Trump Slaps Brazil With 25% Tariffs for Daring to Moderate Elon's App
Brazil's Supreme Court told Elon Musk's X and Mark Zuckerberg's Meta to stop hosting hate speech and coup-adjacent propaganda, because Brazil had just survived...
Threats Against SCOTUS Justices Up 38% and Climbing Fast
The Supreme Court Police Department is bracing for a 38% surge in threats against justices this year, on top of a 25% increase the year before. Justice Elena...
New York Just Hit Pause on Big Tech's Power Grab — Literally
New York just became the first state in the country to tell the tech industry to sit down and wait. Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday...
RFK Jr Froze the Kids' Tobacco Panel While Big Vape Got Flavors Back
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has built a brand around protecting children from corporate poison, has spent over a year preventing a federal health panel from...
Republicans Want 60% to Pass Amendments, But 51% to Pass Theirs
Republican lawmakers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Missouri are asking voters this year to make it harder for those same voters to pass...
Trump Bans Americans From Flying Home as Ebola Patient Gets Sent to Germany
The Trump administration is blocking American citizens in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from flying home on commercial flights, even as the US quietly...
Trump Drained the Reflecting Pool to Fix Damage He Can't Prove Was Vandalism
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been drained for repairs after weeks of Donald Trump insisting that roving vandals slashed it open with knives and...
Trump Ballroom Donor Gets $200M Armenia Fund Job He Happens to Already Profit From
A Russian-born Chicago investor who donated $12 million to Trump's political operation and an undisclosed sum to Trump's ballroom project has been appointed...
412 Verified Cases: ICE Crowd Control Weapons Blinded and Brain-Damaged Protesters
A damning new report documents 412 verified incidents of federal and local law enforcement misusing crowd control weapons on immigration protesters across the...
Two Climbers Found Dead at Bottom of 65-Foot Alpine Crevasse
Two Romanian climbers who went missing in the Italian Alps last week were found Monday morning at the bottom of a crevasse roughly 65 feet deep, authorities...
Trump Says Strait Is 'Open.' Experts Say It'll Take 50,000 Troops.
Donald Trump went on Truth Social Monday morning to announce that the United States would 'probably run' the Strait of Hormuz and charge foreign ships a 20%...
Google's AI Boss Wants a Regulator He'd Help Pay For
The man who built one of the world's most powerful AI systems would like a regulator to oversee AI systems, please. He'd also like that regulator to be funded...
Amazon Has More Workers on Medicaid Than Anyone in Nevada. Its Fix? Raise the Minimum Wage.
Amazon has had more employees enrolled in Medicaid than any other company in Nevada every single year since 2020. The company's official response, when asked...
The World Cup Final Is Tomorrow, and It's Not the Final
The FIFA World Cup semifinals kick off Tuesday, and the soccer gods have already played their cruelest trick: the two best teams in the world are meeting...
Summer 2026's Live Music Scene Is Aggressively, Gloriously Alive
Six hundred performers. Ten stages. Six hundred and thirteen thousand people on a lakefront in Wisconsin. If anyone told you live music was dying, summer 2026...
Congress Is About to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent, God Help Us All
Congress, having thoroughly handled healthcare, housing, the national debt, and climate change, has turned its full attention to the clock. The Sunshine...
Rubio Wants to Dismantle the War Crimes Court. Wonder Why.
Marco Rubio wants to destroy the world's war crimes tribunal, and he's not being subtle about it. The Secretary of State published a full op-ed in the Wall...
Trump Quietly Greenlit Saudi Strike on Yemen That Could Restart a War
Sometime before Monday, Donald Trump looked at a map of the Middle East, which has been on fire in various configurations for the better part of a decade, and...
SpaceX Stock Has Already Lost 35% of Its Peak Value and It's Been One Month
SpaceX went public on June 12th as the largest IPO in history, hit $225 a share within a week, and has since lost more than a third of that peak value in under...
Bald by 30? You're 45% Less Likely to Get Prostate Cancer
The universe, in a rare moment of cosmic generosity, has decided to give bald men something back. According to research published in Cancer Epidemiology, men...
Trump Cut the Food Parasite Watchdog. Now 2,800 People Have 'Explosive Diarrhea.'
A parasitic infection causing what health officials are clinically describing as 'explosive diarrhea' has now sickened more than 2,800 people in Michigan and...
Armed Man Drives Ford Bronco to Capitol Barricade, Dog Survives
A man drove up to a security barricade outside the United States Capitol on Monday with a firearm in his vehicle, got arrested, and prompted the kind of...
FBI Fired Analysts Who Said Its Own Georgia Election Probe Was Bullshit
The FBI just fired two of its own analysts for saying out loud what everyone with a functioning brain already suspected: the bureau's investigation into the...
Wall Street's Hottest Stocks Are Also the Cheapest. That's Weird.
The biggest stock market winners of 2026 are memory-related companies, and somehow the market is still pricing them like they're one bad quarter away from...
Hegseth Launches DOJ Taskforce to Hunt Reporters' Sources
Pete Hegseth, a man who was confirmed to run the United States military despite having no relevant qualifications, has now decided the real threat to national...
12 States Sue to Kill $111B Merger That Would Hand Trump Allies CNN and CBS
A dozen state attorneys general filed suit Monday to block a $111 billion mega-merger that would hand control of CNN, CBS News, HBO, and roughly a third of...
Shot by Cops Who Mistook Him for the Suspect, Dad of 5 Will Never Walk Again
Mark Trujillo walked out of his front door to warn police that his wife and kids were inside the house next door. Five seconds after he pointed at his own home...
Ex-Iranian General: We Can Kill Trump in the White House
A former senior commander in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps went on record this weekend to say Iran could assassinate Donald Trump inside the White...
Judge Calls Trump's IRS Lawsuit a Fraud, Sanctions His Lawyers
A federal judge just called Donald Trump's $10 billion IRS lawsuit a flat-out fraud on the court, sanctioned two of his lawyers, and wrote 56 pages explaining...
Courts Killed Trump's Tariffs. Now the Treasury Is Mailing Out Billions.
The Trump tariffs squeezed corporate profits, jacked up consumer prices, and destabilized supply chains. Then the courts struck them down. Now the U.S....
27 Dead in Bangkok Bar Fire After Exit Found Locked With Two Bolts
At least 27 people are dead after a fire tore through a beer hall in Bangkok early Monday morning, and Thailand's own Prime Minister stood at the scene and...
Lindsey Graham Died Worth Less Than Your Average Retiree
Senator Lindsey Graham spent 31 years inside one of the most aggressively monetized institutions in American public life and somehow managed to die with less...
Ousted South Korean President Just Got His 3rd Prison Sentence
South Korea's disgraced former president Yoon Suk Yeol picked up yet another prison sentence on Monday, this time two years for receiving manipulated opinion...
Trump Wants a Dead Senator's Sister to Fill His Senate Seat
Lindsey Graham has been dead for about five minutes and Donald Trump is already on Truth Social demanding his sister get the job. Darline Graham Nordone has...
Trump Announces Iran Naval Blockade, Will Charge Ships a 20% 'Reimbursement'
Donald Trump has announced a naval blockade of Iran and, in what can only be described as a bold new frontier in unhinged foreign policy, declared that cargo...
Two Teens Killed Five Family Members in East St. Louis. One Was Related to the Victims.
Two teenagers, aged 15 and 16, are in custody after allegedly executing five members of the same family across three separate locations in East St. Louis on...
UK Counterterrorism Police Take Over Ann Widdecombe Murder Case
A murder investigation into the death of a 78-year-old former British politician just got a whole lot darker. British counterterrorism police have taken over...
Warren to Dimon: Did Epstein Help You Lobby the British Government?
A newly surfaced 2009 email suggests that Jeffrey Epstein, convicted child sex trafficker, may have been backstage-directing JPMorgan Chase's lobbying strategy...
The Last Wild River in the West Is Running Out of Time
There is exactly one river left in the entire Colorado River basin that still flows the way rivers are supposed to flow, unblocked by giant dams, unsliced by...
Congress Returns to a Dumpster Fire With One Less Firefighter
Lindsey Graham died Saturday at 71, and Congress showed up Monday to discover that one of the few people holding the Republican legislative agenda together by...
ICE Shoots and Kills Someone in Maine. One Person Dead.
Someone is dead in Biddeford, Maine after an ICE operation ended with a shooting Sunday morning. State Police are on scene. The FBI is expected to investigate....
Yellowstone Bison Launches 65-Year-Old Grandpa 8 Feet in the Air
A bull bison at Yellowstone National Park picked a man up with its horns, launched him eight feet into the air, and flipped him over, because nature does not...
Russia's FSB Caught Running Cyberwar Across 9 EU Countries
Russia's intelligence services have apparently been running a continent-wide sabotage operation against Europe's railways, power grids, and government...
Trump Packed a Chemical Safety Board With Scientists Paid by the Chemical Industry
The Trump administration has loaded the EPA's top chemical safety board with scientists who are financially tied to the exact companies those scientists are...
Obama's Healthcare Architect Says Skip the Supplements, Eat Ice Cream
The guy who helped design the Affordable Care Act has a new book out, and his prescription for a long, healthy life includes eating ice cream and skipping your...
A Former KKK Hall in Texas Is Becoming an Arts Center
A building where the Ku Klux Klan once held its klavern meetings in Fort Worth, Texas, is being converted into an arts and community center. That sentence is...
Federal Prison Guards Control the Paperwork That Lets Them Get Away With Assault
A federal prison guard in California punched an inmate in the face over a straw sunhat, then allegedly had him sexually assaulted in a camera-free hallway...
1 in 3 Americans Are Missing Grocery Payments While SNAP Loses 5 Million People
One in ten American adults is taking out loans to buy food. A third of them missed a payment on those loans last year. And Congress just threw five million...
Sam Neill, 78, Dies Suddenly After Beating Cancer That Should Have Killed Him
Sam Neill, the actor who outran dinosaurs on screen and beat a rare blood cancer in real life, died suddenly in Sydney on Monday at the age of 78. His family...
McConnell, 84, Admits He Was 'Briefly Unconscious' After Fall He Hid for 4 Weeks
Mitch McConnell spent four weeks telling the American public precisely nothing about why he was hospitalized, and now we know why: he fell, lost consciousness,...
Made a US-Only Monopoly. Still Had to Import the Dice.
A board game company tried to prove you could manufacture Monopoly entirely in the United States to escape Trump's seven-figure tariff bill. It took more than...
Billings Hit 110°F and Salt Lake Shattered a Record From 1960
Salt Lake City just logged the hottest temperature in its recorded history. Billings, Montana hit 110 degrees. And 58 million Americans woke up Sunday under...
Senegal Is Beating a Parasite With Fish. America Spent Billions on Bombs.
A team of scientists in Senegal has figured out that you can fight a parasitic worm that burrows through human skin by dumping nearly 2,000 fish into a rice...
One Man Lives Here. It's a Country. Sealand Is Real.
Seven miles off the English coast, bolted to a pair of concrete legs rising sixty feet above the North Sea, sits a rusted WWII gun platform with one full-time...
A T. Rex Named Gus Just Sold for $30M and Science Is Furious
Somewhere right now, a very wealthy person is deciding whether a 67-million-year-old apex predator would look good in their foyer. 'Gus,' a 38-foot...
America's Last Iron Lung Survivor Is Gone at 78
Martha Lillard was told she wouldn't survive past 20. She made it to 78, outliving that prediction by nearly six decades, outliving the disease that paralyzed...
Paramount Threatens to Ditch California Over $110B Merger Fight
California is about to find out what happens when you pick a fight with a $110 billion merger and the guy writing the checks has a perfectly good studio lot in...
Christopher Nolan Got Rejected by Film School. Now He's Adapting Homer.
Christopher Nolan has made 13 films, won 18 Academy Awards, and grossed over $6 billion at the box office. Film school told him no thanks. In a new 60 Minutes...
Josh Shapiro Wants to Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party (Just Not Yet)
Josh Shapiro thinks the Democratic Party is at a crossroads. He thinks 2028 could be a once-in-a-generation reckoning over what the party actually stands for....
McConnell, 84, Was Unconscious for a Month Before Telling Anyone
Mitch McConnell fell down, went unconscious, got carted to the hospital, spent weeks there, caught pneumonia, moved to a rehab center, and then waited almost a...