GOP Dumps Millions Into NFL Ads to Win Back Men Who've Abandoned Trump
The Republican Party's midterm strategy apparently bottoms out at this: buy enough football commercials and maybe men will forget what's happened to their...
78% of Hispanic Voters Want Democrats Back in Congress
The voters who helped put Donald Trump back in the White House are now, to put it plainly, furious at him. According to a September New York Times/Siena...
25,000-Year-Old Teeth Prove Humans Have Always Needed to Take the Edge Off
Scientists examining 25,000-year-old human teeth from Indonesia found grooves so deep and strange that the world's leading dental archaeologists had absolutely...
Johnson Fled Town to Save Hegseth From a Vote He'd Probably Lose
House Speaker Mike Johnson sent the entire House of Representatives home seven weeks early this month, and the timing is not a coincidence. Republican Rep....
Ponzi Schemer Who Robbed Travis Kelce Tried a $100 Jailhouse Wedding to Dodge Deportation
A man who stole tens of millions of dollars from professional athletes, blew it on private jets and luxury hotels, and then tried to coach victims and wipe...
Italy Has 650 West Nile Cases This Summer and Europe Is Just Getting Started
Italy has recorded more than 650 West Nile virus infections so far this year, which is roughly half of every case reported across the entire continent of...
Researchers Used Claude to Hack ChatGPT in Under 72 Hours
Researchers used one AI to hack another AI company's AI, and the whole thing took less than three days. This sentence would have sounded like a fever dream...
Trump Is Building a Border Wall That Nobody Can Walk Around — Except Everyone Can
The Trump administration quietly started building a 30-foot steel border wall in west Texas this week — a wall that, according to the people fighting it, you...
Stanford Grew Human Brain Tissue Inside Mice and It Worked
Scientists at Stanford University have grown human brain tissue in a lab, dropped it into mice with parts of their cerebral cortex missing, and watched it take...
The Oil Crisis Finally Broke the Food Supply Too
Sulfur cost $46 a ton in 2024. By July of this year, it was selling for more than $1,000 a ton. That is not a typo, and it is not irrelevant to what you are...
Mortgage Rates Hit 7.2% and the First-Time Buyer Is Cooked
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate just hit 7.2%, its highest point in a year and a half, while the average American home price sits near a record...
Warren Buffett, 96, Exits as Berkshire Chair After 5,500,000% Return
Warren Buffett, 96 years old and still making billion-dollar bets on Alphabet as recently as this summer, announced Friday that he is stepping down as chairman...
Hasan Piker Wants to Campaign for AOC in 2028. Democrats Are Already Sweating.
Hasan Piker, the left-wing Twitch streamer with millions of followers and a talent for making Democratic party operatives visibly uncomfortable, has announced...
Trump's Iran War Is Now 7 Months Old. He Promised Weeks.
Donald Trump told the American public the Iran military campaign would wrap up in weeks. That was seven months ago. Now gas prices are near their highest...
Trump Killed a 15-Year Alzheimer's Study — 600 Black Seniors Won't Get Their Results
Six hundred mostly Black seniors in Pittsburgh sat through cognitive tests, wore sleep monitors, answered deeply personal questions about their childhoods and...
JPMorgan to Oil Markets: 'We Have No Idea What Happens Next'
JPMorgan, one of the largest and most powerful financial institutions on the planet, just published a research note telling its clients something that should...
Congress Can't Pass an AI Kill Switch While AI Learns to Talk Humans Out of Using It
The United States Senate cannot pass a law requiring companies to install an off switch for potentially civilization-ending AI because Rand Paul thinks they...
One Drugged Driver, a Mangled Bus, and a Helicopter Falling Out of the Sky: Five Dead in LA
One woman drove the wrong way down a busy Los Angeles street, high on drugs, blew a red light, and plowed her SUV into a city bus. Two people died. Then the...
Trump Tells NC Hurricane Survivors He'll Cut Their Aid If His Guy Loses
Donald Trump stood in front of hurricane survivors in Gastonia, North Carolina, and told them he might not send their disaster relief money if his preferred...
RFK Jr Tells Anti-Vaxxers 'You Have a Friend at the White House' While 4 Are Dead From Measles
Four people are dead from measles in Pennsylvania, the worst outbreak in decades is spreading, and the man running the United States Department of Health and...
Trump's Big Drug Price Deals Are Secret, Unfinished, and May Not Lower Prices
A year ago, Donald Trump stood in the Oval Office with the CEO of Pfizer and promised that Medicaid patients would pay the lowest drug prices in the world....
GOP Rep Tells Trump His Own Immigration Crackdown 'Gone Too Far'
A sitting Republican congresswoman just cut a campaign ad telling the president of her own party that his signature policy has gone too far. That's not a leak....
Trump Bans Palestinian Delegation From UN. Again.
For the second year running, the Trump administration has decided that Palestinian officials don't get to show up to the United Nations — you know, the...
Patriots Owner Bans Macklemore, Proves Every Good-Guy Billionaire Is Just a Billionaire
Robert Kraft spent thirty years building a reputation as the NFL owner who actually gave a damn — flying planes to Parkland kids, springing Meek Mill from...
Tucker Carlson Says Trump Told Him: 'The Order to Cover It Up Came From Me'
Tucker Carlson says Donald Trump looked him in the eye and told him he personally ordered the suppression of federal Epstein files. Not an aide. Not a...
Trump Plans to Send Israel 40,000 2,000lb Bombs. One Democrat Objects. It Won't Matter.
The United States is planning to sell Israel 40,000 two-thousand-pound bombs, the kind capable of leveling city blocks, in a $2.8 billion arms deal that a...
DOGE Paid $9.5B in Salaries for People to Not Work
The Department of Government Efficiency, which exists to save money, spent $9.5 billion in 2025 paying federal employees to sit at home and do absolutely...
Feds Are Blocking Alzheimer's Research Because the Word 'Gender' Is In It
The federal government has been quietly running NIH research grants through a list of 235 banned keywords — words like 'gender' and 'racist' — and killing the...
Trump Has Cut or Frozen $177bn in Grants Across All 50 States
One hundred and seventy-seven billion dollars. That is the amount in federal grants the Trump administration has cut, frozen, or delayed since taking office —...
Bessent Wants AI Safety Talks With China While Trump Refuses to Slow AI Down
The Trump administration has spent months insisting that slowing down AI development for any reason — safety, regulation, sanity — would hand China a victory....
Kirk Family Sues Over Rooftop Assassination: 'Walked Him Into a Fishbowl'
A year after Charlie Kirk was shot dead from a rooftop during a campus rally, his family is pointing the finger at the university that hosted him, the police...
Trump Threw a Tantrum, Closed the Kennedy Center, and a Judge Blocked His Name Again — All Before Lunch
On Tuesday, a federal judge blocked Donald Trump from putting his name back on the Kennedy Center for the third time, and Trump responded with the kind of...
4 Dead From Measles in PA While RFK Jr. Calls Deaths 'Fabricated'
Pennsylvania has recorded four measles deaths in a single month — two infants, an 18-year-old, and a 40-year-old woman — the first measles deaths in the state...
GOP Rep Files 8 Articles to Impeach Hegseth for Iran War Nobody Voted For
A Republican congressman walked onto the House floor Tuesday, read eight articles of impeachment against the Secretary of War for over an hour, and then dared...
AG Blanche: Trump Will Keep Attacking SCOTUS 'First Time Won't Be Last'
The Attorney General of the United States stood in front of reporters on Monday and announced, with a straight face, that the President of the United States...
IDF Grabs Terrorist Mid-Plot to Shoot Jews on Rosh Hashanah
Israeli security forces arrested a man this weekend who was actively planning to shoot Israeli civilians during Rosh Hashanah, timing the attack to coincide...
Trump Said Russia and Ukraine Agreed to Stop. They Launched 200 Drones Overnight.
Donald Trump announced Monday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to stop striking each other's energy infrastructure. By Tuesday morning, Russia had launched...
Rob Reiner's Son Won't Face Death Penalty for Stabbing Both Parents
Nine months after Rob and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death inside their Brentwood home, Los Angeles prosecutors announced Tuesday they will not seek...
ICE Stopped Counting Miscarriages in Its Detention Centers
ICE detained a record number of pregnant women, recorded 18 miscarriages in its first nine months under Trump, and then simply stopped keeping track. Not...
Iran Tried to Steal a U.S. Navy Drone. It Did Not Go Well.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard tried to steal an American military drone in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. The U.S. military responded by destroying two Iranian...
Trump's Canada Tariffs Are Hitting the Farmers Who Voted for Him
Montana farmers voted for Donald Trump three times. Now Canada has slapped retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of U.S. goods, including the farm equipment...
FBI Now Hiring People Who Stole From Bosses and Committed Bestiality
The FBI, the federal agency responsible for maintaining law and order in the United States, has quietly decided that applicants who stole from their employers,...
Fed-Up Neighbors Who Killed $130B in Datacenter Projects Are Now Running for Office
Regular people — teachers, cybersecurity professionals, neighborhood organizers — spent the last year blocking more than $130 billion worth of datacenter...
Trump Tells Towns Blocking Data Centers They'll 'End Up Poor'
Donald Trump would like you to know that if your community doesn't want a massive, water-guzzling, electricity-sucking data center built near your home, you...
Congress Unanimously Kills the Penny. Yes, Unanimously.
In what may be the single most uncontroversial vote in the history of a body that once spent three weeks arguing about a post office name, the House of...
RFK Jr. Asked CDC Not to Count Measles Deaths. Then CDC Stopped Counting Measles Deaths.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. allegedly asked the CDC director not to count measles deaths in the official tally. The very next day, the CDC changed its death-counting...
Putin's Oligarch Pal Reportedly Bankrolled Don Jr.'s Wedding
A Russian oligarch who changed his name to sound more like the Kremlin, was convicted of extortion and assault, and once said Vladimir Putin personally creates...
Mitch McConnell Returns to the Senate in a Wheelchair, Jokes About Dodging Reporters for 'Two Decades'
Mitch McConnell rolled onto the Senate floor in a wheelchair Monday evening, three months after a fall at his Capitol Hill home triggered a hospitalization, a...
Texas Has 335 Data Centers Gulping 25B Gallons a Year, and Abbott Just Noticed
Texas data centers drank an estimated 25 billion gallons of water in 2025, and apparently a meaningful number of them just... didn't tell anyone. Greg Abbott,...
DHS Employees Ordered to Illegally Access State Voter Databases, Whistleblower Says
The Department of Homeland Security allegedly instructed its own employees to dig into state voter databases in ways that a whistleblower says break state law....
McConnell Ghosts His Own Senate Return, Still MIA at 84
UPDATE: Mitch McConnell showed up. The 84-year-old senator returned to the Capitol Monday evening for a vote, months after a fall and hospitalization fueled...
Trump's DOJ Subpoenas Ex-CIA Chief Brennan in 'Grand Conspiracy' Witch Hunt
The Trump Justice Department has subpoenaed former CIA director John Brennan to testify before a Florida grand jury as part of a sprawling criminal...
Feds Confirm 'Alligator Alcatraz' Kept People in 16-Sq-Ft Cages Called 'Calming Areas'
The Department of Homeland Security's own watchdog has now confirmed that immigrants held at Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention facility were locked in...
Kennedy Center May Close Tuesday Unless It Puts Trump's Name Back On It
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts may shut its doors as early as Tuesday, and the Trump-installed trustees running it have a solution: put Donald...