GOP Rep Vanished for 4 Months, Traded Stocks, Then Gave a Speech About It
A sitting U.S. congressman vanished from Capitol Hill for nearly four months, missed hundreds of votes that his party desperately needed, reportedly traded...
Kirk Murder Trial: DNA on the Trigger, a Confession Note, and a Death Penalty Case
The man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk in the neck left a note for his romantic partner that read, according to prosecutors, 'I had the opportunity to take...
Zuckerberg Tried to Buy Kalshi, Got Rejected, Now Building Fake-Money Casino
Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy the hottest company in the prediction market boom, got turned away, and is now building his own knockoff version where nobody uses...
Google's Emissions Hit Record High as AI Boom Torches Climate Pledges
Google has spent years positioning itself as the responsible adult in the tech room, the company that takes climate change seriously, invests in renewables,...
GOP Rep Vanished for 142 Days. Turns Out It Was Depression.
For 142 days, a sitting member of Congress simply disappeared. No explanation. No timeline. Not even his own aides knew what was going on. On Tuesday, Rep. Tom...
Four Guys, 10 Days, $529K: The ATM Heist That's Almost Impressive
Four men allegedly walked up to ATMs along Interstate 95 in Connecticut, cracked the hoods open like they were checking the oil, loaded in some malware, and...
SCOTUS Takes Up AR-15 Bans, and Sandy Hook Families Brace
The Supreme Court has agreed to rule on whether states can ban AR-15-style rifles, which is a perfectly normal thing to have to litigate in a country where...
The 'Big Beautiful Bill' Just Blew Up Student Loans for Millions
Starting this week, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act tears up the federal student loan rulebook for millions of Americans, eliminating repayment options, capping...
Supreme Court Lets Parties Raise Unlimited Cash AND Coordinate With Candidates
The Supreme Court handed American democracy another gut punch Tuesday, striking down decades-old limits on how much money political parties can raise and spend...
SCOTUS to Trump: You Can't Just Un-American Kids With a Pen
The Supreme Court told Donald Trump on Tuesday that he cannot use an executive order to strip birthright citizenship from children born on American soil, which...
AI Is Making You Boring, and It's Doing It on Purpose
A Columbia Business School researcher just published a study analyzing over 110,000 real-world decisions, and the conclusion is as funny as it is terrifying:...
Supreme Court Says States Can Ban Trans Girls From Girls' Sports
The Supreme Court handed down its ruling in West Virginia v. B.P.J. on Tuesday, and it is exactly as bad as it sounds. States can now legally ban transgender...
Buffett Freezes Gates Foundation Billions Over Epstein Ties
Warren Buffett has donated roughly $48 billion to the Gates Foundation over two decades without missing a single year. This is the year he missed. The Wall...
Man Who Legally Named Himself Santa Claus Busted in Child Predator Sting
A 75-year-old New Orleans man who legally changed his name to Santa Claus was arrested last weekend after allegedly using a dating app to solicit sex from...
ICE Detained a Nun Walking to Church in Her Habit
A Roman Catholic nun was arrested by ICE officers while walking to morning mass in her full religious habit in McAllen, Texas. She was dressed as a nun. Going...
Trump's Loan Caps Could Kill the Healthcare Career of a Man a PA Once Saved
Benjamin Pinckney survived a drive-by shooting at 20, made a promise to the physician assistant who saved his life, spent decades working sanitation and...
Harry Wants to Bring His Kids to the UK. Britain Says Pay for Your Own Bodyguards.
Prince Harry wants to bring his wife and kids to the United Kingdom next month. The British government's response, delivered with the full dignity of a...
The Iran Peace Deal Is Already Falling Apart and Nobody's Even in the Same Room
Jared Kushner, the man who once claimed he'd solved the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with a PowerPoint, flew to Doha this week to negotiate a historic peace...
U.S. Murder Rate Hits Record Low and Nobody's Giving Biden or Trump Credit Correctly
The United States is on track to record its lowest murder rate in history, and somehow this genuinely good news has become yet another front in the culture war...
DEA Watched 74,000 Fentanyl Pills Hit Albuquerque and Did Nothing
A DEA special agent turned whistleblower says federal drug agents sat and watched a deal involving 74,000 fentanyl pills go down in an Albuquerque mobile home...
U.S. Brain Scientists Are Fleeing to Britain and Taking Pay Cuts to Do It
American scientists are taking pay cuts to leave the country. Let that sink in. Tenured professors at major research universities are voluntarily earning less...
Supreme Court Set to Rule on Birthright Citizenship and Trans Athletes Tuesday
Tuesday is the day the Supreme Court either defends 150 years of constitutional precedent or hands Donald Trump one of the biggest legal wins of his...
Trump's DOJ Is Fighting a Judge to Hide Notes About a 13-Year-Old's Rape Allegation
A woman who told the FBI she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump when she was between 13 and 15 years old is currently living off the grid, terrified of...
Kash Patel Blew a Sealed FBI Case to Write a Better Tweet
The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may have violated federal law and his own agency's disciplinary code so he could post a brag tweet faster....
Congress Unlocked Free College Money for Workers. Almost No One Qualifies.
Congress passed a big expansion of federal Pell Grants to help low-income workers pay for short-term job training, slapped a July 1 launch date on it, and sent...
Supreme Court Hands Trump the Keys to Every Agency Congress Ever Built
In one ruling, the Supreme Court wiped out a 91-year-old precedent, nullified a 112-year-old law, and handed Donald Trump the power to fire the heads of...
The 'Central Bank for Central Banks' Says the AI Boom Looks Like Every Bubble That Ever Popped
The Bank for International Settlements, which is essentially the central bank that other central banks call when they need an adult in the room, just issued a...
A Tick Can Give You Brain Damage in 15 Minutes. Cases Hit Record High.
A tick can infect you with a potentially fatal, brain-damaging virus in the time it takes to make a cup of coffee. There is no vaccine. There is no cure. And...
Thomas and Gorsuch Want to Kill the Law That Lets You Criticize the President
Two sitting Supreme Court justices just published a formal call to demolish the foundational legal protection for press freedom in America, and they did it in...
America Has Abandoned Aperol for a Pale Green Spritz Nobody Had Heard of Last Month
America's most recognizable summer cocktail just got dethroned by something most people couldn't have named sixty days ago. According to Google Trends data...
Bomb Blast in Monaco Targets Ukrainian Tycoon Sanctioned for Russia Ties
Someone planted a bomb at the front door of a Monaco apartment building Monday night, blew up a Ukrainian construction billionaire and his family, and then...
America Turns 250 and Small Towns Can't Afford the Party
America is throwing itself the biggest birthday bash in its history, and if you live in a small town, you might be watching it on someone else's television. As...
CBS Crew Attacked With Racial Slurs and a Dog in Broad Daylight Chicago
Three men pulled up to a CBS News Chicago crew in a white tow truck on Monday afternoon, shouted racial slurs at the Black photographer, and ordered their dog...
1,300 Dead From Heat and Europe Is Debating Whether AC Is Too Rude to the Planet
More than 1,300 people have died from heat in Europe since June 21, most of them elderly, according to the World Health Organization. France alone has linked...
Ford Fired Its Best Engineers, Hired AI, Then Had to Beg the Engineers to Come Back
Ford spent years quietly losing its most experienced engineers, bet big on AI to fill the gap, and then watched the AI fail badly enough that the company had...
47 Ronin Director Spent $638K of Netflix's Money on Two Mattresses
A Hollywood director asked Netflix for $11 million to finish a sci-fi series, spent $638,000 of it on two mattresses, and is now headed to prison for two and a...
House Passes Kids Online Safety Bill Senate Plans to Ignore
The House just passed a kids' online safety bill with 267 votes, a genuinely rare show of bipartisan agreement in a chamber that can barely agree on lunch....
Soccer Star Dug Through Rubble for 3 Days. He Found His Wife and Kids Dead.
For three days, a professional soccer player clawed through the ruins of a collapsed building in Venezuela, looking for his wife and two kids. He found them....
Trump's New Labor Secretary Threatened to Defund States With Zero Proof of Fraud
Donald Trump has nominated Keith Sonderling as his permanent Secretary of Labor, a man whose most notable recent achievement was threatening to financially...
Private Equity Bought Up Every Wheelchair Repair Shop. Now People Are Dying in Bed Waiting.
Destiny Maxam was on a breathing machine for two weeks after her wheelchair broke and she was stuck in bed. When she came off the ventilator, the first thing...