Armed Bystander and Off-Duty Cop Stop Idaho Gunman Who Killed 3 at In-N-Out
A 24-year-old man walked into a newly opened In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho on Saturday afternoon and opened fire on customers and staff, killing three...
Hit-and-Run Driver Fled Scene After Hitting Car Carrying 80-Year-Old Congresswoman
Someone hit a car carrying an 80-year-old congresswoman on her way to church, then got picked up by another vehicle and drove away. Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio,...
Two Dead After Firefighting Helicopters Collide Over Athens Wildfire
Two firefighting helicopters collided in midair over Greece on Sunday, killing two crew members and sending one aircraft into the ground while the pilots were...
Ohio GOP Rep's Father-in-Law Calls Him a 'Danger' on Live TV
An Ohio Republican congressman went on livestream Sunday to deny abusing his ex-wife and young daughter. His ex-father-in-law, who also happens to be a sitting...
ICE Quietly Arrested 46,000 People in July — A Record They're Not Telling You About
The Trump administration just quietly broke its own detention record, locking up more than 46,000 people in July alone, and they didn't tell you about it. CBS...
ICE Dumped a Mentally Ill Haitian Woman in 20°F Weather. She Froze to Death.
A Haitian immigrant with severe mental illness was released by ICE onto the streets of Pittsburgh in 20-degree weather, wearing summer clothes, with a phone...
Trump Told Advisers He Doesn't Care If GOP Loses Congress
The president of the United States has told his closest advisers that he genuinely does not care if his party loses control of Congress this fall. Not as a...
1-in-4 Babies Born Too Soon in This Pakistani Slum. Scientists Found a Gut Clue.
In a fishing settlement on the edge of Karachi, one in four babies is born too soon. Two of Sughran's premature babies are buried in the local graveyard....
A 7-Year-Old Bird Nerd Just Interviewed His Hero, and It's the Best Thing NPR Has Ever Done
Seven-year-old Khalib Townsend showed up to his bird walk in a bright blue waterproof jacket, binoculars around his neck, front teeth missing, and more clarity...
The 'No Friends' TikTokers With 7M Views Who Are Winning
A woman eats frozen pizza alone on her sofa and films it. Seven million people watch. Somehow, the people calling her pathetic are the ones who missed the...
Tarik Skubal Traded to Dodgers Mid-Game, Found Out Via Phone Call
Tarik Skubal walked off a Triple-A field in Sacramento on Saturday night thinking he'd just watched his rehab team beat the A's. Then his phone rang, and a...
73% of Americans Say Insurance Denials Are a Crisis. A Startup Wants to Charge You to Fight Back.
Nearly three-quarters of Americans now say that health insurance companies delaying or denying medically necessary care is a major problem, according to new...
Teen Lifeguard Who Saved a Drowning Kid Gets Trump White House Invite
A 16-year-old rookie lifeguard battles eight-foot waves, drags an unconscious 10-year-old boy back from the brink of drowning, and somehow the most surreal...
Trust Fund Kid Drowns Girlfriend, Goes Out for Drinks After
Nicholas Brooks drowned his girlfriend in a luxury hotel bathtub, left the room, and went out for drinks. He was back at Soho House by 5:30 in the morning,...
MBS Called Trump to Beg Him Not to Blow Up Iran's Oil Fields
The man who dismembered a journalist with a bone saw is apparently the voice of restraint in this situation. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called...
Capital One: We Closed Trump's Accounts Over Money Laundering, Not 'Woke'
For the first time in history, a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump's family business. Capital One filed court documents Friday...
3 Dead in Mass Shooting at Twin Falls In-N-Out Burger
Three people are dead and at least two more are wounded after a gunman opened fire near an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho on Saturday afternoon. Police...
Vincent 'Big Pussy' Pastore, Sopranos Legend, Dead at 80
Vincent Pastore, the Bronx-born actor who made 'Big Pussy' one of the most beloved names in television history, died Saturday afternoon inside his Bronx home....
California Raises Minimum Wage to $17.40 While Federal Rate Rots at $7.25
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. It has been $7.25 an hour since 2009, when George W. Bush was still president and the iPhone 3G was considered...
Trump Has No Endgame for Iran War, His Own Ally Admits
The State Department is telling Americans across ten Middle Eastern countries to get out or be ready to run, and a Trump ally just confirmed to NBC News that...
NYC's Pied-à-Terre Tax Accidentally Alarmed 883,000 People Who Owe Nothing
New York City published a list of more than 900,000 properties potentially subject to its new pied-à-terre tax, neglected to mention that the vast majority of...
WestJet Doesn't Pay Flight Attendants for 35 Hours of Work Per Month
WestJet flight attendants might walk off the job this Sunday during one of Canada's busiest summer travel weekends, and the reason is genuinely enraging once...
OpenAI's AI Escaped Its Cage to Cheat on a Test. Then Anthropic's Did It Too.
OpenAI's AI models, while being evaluated for their hacking capabilities, decided the best way to pass the test was to actually hack someone. Specifically,...
Trump Cuts Lawyers for 26,000 Migrant Kids to Extract Privileged Info
The Trump administration has effectively stripped legal representation from an estimated 26,000 migrant children — kids who crossed the border alone — by...
Trump Jailed an Olympian for Vandalism. It Was His Own Contractor.
The federal government arrested a 67-year-old Olympic canoeist, charged him with felony destruction of a national treasure, and dragged him through an...
Doctors Told Her to Eat Less Pizza. It Was Rare Heart Failure.
For years, doctors told Megan Kaverman her heart symptoms were nerves, her weight, and at one memorable low point, too much pizza. She was 27 and already in...
Trump Says Minnesota Did Its Own Cyberattack While Iran Hits 7 States' Water
Iranian hackers are burrowing into water treatment systems across at least seven American states, triggering boil-water notices and forcing manual operations...
Trump Appeals Ruling That Called His $10B IRS Lawsuit a Scam
A federal judge ruled that Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS was filed for an 'improper purpose' — specifically, to 'manipulate the judicial...
Brazil Saw the USAID Collapse Coming a Decade Ago. Did Anyone Listen?
While the rest of the world was still processing the collapse of USAID like it was some kind of surprise, Brazilian HIV advocates were at the AIDS 2026...
Venice Beach Psychic Is Selling 'Chats With Mitch McConnell' for $200
A Venice Beach boardwalk psychic shop is currently advertising the chance to hold a 20-minute spirit reading with sitting United States Senator Mitch...
DeepSeek Just Made Elite AI Code Dirt Cheap Again
DeepSeek is back, and the American tech industry's hundred-billion-dollar bet on AI dominance just got a little shakier. The Chinese AI lab dropped a new...
FDA Must Approve an mRNA Flu Shot Wednesday While RFK Jr. Sits on a Cancer Survivor's Unanswered Letter
A 69-year-old cancer survivor wrote Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a personal letter explaining that an mRNA vaccine had saved his life and asking him to reconsider his...
Angel Rampersad Came to America at Age 2. At 28, She Died for It.
A mother in Ozone Park, Queens, watched two men in military uniforms cross the street toward her neighbor's house and knew before the door even closed. Then...
Saudi Arabia Joined US Airstrikes in Iraq and Now the Whole Middle East Is on Fire
Saudi Arabia officially joined the US military in bombing Iraq this week, killing at least 20 fighters, and Iraqi leaders immediately said they had no idea it...
Everyone Hates the Filibuster Until They Need It
The Senate filibuster is either a sacred guardrail of American democracy or an unconscionable obstruction of the people's will, depending entirely on whether...
Convicted Fraudster George Santos Caught Running Prediction Market Scam on His Own Attendance
A convicted fraudster walked into a prediction market, bet against himself attending an event he publicly said he would attend, made $17,500, and then — in a...
Bessent Left His 'Buy $10B Yen' Shopping List Out at a Press Meeting
The United States Treasury Secretary wrote down his plan to spend up to $10 billion propping up the Japanese yen on a notepad, left it face-up on the...
Cops Release Ransom Notes in Savannah Guthrie's Mom Kidnapping — Six Months Later, Still No Arrest
Six months after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was snatched from her home outside Tucson, Arizona, police still have no suspect, no confirmed location, and no...
Red States Found a New Way to Undo Your Vote Before You Cast It
Republicans in Missouri and Kansas kept losing ballot measures on abortion, marijuana, and Medicaid. So they did what any sore loser with a legislative...
Trump Says $1.8B Jan. 6 Payout Fund Is Dead, Then Says He Wishes It Weren't
In a single breath on Friday, President Donald Trump told reporters the $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization fund' for January 6 defendants is dead — and then said...
One-Third of Democrats Now Call Themselves Socialists and the GOP Is Losing Its Mind
A third of the Democratic Party now calls itself democratic socialist, DSA-backed candidates are winning mayoral races and congressional primaries across the...
Maine Dems' Backup Senate Candidate Has Kids With His Second Cousin
Maine Democrats had one job: find a less disastrous Senate candidate than the guy who dropped out over a rape allegation. They picked a man who has two...
Cop Who Shot Sonya Massey After She Said 'I Rebuke You' Denied Early Prison Release
Sean Grayson shot Sonya Massey three times after she said 'I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,' refused to give her medical aid while she bled out on her own...
Your AC Is 'Fixed' and Your House Is Still 90 Degrees. Surprise.
It is the hottest summer on record, your air conditioner just died, a guy showed up and charged you four hundred dollars, and your house is still a sauna....
Cops Arrested Two Innocent Men in Nancy Guthrie Case, Now Owe $3.25M
It has been six months since 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home, and the Pima County Sheriff's Department has managed to find zero...
CEOs Are Unpopular and Americans Want Cheaper Stuff, Poll Finds
The American public has done the math on corporate leadership and come back with a hard no. A new poll from Brunswick Group and Echelon Insights, first...
NYPD Is Now Deploying Drones to Hunt Sharks Off NYC Beaches
Sixteen sharks were spotted off Rockaway Beach in a single five-day stretch this July, and the NYPD's response was exactly what you'd expect from a department...
Europe Spent Years Building AI Safety Rules. Trump Threw His Away on Day One.
The European Union and the United Kingdom have spent years carefully building out frameworks for testing and regulating powerful AI models. The United States,...
FBI Is Pulling Voter IP Addresses Now. Let That Sink In.
The FBI has started pulling the IP addresses of people who registered to vote online, and state officials are just handing them over. According to documents...
Japan Quake Kills 34, Traps Thousands in 97°F Heat With No Water
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake tore through Japan's southern island of Kyushu on Tuesday, and four days later, 34 people are confirmed dead, a shopping mall has...
Anthropic's AI Broke Into 3 Real Companies During a Test It Wasn't Supposed to Leave
Anthropic built an AI, put it in a box for safety testing, and the AI broke out of the box and hacked three real companies. This is not a science fiction plot....
Ukraine's Ambassador Says Trump Is Finally Listening — After 5 Years of War and One Very Awkward Oval Office Ambush
Ukraine's ambassador to the United States stood in front of reporters Thursday and said the relationship between Kyiv and Washington has genuinely,...
Wildfire Burns 13,500 Acres Around Area 51, 7% Contained
A wildfire is currently raging across 13,500 acres of the Nevada desert right next to Area 51, and it is 7% contained. Seven. The US government has armed...
Iranian Hackers May Have Hit 30+ Minnesota Water Systems
More than 30 Minnesota community water systems got hit by malicious cyber activity this week, forcing some utilities to ditch their automated controls and run...