Oil Hits $108 as Houthis Seize Key Strait and Blow Up Saudi Pipeline
Saudi Arabia has roughly five to seven days of oil export stocks left after drone strikes from Iraqi territory knocked out its east-west pipeline, sending...
Canada Is Trying to Join Europe to Escape Trump
The United States has spent the better part of two years threatening to annex Canada, rename its lakes, and strangle its economy with tariffs. Canada's...
Judge: Kristi Noem Illegally Gutted FEMA, Then Officials Deleted the Proof
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration's plan to slash FEMA's workforce in half is flatly illegal — and then, almost as an afterthought,...
California Kids Are Getting Straight A's. They Can't Do Fractions.
The number of California students applying to the University of California system with a perfect 4.0 GPA or higher has doubled in a decade, jumping from...
70-Year-Old Found Alive After Week Lost on Roadless Island
A 70-year-old man spent seven days alone, injured, and hypothermic in 200 square miles of roadless boreal wilderness on a Lake Superior island, and somehow...
Hayden Panettiere's Abusive Ex Gets Handcuffed at Bar While Screaming Her Name
Three weeks after Hayden Panettiere died in a Greenville, South Carolina Airbnb, the man her mother blames for her death was filmed flinging a bar stool across...
Trump Killed Harris's Secret Service Detail. A Year Later, Someone's On Her Property.
A woman arrived by Uber at Kamala Harris's $8.1 million Malibu home on Friday night, walked onto the property uninvited, was turned away, and then came back a...
GOP Women Warn 'Repeal the 19th' Crowd Is a Real Threat to the Party
A woman is acquitted by reason of insanity after killing her three children while suffering postpartum psychosis, and a chunk of the online right's response...
Trump Called Bike Lanes 'DEI.' No, Really. That's the Policy Now.
The Trump administration has decided that bike lanes are a form of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is freezing or canceling federal grants to prove it....
Star Trek Turns 60 With No New Trek In Sight
Star Trek turned 60 last week, and the party favor is a void. According to NPR, there are currently no new Star Trek TV series or movies definitively...
She Saw Severed Heads Out the Window and Thought: I Made a Mistake
A young woman raised in Canada since she was two years old joined ISIS in 2014, rode in a van through the Turkish darkness toward Syria, and saw human heads...
Wisconsin Congressman Survives Plane Going Down in Lake Wausau
A Wisconsin congressman running for governor ended his Saturday night by swimming out of a sinking plane in Lake Wausau. Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany was...
39 Million People Under Flood Alerts as NYC Braces for 7 Inches of Rain
Thirty-nine million people woke up Sunday under flood alerts as a wall of thunderstorms tore up the East Coast from Washington, D.C., to New Haven,...
Art Garfunkel, 84, Says Trump's Venezuela Takeover Has Him Eyeing the Exit
Art Garfunkel, the 84-year-old voice behind some of the most beloved songs in American musical history, has looked at what this country has become and said,...
Sam Altman Kills OpenAI IPO, Cites AI Extinction Risk
Sam Altman has decided that now is probably not the best time to take a company public when researchers at a rival firm are warning that said company's core...
NC Detention Officer Faked Judge Signatures 20 Times to Hold Immigrants for ICE
A North Carolina detention officer apparently decided that due process was more of a suggestion than a requirement, allegedly forging judges' signatures on 20...
Netherlands Just Pulled 86 Tons of Gold Out of America
The Netherlands just physically moved 86 tons of gold out of the United States and Canada, calling it a hedge against "extreme systemic risks." France already...
The Guy Who Built the AI Says Stop Building the AI
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic and one of the most powerful AI developers on earth, is publicly calling for a slowdown in AI development before rogue AI...
ICE Drove a Car at a City Councilwoman. In Maryland. In Broad Daylight.
An ICE vehicle came within one foot of hitting a sitting city council vice-president on a public sidewalk in Frederick, Maryland, without warning, without an...
Ted Cruz Stood Silent as His Crowd Chanted to Shoot Democrats
At a convention convened specifically to mourn a political assassination and warn against violent rhetoric, Republicans in Dallas spent Thursday night calling...
America's West Nile Early Warning System Is Just… Chickens
West Nile virus is having its worst early summer in over two decades, and the CDC is sounding the alarm. Delaware's response? Eighty chickens stationed across...
JD Vance Told America to Call Their Neighbors' Employers. They Did.
A year after Charlie Kirk was shot dead at a Utah Valley University debate, the courtyard where it happened sits empty and the country he left behind is...
Houthis Just Seized the Strait That Keeps Saudi Oil Flowing
The Houthis now control every island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the chokepoint that Saudi Arabia has been desperately using to get its oil to the world ever...
Nashville Votes to Name Airport After Dolly Parton, Making Her the First Woman on a Top-50 U.S. Airport
Two governments that have been suing each other for control of Nashville's airport sat down last Friday and agreed on something for the first time in years:...
The 3,000-Year-Old Ram's Horn That Still Stops the World Cold
No app, no algorithm, no $4,000 Sonos speaker system has come close to doing what a hollowed ram's horn has been doing for three thousand years: stopping...
The Pilot Who Almost Shot Down Flight 93 Is Now America's Top General
Twenty-five years ago, a fighter pilot at Andrews Air Force Base loaded his jet with live air-to-air missiles and took off knowing he might have to destroy a...
CIA Warned Bush a Plane Could Hit a US City. They Knew Three Years Before 9/11.
A September 1998 CIA briefing delivered to President Bill Clinton warned that bin Laden's supporters 'may fly an explosive-packed airplane into a US city.' The...
Second Legionnaires' Outbreak Hits NYC in Weeks, One Dead in South Bronx
New York City health officials had just finished patting themselves on the back for closing out a Legionnaires' outbreak on the Upper East Side. Then the South...
Congress Told to Cancel Recess Because AI Might Kill Everyone
Current and former researchers at Anthropic, one of the most powerful AI labs on the planet, went public this week with warnings that artificial intelligence...
Surrogate Who Fled to Texas to Avoid Abortion Now Wants SCOTUS to Give Her the Baby
A surrogate who secretly traveled to Texas to avoid terminating a pregnancy with a severe heart defect is now asking the US Supreme Court to give her custody...
Trump's Own Contractor Caused the Reflecting Pool Damage He Blamed on Vandals
Donald Trump spent months demanding criminal prosecutions for vandals he said destroyed the Reflecting Pool. There was just one problem: according to documents...
Trump Made $1.4B in Crypto Last Year. He's Now Pushing the Senate to Deregulate It.
Donald Trump personally earned $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency last year, according to his own financial disclosure report. He is now publicly demanding the...
The Neo-Nazi Party Sweden Once Banned From Politics Is About to Run It
In 2018, Sweden's current Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson personally assured a Holocaust survivor that he would never work with the Sweden Democrats. On Sunday,...
CDC Says Cyclospora Lettuce Outbreak Is Over. FDA Disagrees.
The CDC announced Friday that the Cyclospora outbreak tied to Taylor Farms lettuce is officially over. The FDA, which investigates where these things actually...
AI Is Already Designing Viruses and Nobody's in Charge
Somewhere right now, an AI model is helping design biological experiments, and the people responsible for making sure that doesn't end civilization are still...
Diesel Hits $6 a Gallon. Your Groceries Are Next.
Diesel fuel just crossed $6 a gallon for the first time in American history, and experts are being unusually blunt about what happens next: everything gets...
25 Years After 9/11, America Stops to Remember the Day It Changed Forever
Twenty-five years ago this morning, nearly 3,000 people went to work and never came home. On Friday, the United States stopped — at memorials, firehouses, and...
Feds Ran ICE Observer's Face Through Facial Recognition. Then Showed Up at His House.
The federal government has been photographing legal observers, revoking their Global Entry, threatening them with domestic terrorism watch lists,...
JD Vance Told a Protester to Move to Mexico and MAGA Loved It
JD Vance told a Mexican-flag-waving protester to "get your ass over there" at the GOP's Dallas convention on Friday, and approximately ten thousand Republican...
Flesh-Eating Maggots Are Now Eating Texas Horses
A working ranch horse in Presidio County, Texas, is now the first horse in the United States to be infected with the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating fly...
Trump's Conspiracy Hunter Quits After 5 Months, Zero Charges
Donald Trump hired an 81-year-old loyalist to hunt down a government conspiracy against him, gave him five months and the full weight of the Department of...
Michigan Hockey Coach Told Hazed Players to Be a 'Michigan Man' While Teammates Had Blowtorches
Sixteen former University of Michigan hockey players filed a federal lawsuit this week alleging they were subjected to ritualized sexual abuse by teammates for...
Trump Promises $5K Checks If You Vote Right, GOP Calls It Bribery
Donald Trump stood at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas and promised every American adult a $5,000 check — but only if you keep his party in power....
Networks Wouldn't Air Him, He Called It Packed, Then Said He Beat the NFL
Donald Trump stood before a visibly empty arena in Dallas on Wednesday night, looked out at thousands of unfilled chairs, and told the crowd they were looking...
The Iran War Is Now Crashing the Housing Market Too
American home sales just hit their slowest pace in more than a year, mortgage rates are closing in on 7%, and the median home price just set an all-time August...
27-Year-Old DSA Socialist Just Knocked Out Providence's Mayor
A 27-year-old part-time professional wrestler and democratic socialist just ended a sitting mayor's career in Providence, Rhode Island, and the progressive...
30 Beds, All Full, No Vaccine: Ebola Is Killing Congo's Kids
Last week, an Ebola treatment unit in eastern Congo lost eight patients. All of them were under five years old. The unit has 30 beds. Tonight, according to...
25 Dead After Cargo Ship Burns at World's Largest Shipbuilder
A cargo ship docked for repairs at a major Chinese port caught fire Thursday morning and killed 25 people before crews managed to extinguish the blaze roughly...
5 When Her Mom Died on 9/11. Now 30, She's Pushing Her Kids on the Same Swings.
In the final minutes of her life, flight attendant Amy Sweeney stayed on the phone with her supervisor aboard American Airlines Flight 11 and methodically...
Elon's 'Town Square' Is Now Just a Group Chat for AI Bros
Elon Musk paid $44 billion for what he called civilization's 'common digital town square.' According to Axios, that town square has since been rezoned into a...
August Was Earth's Hottest Month Ever and We're Still Burning Coal
Earth just had its hottest month in recorded human history, blew past a major international climate threshold by nearly a tenth of a degree, and set an...
Trump Promises Every American $5K He Doesn't Have Yet
Donald Trump stood in front of a arena full of people in sparkly MAGA hats on Wednesday night and promised every adult American $5,000 if Republicans win...
Poop Concrete Is 42% Stronger and Scientists Are Not Joking
Researchers in India have made concrete out of processed human feces, and it is stronger than regular concrete. Not slightly stronger. Forty-two percent...
A.J. Brown's Patriots Debut Lasts Three Quarters Before Ankle Ends It
New England traded a 2028 first-round pick and a fifth-rounder to get A.J. Brown into a Patriots uniform. They got three quarters and 26 yards before a Seattle...