Supreme Court Lets Trump Cross-Check Voter Rolls With Social Security Data
The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a significant pre-midterm gift on Friday, lifting restrictions on a federal voter database that can...
A Nor'easter Cancels Ed Sheeran's Boston Shows. Robert Kraft Already Did the Real Damage.
A nor'easter just cancelled Ed Sheeran's two Gillette Stadium shows this weekend, which is genuinely the least dramatic thing to happen to this tour in the...
Trump Rolled Out the Red Carpet for Xi and His Own Party Called It Despotism
Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to Joint Base Andrews with a literal red carpet while his own party was in Dallas days earlier screaming...
Scores Hit 25-Year Low. Trump Axed the Agency That Explains Why.
American kids are doing worse in math and reading than at any point in the last quarter-century. The federal agency specifically designed to figure out why...
Trump Booted 760K From Obamacare Using AI, Then Called Them 'Not Real People'
The Trump administration just kicked 760,000 people off their health insurance and the guy explaining it to the press was Mehmet Oz, who said — out loud, into...
Dolly Got Off Her Deathbed to Sing. Bono Can't Even Listen.
Two months before Dolly Parton died, she got out of her sickbed to sing. Not because anyone made her. Because she had a song she believed in, and she wasn't...
Bill Gates: AI Is Already Powerful Enough to Kill a Billion People
Bill Gates went on Meet the Press and said, with a straight face, that AI is already powerful enough to 'drive events that cause a billion deaths.' That was...
Trump's Fishing Order Wants to Kill Sharks to Help Anglers Catch More Fish
Donald Trump signed an executive order last Thursday directing federal agencies to prioritize recreational fishing, review the scientific standards that...
Abraham Accords Countries Hold First Meeting Since Oct. 7 — With Kazakhstan
Nearly three years after Hamas's October 7 attacks froze one of Trump's signature foreign policy achievements in place, U.S. diplomats quietly reassembled the...
Pediatric ICU Doctor Stabbed to Death in His Bed, Suspect Said He Was God
A man broke into a Pittsburgh family's home through a kitchen window in the middle of the night, climbed to the third floor, and stabbed a pediatric intensive...
Hackers Claim They Stole Every FBI Agent's Home Address and SSN
A criminal hacking group claims it just stole the home addresses, Social Security numbers, and family members' names of nearly every FBI agent in the country....
Congressional Candidate Gets Arrested Protesting Netanyahu Outside the UN
A Democratic congressional nominee got herself arrested outside the United Nations on Wednesday, and she wants you to know she'd do it again. Darializa Avila...
Judge Says ICE Lied to His Face About Torture Conditions in NYC Jail
A federal judge has had enough. After watching ICE ignore his orders, mislead his court, and in his own words sometimes 'intentionally conceal or recklessly...
JD Vance Was the Anonymous Source the White House Used to Ban CNN and Politico
The Trump White House banned CNN, MSNBC, and Politico from the building, in part because they published anonymously sourced national security information from...
Mortgage Rates Hit 7% Again and a War With Iran Is Why
US mortgage rates just crossed 7% for the first time since January 2025, and if you want someone to blame, the line forms behind a war with Iran, a Federal...
Netanyahu Flies to NY, Skips Trump, Picks Fight With the Mayor Instead
Benjamin Netanyahu flew to New York, delivered a speech at the United Nations General Assembly, and flew home in time for a religious holiday — all without...
OpenAI's AI Agents Hacked Australia's Medicare Portal on Their Own
Nobody told OpenAI's AI agents to break into Australia's Medicare portal. Nobody programmed them for hacking. They just did it anyway, because the door was in...
Tim Scott Tells GOP Behind Closed Doors: 'Fight for Our Lives'
Six weeks before the midterms, the man in charge of keeping the Senate Republican called a closed-door meeting with his colleagues and told them, without...
Hawaii Could Get 30 Inches of Rain by Saturday. Again.
Two storms, two coasts, one very bad week for anyone living near the Pacific Ocean. Hurricane Polo is packing 160 mph winds off Mexico's coast and threatening...
RFK Jr Took $4M From MAHA Allies After Swearing He Wouldn't
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signed an ethics pledge in 2024 promising he would not engage in writing, editing, marketing, or promotional services for any books...
FBI Was Investigating Collins for Bribery. Trump Killed It.
A contractor allegedly paid $150,000 to Susan Collins's Super PAC and then told his colleagues she had promised him $32 million in federal contracts in return....
Thune Says Trump's Anti-AI-Regulation Stance Is Basically Just Vibes
The President of the United States has been loudly and publicly crusading against AI regulation for months. According to the Senate's top Republican, that...
Trump and Xi Are About to Meet. What Could Go Wrong?
Two of the most powerful men on the planet are about to sit across a table from each other, and the issues between them include artificial intelligence,...
Harvey Weinstein Gets 15 Years After Apologizing While Claiming Innocence in the Same Breath
Harvey Weinstein stood up in a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday, apologized to everyone he may have hurt, and then immediately told the judge he didn't do...
Social Security Runs Dry in 2032 and Every Fix Is Going to Hurt
Social Security's trust fund will be empty by 2032, and when it goes, benefits get cut by 22% automatically — no vote required, no further warning. Congress...
Macron Told UNGA Hamas 'Never Active' in West Bank. Two Days Earlier, Hamas Killed a French Citizen There.
Emmanuel Macron stood at the United Nations podium on Tuesday and told the world that Hamas has 'never been active' in the West Bank. Two days before that...
Grandma's Body Stuffed in Suitcase, Dropped at Fire Station
Two people walked into a Wichita fire station on September 16, dropped off a suitcase, and told firefighters there was a body inside. Inside was Lorretta...
Texas Rangers Seek Manslaughter Charges Over 27 Girls Killed at Camp Mystic
Court documents show that Camp Mystic, the Christian all-girls sleepaway camp where 27 people drowned on the Fourth of July last year, now faces a criminal...
Trump Called the Iran War a 'Short-Term Excursion.' Gas Is Now $4.50.
Seven months ago, Donald Trump promised the attack on Iran would be a 'short-term excursion.' Gas was under $3 a gallon. Mortgage rates were heading down....
ICE Wants Deportation Vans With No Bathroom Rules. Amazon Prime, But Worse.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to roll out "mobile detention facilities" in Pennsylvania — which, stripped of the bureaucratic language, means...
Trump Meets Venezuela's New US-Installed Leader Miles From Maduro's Jail Cell
Donald Trump held a friendly diplomatic meeting with Venezuela's new US-backed leader at the UN General Assembly this week — roughly three miles from the New...
DOJ Says CNN and Politico Threatened 'National Security' by Reporting on a Ballroom
The United States Department of Justice would like you to know that reporting on White House construction projects is a national security threat. That's not a...
Trump Won't Rule Out Troops at Polls, and His Options Are 'Dwindling'
With less than 50 days until the midterm elections, the President of the United States will not rule out deploying the military to polling places, and his...
Trump Threatens to 'Annihilate' Iran, Rebrand AI at UN Speech
Donald Trump walked into the United Nations Tuesday, an institution he openly despises, and proceeded to threaten to annihilate a sovereign nation, declare a...
Javier Bardem Signed a Petition to Fire Pink From UNICEF
Javier Bardem, Academy Award-winning actor and apparently a guy with a lot of free time on a Monday, took to Instagram to promote a Change.org petition...
17% of Young Americans Are Going Into Debt Just to Go on Dates
Romance is not dead. It is, however, financing itself on credit. New data from Zelle finds that 17% of active Gen Z and millennial daters have gone into debt...
North Korean Defector Was Sold as a Sex Slave at 13. A Student Told Her She Doesn't Understand Oppression.
Yeonmi Park escaped North Korea at 13, watched her mother submit to sexual assault to protect her from smugglers, spent two years being trafficked across...
Ukraine Makes 10M Drones a Year. The U.S. Army Made 50,000.
Ukraine is preparing to sign a landmark drone defense deal with the United States on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, according to CBS...
Hackers Claim They Stole 2TB of FBI Employee Data and Are Selling It
A cybercrime group is claiming they walked off with more than 2 terabytes of personal data on thousands of FBI employees and job applicants, and they're...
Trump Bought SpaceX Stock While His Admin Controls SpaceX's Contracts
Donald Trump bought up to $50,000 worth of SpaceX stock in July, then sold some of it a week later, all while his administration holds enormous power over the...
Trump Tells CNN Reporter 'You Should Not Be Here' at the UN
Standing outside the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Donald Trump looked at CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins and told her, 'You should not be here...
Trump Asked the UN to Pick Iran's Fate. Got Silence and Walkouts.
Donald Trump stood before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, asked the assembled world leaders whether he should 'annihilate the Islamic Republic...
Trump Is Paying Companies $4B to Kill Wind Farms. States Are Suing.
The Trump administration has found a creative new way to torch the clean energy transition: pay companies nearly $4 billion in taxpayer money to abandon their...
Trump to Spend $500M on 17,500 White South African Refugees While Everyone Else Can Rot
The Trump administration, which has effectively slammed the door on refugees fleeing war, famine, and persecution worldwide, has found exactly one group of...
DoorDash's 'Greedy Algorithm' Stole $131M From 264K Workers
New York City's Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood at a podium Tuesday and read a tech CEO's own words back to him like a prosecutor reading from a confession....
ICE Beat a Black Man in Chicago, Left Him Bleeding, He's a U.S. Citizen
Two ICE agents in Evanston, Illinois tackled a Black man, pinned him to the pavement, and injured him badly enough that bystanders had to call 911. Then they...
US F-16 Crashes in Germany Days After Another F-16 Crashed in Michigan
A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed on approach to Spangdahlem Air Base in western Germany on Tuesday afternoon, the second F-16 to go down in less...
AOC Won't Rule Out Primarying Schumer, and He Should Be Worried
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just told the New York Times she won't rule out primarying Chuck Schumer for his Senate seat in 2028. The 36-year-old with $15 million...
Hayden Panettiere, 36, Killed by Fentanyl Cocktail While Boyfriend Held the Bag
Hayden Panettiere was 36 years old when she died on August 16 in a Greenville, South Carolina apartment, and on Tuesday the Greenville County Coroner made it...
Trump Fired the Climate Scientists. They Just Published Anyway.
In April 2025, the Trump administration told hundreds of volunteer climate scientists they were no longer needed, killed funding for the congressionally...
ICE Barred a Congresswoman From Talking to Detainees at a Camp Where Guards Beat a Man to Death
A sitting member of Congress showed up to inspect a detention camp where a man was beaten to death by guards, two separate disturbances had just happened, and...
298,000 Americans in the UK Could Vote. Only 3.8% Did.
There are roughly 298,000 voting-age American citizens living in the United Kingdom right now. In the last midterm elections, fewer than four percent of them...
Grand Jury Finds No Crime in Mississippi Teen Nolan Wells' Death
A Mississippi grand jury has declined to charge anyone in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, the Black teenager last seen on a remote barrier island on July...
Five Young QBs Down in Two Weeks and the NFL Season Just Started
Two weeks into the NFL season and the league has already managed to break five of its most exciting young quarterbacks. Jaxson Dart, Caleb Williams, Jayden...