GOP Senator Sneaks Anti-DEI Rider Into $1.15T Defense Bill
Nothing says 'winning wars' like spending congressional floor time on pronoun policy. Sen. Jim Banks of Indiana has slipped an amendment into the $1.15...
First mRNA Flu Vaccine Heads to FDA Panel — If RFK Jr. Doesn't Kill It First
A vaccine that could help prevent tens of thousands of flu deaths a year, built with the same Nobel Prize-winning technology that ended the Covid pandemic, is...
Russia's 'Skyfall' Nuke Missile Just Spews Radiation on Everyone Below It
Russia tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile last October that, according to a new MIT analysis, works by pumping air directly through its nuclear reactor...
DHS Plans to Hand Local Cops Facial Recognition Tech for ICE Sweeps
The Department of Homeland Security has a document. In that document is a plan. The plan is to hand facial recognition technology directly to local police...
Man Burned a Cross to Protest Trump. It Did Not Go Well.
A 21-year-old University of Illinois Chicago senior burned a cross in one of the most visible public spaces in America, placed a red MAGA hat on top of it, and...
NYC Ran Out of Room for Knicks Fans by 7:24 A.M.
The New York Knicks threw their first championship parade since 1973, and the city completely lost its mind about it. Every single viewing pen along the...
A Black 16-Year-Old Died Inside CHOP. No One's Been Charged in Six Years.
A sixteen-year-old boy traveled a thousand miles to stand up for Black lives in the summer of 2020. He was shot and killed inside the protest zone that was...
Supreme Court About to Rule on Whether Being Born Here Is Enough
The Supreme Court is about to tell millions of American-born children whether the ground they're standing on still belongs to them. Before the term wraps up...
Scientists Are Literally Trying to Make Your Cells Younger Now
The world's first human clinical trial testing whether a drug can make your cells biologically younger has officially begun, and no, this is not a press...
Cooling Your Home Now Costs $800 a Summer While Wall Street Parties
This summer, the average American family will spend nearly $800 just to keep their home from becoming a death trap — up 40% since 2020 and up 10.5% from last...
North Dakota Is Quietly Beating Texas and Florida on Taxes — and Big Oil Is Why
North Dakota collects more tax revenue per person than almost every state in the country, and somehow that's the argument for why it's a low-tax paradise. That...
Driver Left Horse to Take a Tourist Photo. An 18-Year-Old Is Dead.
A driver got off his carriage to snap a photo of his passengers. The horse bolted. An 18-year-old tourist from India is dead. And an industry that has spent...
Jet Fuel Is Cheaper. Airlines Are Keeping Your Money Anyway.
Jet fuel prices have fallen more than two dollars a gallon since their April peak, which is genuinely good news for the airline industry. Whether any of it...
Florida Says 18-Year-Olds Can Carry Hidden Guns, Thanks Parkland
Eight years after a teenager walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and killed 17 people, Florida just struck down the gun restriction lawmakers...
Seven Tornadoes Hit Midwest as 125 Million Americans Under Weather Alerts
Seven tornadoes dropped across the Midwest on Wednesday night, and meteorologists are using words like "unique" and "unusual" in a tone of voice that should...
Mars Hid Its Oceans Underground and Scientists Just Found Them
Mars has been sitting on a secret for three billion years. Two back-to-back studies have now revealed that the Red Planet didn't lose its water and atmosphere...
Corey Feldman's 'Medical Emergency' Was Bad Chicken, Not a Crisis
Corey Feldman collapsed on a plane, got rushed to the hospital, and had his preliminary blood test results leaked to the press by someone on the medical staff...
Australia Banned Social Media for Teens. Six Months Later, Kids Are Still On It.
Australia banned social media for kids under 16 six months ago, and the UK just announced it's doing the same. So how's that going, exactly? Depends who you...
Scientists Find 750-Mile Whale Graveyard in the Indian Ocean With 5-Million-Year-Old Bones
Scientists have found a 750-mile-long graveyard of whales at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, and it has been quietly accumulating bones for over five million...
Commodore Is Selling a $499 Phone That Literally Can't Open Twitter
Commodore, the brand that sold you a beige box in 1982 and then basically died, has returned with a $499 clamshell Linux phone that physically cannot install...
Axios Boss Uses AI to Write His Newsletter and Calls It a 'Bionic Brain'
Jim VandeHei, co-founder of the media company built on the gospel of Smart Brevity, has written a column explaining that he uses artificial intelligence to...
Arnold Schwarzenegger Calls Out Democrats for Chasing Refineries Out of California — Forgets He Started the Fire
Arnold Schwarzenegger stood up at his own climate summit in Austria this week and told Democrats they were idiots for chasing oil refineries out of California...
Trump Threatened to Seize D.C. If a Socialist Won. She's Winning.
Donald Trump looked at Washington D.C.'s mayoral race and said, essentially, elect a democratic socialist and I will take over your city. The voters of D.C....
The G7 Is Falling Apart and Nobody Needed to Push It
Someone set a Tesla on fire outside the G7 summit last week, and honestly, it might have been the most coherent political statement made by anyone in the...
800 Ebola Cases and Counting — and People Are Crossing the Border for $10
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has blown past 800 confirmed cases, and the head of Africa's CDC is warning it could surpass the...
Trump Dumps His 'MAGA Warrior' Pastor After Texting Scandal
Donald Trump called Jackson Lahmeyer a 'MAGA Warrior' right up until he didn't. On Wednesday afternoon, Trump yanked his endorsement of the Oklahoma...
Kash Patel Blew a Sealed Terror Case to Win a News Cycle
Someone was planning to fly explosive-laden drones onto the White House South Lawn and shoot the people running away from a UFC event held to celebrate Trump's...
Trump Kills 37-Year Federal Mob Watchdog Over Teamsters Union
For thirty-seven years, federal prosecutors have kept a watchdog on the Teamsters union because of its well-documented history of mob infiltration. That...
Man Finds Four Blood Clots After AI Catches What His Chiropractor Missed
For five days, Gleb Tsipursky had what he figured was a muscle cramp in his calf. His chiropractor agreed. Then he asked an AI, which immediately flagged deep...
Two 20-Year-Olds Shot Into a Crowd at a Family Festival. Both Caught.
Two men, both 20 years old, apparently got into a beef at a neighborhood street festival in Toledo, Ohio, and resolved it by firing guns into a crowd of...
Trump's Iran Deal Leaves Out Nuclear Weapons, Missiles, and Hezbollah
Donald Trump stood at a G7 podium in France on Wednesday and declared a massive win over Iran. The actual text of the deal he was celebrating, however, is a...
Democrats to Rubio: Cool Iran Deal, Now Tell Us What's Actually In It
Congressional Democrats are doing something unusual: praising the Trump administration for pursuing diplomacy with Iran while simultaneously demanding to know...
Forest Service Fired 6,000 People, Now Claims It's Ready for Fire Season
Fires are ripping through the hills around Spokane, Washington right now, and the Trump administration would like you to know that everything is totally fine....
A Dairy Farm Town in SoCal Just Out-Grew Every City in America
A ZIP code that until recently was best known for cows and carrots just became the hottest piece of real estate in the entire United States. Chino, California...
The Art of the Unspoken: When a Mattress is the Only Witness
There are moments in a single woman’s life in New York that make you question not just your dating choices, but the very architecture of the human soul. I’m...
Trump's Fed Pick Warsh Kills Rate-Cut Signal as Inflation Hits 4.2%
Donald Trump spent two years harassing Jerome Powell into cutting interest rates, got his handpicked replacement installed at the Federal Reserve, and is now...
Lil Nas X Says Bipolar Diagnosis Confirmed What He Already Knew
Lil Nas X posted a video to Instagram on Wednesday morning and did something most celebrities never do: told the truth. The 27-year-old discussed his bipolar...
DOJ's New Anti-Trafficking Czar Has 300,000 Missing Kids to Find First
The Justice Department appointed a new national coordinator for human trafficking and child exploitation cases on Wednesday. Great. Wonderful. Standing...
Trump's Greenland Obsession Is Quietly Still Happening
You thought the Greenland thing was over. You thought it was a bit, a distraction, one of those early-term Trump fever dreams that fades into the noise....
Trump Gives Iran Billions and an Oil Bonanza Before Getting Anything on Nukes
The Trump administration has signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran that immediately lifts oil export sanctions and dangles a $300 billion...
White House Slaps Export Controls on Anthropic's AI, May Nuke the Industry It's Trying to Win
The White House has decided the best way to protect America's lead in artificial intelligence is to kneecap the companies actually building it. Using export...
Man Buys Foreclosed Home at Auction, Finds 3 Skeletons Inside
A Connecticut man bought a foreclosed home at auction, sight unseen, and discovered three decomposed human bodies when he walked through the front door for the...
Maxwell's Prison Is 'Park-Like.' She's the Only Sex Offender There.
Congressional staff toured Ghislaine Maxwell's Texas prison this week and the warden told them something remarkable: out of more than 600 women at that...
Trump Warns Iran: Comply With Deal or 'Bombs Right Smack in the Middle of Their Head'
The President of the United States stood in France on Wednesday and told the world that if Iran doesn't hold up its end of a deal whose text nobody has...
Gilgo Beach Killer Gets Max Sentence, Judge Tells Him to Get Out
A Long Island courtroom erupted in cheers Wednesday as a judge called Rex Heuermann a 'disgusting and despicable, small man' before throwing the book at him so...
Social Security Has 6 Years Before It Cuts Your $500 Check
Social Security's trust fund has about six years left before it triggers automatic benefit cuts for the 70 million Americans who depend on it — and the fix has...
Kamala Harris Calls Trump's Iran Deal a JCPOA Rerun From Vienna
Kamala Harris flew to Vienna to attend Arnold Schwarzenegger's climate summit and used the occasion to predict that Donald Trump's Iran deal will collapse the...
Mangione's Lawyers: He Was Emotionally Disturbed When He Shot the Health Insurance CEO
Luigi Mangione's lawyers are going to walk into a Manhattan courtroom in September, look a jury in the eye, and argue that their client was suffering from an...
Kash Patel Paid His Loyalist Crew $40K Bonuses While FBI Accounts Ran Dry
The FBI director apparently decided that running a 'payback squad' targeting Trump's political enemies wasn't quite enough fun, so he also allegedly set up a...
Trump Said Jay Clayton's Hearing Was Canceled. It Wasn't.
President Trump announced that the confirmation hearing for his Director of National Intelligence nominee Jay Clayton had been canceled. The only problem: it...
FBI File: Trump Tower Had Recruiters Picking Up Women for Trump — One Girl Ended Up Dead
Buried inside the millions of documents the Trump administration released as the so-called Epstein Files is an FBI interview describing two men who patrolled...
Pakistan Taxed Tampons as 'Luxury Goods' for Decades. That Ends July 1.
Pakistan has been slapping an 18% sales tax on menstrual pads and birth control for decades, classifying them as luxury goods, because apparently the Pakistani...
Ozempic Users Are Moving Less, Not More, New Study Finds
Here's the pitch for Ozempic that nobody put in the commercials: you lose weight, and then apparently you also stop moving. A new study set to be presented at...
Georgia's Top Cop Traded Dept. Guns for Adderall to Fund Meth Habit
A Georgia sheriff's chief deputy spent years allegedly trading his department's own firearms for Adderall while quietly smoking meth on the side, according to...
LAPD Shot a Woman's Dog While She Was Celebrating the Knicks
A Los Angeles woman was celebrating the New York Knicks' NBA championship win on Saturday night, screaming with joy, when her neighbors called the cops. The...
Strangers Grabbed a Sledgehammer and Smashed Open a Burning Jet on a Texas Highway
A private jet owned by Warren Buffett's NetJets crashed onto a Texas highway Tuesday night, caught fire, and split nearly in half, and the people who saved...
Ex-Pixar Animator Beats Glioblastoma, Paints 30 Portraits of Staff Who Saved Him
Vincent Serritella noticed some flashing lights in his lower-left vision field and figured it was probably nothing. It was stage 4 glioblastoma, one of the...
Bear Mauls Teen Hiker on Mount Si, Was Just Trying to Mom
Three high school basketball players went for a hike outside Seattle on Tuesday and walked straight into the oldest conflict in nature: a mother bear, her...
Trump's Labor Dept Threatens Blue States for Fraud — Florida's Rate Is Double California's
The Trump administration sent threatening letters to 53 states and territories this week about unemployment fraud, then went on Fox News to specifically call...
18-Year-Old Law Grad Who Ordered Juice at Bar Events Wants to Sue Social Media Into the Ground
While most 18-year-olds are figuring out which dining hall has the best hours, Jimmy Chilimigras of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi just graduated law school with...