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...
Disneyland's 1 Billionth Guest Is an 8-Year-Old From Arizona on His Birthday
Somewhere in the multiverse, there is a child who showed up to Disneyland on his 8th birthday and got named the one billionth guest in the park's 70-year...
A 28-Year-Old Has Interviewed 3,000 WWII Vets. Only 30,000 Are Left.
Ten years ago, a kid in Southern California started driving around his neighborhood with a recorder, looking for old men with war stories. Today, Rishi Sharma...
Ronaldo's First Knockout Goal Ever Saves Portugal at 94 Minutes
Cristiano Ronaldo has played in five World Cups spanning more than two decades, and he had never once scored in a knockout round until yesterday. That changed...
Trump Wants His Face on Mount Rushmore. The Mountain Said No.
Donald Trump has had a federal building named after him, two naval warships, an airport, and a government savings account. He flew to Mount Rushmore on the eve...
Three Children Dead After Boat Capsizes on Geneva Lake in Fourth of July Weekend Storm
Three children are dead after a boat capsized on Geneva Lake in Wisconsin Friday when a severe storm rolled in without warning, killing them before rescuers...
AI Reads 2,000-Year-Old Burned Scrolls and Finds Lost Stoic Philosophy
A volcano destroyed these books nearly two thousand years ago and turned them into charcoal. A bunch of engineers with machine learning just read them anyway....
Poop Parasite Hits 18 States and Nobody Knows Where It's Coming From
More than 400 Americans are currently experiencing what the CDC clinically describes as 'watery diarrhea with frequent and sometimes explosive bowel...
America Turns 250 and Charges $1,330 to Join the Party
America is throwing itself a 250th birthday party this Fourth of July, full of flags and founding-father pageantry and naturalization ceremonies at George...
One Year of MAGA Tax Law: $51B for Amazon, Medicaid Cuts for You
One year ago, Donald Trump signed what he called the One Big Beautiful Bill on the Fourth of July, because of course he did. Twelve months later, the...
Happy 250th, America. Now Please Don't Die Outside.
The United States is turning 250 years old this week, and the country is marking the occasion the way it does everything now: in crisis. A punishing heat wave...
Baby Formula Recalls Mount as Trump Gutted the FDA Inspectors Meant to Stop Them
Multiple brands of infant formula have been recalled in the United States over bacterial contamination, including two cases tied to active botulism outbreaks,...
Trump May Pardon Diddy While Definitely Pardoning Diesel Cheats
The President of the United States spent part of his Friday afternoon in a meeting about whether to free a convicted sex tourism offender, a man who helped a...
Active-Duty Air Force Major Arrested at Capitol Calling for Trump's Impeachment
An active-duty United States Air Force major was arrested Wednesday at the Capitol steps while calling for the impeachment of President Trump, knowing full...
Ukraine Is Blowing Up Whatever It Wants Inside Russia Now
Moscow residents scrambled for cover as explosions rang out and what witnesses described as 'black rain' fell over the city. This is not a metaphor. This is...
Louisiana AG Indicted for Threatening Officials Who Backed Wrongly Imprisoned Man
Louisiana's attorney general got a 16-count criminal indictment dropped on her Thursday for allegedly threatening local elected officials who tried to let an...
Colorado Fire Torches 55,000 Acres, 0% Contained, No Rain in Sight
A wildfire in southern Colorado has burned 55,405 acres, destroyed more than 180 structures, forced entire communities to flee with whatever they could grab in...
Democrat Tells Party to Stop Losing the Flag to People Who Tried to Steal the Election
A Democratic congressman from Long Island has written a Wall Street Journal op-ed urging his party to stop ceding the concept of patriotism to the political...
Princess Cruises' 3rd Norovirus Outbreak This Year Hits Alaska Trip
Nothing says 'Alaskan vacation' quite like spending the return leg of your cruise trip isolated in your cabin while the ship gets hosed down for fecal...
Michigan Kids Were Getting Fined for Lemonade Stands
Somewhere in Michigan, a health department employee looked at a child's lemonade stand, thought "I should get paid for this," and actually followed through on...
Marriott Just Dumped Pepsi After 34 Years and Nobody Asked You
Pepsi has been evicted from over 10,000 Marriott hotels across 146 countries, ending a 34-year partnership that nobody thought to defend until it was already...
Russia Drops 570 Missiles and Drones on Kyiv in Biggest Attack of the War
Russia fired 74 missiles and 496 drones at Kyiv overnight, killing at least 21 people and wounding 85 more in the single largest attack on the Ukrainian...
Trump's DOJ Sued Philly So Feds Can Keep Wearing Masks
The Trump Justice Department, which spent years calling mask mandates tyranny, just sued a major American city to protect the right of federal agents to wear...
FBI Mobilizes 260 Agents to Relitigate Georgia 2020 Race Trump Lost Twice
The FBI has ordered every field office in the country to send analysts to Atlanta to help dig through 2020 Fulton County election records, mobilizing 260...
Trump Made $1.4B in Crypto. His Tax Bill Is a Black Box.
Donald Trump made $1.4 billion off cryptocurrency while sitting in the Oval Office and regulating the industry he was personally profiting from. His financial...
Trump's Ed Dept Is Hiding School Civil Rights Data — 7 Months and Counting
The federal government tracks which kids are getting bullied, which students can access the internet, and which schools are failing their most vulnerable...
Trump Is Now Trading AI Access for Loyalty, Like a Tech Mob Boss
Forget NATO commitments, shared democratic values, or decades of security cooperation. According to Axios, the Trump administration has found a new way to sort...
Trump Accidentally Saves the Planet By Blockading 20% of World's Oil
Donald Trump, the man who called climate change a Chinese hoax and spent his presidency trying to resurrect coal like a deranged Dr. Frankenstein, may have...
Polis Fired the Board Members Who Told the Truth About Tina Peters
Colorado Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted the prison sentence of election denier Tina Peters after pressure from Donald Trump. His own clemency board...
Silicon Valley's Richest Wives Are Paying $30K/Year to Optimize Their Sex Lives
A Stanford gynecologist has built a waiting list of billionaire wives willing to pay north of $30,000 a year for what she calls 'sexspan' optimization, and...
NCAA Chief: Supreme Court Trans Ruling Changes Nothing For Us
The Supreme Court ruled this week that states can ban transgender athletes from school sports, and the man running college athletics in America shrugged. NCAA...
Trump Made $2.2 Billion in His First Year Back. Historians Say Nothing Like This Has Ever Happened.
Donald Trump made at least $2.2 billion in his first year back in the White House, according to a mandatory financial disclosure report made public this week....
Netflix Skywalkers Stars Climb Empire State Building Spire to Get Engaged
Most people pop the question at a nice restaurant. Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus climbed to the literal tip of the Empire State Building's needle, 1,454 feet...
Fox News Poll: Ossoff Up 13 on Trump's Hand-Picked Georgia Challenger
Fox News published a poll this week showing Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff beating Trump-endorsed Republican Mike Collins by 13 points in Georgia, which is a...
Brooklyn Pet Store Sold 373 Puppies in 2 Months By Pretending to Be a Rescue
A Brooklyn pet store allegedly sold 373 puppies in just two months by pretending to be an animal rescue charity, pocketing nearly $400,000 while sourcing dogs...
Tariffs Are Now Ruining Weddings Too, Up 8.5% This Year
Nothing says "til death do us part" like going into debt over imported flowers that cost 30% more than they did two years ago. Wedding spending jumped 8.5% in...
Trump Blows Up North America's $2 Trillion Trade Deal
The United States has officially refused to renew the USMCA, the trade agreement that underpins roughly $2 trillion in annual commerce across North America,...
Netflix Stars Arrested After Proposing on Top of Empire State Building Spire
Two people in black masks scaled the full 1,454-foot height of the Empire State Building on Wednesday, unfurled a peace banner from the spire, got engaged...
Brennan Sues DOJ to Stop Trump From Shredding Evidence Before His Show Trial
Former CIA Director John Brennan walked into federal court Wednesday and essentially asked a judge to stop the Trump administration from burning the receipts....
Trump Pocketed $2B Since January and Flew Qatar's Gift 747 This Week
Donald Trump has raked in two billion dollars since returning to the White House, half of it from cryptocurrency he has been publicly promoting from the Oval...
Trump's 927-Page Finance Dump: $1B Crypto, $86M in Lawsuits, and a $208K Bible
The US Office of Government Ethics just dropped 927 pages of Donald Trump's financial life, and it reads less like a government filing and more like the fever...
Fed Chair Warsh Says Inflation Still Too High, Blames Apple and AI
The man in charge of America's interest rates stood in Portugal on Wednesday and told the world that prices are still too damn high, that AI is eating the...
Trump's First Flight on Qatar's $400M Gift to America
The President of the United States flew to North Dakota on Wednesday aboard a $400 million luxury Boeing 747 given to him by the government of Qatar. He called...
MAGA Found Its Feminist Era and It's Aimed Straight at Trans Kids
On the steps of the Supreme Court this week, a crowd of young women cheered a ruling that strips transgender students from girls' sports teams, holding signs...
Woman Falls 1,500 Feet Down a Volcano and Lives to Be Told It's Not a Hike
A 31-year-old woman fell 1,500 feet down the side of an active California volcano on Sunday, survived, and was described by rescuers as alert and "in good...
Trump Made $1B From Crypto While His Feds Regulated Crypto
Donald Trump made more than one billion dollars from his crypto businesses last year. His federal government was simultaneously in charge of regulating those...
Iran May Start Charging Tolls on the Strait of Hormuz — Yes, Really
Iran spent the early months of 2026 turning the Strait of Hormuz into a parking lot for the global oil supply. Now, with a shaky ceasefire in place, Tehran is...
Supreme Court Slaps Down Trump's Birthright Ban 6-3
The Supreme Court just told Donald Trump that the Constitution means what it says, a concept that apparently required a 6-3 ruling to clarify. In a decision...
Trump Cuts Protections on 86M Acres, Then Shows Up to Celebrate Teddy Roosevelt
Donald Trump flew to North Dakota on Wednesday to cut the ribbon on the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, celebrating a president whose defining legacy...
Banksy's New Statue Shows a Flag-Blinded Man Walking Off a Cliff
Sometime in late April, a statue appeared overnight in one of London's most ceremonial public squares. It shows a man in a suit, flag raised high, marching...