Indonesia's Top Graft Cop Busted With 74kg of Gold and $19M Cash
Indonesia's top anti-corruption prosecutor has resigned after police raided his home and found 74 kilograms of gold bars, $5.8 million in US dollars, and...
Markets Party While U.S.-Iran Ceasefire Burns to the Ground
Donald Trump announced Friday that the U.S.-Iran ceasefire is 'over,' both countries are trading military strikes in the Gulf, and the Strait of Hormuz is once...
Milei Books Far-Right World Tour, Says Whole Point Is Serving U.S. Interests
Argentina's chainsaw-wielding libertarian president just announced a multi-country tour of Latin America with a stated goal so brazen it would embarrass most...
A Million-Pound Steam Train Is Outselling Every News Story Right Now
In a summer where the news has been a relentless fire hose of catastrophe, a 133-foot, 1.2-million-pound steam locomotive is crossing the United States and...
Meta Killed Its Own AI Feature in 48 Hours After Hollywood Lost Its Mind
Meta spent roughly 48 hours pretending it had invented a great new AI image tool before Hollywood reminded them that automatically using people's photos...
El Niño Is Back and Could Be the Strongest Ever Recorded
The Bureau of Meteorology has officially declared El Niño active, and the models are not being subtle about it. Australia's peak forecasting body is now...
Cuba and U.S. Are Talking While Trump's Oil Blockade Starves the Island
Cuba's government has confirmed it is holding secret bilateral talks with the United States, which is a remarkable thing to do with the country that is...
GOP Senator Calls Democrats 'Hammer-and-Sickle' Party With Straight Face
A sitting U.S. senator went on Fox News this week and said, with total sincerity, that a 'hammer-and-sickle wave' is washing over the Democratic Party. The...
Judge: Ex-Overstock CEO's Iran Bribe Story About Hunter Biden Was 'Fabricated'
A federal judge just handed Hunter Biden $1.7 million in punitive damages after finding that the former CEO of Overstock.com essentially made up a story...
EPA Chief Won't Call Climate Deniers 'Deniers,' Has No Alternative
Lee Zeldin, the man currently dismantling the legal framework for every major federal climate regulation in the country, would really appreciate it if you...
Nigel Farage Quits Parliament Over Crypto Bribe, Runs Again Immediately
Nigel Farage resigned his seat in the British Parliament after reports emerged that he's under investigation for accepting a five million pound gift from a...
Trump Tricked Democratic Governors Into Deploying His D.C. Street Army
Democratic governors sent National Guard troops to Washington D.C. for a birthday party and somehow ended up providing armed neighborhood patrols for Donald...
Typhoon Bavi Forces 1.8M to Flee as It Bears Down on a City of 10 Million
A typhoon roughly the size of France is about to make landfall on a Chinese city of 10 million people, and China has already moved 1.8 million residents out of...
Too Scared to Dance? VR Will Now Humiliate You in Private
Wedding season is here, which means millions of Americans are currently staring down the barrel of a reception dance floor with the quiet desperation of a man...
Ann Widdecombe Found Murdered at Home, Suspect Released
Ann Widdecombe, 78-year-old former British MP, prisons minister, Brexit figurehead, and unlikely reality television icon, was found murdered in her rural Devon...
Mitch McConnell Has Been Hospitalized for a Month and Nobody Will Say Why
Mitch McConnell has been in a Washington-area hospital since June 14, emergency dispatch audio captured CPR being performed at his home, and his office's...
The Khaki Nazis Who Flooded D.C. on July 4th Praise Hitler in Private
Hundreds of masked men in matching khakis and blue shirts rode the Washington D.C. Metro on the Fourth of July, surrounded commuters, marched through the...
Russia Pelts Kyiv With 131 Missiles and Drones, Injures Child
Russia sent 131 missiles and drones screaming into Ukrainian airspace overnight Friday, hitting Kyiv hard enough to injure at least 10 people, including a...
Trump Aims 1,000 Missiles at Iran and Says 'PRAISE BE TO ALLAH'
Donald Trump logged onto Truth Social on Friday and typed what might be the single most unhinged foreign policy statement ever posted on a social media...
Spain's Super-Sub Does It Again, Belgium's Backup Goalie Gifts Him the World Cup
Mikel Merino had been on the field for exactly two touches when Belgium's backup goalkeeper handed him the World Cup quarterfinal. He scored. Of course he...
A Poop Parasite Is Tearing Through 31 States and Nobody Knows Why
A microscopic parasite that causes "frequent and sometimes explosive" diarrhea has spread across more than half of all US states, and health officials still...
Man Loses Hand Cleaning Up After Other People's Fireworks
A man doing something genuinely selfless -- picking up strangers' fireworks trash off a Northern California beach -- lost his left hand when one of those...
Trump Just Made It Legal to Bulldoze Endangered Species' Homes
The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday that guts one of the most important protections in American environmental law, narrowing the definition of...
Trump Refused to Sign a Housing Bill, So It Became Law Anyway at Midnight
Donald Trump refused to sign the largest housing affordability bill in decades, called it "a big yawn," and held it hostage over an unrelated voting bill that...
Randolph Mantooth, the TV Medic Who Made America Care About Paramedics, Dies at 80
Before every firefighter-themed drama that's ever made you cry on a Tuesday night, there was 'Emergency!' And before 'Emergency!' meant anything to anyone,...
Tokyo's Robot Cafe Is Staffed by Real Humans Who Can't Leave Home
There is a cafe in Tokyo where robots bring you your food, and before you spiral into a Black Mirror episode, stop. Every single one of those robots is being...
Judge Calls Trump's Jan. 6 Views 'Fiction,' Then Erases Proud Boys Convictions Anyway
A federal judge just wiped out the seditious conspiracy convictions of four Proud Boys leaders, and he did it while explicitly saying that Donald Trump's...
Trump's DHS Fixer Corey Lewandowski May Face Criminal Referral Over Contract Scheme
Corey Lewandowski, former Trump campaign manager and professional chaos agent, walked into the Department of Homeland Security as a "Special Government...
Trump's Own Judge Calls Jan. 6 Case Dismissal Politically Motivated
A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump just dismissed the seditious conspiracy convictions against Proud Boys leaders, and he did it while making absolutely...
Black Teen's Body Found After July 4 Boat Trip With White Friends. Mississippi Says 'No Foul Play.'
An 18-year-old Black college football player went to a Mississippi barrier island for the Fourth of July with three white friends and never came home. His...
Google, Amazon, Microsoft's Emissions Keep Climbing While Their Honesty Doesn't
The same companies that spent years plastering "net zero" and "carbon neutral" all over their press releases are now watching their own environmental reports...
America's Farms Are Falling Apart and Nobody in DC Can Agree on the Fix
Half of America's crop farmworkers are undocumented. More than half of dairy workers are undocumented. The Trump administration is deporting people at a record...
Alberta Is Literally Voting on Whether to Stay in Canada
This October, over four million Albertans will vote on whether their province should explore leaving Canada entirely. Not metaphorically. Not as a protest. An...
LAPD Pulls Plug on Surveillance Vendor That May Have Fed Data to ICE
The Los Angeles Police Department is pulling the plug on its contract with Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based surveillance company that operates part of the LAPD's...
Apple Sues OpenAI for Stealing Its Secrets to Build a Rival Gadget
Apple is accusing OpenAI of running what amounts to a corporate espionage operation, systematically recruiting Apple employees and allegedly walking them right...
All 10 Dead After Flamingo Air Cessna Crashes in Bahamas on Independence Day
On the day the Bahamas was celebrating 53 years of independence, a Flamingo Air Cessna 402 went down in North Andros and killed everyone on board. All 10...
ICE Shot a Man Through His Window. Witnesses Say No Officer Was Ever in Danger.
An ICE officer shot and killed a 52-year-old Mexican homebuilder through the side window of his van in Houston on July 7th. Three men sitting in that van when...
NYC's Fancy Upper East Side Is Breathing Legionnaires' Now
Forty-six people have come down with a serious, potentially fatal pneumonia in one of the wealthiest zip codes in America, and the culprit is invisible mist...
NYC Just Made It Illegal to Trap You in a Subscription Hell
You know the drill. You signed up for something in 2022, forgot about it, and have been quietly hemorrhaging $14.99 a month ever since. New York City just...
Senate Republicans Scared of Their 4th Shutdown in 12 Months
Three government shutdowns in the past year, and Senate Republicans are already in full panic mode about a fourth. It's July. The fiscal year doesn't end until...