Maine's Ranked Choice Votes Are In, and Democracy Actually Worked
Maine counted all its ranked-choice votes overnight and somehow produced a coherent result by Friday morning, which in 2026 feels like a minor miracle worth...
Iran Pauses Nuke Talks After Israel Kills 18 in Lebanon
The ink on the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding was barely dry before Israel killed at least 18 Lebanese civilians in overnight airstrikes, prompting Iran...
Trump Says He Has 'No Limits' to His Power and Compares Himself to History's Dictators
Donald Trump sat down with Axios and announced, with apparent sincerity, that he has discovered 'no limits' to his presidential power since going to war with...
Federal Judges Investigate Themselves for Harassment. Shockingly, It's Not Going Great.
Tens of thousands of people who work for the federal court system cannot sue for harassment or discrimination the way virtually every other American worker...
Half of Americans Think Race Relations Are Bad. Black Americans Say That Number Is Optimistic.
Six years after George Floyd's murder sent millions into the streets, Americans have officially split down the middle on whether race relations in this country...
TSA Begs World Cup Tourists: Please Stop Smuggling Ranch Dressing
The Transportation Security Administration has enough on its plate without confiscating bottles of Hidden Valley from bewildered Norwegians. And yet here we...
Juneteenth Lives. Corporate America Just Stopped Caring.
Juneteenth is still here. The cookouts, the federal day off, the flag emoji in the company Slack channel from HR. What's quietly disappearing is every single...
Hezbollah Drone Kills 4 IDF Soldiers, Blows Up Nuke Deal Too
A Hezbollah drone blew up a tank in Southern Lebanon overnight, killing four Israeli soldiers including a battalion commander, and somehow managed to also blow...
'King of the North' Wins His Seat. Starmer's Clock Is Ticking.
A sitting Labour MP resigned his own seat on purpose just so someone else could win it and come take his boss's job. That is the state of Keir Starmer's...
211 Dead and Counting: The US Military's Nameless, Evidenceless Drug War at Sea
The US military blew up another boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, killing three more people it described as "narco-terrorists," which is a word...
Florida Man Drove to AIPAC With 3 Guns to Kill Jewish Employees — Building Was Empty
A 27-year-old Florida man packed two rifles and a pistol into his truck, drove several hours to an AIPAC office he planned to shoot up, and found an empty...
Minneapolis May Finally Kill a 1988 Gay Bathhouse Ban a Gay Man Helped Pass
Minneapolis is about to vote on repealing a 38-year-old ban on bathhouses and other venues where consenting adults can have sex. The ban was passed in 1988....
Mortgage Rates Are Back in Mortgage Rate Hell, So When Can You Escape?
For one brief, shining moment in early 2026, mortgage rates dipped below 5% for the first time in nearly four years. Then inflation remembered it existed, the...
Tropical Storm Arthur Hits Texas With 'Life-Threatening' Floods Already Spreading
Tropical Storm Arthur made landfall along the upper Texas coast on Thursday, got downgraded from a cyclone to a low pressure area almost immediately, and then...
James Webb Found a Planet With Salt Clouds and We Have Questions
Fifty-seven light-years from Earth, there is a bubblegum-pink planet where it rains salt. Scientists just confirmed this using the James Webb Space Telescope,...
World Cup Tourists Are Losing Their Minds Over Free Refills and Buc-ee's
Seventy-five percent of the 2026 FIFA World Cup matches are being played in the United States, which means millions of international visitors are currently...
British Guy Sailed, Cycled, and Flew Around the Entire Planet. All Three.
A 43-year-old British man just sailed 34,175 miles around the planet, which sounds impressive enough on its own, until you find out he already cycled around it...
Gromit Is Writing a Memoir and Has More to Say Than Wallace Ever Did
Gromit, the long-suffering, perpetually expressive, canonically mute dog from Wallace & Gromit, is writing a memoir. He has, according to publisher Ebury, been...
Trump's Iran 'Win': $300B, Nukes OK, Missiles Fine, Nothing Enforced
Donald Trump spent months bombing Iran and demanding "zero enrichment," then walked out to a G7 podium in France on Wednesday and said, actually, Iran can have...
NY Post Says Giants Players Defying Pride Night Were the Real Victims, Actually
The New York Post's opinion section has looked at the story of San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verses on their hats to protest wearing Pride Night...
JD Vance on Iran Deal: 'Words Don't Matter'
The Vice President of the United States walked up to a podium at the White House, looked into the cameras, and said the quiet part so loud it rattled windows:...
Ships Moving Through Hormuz for First Time in 110 Days After U.S.-Iran Deal
For the first time in 110 days, major commercial ships are moving through the Strait of Hormuz again. That's the good news. The bad news is that Benjamin...
Grammy-Nominated Producer Tay Keith Found Dead at 29 in Nashville
Brytavious Chambers, known to the world as Tay Keith, was found unresponsive in his Nashville apartment Thursday afternoon after a welfare check. He was 29...
FDA Panel Unanimously OKs mRNA Flu Shot RFK Jr. Tried to Kill
The FDA's top vaccine advisory committee voted unanimously Thursday to recommend Moderna's new mRNA flu vaccine, mFlusiva, for adults 50 and older. This is the...
Trump's White House Bedroom: Soaked Carpets, Mold Fears, Chip Wrappers
The most powerful man in the world has allegedly been grinding chip wrappers into the White House carpet and leaving his bedroom soaked in spilled drinks while...
Mangione Drops Psych Defense One Day After Announcing It
Luigi Mangione's legal team announced a psychiatric defense in the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder case, then walked it back less than 24 hours later. The reversal...
Obama Library Opening Was a Four-Hour Burn of Trump Without Once Saying His Name
On Thursday, Barack and Michelle Obama opened their presidential center in Chicago with Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Stevie Wonder, and roughly four hours of...
Kushner's Gaza 'Peace Plan' Is a $4.8B Real Estate Pitch With Rubble
Jared Kushner showed up at Davos this week with a masterplan for rebuilding Gaza, full of renderings of gleaming skyscrapers along the Mediterranean coast. He...
Trump Lost His Iran War and Learned Absolutely Nothing
Donald Trump went into a war demanding unconditional surrender. He came out with a memorandum of understanding. And when Axios asked him what he'd learned...
Trump Awards Medal of Honor to Three Veterans, Two of Whom Waited 50+ Years
A man dangled alone under a bridge hauling 500 pounds of explosives while enemy fire rained down on him. Another took 17 pieces of shrapnel and refused to...
Judge: ICE Jailed Mosque Leader for His Politics, Not a Crime
A federal judge has ordered the release of the president of Wisconsin's largest mosque, finding that immigration officials almost certainly arrested him not...
Carlos Mencia Arrested for Hiding $8.7M After 78 Tax Warnings
Carlos Mencia, the comedian who built a career allegedly stealing other people's jokes, has now been charged with allegedly stealing something else entirely:...
Hegseth Killed Mandatory Flu Shots. 159 Recruits Got Flu.
Pete Hegseth ended mandatory flu vaccinations for US troops in April, wrapping it in the language of bodily autonomy and warrior freedom. It is now June, and...
Trump Lifts Iran Blockade, Gives Iran 60 Days to Behave Itself
The United States has lifted its naval blockade on Iranian ports, kicked off a 60-day negotiating countdown, and told the world's oil tankers to get moving...
Dem Caucus Dumps Big Money Into Saving a Rep Who's Already Losing
When the political arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus starts quietly dumping serious money into your primary race, that's not a sign of strength. That's...
NYC Loses Its Mind for First Knicks Title in 53 Years
A 19-year-old woke up at 4 in the morning and caught a 5am train from Connecticut just to stand on a Manhattan sidewalk and cry happy tears about a basketball...
Trump Compares Algae in a Reflecting Pool to Defeating Iran
The United States Department of the Interior would like you to know that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is crystal clear, that the algae is dead, and...
Hegseth Calls NATO Allies 'Shameful' for Not Letting US Bomb Iran From Their Bases
Pete Hegseth flew to Brussels, stood in front of America's closest military allies, and called them shameful. Not for anything they did to us. For not letting...
Man Arrested for Throwing Toddler Into Crocodile Pit at UK Zoo
A 30-year-old man is under arrest for attempted murder after a 3-year-old boy ended up inside the crocodile enclosure at a zoo in eastern England. The toddler...
Obama Opens His Presidential Center and the Contrast With Trump Is Physically Painful
On Thursday, Barack Obama opened a 19.3-acre presidential center in Chicago with Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Jennifer Hudson, Bono, John...
Toronto Teens Hired via Encrypted Apps to Shoot Synagogues for a Foreign Government
Someone is recruiting Canadian teenagers on encrypted apps, handing them American handguns, and paying them to shoot synagogues and foreign consulates in...
Fed Governor Racked Up $1.3M in Bills Just for Surviving Trump
Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor Donald Trump tried to fire last year, racked up more than $1.3 million in legal and security costs just defending her...
Man Stabbed in the Stomach at NYC Residence for the Blind, No Arrests
A 37-year-old man is fighting for his life after someone stabbed him in the stomach inside a Chelsea building that houses a residence for the blind and...
NJ Rep Vanishes for 100+ Days, Reappears Just in Time to Ask for Votes
A sitting member of Congress disappeared for more than 100 days, told his constituents essentially nothing about why, and is now planning to waltz back into...
DC Just Elected a Democratic Socialist Mayor to Spite Trump
Donald Trump personally threatened to expand federal control over Washington DC if Janeese Lewis George won the Democratic primary. She won the Democratic...
Worker Found Dead Inside Broncos' $175M Training Facility Days Before Opening
A construction worker is dead after being found unresponsive inside the Denver Broncos' gleaming new $175 million training facility, just days before the team...
Trump's Iran 'Victory' Gets Everything He Said Was Unacceptable
Donald Trump launched an illegal war against Iran demanding unconditional surrender, the total eradication of its ballistic missile program, regime change, and...
The Invisible Man Running the Pentagon Is a Private Equity Billionaire
Pete Hegseth is out there doing push-ups with soldiers and screaming at journalists, and somehow he's not the most powerful person at the Department of...
Pentagon May Classify Its Own Report on Killing 170 Kids in Iran
The U.S. military probably killed more than 170 people, most of them children, when it struck an elementary school in Iran on the first day of the war. Nearly...
Senate Dems Launch Probe Into RFK Jr.'s Gutting of Vaccine Panel
Senate Democrats want to know exactly who in the Trump administration decided that blowing up the nation's premier vaccine advisory committee was a good idea,...
DOJ Probes JPMorgan and Citi Over Iran's Supreme Leader's Secret Wall Street Money
Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who took power after his father was killed in US-Israeli airstrikes, has apparently been building a sprawling...
Feds Dangle 1% Interest Cut to Lure Borrowers Back to Auto Pay
Auto pay enrollment on federal student loans cratered from 83% of borrowers down to 40% during the COVID repayment pause, and the government has apparently...
U.S. Officially Enters Iran Deal Expecting Iran to Cheat
The Trump administration signed a framework deal with Iran on Wednesday and, in the same breath, told reporters they fully expect Iran to violate it. That's...
Your $400 Skincare Routine Is a Scam. You Need 3 Things.
You have seventeen products on your bathroom counter and dermatologists want you to know that approximately fourteen of them are doing absolutely nothing....
JD Vance and RFK Jr. Are Eating Sauerkraut for Lent and Paying $18K for the Privilege
The most powerful cabinet in the free world is eating fistfuls of fermented cabbage on the advice of a private doctor who charges $18,000 for a consultation....
Trump Greenlights Gold Rush on Sacred Indigenous Land in California Desert
A Canadian gold exploration company is drilling into a sacred Indigenous mountain in the California desert, helicopters ferrying lumber to drill sites while...
Trump Just Promised Iran $300 Billion and Full Sanctions Relief at a Versailles Gala
While you were going about your Wednesday, Donald Trump was at a gala dinner at the Palace of Versailles signing a preliminary agreement with Iran that...
Netanyahu Tells Trump's Iran Deal to Go to Hell, Keeps Troops in Lebanon
Benjamin Netanyahu looked at the peace deal Donald Trump just signed with Iran, the one that explicitly requires Israel to respect Lebanese sovereignty and end...
Trump Paid Iran Billions to Reopen a Strait He Closed by Starting the War
The United States has signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran that lifts sanctions, unfreezes billions in Iranian assets, and reopens the Strait of...
Three Boys in Zambia Are Orphans Because PEPFAR Got Cut
Joseph is 17 years old and he is the head of his household. His brothers are 15 and 12. They sleep on a bamboo mat and share a single blanket because they sold...