Trump's Intel Nominee Agrees Elections Are a Fraud-Fest, So That's Fun
The good news is that Trump's pick to run America's entire intelligence apparatus is considered a reasonable, steady choice by members of both parties. The bad...
ICE Suspends Traffic Stops After Its Own Agents Got People Killed
ICE has suspended traffic stops following deadly shootings, which is the kind of sentence that should make every American stop whatever they are doing and read...
Anthropic Is Hiring People to Stop Its Own AI From Ending the World
Anthropic, the company that has publicly warned its own technology might destroy civilization, is now hiring 32 people specifically to prevent that from...
Israel Is Literally Holding a Dead Body Hostage
Israel has informed its own court system that it is refusing to return the body of a Palestinian man who died in Israeli detention, because the corpse might be...
Hochul Hits Pause on Data Centers. Every Dem Gov Is Taking Notes.
Kathy Hochul just did something no governor in the country had done before: she hit a hard pause on data center expansion across the entire state of New York....
Trump's Personal Lawyer Wants to Run the DOJ He Already Broke
Todd Blanche spent years keeping Donald Trump out of prison. Now he wants the keys to the entire Justice Department, permanently. His confirmation hearing...
Iraq Found $10.6M Hidden in a Drain. That's Just the Start.
Someone in Iraq's oil ministry stuffed ten million dollars in American and Iraqi currency into a rainwater drainage pit and hoped nobody would check. They...
Man Robbed a Bank With a Stolen Kitten and Lost Both
A man in Beltsville, Maryland allegedly stole a three-and-a-half-month-old tuxedo kitten named Magnolia from a pet store, carried her across a parking lot, and...
Mystery Buyer Drops $50M on T. Rex While Museums Watch Helplessly
Someone with $50 million burning a hole in their pocket just bought a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, and they don't want you to know who they are. The...
Trump's 'Really Big' Election Speech Is Exactly What You Think It Is
Donald Trump, a man who has now been president twice and still cannot stop relitigating an election he lost six years ago, will deliver a primetime address...
Want to Tour America? That'll Be $3K, a Year of Waiting, and Good Luck
The average wait time for the U.S. government to process a performing artist's visa petition is now eleven and a half months. The government won't accept...
We Asked 7 Teens About AI. Their Answers Should Embarrass Every Adult in the Room.
A 16-year-old from Fort Worth, Texas just summed up the entire AI debate better than any think-piece published in the last three years. 'It makes it to where...
America's Busiest Airport Shut Down 4 Hours So Iraq's PM Could Ride Past It
On Tuesday, more than 300 flights were delayed and at least 126 were outright canceled at Reagan National Airport because the Iraqi prime minister's security...
Abu Dhabi's AI Gov App Just Does Your Paperwork Without Being Asked
The government of Abu Dhabi has built an app that renews your national ID, pays your parking tickets, books your doctor's appointments, and handles your...
Dead Relatives Can't Take Your Money — But These 5 Myths Might
Total U.S. consumer debt just hit $18.23 trillion, credit card rates are sitting at nearly 22%, and inflation is still chewing through everyone's paycheck at...
7,000 People Waited 3 Hours to Smell a Plant That Reeks of Corpses
Seven thousand people drove to San Marino, California, stood in line for up to three hours, and paid for the privilege of smelling something that reeks of a...
7,000 Americans Have Explosive Diarrhea and Nobody Knows Why Thanks to RFK's CDC Cuts
Nearly 7,000 Americans across 34 states are currently experiencing frequent, explosive, watery diarrhea from a parasitic outbreak, and public health officials...
Three Dead in One Week: ICE's Killing Spree Has a New Twist
A 28-year-old man is dead after running from federal immigration agents in a Florida parking lot and getting struck by a semi truck on a busy highway. It is...
Congress Finally Noticed It Had Ghosts. Now There's a Bill.
One senator and one congressman disappeared from their jobs for months, told nobody why, and the American public was just supposed to be cool with that. They...
Trump Ditches His Own Hormuz Toll After Gulf Leaders Call Him
Donald Trump declared himself guardian of the world's most critical oil chokepoint on Monday, slapped a 20% fee on every ship that passes through it, and then...
Trump Slaps Brazil With 25% Tariffs for Daring to Moderate Elon's App
Brazil's Supreme Court told Elon Musk's X and Mark Zuckerberg's Meta to stop hosting hate speech and coup-adjacent propaganda, because Brazil had just survived...
Threats Against SCOTUS Justices Up 38% and Climbing Fast
The Supreme Court Police Department is bracing for a 38% surge in threats against justices this year, on top of a 25% increase the year before. Justice Elena...
Trump Finally Pays E. Jean Carroll Her $5.6M After Three Years of Stalling
A jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in 2023. It is now 2026, and she has just collected the money. Three years of appeals,...
Boosie Paid $600K for a Trump Pardon That Never Existed
Louisiana rapper Boosie Badazz paid two Washington lobbyists $600,000 to get him a Trump pardon. The lobbyists told him Trump had already signed it. The White...
Amy Coney Barrett Wore a Bulletproof Vest Home and Had to Explain It to Her 12-Year-Old
Amy Coney Barrett sat before Congress on Tuesday and described putting on a bulletproof vest before going home, then trying to explain to her 12-year-old son...
FBI Subpoenas NYT Reporters at Home Over Qatar Jet Story
Federal agents showed up at the homes of New York Times journalists on Friday with subpoenas, the direct result of an eight-hour White House meeting where the...
New Fed Chair Says 'Inflation's a Choice' While It Sits at 3.5%
Kevin Warsh walked into his first congressional testimony as Federal Reserve Chairman on Tuesday with a bold message: inflation is a choice. Great. Someone go...
Barrett Told Her Kid What a Bulletproof Vest Was. SCOTUS Did That.
Amy Coney Barrett brought a bulletproof vest home from work, set it on her bedroom table, and her 12-year-old son walked in and asked what it was. That...
Fed Chair Warsh Tells Congress Absolutely Nothing About Rates
The Federal Reserve chairman walked into Congress on Tuesday, sat down in front of the American people's elected representatives, and told them essentially...
Hegseth's Navy Beard Meltdown Is Exactly as Pathetic as It Sounds
The Secretary of Defense of the United States of America boarded a Navy warship, spotted some beards, and had a meltdown. According to a CNN report cited by...
Inflation Drops to 3.5% — Then Trump Blew Up the Strait of Hormuz
For one brief, shining moment on Tuesday morning, the economic news was actually good. Then, roughly in the same news cycle, Donald Trump announced he was...
Lindsey Graham Dies, Takes Trump's Voter ID Bill With Him
Lindsey Graham wasn't just a cheerleader for Trump's voter ID legislation. He was the Senate Budget Committee chair, the one person holding together the...
ICE Killed the Wrong Man in Maine. His Daughter Watched in Bluey PJs.
ICE agents shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine on Monday morning while his toddler daughter, still in her Bluey pajamas, watched....
New York Just Hit Pause on Big Tech's Power Grab — Literally
New York just became the first state in the country to tell the tech industry to sit down and wait. Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday...
RFK Jr Froze the Kids' Tobacco Panel While Big Vape Got Flavors Back
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has built a brand around protecting children from corporate poison, has spent over a year preventing a federal health panel from...
Republicans Want 60% to Pass Amendments, But 51% to Pass Theirs
Republican lawmakers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Missouri are asking voters this year to make it harder for those same voters to pass...
Trump Bans Americans From Flying Home as Ebola Patient Gets Sent to Germany
The Trump administration is blocking American citizens in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from flying home on commercial flights, even as the US quietly...
Trump Drained the Reflecting Pool to Fix Damage He Can't Prove Was Vandalism
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been drained for repairs after weeks of Donald Trump insisting that roving vandals slashed it open with knives and...
Trump Ballroom Donor Gets $200M Armenia Fund Job He Happens to Already Profit From
A Russian-born Chicago investor who donated $12 million to Trump's political operation and an undisclosed sum to Trump's ballroom project has been appointed...
U.S. Just Unleashed Robot Boats on Iran's Navy for the First Time
The U.S. military sent a small fleet of autonomous robot boats into an Iranian naval base and blew things up, and somehow that sentence is not from a Tom...