that the best way to catch shoplifters is to scan the face of every single person who walks through the door. Not...
China's Economy Posts Worst Quarter in 3 Years and the Numbers Are Ugly
China's economy grew at its slowest pace in over three years last quarter, posting a 4.3% annualized growth rate for April through June, well below the 5% clip...
Omar Pushes US to Join ICC, Two Days After Rubio Vowed to Kill It
Two days. That's how long it took for someone in Congress to formally push back after Marco Rubio announced the United States would 'systematically disable'...
Americans Say Economy Is Trash. Then They Go Shopping.
Americans are telling every pollster who will listen that the economy is a catastrophe, a disaster, a rock-bottom nightmare from which there is no escape. Then...
Biden's Memoir Drops Two Weeks After Midterms Because Why Not
Joe Biden is publishing a presidential memoir, and he has chosen to drop it exactly two weeks after the midterm elections in which Democrats are desperately...
Meta Used AI to Fire People on Medical Leave, Then Said 'Actually That Was Humans'
Meta fired roughly 8,000 people using an AI-assisted performance system that, almost by design, punished anyone who had the audacity to take medical or...
ICE Killed Two Men Who Weren't Even Their Targets. That's 11 Dead This Term.
In less than one week, ICE agents shot and killed two men who were not the targets of their operations. One was a 52-year-old builder who had lived in the...