Silicon Valley Billionaires Have Decided Democracy Is Inconvenient
A small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have apparently looked at American democracy, weighed it against their own preferences,...
July 2026 Was the Hottest Month in 131 Years of U.S. Records
The United States just cooked itself through the hottest July in 131 years of recorded history, and the margin wasn't even close. Federal climate scientists...
Trump's FDA Wants to Put America's Men on Testosterone. Doctors Say Slow Down.
The Trump administration wants to rewrite FDA rules so that virtually any man with low testosterone and a flagging libido can qualify for hormone therapy,...
7.4 Earthquake Hammers Western Colombia, Injures Unknown Numbers in Quibdó
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake tore through western Colombia on Monday, strong enough that people felt the ground move in Bogotá, 250 miles away, and all the way...
Maine Women Voters Gave Collins Her Last Win. Can Jackson Take Them Back?
Susan Collins is the only sitting Republican senator up for reelection in a state that Donald Trump lost in 2024. Democrats handed her opponent slot to a guy...
Med Students Are Letting AI Think For Them Before They Learn To Think
Two-thirds of American doctors are already using an AI chatbot called OpenEvidence to diagnose patients and check drug interactions. Now medical students and...
70 Abuse Allegations. 50 Adults. One Elite Arts School. Epstein Was Just the Start.
Everyone already knew Jeffrey Epstein used the Interlochen Center for the Arts as a hunting ground. What they didn't know — what a new independent report has...
Divers Find 2,000-Year-Old Roman Ship Untouched Off Sicily
Somewhere at the bottom of the Mediterranean, about three miles off the coast of Sicily and 150 feet below the surface, a Roman cargo ship has been sitting...
Taylor Farms' Salmonella Recall Hits Walmart, Target, Whole Foods in 26 States
Taylor Farms, a company already enjoying the distinguished honor of being linked to a deadly cyclospora outbreak, is back in the food safety headlines. This...
Florida Is Building an Underwater Highway to Save Its Dying Seas
Florida's coastline is functionally falling apart — bleached coral, vanishing manatees, gender-scrambled turtles, oyster beds wiped out by hurricanes — and the...
Nolan's Odyssey Hits $1.1B and Now Americans Are Googling 'Is Troy Real'
Christopher Nolan made a billion-dollar movie about an ancient Greek poem, and the immediate cultural response from a significant chunk of the viewing public...
AOC Is Freezing Her Eggs on TikTok and Running for President, Basically
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent her Sunday posting videos of herself taking fertility injections on social media, then walked onto ABC News and told the country...
Fed Chair Warsh Tanked Markets by Being Vague at a Press Conference
The Federal Reserve chairman managed to spook markets and embarrass himself at a single press conference last month, which is genuinely impressive when you...
Thai Ex-MP Shoots Official Then Calls a Live YouTube Stream to Brag About It
A former Thai lawmaker allegedly shot a local government chairman and his driver on Monday, and then, apparently feeling the moment deserved an audience,...
162-Year-Old Guinness Found in Shipwreck Might Still Be Drinkable
A Belgian diver was poking around a 19th century shipwreck in the English Channel and found something that will make your local craft brewery weep: a bottle of...
Trump 'Semi-Negotiating' With Iran While It Demands Full War Reparations
Donald Trump is playing what he calls a 'chess game' with Iran, which would be a more reassuring metaphor if one side weren't blockading a waterway that moves...
Outspent 9-to-1 by Chevron and AIPAC, El-Sayed Won Anyway
A Muslim son of immigrants just won the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan after being outspent nine to one by a coalition that included Chevron, Philip...
72,000 People Crossed Into a City of 84,000 in 48 Hours — and Europe Is Losing Its Mind
Imagine your entire city of 84,000 people suddenly had to absorb 72,000 new arrivals — most of them swimming or floating across open water — in under two days....
Trump's Micro-Reactors Are Coming. The Safety Watchdog Lost Its Staff.
This summer, three companies at Idaho National Laboratory switched on new types of nuclear reactors, marking the first real movement in American nuclear energy...
A 7-Year-Old Had to Represent Himself in Deportation Court Because Trump Defunded His Lawyers
A federal immigration judge in suburban Virginia last week looked out at his courtroom and asked, "Where's the 7-year-old?" The clerk pointed to Moises, a...
Demi Vollering Wins Tour de France, Makes Rival Eat 78 Seconds of Dust
Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney started the final stage of the Women's Tour de France just eight seconds behind Demi Vollering. She finished it one minute and...
Three Firefighters Dead, 300K Acres Ash: The West Is on Fire Again
Two helicopter pilots died fighting a Utah wildfire on Friday. A bulldozer operator died battling a different fire in Oregon the same day. Sixty thousand...
NIH Chief Tells Parents to Vaccinate Kids While His Boss Keeps Lying About It
The director of the National Institutes of Health went on national television Sunday and told parents to vaccinate their kids against measles. This should not...
Dubai's Most Wanted Just Landed in Dublin in Handcuffs
For years, Daniel Kinahan ran an international cocaine empire from a luxury base in Dubai, apparently untouchable. On Sunday, an Irish Air Corps plane landed...
A Smart Bra That Detects Breast Cancer Is Being Tested, and It Actually Works
Researchers in France and Switzerland have built a bra that screens for breast cancer using thermal sensors, electrical impedance, and artificial intelligence,...
Trump Posted a Side-by-Side of Himself and a Muslim Candidate to Say 'Two VERY DIFFERENT Americas' — The Candidate Said 'Yeah, He's Right'
Donald Trump posted a side-by-side photo of himself and Melania next to Abdul El-Sayed and his hijab-wearing wife on Truth Social, captioned "Two VERY...
NYC's Hottest Office Block Has Zero Tenants and No Apologies
Hudson Square is apparently the hottest office neighborhood in New York City right now, home to Disney's new Manhattan headquarters, Google's St. John's...
GOP Senators Are Calling Their Own Colleague a 'Degenerate Sociopath'
A sitting Republican congressman's ex-wife says he threw her against a wall, held a gun to her head, and poured hot water on her. His own party's senators are...
Young Conservatives Admit the Economy Sucks, Then Vote Republican Anyway
A group of young conservatives gathered in Washington this summer to talk about how unaffordable housing is, how hopeless their generation feels, and how the...
Captain Packed 14 People on a 22-Foot Boat. A Mom and Her Baby Are Dead.
A 22-foot motorboat. Fourteen people on board. Just before 10 p.m. on a Saturday night in New York Harbor. The math on this was always going to be...
Anti-Pill Influencers May Be Fueling the Abortion Rise They Hate
Here is a sentence that should break the internet: abortion rates have gone UP since Roe v. Wade was overturned. And one possible explanation is that the same...
Gay Talese, 90, Still the Best Reporter Alive. Here's the Proof.
Gay Talese once spent 33 days interviewing more than 100 people to write a profile of a man who refused to talk to him. The piece became one of the most famous...
Senate Democrats Are War-Gaming Election Armageddon Scenarios
Chuck Schumer and a roomful of senior Senate Democrats recently sat down with legal experts to plan their response to scenarios including AI deepfakes of voter...
Axios CEO: 'My Confident Line of Sight Is Six Weeks, Tops'
The CEO of one of the most plugged-in news organizations in America just told his own board that his confident view of the future extends exactly six weeks....
Luigi Mangione's Lawyers Are Already Burning It Down Before Trial Starts
The Luigi Mangione murder trial is still a month away and his lawyers are already circulating letters full of claims that journalists covering the case...
Democrats Keep Losing Working-Class Voters Because Donors > Workers
A major new report on Democratic coalition politics has found exactly what you suspected but nobody in a party leadership meeting will say out loud: the...
Ex-Wife's New Boyfriend Dismembered Her Husband. She Says She Had No Idea.
A Washington D.C. photographer disappeared on Labor Day 2023, and investigators found what appeared to be his remains in his ex-wife's new boyfriend's truck,...
FL 8th Grader Built 3 Ghost Guns, Kept Christchurch Manifesto
A 14-year-old middle schooler in St. Johns County, Florida was arrested in April with three homemade firearms, suspected explosive components, makeshift...
ICE Arrested a 23-Year-Old for Mowing Lawns. His Town Declared War.
Gerson Turcios had just finished mowing lawns in Rhinebeck, New York when immigration officers pulled up in dark SUVs, photographed his face, slapped him in...
No One Won $863M Powerball. Britain Is Involved Now.
Saturday night's Powerball drawing hit $863.8 million, the largest jackpot of the year and the eighth-biggest in Powerball history, and as of the drawing, it...
Pregnant Woman Hides Indoors as U.S. Deports Her to a Country She Left at Age 6
A 29-year-old woman who has lived in the United States for 23 years, is pregnant with a high-risk pregnancy, and has no family left in Haiti is currently...
Mothers Are Landing on Child Abuse Registries for Using Legal Weed
Here is something that should make you furious: in Idaho, more than a thousand women who just gave birth have been placed on child abuse registries because...
Tankers Still Trapped Near Hormuz as 'Agreement' Stays a Fantasy
Sailors aboard tankers near the Strait of Hormuz are still in danger, still in limbo, and still waiting for a resolution that, according to the shipping...
Flesh-Eating Bacteria Kills 5 in Louisiana, 5x the Usual Death Toll
Five people are dead in Louisiana this year from a flesh-eating bacterial infection that typically kills about one person in the state annually. Nine total...
Scientists Say This Winter's El Niño Will Be the Worst of the Century
Climate scientists are calling this winter's incoming El Niño the strongest of the century, and they are not being dramatic about it. The last time California...
Delta Passengers Evacuate Via Slide After Smoke Fills Cockpit Over Atlanta
Two hundred people were on a Delta flight to Orlando on Saturday morning when smoke started filling the cockpit and the crew decided it was time to turn this...
NYC Rats Down 22% But the Ones Left Have 'Reset Their Clocks'
New York City is winning its war on rats, if your definition of winning is 'the rats have learned to hide better.' The city is on track to record the fewest...
Jorge Messi, Lionel's Father and Lifelong Architect of His Career, Dies at 68
Jorge Messi, the father who carried his son from the youth fields of Rosario to the pinnacle of world football and never really left his side, died early...
Naked College Swimmer Arrested for Killing Maui Security Guard at 1:45 AM
A 20-year-old college swimmer was found wandering naked through the streets of Maui at 3 a.m. Thursday. Surveillance footage, according to NBC News, placed him...
Hunter Biden: Dad's Cancer Is in His Bones and 'Debilitating'
Joe Biden's prostate cancer has spread into his bones and is causing him significant pain, his son Hunter revealed in an emotional BBC interview broadcast...
Trump's Ex-Personal Lawyer Just Became America's Top Cop in a 50-49 Vote
The man who built his career defending Donald Trump in criminal court is now the chief law enforcement officer of the United States. Todd Blanche was confirmed...
James Harden's Gun Charge Quietly Disappears After He Does Some Community Service
James Harden had a gun sitting in plain view in his car in Houston, got arrested for it, and has now walked away without so much as a misdemeanor on his...
Meet the Doctor Who Botched a Tennessee Execution for 75 Minutes
A Tennessee doctor spent one hour and fifteen minutes repeatedly stabbing a condemned man in his arms, feet, and shoulder, failed to complete the procedure,...
McConnell Discharged After 8 Weeks, Won't Say What's Wrong
Mitch McConnell has been discharged from a rehabilitation facility after vanishing from public life for nearly eight weeks, and his big announcement is that...
AI Bosses Say the Singularity Is Here. Cool, Cool, Cool.
The people who built the machine are now telling us the machine has taken over. Top AI architects are publicly claiming their technology has crossed the...
Fetterman Won't Vote for Blanche, Leaving Trump's AG Pick in Real Trouble
The man who voted to confirm Pam Bondi, who cast the decisive vote to move Markwayne Mullin through committee, who has been the single most Trump-friendly...
Debt Collectors Are Illegally Making Old Debts Look New. Here's the Scam.
Somewhere in America right now, a debt collector is reporting a five-year-old balance as if it just opened last Tuesday. This is illegal. It is also, according...
Half of ICE Border Agents Are Latino. The History Is Complicated.
Two Latino ICE agents killed a Latino immigrant named Alex Pretti in January, and a lot of people acted shocked. They probably shouldn't have been. Latinos now...
TMZ Asked Schumer If He Farted on the Senate Floor. He Declined to Comment.
TMZ, the outlet that built an empire on paparazzi shots of celebrities leaving Nobu, has opened a Washington D.C. bureau and is now cornering sitting U.S....
Megalodon Teeth Found on Pacific Floor Are the Size of Your Hand
Scientists trolling the bottom of the South Pacific just pulled up teeth from a shark the size of a railroad car that went extinct three million years ago, and...