Trump Throws UFC Cage Fight on White House Lawn for His Own Birthday
A 92-foot steel cage called "the Claw" now sits on the South Lawn of the White House, fighters walked out of the Oval Office to reach it, and VIP guests paid...
100+ Stanford Grads Walk Out on Google CEO Mid-Speech
Sundar Pichai flew back to his alma mater to give a commencement address and got booed out of his own nostalgia trip. More than 100 Stanford graduates stood up...
Hegseth Says Iran Deal Is 'Not a Matter of If' While Missiles Are Still Flying
On Sunday morning, while the Israeli Defense Forces were bombing Beirut's southern suburbs and Hezbollah was firing rockets into northern Israel, Defense...
Oliver Tree Killed in Rio Helicopter Collision at 32
American singer Oliver Tree is dead after two helicopters collided in midair over Rio de Janeiro on Sunday morning, killing all six people aboard. He was 32...
Flesh-Eating Parasites Hit the US and Trump's Beef Problem Just Got Worse
A flesh-eating parasite that burrows into living animals and eats them from the inside has officially arrived in the United States. The timing, for a...
Second Infant Formula Botulism Recall in a Year Hits Babies in 3 States
Three babies between two and five months old are hospitalized with botulism after drinking the same brand of organic infant formula, and this is the second...
Mitch McConnell, 84, Hospitalized Again With No Details Given
Mitch McConnell was admitted to the hospital Sunday morning, and his office would like you to know he is receiving 'excellent care' and absolutely nothing...
Skydiving Plane Crashes and Burns Near Kansas City, Killing All 12
Twelve people are dead after a plane carrying eleven skydivers and their pilot crashed into a field near Butler Memorial Airport in Missouri on Sunday morning...
Hegseth Says Iran Deal Is Done. Trump Says Israel Screwed It Up.
On Sunday morning, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went on CBS and told the country that a US-Iran memorandum of understanding was basically a done deal....
68-Year-Old Spent 3 Days Submerged in Minnesota Mud, Whispering 'Help Me'
A 68-year-old Minnesota woman spent approximately three days buried up to her face in a mud puddle in the middle of a flooded forest, kept alive by whatever...
California Couple Beats Off Bear Attack With a Hatchet and a Water Bottle
At six in the morning in Mammoth Lakes, California, a couple walked out their front door and found a bear fighting their dog. They did not go back inside. They...
Even Trump's Own Fans Are Done Believing the Iran Deal Hype
You know a president is in trouble when the New York Post letters section starts sounding like the resistance. Trump's latest proclamation that Iran has agreed...
180,000 Americans Fled Abroad in 2025, and They're Exactly Who Democracy Needs
At least 180,000 Americans packed up and left the country voluntarily in 2025, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from 15 countries. They are,...
23 Cases, One Court, All of Trump's Biggest Dreams on the Line
The Supreme Court is sprinting toward summer recess with 23 unresolved cases, and the pile looks less like a legal docket and more like a referendum on whether...
50,000 Protesters Shut Down Geneva While Trump Watches UFC at Home
While 50,000 people flooded the streets of Geneva on Sunday to protest the G7 summit, Donald Trump was at the White House watching UFC fighters punch each...
Trump's 42% Approval Is Dragging Republicans Into a Midterm Ditch
Donald Trump's approval rating has cratered to 42% among registered voters, the lowest number of his second term, according to a new NBC News poll published...
Someone Smuggled a Recording Device Into the Situation Room
Someone apparently walked an unauthorized recording device into the most secure room in the United States government and hit record during top-secret White...
Trump Is Hosting UFC Fights on the White House Lawn Sunday
This Sunday night, professional cage fighters will beat each other senseless on the South Lawn of the White House, in a temporary structure that was built in...
Baby's First Meal Comes With BPA, Melamine, and a Side of Regulatory Rollbacks
Ninety-two percent of breast milk samples collected from mothers in Seattle tested positive for at least one dangerous hormone-disrupting chemical, according...
Knicks Win First Title in 53 Years, NYC Immediately Sets a Bus on Fire
The New York Knicks won their first NBA championship since 1973 on Friday night, ending a 53-year drought that has haunted this city like a particularly loud,...
The Guy Still Knocking Doors After 2024 Has a Point
After the 2024 shellacking, a lot of Democrats decided the problem was the doors. Saul Austerlitz, who has been knocking them for nearly a decade, would like...
The Third Blood Pressure Number Your Doctor Never Mentions Could Predict Dementia
Every time a doctor slaps a blood pressure cuff on your arm, you walk away with two numbers. Turns out there's a third one sitting right there in plain sight,...
Knicks End 53-Year Drought: Brunson Drops 45, NYC Loses Its Mind
The last time the New York Knicks won an NBA championship, Richard Nixon was president, The Godfather was still in theaters, and most of the people celebrating...
Spurs Tried to Ban Knicks Fans From Their Own Arena. It Backfired Spectacularly.
The San Antonio Spurs, down 3-1 in the NBA Finals and apparently out of ideas, tried to stop Knicks fans from buying tickets to Game 5 in their own building....
Aldon Smith, NFL's Most Dominant Pass Rusher of His Era, Dead at 36
Aldon Smith was 36 years old. He had 19.5 sacks in a single NFL season, a franchise record that still stands for the San Francisco 49ers. The team announced...
SF Zoo's Baby Penguins Are Being Raised by Staff 24/7 Because Their Parents Have No Idea What They're Doing
Three baby penguins hatched at the San Francisco Zoo in mid-May, and zoo staff have been raising them in shifts, nearly 24 hours a day, because the adult...
NYC Is One Knicks Win From Its First Title Since 1973
The New York Knicks have not won an NBA championship since 1973. To put that in perspective, that is before disco, before the fall of Saigon, and before most...
Priest Warns Spielberg's Alien Movie May Be Cursed by Satan
A Roman Catholic priest in Tennessee has issued a formal warning that Steven Spielberg's new alien film might be consecrated to Satan and packed with demons...
Gio Reyna Scores a Screamer, Then Announces He's Having a Baby
Gio Reyna scored a thunderclap of a goal on the outside of his foot to help the United States open the 2026 World Cup with a 4-1 win over Paraguay. Then,...
Trump's $100K Visa Fee Just Got Nuked by a Judge. He's Appealing.
A federal judge looked at the Trump administration's plan to jack up the H-1B skilled worker visa fee from $215 to $100,000 and said, in 42 pages of legal...
Ex-NFL Receiver Terrelle Pryor Found 'Odd' in Backseat, MDMA Falls Out of His Wallet
Here's a sentence you don't want written about you: police pulled you over, noticed you were lying in the backseat breathing heavy in an 'odd' manner, spotted...
A Million-Square-Foot Medical Warehouse Has Been on Fire for Three Days and Nobody Can Find the Bottom of It
A one-million-square-foot medical supply warehouse in Tracy, California has been on fire since Thursday, and as of Saturday firefighters still could not reach...
FIFA Sold 70,000 Seats. Nobody Showed Up.
The biggest sporting event on the planet came to the heart of Silicon Valley on Saturday, and thousands of people apparently decided to skip it. Levi's Stadium...
America's Top Spy Tool Just Expired Because Trump Picked a Mortgage Guy to Run Intelligence
At midnight on Saturday, one of the most powerful surveillance tools in the American intelligence arsenal quietly died, not because Congress couldn't agree on...
Ford Fixed 255,000 Cars. Surprise: It Didn't Fix Them.
Ford is recalling over 255,000 vehicles because the recall meant to stop their engines from randomly stalling while driving did not, in fact, stop their...
Gunfire at SC's Biggest Mall Sends Two to Hospital on a Saturday Afternoon
It was a Saturday afternoon at the biggest mall in South Carolina, which means there were families, teenagers, people returning shoes, people eating Auntie...
FBI Raids Ohio Voter Registration Group Two Months Before Midterms
The FBI showed up at a voter registration group's office in Cleveland on Thursday, seized their computers and phones, and sent agents to knock on the doors of...
Iran Booby-Trapped Its Own Nukes Rather Than Hand Them Over
Iran looked at a pending peace agreement requiring it to surrender its enriched uranium stockpile and apparently thought: what if we just buried it under a...
Polish Pathologist Buried 32 Fetuses in Her Yard to Save Money
Construction workers tearing up a driveway in rural Poland last Friday did not expect to find 32 human fetuses in the ground. They found them anyway. The woman...
Iranian Hackers Claim They Hit California Water After US Bombed Iran's Reservoirs
An Iranian hacker group says it broke into California's water infrastructure as payback for US airstrikes that allegedly left 20,000 Iranians without drinking...
Ukraine Torches Russian Oil Terminal While Trump Skips the Call
Ukraine lit a Russian oil terminal on fire this weekend, killed one person, and hit an energy hub more than 560 miles from the front line, all while the...
Amazon Ratted Out Its Own AI Investment to the White House
Anthropic spent months building Fable 5, one of the most powerful AI models ever released to the public. It lasted a few days. Amazon, which has poured...
Iran Finally Burying Khamenei, Starting July 4th
Iran has announced that the state funeral for assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will begin on July 4 — the exact same day the United States throws its...
Fox Pays $787M to Avoid Saying Out Loud That It Lied
Fox News just wrote a check for $787.5 million to make a defamation lawsuit go away, and the most expensive part of the deal was the part they didn't have to...
Texas GOP Brought a Live Elephant to Their Convention and It Immediately Peed on the Floor
The Texas Republican Party brought a four-ton African elephant to their state convention as a surprise for delegates, and she celebrated by urinating on the...
Wyoming Fired This Librarian for Refusing to Ban Gay Books. It Cost Them $700,000.
A Wyoming county fired its library director of nearly 20 years for refusing to pull LGBTQ+ books off the shelves, then spent years insisting it had nothing to...
AI Data Centers Are Eating Entire Cities' Worth of Power — and You're Getting the Bill
Somewhere in America right now, a data center humming with AI workloads is demanding as much electricity as an entire city. The bill for building all the new...
U.S. and Iran to Sign Ceasefire Deal Sunday, Hormuz Reopens
After nearly three months of backroom diplomacy involving four separate mediating countries, the United States and Iran are reportedly ready to stop shooting...
FCC Chair Admits His Agency Answers to Trump, Not the Law
The head of the Federal Communications Commission, the agency legally designed to regulate broadcasters without political interference, has apparently decided...
RFK Jr. Is Now Actually in Charge of Vaccines. God Help Us.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a man who has spent the better part of two decades telling anyone who would listen that vaccines are suspect, is now the person who runs...
Knicks Watch Party Tickets Flip From $10 to $1,450 Overnight
Ten dollars. That's what it cost to watch your Knicks play a playoff game on a giant screen inside Radio City Music Hall. Scalpers looked at that price and...
Trump's $12B Farm Bailout Already Wiped Out by His Own Iran War
The Trump administration handed American farmers a $12 billion relief package in December to ease the pain of its own trade war. Then, two months later, Trump...
Trump Gutted the Ebola Early Warning System. Now There's an Ebola Outbreak.
There are over 500 Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at least 130 people are dead, the virus has crossed into Uganda, and the World Health...
Texas Woman Sues McDonald's After Sausage McMuffin 'Poisoned Her Entire Body'
A Texas woman says a Sausage McMuffin with Egg from a Midtown Manhattan McDonald's contained 'contaminants, poisons, toxins, parasites, bacteria, germs and/or...
James Harden Arrested at 3 AM With Unsecured Gun After Hookah Night
James Harden, a 36-year-old NBA veteran who just helped the Cleveland Cavaliers reach the Eastern Conference Finals, was arrested in Houston at 3:41 in the...
Lonely TikTokers Drinking Solo Diet Coke Are Going Viral and Honestly, Fair
There is currently a genre of TikTok content where people film themselves backing a frozen pizza and staring out a window, alone, on a Friday night, and the...
Qatar's Hosting a World Cup It Can't Even Qualify For Honestly
Qatar spent an estimated $220 billion building stadiums in the desert, importing labor under conditions the United Nations called forced servitude, and bribing...
A Single Shot Took a Canadian Mom Off Insulin. Forever.
Amanda Smith, a 36-year-old nurse and mother from London, Ontario, has not taken an insulin injection in nearly two years. Not because her Type 1 diabetes went...
Former Fed Prosecutor's Book Makes the Mob Case Against Trump, and It's Airtight
A former federal prosecutor who has taken down mob figures, corrupt mayors, and a literal underwear bomber has looked at the Trump administration and...
U.S. Aid Cuts Are Starving Kids in Senegal. Literally.
There is a food that saves the lives of starving children. It works. It's cheap. It existed in Senegal through a program that made it easy for parents to...