U.S. and Iran to Sign Ceasefire Deal Sunday, Hormuz Reopens
After nearly three months of backroom diplomacy involving four separate mediating countries, the United States and Iran are reportedly ready to stop shooting...
FCC Chair Admits His Agency Answers to Trump, Not the Law
The head of the Federal Communications Commission, the agency legally designed to regulate broadcasters without political interference, has apparently decided...
RFK Jr. Is Now Actually in Charge of Vaccines. God Help Us.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a man who has spent the better part of two decades telling anyone who would listen that vaccines are suspect, is now the person who runs...
Knicks Watch Party Tickets Flip From $10 to $1,450 Overnight
Ten dollars. That's what it cost to watch your Knicks play a playoff game on a giant screen inside Radio City Music Hall. Scalpers looked at that price and...
Trump's $12B Farm Bailout Already Wiped Out by His Own Iran War
The Trump administration handed American farmers a $12 billion relief package in December to ease the pain of its own trade war. Then, two months later, Trump...
Trump Gutted the Ebola Early Warning System. Now There's an Ebola Outbreak.
There are over 500 Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at least 130 people are dead, the virus has crossed into Uganda, and the World Health...
Texas Woman Sues McDonald's After Sausage McMuffin 'Poisoned Her Entire Body'
A Texas woman says a Sausage McMuffin with Egg from a Midtown Manhattan McDonald's contained 'contaminants, poisons, toxins, parasites, bacteria, germs and/or...
James Harden Arrested at 3 AM With Unsecured Gun After Hookah Night
James Harden, a 36-year-old NBA veteran who just helped the Cleveland Cavaliers reach the Eastern Conference Finals, was arrested in Houston at 3:41 in the...
Lonely TikTokers Drinking Solo Diet Coke Are Going Viral and Honestly, Fair
There is currently a genre of TikTok content where people film themselves backing a frozen pizza and staring out a window, alone, on a Friday night, and the...
Qatar's Hosting a World Cup It Can't Even Qualify For Honestly
Qatar spent an estimated $220 billion building stadiums in the desert, importing labor under conditions the United Nations called forced servitude, and bribing...
A Single Shot Took a Canadian Mom Off Insulin. Forever.
Amanda Smith, a 36-year-old nurse and mother from London, Ontario, has not taken an insulin injection in nearly two years. Not because her Type 1 diabetes went...
Former Fed Prosecutor's Book Makes the Mob Case Against Trump, and It's Airtight
A former federal prosecutor who has taken down mob figures, corrupt mayors, and a literal underwear bomber has looked at the Trump administration and...
U.S. Aid Cuts Are Starving Kids in Senegal. Literally.
There is a food that saves the lives of starving children. It works. It's cheap. It existed in Senegal through a program that made it easy for parents to...
The FDA Just Approved a Sunscreen Ingredient Europe Has Used for 20 Years
The FDA just approved a new sunscreen ingredient for the first time in two decades. The ingredient is called bemotrizinol, and Europeans and Asians have been...
Science Says Keep Working Forever, So That's Fun
Good news, everyone: you don't have to retire. You can just keep working until you die, and apparently that's great for you. A piece published by The Hill is...
Ukraine's 'Operation Meow-Meow': Vampire Drone Rescues Cat and 5 Kittens from the Front
The Ukrainian military has a drone program capable of striking targets across a war zone, and they just used it to save a cat. Six cats, actually. The...
Taliban Kidnapper Sentenced to 42 Years After Smiling at His Victim in Court
Haji Najibullah walked into a Manhattan federal courtroom on Monday in shackles and a black skullcap, and he was smiling. The man he held captive for seven...
Inflation Hit 4.2% and Dollar General's Big Fix Is a $1 Frozen Aisle
Inflation just clocked in at 4.2% in May, its highest level in three years and the third straight month it's gone up, according to the Labor Department. Dollar...
Flesh-Eating Parasite Found in NM Dog Gets Its Own Emergency FDA Authorization
A flesh-eating parasite called the New World screwworm has turned up in a small dog in New Mexico, and the FDA just moved fast enough to actually impress...
Your 401k Is a Tax Bomb With a Timer and It's Already Ticking
You did everything right. You saved for decades, skipped the avocado toast, maxed out the 401k, dreamed of a comfortable retirement. The government has a...
NJ Dad Says Cops Arrested Him for Wearing a Hoodie While Black
A Black father in Jackson Township, New Jersey says police pulled him over and arrested him on June 2nd for one reason: he was wearing a hoodie on a warm...
Ebola Is Killing People in Congo and the World Is Barely Watching
At least 140 people are dead from an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and that number is almost certainly an undercount. Aid agencies are...
Anthropic Quietly Kills Two AI Models on Secret Trump Order
Anthropic announced Friday it is shutting down access to two of its AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, because the Trump administration told it to. Why? What...
Solar Panels That Turn Seawater Into Drinking Water Also Mine Lithium For Free
Scientists at the University of Rochester have built a solar-powered desalination system that converts ocean water into fresh drinking water, produces zero...
The Tiny Radio Station Taking On ICE at New Jersey's Detention Hellhole
While right-wing influencers were outside Delaney Hall in Newark filming fistfights for clicks and DHS was busy insisting there was nothing to see inside, a...
Trump's Name Scraped Off Kennedy Center at 2 AM After DOJ Missed Deadline
At some point in the early hours of Saturday morning, while most of America slept, workers on scaffolding were scraping Donald Trump's name off the side of one...
Elon Musk Just Hit $1 Trillion While You Can't Afford Eggs
Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire, a number so large it requires its own unit of measurement and a brief moment of sitting quietly in a dark...
Trump Just Handed ICE $70 Billion. No, That's Not a Typo.
Donald Trump signed a bill this week handing the Department of Homeland Security roughly $70 billion in new funding, enough to bankroll his mass deportation...
Trump Brags About 200 Ships. The Normal Number Is Way Higher.
Donald Trump stood at a podium and told the world that more than 200 commercial vessels had safely passed through the Strait of Hormuz, apparently expecting...
Feds Collect Grass Clippings After '86 47' Mowed Into National Mall
Federal investigators descended on the National Mall Thursday after someone etched the message "86 47" into the grass between the Washington Monument and the...
Trump Turned Your Sunday Football Into a Culture War Battlefield
There used to be exactly one thing left that could put a Republican uncle and his college-liberal nephew in the same room without somebody flipping a table....
Dems Cry 'All-White Jury' After Anthony Verdict. The Jury Wasn't All-White.
Karmelo Anthony was convicted Tuesday of stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death at a Texas high school track meet and sentenced to 35 years in prison....
Trump's $1.77B 'Anti-Weaponization' Slush Fund Blocked by Judge Who Noticed Trump Wants It Back
The Trump administration told two separate federal judges that the $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund was dead, done, and not coming back. Then Donald...
ICE Blew $38 Billion on Detention Beds Now Sitting Empty
The Trump administration spent $38 billion expanding ICE detention capacity to handle a historic surge of arrests, and the beds are now sitting empty. ICE's...
Iran Launched Attack Drones at Ships While Negotiating With the U.S.
Iran launched multiple one-way attack drones at commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, and U.S. forces had to shoot them down. This happened while...
ICE Is Deporting a 20-Year Army Vet's Wife. He Served. She Raised Their Kids. This Is the Thanks.
A man spent two decades in uniform defending this country, and the government's thank-you is threatening to deport his wife. Retired Staff Sgt. Wilmer...
MTG Says UFC at the White House Is Too Trashy. Let That Sink In.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia congresswoman who once showed up to work in a 'Stop the Steal' mask and spent years turning the United States Capitol into...
Army Vet's Wife Grabbed by ICE at Her Own Green Card Appointment
She didn't run. She didn't hide. She walked into a government office for a scheduled green card appointment, and ICE arrested her on the spot. Now her husband,...
Trump Says U.S. Military Killed Tren de Aragua's Top Boss
Late Friday night, Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce that the U.S. military had killed the leader of Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan criminal...
Trump Froze 1M+ Immigration Apps Illegally. A Judge Said Stop. They're Still Fighting It.
Over a million people were stuck in legal purgatory because the Trump administration quietly froze their immigration applications, locked them out of work...