DACA Recipient Plotted Drone Strike on White House, Sen. Cantwell Has Thoughts... Sort Of
A 31-year-old DACA recipient allegedly organized a 23-person network to rain explosive drones down on the White House during a UFC event on June 14, targeting...
JD Vance's New Memoir: God, MAGA, and Fighting the Pope
JD Vance, the Vice President of the United States, has written a book about his deep and sincere Catholic faith. He has also spent the past year publicly...
Ceasefire Agreed, Fighting Continues, Peace Talks Cancelled: Lebanon Is Fine
Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon on Friday. Then they kept shooting at each other anyway. This is apparently where we are in the summer of...
Rosa Parks's Arrest Number Is Now a Monument. The Supreme Court Just Made It More Urgent.
Bronze hands rise from the pavement in Montgomery, Alabama, holding a placard that reads 7053 — the booking number assigned to Rosa Parks when she was arrested...
Juneteenth: The Holiday That Took 156 Years to Make Official
On June 19, 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and told more than 250,000 enslaved people something they had technically been legally entitled...
Trump Told Italy's PM He 'Felt Sorry For Her' at G7. Italy Just Canceled On Him.
Donald Trump told an Italian television network that Giorgia Meloni "begged" him for a photo at the G7 summit and that he only agreed because he "felt sorry...
Army Daycares Are Abusing Kids and Shredding the Evidence
While Amanda Feindt sat in Pete Hegseth's Senate confirmation hearing listening to him talk about protecting military families, staff at a Fort Belvoir Army...
Norwegian 6-Year-Old Finds 1,300-Year-Old Viking Sword on School Trip
A six-year-old Norwegian boy named Henrik went on a school field trip and came home having personally expanded the archaeological record of early medieval...
Trump Names 'Little Trump' to Run All 18 US Spy Agencies
The man reportedly nicknamed 'Little Trump' inside the White House, a housing finance regulator with zero intelligence experience who used his last job to...
Iran Can Enter the US Day-of and That's It, Says Andrew Giuliani
The United States is hosting the World Cup. One of the teams competing in that World Cup is being told they can fly in the day before a game and must leave the...
Iran Recloses Hormuz Hours After Trump Signed the Deal to Open It
Two days. That's how long it took for the deal Donald Trump signed with Iran to functionally fall apart. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced Friday...
Big Tech Is So Desperate for Power It's Accidentally Saving Clean Energy
The American clean energy industry spent four years getting beaten up by inflation, hostile federal policy, and collapsing stock prices. Then the AI boom...
Trump's New Rule Would Kill Half of NIH Cancer Trials to Stop 'Anti-American' Science
The Trump administration has proposed a rule that would hand political appointees direct control over every dollar of federal grant money in America, a $1.5...
Obama: Iran War Cost Billions and Thousands of Lives to End Up Worse Than We Started
Barack Obama sat down with the Today show to open his presidential center and ended up delivering the most devastating four-sentence summary of the Iran war...
Maryland's Senate President Blocked Redistricting. Now He's Fighting for His Life in a Primary.
Bill Ferguson has run Maryland's state Senate for years without facing a serious primary challenge. Then he blocked his own party's redistricting push, told...
Kristi Noem Freed a Lifer. He's Now Charged in His 14-Year-Old Niece's Death.
Kristi Noem commuted a convicted killer's life sentence in 2023. That man, Mark Milk, is now charged in the death of his 14-year-old niece, McKenna Wendel,...
Marine Vet Turned Trucker Saved a Stranger's Life With a Seatbelt Tourniquet
A truck driver pulled a piece of metal out of his own impaled leg. That's bad. What happened next is the reason James Brown, Marine veteran and fellow trucker,...
Walz Approval Sinks Below Trump's in Minnesota as Fraud Scandal Festers
Tim Walz, lame-duck governor of Minnesota and former Democratic vice-presidential nominee, has managed to become less popular in his own state than Donald...
Banks Closed for Juneteenth But McDonald's Is Open, So We're Fine
Today is Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in America, a day of genuine historical weight and moral reckoning. Costco is open. So...
DOJ Released 3M Epstein Pages and Quietly Unredacted Bannon After CBS Asked
The Department of Justice released over 3 million pages of Epstein documents and called it a day, despite having collected more than 6 million pages during its...
Top Climate Scientists: Solar Geoengineering Could Trigger 30°C Catastrophe
Four of the world's most credentialed climate scientists just published a warning that solar geoengineering, the increasingly fashionable idea of blasting...
Maine's Ranked Choice Votes Are In, and Democracy Actually Worked
Maine counted all its ranked-choice votes overnight and somehow produced a coherent result by Friday morning, which in 2026 feels like a minor miracle worth...
Iran Pauses Nuke Talks After Israel Kills 18 in Lebanon
The ink on the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding was barely dry before Israel killed at least 18 Lebanese civilians in overnight airstrikes, prompting Iran...
Trump Says He Has 'No Limits' to His Power and Compares Himself to History's Dictators
Donald Trump sat down with Axios and announced, with apparent sincerity, that he has discovered 'no limits' to his presidential power since going to war with...
Half of Americans Think Race Relations Are Bad. Black Americans Say That Number Is Optimistic.
Six years after George Floyd's murder sent millions into the streets, Americans have officially split down the middle on whether race relations in this country...
TSA Begs World Cup Tourists: Please Stop Smuggling Ranch Dressing
The Transportation Security Administration has enough on its plate without confiscating bottles of Hidden Valley from bewildered Norwegians. And yet here we...
Juneteenth Lives. Corporate America Just Stopped Caring.
Juneteenth is still here. The cookouts, the federal day off, the flag emoji in the company Slack channel from HR. What's quietly disappearing is every single...
Hezbollah Drone Kills 4 IDF Soldiers, Blows Up Nuke Deal Too
A Hezbollah drone blew up a tank in Southern Lebanon overnight, killing four Israeli soldiers including a battalion commander, and somehow managed to also blow...
'King of the North' Wins His Seat. Starmer's Clock Is Ticking.
A sitting Labour MP resigned his own seat on purpose just so someone else could win it and come take his boss's job. That is the state of Keir Starmer's...
211 Dead and Counting: The US Military's Nameless, Evidenceless Drug War at Sea
The US military blew up another boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, killing three more people it described as "narco-terrorists," which is a word...
Florida Man Drove to AIPAC With 3 Guns to Kill Jewish Employees — Building Was Empty
A 27-year-old Florida man packed two rifles and a pistol into his truck, drove several hours to an AIPAC office he planned to shoot up, and found an empty...
Minneapolis May Finally Kill a 1988 Gay Bathhouse Ban a Gay Man Helped Pass
Minneapolis is about to vote on repealing a 38-year-old ban on bathhouses and other venues where consenting adults can have sex. The ban was passed in 1988....
Tropical Storm Arthur Hits Texas With 'Life-Threatening' Floods Already Spreading
Tropical Storm Arthur made landfall along the upper Texas coast on Thursday, got downgraded from a cyclone to a low pressure area almost immediately, and then...
James Webb Found a Planet With Salt Clouds and We Have Questions
Fifty-seven light-years from Earth, there is a bubblegum-pink planet where it rains salt. Scientists just confirmed this using the James Webb Space Telescope,...
World Cup Tourists Are Losing Their Minds Over Free Refills and Buc-ee's
Seventy-five percent of the 2026 FIFA World Cup matches are being played in the United States, which means millions of international visitors are currently...
British Guy Sailed, Cycled, and Flew Around the Entire Planet. All Three.
A 43-year-old British man just sailed 34,175 miles around the planet, which sounds impressive enough on its own, until you find out he already cycled around it...
Gromit Is Writing a Memoir and Has More to Say Than Wallace Ever Did
Gromit, the long-suffering, perpetually expressive, canonically mute dog from Wallace & Gromit, is writing a memoir. He has, according to publisher Ebury, been...
Trump's Iran 'Win': $300B, Nukes OK, Missiles Fine, Nothing Enforced
Donald Trump spent months bombing Iran and demanding "zero enrichment," then walked out to a G7 podium in France on Wednesday and said, actually, Iran can have...
NY Post Says Giants Players Defying Pride Night Were the Real Victims, Actually
The New York Post's opinion section has looked at the story of San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verses on their hats to protest wearing Pride Night...
JD Vance on Iran Deal: 'Words Don't Matter'
The Vice President of the United States walked up to a podium at the White House, looked into the cameras, and said the quiet part so loud it rattled windows:...
Grammy-Nominated Producer Tay Keith Found Dead at 29 in Nashville
Brytavious Chambers, known to the world as Tay Keith, was found unresponsive in his Nashville apartment Thursday afternoon after a welfare check. He was 29...
FDA Panel Unanimously OKs mRNA Flu Shot RFK Jr. Tried to Kill
The FDA's top vaccine advisory committee voted unanimously Thursday to recommend Moderna's new mRNA flu vaccine, mFlusiva, for adults 50 and older. This is the...
Trump's White House Bedroom: Soaked Carpets, Mold Fears, Chip Wrappers
The most powerful man in the world has allegedly been grinding chip wrappers into the White House carpet and leaving his bedroom soaked in spilled drinks while...
Mangione Drops Psych Defense One Day After Announcing It
Luigi Mangione's legal team announced a psychiatric defense in the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder case, then walked it back less than 24 hours later. The reversal...
Obama Library Opening Was a Four-Hour Burn of Trump Without Once Saying His Name
On Thursday, Barack and Michelle Obama opened their presidential center in Chicago with Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Stevie Wonder, and roughly four hours of...
Kushner's Gaza 'Peace Plan' Is a $4.8B Real Estate Pitch With Rubble
Jared Kushner showed up at Davos this week with a masterplan for rebuilding Gaza, full of renderings of gleaming skyscrapers along the Mediterranean coast. He...
Trump Lost His Iran War and Learned Absolutely Nothing
Donald Trump went into a war demanding unconditional surrender. He came out with a memorandum of understanding. And when Axios asked him what he'd learned...
Trump Awards Medal of Honor to Three Veterans, Two of Whom Waited 50+ Years
A man dangled alone under a bridge hauling 500 pounds of explosives while enemy fire rained down on him. Another took 17 pieces of shrapnel and refused to...
Carlos Mencia Arrested for Hiding $8.7M After 78 Tax Warnings
Carlos Mencia, the comedian who built a career allegedly stealing other people's jokes, has now been charged with allegedly stealing something else entirely:...
Hegseth Killed Mandatory Flu Shots. 159 Recruits Got Flu.
Pete Hegseth ended mandatory flu vaccinations for US troops in April, wrapping it in the language of bodily autonomy and warrior freedom. It is now June, and...
Trump Lifts Iran Blockade, Gives Iran 60 Days to Behave Itself
The United States has lifted its naval blockade on Iranian ports, kicked off a 60-day negotiating countdown, and told the world's oil tankers to get moving...
Dem Caucus Dumps Big Money Into Saving a Rep Who's Already Losing
When the political arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus starts quietly dumping serious money into your primary race, that's not a sign of strength. That's...
NYC Loses Its Mind for First Knicks Title in 53 Years
A 19-year-old woke up at 4 in the morning and caught a 5am train from Connecticut just to stand on a Manhattan sidewalk and cry happy tears about a basketball...
Trump Compares Algae in a Reflecting Pool to Defeating Iran
The United States Department of the Interior would like you to know that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is crystal clear, that the algae is dead, and...