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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
NY Bill Would Kill Copays, Deductibles, and Out-of-Network Bills Forever
A doctor in upstate New York racked up $6,000 in medical bills during a high-risk pregnancy, despite having what she herself describes as "good insurance." Her...
103 Democrats Voted to Cut Israel Aid. Jeffries' Own Whip Was One of Them.
Hakeem Jeffries wrote his caucus a letter. He personally lobbied against the amendment. Then his own second-in-command voted the other way anyway. Wednesday's...
Billionaires Are Begging Dave Portnoy to Run for NYC Mayor
Dave Portnoy, the pizza-rating, beef-starting, staff-abusing founder of Barstool Sports, is reportedly being courted by a parade of billionaires who want to...
Trump's Own AG Pick Can't Get Two Republicans to Back Him
Donald Trump's pick for Attorney General walked into his Senate confirmation hearing as his former personal defense lawyer, accidentally called the President...
Republicans Want to Backdoor Voter ID Into the Budget. Again.
Lindsey Graham died, and before he did, he apparently told Donald Trump that the SAVE America Act was all set. Nobody knows what that means. But Senate...
DNC Made Leaders Sign NDAs Before Talking About How Broke It Is
The Democratic National Committee, a political party that would very much like you to donate money to help them fight for democracy, made its own senior...
Trump Is Using Sanctions to Make It Illegal to Help War Crime Victims
The Trump administration has found a creative new use for economic sanctions: making it legally dangerous for American citizens to help document war crimes....
NYC Council Votes Itself 18% Raise Days After Passing $126B Budget
The New York City Council just approved a $126 billion budget, looked at all that money, and apparently thought: yes, but what about us? Days later, council...
Inflation's Still Burning and the AI Boom Is Making It Worse
The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases June inflation data Tuesday morning, and the headline number might look better than last month's ugly reading of 4.2%....
ICE Shoots Man Dead in Maine, Dems Race to Replace Disgraced Candidate
ICE agents shot and killed a man in Biddeford, Maine on Monday, and by evening, hundreds of protesters were in the streets and every serious Democrat running...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Manhattan Gained More New Residents Than Anywhere in America and Still Lost $922M
Manhattan pulled off a genuinely impressive feat between 2022 and 2023: it attracted more new tax filers than any other county in the entire country, and...
Dr. Oz Says Blue States Turned Medicaid Fraud Into a 'Feature.' Sure, Mehmet.
The guy who sold miracle weight loss supplements on daytime television for fifteen years would like you to know that blue state governors are running a...
ICE Killed the Wrong Man. No Body Cams. Brother Still Detained.
ICE agents in Houston shot and killed a man on his way to work Tuesday morning, and the Department of Homeland Security has since confirmed he was not the...
Taliban Bans Smartphones After Protest Video Goes Viral
The Taliban have banned smartphones for government employees, judges, police, and military personnel across Afghanistan, after video of their own forces...