RFK Jr. Pulled Flu Vaccine Ads Mid-Season, Emails Confirm
During one of the worst flu seasons in years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the CDC to kill its own flu vaccine advertising campaigns. Internal emails released...
235 Dead After Venezuela's Worst Quake in a Century Buries Hundreds in Rubble
Two massive earthquakes hit Venezuela within sixty seconds of each other on Wednesday, and if that sounds like a cruel cosmic joke, the punchline is that at...
Only 17% of Americans 'Very Proud' of U.S. — GOP Blames the Left, Not the Guy Running It
A Gallup survey found that only 17 percent of American adults described themselves as 'very proud' of their country last year, the lowest number in the poll's...
Judge Gives DOJ Until July 2 to Release Epstein Files or Explain Itself
A federal judge just gave the Department of Justice a deadline: hand over more unredacted Jeffrey Epstein records by July 2, or stand up in public and explain...
Vance: Watergate Was Just a 'Deep State' Hit Job, Actually
JD Vance stood inside the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on Thursday and told a crowd that Watergate, the scandal that ended a presidency and defined...
GOP Operative Wrote a Pro-Voter-Suppression Op-Ed and Called It 'Good Government'
A Republican political consultant published an op-ed in the New York Post this week arguing that the US Postal Service should require states to hand over voter...
China's New AI Can Hack You For Half the Price of America's
A new Chinese AI model just hit the internet, it matches the best American models at automating cyberattacks, and it costs half as much to run. Sleep tight....
RFK Jr Told Senate His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' His Colleague's Email Says Otherwise.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the United States Senate, twice, under oath, that his 2019 trip to Samoa had 'nothing to do with vaccines.' A newly obtained email...
House Conservatives Freeze the Floor Until Senate Passes Voter ID Bill Nobody Can Pass
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida has effectively shut down the House floor to force the Senate into passing a voter ID bill that the Senate's own Republican...
Supreme Court Just Made It Harder to Sue Roundup's Maker for Cancer
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday, 7-2, that if a pesticide maker doesn't bother warning you their product might cause cancer, you can't sue them in state court...
SCOTUS Rules 6-3 That You Have to Actually Be in America to Ask America for Help
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 25th that the Trump administration can legally turn asylum seekers away at the US-Mexico border before they set foot on...
Supreme Court Gives Monsanto a Golden Shield, Cancer Patients Get Nothing
The Supreme Court just told tens of thousands of cancer patients that the federal government's pesticide label is more important than their tumors. In a 7-2...
Pentagon Mandates Flu Shots Again After Making Them Optional Caused 275 Cases
Pete Hegseth made flu shots optional for military recruits in late April, citing 'medical autonomy.' By June, nearly 300 people at Air Force boot camp in San...
Trump's Mail-In Voting Crackdown Gets Smacked Down in Boston
A federal judge in Boston just threw a wrench into one of Trump's more constitutionally adventurous projects: using an executive order to rewrite who gets to...
Jamie Dimon's Succession Race Just Got a Starting Gun
Jamie Dimon has been running JPMorgan Chase since 2006, survived two presidential administrations, one global financial meltdown, and roughly ten thousand...
3 in 5 Shooting Survivors Get Zero Mental Health Care. California Has a Fix.
Three in five children who survive a shooting in America never receive a single mental health appointment afterward. They patch up the body, send you home, and...
Iran Peace Deal Means Nothing to Farmers Paying 23% More for Fertilizer
The Strait of Hormuz is open again, the Iran peace deal is tentatively in place, and fertilizer prices are finally ticking downward. Great news, except for the...
Big Oil's Newest Senator Wants to Gut Environmental Review Before His Seat Gets Warm
A man who was running a natural gas company six months ago is now a sitting U.S. Senator, and his single legislative priority is making it easier to build...
Trump Superfan Running to Lead the UN Wants to 'MUNGA'
The United Nations, that venerable institution Donald Trump has spent a decade trying to humiliate into irrelevance, may soon be run by a man who campaigned...
Louisiana Pastor Beats Neighbor's Son, Cites Bible to Explain It
A Louisiana pastor accused of punching a man 35 times on a public lawn has a simple explanation: scripture made him do it. Tony Spell, 48, pastor of Life...
455 Arrested, $6.5B in Health Care Fraud — Including a $4.6M Philippines Beach Resort
Someone billed Medicare for $3.76 billion in medical equipment they never actually provided, allegedly fled to Southeast Asia with the money, and a separate...
Senate Lets Trump Keep His Iran War Unlimited While Oil Drips Back to Normal
The Senate voted 50-47 on Wednesday to let Donald Trump keep his unchecked war-making authority over Iran, and they did it the day after four of their own...
A U.S. Public University Quietly Trained 1,500 Chinese Defense Execs for 20 Years
For more than twenty years, a public university in the Missouri heartland quietly ran an MBA program that trained over 1,500 executives connected to China's...
Trump Admin Quietly Called Frozen Embryos 'Children' in Federal Policy
Somewhere between a press release and a legal revolution, the Trump administration slipped something remarkable into the fine print last week. The Department...
A WWII Navy Officer Saw a Girl in a Magazine and Married Her. The Girl Was a Norman Rockwell.
A Norman Rockwell painting from 1943 is finally on public view, and it turns out the thing contains multitudes: a lawsuit, at least two women who claim to be...
American Politics Is Cracking Up and Nobody's in Charge
Here's where we are: the dominant political movement of the last decade is fracturing, its opposition can't find its footing, a word that sent Democrats into a...
GDP Says We're Fine. Your Grocery Bill Disagrees.
The unemployment rate is low. GDP is humming along. And somehow, Americans feel worse about the economy than they have in years. Democrats are just now getting...
Four Years After Dobbs, Abortion Numbers Are Up. Alito Is Furious.
Four years ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and handed anti-abortion America its biggest victory in half a century. Here is what happened next:...
Medicare Has No Out-of-Pocket Cap. Democrats Want to Fix That.
Here is a fun fact about the flagship American health insurance program, the one that exists specifically so seniors don't get financially destroyed by medical...
Warren: Every Trump Merger Could Be Unwound After 2028
Elizabeth Warren wants every CEO who paid Trump's cover charge to get their deals blessed to know something: the clock is ticking. The Massachusetts senator is...
Iran Threatens Ships Using New Hormuz Route: 'Violators Will Be Dealt With'
A Liberian oil tanker called the Stoic Warrior sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday using a new route hugging Oman's coastline, while Iran's...
California Got 'Vital Seconds' Warning Before 5.6 Quake Hit Mendocino
At 8:10 Wednesday morning, over a million Californians got a push notification telling them, essentially, brace yourself. Seven miles north of Redwood Valley,...
Nintendo Charges $50 for a 1990s Rail Shooter With a New Coat of Paint
Nintendo has released a remake of Star Fox 64 for the Switch 2, stripped the '64' from the title, polished it up with photorealistic animals and sweeping...
Two Monster Quakes Hit Venezuela Within Seconds of Each Other
Venezuela just got hit with two massive earthquakes in the span of seconds. Not one. Two. A magnitude 7.2 followed almost immediately by a 7.5, both striking...
Every U.S. Region Is Losing Kids Except the South, Which Has 304K More
America is running low on children. The under-18 population dropped by 1.8 million between 2020 and 2025, and every single region of the country shrank —...
Six-Alarm Inferno Tears Through Allentown, 3,600 Homes Lose Power
A six-alarm fire tore into an old commercial building in Allentown, Pennsylvania Wednesday night and kept right on going, spreading to nearby homes and...
Twin 7.2 and 7.5 Quakes Hit Venezuela in Under 60 Seconds
Two major earthquakes hit northern Venezuela within less than a minute of each other on Wednesday evening, and the ground had barely stopped shaking before the...
5.6 Quake Rattles Northern California, 10 Million People Feel It
Ten million people felt the ground move Wednesday morning when a 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck Mendocino County at 8:10 a.m., sending wine bottles shattering...
Mortgage Rates Are a Mess in 2026. Here's Who's Actually Worth Your Time
In early March 2026, the average 30-year mortgage rate was sitting comfortably below 6%. By late spring, it had surged more than half a percentage point,...
Big Tech Dropped $24M on One NYC Primary and Still Lost
Twenty-four million dollars. For one congressional primary. In Manhattan. The AI industry and its opponents turned New York's 12th district into the most...
Judge to Trump: The Constitution Says You Don't Run Elections
A federal judge in Boston just made it official: Donald Trump does not get to rewrite how Americans vote, and the Constitution was pretty clear about that the...
USPS Is Raiding Its Own Pension Fund to Buy Time Until 2031
The United States Postal Service is no longer going broke next year. It's going broke in five to eight years instead, and it's buying that extra time by...
Trump Siccs DOJ on Big Oil for Not Dropping Gas Prices Fast Enough
Donald Trump, the man who spent four years telling you that government should stay out of business, has ordered the Department of Justice to investigate oil...
Texas May Hand Election Control to a 34-Year-Old Pastor Who Thinks Voting Machines Are 'Screwed Up'
Texas is about to hand control of elections in the second-largest state in the country to a 34-year-old megachurch pastor who has never run a polling place,...
Trump's Moms.gov Is Just a CPC Directory With a Bow On It
The Trump administration launched a federal website on Mother's Day called Moms.gov, billed as a health resource for "new and expecting mothers." What it...
Trump Kills Bipartisan Housing Bill to Demand Voter ID Law Instead
Donald Trump had a bipartisan housing bill sitting on his desk, ready to sign, and he spiked it. Not because of anything in the bill. Because he wants Congress...
The Last Soldier Out of Afghanistan Just Got Pushed Out by Hegseth
The man photographed boarding the last plane out of Afghanistan in 2021 just got his own exit arranged for him. Gen. Christopher Donahue, commander of US Army...
Another American Kid Bitten by a Shark in the Bahamas
A 12-year-old American boy is in stable condition after a shark took a bite out of him in the Exuma Cays on Tuesday afternoon, the Royal Bahamas Police Force...
Corporate Profits Hit a 80-Year High. Your Airline Charged You $1,200 to Go Home.
An economic historian stranded in Oaxaca recently decided that a nighttime bus through a State Department travel-warning zone was preferable to paying Delta...
Gallego to Democrats: 'No National Party Without the Latino Vote' — And You Still Don't Get It
At a summit full of the sharpest minds in Latino politics, Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego walked up to a microphone and told his own party something it has...
Bode Miller Says the Magic Mushrooms Weren't His, Actually
Olympic skiing legend Bode Miller got pulled over in Idaho earlier this month and ended up in handcuffs over 4.1 grams of psychedelic mushrooms a deputy found...
Alibaba Sues Pentagon for Calling It a Military Company
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant whose largest shareholders include JPMorgan, Citigroup, and BlackRock, is now suing the United States...
Nancy Mace's 'TRANS MICE Act' Is Exactly As Dumb As It Sounds
A sitting member of the United States Congress has introduced a bill called the TRANS MICE Act to protect American taxpayers from federally funded transgender...
Trump Insiders Are Charging $500K to Get You a Pardon
A lobbying firm staffed by Donald Trump's former campaign operatives just disclosed $500,000 in income for a single filing period, earned by helping clients...