3 in 5 Shooting Survivors Get Zero Mental Health Care. California Has a Fix.
Three in five children who survive a shooting in America never receive a single mental health appointment afterward. They patch up the body, send you home, and...
Trump's Plan to House Homeless Vets Funds Zero Homes, Eyes Forced Institutionalization Instead
Over 30,000 American military veterans are sleeping outside tonight. Donald Trump's answer, per his own budget, is to fund exactly zero new homes for them. His...
Iran Peace Deal Means Nothing to Farmers Paying 23% More for Fertilizer
The Strait of Hormuz is open again, the Iran peace deal is tentatively in place, and fertilizer prices are finally ticking downward. Great news, except for the...
Big Oil's Newest Senator Wants to Gut Environmental Review Before His Seat Gets Warm
A man who was running a natural gas company six months ago is now a sitting U.S. Senator, and his single legislative priority is making it easier to build...
Trump Superfan Running to Lead the UN Wants to 'MUNGA'
The United Nations, that venerable institution Donald Trump has spent a decade trying to humiliate into irrelevance, may soon be run by a man who campaigned...
A U.S. Public University Quietly Trained 1,500 Chinese Defense Execs for 20 Years
For more than twenty years, a public university in the Missouri heartland quietly ran an MBA program that trained over 1,500 executives connected to China's...
OpenAI's AI Agent Is Eating ChatGPT's Lunch — And Your Job Is Next
For years, the AI industry has been telling you that the chatbot era was just the warm-up act. Turns out they weren't lying. New research published by OpenAI...
A WWII Navy Officer Saw a Girl in a Magazine and Married Her. The Girl Was a Norman Rockwell.
A Norman Rockwell painting from 1943 is finally on public view, and it turns out the thing contains multitudes: a lawsuit, at least two women who claim to be...
American Politics Is Cracking Up and Nobody's in Charge
Here's where we are: the dominant political movement of the last decade is fracturing, its opposition can't find its footing, a word that sent Democrats into a...
GDP Says We're Fine. Your Grocery Bill Disagrees.
The unemployment rate is low. GDP is humming along. And somehow, Americans feel worse about the economy than they have in years. Democrats are just now getting...
Four Years After Dobbs, Abortion Numbers Are Up. Alito Is Furious.
Four years ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and handed anti-abortion America its biggest victory in half a century. Here is what happened next:...
Medicare Has No Out-of-Pocket Cap. Democrats Want to Fix That.
Here is a fun fact about the flagship American health insurance program, the one that exists specifically so seniors don't get financially destroyed by medical...
Warren: Every Trump Merger Could Be Unwound After 2028
Elizabeth Warren wants every CEO who paid Trump's cover charge to get their deals blessed to know something: the clock is ticking. The Massachusetts senator is...
California Got 'Vital Seconds' Warning Before 5.6 Quake Hit Mendocino
At 8:10 Wednesday morning, over a million Californians got a push notification telling them, essentially, brace yourself. Seven miles north of Redwood Valley,...
Switzerland Watched the World Cup in 95-Degree Heat While Its Glaciers Melt
Switzerland won its World Cup match last week. Great news. Meanwhile, the air in Lucerne felt like the Philippines, the glaciers are among the fastest...
Nintendo Charges $50 for a 1990s Rail Shooter With a New Coat of Paint
Nintendo has released a remake of Star Fox 64 for the Switch 2, stripped the '64' from the title, polished it up with photorealistic animals and sweeping...
Two Monster Quakes Hit Venezuela Within Seconds of Each Other
Venezuela just got hit with two massive earthquakes in the span of seconds. Not one. Two. A magnitude 7.2 followed almost immediately by a 7.5, both striking...
Every U.S. Region Is Losing Kids Except the South, Which Has 304K More
America is running low on children. The under-18 population dropped by 1.8 million between 2020 and 2025, and every single region of the country shrank —...
Six-Alarm Inferno Tears Through Allentown, 3,600 Homes Lose Power
A six-alarm fire tore into an old commercial building in Allentown, Pennsylvania Wednesday night and kept right on going, spreading to nearby homes and...
Big Tech Dropped $24M on One NYC Primary and Still Lost
Twenty-four million dollars. For one congressional primary. In Manhattan. The AI industry and its opponents turned New York's 12th district into the most...
Bessent Admits Globalization Failed. The Policy That Wrecked It Was Theirs.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stood up in New York on Tuesday night and told a room full of people that the entire framework underpinning the global economy...
Judge to Trump: The Constitution Says You Don't Run Elections
A federal judge in Boston just made it official: Donald Trump does not get to rewrite how Americans vote, and the Constitution was pretty clear about that the...
USPS Is Raiding Its Own Pension Fund to Buy Time Until 2031
The United States Postal Service is no longer going broke next year. It's going broke in five to eight years instead, and it's buying that extra time by...
Trump Siccs DOJ on Big Oil for Not Dropping Gas Prices Fast Enough
Donald Trump, the man who spent four years telling you that government should stay out of business, has ordered the Department of Justice to investigate oil...
Texas May Hand Election Control to a 34-Year-Old Pastor Who Thinks Voting Machines Are 'Screwed Up'
Texas is about to hand control of elections in the second-largest state in the country to a 34-year-old megachurch pastor who has never run a polling place,...
Trump's Moms.gov Is Just a CPC Directory With a Bow On It
The Trump administration launched a federal website on Mother's Day called Moms.gov, billed as a health resource for "new and expecting mothers." What it...
Trump Kills Bipartisan Housing Bill to Demand Voter ID Law Instead
Donald Trump had a bipartisan housing bill sitting on his desk, ready to sign, and he spiked it. Not because of anything in the bill. Because he wants Congress...
The Last Soldier Out of Afghanistan Just Got Pushed Out by Hegseth
The man photographed boarding the last plane out of Afghanistan in 2021 just got his own exit arranged for him. Gen. Christopher Donahue, commander of US Army...
Billionaire VC Says AI Won't Kill Your Job, and He'd Know Because He's Trying to Kill Your Job
A billionaire who has made a fortune investing in artificial intelligence sat down with Axios this week to reassure everyone that artificial intelligence will...
AI Stock Party Hits a Wall as Chip Investors Suddenly Remember Gravity
The AI hype train, which has been barreling down the tracks at full speed while investors threw money at anything with a GPU in it, appears to have hit a speed...
Crisis Pregnancy Centers Are Claiming They Can Diagnose Ectopic Pregnancies. They Cannot.
Across the country, crisis pregnancy centers are telling women they can rule out life-threatening ectopic pregnancies with a single free ultrasound. They...
Wes Moore Wins Primary While Trump Called Him 'Not Worthy' of Dinner
Donald Trump tried to bar Wes Moore from a White House dinner earlier this year because he was, quote, 'not worthy' of attending. On Tuesday, Moore won his...
Judge Torches Trump's Courthouse Arrest Policy as 'Arbitrary and Capricious'
The Trump administration decided it was a great idea to start arresting people inside immigration courthouses, hold them in cells for three days, and call it a...
Trump Tells NRA Crowd He's 'Working On' Eliminating Carry Permits Nationwide
Donald Trump stood inside a Mack Trucks facility in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, asked the crowd whether they wanted to be able to carry a concealed weapon...
Congress Just Passed the Biggest Housing Bill in Decades, 358-32
Congress just did something it almost never does anymore: passed a significant piece of legislation with votes to spare. The 21st Century Road to Housing Act...
Trillion-Dollar AI Party Hits a Wall as Nasdaq Drops 2%
The tech industry has spent over a trillion dollars building the AI future, and Wall Street just spent two days asking a very uncomfortable question: what if...
Trump's ODNI Guy Fired 51 Intelligence Staff in His First Week
Bill Pulte has been running the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for about five minutes, and he has already shown 51 intelligence professionals...
DNA Just Named a Forgotten Revolution Soldier After 246 Years
A teenager who enlisted in the Continental Army in 1777, marched through Valley Forge, fought the British at Brandywine and Monmouth, and died in a shallow...
Montreal Sniper Left a 104-Page Incel Manifesto. Nobody Wants to Call It That.
A 25-year-old university student from Alberta dressed in military gear, positioned himself in a Montreal hotel room window, and opened fire on a neighbourhood...
Texas Protesters Get 50-100 Years for a Fireworks Protest Gone Wrong
A man who moved his wife's zine collection got 30 years in federal prison. The man who actually fired a gun got 100. And the people who showed up to set off...
Trump Endorses Both Candidates in Same Race to Avoid Losing Again
Donald Trump, the man who built his entire political brand on winning, has found a creative new strategy for staying undefeated: endorse everyone. Three days...
Supreme Court Lets Cisco Off the Hook for Helping China Torture Dissidents
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a Silicon Valley tech giant cannot be held liable in an American court for allegedly helping a communist government hunt...
Americans Are Dying With Record Debt and Leaving Their Kids the Bill
Here's a fun inheritance story: your parents die, and instead of getting anything, you spend six months on the phone with debt collectors while the estate gets...
Kidnappers Sent a Second Note: Savannah Guthrie's Mom Is Dead
Five months after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her home near Tucson, Arizona, a second ransom note has emerged telling her family what...
RFK Jr Locked Healthy Americans in Rooms for 42 Days Against CDC Advice
Eight Americans walked out of a government quarantine facility in Omaha on Monday after being locked up for six weeks on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s personal...
SpaceX Lost 16% in One Day and Wall Street Is Finally Asking 'Wait, Why?'
SpaceX went public, briefly touched $200 a share, and then proceeded to crater 16% in a single trading day. That is the kind of number that makes people who...
Senate Votes 85-5 to Stop Hedge Funds Hoarding Your House
The United States Senate just voted 85-5 to tell Wall Street to get its hands off your neighborhood. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the most sweeping...
Britain's 7th PM in a Decade Proves Brexit Ate the Country
Ten years ago today, Britain voted to take back control. Since then, it has burned through seven prime ministers, torched its economy, and just watched the guy...
Trump Blames 350-Foot 'Knife Gash' for Reflecting Pool Disaster He Just Spent $16M On
Donald Trump spent $16 million renovating the Reflecting Pool, refilled it earlier this month, and now the paint is peeling off the bottom and floating to the...
A Grandpa Drives Buses and Eats McDonald's With His Grandson. The DOJ Wants Him Back in Prison Until He's 86.
Anthony Bailey, 61, drives a city bus in Indianapolis, plays cards with his family, and takes his 4-year-old grandson to McDonald's for french fries. He has...
Google Uses One Crawler for Search and AI, Daring Publishers to Stop Them
Google has built a neat little trap for publishers, and the door just clicked shut in Cannes. People Inc. CEO Neil Vogel went on the record this week calling...
Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies in French Plane Crash at 69
Claude Guillemot, one of the five brothers who built Ubisoft from a French family business into one of the biggest video game companies on the planet, was...
Trump's Birthright Citizenship Grab Hits the Supreme Court
Donald Trump signed an executive order in January 2025 trying to rewrite one of the foundational promises of American democracy, and now the Supreme Court gets...
Louisiana Pastor Gets 80 Years for Abuse — His Third Conviction
A Louisiana pastor just got sentenced to 80 years in prison for sexually molesting two boys. That sentence is horrifying enough on its own. The part that...
Three Sumatran Tiger Cubs Born in UK Zoo With Only 400 Left on Earth
There are fewer than 400 Sumatran tigers left alive on this planet, which means three cubs born at a Canterbury zoo in April and just now waddling out of their...
A Double Highway Saved This Man's Life. No, Really.
Joe Gillette thought COVID had messed with his eyes. He was right that something was wrong. He was spectacularly wrong about what it was. On his 57th birthday,...
Trump Spent $14M to Turn the Lincoln Memorial Pool Bright Green
Donald Trump wanted the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool painted 'American flag blue' for a patriotic Fourth of July photo op. He spent $14 million of your...
Americans Describe Customer Service in 2026: 'Debilitating, Depressing, Enraging. Ugh'
A licensed attorney in Indiana spent weeks trying to get his Samsung oven repaired, failed completely, bought a second stove just to cook Thanksgiving dinner,...
82,000 Nuns Served Africa Their Whole Lives. They're Dying Without Diapers.
They were doctors, nurses, teachers, and social workers. They gave their entire lives to communities that needed them. Now they are old and dying in convents...
JD Vance Wrote a Whole Book About His Faith While Quietly Hoping His Hindu Wife Converts
JD Vance has written a memoir about finding God, discovering the Catholic Church, and becoming a genuinely better human being. He'd also really like it if his...