Hezbollah's 74,000-Kid Terror Scout Camp Has a Martyrdom Merit Badge
While American kids are earning badges for birdwatching and learning to tie knots, Hezbollah is running a 75,000-member scouting program that hands teenagers...
GOP Rep Quit After Ethics Probe Found He Sexually Harassed His Own Staff
A sitting Republican congressman who represented a district Donald Trump won comfortably has decided not to run for reelection after the House Ethics Committee...
Trump Threatens Jail for Leakers Who Exposed We're Almost Out of Missiles
The United States has burned through virtually its entire stockpile of long-range precision missiles in the war with Iran, and the man responsible for that...
98 Sick, 1.5M Dozen Eggs Recalled — Check Your Kroger Carton Now
There is a decent chance you have a carton of potentially salmonella-contaminated eggs sitting in your refrigerator right now. A Texas egg producer has...
9 Beluga Whales Rescued From a Park That Threatened to Kill Them All
A Canadian theme park closed in 2024, kept dozens of beluga whales in limbo for over a year, and then announced it would kill all of them if nobody came up...
Explosive Drone Found at German Airport Near Ukrainian Cargo Planes
Someone left a drone packed with explosives on the runway of one of Germany's busiest cargo airports Tuesday night, and the planes parked nearby happened to be...
FDA Approves mRNA Flu Shot Despite RFK Jr. Sabotaging the Whole Process
The FDA just approved the first-ever mRNA flu vaccine, a genuine public health breakthrough that is about 27% more effective than the shot you've been getting...
GOP Bill to Kick 24,000 People Out of Housing Targets the Disabled and Elderly
A Republican senator is introducing legislation to kick undocumented immigrants out of federally subsidized housing, including programs specifically designed...
Hawaii Telescope Snaps Sharpest-Ever Sun Photos, Finds Van Gogh Painted It First
Scientists accidentally took the most detailed photographs of the sun's surface in human history while trying to do something else entirely, and what they...
Frog Gut Bacteria Nuked Every Single Tumor in These Mice
Researchers at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have found a bacterium living inside the intestines of Japanese tree frogs that, in a...
Gen Z Is Buying Dumb Phones to Escape the Apps That Ate Their Brains
A 23-year-old in Washington, D.C., described the moment she traded her iPhone for a flip phone as "heaven on earth." That sentence alone tells you everything...
Democrats Just Put Boebert, Hudson, and 10 Others on Their Hit List
Ninety days out from the midterm elections, House Democrats just added 12 new Republican-held districts to their target list — including the seat belonging to...
Trump Declassifies Proof the FBI Once Thought He Was a Russian Asset
The Trump White House just voluntarily told the world that the FBI once opened a secret investigation into whether Donald Trump was personally acting as an...
Lab Mixed Up Her Biopsy. She Lost Her Uterus Anyway.
An Atlanta mother had her uterus, cervix, fallopian tubes, ovaries, and four lymph nodes surgically removed because a lab technician slapped the wrong name on...
Trump's 'Golden Age' Economy Is Running at About 40 Cents on the Dollar
Donald Trump promised America a golden age. Six percent GDP growth. An economic renaissance so dazzling it would make the Roaring Twenties look like a...
AI Bots Are Now Spending Hours Talking Voters Into Positions They Never Held
Somewhere right now, a voter is having a long, meaningful political conversation with a chatbot pretending to be a candidate, and that chatbot is learning...
Susan Collins Won't Vote for Blanche, Calls DOJ 'Increasingly Political'
Susan Collins has seen enough. The Maine Republican announced Tuesday she will vote against Todd Blanche's confirmation as attorney general, citing a Justice...
1-in-3 Veteran Coal Miners Now Have Black Lung — Worst Rate Since 1978
One in three veteran underground coal miners in central Appalachia now has black lung disease. That is the worst rate since 1978. And the federal agency tasked...
MLS Picks a Private Equity Guy to Save American Soccer
Major League Soccer just handed the keys to a former Apollo Global Management senior partner who thinks American soccer can beat baseball. That's either a...
The Guys Who Robbed Travis Kelce Are Sitting in Argentina's Scariest Prison
Two men who allegedly made a career out of burglarizing NFL stars' homes while the players were on the road are now sitting in a Buenos Aires maximum security...
Dallas Cop Watched Colleague Type Passcode, Stole Her Nude Photos. Got 15 Days Off.
A Dallas Police sergeant allegedly memorized a female officer's passcode, borrowed her phone under false pretenses, broke into a password-protected hidden...
Black Caucus May Require Jeffries Loyalty Oath to Join
The Congressional Black Caucus is reportedly considering a new membership requirement for incoming Democrats: swear loyalty to Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker, or...
Six Idiots Hacked a Cruise Ship Intercom to Fake a Shipwreck
Six adults, presumably with working brains somewhere in their skulls, decided the best use of their Mediterranean cruise was to hijack the ship's PA system at...
Trump Blinks on Iran Bombing, Bets Everything on a Wednesday
On Saturday, Donald Trump decided not to bomb Iran. That's the news. A president who spent weeks threatening a 'massive bombing campaign' looked at the clock,...
SpaceX Stock Is Now Worth Less Than Your IPO Ticket
SpaceX went public at $150 a share in what became the largest IPO in human history, briefly made Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire, and then proceeded...
Missouri's GOP Secretary of State Trashes 300K Signatures to Save Trump's Gerrymander
Over 300,000 Missourians signed a petition asking to vote on their own congressional map. The Republican official in charge of elections waited until the...
Mike Lindell Quits MyPillow to Run for Governor on Pillow Bribery Charges
Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy, the man who spent millions of his own money chasing a voter fraud conspiracy that courts rejected roughly 60 times, has now...
SpaceX Lost $2B in Six Months and Elon Says You're the Problem
SpaceX published its first-ever quarterly earnings report on Tuesday, and it turns out that building the future costs an absolutely staggering amount of money...
Armed Man With AR-15, Body Armor Arrested Casing Trump's Golf Course
A man was caught walking through Trump National Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes last Sunday, photographing security operations, with a loaded 16-round...
Barbie and Bridgerton Makeup Artist Ava Gillies, 26, Killed When Audi Slammed Into Her Car
Ava Gillies was 26 years old, five years into what was already a remarkable career in film and television, and she was driving home on a country road in North...
Activists Are Living in a 200-Year-Old Tree to Stop Trump's Border Wall
Federal contractors working for Fisher Sand and Gravel showed up to a remote Arizona valley last week and crushed three ancient cottonwood trees with...
Judge Forced to Free Oath Keepers Seditious Conspiracy Convictions: 'The Court Cannot Write a Different Ending'
A federal judge just wiped out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Stewart Rhodes and eight other Oath Keepers who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 —...
Banks Knew Epstein Was Moving Dirty Money for Years. They Said Nothing.
Twelve-plus bankers at three of America's biggest financial institutions spotted Jeffrey Epstein moving suspicious money around as far back as 2002. Most of...
NY Deputy Police Commissioner Fired for Driving Son's Getaway Car
A New York deputy police commissioner making $138,219 a year to keep people safe allegedly spent her free time driving her son's getaway car after he opened...
ICE Arrests Pharmacy Prof the Day He Won Teacher of the Year
Berhanu Kibret flew to Texas to accept a national teaching award. He flew home in ICE custody. The University of Maryland pharmacy instructor, fresh off...
Accused of Hitting His Wife, Rep. Max Miller Demands an Ethics Probe of Himself
An Ohio Republican congressman accused of hitting and threatening his ex-wife has decided that the best defense is a self-referral to the House Ethics...
Senate Dems Demand Trump Explain His Secret AI Policy to Someone, Anyone
The Trump administration has been making consequential decisions about American artificial intelligence policy, and apparently nobody outside the...
UFC Lost $30M Throwing Trump a Birthday Party at the White House
The UFC lost thirty million dollars staging a fight event on the White House lawn for Donald Trump's 80th birthday, and they knew it was going to happen before...
Hungary's Only Nuke Plant Was Millimeters From Shutdown Last Night
At 1:30 in the morning on Tuesday, Hungary came within a few millimeters of shutting down its only nuclear power plant because a river ran too low to cool it....
Manufacturing and Construction Are Back — And AI Is Writing the Check
Two of the sectors that got absolutely flattened by the Federal Reserve's years-long interest rate squeeze are suddenly hiring again. The twist? They're not...
Lindsey Graham's Sister Wants His Senate Seat — Just Not His Foreign Policy
Lindsey Graham died on July 11. By August, his sister had already been appointed to finish his Senate term and announced she wants to keep the seat for six...
8 Novels Worth Hiding Inside With This August
The dog days of summer have arrived, the air feels like a wet sock, and the news cycle is, as always, a carnival of misery. Here is your permission slip to go...
Billing Medicaid From Prison: 19 Charged in $4M Philly Fraud Sweep
Some of the defendants in the latest federal Medicare and Medicaid fraud sweep allegedly billed the government for home health care services while they were...
Business Students Using AI Jumped from 6% to 29% in 3 Years
Those viral graduation videos of students booing AI-boosting commencement speakers made for great content. They also told roughly a quarter of the story. New...
Judge Lets ICE Keep Its Masks, But NY Cops Don't Have to Help
A federal judge ruled Monday that New York cannot force ICE agents to show their faces while conducting immigration enforcement operations, handing the Trump...
Katie Miller Called Fauci 'Enemy' After He Talked Her Through Pregnancy Anxiety
Anthony Fauci called Katie Miller "a couple times per day" to calm her through pregnancy anxiety, sent the couple a baby gift, and chatted warmly with her...
Senate Drags Medicaid Experts In to Explain Why Kicking Poor People Off Insurance Is Bad, Actually
Months after the Trump administration quietly dropped a rule forcing 42 states and Washington D.C. to make poor people prove they deserve healthcare, the...
The Democrat Who Flipped a Trump District Is Getting Stabbed by Her Own Party
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez did the impossible: she flipped a district Trump has carried three times, ran seven points ahead of her own party's presidential...
Trump's Personal Lawyer One Step Closer to Running the DOJ
The man who sat next to Donald Trump at a criminal defense table is about to sit at the head of the United States Department of Justice. Todd Blanche, Trump's...
Iraq Vet Zip-Tied in Her Own Yard by National Guard for Hanging Anti-Guard Signs
A retired U.S. Army captain who earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star in Iraq was tackled in her front yard and zip-tied by three National Guard troops while...
Democrats Betting a Medicare-for-All Outsider Can Win Michigan's Senate Seat
The Democratic Party is about to find out, in real time, whether running a Medicare-for-All anti-establishment candidate in a must-win Senate race is a bold...
Trump at 33%: Only Nixon Quit Before Hitting This Low
Donald Trump is polling at 33% approval, a number that, among second-term presidents in the modern era, only beats Richard Nixon — a man who resigned in...
25 States Sue Trump Over Tariffs Covering 99.4% of US Imports
The Trump administration slapped tariffs on 99.4% of all US imports and called it a forced labor crackdown. On Monday, 25 states called it something else:...
Man Arrested for Starting One of the Spokane Fires That Destroyed 700+ Homes
While 67,000 people were fleeing their burning neighborhoods in Spokane this weekend, one man allegedly had his hand in starting the whole thing. Aaron F....
Trump Tells Rep. Miller 'Things Aren't Looking Good' After Assault Reports
President Trump called Republican Rep. Max Miller on Monday and told him his reelection looks rough, days after reports emerged that Miller assaulted his...
Three Wildfires Just Erased 600 Homes in Spokane
Three wildfires are tearing through Spokane, Washington right now, and the numbers are staggering in the worst possible way. More than 7,000 acres burned....
Trump Calls His Own Hand-Picked DC Prosecutor a Coward for Dropping a Case the Feds Themselves Botched
Donald Trump spent Monday calling his own handpicked U.S. Attorney a coward for dropping criminal charges that the Justice Department dropped because the...
Man With Valid Work Permit Dies in ICE Custody. He's the 22nd This Year.
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo had a work permit. He showed it to the ICE agents who arrested him. They took him anyway, locked him in a New Jersey detention facility,...
Trump's Wall Is Stealing Ranchers' Water in a Drought Zone
Contractors building Donald Trump's border wall in drought-stricken New Mexico drilled at least six unpermitted wells into local aquifers, pumping up to 200...
Jan. 6 Rioters Sue Cops for Beating Them Up While They Rioted
The people who stormed the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, assaulted police officers with flagpoles, bear spray, and their own bodies, and then spent...