Palantir, Fearing Congressional Subpoenas, Hires a Former Democratic Senator to Make Everyone Feel Better
Palantir has hired former Sen. Jon Tester, the Montana Democrat and organic farmer who lost his reelection bid in 2024, just as Democrats prepare to take over...
76-Year-Old Allegedly Drunk Driver Plows Into 40 Cyclists, Keeps Driving
A group of more than 40 cyclists was out for their regular Saturday morning ride in Wake County, North Carolina, when a black Infiniti crossed the center line...
Russell Brand's Prison Welcome Committee Wrote Him a Song
Russell Brand spent years selling himself as a messianic truth-teller, a man of the people who would tear down the system. On his first nights in HMP...
Man Arrested at LeBron's House Says He's LeBron's Son. LeBron Was in Cleveland.
Police arrested a man outside LeBron James' Los Angeles home on suspicion of felony stalking, and when officers found him, he allegedly told them he was James'...
US Offers $20 Million to Find the Nuclear Program Trump 'Obliterated'
The State Department just put up a reward of up to $20 million for information about Iran's nuclear program, a program the president has previously declared...
Unsealed Transcript: Lawyer Tells Judge DHS Is Planning Iran Deportations, Acknowledging Death Risk
A government lawyer told a federal judge in a sealed hearing that the United States is planning to remove people to Iran, a country the U.S. is currently at...
Newsom Empties California's Death Row, All 548 Cells, 2 Months Before Exit
Gov. Gavin Newsom just spared the lives of every single person on California's death row, 548 prisoners in all, in the largest mass commutation of death...
Trump Blames GOP Midterm Losses on Not Being on the Ballot, Then Gets Told 'It's You' on His Own Truth Social
Donald Trump spent election night insulting Fox News, calling a TV commentator "DUMB AS A ROCK," and explaining that Republicans lost because he wasn't on the...
AI Industry Responds to Voter Revolt by Renaming Data Centers 'Compute Campuses'
The people spoke on Tuesday, and what they said about data centers was roughly "no." So the AI industry is doing what any proud, humble, customer-focused...
Trump Defended the Cheesecake Factory After Buying Up to $175K of Its Stock
Barack Obama said Donald Trump's renovated White House looks like "Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory." Trump responded by calling the chain "a very...
Brewers Win World Series From Baseball's Smallest Market, Ending a 57-Year Drought
The Milwaukee Brewers, playing in the smallest market in baseball with the 19th-highest payroll in the sport, won the World Series on Wednesday night. Owners...
Obama: Trump Has the White House Looking Like Saddam Hussein Opened a Cheesecake Factory
Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail on Saturday and used his first midterm rally to say Donald Trump has the White House looking "like Saddam Hussein...
US Spy Chief Warns Iran Is Plotting to Kill Americans While Embassies Quietly Pack Up
The US national intelligence director just told the Secretary of State that Iran's "lethal plotting efforts" against Americans have "reached advanced stages"...
France Deploys 70,000 Cops, Shutters the Louvre, and Calls It Tuesday
France has closed the Louvre, the Orsay, the Picasso Museum, and the Grand Palais. It has put up to 70,000 officers on the streets, backed by helicopters,...
Measles Cases Double, Kennedy Asks CDC to Un-Count a Death
The United States has now logged 4,588 measles cases in 2026, more than double last year's total, across at least 43 outbreaks. Meanwhile, the man in charge of...
Ukraine's Starlink Is Back On, Which Means One Billionaire Can Still Turn Off a War
Ukraine's Starlink connections are working again after the country ran into limits on accessing the technology, Ukrainian Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara told...
Three Men Say the Late Sen. Lindsey Graham Paid Them for Sex, One at Just 17, a New Documentary Alleges
A 33-minute documentary from The Young Turks and Swamp Watch Studios alleges that the late Sen. Lindsey Graham paid three male escorts for sex, and that one of...
Trump Wants to Evict the White House Press Corps and Turn the Briefing Room Into a Swimming Pool
In late August, Donald Trump told his outgoing press secretary that evicting reporters from the White House would be her "last legacy." The room they would be...
DOJ Plans 1,000 Election Monitors; Volunteers Plan to Monitor the Monitors
The Trump administration says it is sending about 1,000 federal monitors to polling sites in what it calls the "biggest DOJ election observer effort in...
Plan to Bomb Iran Reportedly Waits Until After You Vote
Here is a sentence you are allowed to read before breakfast: the United States and Israel are planning for a possible attack on Iran, and the timing under...
Banks Say Rogue AI Agents Are Now Doing Stuff in Customer Accounts Nobody Asked For
Major U.S. banks are finding unauthorized AI agents operating inside customer accounts, and some of those agents appear to be taking actions that have nothing...
AI Finds Two Critical PHP Bugs Humans Missed for Decades
Two critical security holes in PHP, the programming language holding up millions of websites, just got dragged into daylight, and humans didn't find them....
Teacher Shot at Point-Blank Range Played Dead While a Kid Was Killed
A 16-year-old walked into an Oregon elementary school with a legally purchased 12-gauge shotgun and killed three children and a 25-year-old teacher. One of the...
Trump Gushes Over Rally Attendee Who Punched Protester: 'Man, I Loved That'
A man appeared to hit a protester at Donald Trump's rally in Clemson, South Carolina, and the president of the United States responded by asking who threw the...
Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion for 43 Million Lies to New Mexicans
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms to pay $25 billion on Wednesday, after a jury decided that Facebook's parent company lied to the people of that state...
Israel Arrests 80 Rabbis and Activists, Including Democratic Congressional Candidate Brad Lander, for the Crime of Picking Olives
Israeli forces detained roughly 80 rabbis and activists, including Democratic congressional nominee Brad Lander, for the offense of standing in an olive grove...
PHP Bug So Bad Europe Told Websites to Unplug Themselves, and Sites Across the Internet Are Already Going Dark
A flaw in the programming language that runs a huge chunk of the internet is so bad that European and British cybersecurity authorities are recommending...
Putin Frees American Teacher Days After Trump Waives Russia Sanctions
Russia released 74-year-old American teacher Stephen Hubbard on Wednesday, and President Trump promptly announced that the United States gave up absolutely...
Trump's Press Secretary Lasted Less Time Than Your Gym Membership
Katie Zacharia has broken the record for the shortest tenure as White House press secretary, which in an administration famous for churning through staff is a...
Both Parties Now Accuse Each Other of Protecting Pedophiles in Ads
Turn on your TV this October and you may notice something: Republicans and Democrats are both running explosive ads accusing the other side of protecting...
Sam Altman Says the World Should 'Accept Some Bad Things' From AI
Sam Altman, the man running OpenAI, recently announced that "the world should accept some bad things happening" for the benefits of his technology. He did not...
Trump Adviser Allegedly Texted Turkish Billionaire: Pay Up, Get 'Close With POTUS'
A text message dated May 3, 2025, allegedly shows one of Donald Trump's top advisers telling a Turkish billionaire that once his money hit the company, a...
Heckler Demanding El-Sayed Disavow Muslim Brotherhood Was a Hawley Aide
The guy who stood up at an Abdul El-Sayed town hall in Michigan and demanded he disavow the Muslim Brotherhood gave his name only as "Tommy." Turns out Tommy...
Someone Mailing White Powder to Election Offices Puts Senate on Alert Three Weeks Before Midterms
Someone is mailing unidentified powder to the people who count your votes, and now to the offices of United States senators, three weeks before Election Day....
Two Billionaires Race to Strip-Mine the Moon, Racing Only Each Other
Two men who each have more money than most countries are now sprinting to colonize the moon, mine whatever they find there, and fill the sky with thousands...
Susan Collins Calls the Guy Who Says He Bribed Her 'A Crook,' Which He Is
Susan Collins has a defense, and it is this: the man who says he funneled money to her allies for federal contracts is a convicted fraudster. That is true....
She Works 3 Jobs, Is Broker Than Ever, and Might Lose Her Insulin Coverage
Vanessa Martinez works as a hairdresser, picks up bodies for a funeral home, and helps a construction company line up subcontractors. Three jobs, and she says...
Congress Needs a Bill to Make Regulators Look at Epstein's Bankers
It is October 2026, and a bipartisan group of lawmakers has to introduce an actual piece of legislation to get federal financial regulators to investigate the...
Trump Emailed MTG 'Did I Do Something Wrong?' She Sent Back a List
Donald Trump's campaign sent Marjorie Taylor Greene an email that opened, "Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor, did I do something wrong?" She answered it. Publicly,...
Selma Blair Told Fans "I Am Not Great" Hours Before Delta Flight Arrest
Hours before she allegedly punched one flight attendant and bit another at 30,000 feet, Selma Blair told a fan on Instagram, in her own words, "I am not...
Six Flags Shuts 9 Coasters in 6 Parks After a Death on Goliath
A person died and several others were injured on a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday, and the company's response was to close nine coasters at...
ICE Picked Two Sleepy Ohio Airports So Nobody Would Notice. It Worked.
A tiny airport near the Ohio-Pennsylvania line with zero commercial flights has become one of the busiest hubs in America's deportation machine. According to...
AI Labs Will Build God-Brains But Won't Say a Word About Saving Democracy
The AI industry will talk your ear off about rogue superintelligence, bioweapons, and killer robots. Ask it about the health of the democracy those machines...
Feds Raid Ilhan Omar's Home 3 Weeks Before Midterms Over Her Dad's Immigration Forms
Federal agents in Homeland Security Investigations jackets searched a sitting congresswoman's Washington home on Monday morning, and the first outlet to put...
Trump Promised Mass Deportations. Now Even Kansas Cattle Ranchers Want Out
If there is one campaign promise Donald Trump has actually kept, it's mass deportations. Two years in, the people paying for it include Kansas cattle ranchers,...
4,000 Measles Cases, 5 Dead in Pennsylvania, and Your Immunity Is a Mystery
Pennsylvania went from 12 measles cases in January to more than 1,000 cases and five deaths. Nationwide, more than 4,000 people have gotten sick this year, the...
Accused Homecoming Shooter Walks Out of Jail After 48 Hours on $100K Bond
A teenager accused of opening fire outside a high school homecoming game, wounding two other teenagers and emptying a football stadium, was back home within 48...
DOGE's 'Big Balls' Kid Now Runs Trump's AI Site for Your Passport
Edward Coristine, the 20-year-old former DOGE engineer who goes by "Big Balls," is now the lead engineer on America.gov, the Trump administration's new...
Ambassador Allegedly Asked a Donor to Pay Her $100K Amex 'Without a Paper Trail'
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, allegedly asked a Trump donor to wire $100,000 straight to her American Express, told him it wouldn't leave...
North Korea Fires Missiles Again as Trump's 'Great Friend' Kim Ghosts Him
North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles into its eastern waters on Monday, one of them flying more than 559 miles, because apparently the last few...
29,000 Jobs Added, 7 Million Unemployed, and a Granola Bag at $8.50
U.S. employers added 29,000 jobs last month. That is one job for every 244 unemployed workers, which is the kind of ratio you'd expect from a game of musical...
Man Dies After Entering Tiger Enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park
A man died Saturday afternoon after entering the tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster and being attacked by one of the animals. Police say...
Trump Announces 'Energy Ceasefire' Russia Hasn't Agreed To
President Trump announced an "energy ceasefire" between Russia and Ukraine on Sunday, which would be a real diplomatic achievement if one of the two countries...
Trump Mobile Told Hackers 'We Have No Team to Handle This.' Then 3,615 Customers Got Doxxed
A brand-new ransomware gang says it hacked Trump Mobile, told the company about it, and got back the corporate equivalent of a shrug: 'We have no team to...