Victor Willis, the Voice Behind 'YMCA,' Dead at 74
Victor Willis, the man who wrote "YMCA," performed it for decades in a cop costume, fought in court to reclaim ownership of it, watched Trump hijack it anyway,...
UN Puts Tech CEOs and World Leaders in a Room to Fix AI Before It Fixes Us
The United Nations has apparently decided that the best way to handle the most consequential technology in human history is to put the people selling it in the...
Serena Williams, 44, Lost at Wimbledon. The Standing Ovation Said Otherwise.
Serena Williams walked onto Centre Court at Wimbledon on Tuesday for her first singles match in nearly four years, got a standing ovation before she even hit a...
Trump Threatens to Defund Kansas School for Not Outing Trans Kids to Parents
The Trump administration has decided that the most urgent use of federal enforcement power is forcing a Kansas school district to out transgender children to...
120 Million Americans Baking in a Heatwave Over July 4th Weekend
Happy Fourth of July, America. Your gift this year is a heat dome sitting on top of 120 million of you like a wet wool blanket soaked in fire. The National...
House Votes 420-0 to Expose Its Own Sex Harassment Slush Fund
The United States House of Representatives voted 420 to zero on Tuesday to force disclosure of the taxpayer-funded sexual harassment settlements that its own...
Taylor Swift Is Getting Married at MSG and 1,000 People Are Invited
Taylor Swift is not getting married in a chapel, or a vineyard, or some tasteful Tuscan villa like a normal obscenely famous person. She is getting married at...
LeBron James, 41, Dumps the Lakers After 8 Years
LeBron James, the 41-year-old man who has been playing professional basketball since most of his current teammates were in elementary school, is leaving the...
Trump White House Lifts Export Controls on Anthropic's Powerful AI Model After 18-Day Ban
The Trump administration quietly lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 AI model Tuesday evening, ending an 18-day stretch during which one of...
Kirk Murder Trial: DNA on the Trigger, a Confession Note, and a Death Penalty Case
The man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk in the neck left a note for his romantic partner that read, according to prosecutors, 'I had the opportunity to take...
Zuckerberg Tried to Buy Kalshi, Got Rejected, Now Building Fake-Money Casino
Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy the hottest company in the prediction market boom, got turned away, and is now building his own knockoff version where nobody uses...
Google's Emissions Hit Record High as AI Boom Torches Climate Pledges
Google has spent years positioning itself as the responsible adult in the tech room, the company that takes climate change seriously, invests in renewables,...
GOP Rep Vanished for 142 Days. Turns Out It Was Depression.
For 142 days, a sitting member of Congress simply disappeared. No explanation. No timeline. Not even his own aides knew what was going on. On Tuesday, Rep. Tom...
Four Guys, 10 Days, $529K: The ATM Heist That's Almost Impressive
Four men allegedly walked up to ATMs along Interstate 95 in Connecticut, cracked the hoods open like they were checking the oil, loaded in some malware, and...
SCOTUS Takes Up AR-15 Bans, and Sandy Hook Families Brace
The Supreme Court has agreed to rule on whether states can ban AR-15-style rifles, which is a perfectly normal thing to have to litigate in a country where...
The 'Big Beautiful Bill' Just Blew Up Student Loans for Millions
Starting this week, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act tears up the federal student loan rulebook for millions of Americans, eliminating repayment options, capping...
Supreme Court Lets Parties Raise Unlimited Cash AND Coordinate With Candidates
The Supreme Court handed American democracy another gut punch Tuesday, striking down decades-old limits on how much money political parties can raise and spend...
SCOTUS to Trump: You Can't Just Un-American Kids With a Pen
The Supreme Court told Donald Trump on Tuesday that he cannot use an executive order to strip birthright citizenship from children born on American soil, which...
AI Is Making You Boring, and It's Doing It on Purpose
A Columbia Business School researcher just published a study analyzing over 110,000 real-world decisions, and the conclusion is as funny as it is terrifying:...
Supreme Court Says States Can Ban Trans Girls From Girls' Sports
The Supreme Court handed down its ruling in West Virginia v. B.P.J. on Tuesday, and it is exactly as bad as it sounds. States can now legally ban transgender...
ICE Detained a Nun Walking to Church in Her Habit
A Roman Catholic nun was arrested by ICE officers while walking to morning mass in her full religious habit in McAllen, Texas. She was dressed as a nun. Going...
Trump's Loan Caps Could Kill the Healthcare Career of a Man a PA Once Saved
Benjamin Pinckney survived a drive-by shooting at 20, made a promise to the physician assistant who saved his life, spent decades working sanitation and...
Harry Wants to Bring His Kids to the UK. Britain Says Pay for Your Own Bodyguards.
Prince Harry wants to bring his wife and kids to the United Kingdom next month. The British government's response, delivered with the full dignity of a...
The Iran Peace Deal Is Already Falling Apart and Nobody's Even in the Same Room
Jared Kushner, the man who once claimed he'd solved the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with a PowerPoint, flew to Doha this week to negotiate a historic peace...
U.S. Murder Rate Hits Record Low and Nobody's Giving Biden or Trump Credit Correctly
The United States is on track to record its lowest murder rate in history, and somehow this genuinely good news has become yet another front in the culture war...
DEA Watched 74,000 Fentanyl Pills Hit Albuquerque and Did Nothing
A DEA special agent turned whistleblower says federal drug agents sat and watched a deal involving 74,000 fentanyl pills go down in an Albuquerque mobile home...
U.S. Brain Scientists Are Fleeing to Britain and Taking Pay Cuts to Do It
American scientists are taking pay cuts to leave the country. Let that sink in. Tenured professors at major research universities are voluntarily earning less...
Supreme Court Set to Rule on Birthright Citizenship and Trans Athletes Tuesday
Tuesday is the day the Supreme Court either defends 150 years of constitutional precedent or hands Donald Trump one of the biggest legal wins of his...
Trump's DOJ Is Fighting a Judge to Hide Notes About a 13-Year-Old's Rape Allegation
A woman who told the FBI she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump when she was between 13 and 15 years old is currently living off the grid, terrified of...
Kash Patel Blew a Sealed FBI Case to Write a Better Tweet
The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may have violated federal law and his own agency's disciplinary code so he could post a brag tweet faster....
Congress Unlocked Free College Money for Workers. Almost No One Qualifies.
Congress passed a big expansion of federal Pell Grants to help low-income workers pay for short-term job training, slapped a July 1 launch date on it, and sent...
Supreme Court Hands Trump the Keys to Every Agency Congress Ever Built
In one ruling, the Supreme Court wiped out a 91-year-old precedent, nullified a 112-year-old law, and handed Donald Trump the power to fire the heads of...
The 'Central Bank for Central Banks' Says the AI Boom Looks Like Every Bubble That Ever Popped
The Bank for International Settlements, which is essentially the central bank that other central banks call when they need an adult in the room, just issued a...
A Tick Can Give You Brain Damage in 15 Minutes. Cases Hit Record High.
A tick can infect you with a potentially fatal, brain-damaging virus in the time it takes to make a cup of coffee. There is no vaccine. There is no cure. And...
Thomas and Gorsuch Want to Kill the Law That Lets You Criticize the President
Two sitting Supreme Court justices just published a formal call to demolish the foundational legal protection for press freedom in America, and they did it in...
America Has Abandoned Aperol for a Pale Green Spritz Nobody Had Heard of Last Month
America's most recognizable summer cocktail just got dethroned by something most people couldn't have named sixty days ago. According to Google Trends data...
Bomb Blast in Monaco Targets Ukrainian Tycoon Sanctioned for Russia Ties
Someone planted a bomb at the front door of a Monaco apartment building Monday night, blew up a Ukrainian construction billionaire and his family, and then...
America Turns 250 and Small Towns Can't Afford the Party
America is throwing itself the biggest birthday bash in its history, and if you live in a small town, you might be watching it on someone else's television. As...
CBS Crew Attacked With Racial Slurs and a Dog in Broad Daylight Chicago
Three men pulled up to a CBS News Chicago crew in a white tow truck on Monday afternoon, shouted racial slurs at the Black photographer, and ordered their dog...
1,300 Dead From Heat and Europe Is Debating Whether AC Is Too Rude to the Planet
More than 1,300 people have died from heat in Europe since June 21, most of them elderly, according to the World Health Organization. France alone has linked...
House Passes Kids Online Safety Bill Senate Plans to Ignore
The House just passed a kids' online safety bill with 267 votes, a genuinely rare show of bipartisan agreement in a chamber that can barely agree on lunch....
Soccer Star Dug Through Rubble for 3 Days. He Found His Wife and Kids Dead.
For three days, a professional soccer player clawed through the ruins of a collapsed building in Venezuela, looking for his wife and two kids. He found them....
Trump's New Labor Secretary Threatened to Defund States With Zero Proof of Fraud
Donald Trump has nominated Keith Sonderling as his permanent Secretary of Labor, a man whose most notable recent achievement was threatening to financially...
Daveigh Chase, 35, Dead From AIDS. Hollywood Did Nothing.
Daveigh Chase voiced Lilo. She crawled out of a television set and scared an entire generation. She won an Annie Award and an MTV Movie Award before she was...
Supreme Court Hands Trump Power to Fire Anyone in the Executive Branch
The Supreme Court just handed Donald Trump the keys to the entire executive branch, striking down nearly all limits on his ability to fire federal agency...
Venezuela's Earthquake Dead Wrapped in Garbage Bags While Army Sets Up Roadblocks
At least 1,719 people are dead after back-to-back earthquakes devastated Venezuela's Caribbean coast, and the government's response has been so...
SCOTUS Just Effectively Killed a Program Protecting 1 Million+ People
The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a ruling on June 25th that immigration experts say could wipe out Temporary Protected Status entirely by the...
Supreme Court Tells Trump to Keep Paying E. Jean Carroll's $5M
The Supreme Court looked at Donald Trump's request to throw out a $5 million civil verdict finding he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll, and said no....
Supreme Court Says Cops Can't Dragnet Your Location Data Without Cause
The Supreme Court just told police they cannot point at a map, demand Google hand over the location history of every person who walked by, and call that a...
Supreme Court Won't Touch Fired NY Healthcare Workers' Vax Case
The Supreme Court looked at a case involving healthcare workers who got fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds, shrugged, and walked...
Supreme Court Saves Mail-In Ballots 5-4, Roberts and Barrett Break With MAGA
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can count mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day and received up to five business days later, handing the...
SCOTUS Just Handed Trump a Blank Check on Immigration
The Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a significant boost to his immigration agenda this weekend, a ruling that arrived at roughly the same moment the United...
Nobody Knows What the New Fed Chair Will Do, Including Probably Him
The man in charge of setting interest rates for the largest economy on Earth has been on the job for a hot minute, and nobody — not traders, not economists,...
Judge Gives DOJ Until July 2 to Release Epstein Files or Explain Itself
A federal judge just gave the Department of Justice a deadline: hand over more unredacted Jeffrey Epstein records by July 2, or stand up in public and explain...
Vance: Watergate Was Just a 'Deep State' Hit Job, Actually
JD Vance stood inside the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on Thursday and told a crowd that Watergate, the scandal that ended a presidency and defined...
House Conservatives Freeze the Floor Until Senate Passes Voter ID Bill Nobody Can Pass
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida has effectively shut down the House floor to force the Senate into passing a voter ID bill that the Senate's own Republican...
Supreme Court Just Made It Harder to Sue Roundup's Maker for Cancer
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday, 7-2, that if a pesticide maker doesn't bother warning you their product might cause cancer, you can't sue them in state court...
SCOTUS Rules 6-3 That You Have to Actually Be in America to Ask America for Help
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 25th that the Trump administration can legally turn asylum seekers away at the US-Mexico border before they set foot on...
Pentagon Mandates Flu Shots Again After Making Them Optional Caused 275 Cases
Pete Hegseth made flu shots optional for military recruits in late April, citing 'medical autonomy.' By June, nearly 300 people at Air Force boot camp in San...
Trump's Mail-In Voting Crackdown Gets Smacked Down in Boston
A federal judge in Boston just threw a wrench into one of Trump's more constitutionally adventurous projects: using an executive order to rewrite who gets to...