McConnell, 84, Was Unconscious for a Month Before Telling Anyone
Mitch McConnell fell down, went unconscious, got carted to the hospital, spent weeks there, caught pneumonia, moved to a rehab center, and then waited almost a...
2,000 Roadside Signs Hold Georgia's Messy Revolutionary War Secret
Georgia had a complicated relationship with the American Revolution. Like, genuinely weird and contradictory in ways that your high school history class...
Keystone Pipeline Killed 2,700 Animals. The Fine Is $27M.
A Canadian pipeline company dumped nearly half a million gallons of crude oil into a Kansas creek, killed or harmed over 2,700 animals, and rendered an entire...
27 Dead After Bangkok Pub Fire Traps Victims in Restrooms
At least 27 people are dead after a fire ripped through the Na Ladprao pub in Bangkok just after midnight on Monday, with many victims found huddled in the...
1,200 'Nonpartisan' DOJ Alumni Sign Anti-Blanche Letter, Including Lori Lightfoot
More than 1,200 former Department of Justice employees signed a letter this week demanding the Senate reject Todd Blanche's nomination as Attorney General,...
Parasite Hits 31 States and Nobody Knows What Food Is Doing It
A parasitic intestinal illness has spread to 31 states, sickened at least 843 people, hospitalized 86 of them, and federal health authorities still have no...
Veterans Are Refusing Burial at Arlington Over Trump's Vanity Arch
Veterans who earned the right to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery are now saying they'd rather skip it, because Donald Trump wants to plant a 250-foot...
Trump Uses Graham's Eulogy to Lobby for His Own Voting Bill
Lindsey Graham died on Saturday. By Sunday morning, Donald Trump was on national television explaining how inconvenient that was for his voting bill. The...
Flesh-Eating Fly Is Back and We Only Have 1/5 the Sterile Bugs Needed to Stop It
A flesh-eating parasitic fly that burrows into living animals and eats them from the inside has now been detected in 34 animals across the United States, and...
Who Really Owns the Machine That Writes Your Essay?
So, a philosophy professor I heard about recently ran a plagiarism check on a student paper and found something odd. The essay was clean, with no matching...
Perth Dad Dies in Bali Immigration Detention, Family Has No Answers
A 39-year-old Perth man who had spent fifteen years building a life in Bali, running a business, raising a son, and trying to sort out his visa paperwork, is...
Scientists Want to Nuke an Asteroid (But Way Smarter Than the Movies)
A Chinese aerospace research team has published a study suggesting that humanity's last line of defense against a killer asteroid might actually be nuclear...
AI Can Now Hear Earthquakes (and Nukes) That We Were Missing
Turns out we've been missing earthquakes. And possibly underground nuclear tests. For decades. A new AI model trained on 30 years of seismic data from...
ESPN's New AI Snitch Will Watch Poker Players Blink
The World Series of Poker is back on ESPN for the first time since 2021, and it brought a robot chaperon that watches your eyelids. An AI system built to...
Ukraine's Most Cursed Brigade Just Lost Its Second Commander to Criminal Charges
The commander of Ukraine's 155th Brigade allegedly led his own soldiers to kidnap two civilian brothers, murder them, and dump the bodies in Poltava Oblast....
Ukraine Blows Up the Refinery Fueling Putin's Air Force
Ukraine just hit the refinery that literally fuels the Russian Air Force. The Syzran Oil Refinery in Samara Oblast went up in spectacular flames overnight on...
Lindsey Graham, 71, Dies of Brief and Sudden Illness at Capitol Hill Home
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died Saturday night at age 71, just hours after returning from a trip to Kyiv and one day before he was scheduled to...
Trump's 'Dead Man's Switch' on Iran Is Fake. JD Vance Holds the Button.
Donald Trump took to his social media platform Saturday to announce that 1,000 missiles are "Locked and Loaded" and pointed at Iran, ready to fire...
US Bombs Iran Again After Ship Attack, Iran Hits Four Gulf Nations Back
The United States bombed 140 targets inside Iran on Sunday morning after Iran set a container ship ablaze and forced its crew to abandon it in the Strait of...
EU Spent €50bn Extra on Fossil Fuels During Crisis. Its Fix: Blank Target by 2040
The European Commission has a bold new plan to end Europe's crippling dependence on imported fossil fuels. The centerpiece of that plan is a binding...
Germany's EV Subsidy Panic: Less Than 15% Went to Chinese Cars
German politicians are so alarmed that Chinese electric vehicles might benefit from a new €3bn subsidy scheme that they want to rewrite the rules to block them...
EU May Fine Meta $12B for Deliberately Hooking 270M Users
The European Commission has looked at Facebook and Instagram, looked at infinite scroll and autoplay and personalized recommendations designed to keep you...
Belgian Climate Minister: No Action = Revolution. Europe, Take Note.
A sitting European government minister just used the word "revolution" to describe what happens if Europe doesn't get its act together on climate. That...
EU Weighs Cutting Off West Bank Settlement Goods as Settler Attacks Hit 6 Per Day
Six settler attacks per day. Two hundred communities hit. And the European Union is still calling them "options." Ahead of Monday's foreign ministers meeting...
NJ Firefighters Spent 40 Years Fighting Fires With Cancer in a Can
For roughly four decades, firefighters across New Jersey ran into burning buildings wearing PFAS-soaked gear and blasting PFAS-laced foam at the flames, then...
A Jefferson Draft Shows Franklin Rewrote 'Sacred' as 'Self-Evident' With a Pen Stroke
Benjamin Franklin read Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence and basically said, 'Nice try, let me fix that.' A rare copy of that draft,...
200 Kids Airlifted by Black Hawks After '1-in-1,000-Year' Flood Swamps Missouri Summer Camp
Eight military helicopters had to airlift more than 200 children out of a Missouri summer camp this week after overnight storms dropped up to 12 inches of rain...
Gunman Opens Fire at Toronto Salsa Festival, Kills 2 and Vanishes
Someone brought a gun to a salsa festival in Toronto on Saturday night and used it. At least two people are dead, four more are wounded, and as of this...
Die-Hard 49ers Fans Just Bought Their Biggest Rival for $9.6 Billion
Vinod Khosla and his family spent thirty years as San Francisco 49ers season ticket holders, cheered against the Seahawks every single time those teams met,...
England's World Cup Goal Shouldn't Have Counted. It Did.
England is in the World Cup semifinals. Jude Bellingham has six tournament goals. And one of those goals almost certainly should not have stood, because the...
Taco Bell Just Pulled the Guac and Nobody's Laughing
A parasite that causes, and we are quoting the CDC here, "frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements" has now infected nearly 3,000 Americans across 32...
The Guggenheim Has Legionnaires'. Yes, That Guggenheim.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, one of the most recognizable buildings on earth, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece that has...
RFK Jr. Wants to Pay Out Covid Vaccine Injury Claims No Court Can Ever Review
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is using control of the Department of Health and Human Services to make it easier for people to collect government money for alleged...
Man Gets Gored in the Face at Running of the Bulls, Shocked Somehow
A man voluntarily ran in front of six bulls in a narrow cobblestone street in Spain on Saturday and got stabbed in the face by a horn. Twelve other people also...
Microsoft, Amazon, Google Now Emit a Third of France's Carbon. For Chatbots.
Microsoft, Amazon, and Google collectively belched 119 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere last year, roughly a third of the...
Armed Settlers Detained a U.S. Congressman in the West Bank. The IDF Took the Settlers' Side.
A sitting United States congressman was surrounded and detained by armed Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank last week, and when the Israeli Defense...
Babies Are Bleeding to Death and RFK Jr. Won't Say Three Words
Babies are being born, skipping a routine shot that costs almost nothing, and then bleeding into their brains and dying. The federal government isn't tracking...
Puerto Rico Agency Exposed 1M Social Security Numbers, Then Lied About It
A Puerto Rico government agency accidentally put roughly 1 million people's Social Security numbers on the open internet, no username or password required....
A Heat Dome Is About to Bake Two-Thirds of America for a Week
Las Vegas is about to hit 111 degrees Fahrenheit. North Dakota, a state where summer typically means pleasant 80-degree days, will be hotter than Phoenix. And...
Trump Lets Housing Bill Become Law Without His Signature to Own the Senate Over Voter ID
Donald Trump just let a bill that passed the Senate 85-to-5 become law without his signature, not because he opposes it, but because the Senate won't pass a...
Gas Hit $4.50 and Americans Just... Kept Driving
Global oil demand just posted its first annual decline since the darkest days of COVID-19 lockdowns, the International Energy Agency reported this week. China...
Trump Threatens to 'Decimate Iran' After Funeral Mourners Wave Kill-Trump Signs
Mourners at a dead supreme leader's funeral waved signs calling for the sitting U.S. president to be killed, and the sitting U.S. president responded by going...
Barbados PM Calls British 'Pay Us Back' Demand 'Asinine'
Suella Braverman, the anti-immigration hardliner who somehow keeps getting handed microphones, suggested this month that Britain's former colonies owe the...
2 Million Return to Khartoum. There's No Power, No Water, and Mines in the Streets.
Two million people have returned to Khartoum, the Sudanese capital that was torn apart street by street over the last three years of civil war. The Sudanese...
South Africa's Anti-Migrant Protesters Are About to Shoot Themselves in the Foot
South Africa spent June marching against the migrants who quietly prop up roughly 9% of its entire economy. Now those migrants are leaving. And the economists...
Cuba's Power Grid Has Collapsed Twice in Four Days and Trump's Oil Blockade Is Why
Cuba's entire national power grid went dark on July 10 at 4:30 in the afternoon. It was the second complete collapse of the island's electrical system in four...
Nearly 2 Million Flee as Typhoon Bavi Batters Taiwan and China
A typhoon that started life as a super typhoon slamming Guam has now sent nearly two million people running for their lives across China, while killing 18 in...
Indonesia's Top Graft Cop Busted With 74kg of Gold and $19M Cash
Indonesia's top anti-corruption prosecutor has resigned after police raided his home and found 74 kilograms of gold bars, $5.8 million in US dollars, and...
Milei Books Far-Right World Tour, Says Whole Point Is Serving U.S. Interests
Argentina's chainsaw-wielding libertarian president just announced a multi-country tour of Latin America with a stated goal so brazen it would embarrass most...
A Million-Pound Steam Train Is Outselling Every News Story Right Now
In a summer where the news has been a relentless fire hose of catastrophe, a 133-foot, 1.2-million-pound steam locomotive is crossing the United States and...
Meta Killed Its Own AI Feature in 48 Hours After Hollywood Lost Its Mind
Meta spent roughly 48 hours pretending it had invented a great new AI image tool before Hollywood reminded them that automatically using people's photos...
El Niño Is Back and Could Be the Strongest Ever Recorded
The Bureau of Meteorology has officially declared El Niño active, and the models are not being subtle about it. Australia's peak forecasting body is now...
Cuba and U.S. Are Talking While Trump's Oil Blockade Starves the Island
Cuba's government has confirmed it is holding secret bilateral talks with the United States, which is a remarkable thing to do with the country that is...
GOP Senator Calls Democrats 'Hammer-and-Sickle' Party With Straight Face
A sitting U.S. senator went on Fox News this week and said, with total sincerity, that a 'hammer-and-sickle wave' is washing over the Democratic Party. The...