ICE Shot This Man Near His Elbow. Eight Months Later, His Treatment Is Motrin and Muscle Rub.
A federal agent shot Carlitos Ricardo Parias near his left elbow during an immigration arrest in Los Angeles. Eight months later, he is still in detention,...
Trump Bombed Iran, Then Begged It for a Deal. Iran Won.
Benjamin Netanyahu walked into the Oval Office and told Donald Trump that one more push would collapse the Iranian regime like a house of cards. Four months...
One Dead After Fire Rips Through Dominican Resort Full of Tourists
A luxury beach resort in the Dominican Republic erupted in flames Friday morning while nearly 1,700 guests were on the property, killing one person and...
Tech Bros Call You a Luddite. They Have No Idea What That Means.
A White House adviser went on a podcast recently and called anyone worried about AI killing jobs a "Luddite," as if that settled the argument. It didn't settle...
DOJ Plans to Strip Citizenship From 250 Americans by October
The Trump administration wants to strip citizenship from hundreds of Americans, and it wants to do it fast. The Justice Department is preparing to file at...
Gabbard's Fauci Parting Shot Lands While a Housing Guy Takes Over U.S. Intel
Tulsi Gabbard spent her last days as Director of National Intelligence doing what she always does: making everything about Anthony Fauci. While bipartisan...
Trump Reads List of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Says 'Sounds Good to Me'
The President of the United States read a document comparing him favorably to Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and his official response was 'Sounds good to me!' This...
7,300 Dead and Counting: The Iran War's Brutal Human Cost
A US missile struck a school in the Iranian town of Minab on the opening day of the war, killing 168 people, including 110 children. That was February 28th. It...
RFK Jr. Wants Older Men to Get Testosterone Easier. The Science Says 'Slow Down.'
The Trump administration wants to make testosterone replacement therapy easier to get for older men, and they're celebrating it as putting 'science back at the...
A Critical Care Doc Just Mapped Every Way Trump Is Killing Kids, Slowly
A clinical professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at UCLA just published the most methodically damning indictment of this administration you will...
DACA Recipient Plotted Drone Strike on White House, Sen. Cantwell Has Thoughts... Sort Of
A 31-year-old DACA recipient allegedly organized a 23-person network to rain explosive drones down on the White House during a UFC event on June 14, targeting...
JD Vance's New Memoir: God, MAGA, and Fighting the Pope
JD Vance, the Vice President of the United States, has written a book about his deep and sincere Catholic faith. He has also spent the past year publicly...
Ceasefire Agreed, Fighting Continues, Peace Talks Cancelled: Lebanon Is Fine
Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon on Friday. Then they kept shooting at each other anyway. This is apparently where we are in the summer of...
Rosa Parks's Arrest Number Is Now a Monument. The Supreme Court Just Made It More Urgent.
Bronze hands rise from the pavement in Montgomery, Alabama, holding a placard that reads 7053 — the booking number assigned to Rosa Parks when she was arrested...
GOP Rep Missed 135 Votes in 100 Days and Now Wants Your Vote
A sitting United States congressman disappeared from Capitol Hill for more than 100 days, missed 135 roll call votes, refused to tell anyone what was wrong...
Iran Can Enter the US Day-of and That's It, Says Andrew Giuliani
The United States is hosting the World Cup. One of the teams competing in that World Cup is being told they can fly in the day before a game and must leave the...
Iran Recloses Hormuz Hours After Trump Signed the Deal to Open It
Two days. That's how long it took for the deal Donald Trump signed with Iran to functionally fall apart. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced Friday...
Trump's New Rule Would Kill Half of NIH Cancer Trials to Stop 'Anti-American' Science
The Trump administration has proposed a rule that would hand political appointees direct control over every dollar of federal grant money in America, a $1.5...
Obama: Iran War Cost Billions and Thousands of Lives to End Up Worse Than We Started
Barack Obama sat down with the Today show to open his presidential center and ended up delivering the most devastating four-sentence summary of the Iran war...
Kristi Noem Freed a Lifer. He's Now Charged in His 14-Year-Old Niece's Death.
Kristi Noem commuted a convicted killer's life sentence in 2023. That man, Mark Milk, is now charged in the death of his 14-year-old niece, McKenna Wendel,...
DHS Is Giving Local Cops a Face-Scanning App That Checks 250M Records
The Department of Homeland Security has a new toy for local police, and it is exactly as alarming as it sounds. A newly revealed DHS document outlines plans to...
Banks Closed for Juneteenth But McDonald's Is Open, So We're Fine
Today is Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in America, a day of genuine historical weight and moral reckoning. Costco is open. So...
DOJ Released 3M Epstein Pages and Quietly Unredacted Bannon After CBS Asked
The Department of Justice released over 3 million pages of Epstein documents and called it a day, despite having collected more than 6 million pages during its...
Federal Judges Investigate Themselves for Harassment. Shockingly, It's Not Going Great.
Tens of thousands of people who work for the federal court system cannot sue for harassment or discrimination the way virtually every other American worker...
Half of Americans Think Race Relations Are Bad. Black Americans Say That Number Is Optimistic.
Six years after George Floyd's murder sent millions into the streets, Americans have officially split down the middle on whether race relations in this country...
TSA Begs World Cup Tourists: Please Stop Smuggling Ranch Dressing
The Transportation Security Administration has enough on its plate without confiscating bottles of Hidden Valley from bewildered Norwegians. And yet here we...
Juneteenth Lives. Corporate America Just Stopped Caring.
Juneteenth is still here. The cookouts, the federal day off, the flag emoji in the company Slack channel from HR. What's quietly disappearing is every single...
Hezbollah Drone Kills 4 IDF Soldiers, Blows Up Nuke Deal Too
A Hezbollah drone blew up a tank in Southern Lebanon overnight, killing four Israeli soldiers including a battalion commander, and somehow managed to also blow...
'King of the North' Wins His Seat. Starmer's Clock Is Ticking.
A sitting Labour MP resigned his own seat on purpose just so someone else could win it and come take his boss's job. That is the state of Keir Starmer's...
211 Dead and Counting: The US Military's Nameless, Evidenceless Drug War at Sea
The US military blew up another boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, killing three more people it described as "narco-terrorists," which is a word...
Florida Man Drove to AIPAC With 3 Guns to Kill Jewish Employees — Building Was Empty
A 27-year-old Florida man packed two rifles and a pistol into his truck, drove several hours to an AIPAC office he planned to shoot up, and found an empty...
Minneapolis May Finally Kill a 1988 Gay Bathhouse Ban a Gay Man Helped Pass
Minneapolis is about to vote on repealing a 38-year-old ban on bathhouses and other venues where consenting adults can have sex. The ban was passed in 1988....
Mortgage Rates Are Back in Mortgage Rate Hell, So When Can You Escape?
For one brief, shining moment in early 2026, mortgage rates dipped below 5% for the first time in nearly four years. Then inflation remembered it existed, the...
Tropical Storm Arthur Hits Texas With 'Life-Threatening' Floods Already Spreading
Tropical Storm Arthur made landfall along the upper Texas coast on Thursday, got downgraded from a cyclone to a low pressure area almost immediately, and then...
James Webb Found a Planet With Salt Clouds and We Have Questions
Fifty-seven light-years from Earth, there is a bubblegum-pink planet where it rains salt. Scientists just confirmed this using the James Webb Space Telescope,...
Trump's Iran 'Win': $300B, Nukes OK, Missiles Fine, Nothing Enforced
Donald Trump spent months bombing Iran and demanding "zero enrichment," then walked out to a G7 podium in France on Wednesday and said, actually, Iran can have...
JD Vance on Iran Deal: 'Words Don't Matter'
The Vice President of the United States walked up to a podium at the White House, looked into the cameras, and said the quiet part so loud it rattled windows:...
Ships Moving Through Hormuz for First Time in 110 Days After U.S.-Iran Deal
For the first time in 110 days, major commercial ships are moving through the Strait of Hormuz again. That's the good news. The bad news is that Benjamin...
FDA Panel Unanimously OKs mRNA Flu Shot RFK Jr. Tried to Kill
The FDA's top vaccine advisory committee voted unanimously Thursday to recommend Moderna's new mRNA flu vaccine, mFlusiva, for adults 50 and older. This is the...
Trump's White House Bedroom: Soaked Carpets, Mold Fears, Chip Wrappers
The most powerful man in the world has allegedly been grinding chip wrappers into the White House carpet and leaving his bedroom soaked in spilled drinks while...
Mangione Drops Psych Defense One Day After Announcing It
Luigi Mangione's legal team announced a psychiatric defense in the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder case, then walked it back less than 24 hours later. The reversal...
Obama Library Opening Was a Four-Hour Burn of Trump Without Once Saying His Name
On Thursday, Barack and Michelle Obama opened their presidential center in Chicago with Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Stevie Wonder, and roughly four hours of...
Trump Lifts Iran Blockade, Gives Iran 60 Days to Behave Itself
The United States has lifted its naval blockade on Iranian ports, kicked off a 60-day negotiating countdown, and told the world's oil tankers to get moving...
JD Vance and RFK Jr. Are Eating Sauerkraut for Lent and Paying $18K for the Privilege
The most powerful cabinet in the free world is eating fistfuls of fermented cabbage on the advice of a private doctor who charges $18,000 for a consultation....
Trump Paid Iran Billions to Reopen a Strait He Closed by Starting the War
The United States has signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran that lifts sanctions, unfreezes billions in Iranian assets, and reopens the Strait of...
Three Boys in Zambia Are Orphans Because PEPFAR Got Cut
Joseph is 17 years old and he is the head of his household. His brothers are 15 and 12. They sleep on a bamboo mat and share a single blanket because they sold...
First mRNA Flu Vaccine Heads to FDA Panel — If RFK Jr. Doesn't Kill It First
A vaccine that could help prevent tens of thousands of flu deaths a year, built with the same Nobel Prize-winning technology that ended the Covid pandemic, is...
Russia's 'Skyfall' Nuke Missile Just Spews Radiation on Everyone Below It
Russia tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile last October that, according to a new MIT analysis, works by pumping air directly through its nuclear reactor...
DHS Plans to Hand Local Cops Facial Recognition Tech for ICE Sweeps
The Department of Homeland Security has a document. In that document is a plan. The plan is to hand facial recognition technology directly to local police...
Man Burned a Cross to Protest Trump. It Did Not Go Well.
A 21-year-old University of Illinois Chicago senior burned a cross in one of the most visible public spaces in America, placed a red MAGA hat on top of it, and...
A Black 16-Year-Old Died Inside CHOP. No One's Been Charged in Six Years.
A sixteen-year-old boy traveled a thousand miles to stand up for Black lives in the summer of 2020. He was shot and killed inside the protest zone that was...
Supreme Court About to Rule on Whether Being Born Here Is Enough
The Supreme Court is about to tell millions of American-born children whether the ground they're standing on still belongs to them. Before the term wraps up...
North Dakota Is Quietly Beating Texas and Florida on Taxes — and Big Oil Is Why
North Dakota collects more tax revenue per person than almost every state in the country, and somehow that's the argument for why it's a low-tax paradise. That...
Driver Left Horse to Take a Tourist Photo. An 18-Year-Old Is Dead.
A driver got off his carriage to snap a photo of his passengers. The horse bolted. An 18-year-old tourist from India is dead. And an industry that has spent...
Jet Fuel Is Cheaper. Airlines Are Keeping Your Money Anyway.
Jet fuel prices have fallen more than two dollars a gallon since their April peak, which is genuinely good news for the airline industry. Whether any of it...
Axios Boss Uses AI to Write His Newsletter and Calls It a 'Bionic Brain'
Jim VandeHei, co-founder of the media company built on the gospel of Smart Brevity, has written a column explaining that he uses artificial intelligence to...
Trump Threatened to Seize D.C. If a Socialist Won. She's Winning.
Donald Trump looked at Washington D.C.'s mayoral race and said, essentially, elect a democratic socialist and I will take over your city. The voters of D.C....
The G7 Is Falling Apart and Nobody Needed to Push It
Someone set a Tesla on fire outside the G7 summit last week, and honestly, it might have been the most coherent political statement made by anyone in the...
Trump Kills 37-Year Federal Mob Watchdog Over Teamsters Union
For thirty-seven years, federal prosecutors have kept a watchdog on the Teamsters union because of its well-documented history of mob infiltration. That...
Man Finds Four Blood Clots After AI Catches What His Chiropractor Missed
For five days, Gleb Tsipursky had what he figured was a muscle cramp in his calf. His chiropractor agreed. Then he asked an AI, which immediately flagged deep...