Trump Wants to Rename New Mexico 'New America' in Post #17 of 34
The President of the United States spent part of his Sunday posting 34 times on Truth Social in under an hour, including a map of New Mexico with the word...
Raúl Castro, 95 and Allegedly Half-Dead, Shows Up in Full Uniform
Everyone spent last week writing Raúl Castro's obituary, and he responded by putting on his dress uniform and sitting in the front row of a military ceremony....
Germany's Far-Right AfD Wins 44% in Regional Vote, Eyes First State Government
Germany's far-right Alternative für Deutschland just won roughly 44% of the vote in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, more than doubling its 2021 result,...
Trump Loses Mail Ballot Fight Again, Runs to SCOTUS Crying
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's mail voting restrictions for the third time in as many tries on Friday, and by Sunday the administration was...
Diesel Hit $5.89 and the Energy Secretary Blamed Democrats
Diesel fuel hit a record $5.89 a gallon this week, gas prices are at their highest ever for a Labor Day weekend, and the war with Iran is still very much on....
Polygraphs for Generals, Depleted Missiles, and a War With No Exit: The Pentagon Is a Mess
The United States military is polygraphing its own combatant commanders over leaked data about weapons stockpiles that are, according to a senior member of the...
GOP Sen. Kennedy: Trump Team Is 'Kissing Putin's Ass' and It's Not Working
A sitting Republican senator went on national television Sunday morning and told the world that the Trump administration is 'kissing Putin's ass' and getting...
The Rage Isn't About Policy Anymore. That's the Whole Problem.
Sixty percent of Australians think immigration is too high, and yet for a massive chunk of One Nation voters, immigration isn't even the point. Let that sit...
69% of Americans Oppose AI Data Centers. Trump Called Them Backwards.
Nearly seven in ten Americans don't want an AI data center built near their home, according to a new NBC News Decision Desk poll. Donald Trump's response to...
'Come From Away' at 25: The 9/11 Musical That Rewrote the Rulebook
Two Canadian writers traveled to a tiny Newfoundland town to interview the people who housed seven thousand stranded airline passengers on the worst day in...
George Santos Bet on Skipping the SOTUS and Lost $97K for It
George Santos, a man who has never once in his life made a good decision, bet on himself to skip the State of the Union address, then skipped the State of the...
Muslim Pitmasters Are Conquering Texas BBQ While GOP Tries to Ban Halal Food
While Texas Republicans were busy floating a ban on halal food, Muslim pitmasters in the same state were winning Michelin awards, drawing hundred-person lines...
Science Says You're Not Lazy, You're Just Doing Procrastination Wrong
Mozart couldn't finish his assignments either, and he turned out fine. A Cambridge University social science lecturer named Itamar Shatz has published a new...
Clorox Sold 6.3 Million 'Cleaner' Bottles Full of Drug-Resistant Bacteria
Clorox is recalling 6.3 million bottles of scented cleaning products sold in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands because they may be growing a bacteria...
First-Class Racist Gets Duct-Taped to His Seat Mid-Flight
A man in first class on an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Newark spent part of his Thursday getting duct-taped to his seat by the flight crew after...
Iran Shot at a US Aircraft Carrier. We Sank Three of Their Oil Tankers.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps fired ballistic missiles at a US aircraft carrier and a guided-missile destroyer in the Persian Gulf on Saturday. Both ships...
GOP Privately Knows Trump Is Killing Them, Publicly Cheers Anyway
The Republican Party has a Trump problem, knows it has a Trump problem, and is absolutely going to do nothing about it. With 59 days until the November...
Trump's Kennedy Center Yanks 24-Foot 'Blue' Sculpture That Dared to Dance
A 24-foot-tall blue metal stick figure that spent years welcoming visitors to the Kennedy Center was hauled away by a work crew this Wednesday, because...
First Santa With Down Syndrome Just Got Inducted Into the Santa Hall of Fame
A 37-year-old community theater actor from suburban Atlanta just became the first professional Santa Claus with Down syndrome in the United States, completed a...
Memphis Lost Power for Days. Its Neighbors Showed Up. The Government Did Not.
A storm that lasted roughly half an hour hit Memphis, Tennessee on August 22nd, knocked out power to more than 100,000 households, and caused $18 million in...
Even Republicans Think Trump's Economy Sucks Now
The most reliable rule in American political polling is that the president's party always thinks the economy is great, because people are deeply tribal and...
ICE Got a Judge to Approve Stomach Surgery on a Man Who Refused to Eat
A federal judge in Texas quietly gave Immigration and Customs Enforcement permission to surgically cut into a detained Cuban man's abdomen and insert a feeding...
Flock Cameras Have United Glenn Beck and Josh Shapiro. Yes, Really.
Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate cameras capture billions of plates every month, let police track your movements over time, and have been used by...
Republican Senator Calls Hegseth 'Most Inept' Defense Chief Ever, Demands Trump Fire Him
Pete Hegseth has not held a formal Pentagon press briefing since May 5th. There is a war on. Fifty thousand American troops are deployed in the Middle East....
Trump Signs Order to Strip Wolf Protections So Ranchers Can Shoot Them
The Mexican wolf was down to four individual animals in the wild in 1998. Twenty-seven years of federal protection later, there are 319. Donald Trump signed an...
Trump's Big Voter Fraud Bust: 5 People, 3 States, 330 Million Americans
After a sweeping multi-state federal investigation, repurposing an agency that used to chase cartels and terrorists, and filing lawsuits against nearly 30...
164 Countries Voted to Fix the World Map. The US Said No.
On Friday, 164 countries voted at the United Nations General Assembly to encourage the world to stop using a 16th-century map that makes Africa look roughly...
Alabama Boy's Birthday Wish: Ring 100 Strangers' Doorbells
An autistic kid in Huntsville, Alabama, asked strangers if he could ring their doorbells for his birthday. More than 100 of them said yes, and then they gave...
Mom Obsessed With Lindsay Clancy Trial Kills Her 2-Year-Old Son Hours Before Mistrial
A 40-year-old Illinois mother was texting friends about the Lindsay Clancy murder trial at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Three and a half hours later, police found...
Phillies Star Sued His Own Parents for Stealing His MLB Millions
Alec Bohm sued his own mom and dad for allegedly stealing millions of dollars he earned playing professional baseball, and now the whole messy thing is over....
McConnell, 84, May Hobble Back to Senate Sept. 14 After Summer Fall
Mitch McConnell fell in June, spent months in a rehabilitation facility, and his staff is now telling fellow Kentucky Republicans that getting the 84-year-old...
China Found a New Tick Virus With 18% Death Rate in Co-Infections
Chinese scientists have discovered a previously unknown tick-borne virus, and it has already shown up in over 10% of patients who came in after tick bites. The...
Lindsay Clancy Mistrial: Jury Deadlocked 3 Times, Three Kids Still Dead
After six weeks of trial, seven days of deliberation, and three separate deadlocks, a Massachusetts jury could not agree on what to do with Lindsay Clancy, the...
Fetterman Skipped Cops' Funeral Because It Was 'Three Hours Long'
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman looked at the schedule for a funeral honoring three police officers killed in his own state, noted the dress code and the...
UN: We'll Blow Past 1.5°C by 2030. Yes, That 1.5°C.
The United Nations has officially confirmed what a lot of scientists have been quietly dreading: the world will blow past the 1.5°C warming limit we promised...
Teen Built a $250 AI Poacher Detector. MIT Followed.
A 17-year-old looked at drone footage of elephants, noticed that humans and elephants move differently, and built an AI system that catches poachers in real...
Nigel Farage's Party Caught on Camera Arranging Illegal Foreign Donations
Nigel Farage's Reform UK had a plan for their annual conference: a triumphant reset after a rough summer, the populist faithful cheering, good vibes all...
Philippine VP Arrested for Threatening to Hire a Hitman on the President
The Vice President of the Philippines has been ordered arrested for threatening, on camera, in a live online press conference, to hire someone to kill the...
US Military Just Figured Out Phones Have Ad Trackers (Iran Already Knew)
The United States military, operator of the most expensive war machine in human history, has only recently gotten around to disabling the same advertising...
Meta's $18B Child Safety Settlement and Why Zuckerberg Must Go
Meta just agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle accusations from dozens of US states that it deliberately hooked children on addictive products. The man...
Diesel Hits $5.85 as Trump's Iran War Drains Americans at the Pump
Americans are paying more for diesel than at any point in recorded history, and the guy responsible is now pitching a Venezuela oil deal as the fix. Diesel...
Putin's Own Pollsters Are Telling Him to End the War
Vladimir Putin controls the Russian government, the Russian media, and the Russian polling apparatus. And even those polls are now telling him he's losing the...
13 Million Jobs Sitting on a Private Equity Time Bomb
Private equity firms are currently sitting on over 13,500 companies they cannot sell, loaded with debt, staffed by millions of workers, and propped up by a...
Nazi-Free Since 1945: Germany May End That Streak Sunday
Germany is about to potentially hand a far-right party control of a state government for the first time since World War II, and the candidate doing it looks...
NJ School Hid Kids' Gender Transitions From Parents, Now Getting Sued
A New Jersey school district quietly built a policy allowing students to change their names and gender identities in official school records, use opposite-sex...
Trump Buried the School Civil Rights Report and Killed the Plain-English Version
The federal government has been collecting civil rights data on American schoolchildren for over fifty years. This week, the Trump administration finally...
Jobs Market Posts Third-Worst Month of Year After Losing 23K Jobs in July
The U.S. economy shed 23,000 jobs in July. Now August is expected to add a grand total of 53,000 — which, in a country of 330 million people, is approximately...
Record 401(k) Millionaires While 72% of Workers Can't Retire
Congratulations to America's 769,000 401(k) millionaires, a new all-time record. Now somebody go tell the 72% of workers who doubt they'll ever be able to...
Trump's 250-Foot Gilded Arch Gets Shovels in the Ground Despite Active Lawsuit
The Trump administration announced Thursday that excavation will begin within two weeks on a 250-foot gilded arch to be planted between the Lincoln Memorial...
Fox Quietly Dumps Maria Bartiromo After 12 Years — No Explanation Given
Fox News Media announced Thursday that it has parted ways with Maria Bartiromo, one of the network's most recognizable faces, effective immediately — and...
Dolly Parton's Star Vandalized Days After Her Death. It's Already Fixed.
Dolly Parton died at 80, and within days, someone crawled out from whatever rock they live under and scratched up her Hollywood Walk of Fame star. The good...
Gloria Steinem, Who Gave the Women's Movement Its Voice, Dies at 92
Gloria Steinem died Wednesday at her home in New York City. She was 92, she was surrounded by people who loved her, and she spent roughly seven decades making...
Indian Tech Workers Now Face a 179-Year Green Card Wait
One hundred and seventy-nine years. That is not the lifespan of a tortoise or the age of a civil war monument. That is, according to a new report by the...
Collins: 'I'm Not Going to Bring Up' That Jackson Had Kids With His Cousin
Susan Collins walked into a Politico interview this week, announced she would absolutely not be bringing up the fact that her Democratic opponent fathered two...