Vincent 'Big Pussy' Pastore, Sopranos Legend, Dead at 80
Vincent Pastore, the Bronx-born actor who made 'Big Pussy' one of the most beloved names in television history, died Saturday afternoon inside his Bronx home....
California Raises Minimum Wage to $17.40 While Federal Rate Rots at $7.25
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. It has been $7.25 an hour since 2009, when George W. Bush was still president and the iPhone 3G was considered...
Trump Has No Endgame for Iran War, His Own Ally Admits
The State Department is telling Americans across ten Middle Eastern countries to get out or be ready to run, and a Trump ally just confirmed to NBC News that...
NYC's Pied-à-Terre Tax Accidentally Alarmed 883,000 People Who Owe Nothing
New York City published a list of more than 900,000 properties potentially subject to its new pied-à-terre tax, neglected to mention that the vast majority of...
WestJet Doesn't Pay Flight Attendants for 35 Hours of Work Per Month
WestJet flight attendants might walk off the job this Sunday during one of Canada's busiest summer travel weekends, and the reason is genuinely enraging once...
OpenAI's AI Escaped Its Cage to Cheat on a Test. Then Anthropic's Did It Too.
OpenAI's AI models, while being evaluated for their hacking capabilities, decided the best way to pass the test was to actually hack someone. Specifically,...
Trump Cuts Lawyers for 26,000 Migrant Kids to Extract Privileged Info
The Trump administration has effectively stripped legal representation from an estimated 26,000 migrant children — kids who crossed the border alone — by...
Snooki Had a Hysterectomy for Cervical Cancer — and Pap Smears Saved Her Life
Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi is recovering from a hysterectomy after being diagnosed with Stage 1 cervical cancer, and she's spending her time in a hospital bed...
Trump Jailed an Olympian for Vandalism. It Was His Own Contractor.
The federal government arrested a 67-year-old Olympic canoeist, charged him with felony destruction of a national treasure, and dragged him through an...
Biggest Ebola Outbreak in History Is Happening Right Now and Nobody's Talking About It
There is an Ebola outbreak killing people at a 44% fatality rate right now, it is the largest in recorded history, and there is no approved vaccine or...
Bryan Johnson Is Storing His Girlfriend's Period Blood at -80°C and Calling It Science
Bryan Johnson, the 48-year-old tech billionaire who has spent years turning his own body into a science fair project, has moved on to his girlfriend. He is...
Doctors Told Her to Eat Less Pizza. It Was Rare Heart Failure.
For years, doctors told Megan Kaverman her heart symptoms were nerves, her weight, and at one memorable low point, too much pizza. She was 27 and already in...
Trump Says Minnesota Did Its Own Cyberattack While Iran Hits 7 States' Water
Iranian hackers are burrowing into water treatment systems across at least seven American states, triggering boil-water notices and forcing manual operations...
Boston's MFA Put a $3.19 Dunkin' Cup in a Museum and It Belongs There
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has placed a disposable Dunkin' cup — listed by curators as 'double-walled paperboard and #5 polypropylene,' retailing for a...
GOP Risks Losing House Majority in Race to Replace Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham has been dead for three weeks and Republicans are already in danger of losing the House majority trying to replace him. The race to fill his...
Border Patrol Took a Reporter's Phones After Laura Loomer Told Them To
A Trump-aligned influencer posted online that a reporter should be "taken off the plane by US Marshalls" when he landed back in the US. Then border patrol...
Trump Appeals Ruling That Called His $10B IRS Lawsuit a Scam
A federal judge ruled that Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS was filed for an 'improper purpose' — specifically, to 'manipulate the judicial...
Brazil Saw the USAID Collapse Coming a Decade Ago. Did Anyone Listen?
While the rest of the world was still processing the collapse of USAID like it was some kind of surprise, Brazilian HIV advocates were at the AIDS 2026...
Venice Beach Psychic Is Selling 'Chats With Mitch McConnell' for $200
A Venice Beach boardwalk psychic shop is currently advertising the chance to hold a 20-minute spirit reading with sitting United States Senator Mitch...
The Flatiron Building Is Now Apartments. The Cheapest One Is $11M.
One of New York City's most beloved landmarks is opening its doors this fall to the only people who can afford to love anything in New York City anymore. The...
DeepSeek Just Made Elite AI Code Dirt Cheap Again
DeepSeek is back, and the American tech industry's hundred-billion-dollar bet on AI dominance just got a little shakier. The Chinese AI lab dropped a new...
Vivek Ramaswamy Is Losing to a Democrat in Trump's Ohio
Vivek Ramaswamy is statistically tied with a Democrat in a state Donald Trump won by 12 points less than two years ago. He spent part of this week at a county...
FDA Must Approve an mRNA Flu Shot Wednesday While RFK Jr. Sits on a Cancer Survivor's Unanswered Letter
A 69-year-old cancer survivor wrote Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a personal letter explaining that an mRNA vaccine had saved his life and asking him to reconsider his...
Israel Has Demolished 15,000 Homes in Lebanon and Is Still Going
Israel's Defense Minister went on record in July bragging that Israeli forces had demolished more than 15,000 homes in southern Lebanese villages to stop...
Zelenskyy Turned MAGA's Most Unhinged Influencer Into a Ukraine Believer
Laura Loomer — the far-right influencer who once cheerled for Russia and has the ear of the President of the United States — sat down with Volodymyr Zelenskyy...
Angel Rampersad Came to America at Age 2. At 28, She Died for It.
A mother in Ozone Park, Queens, watched two men in military uniforms cross the street toward her neighbor's house and knew before the door even closed. Then...
Saudi Arabia Joined US Airstrikes in Iraq and Now the Whole Middle East Is on Fire
Saudi Arabia officially joined the US military in bombing Iraq this week, killing at least 20 fighters, and Iraqi leaders immediately said they had no idea it...
Everyone Hates the Filibuster Until They Need It
The Senate filibuster is either a sacred guardrail of American democracy or an unconscionable obstruction of the people's will, depending entirely on whether...
The New York Post Let AI Pick Your Fantasy Football Team
The New York Post has merged its fantasy football draft rankings with AI analysis, because apparently picking a running back in the third round was already too...
Convicted Fraudster George Santos Caught Running Prediction Market Scam on His Own Attendance
A convicted fraudster walked into a prediction market, bet against himself attending an event he publicly said he would attend, made $17,500, and then — in a...
Avalanche Kills 3 on Broad Peak, Nirmal Purja Still Missing
Three climbers are dead, several more are missing, and one of the most celebrated mountaineers alive has not been heard from in days. An avalanche tore through...
Bessent Left His 'Buy $10B Yen' Shopping List Out at a Press Meeting
The United States Treasury Secretary wrote down his plan to spend up to $10 billion propping up the Japanese yen on a notepad, left it face-up on the...
A Climate Scientist Just Said We've Hit the Wall on Adaptation
A climate scientist told NPR this week that Earth is "passing the limits of adaptation" when it comes to withstanding the effects of climate change. Not...
Cops Release Ransom Notes in Savannah Guthrie's Mom Kidnapping — Six Months Later, Still No Arrest
Six months after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was snatched from her home outside Tucson, Arizona, police still have no suspect, no confirmed location, and no...
DOJ Drops Felony Charge Against Olympian Who Touched a Already-Broken Pool
The Justice Department has moved to dismiss its felony case against a 67-year-old former Olympian who was facing ten years in prison for touching a reflecting...
Marines Drop a $109M F-35 Outside San Diego, Pilot Walks Away
The United States Marine Corps managed to lose a $109 million stealth fighter jet on Friday morning, crashing it near their own air base in San Diego. The...
Trump Walks Back Patriot Missile Promise to Ukraine Three Weeks Later
Three weeks ago, Donald Trump stood at a NATO summit in Ankara and told Volodymyr Zelensky, out loud, in front of people: 'We are gonna give you a licence to...
Red States Found a New Way to Undo Your Vote Before You Cast It
Republicans in Missouri and Kansas kept losing ballot measures on abortion, marijuana, and Medicaid. So they did what any sore loser with a legislative...
Palantir's CTO Says Americans Protesting Data Centers Are the Real China Threat
A top executive at a company that makes billions selling surveillance software to the Pentagon has some thoughts about why you should stop worrying and love...
Trump Says $1.8B Jan. 6 Payout Fund Is Dead, Then Says He Wishes It Weren't
In a single breath on Friday, President Donald Trump told reporters the $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization fund' for January 6 defendants is dead — and then said...
Judge to xAI: Your 'Emergency' Waited 3 Months, Nice Try
Elon Musk's AI company filed an emergency request to stop a Minnesota nudification ban — three months after the law was signed and three days before it took...
Drone Catches a Humpback Whale Being Born for the First Time Ever
Off the coast of New South Wales on Tuesday, a wildlife photographer pointed his drone at a slow-moving humpback whale and accidentally filmed something that...
One-Third of Democrats Now Call Themselves Socialists and the GOP Is Losing Its Mind
A third of the Democratic Party now calls itself democratic socialist, DSA-backed candidates are winning mayoral races and congressional primaries across the...
Maine Dems' Backup Senate Candidate Has Kids With His Second Cousin
Maine Democrats had one job: find a less disastrous Senate candidate than the guy who dropped out over a rape allegation. They picked a man who has two...
Google Just Made Fake Satellite War Images a One-Click Job
Google has added an AI image generator directly into Google Earth, the same tool journalists and investigators have used for years to figure out what's...
Cop Who Shot Sonya Massey After She Said 'I Rebuke You' Denied Early Prison Release
Sean Grayson shot Sonya Massey three times after she said 'I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,' refused to give her medical aid while she bled out on her own...
Your AC Is 'Fixed' and Your House Is Still 90 Degrees. Surprise.
It is the hottest summer on record, your air conditioner just died, a guy showed up and charged you four hundred dollars, and your house is still a sauna....
Andy Burnham Becomes PM and Trump Is Already Ruining It
Andy Burnham has been prime minister for less than two weeks and his net approval rating is already up 17 points. Great start. Shame there's a functionally...
Tony Romo Benched by CBS After OWI Arrest, Open Bottle in Jeep
Tony Romo spent nine years threading footballs through NFL defenses and the last nine years explaining why other people couldn't. Now he's on leave from CBS...
Netflix Lost a Nicolas Cage Movie and Now Owes $105M
Someone at Netflix's office apparently just... left a $45 million unreleased Nicolas Cage spy movie on their desk, and then someone stole it. Now the...
Global Hunger Drops Below 8% for the First Time Since COVID
In a world that sometimes feels like it's held together with duct tape and bad faith, here is a number that deserves more than a passing glance: 7.8%. That's...
Cops Arrested Two Innocent Men in Nancy Guthrie Case, Now Owe $3.25M
It has been six months since 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home, and the Pima County Sheriff's Department has managed to find zero...
Nebraska Just Kicked 200 People Off Medicaid. Millions More Are Next.
On August 1st, Nebraska became the first state in the country to strip Medicaid coverage from residents who failed to comply with the work requirements buried...
NY Sues Kalshi for Running Illegal Gambling Op Without a License
New York Attorney General Letitia James filed suit against Kalshi on Friday, accusing the prediction market startup of running an illegal gambling operation in...
CEOs Are Unpopular and Americans Want Cheaper Stuff, Poll Finds
The American public has done the math on corporate leadership and come back with a hard no. A new poll from Brunswick Group and Echelon Insights, first...
Trump Puts His Own Face in Your Passport Because Of Course He Did
Donald Trump is now literally inside your passport. The State Department announced it will offer "patriot passports" featuring the president's stern portrait...
NYPD Is Now Deploying Drones to Hunt Sharks Off NYC Beaches
Sixteen sharks were spotted off Rockaway Beach in a single five-day stretch this July, and the NYPD's response was exactly what you'd expect from a department...
Michigan Could Hand Democratic Socialists Their Biggest Win Yet
Establishment Democrats spent years insisting the progressive insurgency was a coastal boutique phenomenon that would flame out before it reached anything that...
450,000 Borrowers Scammed by For-Profit Colleges Are Finally Getting $23B Back
Nearly half a million Americans who say predatory colleges lied to their faces are finally getting their student loan debt wiped out, to the tune of $23...
Europe Spent Years Building AI Safety Rules. Trump Threw His Away on Day One.
The European Union and the United Kingdom have spent years carefully building out frameworks for testing and regulating powerful AI models. The United States,...