Trump Refused to Sign a Housing Bill, So It Became Law Anyway at Midnight
Donald Trump refused to sign the largest housing affordability bill in decades, called it "a big yawn," and held it hostage over an unrelated voting bill that...
Randolph Mantooth, the TV Medic Who Made America Care About Paramedics, Dies at 80
Before every firefighter-themed drama that's ever made you cry on a Tuesday night, there was 'Emergency!' And before 'Emergency!' meant anything to anyone,...
Tokyo's Robot Cafe Is Staffed by Real Humans Who Can't Leave Home
There is a cafe in Tokyo where robots bring you your food, and before you spiral into a Black Mirror episode, stop. Every single one of those robots is being...
Judge Calls Trump's Jan. 6 Views 'Fiction,' Then Erases Proud Boys Convictions Anyway
A federal judge just wiped out the seditious conspiracy convictions of four Proud Boys leaders, and he did it while explicitly saying that Donald Trump's...
Trump's DHS Fixer Corey Lewandowski May Face Criminal Referral Over Contract Scheme
Corey Lewandowski, former Trump campaign manager and professional chaos agent, walked into the Department of Homeland Security as a "Special Government...
Trump's Own Judge Calls Jan. 6 Case Dismissal Politically Motivated
A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump just dismissed the seditious conspiracy convictions against Proud Boys leaders, and he did it while making absolutely...
Black Teen's Body Found After July 4 Boat Trip With White Friends. Mississippi Says 'No Foul Play.'
An 18-year-old Black college football player went to a Mississippi barrier island for the Fourth of July with three white friends and never came home. His...
Google, Amazon, Microsoft's Emissions Keep Climbing While Their Honesty Doesn't
The same companies that spent years plastering "net zero" and "carbon neutral" all over their press releases are now watching their own environmental reports...
Alberta Is Literally Voting on Whether to Stay in Canada
This October, over four million Albertans will vote on whether their province should explore leaving Canada entirely. Not metaphorically. Not as a protest. An...
LAPD Pulls Plug on Surveillance Vendor That May Have Fed Data to ICE
The Los Angeles Police Department is pulling the plug on its contract with Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based surveillance company that operates part of the LAPD's...
Apple Sues OpenAI for Stealing Its Secrets to Build a Rival Gadget
Apple is accusing OpenAI of running what amounts to a corporate espionage operation, systematically recruiting Apple employees and allegedly walking them right...
All 10 Dead After Flamingo Air Cessna Crashes in Bahamas on Independence Day
On the day the Bahamas was celebrating 53 years of independence, a Flamingo Air Cessna 402 went down in North Andros and killed everyone on board. All 10...
ICE Shot a Man Through His Window. Witnesses Say No Officer Was Ever in Danger.
An ICE officer shot and killed a 52-year-old Mexican homebuilder through the side window of his van in Houston on July 7th. Three men sitting in that van when...
NYC's Fancy Upper East Side Is Breathing Legionnaires' Now
Forty-six people have come down with a serious, potentially fatal pneumonia in one of the wealthiest zip codes in America, and the culprit is invisible mist...
NYC Just Made It Illegal to Trap You in a Subscription Hell
You know the drill. You signed up for something in 2022, forgot about it, and have been quietly hemorrhaging $14.99 a month ever since. New York City just...
Senate Republicans Scared of Their 4th Shutdown in 12 Months
Three government shutdowns in the past year, and Senate Republicans are already in full panic mode about a fourth. It's July. The fiscal year doesn't end until...
Trump's Memphis Anticrime Taskforce Has Now Killed Two Black Men in a Week
In the span of a single week, two Black men are dead in Tennessee, and the common thread running through both cases is Donald Trump's Memphis Safe Task Force....
Maine Dems Dump Sexual Assault-Accused Senate Candidate Days Before Deadline
Graham Platner, the oyster farmer and Marine veteran who somehow became Democrats' best shot at unseating Susan Collins, officially filed paperwork Friday to...
Maine Dem Drops Out, Signs Off With 'F*ck ICE. Free Palestine.'
Graham Platner filed his official withdrawal from Maine's Senate race on Thursday, two days after announcing he was out following rape allegations from a...
Fetterman and His Republican BFF Just Opened a Joint Bank Account
John Fetterman and Republican senator Dave McCormick have officially opened a joint fundraising committee together, because apparently crossing the aisle to...
Afghanistan's Ex-Deputy Speaker Sold the DEA 2kg of Meth, Then Asked for 3 Days to Deliver RPGs
A man who served as deputy speaker of Afghanistan's National Assembly and as a general in its paramilitary Border Force was arrested and charged Friday with...
Iran Keeps Shooting at Ships. Trump Wants Them to Say Sorry.
The United States signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran three weeks ago, apparently under the assumption that Iran would, at minimum, stop shooting at...
Trump Picks 'Climate Alarmism' YouTuber to Run America's Climate Report
The Trump administration has appointed a man who calls himself a 'professor-in-exile,' makes videos for PragerU, and believes climate scientists are 'selling...
Iran Told Trump: 'We Screwed Up' After Shooting at Ships in Hormuz
Iran's government privately walked up to Trump's team, hat in hand, and said the quiet part out loud: "We screwed up. We made a mistake. Let's keep talking."...
NEA Killed a Mexican Folk Music Grant, Then Funded It Again After the Band Agreed to Sing About Reagan
The National Endowment for the Arts rescinded a $20,000 grant from a Chicago Mexican folk music ensemble because corridos weren't patriotic enough. Then the...
ICE Killed a Man With No Criminal Record. Their Cameras Were Off.
A man who had lived in the United States for nearly 35 years, had no criminal history, and was on his way to a construction job got shot and killed by ICE...
Trump Is Turning the White House Into a Bunker and Calling It a Reno
The White House is getting a new front door. And new fences. And fortified walls. And scaffolding that will be up for months. Call it what you want, but when...
Ryanair Passenger's Head Was Literally Outside the Plane at 30,000 Feet
A 61-year-old man's head and shoulders were outside a Ryanair airplane window somewhere over North Macedonia on Friday morning before fellow passengers...
1,173 Lbs of Cocaine Found Hiding in a Cabbage Shipment at Texas Border
Someone looked at a truckload of cabbage crossing the Texas border and thought: perfect. Nearly 1,200 pounds of cocaine, 477 packages, stuffed inside a...
Pentagon Drops UFO Footage of Star-Shaped Object Over Yellow Sea
The United States government has released infrared military footage of a six-pointed star-shaped object flying over the Yellow Sea, and the official...
Rubio Deports Man His Victim Forgave Because Minnesota Pardoned Him
The Trump administration just deported a man whose own victim wrote a letter asking the government to let him stay. Marco Rubio announced Friday that Tou Lue...
ICE Shot a 52-Year-Old Construction Worker. No Body Cams. No Video.
A 52-year-old Mexican immigrant left his Houston home before dawn on Tuesday to pick up construction workers for a job site. Federal immigration agents...
JD Vance's 72-Acre Estate Not Quite Enough, Needs Second Home
JD Vance, the man who wrote a whole book about the dignity of working-class struggle, is apparently finding it difficult to make do with his free 72-acre...
Trump Flies His Own Poop Home From Turkey Like Putin and Kim Jong Un
Donald Trump attended a NATO summit in Ankara this week, and when he boards his $400 million Air Force One to fly home, his luggage will include something that...
Mike Johnson Lost His 9th Floor Vote. His Own Party Did It.
Mike Johnson has been Speaker of the House for less than three years, and his own party has already killed nine of his floor votes. The latest one went down...
Trump Backs Russian Oil Tariffs as Ukraine Starts Winning
Something genuinely surprising happened this week: Donald Trump, the man who spent years treating Vladimir Putin like a pen pal he was too nervous to...
British MP Ann Widdecombe, 78, Found Dead at Home, Murder Probe Launched
Ann Widdecombe, the 78-year-old former British MP, prisons minister, reality television contestant, and Reform UK firebrand, was found dead in her home on the...
Andy Burnham Inherits Starmer's Mess and Trump's Contempt
Donald Trump once dismissed Andy Burnham as 'the mayor of a town.' Now that mayor is about to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and his first truly...
Trump's DOJ Is Racing to Release Biden's Private Tapes to the Heritage Foundation
The Trump Justice Department was, until a federal appeals court stepped in Friday, about to hand over Joe Biden's private recorded conversations to a...
Mortgage Rates Hit 6.5% and the Inflation Report Won't Save You
Back in early March, the average 30-year mortgage rate had fallen to 5.75%. That was a nice number. A hopeful number. The kind of number that makes people dust...
Dead Broke: How Your Debt Can Loot Your Own Grave
Here's a fun thing nobody tells you at the estate planning seminar: dying doesn't make your debt disappear. It just makes it someone else's problem to sort...
Pentagon UFO Drop: A Nuke Plant Lockdown, a 28-Year Vet Stumped, and a Six-Pointed Star Over the Yellow Sea
The Pentagon dropped 40 new UFO files on Friday and buried inside them is a story about an unidentified object buzzing a nuclear weapons facility in Texas...
Texas Dem Running for AG: Giving Musk 99% of $110M in Grants 'Sure Looks Like' Corruption
A Texas Democrat is putting something genuinely unusual on the ballot this November: an investigation into Elon Musk. Nathan Johnson, who won the Democratic...
Feds Charge 15 Minneapolis Protesters With Conspiracy for Alerting Neighbors to ICE
The Trump Department of Justice has indicted 15 Minneapolis residents for the crime of telling their neighbors where ICE agents were. One person in a...
Delta CEO: High Airfares Are 'Sustainable' Even After Oil Drops
Delta CEO Ed Bastian went on CNBC Friday and said the quiet part loud: even if oil prices fall, he expects high airfares to stick around. The average domestic...
Trump Screamed at NATO, Got a Standing Ovation, and Somehow That's the Point
Donald Trump showed up to the NATO summit, told allied leaders he was "very disappointed" in them, demanded Greenland, insulted Spain, and declared that the...
They Stole a City: The 1898 Coup America Still Won't Reckon With
In 1898, a group of white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina overthrew a democratically elected multiracial government, murdered Black residents in the...
Elton John Was Gay-Coding Your Radio Since 1972 and You Had No Idea
A new book argues that Elton John spent the entire early 1970s hiding in plain sight, stuffing queer longing into chart-topping hits that millions of straight...
ICE Shot the Wrong Man Dead. He Was Driving to Work.
A 52-year-old man drove himself and three coworkers to a construction site in Houston on Tuesday morning and was shot dead by federal immigration agents who,...
Netanyahu Wants 70% of Gaza. The Crowd Wanted 100%. He Said 'Let's Go.'
There is technically a ceasefire in Gaza. There has been one since October. And yet, per NPR's on-the-ground reporting, Israeli tanks are shelling residential...
Charlie Kirk Murder Trial Hinges on DNA, a Rooftop, and a Roommate Who Talked
A judge is now sitting with a pile of evidence that includes a DNA match on a murder weapon, rooftop surveillance footage, and a former roommate who says the...
Nigel Farage Is Running Against a Man Dressed as a Trash Can
Nigel Farage, the man who helped blow up the European Union and spent years cosplaying as a working-class hero while cashing checks from billionaires, has...
Texas Has $27B Sitting Around But Won't Spend $1.3B to Stop Cooking Prisoners Alive
A Texas prison cell hit 149 degrees Fahrenheit. Inmates are lying in spilled toilet water on concrete floors just to feel something other than their own organs...
Manhattan Gained More New Residents Than Anywhere in America and Still Lost $922M
Manhattan pulled off a genuinely impressive feat between 2022 and 2023: it attracted more new tax filers than any other county in the entire country, and...