OpenAI's AI Agent Is Eating ChatGPT's Lunch — And Your Job Is Next
For years, the AI industry has been telling you that the chatbot era was just the warm-up act. Turns out they weren't lying. New research published by OpenAI...
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,...
Switzerland Watched the World Cup in 95-Degree Heat While Its Glaciers Melt
Switzerland won its World Cup match last week. Great news. Meanwhile, the air in Lucerne felt like the Philippines, the glaciers are among the fastest...
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...
Bessent Admits Globalization Failed. The Policy That Wrecked It Was Theirs.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stood up in New York on Tuesday night and told a room full of people that the entire framework underpinning the global economy...
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...
Leaked: Peter Thiel's Secret Club Rates You A, B, or C and Knows Your Food Allergies
Somewhere in the world, a spreadsheet exists that has graded Josh Brolin a VIP and cited his role as a purple alien to justify it. That spreadsheet belongs to...
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...
Billionaire VC Says AI Won't Kill Your Job, and He'd Know Because He's Trying to Kill Your Job
A billionaire who has made a fortune investing in artificial intelligence sat down with Axios this week to reassure everyone that artificial intelligence will...
Virginia Giuffre Visited Police 'Multiple Times' Before Her Death. WA Cops Are Only Now Reviewing Why They Didn't Follow Up.
Virginia Giuffre went to a police station in Western Australia multiple times to report a domestic violence dispute before she died by suicide on her farm last...
AI Stock Party Hits a Wall as Chip Investors Suddenly Remember Gravity
The AI hype train, which has been barreling down the tracks at full speed while investors threw money at anything with a GPU in it, appears to have hit a speed...
Crisis Pregnancy Centers Are Claiming They Can Diagnose Ectopic Pregnancies. They Cannot.
Across the country, crisis pregnancy centers are telling women they can rule out life-threatening ectopic pregnancies with a single free ultrasound. They...
Mamdani's Candidates Crushed Hakeem Jeffries' Picks in NYC
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani picked three fights with the Democratic establishment last night and won all three. His endorsed candidates swept their...
JFK's Grandson Came, Saw, Lost: NY's $26M Primary Goes to the Guy Nobody Googled
Twenty-six million dollars in political ads, a Kennedy grandson, the man who helped start the Lincoln Project, and a proxy war between rival AI companies all...