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...
SpaceX Stock Has Already Lost 35% of Its Peak Value and It's Been One Month
SpaceX went public on June 12th as the largest IPO in history, hit $225 a share within a week, and has since lost more than a third of that peak value in under...
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...
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...
Australia's 'Affordable' Rentals Are Rejecting People for Being Too Poor
Australia is spending ten billion dollars to build affordable housing that, in at least some cases, rejects applicants for not earning enough money to afford...
VW CEO Tells 100,000 Workers They Might Be Toast
Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume sent a memo to staff this week confirming the company may cut up to 100,000 jobs worldwide — double the 50,000 figure the...
German Court Sentences ISIS Man to Life for Enslaving Yazidi Girls, Age 5 and 12
A German court has sentenced an Iraqi man to life in prison after convicting him of buying a five-year-old girl at a slave bazaar in Mosul, then repeatedly...
Putin Jails Anti-War Rival for a 10-Second Navalny Clip
The Russian government, apparently threatened by a man whose face appeared in a video for ten seconds, has arrested Boris Nadezhdin, the anti-war politician...
Ann Widdecombe Murder Now a Terrorism Investigation
A 28-year-old man from Rotherham has been re-arrested on terrorism charges in connection with the death of Ann Widdecombe, the former Conservative minister and...
Indonesia's 'Banned' Open Dump Burned for 10 Days Anyway
A landfill that Indonesian regulators had already ordered closed for illegal open dumping caught fire on June 30, burned for ten straight days, sent 200...
Lindsey Graham's Sister Gets His Senate Seat, Because Why Not
Lindsey Graham died Saturday. By Monday, his governor had a replacement lined up. By Wednesday, she'll be sworn in. The replacement is Graham's own sister,...
2,000lb Bison Flips Grandpa Into the Air at Yellowstone. Sign Said 25 Yards.
A 2,000-pound bull bison at Yellowstone National Park hooked a 65-year-old man with its left horn, sent him spinning through the air in what witnesses...
500 AI Fake Women Are Lying to Millions About Singapore on TikTok
They have perfect hair, flawless makeup, and absolutely nothing to say that is true. A CNA investigation has uncovered a coordinated network of AI-generated...
27 Dead After Bangkok Bar Fire Trapped Victims in Locked Bathrooms
A live music bar in Bangkok caught fire just before midnight on Sunday, and by the time it was over, at least 27 people were dead, most of them found piled...
China Fired a Sub-Launched Nuke Missile Into the Pacific and Called It Routine
On July 6th, China launched a long-range ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine, watched it travel 7,300 kilometers across the Pacific, and then...
EU Bans Sudan's Blood Gold But Won't Touch the UAE Bankrolling the Genocide
The European Union just banned the import of Sudanese gold to choke off funding for a militia the UN says is committing genocide. Then, in the same breath,...
EU Moves to Ban $275M in Settler Goods While Israel Kills Kids
While Israeli settlers and soldiers killed 16 Palestinian children in 2026 alone, the European Union was busy having a very serious meeting about meetings. On...
40 Cities Just Told Big Tech: Our Water Isn't Your Server Coolant
Forty cities around the world have decided they are done letting the data center industry treat their power grids and water supplies like an all-you-can-eat...
Africa's Space Tech Boom Is Happening in Abidjan and You Missed It
While the world's attention stays locked on billionaires launching themselves into orbit for sport, something considerably more useful just happened in...
De Beers Is Shutting Its Biggest Mine for 2 Years Because Lab Diamonds Are Winning
The world's most famous diamond company is hitting pause on South Africa's largest diamond mine for two years, and the reason is both simple and historically...
Kenya's Politicians Are Hiring Protest Thugs for $4 a Day
Four dollars. That is the going rate to hire an armed man to attack a protest, break up a civil society meeting, or intimidate a political opponent in Kenya...
China Is Now Making 30% of the World's New Drugs — With AI
China's pharmaceutical industry just closed $110 billion in cross-border drug deals in the first six months of 2026 alone. That's 80 percent of what the entire...
Xi Jinping Shows Up to China's Big AI Conference for the First Time Ever
For eight years, Xi Jinping sent letters. Nice letters. Congratulatory letters. The kind you send when something matters but not enough to actually show up....
China Alarmed as Japan Fires Anti-Ship Missiles for First Time Since WWII
Japan just fired an anti-ship missile outside its own territory for the first time since World War II, and China's top maritime analysts are openly freaking...
FIFA's World Cup: Trump Meddling, Blocked Refs, $7,380 Tickets
The 2026 FIFA World Cup, already a monument to corporate greed and political spinelessness, has somehow managed to outdo itself. Donald Trump personally...
Rubio Declares War on International Law So Israel Can Keep Killing
The United States government announced Monday that it intends to 'systematically disable' an international war crimes tribunal, and the Secretary of State went...
War With Iran Is Now a Line Item in Your Gas Bill
The United States and Iran are both claiming control of the Strait of Hormuz, which is the kind of sentence that used to appear only in Tom Clancy novels and...
Saudi Arabia Bombed Yemen's Airport to Stop an Iranian Funeral Flight
Saudi Arabia bombed an international airport on Monday because it did not want a plane full of Houthi officials landing there after they attended a funeral....
Trump Now Charging Tolls on the Strait He Just Said Would Be Free
Three weeks ago, Marco Rubio stood in Bahrain and told the entire world there would be zero tolls on the Strait of Hormuz, that the president had made it...
Trump Cut the Food Parasite Watchdog. Now 2,800 People Have 'Explosive Diarrhea.'
A parasitic infection causing what health officials are clinically describing as 'explosive diarrhea' has now sickened more than 2,800 people in Michigan and...
Armed Man Drives Ford Bronco to Capitol Barricade, Dog Survives
A man drove up to a security barricade outside the United States Capitol on Monday with a firearm in his vehicle, got arrested, and prompted the kind of...
FBI Fired Analysts Who Said Its Own Georgia Election Probe Was Bullshit
The FBI just fired two of its own analysts for saying out loud what everyone with a functioning brain already suspected: the bureau's investigation into the...
Hegseth Launches DOJ Taskforce to Hunt Reporters' Sources
Pete Hegseth, a man who was confirmed to run the United States military despite having no relevant qualifications, has now decided the real threat to national...
12 States Sue to Kill $111B Merger That Would Hand Trump Allies CNN and CBS
A dozen state attorneys general filed suit Monday to block a $111 billion mega-merger that would hand control of CNN, CBS News, HBO, and roughly a third of...
Shot by Cops Who Mistook Him for the Suspect, Dad of 5 Will Never Walk Again
Mark Trujillo walked out of his front door to warn police that his wife and kids were inside the house next door. Five seconds after he pointed at his own home...
Ex-Iranian General: We Can Kill Trump in the White House
A former senior commander in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps went on record this weekend to say Iran could assassinate Donald Trump inside the White...
Judge Calls Trump's IRS Lawsuit a Fraud, Sanctions His Lawyers
A federal judge just called Donald Trump's $10 billion IRS lawsuit a flat-out fraud on the court, sanctioned two of his lawyers, and wrote 56 pages explaining...
Courts Killed Trump's Tariffs. Now the Treasury Is Mailing Out Billions.
The Trump tariffs squeezed corporate profits, jacked up consumer prices, and destabilized supply chains. Then the courts struck them down. Now the U.S....
27 Dead in Bangkok Bar Fire After Exit Found Locked With Two Bolts
At least 27 people are dead after a fire tore through a beer hall in Bangkok early Monday morning, and Thailand's own Prime Minister stood at the scene and...
Lindsey Graham Died Worth Less Than Your Average Retiree
Senator Lindsey Graham spent 31 years inside one of the most aggressively monetized institutions in American public life and somehow managed to die with less...
Trump Wants a Dead Senator's Sister to Fill His Senate Seat
Lindsey Graham has been dead for about five minutes and Donald Trump is already on Truth Social demanding his sister get the job. Darline Graham Nordone has...
Trump Announces Iran Naval Blockade, Will Charge Ships a 20% 'Reimbursement'
Donald Trump has announced a naval blockade of Iran and, in what can only be described as a bold new frontier in unhinged foreign policy, declared that cargo...
Two Teens Killed Five Family Members in East St. Louis. One Was Related to the Victims.
Two teenagers, aged 15 and 16, are in custody after allegedly executing five members of the same family across three separate locations in East St. Louis on...
UK Counterterrorism Police Take Over Ann Widdecombe Murder Case
A murder investigation into the death of a 78-year-old former British politician just got a whole lot darker. British counterterrorism police have taken over...
Warren to Dimon: Did Epstein Help You Lobby the British Government?
A newly surfaced 2009 email suggests that Jeffrey Epstein, convicted child sex trafficker, may have been backstage-directing JPMorgan Chase's lobbying strategy...
The Last Wild River in the West Is Running Out of Time
There is exactly one river left in the entire Colorado River basin that still flows the way rivers are supposed to flow, unblocked by giant dams, unsliced by...