412 Verified Cases: ICE Crowd Control Weapons Blinded and Brain-Damaged Protesters
A damning new report documents 412 verified incidents of federal and local law enforcement misusing crowd control weapons on immigration protesters across the...
Maine Dems Have 11 Days to Replace Their Rape-Accused Senate Candidate
Maine Democrats had their guy. He won the primary handily, he was galvanizing voters who'd given up on politics entirely, and he had a real shot at unseating...
Two Climbers Found Dead at Bottom of 65-Foot Alpine Crevasse
Two Romanian climbers who went missing in the Italian Alps last week were found Monday morning at the bottom of a crevasse roughly 65 feet deep, authorities...
Supreme Court Just Let Trump Fire Anyone Who Disagrees With Him
Rebecca Slaughter found out she'd been fired from the Federal Trade Commission while helping run lines for her kid's elementary school production of Beauty and...
Trump Says Strait Is 'Open.' Experts Say It'll Take 50,000 Troops.
Donald Trump went on Truth Social Monday morning to announce that the United States would 'probably run' the Strait of Hormuz and charge foreign ships a 20%...
Trump Says the U.S. Will Now Collect Tolls in the Strait of Hormuz
Donald Trump has announced that the United States will impose a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz and begin collecting tolls from ships passing through one of...
Trump's Personal Lawyer Is Now Acting AG. Senators Must Stop Him.
The man who personally defended Donald Trump against federal criminal charges is now acting as the nation's top law enforcement officer, and he wants to make...
NYC Council Votes Itself 18% Raise Days After Passing $126B Budget
The New York City Council just approved a $126 billion budget, looked at all that money, and apparently thought: yes, but what about us? Days later, council...
Lindsey Graham Called Trump a 'Jackass.' Then Became His War Whisperer.
In 2015, Lindsey Graham called Donald Trump a jackass, Trump retaliated by reading Graham's personal cell number aloud at a campaign rally, and somehow,...
Google's AI Boss Wants a Regulator He'd Help Pay For
The man who built one of the world's most powerful AI systems would like a regulator to oversee AI systems, please. He'd also like that regulator to be funded...
Inflation's Still Burning and the AI Boom Is Making It Worse
The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases June inflation data Tuesday morning, and the headline number might look better than last month's ugly reading of 4.2%....
NY Just Hit Pause on AI Data Centers. Big Tech Is Going to Hate This.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul just told the AI industry to take a number and wait. On Tuesday she signed an executive order imposing a moratorium of up to one...
Amazon Has More Workers on Medicaid Than Anyone in Nevada. Its Fix? Raise the Minimum Wage.
Amazon has had more employees enrolled in Medicaid than any other company in Nevada every single year since 2020. The company's official response, when asked...
Iran Promised Qatar It Was Safe. Then It Shot a Missile at Qatar.
Iran looked Qatar in the eyes, made a promise, shook hands on it, and then fired a missile at Qatar. That's the situation right now in the Persian Gulf, where...
4,490 Dead, 50,000 Missing, and Venezuela Is Begging Britain for Its Gold Back
Six weeks ago, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake and its slightly smaller twin turned large sections of Caracas and the coastal state of La Guaira into rubble. The...
France's Most Beloved Forest Is on Fire on Bastille Day
France's Fontainebleau Forest, a beloved national treasure that has drawn painters, hikers, and picnickers for centuries, is currently on fire. The blaze...
Germany's Government Wants to Kill Its Own Transparency Law
The German government quietly tucked a plan to effectively destroy its own Freedom of Information Act inside a 34-point reform package approved just before...
North Korea Is Slowly Eating the DMZ and Nobody's Stopping It
North Korea is building fences, digging trenches, and laying fresh minefields less than 100 meters from the line that's supposed to keep the Korean Peninsula...
Africa's Richest Man Is Building a $17B Refinery on a UNESCO Island
Africa's richest man just confirmed he wants to build a $17 billion oil refinery on a UNESCO World Heritage island off the Kenyan coast, and somehow that...
Iran Killed an Indian Sailor. India Was Mid-Speech About Peace.
India's foreign minister was at the United Nations on Monday, formally launching a campaign called SHANTI, which means peace, when Iran's Revolutionary Guard...
US Bombs Iran for Third Night Running While the Strait of Hormuz Is Now Literally on Fire
The United States military bombed Iran for the third consecutive night, hitting targets across the country's entire southern coastline while Iranian missiles...
Trump Is Now Charging Tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, Apparently
The United States bombed Iran overnight, Iran responded by setting two tankers on fire and lobbing missiles at Bahrain and Jordan, and Donald Trump announced...
Europe's 'We Don't Need You, Donald' Parade Just Happened in Paris
On Tuesday, 6,800 troops from across Europe marched down the Champs-Elysees in Paris while Ukrainian soldiers marched alongside them and Ukrainian-trained...
Sudan's Army Is Dropping Barrel Bombs on Civilians Again
The Sudanese army is accused of using Antonov aircraft to drop barrel bombs on civilian neighborhoods in the Jabra area of North Kordofan State, killing and...
80% of Buildings Gone, Venezuela Says Economy Is Up 9%
Eighty percent of the buildings in La Guaira, Venezuela just collapsed in a double earthquake. Multiple states suffered significant structural damage. And...
Indonesia Caned an Unmarried Couple 21 Times Each for a TikTok Kiss
On July 2nd, in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, an unmarried 22-year-old man and 25-year-old woman were publicly caned 21 times each on their...
China Purges Its Third Politburo Member in One Term for 'Rampant Corruption'
China just kicked its third Politburo member out of the party in a single term, something that hasn't happened in decades, after investigators concluded that...
The World Cup Final Is Tomorrow, and It's Not the Final
The FIFA World Cup semifinals kick off Tuesday, and the soccer gods have already played their cruelest trick: the two best teams in the world are meeting...
Utah Mall Stabber Folded by Bystanders Who Beat Him Limp
A man walked into a Utah mall on Monday afternoon, stabbed a kiosk worker repeatedly, and then got the absolute stuffing beaten out of him by strangers who...
Summer 2026's Live Music Scene Is Aggressively, Gloriously Alive
Six hundred performers. Ten stages. Six hundred and thirteen thousand people on a lakefront in Wisconsin. If anyone told you live music was dying, summer 2026...
111°F in Montana. 109°F in Salt Lake City. 100M Americans Baking.
Billings, Montana hit 111 degrees on Sunday. Salt Lake City broke an all-time temperature record that had survived since 1960. And if you live anywhere between...
Congress Is About to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent, God Help Us All
Congress, having thoroughly handled healthcare, housing, the national debt, and climate change, has turned its full attention to the clock. The Sunshine...
Rubio Wants to Dismantle the War Crimes Court. Wonder Why.
Marco Rubio wants to destroy the world's war crimes tribunal, and he's not being subtle about it. The Secretary of State published a full op-ed in the Wall...
ICE Shoots Man Dead in Maine, Dems Race to Replace Disgraced Candidate
ICE agents shot and killed a man in Biddeford, Maine on Monday, and by evening, hundreds of protesters were in the streets and every serious Democrat running...
Trump Quietly Greenlit Saudi Strike on Yemen That Could Restart a War
Sometime before Monday, Donald Trump looked at a map of the Middle East, which has been on fire in various configurations for the better part of a decade, and...
SpaceX Stock Has Already Lost 35% of Its Peak Value and It's Been One Month
SpaceX went public on June 12th as the largest IPO in history, hit $225 a share within a week, and has since lost more than a third of that peak value in under...
12 States Sue to Kill the $110B Paramount-Warner Bros. Mega-Merger
Twelve state attorneys general filed suit Monday to stop the $110 billion merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, the deal that would...
Mexico's President Is Protecting an Indicted Drug Corruption Governor — And Everyone Knows Why
Mexico's president has a Sinaloa governor indicted on federal drug corruption charges sitting in her own political party, and her answer to the United States'...
Judge Says Trump's $10B IRS Lawsuit Was a Scam to Buy Himself Immunity
A federal judge has officially called out Donald Trump for using the court system as a personal vending machine, ruling that his $10 billion lawsuit against...
Feds Spent 6 Months Hiding Footage of Their Own Agents Killing Protesters
The federal government spent more than six months refusing to hand over body camera footage and other evidence from its own agents' fatal shootings of two...