7.3 Quake Rattles Mexico-Guatemala Border, Tsunami Alert Lifted
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake slammed the southern Mexican Pacific coast on Friday morning, shaking everything from Mexico City to El Salvador, triggering a...
Beshear Got Calls Saying McConnell Was Dead Before McConnell Said Anything
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear says he received calls from two separate agencies suggesting Mitch McConnell had died — and this happened before McConnell's...
Ransomware Hackers Just Killed America's Fairlife Milk Supply
Someone hacked into the production systems of America's most expensive milk brand and shut the whole thing down. Coca-Cola confirmed Thursday that a ransomware...
Court Lets Pentagon Keep Babysitting Reporters Like Toddlers at a Museum
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Pentagon can keep requiring journalists to be escorted around its own headquarters like shoplifting suspects at...
Epstein Survivors Say AG Nominee Blanche Treated Them Like a To-Do List Item
Jeffrey Epstein's survivors finally got a meeting with the man who wants to be America's top law enforcement officer. According to Axios, they walked out...
Pakistan Kills 24 Taliban Militants in 24 Hours After Suicide Car Bomb
A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into police officers and civilians in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday. By Friday, 24 militants were...
Nobody Is Moving: Iran War Shuts Down the Strait of Hormuz
A Greek maritime CEO who monitors one of the world's most critical shipping chokepoints just said, flatly, "nobody is willing to move." Six consecutive nights...
Taco Bell's Shredded Lettuce Is Giving People Explosive Diarrhea in 5 States
The CDC's official description of cyclospora infection includes the phrase "frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements," which is exactly the kind of...
U.S. Bombed Six Bridges in Iran. Iran Shot at Kuwait. Oil Is Up 10%.
The United States bombed six bridges in Iran on Friday. Iran responded by launching missiles and drones at Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman. Pete Hegseth posted a...
Elon Musk Said Name One Kid Who Died. Here Are Three.
Elon Musk went on X at the end of June and issued a challenge: critics of the USAID shutdown "cannot cite a single name" of someone who died, he wrote. He...
GOP Outspends Dems $53M to $17M on Immigration Ads—and Counting
Republicans have spent $53 million on immigration-related political ads since January. Democrats have spent $17 million. That gap is not a rounding error — it...
Royal Caribbean Ditching Haiti Stop Through 2027 as Gang Violence Wins
Royal Caribbean has officially punted on Haiti for another year, extending its suspension of visits to Labadee through June 2027 as the country remains trapped...
Xi Plays Global AI Savior While US Hands Him the Script
While Washington was busy congratulating itself on blocking China from advanced chips, Xi Jinping walked into Shanghai on Friday, gathered leaders from across...
Johnson Plans to Lose a Budget Vote on Purpose
Mike Johnson has apparently decided that the best way to win is to lose first, on purpose, in public. The House Speaker is planning to hold a spending vote he...
Century-Old Pipe Explodes Under Sunset Strip, Swallows Buses
A water pipe installed before West Hollywood even existed as a city decided Thursday was the day to stop pretending everything was fine. The 36-inch riveted...
Trump Threatens to Kill NBC and ABC Licenses for Skipping His Speech
Donald Trump threatened Thursday to revoke the broadcast licenses of ABC and NBC because they declined to drop their regular programming and air his speech...
Bird Strike Killed Six on Hudson Tour — Their Copter Had a Bird-Strike Light With No Switch
A bird strike almost certainly tore a sightseeing helicopter apart over the Hudson River last April, killing a Spanish family of five and their pilot, the...
Trump Claims Intel Agencies Hid China's 2020 Election Meddling
On Thursday night, Donald Trump stood in the White House and told America that its own intelligence agencies have been lying to everyone about China and the...
Chicago Had the World's Worst Air Quality Last Night, Thanks to 180 Canadian Wildfires
Chicago had the worst air quality of any city on the entire planet Thursday evening. Not worst in the Midwest. Not worst in the US. Worst. On. Earth. That was...
Trump Is Literally Selling Wall Street Early Access to His Own Words
The president of the United States is about to get a cut of the money banks pay to read his tweets faster. Trump Media announced this week that it will launch...
Trump's Prime-Time Election Speech Is Built on Intel His Own Agencies Debunked
Donald Trump took over prime-time television Thursday night to tell America, once again, that the 2020 election was stolen from him, and to promise new...
Trump's Teleprompter Guy Made $100K Betting on Trump's Own Words
The man who scrolls Donald Trump's words across a screen before Trump says them allegedly turned that job into a nearly $100,000 prediction market windfall....
Tillis Won't Vote to Confirm Trump's AG Until He Meets Epstein Victims
The man Donald Trump wants as his permanent Attorney General can't get out of committee because a Republican senator is demanding he first sit down with the...
ICE Has Killed 4 People With No Body Cams. DHS Blames Democrats.
Four people are dead at the hands of federal immigration agents, none of the officers involved were wearing body cameras, and the Department of Homeland...
857 Fires, 'Hazardous' Air, and a World Cup Final in the Crosshairs
Detroit currently has the worst air quality of any city on Earth. Not Beijing. Not Jakarta. Detroit. Meanwhile, 857 wildfires are burning across Canada, a...
GOP Senators Can't Confirm Mitch McConnell Is Alive and Functioning
The United States Senate cannot confirm the operational status of one of its own members. Senator Mitch McConnell has been absent since June 14, his colleagues...
Trump Wants a Permanent Fence Around the Last Place You Can Yell at Him
The Trump administration has formally proposed installing permanent 8-to-9-foot fencing around Lafayette Park, the seven-acre plot directly north of the White...
Yale's Secret Trump Deal Shows Who Universities Really Work For
Yale's leadership started quietly negotiating with the Trump administration, and for a brief, illuminating moment, we all got to watch a supposedly free...
Trump Slaps Brazil With 25% Tariffs After Year-Long Investigation
The Trump administration has decided Brazil is the problem, slapping a 25 percent tariff on certain Brazilian imports after a yearlong investigation concluded...
Got Food Stamps? Trump Says That Might Cost You Your Green Card
The Trump administration has a new way to deny you a green card: find out if you ever used Medicaid, food stamps, or housing assistance, and hold it against...
TrumpRx Has 92 Drugs. The Companies Behind It Make 800.
The president called TrumpRx "the biggest thing to happen in healthcare in many, many decades." Nearly six months in, the site covers fewer than 12% of the...
Trump's Intel Nominee Refused to Say Who Won 2020
Jay Clayton, Donald Trump's nominee to run the entire United States intelligence apparatus, sat in front of the Senate on Wednesday and refused to say who won...
Oil Giants Pocketed $30M Per Hour While You Paid at the Pump
While you were wincing at the gas pump after the U.S.-Iran war sent oil prices through the roof, the world's top 100 oil and gas companies were quietly banking...
ICE Used Force in 1-in-3 Arrests. Then Shot Two Men in Their Cars.
ICE officers pushed, tackled, choked, tased, and rammed cars so often that a new ACLU report had to invent a phrase for it: 'default tool.' The report,...
Billionaires Can Now Buy a Bunker Condo With a Spa and Cigar Lounge for the Apocalypse
A Canadian crypto mogul bought a 64,000-square-foot Cold War nuclear bunker for roughly the price of a used Honda Civic and is now converting it into luxury...
Trump Frees American from Iran While Also Bombing Iran
An American citizen named Dena Karari is free after being trapped in Iran since December 2024, which is genuinely good news. The slightly surreal part is that...
Trump Is Sanctioning Americans for Talking About the ICC
The Trump administration slapped sanctions on an international war crimes court and the human rights groups that work with it. Now two American advocacy...
Uber Just Dropped $14.8B to Swallow a Global Food Delivery Empire
Uber has decided that dominating American streets wasn't quite enough, so on Thursday it launched a $14.8 billion public takeover offer for Delivery Hero, the...
Warren Buffett Says America's Gone Full Degenerate Gambler
Warren Buffett, the man who spent seven decades quietly compounding wealth while everyone else chased the next hot thing, has finally said out loud what a lot...
Messi Assists Both Goals as Argentina Breaks England's Heart Again
England led. England had sixty good minutes. England had Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham and an entire nation praying at the altar of 'this time.' Then a...
You Need a 740 Credit Score to Not Get Gouged on a Mortgage Right Now
Mortgage rates have been camped out around 6.5% for months now, and if your credit score isn't at least 740, lenders are going to charge you even more than...
Wildfire Smoke Turns NYC Sky Brown and Ranks It Among World's Most Polluted Cities
New York City ranked among the most polluted cities on Earth this week, not because of anything the city did, but because Canada and Minnesota are on fire and...
Blue States Are Taxing Vapes Up to $17.90 — Same Product Costs $0.36 in Red States
The exact same vaping product can cost you nearly eighteen dollars more in taxes depending on which side of a state line you're standing on. Minnesota and...
Trump Hits Brazil With 25% Tariffs While Exempting Brazilian Beef and Coffee
The United States is slapping 25% tariffs on Brazil starting July 22, citing unfair trade practices by the world's tenth-biggest economy. The list of exempted...
Air Conditioning Is Now a Luxury Good. People Are Dying.
Europe's heat dome killed more than 1,300 people in less than two weeks this June. The United States loses around 2,000 people a year to extreme heat. The...
Lindsey Graham Dead at 71, Sister Sworn In to Finish His Term
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the five-term South Carolina Republican who spent three decades making himself indispensable to everyone in Washington while consistently...
Man Raised by Wrong Family for 36 Years Sues Hospital That Lost the Paperwork
A Colorado man took a DNA test two years ago and discovered he had spent 36 years living with the wrong family, raised by people who were not his biological...
Hegseth Orders Mandatory Testosterone Tests for Soldiers Over 30
Pete Hegseth, a man who was confirmed as Secretary of Defense despite allegations that would have disqualified him from serving in the military he now...
Trump Killed $317M in Cancer Research. Now Black and Rural Americans Will Pay With Their Lives.
The Trump administration canceled 181 National Cancer Institute grants totaling more than $317 million, and a new report from the American Association for...
Grocery Outlet Wants to Scan Your Face to Catch Shoplifters
A grocery chain in the Bay Area has decided that the best way to catch shoplifters is to scan the face of every single person who walks through the door. Not...
China's Economy Posts Worst Quarter in 3 Years and the Numbers Are Ugly
China's economy grew at its slowest pace in over three years last quarter, posting a 4.3% annualized growth rate for April through June, well below the 5% clip...
Americans Say Economy Is Trash. Then They Go Shopping.
Americans are telling every pollster who will listen that the economy is a catastrophe, a disaster, a rock-bottom nightmare from which there is no escape. Then...
Biden's Memoir Drops Two Weeks After Midterms Because Why Not
Joe Biden is publishing a presidential memoir, and he has chosen to drop it exactly two weeks after the midterm elections in which Democrats are desperately...
Trump's Intel Nominee Agrees Elections Are a Fraud-Fest, So That's Fun
The good news is that Trump's pick to run America's entire intelligence apparatus is considered a reasonable, steady choice by members of both parties. The bad...
Dead Relatives Can't Take Your Money — But These 5 Myths Might
Total U.S. consumer debt just hit $18.23 trillion, credit card rates are sitting at nearly 22%, and inflation is still chewing through everyone's paycheck at...
7,000 People Waited 3 Hours to Smell a Plant That Reeks of Corpses
Seven thousand people drove to San Marino, California, stood in line for up to three hours, and paid for the privilege of smelling something that reeks of a...
7,000 Americans Have Explosive Diarrhea and Nobody Knows Why Thanks to RFK's CDC Cuts
Nearly 7,000 Americans across 34 states are currently experiencing frequent, explosive, watery diarrhea from a parasitic outbreak, and public health officials...
Three Dead in One Week: ICE's Killing Spree Has a New Twist
A 28-year-old man is dead after running from federal immigration agents in a Florida parking lot and getting struck by a semi truck on a busy highway. It is...
Congress Finally Noticed It Had Ghosts. Now There's a Bill.
One senator and one congressman disappeared from their jobs for months, told nobody why, and the American public was just supposed to be cool with that. They...
Trump Ditches His Own Hormuz Toll After Gulf Leaders Call Him
Donald Trump declared himself guardian of the world's most critical oil chokepoint on Monday, slapped a 20% fee on every ship that passes through it, and then...