The Guy Still Knocking Doors After 2024 Has a Point
After the 2024 shellacking, a lot of Democrats decided the problem was the doors. Saul Austerlitz, who has been knocking them for nearly a decade, would like...
The Third Blood Pressure Number Your Doctor Never Mentions Could Predict Dementia
Every time a doctor slaps a blood pressure cuff on your arm, you walk away with two numbers. Turns out there's a third one sitting right there in plain sight,...
Knicks End 53-Year Drought: Brunson Drops 45, NYC Loses Its Mind
The last time the New York Knicks won an NBA championship, Richard Nixon was president, The Godfather was still in theaters, and most of the people celebrating...
Spurs Tried to Ban Knicks Fans From Their Own Arena. It Backfired Spectacularly.
The San Antonio Spurs, down 3-1 in the NBA Finals and apparently out of ideas, tried to stop Knicks fans from buying tickets to Game 5 in their own building....
Aldon Smith, NFL's Most Dominant Pass Rusher of His Era, Dead at 36
Aldon Smith was 36 years old. He had 19.5 sacks in a single NFL season, a franchise record that still stands for the San Francisco 49ers. The team announced...
SF Zoo's Baby Penguins Are Being Raised by Staff 24/7 Because Their Parents Have No Idea What They're Doing
Three baby penguins hatched at the San Francisco Zoo in mid-May, and zoo staff have been raising them in shifts, nearly 24 hours a day, because the adult...
NYC Is One Knicks Win From Its First Title Since 1973
The New York Knicks have not won an NBA championship since 1973. To put that in perspective, that is before disco, before the fall of Saigon, and before most...
Priest Warns Spielberg's Alien Movie May Be Cursed by Satan
A Roman Catholic priest in Tennessee has issued a formal warning that Steven Spielberg's new alien film might be consecrated to Satan and packed with demons...
Trump's $100K Visa Fee Just Got Nuked by a Judge. He's Appealing.
A federal judge looked at the Trump administration's plan to jack up the H-1B skilled worker visa fee from $215 to $100,000 and said, in 42 pages of legal...
Ex-NFL Receiver Terrelle Pryor Found 'Odd' in Backseat, MDMA Falls Out of His Wallet
Here's a sentence you don't want written about you: police pulled you over, noticed you were lying in the backseat breathing heavy in an 'odd' manner, spotted...
A Million-Square-Foot Medical Warehouse Has Been on Fire for Three Days and Nobody Can Find the Bottom of It
A one-million-square-foot medical supply warehouse in Tracy, California has been on fire since Thursday, and as of Saturday firefighters still could not reach...
FIFA Sold 70,000 Seats. Nobody Showed Up.
The biggest sporting event on the planet came to the heart of Silicon Valley on Saturday, and thousands of people apparently decided to skip it. Levi's Stadium...
America's Top Spy Tool Just Expired Because Trump Picked a Mortgage Guy to Run Intelligence
At midnight on Saturday, one of the most powerful surveillance tools in the American intelligence arsenal quietly died, not because Congress couldn't agree on...
Ford Fixed 255,000 Cars. Surprise: It Didn't Fix Them.
Ford is recalling over 255,000 vehicles because the recall meant to stop their engines from randomly stalling while driving did not, in fact, stop their...
Gunfire at SC's Biggest Mall Sends Two to Hospital on a Saturday Afternoon
It was a Saturday afternoon at the biggest mall in South Carolina, which means there were families, teenagers, people returning shoes, people eating Auntie...
FBI Raids Ohio Voter Registration Group Two Months Before Midterms
The FBI showed up at a voter registration group's office in Cleveland on Thursday, seized their computers and phones, and sent agents to knock on the doors of...
Polish Pathologist Buried 32 Fetuses in Her Yard to Save Money
Construction workers tearing up a driveway in rural Poland last Friday did not expect to find 32 human fetuses in the ground. They found them anyway. The woman...
Iranian Hackers Claim They Hit California Water After US Bombed Iran's Reservoirs
An Iranian hacker group says it broke into California's water infrastructure as payback for US airstrikes that allegedly left 20,000 Iranians without drinking...
Ukraine Torches Russian Oil Terminal While Trump Skips the Call
Ukraine lit a Russian oil terminal on fire this weekend, killed one person, and hit an energy hub more than 560 miles from the front line, all while the...
Amazon Ratted Out Its Own AI Investment to the White House
Anthropic spent months building Fable 5, one of the most powerful AI models ever released to the public. It lasted a few days. Amazon, which has poured...
Iran Finally Burying Khamenei, Starting July 4th
Iran has announced that the state funeral for assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will begin on July 4 — the exact same day the United States throws its...
Fox Pays $787M to Avoid Saying Out Loud That It Lied
Fox News just wrote a check for $787.5 million to make a defamation lawsuit go away, and the most expensive part of the deal was the part they didn't have to...
Texas GOP Brought a Live Elephant to Their Convention and It Immediately Peed on the Floor
The Texas Republican Party brought a four-ton African elephant to their state convention as a surprise for delegates, and she celebrated by urinating on the...
Wyoming Fired This Librarian for Refusing to Ban Gay Books. It Cost Them $700,000.
A Wyoming county fired its library director of nearly 20 years for refusing to pull LGBTQ+ books off the shelves, then spent years insisting it had nothing to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Flesh-Eating Parasite Is Heading for the US and Trump Fired the People Who Stop It
A parasitic fly that lays eggs in living flesh — the larvae then eat the host from the inside out — is marching steadily northward through Central America...
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....