Black Caucus May Require Jeffries Loyalty Oath to Join
The Congressional Black Caucus is reportedly considering a new membership requirement for incoming Democrats: swear loyalty to Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker, or...
Six Idiots Hacked a Cruise Ship Intercom to Fake a Shipwreck
Six adults, presumably with working brains somewhere in their skulls, decided the best use of their Mediterranean cruise was to hijack the ship's PA system at...
Trump Blinks on Iran Bombing, Bets Everything on a Wednesday
On Saturday, Donald Trump decided not to bomb Iran. That's the news. A president who spent weeks threatening a 'massive bombing campaign' looked at the clock,...
SpaceX Stock Is Now Worth Less Than Your IPO Ticket
SpaceX went public at $150 a share in what became the largest IPO in human history, briefly made Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire, and then proceeded...
Missouri's GOP Secretary of State Trashes 300K Signatures to Save Trump's Gerrymander
Over 300,000 Missourians signed a petition asking to vote on their own congressional map. The Republican official in charge of elections waited until the...
Mike Lindell Quits MyPillow to Run for Governor on Pillow Bribery Charges
Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy, the man who spent millions of his own money chasing a voter fraud conspiracy that courts rejected roughly 60 times, has now...
SpaceX Lost $2B in Six Months and Elon Says You're the Problem
SpaceX published its first-ever quarterly earnings report on Tuesday, and it turns out that building the future costs an absolutely staggering amount of money...
Armed Man With AR-15, Body Armor Arrested Casing Trump's Golf Course
A man was caught walking through Trump National Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes last Sunday, photographing security operations, with a loaded 16-round...
Activists Are Living in a 200-Year-Old Tree to Stop Trump's Border Wall
Federal contractors working for Fisher Sand and Gravel showed up to a remote Arizona valley last week and crushed three ancient cottonwood trees with...
Judge Forced to Free Oath Keepers Seditious Conspiracy Convictions: 'The Court Cannot Write a Different Ending'
A federal judge just wiped out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Stewart Rhodes and eight other Oath Keepers who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 —...
Banks Knew Epstein Was Moving Dirty Money for Years. They Said Nothing.
Twelve-plus bankers at three of America's biggest financial institutions spotted Jeffrey Epstein moving suspicious money around as far back as 2002. Most of...
NY Deputy Police Commissioner Fired for Driving Son's Getaway Car
A New York deputy police commissioner making $138,219 a year to keep people safe allegedly spent her free time driving her son's getaway car after he opened...
ICE Arrests Pharmacy Prof the Day He Won Teacher of the Year
Berhanu Kibret flew to Texas to accept a national teaching award. He flew home in ICE custody. The University of Maryland pharmacy instructor, fresh off...
Accused of Hitting His Wife, Rep. Max Miller Demands an Ethics Probe of Himself
An Ohio Republican congressman accused of hitting and threatening his ex-wife has decided that the best defense is a self-referral to the House Ethics...
Senate Dems Demand Trump Explain His Secret AI Policy to Someone, Anyone
The Trump administration has been making consequential decisions about American artificial intelligence policy, and apparently nobody outside the...
UFC Lost $30M Throwing Trump a Birthday Party at the White House
The UFC lost thirty million dollars staging a fight event on the White House lawn for Donald Trump's 80th birthday, and they knew it was going to happen before...
Manufacturing and Construction Are Back — And AI Is Writing the Check
Two of the sectors that got absolutely flattened by the Federal Reserve's years-long interest rate squeeze are suddenly hiring again. The twist? They're not...
Lindsey Graham's Sister Wants His Senate Seat — Just Not His Foreign Policy
Lindsey Graham died on July 11. By August, his sister had already been appointed to finish his Senate term and announced she wants to keep the seat for six...
8 Novels Worth Hiding Inside With This August
The dog days of summer have arrived, the air feels like a wet sock, and the news cycle is, as always, a carnival of misery. Here is your permission slip to go...
Billing Medicaid From Prison: 19 Charged in $4M Philly Fraud Sweep
Some of the defendants in the latest federal Medicare and Medicaid fraud sweep allegedly billed the government for home health care services while they were...
Business Students Using AI Jumped from 6% to 29% in 3 Years
Those viral graduation videos of students booing AI-boosting commencement speakers made for great content. They also told roughly a quarter of the story. New...
Judge Lets ICE Keep Its Masks, But NY Cops Don't Have to Help
A federal judge ruled Monday that New York cannot force ICE agents to show their faces while conducting immigration enforcement operations, handing the Trump...
Katie Miller Called Fauci 'Enemy' After He Talked Her Through Pregnancy Anxiety
Anthony Fauci called Katie Miller "a couple times per day" to calm her through pregnancy anxiety, sent the couple a baby gift, and chatted warmly with her...
Senate Drags Medicaid Experts In to Explain Why Kicking Poor People Off Insurance Is Bad, Actually
Months after the Trump administration quietly dropped a rule forcing 42 states and Washington D.C. to make poor people prove they deserve healthcare, the...
Trump's Personal Lawyer One Step Closer to Running the DOJ
The man who sat next to Donald Trump at a criminal defense table is about to sit at the head of the United States Department of Justice. Todd Blanche, Trump's...
Iraq Vet Zip-Tied in Her Own Yard by National Guard for Hanging Anti-Guard Signs
A retired U.S. Army captain who earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star in Iraq was tackled in her front yard and zip-tied by three National Guard troops while...
Democrats Betting a Medicare-for-All Outsider Can Win Michigan's Senate Seat
The Democratic Party is about to find out, in real time, whether running a Medicare-for-All anti-establishment candidate in a must-win Senate race is a bold...
Trump at 33%: Only Nixon Quit Before Hitting This Low
Donald Trump is polling at 33% approval, a number that, among second-term presidents in the modern era, only beats Richard Nixon — a man who resigned in...
25 States Sue Trump Over Tariffs Covering 99.4% of US Imports
The Trump administration slapped tariffs on 99.4% of all US imports and called it a forced labor crackdown. On Monday, 25 states called it something else:...
Man Arrested for Starting One of the Spokane Fires That Destroyed 700+ Homes
While 67,000 people were fleeing their burning neighborhoods in Spokane this weekend, one man allegedly had his hand in starting the whole thing. Aaron F....
Trump Tells Rep. Miller 'Things Aren't Looking Good' After Assault Reports
President Trump called Republican Rep. Max Miller on Monday and told him his reelection looks rough, days after reports emerged that Miller assaulted his...
Three Wildfires Just Erased 600 Homes in Spokane
Three wildfires are tearing through Spokane, Washington right now, and the numbers are staggering in the worst possible way. More than 7,000 acres burned....
Man With Valid Work Permit Dies in ICE Custody. He's the 22nd This Year.
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo had a work permit. He showed it to the ICE agents who arrested him. They took him anyway, locked him in a New Jersey detention facility,...
Trump's Wall Is Stealing Ranchers' Water in a Drought Zone
Contractors building Donald Trump's border wall in drought-stricken New Mexico drilled at least six unpermitted wells into local aquifers, pumping up to 200...
Jan. 6 Rioters Sue Cops for Beating Them Up While They Rioted
The people who stormed the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, assaulted police officers with flagpoles, bear spray, and their own bodies, and then spent...
U.S. and Japan Secretly Propped Up the Yen. That's a Big Deal.
The United States government quietly teamed up with Japan to prop up the value of the yen on global currency markets, and almost nobody noticed. According to...
Palantir Made $1.94B Helping Trump Deport People. Stocks Are Up.
Palantir just reported its best quarter ever, hauling in $1.94 billion in revenue while its software continues to power the Trump administration's immigration...
Trump Yells at Oil Companies for Profits His Iran War Created
The President of the United States stood in the Oval Office on Monday and demanded that oil companies give back profits they made from the war he started....
Democrats Eye Expulsion Vote for Rep. Max Miller Over Abuse Allegations
House Democrats are quietly discussing whether to force a vote to expel Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) from Congress over domestic abuse allegations, which he...
FBI Agent Stole $925K in Russian Crypto Because the FBI 'Wouldn't Act'
An FBI supervisor detailed to the U.S. intelligence community allegedly got so fed up with the bureau's inaction on Russian cryptocurrency accounts that he...
ICE Detainee Films Worms Swimming in His Drinking Water
A man locked inside the Adelanto ICE detention facility in California filmed worm-like creatures swimming around inside his drinking water this week. His...
Sen. Kaine: Trump's Drug War Boat Strikes Are Killing Innocent People
The United States military has been blowing up boats in international waters since September 2025, and according to Senator Tim Kaine, at least some of the...
Fed Chair Warsh Wants Fewer Meetings to Set Interest Rates
The new head of the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, is apparently looking at the central bank's schedule and thinking: what if we just... met less often?...
Two Dead After Eating Taco Bell Lettuce Crawling With Fecal Parasite
Two people in Michigan are dead, more than 11,000 others are sick, and somewhere inside the American food supply chain there is lettuce contaminated with a...
Texas Installed Flood Sirens After 130 Died. They Worked.
One hundred and thirty people died in Texas Hill Country flooding. Then the state actually did something about it. When the floods came back this July, the...
Arizona Court: Priests Can Know Kids Are Being Raped and Say Nothing
A bishop found out a man was sexually abusing his own children in 2011. He told no one. The abuse continued for six more years. This week, the Arizona Supreme...
Trump Says Iran Deal Is 'Imminent.' Iran Says They're Not Talking to Trump.
On Sunday, Donald Trump announced that negotiations with Iran would begin Monday afternoon and that a deal was "imminent." On Monday, Iran's foreign ministry...
Trump's 16-Month Museum Inquisition Ends in 162-Page Report Demanding Happier History
The Trump White House has spent sixteen months — sixteen — investigating the Smithsonian Institution for the crime of presenting American history in a way that...
Medicaid Work Rules Are Live and the Chaos Is Just Getting Started
Millions of Americans are now one missed paperwork deadline away from losing their health insurance. States have entered what experts are calling the "crunch...
Trump's Endorsement Has Never Won This District. He Endorsed Someone Anyway.
A Trump-backed candidate has never won Washington's 4th Congressional District. Not once. So naturally, Donald Trump went ahead and endorsed someone in the...
Israel Tells Trump His Hamas Disarmament Deal Won't Work
Donald Trump announced a landmark deal for Hamas to disarm. Israel, the country whose security the whole thing is supposedly designed to protect, promptly told...
MySpace Is Coming Back, Says Company That Already Failed to Bring It Back
The owners of MySpace have announced a plan to bring MySpace back. This is not the first time they have announced a plan to bring MySpace back. It is, however,...
Trump's 'Anti-Forced Labor' Tariffs Exempt China, Hit EU Which Already Banned Forced Labor
Donald Trump has unveiled his newest tariff justification, and it's a real gem: stopping forced labor around the world. China, the country most associated with...
Blanche Kills His Own $1.8B Fund to Get His Own Job
Todd Blanche, the man currently serving as America's top law enforcement officer on a temporary basis, just dismantled his own $1.8 billion slush fund and...