Trump Finally Pays E. Jean Carroll Her $5.6M After Three Years of Stalling
A jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in 2023. It is now 2026, and she has just collected the money. Three years of appeals,...
Boosie Paid $600K for a Trump Pardon That Never Existed
Louisiana rapper Boosie Badazz paid two Washington lobbyists $600,000 to get him a Trump pardon. The lobbyists told him Trump had already signed it. The White...
Amy Coney Barrett Wore a Bulletproof Vest Home and Had to Explain It to Her 12-Year-Old
Amy Coney Barrett sat before Congress on Tuesday and described putting on a bulletproof vest before going home, then trying to explain to her 12-year-old son...
FBI Subpoenas NYT Reporters at Home Over Qatar Jet Story
Federal agents showed up at the homes of New York Times journalists on Friday with subpoenas, the direct result of an eight-hour White House meeting where the...
New Fed Chair Says 'Inflation's a Choice' While It Sits at 3.5%
Kevin Warsh walked into his first congressional testimony as Federal Reserve Chairman on Tuesday with a bold message: inflation is a choice. Great. Someone go...
Barrett Told Her Kid What a Bulletproof Vest Was. SCOTUS Did That.
Amy Coney Barrett brought a bulletproof vest home from work, set it on her bedroom table, and her 12-year-old son walked in and asked what it was. That...
Fed Chair Warsh Tells Congress Absolutely Nothing About Rates
The Federal Reserve chairman walked into Congress on Tuesday, sat down in front of the American people's elected representatives, and told them essentially...
Hegseth's Navy Beard Meltdown Is Exactly as Pathetic as It Sounds
The Secretary of Defense of the United States of America boarded a Navy warship, spotted some beards, and had a meltdown. According to a CNN report cited by...
Lindsey Graham Dies, Takes Trump's Voter ID Bill With Him
Lindsey Graham wasn't just a cheerleader for Trump's voter ID legislation. He was the Senate Budget Committee chair, the one person holding together the...
ICE Killed the Wrong Man in Maine. His Daughter Watched in Bluey PJs.
ICE agents shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine on Monday morning while his toddler daughter, still in her Bluey pajamas, watched....
New York Just Hit Pause on Big Tech's Power Grab — Literally
New York just became the first state in the country to tell the tech industry to sit down and wait. Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday...
RFK Jr Froze the Kids' Tobacco Panel While Big Vape Got Flavors Back
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has built a brand around protecting children from corporate poison, has spent over a year preventing a federal health panel from...
Republicans Want 60% to Pass Amendments, But 51% to Pass Theirs
Republican lawmakers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Missouri are asking voters this year to make it harder for those same voters to pass...
Trump Bans Americans From Flying Home as Ebola Patient Gets Sent to Germany
The Trump administration is blocking American citizens in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from flying home on commercial flights, even as the US quietly...
Trump Drained the Reflecting Pool to Fix Damage He Can't Prove Was Vandalism
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been drained for repairs after weeks of Donald Trump insisting that roving vandals slashed it open with knives and...
Trump Ballroom Donor Gets $200M Armenia Fund Job He Happens to Already Profit From
A Russian-born Chicago investor who donated $12 million to Trump's political operation and an undisclosed sum to Trump's ballroom project has been appointed...
412 Verified Cases: ICE Crowd Control Weapons Blinded and Brain-Damaged Protesters
A damning new report documents 412 verified incidents of federal and local law enforcement misusing crowd control weapons on immigration protesters across the...
Maine Dems Have 11 Days to Replace Their Rape-Accused Senate Candidate
Maine Democrats had their guy. He won the primary handily, he was galvanizing voters who'd given up on politics entirely, and he had a real shot at unseating...
Two Climbers Found Dead at Bottom of 65-Foot Alpine Crevasse
Two Romanian climbers who went missing in the Italian Alps last week were found Monday morning at the bottom of a crevasse roughly 65 feet deep, authorities...
Supreme Court Just Let Trump Fire Anyone Who Disagrees With Him
Rebecca Slaughter found out she'd been fired from the Federal Trade Commission while helping run lines for her kid's elementary school production of Beauty and...
Trump Says Strait Is 'Open.' Experts Say It'll Take 50,000 Troops.
Donald Trump went on Truth Social Monday morning to announce that the United States would 'probably run' the Strait of Hormuz and charge foreign ships a 20%...
Trump Says the U.S. Will Now Collect Tolls in the Strait of Hormuz
Donald Trump has announced that the United States will impose a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz and begin collecting tolls from ships passing through one of...
Trump's Personal Lawyer Is Now Acting AG. Senators Must Stop Him.
The man who personally defended Donald Trump against federal criminal charges is now acting as the nation's top law enforcement officer, and he wants to make...
NYC Council Votes Itself 18% Raise Days After Passing $126B Budget
The New York City Council just approved a $126 billion budget, looked at all that money, and apparently thought: yes, but what about us? Days later, council...
Google's AI Boss Wants a Regulator He'd Help Pay For
The man who built one of the world's most powerful AI systems would like a regulator to oversee AI systems, please. He'd also like that regulator to be funded...
Inflation's Still Burning and the AI Boom Is Making It Worse
The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases June inflation data Tuesday morning, and the headline number might look better than last month's ugly reading of 4.2%....
NY Just Hit Pause on AI Data Centers. Big Tech Is Going to Hate This.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul just told the AI industry to take a number and wait. On Tuesday she signed an executive order imposing a moratorium of up to one...
Amazon Has More Workers on Medicaid Than Anyone in Nevada. Its Fix? Raise the Minimum Wage.
Amazon has had more employees enrolled in Medicaid than any other company in Nevada every single year since 2020. The company's official response, when asked...
Iran Promised Qatar It Was Safe. Then It Shot a Missile at Qatar.
Iran looked Qatar in the eyes, made a promise, shook hands on it, and then fired a missile at Qatar. That's the situation right now in the Persian Gulf, where...
4,490 Dead, 50,000 Missing, and Venezuela Is Begging Britain for Its Gold Back
Six weeks ago, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake and its slightly smaller twin turned large sections of Caracas and the coastal state of La Guaira into rubble. The...
France's Most Beloved Forest Is on Fire on Bastille Day
France's Fontainebleau Forest, a beloved national treasure that has drawn painters, hikers, and picnickers for centuries, is currently on fire. The blaze...
Germany's Government Wants to Kill Its Own Transparency Law
The German government quietly tucked a plan to effectively destroy its own Freedom of Information Act inside a 34-point reform package approved just before...
Africa's Richest Man Is Building a $17B Refinery on a UNESCO Island
Africa's richest man just confirmed he wants to build a $17 billion oil refinery on a UNESCO World Heritage island off the Kenyan coast, and somehow that...
Iran Killed an Indian Sailor. India Was Mid-Speech About Peace.
India's foreign minister was at the United Nations on Monday, formally launching a campaign called SHANTI, which means peace, when Iran's Revolutionary Guard...
US Bombs Iran for Third Night Running While the Strait of Hormuz Is Now Literally on Fire
The United States military bombed Iran for the third consecutive night, hitting targets across the country's entire southern coastline while Iranian missiles...
Trump Is Now Charging Tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, Apparently
The United States bombed Iran overnight, Iran responded by setting two tankers on fire and lobbing missiles at Bahrain and Jordan, and Donald Trump announced...
Europe's 'We Don't Need You, Donald' Parade Just Happened in Paris
On Tuesday, 6,800 troops from across Europe marched down the Champs-Elysees in Paris while Ukrainian soldiers marched alongside them and Ukrainian-trained...
Sudan's Army Is Dropping Barrel Bombs on Civilians Again
The Sudanese army is accused of using Antonov aircraft to drop barrel bombs on civilian neighborhoods in the Jabra area of North Kordofan State, killing and...
80% of Buildings Gone, Venezuela Says Economy Is Up 9%
Eighty percent of the buildings in La Guaira, Venezuela just collapsed in a double earthquake. Multiple states suffered significant structural damage. And...
Indonesia Caned an Unmarried Couple 21 Times Each for a TikTok Kiss
On July 2nd, in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, an unmarried 22-year-old man and 25-year-old woman were publicly caned 21 times each on their...
The World Cup Final Is Tomorrow, and It's Not the Final
The FIFA World Cup semifinals kick off Tuesday, and the soccer gods have already played their cruelest trick: the two best teams in the world are meeting...
Utah Mall Stabber Folded by Bystanders Who Beat Him Limp
A man walked into a Utah mall on Monday afternoon, stabbed a kiosk worker repeatedly, and then got the absolute stuffing beaten out of him by strangers who...
Summer 2026's Live Music Scene Is Aggressively, Gloriously Alive
Six hundred performers. Ten stages. Six hundred and thirteen thousand people on a lakefront in Wisconsin. If anyone told you live music was dying, summer 2026...
111°F in Montana. 109°F in Salt Lake City. 100M Americans Baking.
Billings, Montana hit 111 degrees on Sunday. Salt Lake City broke an all-time temperature record that had survived since 1960. And if you live anywhere between...
Congress Is About to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent, God Help Us All
Congress, having thoroughly handled healthcare, housing, the national debt, and climate change, has turned its full attention to the clock. The Sunshine...
Rubio Wants to Dismantle the War Crimes Court. Wonder Why.
Marco Rubio wants to destroy the world's war crimes tribunal, and he's not being subtle about it. The Secretary of State published a full op-ed in the Wall...
ICE Shoots Man Dead in Maine, Dems Race to Replace Disgraced Candidate
ICE agents shot and killed a man in Biddeford, Maine on Monday, and by evening, hundreds of protesters were in the streets and every serious Democrat running...
Trump Quietly Greenlit Saudi Strike on Yemen That Could Restart a War
Sometime before Monday, Donald Trump looked at a map of the Middle East, which has been on fire in various configurations for the better part of a decade, and...
12 States Sue to Kill the $110B Paramount-Warner Bros. Mega-Merger
Twelve state attorneys general filed suit Monday to stop the $110 billion merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, the deal that would...
Mexico's President Is Protecting an Indicted Drug Corruption Governor — And Everyone Knows Why
Mexico's president has a Sinaloa governor indicted on federal drug corruption charges sitting in her own political party, and her answer to the United States'...
Judge Says Trump's $10B IRS Lawsuit Was a Scam to Buy Himself Immunity
A federal judge has officially called out Donald Trump for using the court system as a personal vending machine, ruling that his $10 billion lawsuit against...
Feds Spent 6 Months Hiding Footage of Their Own Agents Killing Protesters
The federal government spent more than six months refusing to hand over body camera footage and other evidence from its own agents' fatal shootings of two...
Bald by 30? You're 45% Less Likely to Get Prostate Cancer
The universe, in a rare moment of cosmic generosity, has decided to give bald men something back. According to research published in Cancer Epidemiology, men...
329 Charges: Sydney Daycare Worker Abused 136 Kids Over 16 Years
A Sydney childcare worker named Hamish Tait now faces 329 criminal charges after Australian Federal Police allege he abused 136 children across 62 early...