Rob Reiner's Son Won't Face Death Penalty for Stabbing Both Parents
Nine months after Rob and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death inside their Brentwood home, Los Angeles prosecutors announced Tuesday they will not seek...
ICE Stopped Counting Miscarriages in Its Detention Centers
ICE detained a record number of pregnant women, recorded 18 miscarriages in its first nine months under Trump, and then simply stopped keeping track. Not...
Iran Tried to Steal a U.S. Navy Drone. It Did Not Go Well.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard tried to steal an American military drone in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. The U.S. military responded by destroying two Iranian...
The Texas Police Department That Jailed a Water Whistleblower Got Disbanded for Being Useless
A Texas police department that arrested a woman for posting on Facebook about contaminated water has been ordered shut down after state investigators...
Trump's Canada Tariffs Are Hitting the Farmers Who Voted for Him
Montana farmers voted for Donald Trump three times. Now Canada has slapped retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of U.S. goods, including the farm equipment...
FBI Now Hiring People Who Stole From Bosses and Committed Bestiality
The FBI, the federal agency responsible for maintaining law and order in the United States, has quietly decided that applicants who stole from their employers,...
Fed-Up Neighbors Who Killed $130B in Datacenter Projects Are Now Running for Office
Regular people — teachers, cybersecurity professionals, neighborhood organizers — spent the last year blocking more than $130 billion worth of datacenter...
Trump Tells Towns Blocking Data Centers They'll 'End Up Poor'
Donald Trump would like you to know that if your community doesn't want a massive, water-guzzling, electricity-sucking data center built near your home, you...
RFK Jr. Asked CDC Not to Count Measles Deaths. Then CDC Stopped Counting Measles Deaths.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. allegedly asked the CDC director not to count measles deaths in the official tally. The very next day, the CDC changed its death-counting...
Putin's Oligarch Pal Reportedly Bankrolled Don Jr.'s Wedding
A Russian oligarch who changed his name to sound more like the Kremlin, was convicted of extortion and assault, and once said Vladimir Putin personally creates...
DHS Employees Ordered to Illegally Access State Voter Databases, Whistleblower Says
The Department of Homeland Security allegedly instructed its own employees to dig into state voter databases in ways that a whistleblower says break state law....
McConnell Ghosts His Own Senate Return, Still MIA at 84
UPDATE: Mitch McConnell showed up. The 84-year-old senator returned to the Capitol Monday evening for a vote, months after a fall and hospitalization fueled...
GOP Women Warn 'Repeal the 19th' Crowd Is a Real Threat to the Party
A woman is acquitted by reason of insanity after killing her three children while suffering postpartum psychosis, and a chunk of the online right's response...
Trump Demanded 'Lowest Rates in the World.' His Own Fed Pick May Hike Them.
Donald Trump spent months demanding the Federal Reserve slash interest rates to the lowest of any country on Earth, then personally selected the man to run it....
She Saw Severed Heads Out the Window and Thought: I Made a Mistake
A young woman raised in Canada since she was two years old joined ISIS in 2014, rode in a van through the Turkish darkness toward Syria, and saw human heads...
Wisconsin Congressman Survives Plane Going Down in Lake Wausau
A Wisconsin congressman running for governor ended his Saturday night by swimming out of a sinking plane in Lake Wausau. Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany was...
NC Detention Officer Faked Judge Signatures 20 Times to Hold Immigrants for ICE
A North Carolina detention officer apparently decided that due process was more of a suggestion than a requirement, allegedly forging judges' signatures on 20...
Netherlands Just Pulled 86 Tons of Gold Out of America
The Netherlands just physically moved 86 tons of gold out of the United States and Canada, calling it a hedge against "extreme systemic risks." France already...
The Guy Who Built the AI Says Stop Building the AI
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic and one of the most powerful AI developers on earth, is publicly calling for a slowdown in AI development before rogue AI...
America's West Nile Early Warning System Is Just… Chickens
West Nile virus is having its worst early summer in over two decades, and the CDC is sounding the alarm. Delaware's response? Eighty chickens stationed across...
JD Vance Told America to Call Their Neighbors' Employers. They Did.
A year after Charlie Kirk was shot dead at a Utah Valley University debate, the courtyard where it happened sits empty and the country he left behind is...
Houthis Just Seized the Strait That Keeps Saudi Oil Flowing
The Houthis now control every island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the chokepoint that Saudi Arabia has been desperately using to get its oil to the world ever...
Nashville Votes to Name Airport After Dolly Parton, Making Her the First Woman on a Top-50 U.S. Airport
Two governments that have been suing each other for control of Nashville's airport sat down last Friday and agreed on something for the first time in years:...
KSM's Trial Is Now Scheduled for 27 Years After 9/11. Let That Sink In.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been in U.S. custody since 2003. He has confessed. He is not missing. His trial is currently scheduled to begin June 5, 2028, which...
The Pilot Who Almost Shot Down Flight 93 Is Now America's Top General
Twenty-five years ago, a fighter pilot at Andrews Air Force Base loaded his jet with live air-to-air missiles and took off knowing he might have to destroy a...
CIA Warned Bush a Plane Could Hit a US City. They Knew Three Years Before 9/11.
A September 1998 CIA briefing delivered to President Bill Clinton warned that bin Laden's supporters 'may fly an explosive-packed airplane into a US city.' The...
Second Legionnaires' Outbreak Hits NYC in Weeks, One Dead in South Bronx
New York City health officials had just finished patting themselves on the back for closing out a Legionnaires' outbreak on the Upper East Side. Then the South...
Surrogate Who Fled to Texas to Avoid Abortion Now Wants SCOTUS to Give Her the Baby
A surrogate who secretly traveled to Texas to avoid terminating a pregnancy with a severe heart defect is now asking the US Supreme Court to give her custody...
Trump's Own Contractor Caused the Reflecting Pool Damage He Blamed on Vandals
Donald Trump spent months demanding criminal prosecutions for vandals he said destroyed the Reflecting Pool. There was just one problem: according to documents...
Trump Made $1.4B in Crypto Last Year. He's Now Pushing the Senate to Deregulate It.
Donald Trump personally earned $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency last year, according to his own financial disclosure report. He is now publicly demanding the...
Fed Set to Hike Rates for First Time Since 2023 as Oil War Burns
Diesel just broke six dollars a gallon, oil is trading above $100 a barrel, and the Federal Reserve is now almost certain to raise interest rates for the first...
The Neo-Nazi Party Sweden Once Banned From Politics Is About to Run It
In 2018, Sweden's current Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson personally assured a Holocaust survivor that he would never work with the Sweden Democrats. On Sunday,...
AI Is Already Designing Viruses and Nobody's in Charge
Somewhere right now, an AI model is helping design biological experiments, and the people responsible for making sure that doesn't end civilization are still...
25 Years After 9/11, America Stops to Remember the Day It Changed Forever
Twenty-five years ago this morning, nearly 3,000 people went to work and never came home. On Friday, the United States stopped — at memorials, firehouses, and...
Feds Ran ICE Observer's Face Through Facial Recognition. Then Showed Up at His House.
The federal government has been photographing legal observers, revoking their Global Entry, threatening them with domestic terrorism watch lists,...
JD Vance Told a Protester to Move to Mexico and MAGA Loved It
JD Vance told a Mexican-flag-waving protester to "get your ass over there" at the GOP's Dallas convention on Friday, and approximately ten thousand Republican...
Flesh-Eating Maggots Are Now Eating Texas Horses
A working ranch horse in Presidio County, Texas, is now the first horse in the United States to be infected with the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating fly...
Paxton Won't Meet Epstein Survivors But Found Time for MAGA Convention
Jeffrey Epstein's survivors asked to meet with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. He said no. Paxton, who has the legal authority to pursue justice for those...
The Iran War Is Now Crashing the Housing Market Too
American home sales just hit their slowest pace in more than a year, mortgage rates are closing in on 7%, and the median home price just set an all-time August...
30 Beds, All Full, No Vaccine: Ebola Is Killing Congo's Kids
Last week, an Ebola treatment unit in eastern Congo lost eight patients. All of them were under five years old. The unit has 30 beds. Tonight, according to...
5 When Her Mom Died on 9/11. Now 30, She's Pushing Her Kids on the Same Swings.
In the final minutes of her life, flight attendant Amy Sweeney stayed on the phone with her supervisor aboard American Airlines Flight 11 and methodically...
August Was Earth's Hottest Month Ever and We're Still Burning Coal
Earth just had its hottest month in recorded human history, blew past a major international climate threshold by nearly a tenth of a degree, and set an...
Trump Promises Every American $5K He Doesn't Have Yet
Donald Trump stood in front of a arena full of people in sparkly MAGA hats on Wednesday night and promised every adult American $5,000 if Republicans win...
Poop Concrete Is 42% Stronger and Scientists Are Not Joking
Researchers in India have made concrete out of processed human feces, and it is stronger than regular concrete. Not slightly stronger. Forty-two percent...
A.J. Brown's Patriots Debut Lasts Three Quarters Before Ankle Ends It
New England traded a 2028 first-round pick and a fifth-rounder to get A.J. Brown into a Patriots uniform. They got three quarters and 26 yards before a Seattle...
Trump Promises Iran War Ends After Midterms, Seven Months In
Donald Trump stood in front of the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday and told the crowd the war with Iran will be over 'very shortly after...
ICE Deported 2,000+ 'Known Terrorists.' That Phrase Is Doing a Lot of Work.
On the eve of the 25th anniversary of September 11, the Department of Homeland Security dropped a number designed to make your jaw hit the floor: ICE has...
GOP Holds 'Trumpapalooza' While 35 House Republicans Hide
Republicans gathered in Dallas Tuesday night for what they're actually calling 'Trumpapalooza,' a two-day convention designed to fire up the MAGA base heading...
Trump's Gifted Qatar Jet Blew an Emergency Slide on the Tarmac
The plane a foreign government gave the President of the United States as a gift blew out an inflatable emergency slide on the tarmac Wednesday before Trump...
Treasury's $6B Bond Buyback Won't Fix a $40 Trillion Problem
The U.S. national debt blew past $40 trillion last month, having doubled in less than a decade, and the Treasury Department's big plan to deal with the fallout...
Gold Is Doing Backflips Before the Fed Meets Next Week
Gold has had a genuinely chaotic year, whipsawing on every inflation print, every Fed whisper, every geopolitical hiccup. Now the Federal Reserve is meeting...
Andrew Tate Denied Bail: Judge Says 7 Passports Is a Flight Risk, Actually
Andrew Tate spent eight hours in a Miami courtroom on August 27 arguing, with a straight face, that a man who has bragged online about carrying seven passports...
Bessent Tried to Cool Bond Markets. They Got Worse Immediately.
Scott Bessent stood up Wednesday and announced the US Treasury would buy back $6 billion in government bonds to calm a rattled bond market. The bond market...
Netanyahu Sued Haaretz for Reporting He Ignored a UAE Warning Before Oct. 7
An [Israeli newspaper...