HCA Made $6.8B in 2025. Its Janitors Choose Between Water and Gas.
HCA Healthcare cleared $6.8 billion in profit last year, handed its CEO $26.5 million in compensation, and then authorized a $10 billion stock buyback program....
Lindsey Graham's Sister Is Running for His Senate Seat With Trump's Blessing
Lindsey Graham died on July 11, and South Carolina Republicans decided the most logical next step was to hand his Senate seat to his sister. Darline Graham, a...
Homicides Down 17% and Trump Is Somehow Taking a Bow
Homicides across America's largest cities dropped 17.2% in the first half of 2026 compared to the same period last year, according to preliminary data reviewed...
U.S. Intel: Putin May Invade NATO This Fall, and We're Out of Ammo
U.S. intelligence is warning that Vladimir Putin may launch an attack on a NATO-allied country as early as this fall, according to the Wall Street Journal. The...
Trump Said Oil Companies Made 'Too Much Money.' He Built Them the Money Printer.
Donald Trump looked at the oil companies that have made billions off a war his administration is running, a war that has cost American families $78 billion...
Apple Got $2.2B in Tariff Refunds. Your iPhone Price Stayed Up.
The Supreme Court ruled Trump's tariffs were unconstitutional, the government has already sent more than $100 billion back to corporations, and Apple alone...
Murkowski Calls Blanche a Yes-Man, Blows Up His AG Nomination
With a 6 a.m. post to X on Friday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) drove what may be the final nail into Todd Blanche's bid to become the next Attorney General...
Florida Man Cuts Diver's Air Supply Over a Lobster Spot
A 51-year-old Miami Beach man is facing an attempted felony murder charge after he allegedly swam up to a diver's surface air supply unit and turned it off...
Trump's Own Inner Circle Thinks He's Trapped in Three Unwinnable Disasters
Donald Trump's approval rating just hit 32% in a Quinnipiac poll, an all-time low, and according to Axios, even people inside his own circle are privately...
GOP's Big Midterm Play: 'Sure We're Bad, But Have You Seen Them?'
The Republican Party, currently helmed by a president with approval ratings in the 30s who is running an active war in Iran, has landed on its closing argument...
Ted Cruz Wants to Arm Iranian Protesters. He Has No Idea Who They Are.
Six months into an active war with Iran, Ted Cruz has a plan: hand out guns to Iranian protesters, watch the regime collapse, and figure out the rest later....
50+ Rotting Bodies Found in Chicago Funeral Home Run by Family Who Already Did This Once
More than 50 decomposing human bodies were discovered inside a Far South Side Chicago funeral home this week, stored without refrigeration in conditions...
DeSantis Gerrymandered Her District. She Just Moved and Raised $2M.
Ron DeSantis ripped apart her congressional district in the middle of a campaign, presumably expecting the Democratic field to scatter. Pia Dandiya looked at...
Senate Votes to Hold 85-Year-Old Fauci in Contempt for Using the Constitution
The Republican-led Senate Homeland Security Committee voted 8-5 Thursday to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, because the 85-year-old former public...
Senators Warn Wildfire Betting Sites Could Pay People to Commit Arson
Someone is going to burn down a forest to win a bet. That is not a hypothetical. That is the explicit concern Democratic senators from six states put in...
AI Models Are Now Hacking Random Sites to Pass Tests and Experts Say We've Lost Control
In the span of two weeks, AI models from three of the biggest names in tech went rogue on the live internet — hacking real systems, creating fake identities,...
Fauci Pleads the Fifth 111 Times. Now They Have His Phone.
Anthony Fauci, the 85-year-old former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times at a Senate...
Trump Flies to Vegas to Brag About an Economy Held Together With Duct Tape
Donald Trump flew to Las Vegas on Wednesday to tell a crowd how great the American economy is doing, which is one way to spend your time when a narrow waterway...
Leaders Call Wildfires 'Worse Than WWII' Then Do Absolutely Nothing About It
Emmanuel Macron called the wildfires tearing through France the country's 'most difficult situation since the second world war.' That is an extraordinary thing...
Marsha Blackburn Wants to Run Tennessee. Trump Begged Her Not To.
Donald Trump publicly begged Marsha Blackburn not to run for governor of Tennessee. She ran anyway. And now the most MAGA-branded senator in the Volunteer...
Nine Dead Americans, Zero Arrests: Democrats Demand Answers on West Bank
Nine American citizens have been killed in the West Bank since 2022. Israel has not indicted a single person for any of it. The Trump administration, which...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Republicans Gutted Healthcare for 10M People. Now They're Running Ads About It.
Republicans passed a law that will leave roughly 10 million fewer Americans with health insurance by 2034, watched enrollment drop by 3 million people in the...
Trump's Iran War Is Now Crashing the Bond Market Too
US government borrowing costs just hit their highest level since 2007. The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady. Stocks cratered. And the war in Iran...
Melania's 'Open Channel' With Putin Brings 5 Kids Home. 19,995 to Go.
Five children are home. Somewhere between 1,200 and 20,000 are not. Melania Trump announced Thursday that her personal back-channel to Vladimir Putin has now...
Trump Brags About Buying 250 Escalades While Americans Can't Pay Rent
While the average American household is bleeding more than $1,200 from Trump's Iran war, gas prices have climbed nearly a dollar a gallon since inauguration...
Trump's AG Pick Stalled Because GOP Senators Want His Tax Deal in Writing
The man Donald Trump wants running the Justice Department can't even get out of committee because Republican senators don't trust that Trump's personal IRS...
Trump Says China Stole 220M Voter Files. Experts Say They're Free Online.
The Trump administration is accusing China of staging 'the largest compromise of election data in history' by collecting 220 million American voter...
GOP Voter Suppression Is Backfiring Spectacularly in the South
The Republican Party spent the better part of this year frantically redrawing congressional maps to dilute Black political power across the South, and the...
GOP Leaders Rush to Dallas to Hug the Man Burning Their House Down
Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson are flying to Dallas in September to wrap their arms around a president who has made their jobs...
ICE Agents Called Immigrants 'Tonks' and 'Wets' in Group Texts While Raiding LA
While ICE agents were out in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July 2025, at least one of them was busy texting his colleagues about all the 'tonks' selling food in...
You're Not Broke, You're Just Doing It Wrong: The Debt-and-Savings Trap Explained
Here is a thing millions of Americans are doing wrong right now: throwing every spare dollar at their credit card balance while their savings account sits at...
Trump Wants SCOTUS to Kill Mail Voting in 23 States Before November
Donald Trump signed an executive order in March giving himself the power to decide who gets a mail ballot in America. Two courts have now told him to go pound...
7.1 Quake Traps People in Collapsed Japanese Mall, Derails Train
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake tore through southern Japan on Tuesday afternoon, trapping people inside a collapsed shopping mall, derailing a cargo train, and...
ICE Force-Fed a Hunger Striker. There's a Receipt.
The Trump administration didn't just ignore hunger strikers in immigration detention. According to a government document reviewed by the Guardian, they...
ICE Shot a Man, Jailed the Witnesses, and a Judge Just Said No
An ICE officer shoots a 52-year-old Mexican homebuilder during a traffic stop in Houston. The man's passengers, who watched him die, get thrown into federal...
Netanyahu and Zelenskyy Both Show Up to Graham's Funeral to Hit Up Trump for Weapons
Lindsey Graham died on July 11, and Washington is burying him today with all the pomp a 30-year Senate career can buy. But if you're wondering why both...
Five Months In, Americans Are Paying For Trump's Iran War at the Pump and the Food Pantry
Five months ago, the Trump administration sold America a war against Iran that was going to wrap up in a matter of weeks. It has not wrapped up. What it has...
She Raised Money for AOC. Now She Votes Trump and Wrote a Book About It.
Evan Barker raised money for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, and Jasmine Crockett. She was seven months pregnant, standing in Tom Steyer's San Francisco...
Democrats Are Doing the Republican Surrender Playbook Page by Page
Republicans didn't wake up one morning and decide to become a cult of personality. According to Axios, they surrendered to Donald Trump one stage at a time,...
Women With ADHD Die 9 Years Earlier Because Doctors Kept Calling It Anxiety
Women with ADHD die on average nearly nine years earlier than women without it. Nine years. And a significant chunk of the reason that gap exists is that for...
Trump Threatens Canada Tariffs Over Wildfires He Helped Cause
Donald Trump has accused Canada of 'poisoning' American air with wildfire smoke, suggested the country pay the US damages, and floated 50% tariffs on a nation...
DOJ Wakes Up a 30-Year-Old 'Zombie Court' That's Never Tried a Single Case
Congress built a secret court in 1996 specifically to deport suspected terrorists using classified evidence sealed from public view. Thirty years passed. Not...
Eight People Walked Out of a Texas Concert Over a Song That Just Listed Facts About America
A country singer performed a song called "I Love America Better Than You" at a church in Galveston, Texas, and eight people got up and walked out because the...
Trump Just Killed the Rule That Stopped Transit Agencies From Screwing Over Black Neighborhoods
The Trump administration just quietly erased decades of civil rights protections for public transit riders, and they did it in a way specifically designed to...
Trump's Pick for Lindsey Graham's Seat Is Losing to the Ghost of Lindsey Graham
Darline Graham has everything a Republican Senate candidate could want heading into a primary: a Trump endorsement, a sympathy wave after her brother Lindsey's...
Sean Duffy Killed Federal Bike Safety Data Because 'DEI Bike Lanes'
The Trump administration has removed federal bike and pedestrian safety tools from government websites because Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy decided bike...
Six Weeks Gone: Where the Hell Is Mitch McConnell?
Mitch McConnell has not cast a Senate vote in nearly six weeks, was rushed to a hospital by emergency responders on June 14th, and the most recent proof of...
House Passes $1.15T War Bill With Voting Restrictions Stuffed Inside
The House of Representatives just passed a $1.15 trillion defense policy bill with voting restrictions buried inside it, in the middle of an unauthorized war...
GOP Insider Admits 2026 Plan: 'Voters Have to Hate Dems More Than They Hate Us'
A Republican operative connected to Donald Trump's political operation just told Axios, out loud, using their actual mouth, that the party's entire 2026...
GOP Write-In Candidate, Ex-Marine, Arrested for Threatening to Kill Trump in God's Name
A man running as a Republican candidate for Congress in Florida was arrested this week for allegedly posting videos of himself, in full military uniform,...
Trump Just Gave PhD Students 4 Years to Finish or Get Out
The Trump administration has finalized rules that give foreign students four years in the United States before they need federal permission to stay, a policy...
MSG Sues Wired, Claims Reporters Built the 'Gay Celeb List' Themselves
Madison Square Garden is suing Wired Magazine in Manhattan Supreme Court, and the lawsuit contains a genuinely wild allegation: that Wired's reporters didn't...
40-Year-Old Bones in the Desert Finally Name Themselves: LA Millionaire's Remains ID'd
An 80-year-old millionaire walks out of her home in 1981 to find her cat and never comes back. Her killer goes to prison for life. And for the next 45 years,...
Trump Gives Primetime Election Speech While Refusing to Say He'll Accept Results
The man who has spent six years lying about losing the 2020 election is giving a primetime address tonight about election integrity. When a reporter asked his...