27 Dead in Bangkok Bar Fire After Exit Found Locked With Two Bolts
At least 27 people are dead after a fire tore through a beer hall in Bangkok early Monday morning, and Thailand's own Prime Minister stood at the scene and...
Lindsey Graham Died Worth Less Than Your Average Retiree
Senator Lindsey Graham spent 31 years inside one of the most aggressively monetized institutions in American public life and somehow managed to die with less...
Ousted South Korean President Just Got His 3rd Prison Sentence
South Korea's disgraced former president Yoon Suk Yeol picked up yet another prison sentence on Monday, this time two years for receiving manipulated opinion...
Trump Wants a Dead Senator's Sister to Fill His Senate Seat
Lindsey Graham has been dead for about five minutes and Donald Trump is already on Truth Social demanding his sister get the job. Darline Graham Nordone has...
Trump Announces Iran Naval Blockade, Will Charge Ships a 20% 'Reimbursement'
Donald Trump has announced a naval blockade of Iran and, in what can only be described as a bold new frontier in unhinged foreign policy, declared that cargo...
Two Teens Killed Five Family Members in East St. Louis. One Was Related to the Victims.
Two teenagers, aged 15 and 16, are in custody after allegedly executing five members of the same family across three separate locations in East St. Louis on...
UK Counterterrorism Police Take Over Ann Widdecombe Murder Case
A murder investigation into the death of a 78-year-old former British politician just got a whole lot darker. British counterterrorism police have taken over...
Warren to Dimon: Did Epstein Help You Lobby the British Government?
A newly surfaced 2009 email suggests that Jeffrey Epstein, convicted child sex trafficker, may have been backstage-directing JPMorgan Chase's lobbying strategy...
The Last Wild River in the West Is Running Out of Time
There is exactly one river left in the entire Colorado River basin that still flows the way rivers are supposed to flow, unblocked by giant dams, unsliced by...
Congress Returns to a Dumpster Fire With One Less Firefighter
Lindsey Graham died Saturday at 71, and Congress showed up Monday to discover that one of the few people holding the Republican legislative agenda together by...
ICE Shoots and Kills Someone in Maine. One Person Dead.
Someone is dead in Biddeford, Maine after an ICE operation ended with a shooting Sunday morning. State Police are on scene. The FBI is expected to investigate....
Yellowstone Bison Launches 65-Year-Old Grandpa 8 Feet in the Air
A bull bison at Yellowstone National Park picked a man up with its horns, launched him eight feet into the air, and flipped him over, because nature does not...
Russia's FSB Caught Running Cyberwar Across 9 EU Countries
Russia's intelligence services have apparently been running a continent-wide sabotage operation against Europe's railways, power grids, and government...
Trump Packed a Chemical Safety Board With Scientists Paid by the Chemical Industry
The Trump administration has loaded the EPA's top chemical safety board with scientists who are financially tied to the exact companies those scientists are...
Obama's Healthcare Architect Says Skip the Supplements, Eat Ice Cream
The guy who helped design the Affordable Care Act has a new book out, and his prescription for a long, healthy life includes eating ice cream and skipping your...
A Former KKK Hall in Texas Is Becoming an Arts Center
A building where the Ku Klux Klan once held its klavern meetings in Fort Worth, Texas, is being converted into an arts and community center. That sentence is...
Federal Prison Guards Control the Paperwork That Lets Them Get Away With Assault
A federal prison guard in California punched an inmate in the face over a straw sunhat, then allegedly had him sexually assaulted in a camera-free hallway...
1 in 3 Americans Are Missing Grocery Payments While SNAP Loses 5 Million People
One in ten American adults is taking out loans to buy food. A third of them missed a payment on those loans last year. And Congress just threw five million...
Sam Neill, 78, Dies Suddenly After Beating Cancer That Should Have Killed Him
Sam Neill, the actor who outran dinosaurs on screen and beat a rare blood cancer in real life, died suddenly in Sydney on Monday at the age of 78. His family...
McConnell, 84, Admits He Was 'Briefly Unconscious' After Fall He Hid for 4 Weeks
Mitch McConnell spent four weeks telling the American public precisely nothing about why he was hospitalized, and now we know why: he fell, lost consciousness,...
Made a US-Only Monopoly. Still Had to Import the Dice.
A board game company tried to prove you could manufacture Monopoly entirely in the United States to escape Trump's seven-figure tariff bill. It took more than...
Billings Hit 110°F and Salt Lake Shattered a Record From 1960
Salt Lake City just logged the hottest temperature in its recorded history. Billings, Montana hit 110 degrees. And 58 million Americans woke up Sunday under...
Senegal Is Beating a Parasite With Fish. America Spent Billions on Bombs.
A team of scientists in Senegal has figured out that you can fight a parasitic worm that burrows through human skin by dumping nearly 2,000 fish into a rice...
One Man Lives Here. It's a Country. Sealand Is Real.
Seven miles off the English coast, bolted to a pair of concrete legs rising sixty feet above the North Sea, sits a rusted WWII gun platform with one full-time...
A T. Rex Named Gus Just Sold for $30M and Science Is Furious
Somewhere right now, a very wealthy person is deciding whether a 67-million-year-old apex predator would look good in their foyer. 'Gus,' a 38-foot...
America's Last Iron Lung Survivor Is Gone at 78
Martha Lillard was told she wouldn't survive past 20. She made it to 78, outliving that prediction by nearly six decades, outliving the disease that paralyzed...
Paramount Threatens to Ditch California Over $110B Merger Fight
California is about to find out what happens when you pick a fight with a $110 billion merger and the guy writing the checks has a perfectly good studio lot in...
Christopher Nolan Got Rejected by Film School. Now He's Adapting Homer.
Christopher Nolan has made 13 films, won 18 Academy Awards, and grossed over $6 billion at the box office. Film school told him no thanks. In a new 60 Minutes...
Josh Shapiro Wants to Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party (Just Not Yet)
Josh Shapiro thinks the Democratic Party is at a crossroads. He thinks 2028 could be a once-in-a-generation reckoning over what the party actually stands for....
McConnell, 84, Was Unconscious for a Month Before Telling Anyone
Mitch McConnell fell down, went unconscious, got carted to the hospital, spent weeks there, caught pneumonia, moved to a rehab center, and then waited almost a...
2,000 Roadside Signs Hold Georgia's Messy Revolutionary War Secret
Georgia had a complicated relationship with the American Revolution. Like, genuinely weird and contradictory in ways that your high school history class...
Keystone Pipeline Killed 2,700 Animals. The Fine Is $27M.
A Canadian pipeline company dumped nearly half a million gallons of crude oil into a Kansas creek, killed or harmed over 2,700 animals, and rendered an entire...
27 Dead After Bangkok Pub Fire Traps Victims in Restrooms
At least 27 people are dead after a fire ripped through the Na Ladprao pub in Bangkok just after midnight on Monday, with many victims found huddled in the...
1,200 'Nonpartisan' DOJ Alumni Sign Anti-Blanche Letter, Including Lori Lightfoot
More than 1,200 former Department of Justice employees signed a letter this week demanding the Senate reject Todd Blanche's nomination as Attorney General,...
Parasite Hits 31 States and Nobody Knows What Food Is Doing It
A parasitic intestinal illness has spread to 31 states, sickened at least 843 people, hospitalized 86 of them, and federal health authorities still have no...
Veterans Are Refusing Burial at Arlington Over Trump's Vanity Arch
Veterans who earned the right to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery are now saying they'd rather skip it, because Donald Trump wants to plant a 250-foot...
Trump Uses Graham's Eulogy to Lobby for His Own Voting Bill
Lindsey Graham died on Saturday. By Sunday morning, Donald Trump was on national television explaining how inconvenient that was for his voting bill. The...
Lindsey Graham Died Hours After Getting Trump's OK to Sanction Russia
Lindsey Graham spent Friday on the phone from Kyiv, buzzing with excitement because the Trump White House had finally given him the go-ahead on his Russia...
Who Really Owns the Machine That Writes Your Essay?
So, a philosophy professor I heard about recently ran a plagiarism check on a student paper and found something odd. The essay was clean, with no matching...
Perth Dad Dies in Bali Immigration Detention, Family Has No Answers
A 39-year-old Perth man who had spent fifteen years building a life in Bali, running a business, raising a son, and trying to sort out his visa paperwork, is...