Sen. Lindsey Graham, 71, Dead After Returning from Kyiv
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham is dead at 71, his office announced July 12, just two days after he sat down with Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv to talk Ukraine's air...
Trump's 'Dead Man's Switch' on Iran Is Fake. JD Vance Holds the Button.
Donald Trump took to his social media platform Saturday to announce that 1,000 missiles are "Locked and Loaded" and pointed at Iran, ready to fire...
US Bombs Iran Again After Ship Attack, Iran Hits Four Gulf Nations Back
The United States bombed 140 targets inside Iran on Sunday morning after Iran set a container ship ablaze and forced its crew to abandon it in the Strait of...
EU Spent €50bn Extra on Fossil Fuels During Crisis. Its Fix: Blank Target by 2040
The European Commission has a bold new plan to end Europe's crippling dependence on imported fossil fuels. The centerpiece of that plan is a binding...
Germany's EV Subsidy Panic: Less Than 15% Went to Chinese Cars
German politicians are so alarmed that Chinese electric vehicles might benefit from a new €3bn subsidy scheme that they want to rewrite the rules to block them...
EU May Fine Meta $12B for Deliberately Hooking 270M Users
The European Commission has looked at Facebook and Instagram, looked at infinite scroll and autoplay and personalized recommendations designed to keep you...
Belgian Climate Minister: No Action = Revolution. Europe, Take Note.
A sitting European government minister just used the word "revolution" to describe what happens if Europe doesn't get its act together on climate. That...
EU Weighs Cutting Off West Bank Settlement Goods as Settler Attacks Hit 6 Per Day
Six settler attacks per day. Two hundred communities hit. And the European Union is still calling them "options." Ahead of Monday's foreign ministers meeting...
Armed Settlers Detained a U.S. Congressman in the West Bank. The IDF Took the Settlers' Side.
A sitting United States congressman was surrounded and detained by armed Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank last week, and when the Israeli Defense...
Babies Are Bleeding to Death and RFK Jr. Won't Say Three Words
Babies are being born, skipping a routine shot that costs almost nothing, and then bleeding into their brains and dying. The federal government isn't tracking...
Puerto Rico Agency Exposed 1M Social Security Numbers, Then Lied About It
A Puerto Rico government agency accidentally put roughly 1 million people's Social Security numbers on the open internet, no username or password required....
A Heat Dome Is About to Bake Two-Thirds of America for a Week
Las Vegas is about to hit 111 degrees Fahrenheit. North Dakota, a state where summer typically means pleasant 80-degree days, will be hotter than Phoenix. And...
Trump Lets Housing Bill Become Law Without His Signature to Own the Senate Over Voter ID
Donald Trump just let a bill that passed the Senate 85-to-5 become law without his signature, not because he opposes it, but because the Senate won't pass a...
DOJ Subpoenas NYT Reporters at Home Over Qatar Jet Story
Federal agents showed up at New York Times journalists' homes to hand-deliver subpoenas, because those reporters had the audacity to write about security...
Gas Hit $4.50 and Americans Just... Kept Driving
Global oil demand just posted its first annual decline since the darkest days of COVID-19 lockdowns, the International Energy Agency reported this week. China...
Trump Threatens to 'Decimate Iran' After Funeral Mourners Wave Kill-Trump Signs
Mourners at a dead supreme leader's funeral waved signs calling for the sitting U.S. president to be killed, and the sitting U.S. president responded by going...
Barbados PM Calls British 'Pay Us Back' Demand 'Asinine'
Suella Braverman, the anti-immigration hardliner who somehow keeps getting handed microphones, suggested this month that Britain's former colonies owe the...
2 Million Return to Khartoum. There's No Power, No Water, and Mines in the Streets.
Two million people have returned to Khartoum, the Sudanese capital that was torn apart street by street over the last three years of civil war. The Sudanese...
South Africa's Anti-Migrant Protesters Are About to Shoot Themselves in the Foot
South Africa spent June marching against the migrants who quietly prop up roughly 9% of its entire economy. Now those migrants are leaving. And the economists...
Cuba's Power Grid Has Collapsed Twice in Four Days and Trump's Oil Blockade Is Why
Cuba's entire national power grid went dark on July 10 at 4:30 in the afternoon. It was the second complete collapse of the island's electrical system in four...
Nearly 2 Million Flee as Typhoon Bavi Batters Taiwan and China
A typhoon that started life as a super typhoon slamming Guam has now sent nearly two million people running for their lives across China, while killing 18 in...
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...
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...
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...
Maine's Senate Nominee Quits After Nazi Tattoo, Racism, AND Sexual Assault
Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine, officially filed paperwork Friday to remove his name from the November ballot, ending one of...
Trump's Memphis Anticrime Taskforce Has Now Killed Two Black Men in a Week
In the span of a single week, two Black men are dead in Tennessee, and the common thread running through both cases is Donald Trump's Memphis Safe Task Force....
Maine Dems Dump Sexual Assault-Accused Senate Candidate Days Before Deadline
Graham Platner, the oyster farmer and Marine veteran who somehow became Democrats' best shot at unseating Susan Collins, officially filed paperwork Friday to...
Iran Keeps Shooting at Ships. Trump Wants Them to Say Sorry.
The United States signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran three weeks ago, apparently under the assumption that Iran would, at minimum, stop shooting at...
Trump Picks 'Climate Alarmism' YouTuber to Run America's Climate Report
The Trump administration has appointed a man who calls himself a 'professor-in-exile,' makes videos for PragerU, and believes climate scientists are 'selling...
Iran Told Trump: 'We Screwed Up' After Shooting at Ships in Hormuz
Iran's government privately walked up to Trump's team, hat in hand, and said the quiet part out loud: "We screwed up. We made a mistake. Let's keep talking."...
Trump Just Made It Legal to Bulldoze Endangered Species Out of Existence
The Trump administration just quietly repealed the part of the Endangered Species Act that protected where animals actually live, eat, and raise their young....
NEA Killed a Mexican Folk Music Grant, Then Funded It Again After the Band Agreed to Sing About Reagan
The National Endowment for the Arts rescinded a $20,000 grant from a Chicago Mexican folk music ensemble because corridos weren't patriotic enough. Then the...
ICE Killed a Man With No Criminal Record. Their Cameras Were Off.
A man who had lived in the United States for nearly 35 years, had no criminal history, and was on his way to a construction job got shot and killed by ICE...
Pentagon Drops UFO Footage of Star-Shaped Object Over Yellow Sea
The United States government has released infrared military footage of a six-pointed star-shaped object flying over the Yellow Sea, and the official...
Rubio Deports Man His Victim Forgave Because Minnesota Pardoned Him
The Trump administration just deported a man whose own victim wrote a letter asking the government to let him stay. Marco Rubio announced Friday that Tou Lue...
ICE Shot a 52-Year-Old Construction Worker. No Body Cams. No Video.
A 52-year-old Mexican immigrant left his Houston home before dawn on Tuesday to pick up construction workers for a job site. Federal immigration agents...
Mike Johnson Lost His 9th Floor Vote. His Own Party Did It.
Mike Johnson has been Speaker of the House for less than three years, and his own party has already killed nine of his floor votes. The latest one went down...
Trump Backs Russian Oil Tariffs as Ukraine Starts Winning
Something genuinely surprising happened this week: Donald Trump, the man who spent years treating Vladimir Putin like a pen pal he was too nervous to...
Texas Dem Running for AG: Giving Musk 99% of $110M in Grants 'Sure Looks Like' Corruption
A Texas Democrat is putting something genuinely unusual on the ballot this November: an investigation into Elon Musk. Nathan Johnson, who won the Democratic...
Feds Charge 15 Minneapolis Protesters With Conspiracy for Alerting Neighbors to ICE
The Trump Department of Justice has indicted 15 Minneapolis residents for the crime of telling their neighbors where ICE agents were. One person in a...
Trump Screamed at NATO, Got a Standing Ovation, and Somehow That's the Point
Donald Trump showed up to the NATO summit, told allied leaders he was "very disappointed" in them, demanded Greenland, insulted Spain, and declared that the...
They Stole a City: The 1898 Coup America Still Won't Reckon With
In 1898, a group of white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina overthrew a democratically elected multiracial government, murdered Black residents in the...
Democrats Rallied Behind a Rape Apologist Because He Owned a Boat
Graham Platner, the Maine oyster farmer Democrats were ready to send to the United States Senate, suspended his campaign this week after a woman he once dated...
ICE Shot the Wrong Man Dead. He Was Driving to Work.
A 52-year-old man drove himself and three coworkers to a construction site in Houston on Tuesday morning and was shot dead by federal immigration agents who,...
Netanyahu Wants 70% of Gaza. The Crowd Wanted 100%. He Said 'Let's Go.'
There is technically a ceasefire in Gaza. There has been one since October. And yet, per NPR's on-the-ground reporting, Israeli tanks are shelling residential...
Nigel Farage Is Running Against a Man Dressed as a Trash Can
Nigel Farage, the man who helped blow up the European Union and spent years cosplaying as a working-class hero while cashing checks from billionaires, has...
Texas Has $27B Sitting Around But Won't Spend $1.3B to Stop Cooking Prisoners Alive
A Texas prison cell hit 149 degrees Fahrenheit. Inmates are lying in spilled toilet water on concrete floors just to feel something other than their own organs...
Trump Fires the Whole Election Commission While Iran and Israel Simmer
The United States struck 170 targets in Iran over two days, Iran shot back at U.S. bases in the Gulf, and then both sides apparently decided to take a...
ICE Killed the Wrong Man in Houston. He'd Lived Here 35 Years.
Federal immigration agents in Houston pulled over the wrong van, shot the driver in the abdomen, and watched him die at a hospital hours later. The two people...
Two U.S. Vultures Circle EasyJet in $7.7B Bidding War
Two American private equity firms are currently in a bidding war over a British budget airline that just reported a 27 percent deepening of its losses. Nothing...
DCCC Burns Donor Cash on Primaries Again, and Democrats Are Furious
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, fresh off a string of questionable primary interventions this cycle, has decided the obvious solution is to do...