Army Gynecologist Pleads Not Guilty to Secretly Recording 93 Patients
An Army gynecologist accused of secretly recording women during pelvic and breast exams stood before a military judge at Fort Hood on Wednesday and pleaded not...
DC Bomb Squad Spends Two Hours Defusing a $300 Sex Toy
Washington DC's finest bomb disposal experts spent the better part of Wednesday morning's rush hour locked in a tense standoff with a $300 automated sex toy....
Swastikas Spray-Painted Inside UCSD Jewish Frat House in Hate Crime
Someone broke into a Jewish fraternity house at UC San Diego and spray-painted swastikas, 'KKK,' and racial slurs across both the interior and exterior walls....
Another Day, Another Georgia School Shooting. One Student Down.
A student was shot on the campus of Warner Robins High School in central Georgia on Wednesday afternoon, the Houston County Sheriff's Office confirmed. One...
Army Apache Crashes Near Fort Hood, Kills Both Crew Members
A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter went down in a field south of Salado, Texas on Wednesday afternoon, killing both crew members on board and igniting...
Three Dead at Minneapolis Daycare in Stabbing, Including a Child
A parent drove up to drop their kid off at daycare Wednesday morning and found three people dead inside. Two adults and a young child were killed at Brown Bear...
Trump's Press Secretary Quits to 'Spend Time With Family' Two Months After Maternity Leave
Karoline Leavitt returned to the White House in July after taking maternity leave for the birth of her second child. She will leave again at the end of August,...
Lakers Sold Again — This Time to Jared Kushner's Brother for $12.5B
The Los Angeles Lakers have been sold. Again. Fourteen months after Mark Walter bought the franchise for a then-record $10 billion, former Disney CEO Bob Iger...
Inflation Dipped in July Because a Lettuce Recall Made Salad Cheaper
The good news is that inflation cooled in July. The bad news is that one of the main reasons inflation cooled in July is that a foodborne illness outbreak made...
Ohio Haitians Fitted With Ankle Monitors After Supreme Court Killed Their Status
Monsanto Maler walked out of an ICE facility in Blue Ash, Ohio on Sunday morning, looked down at the metal box freshly bolted to his ankle, and collapsed on...
Eli Lilly Suing 6 Companies Selling Its Unapproved Weight-Loss Drug — That Bodegas Are Stocking
Eli Lilly is suing six companies for selling an unapproved version of its experimental weight-loss drug retatrutide, a drug that hasn't cleared FDA review,...
Spain's First Total Solar Eclipse in 121 Years Hits Today at 8:32 PM
Spain hasn't seen a total solar eclipse since 1905, which means everyone alive in that country today gets to witness something their great-great-grandparents...
3 Dead, 1M Without Power as 'Ring of Fire' Torches the Midwest
Three people are dead, a 4-year-old boy among them, after a ferocious storm system ripped through the Midwest on Tuesday, knocking out power for more than a...
Kansas Dad Called 911 to Announce He'd Killed His Wife and 4 Kids
A Kansas man called 911 Tuesday morning to announce he had just murdered his wife and four children, the youngest of whom was three years old, and that he was...
Lindsey Graham's Sister Beats Three Politicians to Win SC Senate Runoff Spot
Six weeks ago, Darline Graham was running a state agency for the blind. Today she is a sitting United States senator who just beat a congressman, another...
Trump Signs Order Cutting Kids' Vaccines While Claiming MMR Is 'Quite Lethal'
Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday cutting the number of recommended childhood vaccines from 18 diseases down to 11, and to celebrate the occasion...
Trump Fled Iran Threat on Secret Jet, Left Staff and Press to Die as Decoy
Donald Trump snuck off Air Force One during last month's NATO summit in Turkey to dodge a credible Iranian assassination plot, and the people he left behind on...
SSA Quietly Does Something Good: 14 More Conditions Get Fast-Track Disability
If you have a rare, devastating illness and you need Social Security disability benefits, the federal government will normally make you wait six to eight...
Kennedy Center Must Pay Musician $252K It Sued for Skipping a Free Concert
The Kennedy Center sued a jazz musician over a free concert he didn't play, lost, and now owes him $252,479.70 in legal fees. This is the part where you laugh,...
Millions of Medicare Recipients Are Leaving Free Drug Money on the Table
There is a federal program that will cap what you pay for generic prescription drugs at $5.10, wipe out your Part D premium entirely, and eliminate your...
DOJ Just Made Trump's Shady Outside Advisers Untouchable
The Justice Department quietly dropped a 21-page opinion Monday that could shield everyone in Donald Trump's orbit from congressional investigators, whether...
Alito Made $2.9M From Oil and Now Gets to Rule on Big Oil's Biggest Case
Samuel Alito has made up to $2.9 million from oil and gas assets since joining the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is about to hear a massive case about...
Russia Frees American Held in 'Dissociative Stupor' for 47 Days
A 32-year-old American military veteran spent 47 days in a dissociative stupor, handcuffed to a hospital bed and fed through a tube, inside a Russian medical...
Rights Groups Sue Trump for Criminalizing ICC War Crimes Work
The Trump administration has been sued in federal court for running what four major human rights organizations are calling a 'blatantly illegal attack on...
Hegseth Put Two Men on the Pentagon's Advisory Board Who Both Have Ties to Trump Jr.'s Venture Fund
Pete Hegseth just stocked the Pentagon's premier advisory board with two men who have direct financial ties to a venture capital fund co-run by Donald Trump's...
Man Asks AI to Book a Gym Class, It Commits Cybercrime
An Australian man asked his AI assistant to book him a spot in a sold-out fitness class. The AI, apparently deciding that rules are more of a suggestion,...
AI Is Making Your RAM Cost More. There Is No End in Sight.
The AI boom has a bill, and you're the one paying it. Memory chip prices are surging at a scale Axios describes as "unprecedented," and the ripple effects are...
Syria Sentences Assad to Death for Half a Million Murders
A Syrian court handed down a death sentence Tuesday to Bashar al-Assad, the man who spent fourteen years turning his own country into a mass grave. Assad,...
AI Is Making Oil Companies Drill Faster Than It's Saving the Planet
The tech industry spent years telling us AI was going to save the planet. Turns out it might be doing the opposite, and not just because of the monstrous...
Nvidia Just Convinced Wall Street to Treat AI Chips Like Roads and Bridges
Nvidia just got Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to collectively agree that AI chips are basically the new highway system, and...
Iran Tried to Missile Air Force One. Trump Escaped in a Catering Truck.
Iran had a credible plan to shoot a missile at Air Force One as it left Turkey. The President of the United States escaped by hiding in an airport catering...
Republicans Are Ghosting Their Own Voters This August
After voters spent last year showing up to town halls and making their representatives visibly uncomfortable, House Republicans have landed on a solution: stop...
Zuckerberg's $390M Yacht Ignored a Distress Call. A 42-Year-Old Tugboat Saved the Day.
Mark Zuckerberg owns a $390 million, 387-foot superyacht with four engines pumping out nearly 24,000 combined horsepower. Last week, in Alaskan waters, the...
Zuckerberg Publishes 6,500-Word Essay Explaining Why You Should Trust Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg would like you to know that superintelligence is coming, it's going to be great, Meta is going to lead it, and you definitely shouldn't be...
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...
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...
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...