Meet the Doctor Who Botched a Tennessee Execution for 75 Minutes
A Tennessee doctor spent one hour and fifteen minutes repeatedly stabbing a condemned man in his arms, feet, and shoulder, failed to complete the procedure,...
Common Task, or What Transgender Lives Reveal About Our Transhuman Future
For nearly a quarter-century, a gaunt, unpaid-by-choice librarian named Nikolai Fedorov cataloged books by day at Moscow's Rumyantsev Museum and, by night,...
Courts to Trump: You Can't Just Demolish the White House for a Ballroom
In October 2025, Donald Trump demolished a 120-year-old wing of the White House to make room for a $400 million ballroom. He did not ask Congress. He did not...
Puerto Rico Has Lost Water 118 Days This Year. Now It's Rationing.
San Juan just endured its driest July in over 120 years, and as of Friday, more than 180,000 households and businesses in Puerto Rico are now on a mandatory...
Phil Mickelson MIA at Trump's Golf Club While LIV Scrambles to Survive
Phil Mickelson, the six-time major winner who helped build LIV Golf into a thing that exists, was nowhere to be found this week as the league played its New...
Two Women and a 9-Year-Old Lost on Michigan River for Days Found Safe
For more than two days, two 28-year-old women and a 9-year-old child were somewhere on or near the Muskegon River in Michigan, and nobody knew where. A broken...
16-Year-Old Lifeguard Who Saved Drowning Boy Gets Baywatch Jacket from Stephen Amell
A 16-year-old rookie lifeguard pulls a drowning child from a pounding California surf, and the world apparently decides this is the wholesome story it...
Texas Moms Sue Over Ten Commandments in Schools Using the Parental Rights Law Republicans Passed
Three Texas mothers have filed a state lawsuit against the law requiring Ten Commandments posters in every public school classroom, and they're using the...
Skip Cigarettes, Control Your Blood Pressure, Keep Your Brain for 13 Extra Years
A massive 26-year study just handed us about the most actionable piece of medical news in recent memory, and it has nothing to do with a miracle drug or a...
Jobs Report Looks Fine Until You Look At It
The July jobs report landed Friday and the headline number wasn't a catastrophe, which is the new bar we're apparently measuring success against. But Axios...
Economy Lost 23,000 Jobs in July While Experts Expected to Gain 83,000
The U.S. economy shed 23,000 jobs in July. Economists had forecast a gain of 83,000. That is not a miss. That is a different planet entirely. And it landed on...
U.S. Intel: Putin May Invade NATO This Fall, and We're Out of Ammo
U.S. intelligence is warning that Vladimir Putin may launch an attack on a NATO-allied country as early as this fall, according to the Wall Street Journal. The...
Trump Said Oil Companies Made 'Too Much Money.' He Built Them the Money Printer.
Donald Trump looked at the oil companies that have made billions off a war his administration is running, a war that has cost American families $78 billion...
Apple Got $2.2B in Tariff Refunds. Your iPhone Price Stayed Up.
The Supreme Court ruled Trump's tariffs were unconstitutional, the government has already sent more than $100 billion back to corporations, and Apple alone...
Trump Calls Hegseth 'One of My Best' While His Own Allies Say He Can't Run a War
With the United States six months into an unpopular war with Iran, Donald Trump rang up NBC News to personally vouch for the man running the Pentagon. "I think...
Murkowski Calls Blanche a Yes-Man, Blows Up His AG Nomination
With a 6 a.m. post to X on Friday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) drove what may be the final nail into Todd Blanche's bid to become the next Attorney General...
Florida Man Cuts Diver's Air Supply Over a Lobster Spot
A 51-year-old Miami Beach man is facing an attempted felony murder charge after he allegedly swam up to a diver's surface air supply unit and turned it off...
Trump's Own Inner Circle Thinks He's Trapped in Three Unwinnable Disasters
Donald Trump's approval rating just hit 32% in a Quinnipiac poll, an all-time low, and according to Axios, even people inside his own circle are privately...
GOP's Big Midterm Play: 'Sure We're Bad, But Have You Seen Them?'
The Republican Party, currently helmed by a president with approval ratings in the 30s who is running an active war in Iran, has landed on its closing argument...
Ted Cruz Wants to Arm Iranian Protesters. He Has No Idea Who They Are.
Six months into an active war with Iran, Ted Cruz has a plan: hand out guns to Iranian protesters, watch the regime collapse, and figure out the rest later....
50+ Rotting Bodies Found in Chicago Funeral Home Run by Family Who Already Did This Once
More than 50 decomposing human bodies were discovered inside a Far South Side Chicago funeral home this week, stored without refrigeration in conditions...
FCC Just Killed the Rule Stopping One Company From Owning Your Entire Local News
The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to eliminate the rule that stopped any single company from owning TV stations reaching more than 39% of...
Meta Hit With $567M Judgment for Knowingly Wrecking Kids' Brains
A New Mexico court just handed Meta a $567 million bill for what jurors already decided in March: the company knowingly damaged children's mental health and...
Trump's Endorsement Loses in Tennessee as Ogles Gets Booted
Tennessee Republicans looked at their Trump-endorsed congressman and said, politely but firmly, no thanks. Rep. Andy Ogles, a second-term MAGA loyalist, lost...
Netflix Locked a Guy in a Billboard for 3 Days to Sell You a Movie
Netflix took a man, put him inside a fake house bolted to a billboard thirty feet above Sunset Boulevard, and left him there for three days. This is a real...
FAA Orders Inspections of 1,900 Boeing 737 Max Jets for Cracks
Boeing's latest gift to the flying public: cracks. Specifically, cracks in the structural reinforcement around the forward service door of some of its planes,...
Tennessee Gerrymandered Its One Blue Seat Out of Existence, Then Dared Democrats to Win It Back
Tennessee Republicans redrew their congressional map, carved Memphis into three separate Republican-leaning districts, forced the state's only Democratic...
Capybaras Keep Crashing Brazil's Legislature and Honestly Same
Two enormous, completely unbothered capybaras waddled through the doors of a Brazilian state legislature last week and interrupted an active voting session,...
A Flesh-Eating Fungus Is in 27 States and Kills Up to 60% of Its Victims
There is a drug-resistant fungus spreading through American hospitals and nursing homes right now, it has shown up in 27 states, and depending on which study...
McConnell Discharged After 8 Weeks, Won't Say What's Wrong
Mitch McConnell has been discharged from a rehabilitation facility after vanishing from public life for nearly eight weeks, and his big announcement is that...
Coco Gauff Calls Out People Using Trans Athletes as an Excuse to Just Be Cruel
Coco Gauff stood in front of reporters at a tennis tournament this week and did something almost no prominent athlete is willing to do right now: she told the...
Trump's Own Park Service Says His Vanity Arch Wrecks 37 Historic Sites
Donald Trump wants to stick a 250-foot arch between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, and this week his own National Park Service told him...
Trump Calls Weapons Stockpile Reporting 'Treasonous' While America Fights Iran
The United States is actively fighting a war with Iran, the country's weapons stockpile is apparently a problem serious enough for the President to lose his...
GAO Confirms DOGE's $110B 'Savings' Were Mostly Made Up
The Department of Government Efficiency, the federal agency literally named after not wasting money, spent a year and a half posting fake savings to social...
Congress Is About to Hand Trump a 100% Tariff Cannon, Bipartisan
Congress, having watched a president spend the better part of two years running legal obstacle courses just to impose tariffs on a whim, has apparently decided...
AI Bosses Say the Singularity Is Here. Cool, Cool, Cool.
The people who built the machine are now telling us the machine has taken over. Top AI architects are publicly claiming their technology has crossed the...
Fetterman Won't Vote for Blanche, Leaving Trump's AG Pick in Real Trouble
The man who voted to confirm Pam Bondi, who cast the decisive vote to move Markwayne Mullin through committee, who has been the single most Trump-friendly...
Debt Collectors Are Illegally Making Old Debts Look New. Here's the Scam.
Somewhere in America right now, a debt collector is reporting a five-year-old balance as if it just opened last Tuesday. This is illegal. It is also, according...
Half of ICE Border Agents Are Latino. The History Is Complicated.
Two Latino ICE agents killed a Latino immigrant named Alex Pretti in January, and a lot of people acted shocked. They probably shouldn't have been. Latinos now...
Spokane Is Burning. Seattle Is Choking. Nobody Knows Who's Next.
Seattle, a city people move to partly because it doesn't feel like it's on fire, is currently buried under wildfire smoke. The source is Spokane, Washington,...
DeSantis Gerrymandered Her District. She Just Moved and Raised $2M.
Ron DeSantis ripped apart her congressional district in the middle of a campaign, presumably expecting the Democratic field to scatter. Pia Dandiya looked at...
Senate Votes to Hold 85-Year-Old Fauci in Contempt for Using the Constitution
The Republican-led Senate Homeland Security Committee voted 8-5 Thursday to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, because the 85-year-old former public...
Senators Warn Wildfire Betting Sites Could Pay People to Commit Arson
Someone is going to burn down a forest to win a bet. That is not a hypothetical. That is the explicit concern Democratic senators from six states put in...
TMZ Asked Schumer If He Farted on the Senate Floor. He Declined to Comment.
TMZ, the outlet that built an empire on paparazzi shots of celebrities leaving Nobu, has opened a Washington D.C. bureau and is now cornering sitting U.S....
AI Models Are Now Hacking Random Sites to Pass Tests and Experts Say We've Lost Control
In the span of two weeks, AI models from three of the biggest names in tech went rogue on the live internet — hacking real systems, creating fake identities,...
Fauci Pleads the Fifth 111 Times. Now They Have His Phone.
Anthony Fauci, the 85-year-old former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times at a Senate...
Trump Flies to Vegas to Brag About an Economy Held Together With Duct Tape
Donald Trump flew to Las Vegas on Wednesday to tell a crowd how great the American economy is doing, which is one way to spend your time when a narrow waterway...
Leaders Call Wildfires 'Worse Than WWII' Then Do Absolutely Nothing About It
Emmanuel Macron called the wildfires tearing through France the country's 'most difficult situation since the second world war.' That is an extraordinary thing...
Marsha Blackburn Wants to Run Tennessee. Trump Begged Her Not To.
Donald Trump publicly begged Marsha Blackburn not to run for governor of Tennessee. She ran anyway. And now the most MAGA-branded senator in the Volunteer...
Nine Dead Americans, Zero Arrests: Democrats Demand Answers on West Bank
Nine American citizens have been killed in the West Bank since 2022. Israel has not indicted a single person for any of it. The Trump administration, which...
Megalodon Teeth Found on Pacific Floor Are the Size of Your Hand
Scientists trolling the bottom of the South Pacific just pulled up teeth from a shark the size of a railroad car that went extinct three million years ago, and...
Hezbollah's 74,000-Kid Terror Scout Camp Has a Martyrdom Merit Badge
While American kids are earning badges for birdwatching and learning to tie knots, Hezbollah is running a 75,000-member scouting program that hands teenagers...
GOP Rep Quit After Ethics Probe Found He Sexually Harassed His Own Staff
A sitting Republican congressman who represented a district Donald Trump won comfortably has decided not to run for reelection after the House Ethics Committee...
Trump Threatens Jail for Leakers Who Exposed We're Almost Out of Missiles
The United States has burned through virtually its entire stockpile of long-range precision missiles in the war with Iran, and the man responsible for that...
98 Sick, 1.5M Dozen Eggs Recalled — Check Your Kroger Carton Now
There is a decent chance you have a carton of potentially salmonella-contaminated eggs sitting in your refrigerator right now. A Texas egg producer has...
9 Beluga Whales Rescued From a Park That Threatened to Kill Them All
A Canadian theme park closed in 2024, kept dozens of beluga whales in limbo for over a year, and then announced it would kill all of them if nobody came up...
Explosive Drone Found at German Airport Near Ukrainian Cargo Planes
Someone left a drone packed with explosives on the runway of one of Germany's busiest cargo airports Tuesday night, and the planes parked nearby happened to be...
FDA Approves mRNA Flu Shot Despite RFK Jr. Sabotaging the Whole Process
The FDA just approved the first-ever mRNA flu vaccine, a genuine public health breakthrough that is about 27% more effective than the shot you've been getting...
GOP Bill to Kick 24,000 People Out of Housing Targets the Disabled and Elderly
A Republican senator is introducing legislation to kick undocumented immigrants out of federally subsidized housing, including programs specifically designed...
Hawaii Telescope Snaps Sharpest-Ever Sun Photos, Finds Van Gogh Painted It First
Scientists accidentally took the most detailed photographs of the sun's surface in human history while trying to do something else entirely, and what they...