2,000 Roadside Signs Hold Georgia's Messy Revolutionary War Secret
Georgia had a complicated relationship with the American Revolution. Like, genuinely weird and contradictory in ways that your high school history class...
Keystone Pipeline Killed 2,700 Animals. The Fine Is $27M.
A Canadian pipeline company dumped nearly half a million gallons of crude oil into a Kansas creek, killed or harmed over 2,700 animals, and rendered an entire...
27 Dead After Bangkok Pub Fire Traps Victims in Restrooms
At least 27 people are dead after a fire ripped through the Na Ladprao pub in Bangkok just after midnight on Monday, with many victims found huddled in the...
1,200 'Nonpartisan' DOJ Alumni Sign Anti-Blanche Letter, Including Lori Lightfoot
More than 1,200 former Department of Justice employees signed a letter this week demanding the Senate reject Todd Blanche's nomination as Attorney General,...
Parasite Hits 31 States and Nobody Knows What Food Is Doing It
A parasitic intestinal illness has spread to 31 states, sickened at least 843 people, hospitalized 86 of them, and federal health authorities still have no...
Veterans Are Refusing Burial at Arlington Over Trump's Vanity Arch
Veterans who earned the right to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery are now saying they'd rather skip it, because Donald Trump wants to plant a 250-foot...
Trump Uses Graham's Eulogy to Lobby for His Own Voting Bill
Lindsey Graham died on Saturday. By Sunday morning, Donald Trump was on national television explaining how inconvenient that was for his voting bill. The...
Lindsey Graham Died Hours After Getting Trump's OK to Sanction Russia
Lindsey Graham spent Friday on the phone from Kyiv, buzzing with excitement because the Trump White House had finally given him the go-ahead on his Russia...
This English Professor Has Been Gored Multiple Times and Cannot Stop Going Back
An English professor from Chicago has spent twenty years running directly at large, angry bulls in Spain, been gored at least twice, came within three inches...
NJ Firefighters Spent 40 Years Fighting Fires With Cancer in a Can
For roughly four decades, firefighters across New Jersey ran into burning buildings wearing PFAS-soaked gear and blasting PFAS-laced foam at the flames, then...
A Jefferson Draft Shows Franklin Rewrote 'Sacred' as 'Self-Evident' With a Pen Stroke
Benjamin Franklin read Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence and basically said, 'Nice try, let me fix that.' A rare copy of that draft,...
200 Kids Airlifted by Black Hawks After '1-in-1,000-Year' Flood Swamps Missouri Summer Camp
Eight military helicopters had to airlift more than 200 children out of a Missouri summer camp this week after overnight storms dropped up to 12 inches of rain...
Gunman Opens Fire at Toronto Salsa Festival, Kills 2 and Vanishes
Someone brought a gun to a salsa festival in Toronto on Saturday night and used it. At least two people are dead, four more are wounded, and as of this...
Die-Hard 49ers Fans Just Bought Their Biggest Rival for $9.6 Billion
Vinod Khosla and his family spent thirty years as San Francisco 49ers season ticket holders, cheered against the Seahawks every single time those teams met,...
England's World Cup Goal Shouldn't Have Counted. It Did.
England is in the World Cup semifinals. Jude Bellingham has six tournament goals. And one of those goals almost certainly should not have stood, because the...
The Guggenheim Has Legionnaires'. Yes, That Guggenheim.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, one of the most recognizable buildings on earth, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece that has...
Too Scared to Dance? VR Will Now Humiliate You in Private
Wedding season is here, which means millions of Americans are currently staring down the barrel of a reception dance floor with the quiet desperation of a man...
The Khaki Nazis Who Flooded D.C. on July 4th Praise Hitler in Private
Hundreds of masked men in matching khakis and blue shirts rode the Washington D.C. Metro on the Fourth of July, surrounded commuters, marched through the...
Russia Pelts Kyiv With 131 Missiles and Drones, Injures Child
Russia sent 131 missiles and drones screaming into Ukrainian airspace overnight Friday, hitting Kyiv hard enough to injure at least 10 people, including a...
Spain's Super-Sub Does It Again, Belgium's Backup Goalie Gifts Him the World Cup
Mikel Merino had been on the field for exactly two touches when Belgium's backup goalkeeper handed him the World Cup quarterfinal. He scored. Of course he...
A Poop Parasite Is Tearing Through 31 States and Nobody Knows Why
A microscopic parasite that causes "frequent and sometimes explosive" diarrhea has spread across more than half of all US states, and health officials still...
Man Loses Hand Cleaning Up After Other People's Fireworks
A man doing something genuinely selfless -- picking up strangers' fireworks trash off a Northern California beach -- lost his left hand when one of those...
Trump Refused to Sign a Housing Bill, So It Became Law Anyway at Midnight
Donald Trump refused to sign the largest housing affordability bill in decades, called it "a big yawn," and held it hostage over an unrelated voting bill that...
Trump's Own Judge Calls Jan. 6 Case Dismissal Politically Motivated
A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump just dismissed the seditious conspiracy convictions against Proud Boys leaders, and he did it while making absolutely...
Black Teen's Body Found After July 4 Boat Trip With White Friends. Mississippi Says 'No Foul Play.'
An 18-year-old Black college football player went to a Mississippi barrier island for the Fourth of July with three white friends and never came home. His...
Alberta Is Literally Voting on Whether to Stay in Canada
This October, over four million Albertans will vote on whether their province should explore leaving Canada entirely. Not metaphorically. Not as a protest. An...
Apple Sues OpenAI for Stealing Its Secrets to Build a Rival Gadget
Apple is accusing OpenAI of running what amounts to a corporate espionage operation, systematically recruiting Apple employees and allegedly walking them right...
All 10 Dead After Flamingo Air Cessna Crashes in Bahamas on Independence Day
On the day the Bahamas was celebrating 53 years of independence, a Flamingo Air Cessna 402 went down in North Andros and killed everyone on board. All 10...
NYC Just Made It Illegal to Trap You in a Subscription Hell
You know the drill. You signed up for something in 2022, forgot about it, and have been quietly hemorrhaging $14.99 a month ever since. New York City just...
Senate Republicans Scared of Their 4th Shutdown in 12 Months
Three government shutdowns in the past year, and Senate Republicans are already in full panic mode about a fourth. It's July. The fiscal year doesn't end until...
Maine Dem Drops Out, Signs Off With 'F*ck ICE. Free Palestine.'
Graham Platner filed his official withdrawal from Maine's Senate race on Thursday, two days after announcing he was out following rape allegations from a...
Afghanistan's Ex-Deputy Speaker Sold the DEA 2kg of Meth, Then Asked for 3 Days to Deliver RPGs
A man who served as deputy speaker of Afghanistan's National Assembly and as a general in its paramilitary Border Force was arrested and charged Friday with...
Trump Is Turning the White House Into a Bunker and Calling It a Reno
The White House is getting a new front door. And new fences. And fortified walls. And scaffolding that will be up for months. Call it what you want, but when...
Ryanair Passenger's Head Was Literally Outside the Plane at 30,000 Feet
A 61-year-old man's head and shoulders were outside a Ryanair airplane window somewhere over North Macedonia on Friday morning before fellow passengers...
1,173 Lbs of Cocaine Found Hiding in a Cabbage Shipment at Texas Border
Someone looked at a truckload of cabbage crossing the Texas border and thought: perfect. Nearly 1,200 pounds of cocaine, 477 packages, stuffed inside a...
Gas Was $2.98 Before Trump's Iran War. Now It's Climbing Again.
Before the United States started a war with Iran in late February, you were paying $2.98 a gallon for regular gas. This Friday, according to AAA, that number...
Trump Flies His Own Poop Home From Turkey Like Putin and Kim Jong Un
Donald Trump attended a NATO summit in Ankara this week, and when he boards his $400 million Air Force One to fly home, his luggage will include something that...
British MP Ann Widdecombe, 78, Found Dead at Home, Murder Probe Launched
Ann Widdecombe, the 78-year-old former British MP, prisons minister, reality television contestant, and Reform UK firebrand, was found dead in her home on the...
Andy Burnham Inherits Starmer's Mess and Trump's Contempt
Donald Trump once dismissed Andy Burnham as 'the mayor of a town.' Now that mayor is about to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and his first truly...
Trump's DOJ Is Racing to Release Biden's Private Tapes to the Heritage Foundation
The Trump Justice Department was, until a federal appeals court stepped in Friday, about to hand over Joe Biden's private recorded conversations to a...
Mortgage Rates Hit 6.5% and the Inflation Report Won't Save You
Back in early March, the average 30-year mortgage rate had fallen to 5.75%. That was a nice number. A hopeful number. The kind of number that makes people dust...
Fed Chair Warsh's Fix for Groupthink: Five Task Forces Full of Non-Fed People
The Federal Reserve, an institution that has spent decades perfecting the art of talking to itself, is about to hear from some people who have never worked...
Dead Broke: How Your Debt Can Loot Your Own Grave
Here's a fun thing nobody tells you at the estate planning seminar: dying doesn't make your debt disappear. It just makes it someone else's problem to sort...
Pentagon UFO Drop: A Nuke Plant Lockdown, a 28-Year Vet Stumped, and a Six-Pointed Star Over the Yellow Sea
The Pentagon dropped 40 new UFO files on Friday and buried inside them is a story about an unidentified object buzzing a nuclear weapons facility in Texas...
Delta CEO: High Airfares Are 'Sustainable' Even After Oil Drops
Delta CEO Ed Bastian went on CNBC Friday and said the quiet part loud: even if oil prices fall, he expects high airfares to stick around. The average domestic...
Elton John Was Gay-Coding Your Radio Since 1972 and You Had No Idea
A new book argues that Elton John spent the entire early 1970s hiding in plain sight, stuffing queer longing into chart-topping hits that millions of straight...
Charlie Kirk Murder Trial Hinges on DNA, a Rooftop, and a Roommate Who Talked
A judge is now sitting with a pile of evidence that includes a DNA match on a murder weapon, rooftop surveillance footage, and a former roommate who says the...
Trump Spent $3.8B Killing Wind and Saving Coal. Your Power Bill Is the Point.
The Trump administration has spent $2.7 billion in taxpayer money to kill offshore wind projects and another $1.125 billion to keep coal on life support, and...
FCC May Kill School Internet Program Over 'Too Much Screen Time'
The FCC is reviewing whether to gut or eliminate E-Rate, the federally mandated program that has connected nearly every school and library in America to the...
Trump Says He'd Be 'The Greatest Communist in History'
Donald Trump, standing at a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, told the world that communism is the greatest threat America has faced since its founding and then,...
AI Is Making a Few People Gods and Everyone Else Slightly Less Annoyed at Their Inbox
While a small group of power users are using AI to conjure entire companies out of thin air, most Americans are using it to avoid typing a full email. Axios is...
Waymo Snitched on Two 15-Year-Olds and the Privacy Nightmare Is Just Getting Started
A driverless car called the cops on its own passengers. That sentence is real, it happened in San Mateo, California this week, and it is either completely...
EasyJet Dumps £5.2bn Suitor After Bigger One Flashes £5.7bn
EasyJet just ghosted one American suitor for a richer American suitor, and the whole thing took less than 72 hours. The Luton-based budget airline agreed in...
Ebola Is Spreading Into New Congo Regions With No Vaccine and 600 Dead
Six hundred people are dead, 1,759 confirmed cases are on the books, and a strain of Ebola with no approved vaccine and no approved treatment is now showing up...
U.S. Bombs Iran While Burying Its Supreme Leader, Hits Bridge on the Funeral Route
The United States launched airstrikes on 90 targets inside Iran on Thursday, including, per the Revolutionary Guard, two bridges on the route to Mashhad where...
Trump EPA Guts Truck Pollution Rules, Calls It $12B Gift to Families
The Trump administration announced this week it wants to gut Biden-era heavy-duty truck emissions rules, promising the move will save the trucking industry...
ICE Killed the Wrong Man. No Body Cams. Now They're Blaming Democrats.
ICE agents in Houston shot and killed a man on his way to work Tuesday morning. He had lived in the United States for 35 years, had no criminal record, and was...
His Wife 'Fell Overboard.' Feds Think She Made It Back to the Boat.
Brian Hooker told authorities his wife bounced off a dinghy in the dark waters off the Bahamas and was swept away. The Coast Guard now thinks she may have made...
Charlie Kirk's Widow Begs Judge to Show All Evidence Before Conspiracy Theories Do
The widow of Charlie Kirk walked into a Utah courtroom to watch evidence presented in her husband's murder case and was reportedly denied a clear view of some...
Microsoft's Emissions Up 25% While It Tells You to Save the Planet
Microsoft has a climate pledge. Microsoft also has a 25% increase in greenhouse gas emissions, per its own environmental report released this week. Those two...