Lindsey Graham Dies, Takes Trump's Voter ID Bill With Him
Lindsey Graham wasn't just a cheerleader for Trump's voter ID legislation. He was the Senate Budget Committee chair, the one person holding together the...
ICE Killed the Wrong Man in Maine. His Daughter Watched in Bluey PJs.
ICE agents shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine on Monday morning while his toddler daughter, still in her Bluey pajamas, watched....
U.S. Just Unleashed Robot Boats on Iran's Navy for the First Time
The U.S. military sent a small fleet of autonomous robot boats into an Iranian naval base and blew things up, and somehow that sentence is not from a Tom...
Maine Dems Have 11 Days to Replace Their Rape-Accused Senate Candidate
Maine Democrats had their guy. He won the primary handily, he was galvanizing voters who'd given up on politics entirely, and he had a real shot at unseating...
Supreme Court Just Let Trump Fire Anyone Who Disagrees With Him
Rebecca Slaughter found out she'd been fired from the Federal Trade Commission while helping run lines for her kid's elementary school production of Beauty and...
Trump Says the U.S. Will Now Collect Tolls in the Strait of Hormuz
Donald Trump has announced that the United States will impose a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz and begin collecting tolls from ships passing through one of...
Trump's Personal Lawyer Is Now Acting AG. Senators Must Stop Him.
The man who personally defended Donald Trump against federal criminal charges is now acting as the nation's top law enforcement officer, and he wants to make...
Lindsey Graham Called Trump a 'Jackass.' Then Became His War Whisperer.
In 2015, Lindsey Graham called Donald Trump a jackass, Trump retaliated by reading Graham's personal cell number aloud at a campaign rally, and somehow,...
Iran Promised Qatar It Was Safe. Then It Shot a Missile at Qatar.
Iran looked Qatar in the eyes, made a promise, shook hands on it, and then fired a missile at Qatar. That's the situation right now in the Persian Gulf, where...
4,490 Dead, 50,000 Missing, and Venezuela Is Begging Britain for Its Gold Back
Six weeks ago, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake and its slightly smaller twin turned large sections of Caracas and the coastal state of La Guaira into rubble. The...
France's Most Beloved Forest Is on Fire on Bastille Day
France's Fontainebleau Forest, a beloved national treasure that has drawn painters, hikers, and picnickers for centuries, is currently on fire. The blaze...
Germany's Government Wants to Kill Its Own Transparency Law
The German government quietly tucked a plan to effectively destroy its own Freedom of Information Act inside a 34-point reform package approved just before...
North Korea Is Slowly Eating the DMZ and Nobody's Stopping It
North Korea is building fences, digging trenches, and laying fresh minefields less than 100 meters from the line that's supposed to keep the Korean Peninsula...
Africa's Richest Man Is Building a $17B Refinery on a UNESCO Island
Africa's richest man just confirmed he wants to build a $17 billion oil refinery on a UNESCO World Heritage island off the Kenyan coast, and somehow that...
Iran Killed an Indian Sailor. India Was Mid-Speech About Peace.
India's foreign minister was at the United Nations on Monday, formally launching a campaign called SHANTI, which means peace, when Iran's Revolutionary Guard...
US Bombs Iran for Third Night Running While the Strait of Hormuz Is Now Literally on Fire
The United States military bombed Iran for the third consecutive night, hitting targets across the country's entire southern coastline while Iranian missiles...
Trump Is Now Charging Tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, Apparently
The United States bombed Iran overnight, Iran responded by setting two tankers on fire and lobbing missiles at Bahrain and Jordan, and Donald Trump announced...
Europe's 'We Don't Need You, Donald' Parade Just Happened in Paris
On Tuesday, 6,800 troops from across Europe marched down the Champs-Elysees in Paris while Ukrainian soldiers marched alongside them and Ukrainian-trained...
Sudan's Army Is Dropping Barrel Bombs on Civilians Again
The Sudanese army is accused of using Antonov aircraft to drop barrel bombs on civilian neighborhoods in the Jabra area of North Kordofan State, killing and...
80% of Buildings Gone, Venezuela Says Economy Is Up 9%
Eighty percent of the buildings in La Guaira, Venezuela just collapsed in a double earthquake. Multiple states suffered significant structural damage. And...
Indonesia Caned an Unmarried Couple 21 Times Each for a TikTok Kiss
On July 2nd, in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, an unmarried 22-year-old man and 25-year-old woman were publicly caned 21 times each on their...
China Purges Its Third Politburo Member in One Term for 'Rampant Corruption'
China just kicked its third Politburo member out of the party in a single term, something that hasn't happened in decades, after investigators concluded that...
Mexico's President Is Protecting an Indicted Drug Corruption Governor — And Everyone Knows Why
Mexico's president has a Sinaloa governor indicted on federal drug corruption charges sitting in her own political party, and her answer to the United States'...
Judge Says Trump's $10B IRS Lawsuit Was a Scam to Buy Himself Immunity
A federal judge has officially called out Donald Trump for using the court system as a personal vending machine, ruling that his $10 billion lawsuit against...
Feds Spent 6 Months Hiding Footage of Their Own Agents Killing Protesters
The federal government spent more than six months refusing to hand over body camera footage and other evidence from its own agents' fatal shootings of two...
329 Charges: Sydney Daycare Worker Abused 136 Kids Over 16 Years
A Sydney childcare worker named Hamish Tait now faces 329 criminal charges after Australian Federal Police allege he abused 136 children across 62 early...
Australia's 'Affordable' Rentals Are Rejecting People for Being Too Poor
Australia is spending ten billion dollars to build affordable housing that, in at least some cases, rejects applicants for not earning enough money to afford...
VW CEO Tells 100,000 Workers They Might Be Toast
Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume sent a memo to staff this week confirming the company may cut up to 100,000 jobs worldwide — double the 50,000 figure the...
German Court Sentences ISIS Man to Life for Enslaving Yazidi Girls, Age 5 and 12
A German court has sentenced an Iraqi man to life in prison after convicting him of buying a five-year-old girl at a slave bazaar in Mosul, then repeatedly...
Putin Jails Anti-War Rival for a 10-Second Navalny Clip
The Russian government, apparently threatened by a man whose face appeared in a video for ten seconds, has arrested Boris Nadezhdin, the anti-war politician...
Peking Uni Grad Became the Sinaloa Cartel's Fentanyl King
He graduated from China's most prestigious university with a Spanish degree, moved to Mexico to work in mining, and then allegedly became the single most...
Ann Widdecombe Murder Now a Terrorism Investigation
A 28-year-old man from Rotherham has been re-arrested on terrorism charges in connection with the death of Ann Widdecombe, the former Conservative minister and...
Indonesia's 'Banned' Open Dump Burned for 10 Days Anyway
A landfill that Indonesian regulators had already ordered closed for illegal open dumping caught fire on June 30, burned for ten straight days, sent 200...
Lindsey Graham's Sister Gets His Senate Seat, Because Why Not
Lindsey Graham died Saturday. By Monday, his governor had a replacement lined up. By Wednesday, she'll be sworn in. The replacement is Graham's own sister,...
500 AI Fake Women Are Lying to Millions About Singapore on TikTok
They have perfect hair, flawless makeup, and absolutely nothing to say that is true. A CNA investigation has uncovered a coordinated network of AI-generated...
27 Dead After Bangkok Bar Fire Trapped Victims in Locked Bathrooms
A live music bar in Bangkok caught fire just before midnight on Sunday, and by the time it was over, at least 27 people were dead, most of them found piled...
China Fired a Sub-Launched Nuke Missile Into the Pacific and Called It Routine
On July 6th, China launched a long-range ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine, watched it travel 7,300 kilometers across the Pacific, and then...
EU Bans Sudan's Blood Gold But Won't Touch the UAE Bankrolling the Genocide
The European Union just banned the import of Sudanese gold to choke off funding for a militia the UN says is committing genocide. Then, in the same breath,...
EU's Deforestation Law Finally Lands After Years of Delays That Killed 50M Trees
The European Union has finally, actually, for real this time, locked in the rules for its landmark deforestation regulation — a law that has been delayed,...
EU Moves to Ban $275M in Settler Goods While Israel Kills Kids
While Israeli settlers and soldiers killed 16 Palestinian children in 2026 alone, the European Union was busy having a very serious meeting about meetings. On...
40 Cities Just Told Big Tech: Our Water Isn't Your Server Coolant
Forty cities around the world have decided they are done letting the data center industry treat their power grids and water supplies like an all-you-can-eat...
Africa's Space Tech Boom Is Happening in Abidjan and You Missed It
While the world's attention stays locked on billionaires launching themselves into orbit for sport, something considerably more useful just happened in...
De Beers Is Shutting Its Biggest Mine for 2 Years Because Lab Diamonds Are Winning
The world's most famous diamond company is hitting pause on South Africa's largest diamond mine for two years, and the reason is both simple and historically...
Kenya's Politicians Are Hiring Protest Thugs for $4 a Day
Four dollars. That is the going rate to hire an armed man to attack a protest, break up a civil society meeting, or intimidate a political opponent in Kenya...
China Is Now Making 30% of the World's New Drugs — With AI
China's pharmaceutical industry just closed $110 billion in cross-border drug deals in the first six months of 2026 alone. That's 80 percent of what the entire...
Xi Jinping Shows Up to China's Big AI Conference for the First Time Ever
For eight years, Xi Jinping sent letters. Nice letters. Congratulatory letters. The kind you send when something matters but not enough to actually show up....
China Alarmed as Japan Fires Anti-Ship Missiles for First Time Since WWII
Japan just fired an anti-ship missile outside its own territory for the first time since World War II, and China's top maritime analysts are openly freaking...
Congo's Ebola Workers Haven't Been Paid in Months. Now They've Walked Out.
The people burying Ebola victims in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have not been paid in two months. So they stopped. The gravediggers walked off the...
FIFA's World Cup: Trump Meddling, Blocked Refs, $7,380 Tickets
The 2026 FIFA World Cup, already a monument to corporate greed and political spinelessness, has somehow managed to outdo itself. Donald Trump personally...
Rubio Declares War on International Law So Israel Can Keep Killing
The United States government announced Monday that it intends to 'systematically disable' an international war crimes tribunal, and the Secretary of State went...
War With Iran Is Now a Line Item in Your Gas Bill
The United States and Iran are both claiming control of the Strait of Hormuz, which is the kind of sentence that used to appear only in Tom Clancy novels and...
Saudi Arabia Bombed Yemen's Airport to Stop an Iranian Funeral Flight
Saudi Arabia bombed an international airport on Monday because it did not want a plane full of Houthi officials landing there after they attended a funeral....
Trump Now Charging Tolls on the Strait He Just Said Would Be Free
Three weeks ago, Marco Rubio stood in Bahrain and told the entire world there would be zero tolls on the Strait of Hormuz, that the president had made it...
Who Really Owns the Machine That Writes Your Essay?
So, a philosophy professor I heard about recently ran a plagiarism check on a student paper and found something odd. The essay was clean, with no matching...
Perth Dad Dies in Bali Immigration Detention, Family Has No Answers
A 39-year-old Perth man who had spent fifteen years building a life in Bali, running a business, raising a son, and trying to sort out his visa paperwork, is...
Scientists Want to Nuke an Asteroid (But Way Smarter Than the Movies)
A Chinese aerospace research team has published a study suggesting that humanity's last line of defense against a killer asteroid might actually be nuclear...
AI Can Now Hear Earthquakes (and Nukes) That We Were Missing
Turns out we've been missing earthquakes. And possibly underground nuclear tests. For decades. A new AI model trained on 30 years of seismic data from...
ESPN's New AI Snitch Will Watch Poker Players Blink
The World Series of Poker is back on ESPN for the first time since 2021, and it brought a robot chaperon that watches your eyelids. An AI system built to...
Ukraine's Most Cursed Brigade Just Lost Its Second Commander to Criminal Charges
The commander of Ukraine's 155th Brigade allegedly led his own soldiers to kidnap two civilian brothers, murder them, and dump the bodies in Poltava Oblast....
Ukraine Blows Up the Refinery Fueling Putin's Air Force
Ukraine just hit the refinery that literally fuels the Russian Air Force. The Syzran Oil Refinery in Samara Oblast went up in spectacular flames overnight on...