DOJ Memo Says States Can Just... Institutionalize Disabled People Again
The Justice Department quietly released a memo this week arguing that states have no legal obligation to provide disabled Americans with the services they need...
Obama Center's 5-Foot Letters Have the Internet Losing Its Mind
The Barack Obama Presidential Center officially opened to the public in Chicago on Friday, and the internet immediately did what the internet does: lost its...
UK Bans Kids From Social Media While Parents Are Right There Doomscrolling Next to Them
Keir Starmer this week announced a sweeping ban on social media for everyone under 16 in the UK, covering Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, X, and...
90% of Gaza's Soccer Infrastructure Is Gone. These NJ Kids Still Play.
Palestinian officials told NPR that 90% of Gaza's sports infrastructure has been destroyed and 450 people connected to soccer, players, coaches, referees, and...
Billionaire Frank Stronach, 93, Guilty of Sexual Assault. His Lawyer Called It 'Very Minor.'
A Canadian billionaire was found guilty of sexually assaulting two women, and his lawyer's response was to call it no big deal. Frank Stronach, 93-year-old...
A Kennedy Who Wrote 7 Vogue Articles Is Running for Congress
New York's 12th congressional district is holding what should be a routine Democratic primary for a safe Manhattan seat, and instead has somehow produced a...
Ceasefire in Lebanon Lasts About Six Hours Before Israel Kills Two Kids
A ceasefire in Lebanon materialized and then evaporated in roughly the same news cycle on Saturday, as Israeli strikes killed at least seven people in southern...
The Iran 'Deal' Has Been Signed Three Times and Nobody Knows What It Says
The United States and Iran have now signed the same peace agreement at least twice, possibly three times, in three different locations, and as of this week the...
Jack Osbourne to UFC Critics: 'I'm Sorry You Weren't Invited'
Jack Osbourne went to a fight at the White House, got some sad tweets about it, and has now recorded a YouTube video telling everyone to shut the hell up. The...
Newsom Promised Tax Returns in 2018. A DOJ Probe Just Found Them.
Gavin Newsom spent eight years calling tax transparency a 'moral duty,' then quietly stopped releasing his own returns for four-plus years, and is now suddenly...
MLB Warned a Pitcher for Writing 'Charlie Kirk' on His Hat, Then Did the Same to Bible Verse Guys
A Major League Baseball pitcher wrote a dead conservative commentator's name on his hat to honor him and got a call from the league telling him to knock it...
The NFL Kid Who Hid His Soccer Ball Just Scored at the World Cup
A 21-year-old kid who used to hide his love of soccer from his NFL legend father just scored a World Cup goal on home soil and helped send the United States...
James Burrows, Who Basically Invented the TV Sitcom, Dead at 85
James Burrows, the man who directed over a thousand episodes of American television comedy and won eleven Emmy Awards doing it, died peacefully on June 19th...
Trump Endorses Both Candidates in Same Race Because Why Not
Donald Trump, a man who once staked his entire political identity on being a winner, has decided that the safest way to stay a winner is to endorse everyone....
DOJ Tells Judge to Trust Them on $1.8B Slush Fund. Under Oath? Nah.
The Trump Justice Department created a $1.8 billion fund, got sued over it, told Congress it was dead, told a judge it was dead, and is now refusing to say any...
Trump Canceled a Senate Hearing. The Senate Cannot Be Canceled.
At just before 4 a.m. on Wednesday, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he was canceling a United States Senate hearing. The Senate, as a co-equal branch...
Maryland's Senate President Blocked Redistricting. Now He's Fighting for His Life in a Primary.
Bill Ferguson has run Maryland's state Senate for years without facing a serious primary challenge. Then he blocked his own party's redistricting push, told...
Marine Vet Turned Trucker Saved a Stranger's Life With a Seatbelt Tourniquet
A truck driver pulled a piece of metal out of his own impaled leg. That's bad. What happened next is the reason James Brown, Marine veteran and fellow trucker,...
Walz Approval Sinks Below Trump's in Minnesota as Fraud Scandal Festers
Tim Walz, lame-duck governor of Minnesota and former Democratic vice-presidential nominee, has managed to become less popular in his own state than Donald...
Top Climate Scientists: Solar Geoengineering Could Trigger 30°C Catastrophe
Four of the world's most credentialed climate scientists just published a warning that solar geoengineering, the increasingly fashionable idea of blasting...
Maine's Ranked Choice Votes Are In, and Democracy Actually Worked
Maine counted all its ranked-choice votes overnight and somehow produced a coherent result by Friday morning, which in 2026 feels like a minor miracle worth...
Iran Pauses Nuke Talks After Israel Kills 18 in Lebanon
The ink on the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding was barely dry before Israel killed at least 18 Lebanese civilians in overnight airstrikes, prompting Iran...
Trump Says He Has 'No Limits' to His Power and Compares Himself to History's Dictators
Donald Trump sat down with Axios and announced, with apparent sincerity, that he has discovered 'no limits' to his presidential power since going to war with...
NY Post Says Giants Players Defying Pride Night Were the Real Victims, Actually
The New York Post's opinion section has looked at the story of San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verses on their hats to protest wearing Pride Night...
Judge: ICE Jailed Mosque Leader for His Politics, Not a Crime
A federal judge has ordered the release of the president of Wisconsin's largest mosque, finding that immigration officials almost certainly arrested him not...
Carlos Mencia Arrested for Hiding $8.7M After 78 Tax Warnings
Carlos Mencia, the comedian who built a career allegedly stealing other people's jokes, has now been charged with allegedly stealing something else entirely:...
Hegseth Killed Mandatory Flu Shots. 159 Recruits Got Flu.
Pete Hegseth ended mandatory flu vaccinations for US troops in April, wrapping it in the language of bodily autonomy and warrior freedom. It is now June, and...
Dem Caucus Dumps Big Money Into Saving a Rep Who's Already Losing
When the political arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus starts quietly dumping serious money into your primary race, that's not a sign of strength. That's...
NYC Loses Its Mind for First Knicks Title in 53 Years
A 19-year-old woke up at 4 in the morning and caught a 5am train from Connecticut just to stand on a Manhattan sidewalk and cry happy tears about a basketball...
Trump Compares Algae in a Reflecting Pool to Defeating Iran
The United States Department of the Interior would like you to know that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is crystal clear, that the algae is dead, and...
Man Arrested for Throwing Toddler Into Crocodile Pit at UK Zoo
A 30-year-old man is under arrest for attempted murder after a 3-year-old boy ended up inside the crocodile enclosure at a zoo in eastern England. The toddler...
Obama Opens His Presidential Center and the Contrast With Trump Is Physically Painful
On Thursday, Barack Obama opened a 19.3-acre presidential center in Chicago with Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Jennifer Hudson, Bono, John...
Fed Governor Racked Up $1.3M in Bills Just for Surviving Trump
Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor Donald Trump tried to fire last year, racked up more than $1.3 million in legal and security costs just defending her...
Man Stabbed in the Stomach at NYC Residence for the Blind, No Arrests
A 37-year-old man is fighting for his life after someone stabbed him in the stomach inside a Chelsea building that houses a residence for the blind and...
NJ Rep Vanishes for 100+ Days, Reappears Just in Time to Ask for Votes
A sitting member of Congress disappeared for more than 100 days, told his constituents essentially nothing about why, and is now planning to waltz back into...
DC Just Elected a Democratic Socialist Mayor to Spite Trump
Donald Trump personally threatened to expand federal control over Washington DC if Janeese Lewis George won the Democratic primary. She won the Democratic...
Worker Found Dead Inside Broncos' $175M Training Facility Days Before Opening
A construction worker is dead after being found unresponsive inside the Denver Broncos' gleaming new $175 million training facility, just days before the team...
Trump's Iran 'Victory' Gets Everything He Said Was Unacceptable
Donald Trump launched an illegal war against Iran demanding unconditional surrender, the total eradication of its ballistic missile program, regime change, and...
The Invisible Man Running the Pentagon Is a Private Equity Billionaire
Pete Hegseth is out there doing push-ups with soldiers and screaming at journalists, and somehow he's not the most powerful person at the Department of...
Pentagon May Classify Its Own Report on Killing 170 Kids in Iran
The U.S. military probably killed more than 170 people, most of them children, when it struck an elementary school in Iran on the first day of the war. Nearly...
Feds Dangle 1% Interest Cut to Lure Borrowers Back to Auto Pay
Auto pay enrollment on federal student loans cratered from 83% of borrowers down to 40% during the COVID repayment pause, and the government has apparently...
U.S. Officially Enters Iran Deal Expecting Iran to Cheat
The Trump administration signed a framework deal with Iran on Wednesday and, in the same breath, told reporters they fully expect Iran to violate it. That's...
Your $400 Skincare Routine Is a Scam. You Need 3 Things.
You have seventeen products on your bathroom counter and dermatologists want you to know that approximately fourteen of them are doing absolutely nothing....
Trump Just Promised Iran $300 Billion and Full Sanctions Relief at a Versailles Gala
While you were going about your Wednesday, Donald Trump was at a gala dinner at the Palace of Versailles signing a preliminary agreement with Iran that...
Netanyahu Tells Trump's Iran Deal to Go to Hell, Keeps Troops in Lebanon
Benjamin Netanyahu looked at the peace deal Donald Trump just signed with Iran, the one that explicitly requires Israel to respect Lebanese sovereignty and end...
Trump's Fed Pick Warsh Kills Rate-Cut Signal as Inflation Hits 4.2%
Donald Trump spent two years harassing Jerome Powell into cutting interest rates, got his handpicked replacement installed at the Federal Reserve, and is now...
1,500 Ships Trapped, Israel Ignored: The Iran Deal Nobody Fully Agrees To
JD Vance is flying to Switzerland on Friday to sign a tentative deal to end the U.S. war with Iran, which is great news, except that the details are unclear,...
1 in 3 Teens Have Had AI Nude Fakes Made of Them, and Half Admit Making Them
One third of American teenagers say a sexualized AI-generated image of them has been shared without their consent. More than half admit they have created one...
Sewer Socialism Is Back and It's Running Your City
Forget the red-scare rhetoric your civics teacher recycled from the 1950s. A century-old political movement built on boring, functional, life-improving...
Swalwell's Seat Up for Grabs After He Quit Over Sex Misconduct Accusations
Eric Swalwell resigned from Congress in April after multiple accusations of sexual misconduct, and now Bay Area voters are sorting out who gets to clean up...
JD Vance Flying to Switzerland to Sign Iran Deal Nobody's Read Yet
The Vice President of the United States is boarding a plane to Switzerland to put his signature on an agreement with Iran, and the American public has almost...
Jan. 6 Cop-Beaters Are Now Suing the Government for $2.5M Each
A man caught on video shoving cops and screaming at rioters to 'hold the fucking line' is now asking the federal government for at least a million dollars. So...
Federal Prisons Granted Less Than 1% of Medical Grievances in 2023
A federal prison doctor found the fibroid on Terri McGuire Mollica's uterus in 2016. It was small, treatable, removable with a routine procedure. Ten years...
Trump's Hand-Picked Fed Chair Walks Into Inflation Hell on Day One
Kevin Warsh got the job he wanted. He just didn't get the economy that goes with it. Trump's hand-picked Federal Reserve chairman chairs his first interest...