Medicare Dropped 140,000 Seniors for Unpaid Bills as Small as $8.10
A 77-year-old man in Minnesota is rationing his stroke-prevention medication because his Medicare drug plan dropped him over $28.80 in unpaid premiums he never...
Charlie Kirk Murder Hearing Starts Monday With Autopsy Evidence, Confession Texts
The man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk dead in front of thousands of people at a Utah university is heading into a five-day evidence hearing this week, and...
Man Died Waiting for Heart Meds After Insurance Switch. His Wife Is Furious.
A man who survived a heart transplant died in front of a Dollar General in Kissimmee, Florida, after his new health insurance plan failed to get him the...
Russia Killed 11 in Kyiv Monday. We're Out of Missiles to Stop Them.
Russia launched a massive overnight missile and drone assault on Kyiv early Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 60 more, just four days after a...
China Fires Nuclear Sub Missile Into Pacific 'Free Zone' It Promised to Respect
China fired a long-range ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine into the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone on Monday, the same zone China legally...
A Firework Hit a Passenger Jet on Final Approach Into Chicago
A commercial passenger jet was struck by a fireworks mortar while descending into Chicago Midway Airport on the Fourth of July, and somehow that sentence is...
Trump Called FIFA's Boss to Save a Soccer Player's Suspension
The President of the United States personally phoned the head of FIFA to get a soccer player's one-game ban reversed. That sentence is real. It happened this...
The Baseball Team That Sells Out Fenway With Stilts, Grandmas, and Foster Kids
A man in a yellow tuxedo has figured out how to sell out Fenway Park with a game that bans bunting, puts grandmas on the field, and makes a baby dressed as a...
London Cabbies Memorized 25,000 Streets. Waymo Wants Their Jobs.
To drive a black cab in London, you have to memorize 25,000 streets, 6,000 landmarks, and every shortcut between them — a feat so cognitively brutal that...
Trump Gave a 37-Minute Speech at 1am in a Thunderstorm to 150,000 Wet Strangers
At some point past midnight on July 5th, 2026, the President of the United States stood on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., soaking wet in the aftermath...
Americans Now Spend Just 35 Minutes a Day With Other Humans
Thirty-five minutes. That is the average amount of time an American adult now spends socializing on any given day, down from 45 minutes two decades ago....
Charlie Kirk Murder Trial Begins: DNA, a Confession Note, and a Death Penalty Ask
A 23-year-old man who allegedly shot conservative activist Charlie Kirk in front of thousands of people, then texted his roommate about it, then left a written...
Three Firefighters Dead, 250,000 Acres Burning, and Colorado's Getting Thunderstorms Instead of Help
Three firefighters are dead, a memorial service just wrapped up, and the state of Colorado is staring down a weekend forecast that reads less like weather and...
Super Typhoon Bavi Bears Down on Guam With 180 MPH Winds
A super typhoon with winds expected to hit 180 miles per hour is bearing down on Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands right now, and the local meteorologist...
National Guard Troops Deployed to Fight Crime Just Killed a 20-Year-Old in Memphis
The National Guard troops Donald Trump deployed to Memphis to make the streets safer just shot and killed a 20-year-old man on those streets. Tyrin Johnson is...
25 Dead in US Heatwave While Trump's Mall Fair Shut Down Sick Visitors
At least 25 people are dead across the United States after a record-breaking heat dome parked itself over the eastern half of the country during the Fourth of...
Two Immigrant Congressmen Explain America to a White House That Wants Them Gone
On the weekend America turned 250, two men who came to this country as children speaking no English sat down on national television and explained, with more...
Seaplane Crashes in NYC's East River, Second One in Three Weeks
Two seaplanes in three weeks. Same river. New York City is apparently running some kind of stress test on its emergency responders, and the East River keeps...
McMorrow Drops Out, Leaving Michigan Senate Race a Mess
Mallory McMorrow, the Democratic rising star who was supposed to be one of the party's best shots at holding a Senate seat in a Trump-won swing state,...
Ex-CDC Chief: RFK Jr. Refused Measles Briefing, Installed Unvetted Vaccine Panel
The man running America's public health apparatus refused to receive a briefing on an active measles epidemic from the CDC's top medical official. That's not a...
The Atlantic Just Reminded Everyone Vance Called Trump 'America's Hitler'
The Atlantic just dropped a little birthday present on America's 250th: a 10-year-old essay by JD Vance, the sitting Vice President of the United States,...
Clinton's July 4th Shots at Trump: 'Masked Agents,' Unconstitutional Wars, Profiteering
On the nation's 250th birthday, while Donald Trump was busy congratulating himself at Mount Rushmore, Bill Clinton posted a statement that read less like a...
25 Dead as July 4th Heat Wave Bakes 40 Million Americans
America celebrated its 250th birthday this week by trying to cook itself alive. A weeklong heat wave has now killed at least 25 people, with 40 million...
California Just Admitted 'Sell By' Dates Were Made Up This Whole Time
For decades, Americans have been hurling perfectly edible food into the trash because a little stamp on the package told them to. California just passed a law...
3% of Kenya's Construction Workers Are Women. This Nairobi Nonprofit Is Fixing That.
Women make up 3% of Kenya's accredited construction artisans. Not because they can't do the work. Because nobody ever trained them, paid them fairly, or told...
NCAA Chief: Fans Are Texting College Kids 'Don't Catch the First Pass So I Can Win Money'
College athletes are getting messages from people in their own social circles asking them to intentionally perform badly on specific plays so that someone can...
Putin Told Trump Russia Is 'Winning' While Ukraine Was Bombing Crimea
While Donald Trump was on the phone with Vladimir Putin hearing about how brilliantly Russian forces are advancing across Ukraine, Ukrainian drones were...
Paul Pelosi, 86, Hits Parked Car, Drives Away, Plays Dumb
Paul Pelosi, 86-year-old husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, hit a legally parked car in California wine country on Friday, briefly stopped, and then...
People Are Paying $20 to Sit in a Dark Room and Listen to Records
Somewhere in Seattle, a woman with a David Bowie tattoo took off her shoes, sat down in a back room, and paid twenty dollars to listen to an album she could...
The 'Ratepayer Protection Act' Protects Everyone Except Ratepayers
Congress has produced a bipartisan bill with "ratepayer protection" right there in the name, and according to consumer advocates, it does almost none of that....
Ali Larter Quit Hollywood Parties for Idaho Ice Cream and Has Zero Regrets
Ali Larter, who plays a wildcat on a prestige TV show about the oil industry, has apparently become the most aggressively wholesome person in America. The...
Man With World's Smallest Penis Raises $13K, Books His Own Surgery
A 38-year-old South Carolina man who publicly claimed the title of world's smallest penis has raised nearly $13,000 from strangers on the internet and booked a...
Heritage Foundation Guy Warns Socialism Will Destroy America, Ignores the Rent
A Heritage Foundation senior fellow who fled Cuba is warning that America is on the verge of electing 'communists in double digits' to Congress. He's not...
Four Kids Shot on the Fourth: Coney Island Fireworks Ended With a 6-Year-Old Hit in the Stomach
While the rest of America was still watching fireworks, a gunman opened fire on West 31st Street in Brooklyn's Coney Island neighborhood, shooting eight people...
Pope Leo Calls Out 'Tyrants' in Washington, Moscow, and Jerusalem by Name
The sitting pope looked out at a global political order run by Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Benjamin Netanyahu and called them, with essentially zero...
FBI Has Seized 600+ Drones Buzzing World Cup Stadiums
Six hundred drones. Seized. In less than a month. Apparently the 2026 World Cup is not just the biggest soccer tournament on American soil in history, it is...
The American Pope Spent July 4th Praying Over Dead Migrants
The first American pope spent the 250th anniversary of the United States not watching fireworks or eating a hot dog, but standing alone on a jagged jetty in...
Your Fancy Rubber Mulch Is Killing Salmon and You Paid Extra For It
Millions of American homeowners spent more money than they needed to on rubber mulch because the bag said it was the responsible, eco-friendly choice. It was...
America Turns 250 and the Party Is a Malfunctioning Ferris Wheel
America turned 250 years old this Fourth of July weekend, and the official celebrations included a UFC event, a state fair with a broken ferris wheel, and what...
Taylor Swift Married Travis Kelce at MSG and Adam Sandler Officiated
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got married at Madison Square Garden on the Fourth of July, with Adam Sandler officiating the ceremony, Stevie Nicks performing,...
Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI to Stay in His Good Graces
Sam Altman, the guy who spent years telling Congress that AI would save humanity, is now reportedly offering Donald Trump a 5% slice of OpenAI just to stay on...
DNA Just Gave a Name Back to a 13-Year-Old Who Died for America in 1780
For 246 years, a shallow grave in the pine forests of Camden, South Carolina held a young man the country had completely forgotten. His name was John Pumphrey,...
Nigerian Kids Learn to Dodge Parasitic Worms Via Board Game
In a part of Nigeria where a third of screened residents have an active parasitic worm infection, someone looked at the public health crisis and thought: what...
Egypt Just Dug Up an Entire Lost City, Complete With Gold Coins and a Deacon's House Church
Egypt just pulled off the archaeological equivalent of finding a fully furnished apartment behind a wall, except the apartment is an entire fourth-century...
America Cancels Its Own Birthday Parade Because It's Too Hot Outside
On the exact day America turned 250 years old, the country canceled its own birthday parade because it was too hot to stand outside. The Independence Day...
Lockheed Martin Exec Told Trump's UFO Advisor: 'It's Not Wrong'
A former senior executive at Lockheed Martin, one of the biggest defense contractors on the planet, walked up to Trump's UFO advisor, sat down in his house,...
Happy 250th, America: Your July 4th BBQ Now Costs $295
America turned 250 years old today, and to celebrate, grocery stores charged you $63 more than last year just to grill some meat in your own backyard. A...
July 4th Birthday People Have Had It With Trump's Semiquincentennial
Imagine spending your entire life sharing a birthday with the United States, building up decades of warm fuzzy feelings about fireworks and cake and the whole...
America Turns 250 and the Speeches That Built It Still Sting
America just turned 250 years old, and CBS News marked the occasion by rounding up the six presidential speeches that did the most to shape this country....
You're Allowed to Cheer for the USMNT Even If You Hate the Government
The US men's national soccer team is one win away from matching their best-ever run in World Cup history, playing some of the best football this country has...
DSA Would Be 'Thrilled' for AOC 2028 Run, as Squad Notches Another Primary Scalp
The Democratic Socialists of America would be 'very thrilled' if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ran for president in 2028, according to DSA New York City co-Chair...
Scientists Find Potentially Habitable Planet 25 Light-Years Away
Astronomers have found a planet twice the size of Earth, sitting in the exact zone where liquid water can exist, just 25 light-years away. They're calling it...
Iran Buries Khamenei on July 4th While Trump Brags at Mount Rushmore
Iran buried its Supreme Leader on America's birthday while Donald Trump stood in front of Mount Rushmore bragging about bombing the country. Mourners in Tehran...
America Turns 250 and Its Whole Life Story Is a Staged Photo
America turns 250 this year, and The Guardian has marked the occasion with a genuinely brilliant essay that asks the most uncomfortable birthday question...