Trump Is Ripping $386M of Ocean Sensors Out of the Water — Illegally
The Trump administration is literally sending ships out to pull hundreds of ocean sensors out of the water — sensors that took $386 million and a decade to...
Trump May Fire Hegseth and Ratcliffe for Opposing His Iran Deal
Donald Trump reportedly wants to fire his own Secretary of Defense and CIA Director for the crime of disagreeing with him about a nuclear deal. Not leaking....
NY's Pied-à-Terre Tax Could Stick Entire Co-op Buildings With One Rich Guy's Bill
New York State just passed a tax targeting wealthy second-home owners, and somehow managed to write it in a way that could financially kneecap the middle-class...
A Parent's Text Stopped a Drone Attack on Trump's UFC Party
Twelve suspects across four states allegedly plotted to rain explosive drones onto the White House lawn during a UFC event, then pick off the fleeing crowd...
JD Vance Walks Into 'The View' Armed With a Faith Book and Zero Shame
JD Vance, the man whose co-hosts on 'The View' have called a coward, a hypocrite, a duplicitous opportunist, and a 'carbon copy' of Donald Trump, is popping by...
6.3 Quake Hits Remote Chinese Province, Kills One, Traps Miners
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake tore through a remote high-altitude corner of northwestern China on Tuesday afternoon, killing at least one person, injuring four...
Sean Penn Is Making a January 6 Cop Movie and Trump Is Going to Hate It
Sean Penn, a man who once called Donald Trump 'an enemy of mankind' and spent his Oscar night in Ukraine with Zelenskyy, is now writing and directing a...
Epstein's Jailhouse Notes: Trump Is a 'Con Artist' With No Money
Jeffrey Epstein, in the final weeks of his life, was obsessively scribbling one-liners about Donald Trump on a legal pad in a Manhattan federal jail, desperate...
Gold Hit $4,075 an Ounce and Silver Is Up 200% Since Last Year
Gold is now worth more than four thousand dollars an ounce. Let that sit for a second. The shiny yellow rock that your grandfather buried in a coffee can is,...
Trump Paid $14.2M to Make a Pool Blue. It Turned Green.
Donald Trump spent $14.2 million of your money to repaint the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool a shade he called 'American flag blue.' It has been green for...
Paramount Censored an Ad About Paramount Censoring People
A press freedom organization tried to pay Paramount roughly $300,000 to air a 30-second ad criticizing Paramount's billionaire owners. Paramount said no,...
FBI Busts Plot Against Trump's White House UFC Event
The FBI has arrested multiple people in connection with an alleged plot targeting President Trump's White House UFC event, according to FBI Director Kash...
Microsoft Exec Tells Tech Bros to Shut Up About AI Apocalypse
A Microsoft executive with 33 years at the company walked into his own industry's party and told everyone to stop catastrophizing. Brad Smith, vice chair and...
OB-GYNs Break With CDC to Publish Their Own Vaccine Schedule for Pregnant Women
The top professional organization for OB-GYNs in the United States just did something it has never had to do before: publish its own vaccination schedule for...
U.S. Banned Its Own AI Model So Fast Nobody Could Even Copy It First
Anthropic released its most advanced AI model on June 9th. Three days later, the U.S. government classified it as a dangerous munition and banned foreign...
JD Vance Calls 'Childless Cat Ladies' Remark 'One of the Dumbest Things I Ever Said'
Four years, one vice presidency, and a book deal later, JD Vance has finally figured out that calling millions of American women 'childless cat ladies who are...
Trump to Netanyahu: 'What the F*** Are You Doing?'
Donald Trump, the man who has spent a decade telling anyone who will listen that he is Israel's greatest protector, called his closest foreign ally's military...
Trump Is Rigging the Refs Before the Midterms and Barely Hiding It
The Trump administration is using the Justice Department, the FBI, and a presidential executive order to systematically dismantle American voting rights before...
Trump Threatens to Seize DC If the 'Wrong' Democrat Wins Tuesday
Donald Trump, a man who does not live in Washington DC, does not vote in Washington DC, and has spent considerable energy trying to hollow out Washington DC,...
AI Deepfake Attack Ads Are Everywhere Now and Nobody Has to Tell You
Political campaigns are now running AI-generated attack ads that place their opponents in completely fabricated, compromising situations, and here is the...
Trump Ordered Anthropic to Yank Its AI Models With Zero Warning
The Trump administration quietly dropped an export control order on AI company Anthropic last Friday, forcing the company to immediately disable access to its...
Trump's Last-Minute Georgia Endorsement Is Either Genius or Desperation, Depending on Tuesday
Donald Trump waited until the last possible weekend before Georgia's Senate runoff to endorse Rep. Mike Collins over Derek Dooley, a move so late in the game...
Artist Turns Belts Into Paint Brushes to Ask Why We Hit Our Kids
A Washington, D.C. artist is dipping belts in paint and beating canvases bloody-looking to ask a question a lot of Black families have been avoiding for...
Scientists Are Watching a See-Through Fish Think in Real Time
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus just announced it is tripling its fish tank space, hiring up to 100 new scientists, and pointing...
Trump Put an Election Denier in Charge of Protecting Elections
The man now responsible for securing American elections spent years pushing debunked conspiracy theories about Venezuela stealing the 2020 election, voted not...
Whale Trapped by Fishing Rope Freed Off Cape Cod With Minutes to Spare
A young humpback whale spent Sunday essentially nailed to the ocean floor by a rope wrapped around its tail, off the coast of Massachusetts, while a storm...
Zelensky Flies to G7 With No Trump Meeting Scheduled
Volodymyr Zelensky flew to a G7 summit in France on Monday without a confirmed meeting with Donald Trump on the books, while Russia greeted the occasion by...
Indiana Beats California in Housing. Yes, Really.
New York's median home listing price is $668,173. The median household income there is $82,657. Realtor.com ran the numbers, handed out grades, and New York...
Eric Trump Asked If UFC Fights Were 'Rigged' in DMs That Everyone Now Claims Are Fake
Someone, somehow, produced screenshots appearing to show Eric Trump sliding into UFC legend Daniel Cormier's DMs to ask if tomorrow's fights were rigged and...
Texas Faces 'Catastrophic' Flooding as Gulf Storm Eyes the Coast
The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season has barely introduced itself and it's already threatening to drown the Gulf Coast. A tropical disturbance now designated as...
Airboat Capsizes in Florida Canal, Kills 2 and Leaves 1 Missing
Seven people got on an airboat in Highlands County, Florida, on Monday morning. Two of them are now dead. A third is still missing somewhere in the Istokpoga...
American Doctor Survives Ebola Strain With No Vaccine, Returns Home
An American doctor who caught Ebola in Congo, was airlifted to Berlin, and survived a strain of the virus for which there is no vaccine or approved treatment...
Trump Shows Up to G7 After Starting a War Nobody Asked For
Donald Trump flew into a French spa town this week to discuss ending a war in Ukraine that he swore he'd fix in 24 hours, fresh off wrapping up a different war...
Brazilian Bungee Instructors 'Blacked Out' and Forgot the Rope
Three bungee jumping instructors in Brazil forgot to attach the rope to a 21-year-old woman before throwing her off a 130-foot bridge, watched her fall to her...
Three Kids Shot at an Arkansas Public Pool on a Saturday Afternoon
Three children were shot near a public swimming pool in Stuttgart, Arkansas on a Saturday afternoon, including one kid who took a bullet to the chest. A...
12 Dead After Skydiving Plane Spins Into Ground Near Butler, MO
Twelve people boarded a skydiving plane in rural Missouri on Sunday morning and none of them came home. The aircraft spun out of control and slammed into the...
Mississippi Cop Shot a 1-Year-Old Dead Over Alleged Diaper Theft
A one-year-old boy is dead because a Mississippi police officer decided that a shoplifting call at a Walmart was worth pulling the trigger on a moving car....
Amanda Seyfried Needed a Bodyguard for Calling Charlie Kirk 'Hateful'
Amanda Seyfried called Charlie Kirk hateful. Kirk was then shot and killed. And somehow Seyfried ended up being the one who needed a bodyguard. That sentence...
California Mom Fireproofs Her House With Succulents and a Steel Gate
While California's insurance industry quietly exits the state and Sacramento argues about who gets to study the problem next, one San Marcos homeowner just...
Schiff Roasts Musk's Trillion Dollars on the Platform Musk Owns
SpaceX went public on Friday, Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire, and California Senator Adam Schiff immediately took to X to declare something...
SCOTUS Killed Black Voting Rights and Might Have Handed Democrats the Midterms
The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Republican legislatures immediately started carving up Black congressional districts like a Thanksgiving...
Trump Ends Iran War He Started, Leaves Nuclear Stuff for Later
Donald Trump launched a war with Iran in February over its nuclear program, and on Sunday he announced a deal to end that war — without actually resolving...
Yankees Have a .998 OPS Catcher and Won't Let Him Catch
The New York Yankees have a guy hitting .998 OPS, leading the team in home runs, and fully capable of playing catcher. Their catchers are currently slugging a...
Trump's AG Pick Filed a Legal Brief That Read Like a Drunk Tweet
Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general filed a federal court document that cited Trump Derangement Syndrome, praised Trump as a genius real estate...
Trump's Iran 'Deal' Is Just Iran Agreeing to Keep Talking
After weeks of bombing runs, a war that reshaped Iran's military, and months of Trump insisting a historic agreement was perpetually two weeks away, the United...
Gavin Newsom's Wife Got $150K Salary From Her Own Nonprofit, Which Also Paid Her Film Company $161K
California Governor Gavin Newsom went public this week accusing Donald Trump of weaponizing federal investigators against him as revenge for being a potential...
Teen Charged With Killing Stepsister on Cruise Ship Is Finally Behind Bars
A 16-year-old accused of sexually assaulting and killing his 18-year-old stepsister in a shared cabin aboard a Carnival cruise ship will spend the months...
A Phone Caught Fire Mid-Flight and Scorched the Cabin. Again.
A cellphone caught fire on a British Airways flight from London to Las Vegas on Monday, and the pilot told air traffic control it had 'scorched the inside of...
Trump's 'Birth Tourism' Crackdown Targets Babies for Being Born Wrong
The Trump administration has declared war on pregnant women with the wrong passport, announcing it has dismantled a West African birth tourism network...
ICE's Former Boss Cashes Out at Firm That Lobbies for Private Prisons He Filled
Todd Lyons spent 14 months as acting ICE director running mass arrest operations, jailing immigrants inside courthouses, and chasing an impossible White House...
Putin Torched an 11th-Century Cathedral Russia Claims as Its Own Heritage
Vladimir Putin, self-appointed defender of Christian civilization, just set fire to an 11th-century Orthodox cathedral that predates the Magna Carta. The...
Trump's Fed Pick Walks Into a Burning Building on Day One
Kevin Warsh has been Federal Reserve chairman for approximately five minutes and already the building is on fire. Axios reports that Warsh is heading into his...
Republicans Now Running Dem Primaries, and Democrats Have No One to Blame But Themselves
Republicans are now spending real money to pick which Democrats they'll face in November, boosting the weakest primary candidates in what Axios describes as a...
RFK Jr Bullies Journal That Pulled Fake Vaccine-SIDS Study
The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services sent a letter to a medical journal demanding they explain why they removed a paper that scientists...
Bernie, Mamdani, and the DSA Are Trying to Flip Harlem. It's Working.
A 32-year-old doctoral candidate backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists of America is within eight points of a five-term incumbent...
Ratcliffe Told Trump Iran Won't Give Up Nukes — Then Witkoff Kept Talking
The CIA Director walked into a room with the President of the United States and told him, based on actual intelligence gathered by actual spies, that Iran...
FBI Raids Ohio Voter Group HQ While Ohio Has a Live Election
The FBI showed up at the Ohio Organizing Collaborative's headquarters on June 11, seized electronic devices, fanned out across the state to interrogate staff...
Two Toddlers, Two Boroughs, One Brutal Monday Morning in NYC
Before most of New York had finished its first cup of coffee Monday morning, two 2-year-olds had already become the center of two separate tragedies in two...
USAID Let $9.7M in Contraceptives Expire, Still Pays to Store the Trash
The Trump administration, which has spent the better part of two years loudly declaring that foreign aid is wasteful government spending that must be stopped,...
NJ Band Director Charged With Assaulting Student Starting at 13
A New Jersey middle school band director has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a student who was 13 years old when the abuse reportedly began....