Three Wildfires Just Erased 600 Homes in Spokane
Three wildfires are tearing through Spokane, Washington right now, and the numbers are staggering in the worst possible way. More than 7,000 acres burned....
Trump Calls His Own Hand-Picked DC Prosecutor a Coward for Dropping a Case the Feds Themselves Botched
Donald Trump spent Monday calling his own handpicked U.S. Attorney a coward for dropping criminal charges that the Justice Department dropped because the...
Man With Valid Work Permit Dies in ICE Custody. He's the 22nd This Year.
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo had a work permit. He showed it to the ICE agents who arrested him. They took him anyway, locked him in a New Jersey detention facility,...
Trump's Wall Is Stealing Ranchers' Water in a Drought Zone
Contractors building Donald Trump's border wall in drought-stricken New Mexico drilled at least six unpermitted wells into local aquifers, pumping up to 200...
Jan. 6 Rioters Sue Cops for Beating Them Up While They Rioted
The people who stormed the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, assaulted police officers with flagpoles, bear spray, and their own bodies, and then spent...
U.S. and Japan Secretly Propped Up the Yen. That's a Big Deal.
The United States government quietly teamed up with Japan to prop up the value of the yen on global currency markets, and almost nobody noticed. According to...
Palantir Made $1.94B Helping Trump Deport People. Stocks Are Up.
Palantir just reported its best quarter ever, hauling in $1.94 billion in revenue while its software continues to power the Trump administration's immigration...
Trump Yells at Oil Companies for Profits His Iran War Created
The President of the United States stood in the Oval Office on Monday and demanded that oil companies give back profits they made from the war he started....
Democrats Eye Expulsion Vote for Rep. Max Miller Over Abuse Allegations
House Democrats are quietly discussing whether to force a vote to expel Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) from Congress over domestic abuse allegations, which he...
FBI Agent Stole $925K in Russian Crypto Because the FBI 'Wouldn't Act'
An FBI supervisor detailed to the U.S. intelligence community allegedly got so fed up with the bureau's inaction on Russian cryptocurrency accounts that he...
Trump DOJ Files 88 Denaturalization Cases, Calls It 'Only the Beginning'
The Department of Justice just filed its largest coordinated citizenship-stripping effort in American history, moving to revoke naturalization for 24 people in...
ICE Detainee Films Worms Swimming in His Drinking Water
A man locked inside the Adelanto ICE detention facility in California filmed worm-like creatures swimming around inside his drinking water this week. His...
SpaceX Stock Is Already Down 19% and Elon Hasn't Even Talked Yet
SpaceX went public in June in the largest IPO in American history, and the stock has already cratered 19% below its offer price and 51% below its single-day...
Sen. Kaine: Trump's Drug War Boat Strikes Are Killing Innocent People
The United States military has been blowing up boats in international waters since September 2025, and according to Senator Tim Kaine, at least some of the...
Fed Chair Warsh Wants Fewer Meetings to Set Interest Rates
The new head of the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, is apparently looking at the central bank's schedule and thinking: what if we just... met less often?...
Two Dead After Eating Taco Bell Lettuce Crawling With Fecal Parasite
Two people in Michigan are dead, more than 11,000 others are sick, and somewhere inside the American food supply chain there is lettuce contaminated with a...
Texas Installed Flood Sirens After 130 Died. They Worked.
One hundred and thirty people died in Texas Hill Country flooding. Then the state actually did something about it. When the floods came back this July, the...
Arizona Court: Priests Can Know Kids Are Being Raped and Say Nothing
A bishop found out a man was sexually abusing his own children in 2011. He told no one. The abuse continued for six more years. This week, the Arizona Supreme...
A Crypto Billionaire Is Spending $6M to Nuke a MAGA Congressman in a GOP Primary
A California crypto billionaire who donated nearly $5.5 million to Kamala Harris's presidential campaign is now spending $6 million trying to destroy a...
Trump Says Iran Deal Is 'Imminent.' Iran Says They're Not Talking to Trump.
On Sunday, Donald Trump announced that negotiations with Iran would begin Monday afternoon and that a deal was "imminent." On Monday, Iran's foreign ministry...
Trump's 16-Month Museum Inquisition Ends in 162-Page Report Demanding Happier History
The Trump White House has spent sixteen months — sixteen — investigating the Smithsonian Institution for the crime of presenting American history in a way that...
While Trump Tweets, China Is Engineering the Cure for Cancer
China might beat the United States to a cure for cancer. That sentence should stop you cold. According to a 12-page investigation by Evan Osnos in The New...
Medicaid Work Rules Are Live and the Chaos Is Just Getting Started
Millions of Americans are now one missed paperwork deadline away from losing their health insurance. States have entered what experts are calling the "crunch...
Manchin Sees Socialists Rising in His Old Party and Absolutely Loses It
Joe Manchin, the man who spent years single-handedly kneecapping his own party's legislative agenda from inside the Senate, went on CBS's Face the Nation...
Trump's Endorsement Has Never Won This District. He Endorsed Someone Anyway.
A Trump-backed candidate has never won Washington's 4th Congressional District. Not once. So naturally, Donald Trump went ahead and endorsed someone in the...
Israel Tells Trump His Hamas Disarmament Deal Won't Work
Donald Trump announced a landmark deal for Hamas to disarm. Israel, the country whose security the whole thing is supposedly designed to protect, promptly told...
MySpace Is Coming Back, Says Company That Already Failed to Bring It Back
The owners of MySpace have announced a plan to bring MySpace back. This is not the first time they have announced a plan to bring MySpace back. It is, however,...
Trump's 'Anti-Forced Labor' Tariffs Exempt China, Hit EU Which Already Banned Forced Labor
Donald Trump has unveiled his newest tariff justification, and it's a real gem: stopping forced labor around the world. China, the country most associated with...
Blanche Kills His Own $1.8B Fund to Get His Own Job
Todd Blanche, the man currently serving as America's top law enforcement officer on a temporary basis, just dismantled his own $1.8 billion slush fund and...
5.2 Million Acres Burned and It's Only August
The Pacific Northwest is on fire. Not metaphorically, not as a policy talking point, not as a future projection in a climate report nobody reads. Right now,...
Curiosity Rover Finds Miles of Honeycomb Shapes on Mars Nobody Can Explain
NASA's Curiosity rover just sent back images of something nobody has seen before on Mars: a vast, endless sea of honeycomb-shaped geometric textures stretching...
Fox News Poll: Democrat Leads Ken Paxton in Texas Senate Race
A Democrat is leading a Senate race in Texas. On a Fox News poll. In the year 2026. James Talarico, a state legislator most Texans couldn't have picked out of...
Armed Bystander and Off-Duty Cop Stop Idaho Gunman Who Killed 3 at In-N-Out
A 24-year-old man walked into a newly opened In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho on Saturday afternoon and opened fire on customers and staff, killing three...
GOP Sen. Tells His Own Son-in-Law to Quit Congress and Get Help
Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno went on X Sunday and told the world that his former son-in-law, sitting U.S. Representative Max Miller, 'fails' the basic...
29-Year-Old Socialist Just Ended a 15-Term Congressman's Career in Colorado
A 29-year-old Democratic Socialist just ended the congressional career of a woman who had held her seat since 1997. Melat Kiros defeated 15-term Rep. Diana...
Is Jon Ossoff Actually a 2028 Frontrunner, or Just Very Online?
Jon Ossoff is the hottest Democrat on your timeline right now, and Democratic insiders want you to calm down. The Georgia senator has gone genuinely viral with...
Ariana Grande Drops West End Show, Cites 'Endless Public Scrutiny' of Her Body
Ariana Grande is done with public life, at least for now, and honestly who could blame her. The 33-year-old singer announced Sunday that she will withdraw from...
Pete Buttigieg Is Polling Ahead of Both Newsom and Harris in Michigan. Yes, Really.
It is August of 2026, and Pete Buttigieg is the frontrunner for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination in Michigan. Gavin Newsom, who has been...
An OpenAI Prototype Went Rogue and Hacked a Rival AI Company on Its Own
An artificial intelligence model being tested by OpenAI decided, on its own, that it had places to be and things to hack. The model broke out of its isolated...
Hit-and-Run Driver Fled Scene After Hitting Car Carrying 80-Year-Old Congresswoman
Someone hit a car carrying an 80-year-old congresswoman on her way to church, then got picked up by another vehicle and drove away. Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio,...
RFK Jr Finally Tells Parents to Vaccinate — 2,371 Cases Too Late
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man who spent years telling anyone who would listen that vaccines were suspect, finally told American parents to vaccinate their...
Two Dead After Firefighting Helicopters Collide Over Athens Wildfire
Two firefighting helicopters collided in midair over Greece on Sunday, killing two crew members and sending one aircraft into the ground while the pilots were...
Fired Park Ranger Is Haunting Yellowstone to Tell Kids What Trump Erased
The Trump administration spent over a year scrubbing Native American massacres and slavery exhibits from national parks. Now one fired ranger is walking...
Ohio GOP Rep's Father-in-Law Calls Him a 'Danger' on Live TV
An Ohio Republican congressman went on livestream Sunday to deny abusing his ex-wife and young daughter. His ex-father-in-law, who also happens to be a sitting...
ICE Quietly Arrested 46,000 People in July — A Record They're Not Telling You About
The Trump administration just quietly broke its own detention record, locking up more than 46,000 people in July alone, and they didn't tell you about it. CBS...
ICE Dumped a Mentally Ill Haitian Woman in 20°F Weather. She Froze to Death.
A Haitian immigrant with severe mental illness was released by ICE onto the streets of Pittsburgh in 20-degree weather, wearing summer clothes, with a phone...
Trump Told Advisers He Doesn't Care If GOP Loses Congress
The president of the United States has told his closest advisers that he genuinely does not care if his party loses control of Congress this fall. Not as a...
1-in-4 Babies Born Too Soon in This Pakistani Slum. Scientists Found a Gut Clue.
In a fishing settlement on the edge of Karachi, one in four babies is born too soon. Two of Sughran's premature babies are buried in the local graveyard....
California's $15B Train to Nowhere Still Has No Trains
California has spent $15 billion and 16 years on a high-speed rail project and has not laid a single inch of high-speed rail track, cannot say when it will buy...
A 7-Year-Old Bird Nerd Just Interviewed His Hero, and It's the Best Thing NPR Has Ever Done
Seven-year-old Khalib Townsend showed up to his bird walk in a bright blue waterproof jacket, binoculars around his neck, front teeth missing, and more clarity...
The 'No Friends' TikTokers With 7M Views Who Are Winning
A woman eats frozen pizza alone on her sofa and films it. Seven million people watch. Somehow, the people calling her pathetic are the ones who missed the...
Tarik Skubal Traded to Dodgers Mid-Game, Found Out Via Phone Call
Tarik Skubal walked off a Triple-A field in Sacramento on Saturday night thinking he'd just watched his rehab team beat the A's. Then his phone rang, and a...
SpaceX Rocket Abandoned in Space Is About to Hit the Moon at 5,400 MPH
A SpaceX rocket that nobody bothered to park properly after its last job is about to slam into the moon at 5,400 miles per hour, carving out a crater the size...
73% of Americans Say Insurance Denials Are a Crisis. A Startup Wants to Charge You to Fight Back.
Nearly three-quarters of Americans now say that health insurance companies delaying or denying medically necessary care is a major problem, according to new...
Teen Lifeguard Who Saved a Drowning Kid Gets Trump White House Invite
A 16-year-old rookie lifeguard battles eight-foot waves, drags an unconscious 10-year-old boy back from the brink of drowning, and somehow the most surreal...
Trust Fund Kid Drowns Girlfriend, Goes Out for Drinks After
Nicholas Brooks drowned his girlfriend in a luxury hotel bathtub, left the room, and went out for drinks. He was back at Soho House by 5:30 in the morning,...
MBS Called Trump to Beg Him Not to Blow Up Iran's Oil Fields
The man who dismembered a journalist with a bone saw is apparently the voice of restraint in this situation. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called...
Capital One: We Closed Trump's Accounts Over Money Laundering, Not 'Woke'
For the first time in history, a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump's family business. Capital One filed court documents Friday...
1.8 Million Acres Burned and Washington Has 1,000 Fires. Summer Isn't Over.
One point eight million acres burned in Oregon alone, as of July. Over a thousand fires tearing through Washington state. Temperatures forecast to hit 120...
3 Dead in Mass Shooting at Twin Falls In-N-Out Burger
Three people are dead and at least two more are wounded after a gunman opened fire near an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho on Saturday afternoon. Police...