The Novel China Wants You to Hate Just Won the Booker Prize
A novel about Japanese colonial-era Taiwan just won the most prestigious literary prize in the world, and China is losing its mind about it. The book is a love...
DOJ Asked Sammy 'The Bull' and ChatGPT to Prove Seashells Are a Murder Plot
The United States Department of Justice, unable to confirm that the number 86 implies violence, consulted ChatGPT, Google AI, and a confessed murderer of...
Trump Wants Senate to Pass Another Megabill Before August Vacation
The ink is barely dry on the last catastrophic megabill and the White House is already back at the Senate's door with another one. According to Axios, Trump...
Yes, Hospitals Can Still Send You to Collections — Here's What They Won't Tell You
The hospital saved your life. Now it wants its money, and it will absolutely hand your debt to a collections agency if you don't come up with a plan. Recent...
Invasive Mussels Are Eating the Great Lakes Alive, Five Years Left
Biologists are now warning that the lake whitefish, a fish so central to Great Lakes identity that an 1888 Ohio town literally called it their pride and joy,...
Howard Dumped 500 Black Students Weeks Before Move-In Day
Howard University sent disenrollment notices to 502 incoming freshmen, roughly 20% of its entire incoming class, just weeks before the August 11 move-in date....
Democrats Tour Texas Detention Holding a 2-Month-Old, Call Conditions 'Inhumane'
A group of House Democrats visited an ICE family detention center in Dilley, Texas on Tuesday and came out calling the conditions inhumane, citing a...
Trump Vows to 'Beat the F---ing S--- Out of' Iran as Dow Drops 700
Iran fired ballistic missiles at US military positions in Jordan overnight, and President Trump responded Wednesday morning by telling Fox News, on camera,...
Rebel Wilson Can't Explain Why Her Company Appears in Website Smear Metadata
Rebel Wilson was shown metadata in an Australian courtroom indicating that her own production company, Camp Sugar, was listed as one of the authors of a...
Free Childcare Is Winning Elections and Republicans Have No Answer
For fifty years, Republicans killed universal childcare by calling it a threat to "family values," and Democrats mostly let them. Then the cost of daycare blew...
The Yellow School Bus Is Dying and Nobody in Charge Seems to Care
In 34 Ohio school districts, fewer than 10% of vacant bus driver positions have been filled. Across the country, nine states have already cut or proposed...
Iran Shoots Missiles at Jordan While Iraq Burns: The Middle East Is Fully on Fire
Iran fired ballistic missiles at Jordan on Wednesday. Jordan shot them down. Hours earlier, the United States and Saudi Arabia were bombing militia sites...
A Ghost Gun With a 33-Round Mag Killed Two Bystanders at a Cotton Candy Line
A woman was standing in line for cotton candy with her daughter at a free food festival when someone opened fire and ended her life. Two other people are dead,...
Trump Hosts Zelensky and Netanyahu in Same Day White House Blitz
Donald Trump held back-to-back meetings at the White House on Tuesday with two of the world's most complicated relationships in American foreign policy:...
Trump Killed the Agency That Saved 20,500 Lives and $7.7B — to Save Nothing
Congress gave the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality $345 million this year. The Trump administration spent less than $15 million of it, fired...
Trump's Senate Doormat May Soon Have Even Less to Stand On
John Thune has somehow managed to tell Donald Trump "no" and still wake up every morning with his job intact. That trick is getting harder to pull off, and...
300,000 Haitians Lose Legal Status While State Dept. Still Warns: Don't Go to Haiti
The Trump administration is stripping legal status from 300,000 Haitian immigrants on the grounds that Haiti is now safe enough for them to return. The State...
China Is Shipping Iran 400 Missile Launchers Through Pakistan (Which Totally Isn't Happening)
China is sending Iran up to 400 shoulder-fired missile launchers, routed through Pakistan, in a $60-70 million deal designed to help Tehran shoot down the...
Tupac's Accused Killer Wrote a Book Confessing. Now It's Evidence.
A man who allegedly helped orchestrate the murder of Tupac Shakur, then wrote a memoir about it, then gave a police interview about it, is now upset that...
7.1 Quake Kills 13 in Japan, Mall Still Burning, More Shocks Coming
A magnitude-7.1 earthquake tore through Japan's Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday afternoon, killing at least 13 people, partially collapsing a shopping mall, and...
Trump Recited Graham's Phone Number at His Own Funeral
Senator Lindsey Graham died earlier this month. On Tuesday, at his state funeral inside the Washington National Cathedral, President Donald Trump paid his...
Comey Says DOJ Tracked His Phone Illegally to Build a Seashell Case
The federal government may have illegally tracked James Comey's phone to build a criminal case against him over a beach photo. The Secret Service agents they...
AI Isn't Driving the Productivity Boom. Oops.
Everyone has been telling you that artificial intelligence is turbocharging the American economy. The charts, the TED talks, the breathless CNBC segments, the...
Barron Trump May Be Subpoenaed Over His Tate Brothers Ties
Barron Trump, the 20-year-old crypto millionaire who has carefully avoided saying anything publicly since he told a crowd he liked his suitcase at age four,...
AI Companies Now Print More Money Than McDonald's and Starbucks Combined
Two companies that didn't exist in any meaningful commercial form five years ago are now collectively printing money faster than the golden arches and the...
Wall Street Is Already Picking AI Winners and Losers — and It's Not Just Tech
Sam Altman wants to sell you intelligence the way your utility company sells you electricity, and a new economic study tracking 380 trillion AI tokens suggests...
Trump Made a Billion Dollars in Year One. Half of Swing Voters Shrugged.
Donald Trump made more than a billion dollars in his first year back in office, struck a deal with his own government to stop the IRS from auditing his family,...
J&J Will Pay $5.5B for Baby Powder Cancer Claims It Still Swears Are Fake
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay up to $5.5 billion to settle roughly 76,000 lawsuits claiming its baby powder gave people ovarian cancer. The company would...
7.1 Quake Hits Japan at Maximum Intensity, Tsunami Warnings Issued
Japan got hit with a 7.1-magnitude earthquake Tuesday afternoon that registered at the absolute maximum level on the country's own seismic intensity scale....
Nvidia Lost the 'World's Most Valuable' Crown to Apple in One Day
Nvidia spent months as the crown jewel of the global economy, the living symbol of AI mania, worth more than any company on earth. Then Monday happened. One...
Two Pacific Storms at Once: Hawaii on Watch as Cat 5 Churns Nearby
The Pacific Ocean is running two storms simultaneously this week, and one of them just briefly hit Category 5, the first East Pacific storm to do so in two...
Cracker Barrel CEO Out After Logo Fiasco That Even Trump Weighed In On
A restaurant chain managed to anger its customers so thoroughly over a new logo that the President of the United States took time out of his schedule to...
Both Red Panda Cubs Born at Santa Barbara Zoo This Summer Are Dead
Both red panda cubs born at the Santa Barbara Zoo this summer are dead. The second cub, pulled from his mother on July 19 after staff noticed he wasn't nursing...
Six Months Gone: Savannah Guthrie Begs Her Mom's Kidnappers for Answers
An 84-year-old woman who needs daily medication was kidnapped from her home near Tucson, Arizona, six months ago. Her daughter, NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie,...
Scientists Say Cities Are Blowing a $3-Per-Dollar Return by Ignoring Trees
Dozens of scientists just published a paper arguing that trees — yes, trees, the tall wooden things you walk past every morning without looking up — should be...
Lindsay Clancy Trial Opens With Her Ex-Husband's Gut-Punch Testimony
Three dead children. A paralyzed mother in a wheelchair at the defendant's table. And a father on the witness stand trying to explain why he thought things...
Idaho Killer Wants a Do-Over, Claims Innocent After DNA, Video, and a Knife Sheath Disagreed
Bryan Kohberger stabbed four college students to death, left his DNA at the scene, pleaded guilty, and is now serving four consecutive life sentences. So...
Biden Tapes Drop: 'I Just Found All the Classified Stuff Downstairs'
Joe Biden, on tape, in his own voice, telling his ghostwriter "I just found all the classified stuff downstairs" like he'd stumbled across a box of old VHS...
Wisconsin Tornado Flips Cars, Shreds Roofs, Knocks Out Power to 30,000
At 12:20 in the afternoon on Monday, the sky over northeastern Wisconsin went black as midnight. Then the roofs started coming off. A tornado confirmed by the...
Canadians Canceled the U.S. and It's Costing Billions
Canadians decided they'd rather not, thanks. After two years of tariffs, trade threats, and being told their entire country is basically a future American...
Trump's Spy Chief Pick Advances While the Actual Spy Program Sits Dark
America's most important counter-terrorism surveillance program has gone dark for the first time in its history, the guy tapped to run it couldn't say who won...
Iran Is Running Out of Gas. Iran. The Oil Country.
One of the most oil-rich nations on earth is experiencing gasoline shortages. Let that sentence fully load before you keep reading. Iran, sitting on the...
GOP Gov Calls Trump's Haiti Deportation Blitz 'A Mistake' That Sends People 'Back to Hell'
A Republican governor just looked at the Trump administration's plan to deport 300,000 Haitians and said, out loud, that it sends people 'back to hell.' Ohio...
Every AI Giant Signed the Open-Source Letter. Anthropic Didn't.
Every major player in artificial intelligence signed a letter asking Washington to keep its hands off open-weight AI models. Nvidia signed it. Microsoft signed...
Georgia Teen Stormed Capitol With Loaded Shotgun to 'Scare Congress Into Truth'
An 18-year-old from Smyrna, Georgia drove to the U.S. Capitol in February with a loaded shotgun, body armor, camouflage gear, a gas mask, and a Kevlar helmet,...
MIT Study: 20% Chance AI Kills Millions Within 5 Years
One in five. That is the probability that artificial intelligence develops dangerous weapons capabilities or causes mass harm killing millions of people within...
Authors Won $1.5B From Anthropic. AI Can Still Read Your Book.
Anthropic just agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle with authors whose work it used to train its AI models, which sounds like a massive win until you read the...
The Same Small Businesses That Beat Trump in Court Are Suing Him Again
You would think that losing a tariff case at the Supreme Court might give a president pause. You would be wrong. The same small businesses that already dragged...
France's First Fire-Generated Thunderstorm Shows Up, Politicians Look Away
France just experienced its first pyrocumulonimbus, a fire-generated thunderstorm that makes wildfires nearly impossible to predict or contain, and which until...
Washington Buries Lindsey Graham, Its Most Exhausting Survivor
Lindsey Graham spent three decades outlasting every political moment that should have finished him, surviving Trump's insults, his own contradictions, and the...
McConnell, 84, Still Trapped in Rehab Six Weeks After Mystery Fall
Mitch McConnell has now been absent from the Senate for six weeks, missed 38 votes, and is still not medically cleared to leave his rehabilitation facility,...
Someone Shot at the US Consulate in Toronto. Again.
Someone fired a gun at the United States consulate in Toronto on Monday morning, the second time this has happened in less than five months. A white car with...
Fauci Called Trump 'Truly an Obnoxious Adolescent' in Secret Diary
Anthony Fauci kept a diary during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it turns out he was not a fan of his boss. The journal, released by Rand Paul in what was...
Fed May Hike Rates This Week With Zero Warning. That's New.
The Federal Reserve has spent the better part of thirty years building a reputation for being the most boringly predictable institution in American public...