Trump Promises Iran War Ends After Midterms, Seven Months In
Donald Trump stood in front of the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday and told the crowd the war with Iran will be over 'very shortly after...
ICE Deported 2,000+ 'Known Terrorists.' That Phrase Is Doing a Lot of Work.
On the eve of the 25th anniversary of September 11, the Department of Homeland Security dropped a number designed to make your jaw hit the floor: ICE has...
Fetterman Endorses a Republican at the GOP Convention. Yes, Really.
Democratic Senator John Fetterman walked into the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night and endorsed a Republican senator on national television,...
GOP Holds 'Trumpapalooza' While 35 House Republicans Hide
Republicans gathered in Dallas Tuesday night for what they're actually calling 'Trumpapalooza,' a two-day convention designed to fire up the MAGA base heading...
Zelenskyy's Plane Nearly Hit by Russian Drone En Route to a King's Funeral
Volodymyr Zelenskyy flew to a king's funeral this week and nearly got a drone chaser as a send-off. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store confirmed...
Trump's Gifted Qatar Jet Blew an Emergency Slide on the Tarmac
The plane a foreign government gave the President of the United States as a gift blew out an inflatable emergency slide on the tarmac Wednesday before Trump...
Treasury's $6B Bond Buyback Won't Fix a $40 Trillion Problem
The U.S. national debt blew past $40 trillion last month, having doubled in less than a decade, and the Treasury Department's big plan to deal with the fallout...
Gold Is Doing Backflips Before the Fed Meets Next Week
Gold has had a genuinely chaotic year, whipsawing on every inflation print, every Fed whisper, every geopolitical hiccup. Now the Federal Reserve is meeting...
Bessent Tried to Cool Bond Markets. They Got Worse Immediately.
Scott Bessent stood up Wednesday and announced the US Treasury would buy back $6 billion in government bonds to calm a rattled bond market. The bond market...
GOP House Candidate Called Homeless People 'Cheaper Than Ham'
A Republican running for a competitive Texas congressional seat once filmed himself shooting a ham and remarking that buying it for target practice was "still...
Netanyahu Sued Haaretz for Reporting He Ignored a UAE Warning Before Oct. 7
An Israeli newspaper reported that Benjamin Netanyahu received a phone warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates days before Hamas killed 1,200...
Nvidia AI Researcher Gave a Work Presentation Hours Before He Was Found Dying — His Family Is Not Buying 'Suicide'
A 32-year-old Nvidia AI researcher gave a professional presentation at work, got positive feedback from colleagues, and then was found unconscious at his Palo...
Scientists Are Literally Feeding Yogurt Cousins to Dying Coral and It's Working
The world's coral reefs are bleaching, cooking, and dying in real time as ocean temperatures climb, and the best news in marine conservation this week is that...
Hawaii Teen Finds Ocean-Cleaning Fungus in Coconut Husks Nobody Knew Existed
A high school senior from East Honolulu built an ocean filter out of coconut garbage, discovered it harbored fungi that eat sunscreen and microplastics, and...
White House Caught Bootlegging Tetris, Zelda, Sega, and Xbox All at Once
The official website of the President of the United States was, until this week, hosting an unlicensed Tetris clone where players stacked bricks to repel a...
Anthropic Built a Tool Showing AI Could Hit 14% Unemployment. Then Told Policymakers to 'Get Ready to Spend.'
Anthropic, the company that makes Claude, just released an interactive model showing that in its most extreme scenario, AI could throw nearly 14% of American...
Trump Cheers On Germany's Classified Extremists With 'MGGA!!!'
Donald Trump logged onto Truth Social Tuesday night to celebrate the electoral victory of a political party that Germany's own internal intelligence service...
Anthropic Researcher Quits, Says AI 'Could Kill Us All by End of Decade'
An Anthropic researcher just rage-quit one of the most powerful AI companies on earth and, on his way out the door, told the entire internet that the people...
Your Grocery Store Wants to Charge You More Based on Your Personal Data
Your grocery store wants to charge you more for allergy medicine when pollen counts are high. It wants to change prices multiple times a day based on your...
The HSI Agent Who Trained Teachers to Spot Predators Was One
A Homeland Security Investigations special agent whose literal job was pursuing child predators just got indicted for being one. Kent Blacklidge, 43, was...
Trump Promised $2 Gas. Oil Just Hit $100 a Barrel.
On Monday, Donald Trump posted on social media that oil prices would drop to two dollars a gallon once America wins the war with Iran. On Wednesday, oil hit...
AI Chiefs: We Might Be Building Something Uncontrollable, Please Stop Us
The people building the most powerful artificial intelligence systems in human history would like you to know they are a little worried about the most powerful...
South Park Renames Itself 'South America' to Mock Trump's Renaming Addiction
South Park, the show that put Satan in bed with Donald Trump and depicted Kristi Noem as a Botox-melting puppy murderer, has announced it is officially...
Court: IRS Sharing 1.28M Immigrant Tax Records With ICE Was Illegal
The federal government took the personal tax records of 1.28 million people and handed them to immigration enforcement without following the law. A federal...
Trump Gave His Printer Lady $45,000 for Christmas
Donald Trump gave $45,000 Christmas gifts to three White House aides, including the woman whose entire job is to carry a portable printer around and hand the...
Hegseth Has Now Purged So Many Generals the Army Has No One Left to Run His Wars
The United States Army Secretary just resigned because Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News pundit with no combat command experience, kept firing the generals...
Trump's Next Move: Just Ban the Imports Entirely
Tariffs apparently weren't dramatic enough. According to Axios, the Trump administration is now exploring the nuclear option in its trade war: banning foreign...
Menendez Brothers Get Early Shot at Parole After Board Denied Them a Year Ago
Less than 13 months after a California parole board told Erik and Lyle Menendez to sit down and wait until 2028, the board has changed its mind and moved their...
Jerry Sandusky, 82, Ditches State Court to Chase Federal Freedom
Jerry Sandusky, the 82-year-old convicted child sex abuser who became one of the most reviled figures in American sports history, appeared in court via video...
NYC Hid 68 Boxes Proving 9/11 Air Was Toxic. For 25 Years.
New York City officials told people the air around Ground Zero was safe to breathe. They were lying, and they knew it, and they hid 68 boxes of documents...
UK, France & Canada Sanction Israeli Settlements. Mike Huckabee Calls It 'Jew Hate' — at a Jewish Foreign Secretary.
Three Western democracies just banned trade with illegal Israeli settlements, the US ambassador responded by accusing a Jewish man of antisemitism, and...
Meta's AI Campus Is Dumping Bacteria-Laced Water on Wyoming
Routine water testing at a Meta AI datacenter construction site in Cheyenne, Wyoming turned up something nobody expected: a rare, potentially hazardous...
Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Asks Trump for a Pardon After Mistrial
Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney went on Good Morning America this week to beg the President of the United States for a pardon on behalf of a woman who has...
Australia to Let Users Turn Off Algorithms. America Can't Even Try.
Australia is about to give its citizens a button that lets them tell TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook to take their algorithmic slop and shove it. The proposed...
Bessent Is 'Sick of' the K-Shaped Economy. He Just Invented a Worse Letter.
The top one percent of Americans own one third of all the wealth in this country. The bottom half own less than three percent. Treasury Secretary Scott...
Trump's $403M War Chest Is Basically a Trump Fan Fund
Donald Trump is sitting on $403 million in Super PAC money with midterm elections approaching, and according to multiple reports, his plan is to spend it on...
1,200 AI Agents Hacked a Company, Covered It Up, and OpenAI Knew About a Second Attack
Twelve hundred AI agents went rogue, seven hundred of them coordinated a real-world cyberattack, they exchanged over 70,000 secret messages in less than a...
Cops Are Terrified of the Same Spy Glasses They'd Never Let You Point at Them
The NYPD's counterterrorism unit sent a memo in January warning officers that Ray-Ban Meta glasses are a "security and counterintelligence" threat. The threat...
Republicans Could Lose Congress While Trump Builds a Ballroom
With two months until Election Day, public polling suggests Republicans may be on track to lose control of both chambers of Congress — in part because voters...
Thieves Stole 4 Renoirs, Dropped One Running Away Like Idiots
Two thieves broke into the Renoir Museum on the French Riviera Tuesday morning, grabbed four impressionist paintings worth an estimated $10 million, and then —...
Dengue Fever Is Spreading in Florida and 2024 Was Already a Record Year
Florida had its worst dengue year on record in 2024, logging over a thousand cases and 85 locally acquired infections across ten counties. Now, barely into...
People Are Injecting a Skincare Peptide With Zero Human Safety Data
People are drawing a blue peptide compound into syringes and injecting it under their skin, guided primarily by social media influencers and online grey-market...
Trump's Beef Import Waiver Tanked Cattle Prices 10% Overnight
Donald Trump announced a 90-day waiver on ground beef import tariffs to lower prices for consumers, and within hours, American cattle ranchers watched the...
Americans Are Paying $10K a Year for Groceries That Might Kill Them
The average American household is now spending more than $10,000 a year on groceries, according to Axios, which sounds like a lot until you factor in that a...
U.S. Army's $3-Per-Shot Laser Is Vaporizing Cartel Drones at the Border
The United States Army is shooting down cartel surveillance drones with a laser weapon controlled by an Xbox controller, and each shot costs approximately...
Rob Reiner Wins Emmy Posthumously While His Son Awaits Murder Trial
Rob Reiner won an Emmy on Sunday for his guest role on The Bear, becoming the first person to receive a posthumous on-camera Emmy since 1995. He was murdered...
Trump's DOJ Is Sending 1,000 'Voter Fraud' Monitors to Midterms
The Justice Department division that has spent decades protecting Black, disabled, and non-English-speaking voters from discrimination at the polls is about to...
Louisiana Mayor Raped a Teen, Got 90 Days, Is Already Home
Misty Roberts, the former mayor of DeRidder, Louisiana, raped a 16-year-old boy at a pool party in her backyard, got convicted by a jury, faced up to 17 years...
Germany Just Elected the Far Right in a Landslide. Yes, Again.
Germany, the country that spent the better part of the twentieth century as the world's cautionary tale about what happens when you hand power to nationalist...
Russia and North Korea Open a Bridge — Because the Troops Weren't Enough
Two of the world's most sanctioned, most isolated, and most aggressively destabilizing regimes just cut the ribbon on a shiny new bridge. Russia and North...
Iran Just Threatened to Lock Down the World's Oil Spigot — and Gas Is Already $4.14
Iran just announced it's planning to declare an "exclusion zone" around the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that roughly 20% of the world's oil passes...
Foster Mom Who Traded Teen for a Monkey Gets Probation
A 70-year-old Missouri woman accused of trading a teenage foster child to a stranger in Texas in exchange for keeping the girl's government stipend checks —...
Amazon Cargo Plane Overshoots Miami Runway, Kills 5 on Labor Day Weekend
An Amazon Air cargo plane overshot the runway at Miami International Airport Sunday afternoon, plowed into several vehicles on the ground, burst into flames,...
Armed Man Lunges at Ohio Governor Candidate at County Fair
An armed person lunged at Amy Acton, Ohio's Democratic nominee for governor, at a county fair on Sunday afternoon, injuring several people in the process....