Charlie Kirk Murder Trial Begins: DNA, a Confession Note, and a Death Penalty Ask
A 23-year-old man who allegedly shot conservative activist Charlie Kirk in front of thousands of people, then texted his roommate about it, then left a written...
Three Firefighters Dead, 250,000 Acres Burning, and Colorado's Getting Thunderstorms Instead of Help
Three firefighters are dead, a memorial service just wrapped up, and the state of Colorado is staring down a weekend forecast that reads less like weather and...
Super Typhoon Bavi Bears Down on Guam With 180 MPH Winds
A super typhoon with winds expected to hit 180 miles per hour is bearing down on Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands right now, and the local meteorologist...
National Guard Troops Deployed to Fight Crime Just Killed a 20-Year-Old in Memphis
The National Guard troops Donald Trump deployed to Memphis to make the streets safer just shot and killed a 20-year-old man on those streets. Tyrin Johnson is...
25 Dead in US Heatwave While Trump's Mall Fair Shut Down Sick Visitors
At least 25 people are dead across the United States after a record-breaking heat dome parked itself over the eastern half of the country during the Fourth of...
NASA Chief: China Could Beat Us to the Moon by Months
The second space race is here, it's real, and according to NASA's own administrator, the United States and China are separated by something in the neighborhood...
Two Immigrant Congressmen Explain America to a White House That Wants Them Gone
On the weekend America turned 250, two men who came to this country as children speaking no English sat down on national television and explained, with more...
Seaplane Crashes in NYC's East River, Second One in Three Weeks
Two seaplanes in three weeks. Same river. New York City is apparently running some kind of stress test on its emergency responders, and the East River keeps...
McMorrow Drops Out, Leaving Michigan Senate Race a Mess
Mallory McMorrow, the Democratic rising star who was supposed to be one of the party's best shots at holding a Senate seat in a Trump-won swing state,...
Ex-CDC Chief: RFK Jr. Refused Measles Briefing, Installed Unvetted Vaccine Panel
The man running America's public health apparatus refused to receive a briefing on an active measles epidemic from the CDC's top medical official. That's not a...
Clinton's July 4th Shots at Trump: 'Masked Agents,' Unconstitutional Wars, Profiteering
On the nation's 250th birthday, while Donald Trump was busy congratulating himself at Mount Rushmore, Bill Clinton posted a statement that read less like a...
25 Dead as July 4th Heat Wave Bakes 40 Million Americans
America celebrated its 250th birthday this week by trying to cook itself alive. A weeklong heat wave has now killed at least 25 people, with 40 million...
California Just Admitted 'Sell By' Dates Were Made Up This Whole Time
For decades, Americans have been hurling perfectly edible food into the trash because a little stamp on the package told them to. California just passed a law...
Navy Ends 102-Hour Search After Iran War Claims Its 14th American
The U.S. Navy searched 14,000 square miles of the Arabian Sea for more than 102 hours and still couldn't bring one of its pilots home. On Sunday, they stopped...
3% of Kenya's Construction Workers Are Women. This Nairobi Nonprofit Is Fixing That.
Women make up 3% of Kenya's accredited construction artisans. Not because they can't do the work. Because nobody ever trained them, paid them fairly, or told...
NCAA Chief: Fans Are Texting College Kids 'Don't Catch the First Pass So I Can Win Money'
College athletes are getting messages from people in their own social circles asking them to intentionally perform badly on specific plays so that someone can...
Putin Told Trump Russia Is 'Winning' While Ukraine Was Bombing Crimea
While Donald Trump was on the phone with Vladimir Putin hearing about how brilliantly Russian forces are advancing across Ukraine, Ukrainian drones were...
Paul Pelosi, 86, Hits Parked Car, Drives Away, Plays Dumb
Paul Pelosi, 86-year-old husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, hit a legally parked car in California wine country on Friday, briefly stopped, and then...
People Are Paying $20 to Sit in a Dark Room and Listen to Records
Somewhere in Seattle, a woman with a David Bowie tattoo took off her shoes, sat down in a back room, and paid twenty dollars to listen to an album she could...
The 'Ratepayer Protection Act' Protects Everyone Except Ratepayers
Congress has produced a bipartisan bill with "ratepayer protection" right there in the name, and according to consumer advocates, it does almost none of that....
Four Kids Shot on the Fourth: Coney Island Fireworks Ended With a 6-Year-Old Hit in the Stomach
While the rest of America was still watching fireworks, a gunman opened fire on West 31st Street in Brooklyn's Coney Island neighborhood, shooting eight people...
Pope Leo Calls Out 'Tyrants' in Washington, Moscow, and Jerusalem by Name
The sitting pope looked out at a global political order run by Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Benjamin Netanyahu and called them, with essentially zero...
FBI Has Seized 600+ Drones Buzzing World Cup Stadiums
Six hundred drones. Seized. In less than a month. Apparently the 2026 World Cup is not just the biggest soccer tournament on American soil in history, it is...
The American Pope Spent July 4th Praying Over Dead Migrants
The first American pope spent the 250th anniversary of the United States not watching fireworks or eating a hot dog, but standing alone on a jagged jetty in...
America Turns 250 and the Party Is a Malfunctioning Ferris Wheel
America turned 250 years old this Fourth of July weekend, and the official celebrations included a UFC event, a state fair with a broken ferris wheel, and what...
Taylor Swift Married Travis Kelce at MSG and Adam Sandler Officiated
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got married at Madison Square Garden on the Fourth of July, with Adam Sandler officiating the ceremony, Stevie Nicks performing,...
Neo-Nazis Marched on the Capitol on the Fourth of July and the White House Had Nothing to Say
Hundreds of masked white supremacists paraded a Confederate flag through Washington DC on the Fourth of July, the 250th anniversary of American independence,...
Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI to Stay in His Good Graces
Sam Altman, the guy who spent years telling Congress that AI would save humanity, is now reportedly offering Donald Trump a 5% slice of OpenAI just to stay on...
DNA Just Gave a Name Back to a 13-Year-Old Who Died for America in 1780
For 246 years, a shallow grave in the pine forests of Camden, South Carolina held a young man the country had completely forgotten. His name was John Pumphrey,...
Nigerian Kids Learn to Dodge Parasitic Worms Via Board Game
In a part of Nigeria where a third of screened residents have an active parasitic worm infection, someone looked at the public health crisis and thought: what...
Egypt Just Dug Up an Entire Lost City, Complete With Gold Coins and a Deacon's House Church
Egypt just pulled off the archaeological equivalent of finding a fully furnished apartment behind a wall, except the apartment is an entire fourth-century...
Happy 250th, America: Your July 4th BBQ Now Costs $295
America turned 250 years old today, and to celebrate, grocery stores charged you $63 more than last year just to grill some meat in your own backyard. A...
You're Allowed to Cheer for the USMNT Even If You Hate the Government
The US men's national soccer team is one win away from matching their best-ever run in World Cup history, playing some of the best football this country has...
Iran Buries Khamenei on July 4th While Trump Brags at Mount Rushmore
Iran buried its Supreme Leader on America's birthday while Donald Trump stood in front of Mount Rushmore bragging about bombing the country. Mourners in Tehran...
America Turns 250 and Charges $1,330 to Join the Party
America is throwing itself a 250th birthday party this Fourth of July, full of flags and founding-father pageantry and naturalization ceremonies at George...
One Year of MAGA Tax Law: $51B for Amazon, Medicaid Cuts for You
One year ago, Donald Trump signed what he called the One Big Beautiful Bill on the Fourth of July, because of course he did. Twelve months later, the...
Happy 250th, America. Now Please Don't Die Outside.
The United States is turning 250 years old this week, and the country is marking the occasion the way it does everything now: in crisis. A punishing heat wave...
Baby Formula Recalls Mount as Trump Gutted the FDA Inspectors Meant to Stop Them
Multiple brands of infant formula have been recalled in the United States over bacterial contamination, including two cases tied to active botulism outbreaks,...
102 Degrees, a 'Really Long' Trump Speech, and a Fraud Probe: Happy 4th
America is turning 250 years old tomorrow, and to celebrate, the president is planning to deliver what he himself described as a "really long" speech outdoors...
Trump May Pardon Diddy While Definitely Pardoning Diesel Cheats
The President of the United States spent part of his Friday afternoon in a meeting about whether to free a convicted sex tourism offender, a man who helped a...
Active-Duty Air Force Major Arrested at Capitol Calling for Trump's Impeachment
An active-duty United States Air Force major was arrested Wednesday at the Capitol steps while calling for the impeachment of President Trump, knowing full...
Ukraine Is Blowing Up Whatever It Wants Inside Russia Now
Moscow residents scrambled for cover as explosions rang out and what witnesses described as 'black rain' fell over the city. This is not a metaphor. This is...
Louisiana AG Indicted for Threatening Officials Who Backed Wrongly Imprisoned Man
Louisiana's attorney general got a 16-count criminal indictment dropped on her Thursday for allegedly threatening local elected officials who tried to let an...
Russia Drops 570 Missiles and Drones on Kyiv in Biggest Attack of the War
Russia fired 74 missiles and 496 drones at Kyiv overnight, killing at least 21 people and wounding 85 more in the single largest attack on the Ukrainian...
Trump's DOJ Sued Philly So Feds Can Keep Wearing Masks
The Trump Justice Department, which spent years calling mask mandates tyranny, just sued a major American city to protect the right of federal agents to wear...
FBI Mobilizes 260 Agents to Relitigate Georgia 2020 Race Trump Lost Twice
The FBI has ordered every field office in the country to send analysts to Atlanta to help dig through 2020 Fulton County election records, mobilizing 260...
Trump Made $1.4B in Crypto. His Tax Bill Is a Black Box.
Donald Trump made $1.4 billion off cryptocurrency while sitting in the Oval Office and regulating the industry he was personally profiting from. His financial...
Trump's Ed Dept Is Hiding School Civil Rights Data — 7 Months and Counting
The federal government tracks which kids are getting bullied, which students can access the internet, and which schools are failing their most vulnerable...
Trump Is Now Trading AI Access for Loyalty, Like a Tech Mob Boss
Forget NATO commitments, shared democratic values, or decades of security cooperation. According to Axios, the Trump administration has found a new way to sort...
Trump Accidentally Saves the Planet By Blockading 20% of World's Oil
Donald Trump, the man who called climate change a Chinese hoax and spent his presidency trying to resurrect coal like a deranged Dr. Frankenstein, may have...
Supreme Court Spent This Term Quietly Killing Congress
The Supreme Court just wrapped up one of the most consequential terms in modern American history, and the verdict is in: Congress lost. Not on one issue. Not...
NCAA Chief: Supreme Court Trans Ruling Changes Nothing For Us
The Supreme Court ruled this week that states can ban transgender athletes from school sports, and the man running college athletics in America shrugged. NCAA...
Tariffs Are Now Ruining Weddings Too, Up 8.5% This Year
Nothing says "til death do us part" like going into debt over imported flowers that cost 30% more than they did two years ago. Wedding spending jumped 8.5% in...
Trump Blows Up North America's $2 Trillion Trade Deal
The United States has officially refused to renew the USMCA, the trade agreement that underpins roughly $2 trillion in annual commerce across North America,...
Netflix Stars Arrested After Proposing on Top of Empire State Building Spire
Two people in black masks scaled the full 1,454-foot height of the Empire State Building on Wednesday, unfurled a peace banner from the spire, got engaged...
Trump Pocketed $2B Since January and Flew Qatar's Gift 747 This Week
Donald Trump has raked in two billion dollars since returning to the White House, half of it from cryptocurrency he has been publicly promoting from the Oval...
Trump's 927-Page Finance Dump: $1B Crypto, $86M in Lawsuits, and a $208K Bible
The US Office of Government Ethics just dropped 927 pages of Donald Trump's financial life, and it reads less like a government filing and more like the fever...
Trump's First Flight on Qatar's $400M Gift to America
The President of the United States flew to North Dakota on Wednesday aboard a $400 million luxury Boeing 747 given to him by the government of Qatar. He called...
MAGA Found Its Feminist Era and It's Aimed Straight at Trans Kids
On the steps of the Supreme Court this week, a crowd of young women cheered a ruling that strips transgender students from girls' sports teams, holding signs...
Iran May Start Charging Tolls on the Strait of Hormuz — Yes, Really
Iran spent the early months of 2026 turning the Strait of Hormuz into a parking lot for the global oil supply. Now, with a shaky ceasefire in place, Tehran is...