Jackson's Mayor Took FBI Bribe Money and Called It a 'Political Prosecution'
The former mayor of Jackson, Mississippi spent years positioning himself as a progressive champion of the people. Then he pleaded guilty to taking $50,000 in...
Mexico Says the U.S. Lied About How It Snatched a Cartel Boss
Mexico is officially investigating whether the United States kidnapped a cartel kingpin off its soil, lied about it to the Mexican government, and then had the...
Russia's Back in the Olympics, Flag TBD, Conscience Apparently Optional
The International Olympic Committee announced Tuesday that it is lifting Russia's suspension and clearing the path for Russian athletes to compete at the 2028...
Sanders Tells Rape-Accused Senate Candidate to Get Out
Bernie Sanders, the man who campaigned with Graham Platner multiple times and waved off scandal after scandal to keep backing him, has finally told the Maine...
Coco Gauff Reaches First Wimbledon Semi-Final After Four Three-Set Wars
Coco Gauff has been playing Wimbledon for seven years, got bounced in the first round last year, and has now somehow bulldozed her way into the semi-finals by...
22% Interest and Rising: America's Credit Card Trap Is Swallowing People Whole
The average credit card interest rate in America is sitting at nearly 22%. Not 8%. Not 12%. Twenty-two percent. If you're one of the millions of cardholders...
700 Cases of 'Explosive Diarrhea' Parasite Hit Michigan. CDC Is Alarmed.
Michigan is currently hosting almost 700 cases of a parasitic illness whose signature symptom is, and we are quoting the CDC directly here, "watery diarrhea...
Trump Wants to Sell F-35s to Turkey, and Israel Is Losing Its Mind
Donald Trump flew to Ankara on Tuesday and, in classic Trump fashion, casually floated selling some of the most advanced fighter jets on the planet to a NATO...
Belgium Mocked Trump's Dance on the Pitch While Ending the USMNT's World Cup
The United States' World Cup dream died in Seattle on Monday night, and Belgium made absolutely sure to rub it in. The Red Devils beat the hosts 4-1, posted...
Trump Admin Allegedly Mailed Iranian Asylum Files Straight to Tehran
The Trump administration allegedly took the personal files of Iranians fleeing persecution, including details about their pro-democracy activism, their...
Convicted Embezzler Marine Le Pen Can Run for President, But Has to Wear an Ankle Tag
A French appeals court ruled Tuesday that Marine Le Pen, convicted embezzler and three-time presidential candidate, is technically eligible to run for...
Kavanaugh's Trans Sports Ruling Is Just Dobbs With a Whistle
The Supreme Court ruled last week that states can ban transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports, with Brett Kavanaugh writing the majority opinion...
Planned Parenthood's Medicaid Is Back — After 30 Clinics Already Closed
Planned Parenthood is allowed to bill Medicaid again as of this Sunday, which sounds like good news until you realize what the past year actually cost. Nearly...
ICE Sent Agents to a Man's Home Because He Called the Director Mean Names in an Email
A US citizen sent a strongly worded email to ICE's acting director calling him mean names and predicting he'd die filled with shame. ICE's response was to...
Cracker Barrel Dumpster Evidence Cracks 40-Year-Old Ohio Murder Case
A man was murdered in an Ohio Holiday Inn forty years ago, and the evidence that finally cracked the case spent decades sitting in a file connected to a...
Zelenskyy to NATO: We're Killing Russians by the Tens of Thousands, Just Let Us Stop Their Missiles
Volodymyr Zelenskyy showed up to NATO's Ankara summit Tuesday with a fairly extraordinary pitch: Ukraine has built the world's most advanced drone warfare...
Trump Claims Credit for Walmart Sale He Had Nothing to Do With
Walmart quietly rolled out a summer sale last week on beef, soda, and sweet corn. Then Donald Trump logged onto the internet and announced that he personally...
Trump Pulls the Communist Card Because He's Got Nothing Left
Donald Trump stood in front of Mount Rushmore on America's 250th birthday and warned the nation about a resurgence of the "communist menace." The economy is...
Coach Knew This Kid Had Sickle Cell. Made Him Do 100 Burpees Anyway.
A college strength coach allegedly knew a freshman football player had Sickle Cell trait, had been told by other coaches the workout wasn't safe, and ran the...
Democrats Have a Plan to Kill Junk Fees, Robocalls, and Hold Music Hell
American companies are collectively stealing $165 billion a year from you, and the weapon of choice is not a heist or a scam — it's the hold music, the hidden...
Trump Gutted the DOJ and Now Its Lawyers Are Suing Him
The Trump administration spent the last year and a half hollowing out the federal government's legal workforce, and those lawyers didn't just disappear. They...
Toyota Moves Tacoma Production to Texas After Trump Blows Up USMCA
Toyota just announced a $3.6 billion investment to move most of its Tacoma pickup truck production from Mexico to San Antonio, Texas — and the reason why tells...
America's Roads Are Melting and We Have No Plan to Fix Them
Over the Fourth of July weekend, a lane of Interstate 97 south of Baltimore simply warped out of existence, twisted into uselessness by the heat before anyone...
Ohio and Oklahoma Just Lost a Third of Their Obamacare Enrollees
Congress let enhanced Obamacare subsidies expire, and the bill is coming due in the most literal sense possible: people are losing their health coverage at a...
Sniper Pad in the Gravel: What Prosecutors Showed at the Kirk Murder Hearing
A detective looked at a disturbed patch of gravel on a rooftop above a university tent and described elbow marks, knee marks, and a direct sightline to where...
Mitch McConnell Has Been in the Hospital for 3 Weeks and Nobody Will Say Why
Mitch McConnell has been in a hospital for going on three weeks, and his office's entire communication strategy appears to be issuing vague one-sentence...
Schumer Tells Maine Dem Candidate to Drop Out Four Months Before Election
Democrats had one Senate race they were genuinely excited about in 2026. Maine was the play. It was supposed to be the easy one. Now Chuck Schumer is on the...
Democrat's Maine Senate Bid Melts Down After Rape Allegation
Maine's Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner is reportedly "taking the time to consider his next steps" after his ex-girlfriend accused him of drunkenly...
Canada Buys 12 Subs From Germany Because One Working Sub Isn't Enough
Canada currently has four submarines. One of them works. This is not a punchline — it is the official operational reality of a country with the longest...
Mom Who Blamed Vaccines for Twin Deaths Charged With Murdering Them
An Idaho woman spent over a year telling the world that vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins, raising money on crowdfunding sites, appearing on an...
ICE Puts $10M Bounty on El Chapo's Last Two Fugitive Sons
ICE just slapped a fresh wanted poster on the last two at-large sons of the most famous drug lord alive, complete with big red Xs over their captured brothers'...
The Fed's Inflation Ruler Is Getting Shorter Right When Inflation Is High
The government is about to change the math on its most important inflation measurement, and the new math will make inflation look better. This is either a...
Trump Named a $1,000 Kids Savings Account After Himself (He Says He Didn't Ask)
Donald Trump stood in the Oval Office on Monday, rang the New York Stock Exchange bell for the first time ever at the White House, and launched a government...
Xbox CEO Admits 'Our Business Is Not Healthy' as 3,200 Jobs Get Cut
Microsoft's new Xbox CEO just sent a memo to her employees that read, and we are quoting directly here, 'Our business today is not healthy.' Then the company...
American Private Equity Just Bought Your Cheap Ryanair Rival for $6.7B
A Minneapolis private equity firm that most people have never heard of just agreed to buy one of Europe's most recognizable budget airlines for $6.7 billion....
Indonesia Just Made Being Gay a National Security Threat
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has officially designated the spread of LGBTQ culture as a threat to national defense, placing it in the same regulatory...
In 1973, a Gay Preacher Built a Street Gang to Protect Queer People. The City Wouldn't.
On July 6, 1973, a gay preacher in San Francisco got so tired of watching his community get beaten in the streets that he formed a vigilante group armed with...
JD Vance Is Trump's Chosen One Now and Rubio Wasn't Even Plan B
JD Vance has had himself a summer. The Vice President brokered a tentative peace deal with Iran, wrote a bestselling book, went on a media blitz that would...
Dirty Air Is Making Kids Fat, and the EPA Just Got Gutted
A peer-reviewed study from Mt. Sinai researchers has found that breathing dirty air as a baby may literally rewire a child's brain in ways that make them more...
Medicare for All Is Back, Baby, and the Centrists Are Sweating
The centrists spent years telling you Medicare for All was a fantasy cooked up by people who don't understand how anything works. Then the 2026 primaries...
Trump's White House Wrote a 162-Page Report Attacking the Smithsonian for Teaching History
The Trump White House spent what appears to have been a substantial chunk of taxpayer time and money producing a 162-page report, released on the Fourth of...
Russian Bomber Buzzed a British Aircraft Carrier at Low Altitude. Twice.
A Russian military aircraft spent last Thursday flying unnecessarily close to Britain's flagship aircraft carrier in the Norwegian Sea, dropping sonar devices...
Russia Fired 29 Ballistic Missiles at Kyiv. Every Single One Hit.
Russia fired 29 ballistic missiles at Kyiv overnight and every single one of them hit something. At least 12 people are dead, 60 more are wounded, residential...
Trump Calls FIFA, Gets Red Card Overturned, Now Takes Credit for Record Crowds
America is falling in love with soccer, attendance records are being shattered, millions of people who couldn't have named a single USMNT player two weeks ago...
Trump Paid $2.6B to Kill Wind Jobs and Blame Birds for It
Donald Trump has now spent more than $2.6 billion in taxpayer money buying out wind energy leases, killing projects that were already under construction and...
Walk Fast in Your 80s, Keep Your Brain: Study Cuts Dementia Risk in Half
Here is a finding that should make every shuffling, sedentary American put down their crossword puzzle and go outside: people in their 80s who walk faster than...
NOAA Is Hiring Rookies to Forecast Hurricanes Because It Fired All the Veterans
The Trump administration spent 2025 firing and buying out roughly 600 experienced National Weather Service meteorologists, shrinking the agency by about 15...
NCAA Chief: Trans Athlete Ban Is Fine, Actually, Please Move Along
There are roughly 500,000 student athletes competing under the NCAA banner. According to the NCAA's own president, exactly ten of them were transgender. Ten....
Taylor Swift's Wedding Had 1,000 Guests and Everyone Is Hungover
Taylor Swift married Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden on Friday night in front of roughly a thousand of their closest friends, which is to say, basically...
Medicare Dropped 140,000 Seniors for Unpaid Bills as Small as $8.10
A 77-year-old man in Minnesota is rationing his stroke-prevention medication because his Medicare drug plan dropped him over $28.80 in unpaid premiums he never...
Charlie Kirk Murder Hearing Starts Monday With Autopsy Evidence, Confession Texts
The man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk dead in front of thousands of people at a Utah university is heading into a five-day evidence hearing this week, and...
Man Died Waiting for Heart Meds After Insurance Switch. His Wife Is Furious.
A man who survived a heart transplant died in front of a Dollar General in Kissimmee, Florida, after his new health insurance plan failed to get him the...
Russia Killed 11 in Kyiv Monday. We're Out of Missiles to Stop Them.
Russia launched a massive overnight missile and drone assault on Kyiv early Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 60 more, just four days after a...
China Fires Nuclear Sub Missile Into Pacific 'Free Zone' It Promised to Respect
China fired a long-range ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine into the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone on Monday, the same zone China legally...
A Firework Hit a Passenger Jet on Final Approach Into Chicago
A commercial passenger jet was struck by a fireworks mortar while descending into Chicago Midway Airport on the Fourth of July, and somehow that sentence is...
The Baseball Team That Sells Out Fenway With Stilts, Grandmas, and Foster Kids
A man in a yellow tuxedo has figured out how to sell out Fenway Park with a game that bans bunting, puts grandmas on the field, and makes a baby dressed as a...
San Diego Man Raised $600K for 'Gaza Relief' and Sent It to Hamas
A 38-year-old San Diego man raised roughly $600,000 in online donations for Palestinian relief and allegedly sent a chunk of it directly to Hamas. Not...
London Cabbies Memorized 25,000 Streets. Waymo Wants Their Jobs.
To drive a black cab in London, you have to memorize 25,000 streets, 6,000 landmarks, and every shortcut between them — a feat so cognitively brutal that...
Trump Gave a 37-Minute Speech at 1am in a Thunderstorm to 150,000 Wet Strangers
At some point past midnight on July 5th, 2026, the President of the United States stood on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., soaking wet in the aftermath...
Americans Now Spend Just 35 Minutes a Day With Other Humans
Thirty-five minutes. That is the average amount of time an American adult now spends socializing on any given day, down from 45 minutes two decades ago....