Your Brain on Fire: 4 Science-Backed Ways to Stop a Meltdown Cold
You're in a screaming fight, or you just got the worst news of your life, and your brain has basically left the building. A psychiatry professor at Montefiore...
Trump's AG Pick Called Himself 'Trump's Lawyer' Mid-Hearing
Trump's nominee for attorney general accidentally called himself "Trump's lawyer" during the very hearing where he promised to restore trust to the Justice...
Ukraine Sent 400 Drones at Moscow Overnight. This War Is Not Ending.
Ukraine fired more than 400 drones at Moscow overnight Sunday into Monday, because apparently this is just what July looks like now. The attack lit up an...
EPA Tells Americans to 'Do Your Own Research' on Cancer Sludge in Food
The Trump administration just killed proposed regulations on cancer-linked 'forever chemicals' in sewage sludge spread on American farmland as fertilizer,...
JD Vance Has a Fourth Kid, First VP Baby in 156 Years
Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance welcomed their fourth child, a boy named Alec Neel Vance, on Sunday at Walter Reed National Military Medical...
AI Is Cutting Drug Development Costs by 70% and Big Pharma Is Salivating
Seventy percent. That's how much artificial intelligence is compressing both the costs and the timelines of early-stage drug development, according to a new...
U.S. Bombs Iran as Congress Packs for Vacation
The United States carried out a wave of military strikes against Iran this weekend as the conflict between the two countries continued to escalate, according...
Gas Hits $4 Again Because Trump's Iran War Is Going Great
Congratulations, America. Gas is $4 a gallon again. The national average crossed that threshold today, per AAA, right on schedule with the Trump...
Deloitte Took $768M to Run Michigan's Medicaid System and Denied Disabled People Coverage
A global consulting firm collected $768 million in Michigan taxpayer money to run the state's Medicaid eligibility system, and what disabled residents got for...
Democrats Are Terrified of Their Own Voters on Israel
Something genuinely significant happened in the House last week, and it did not get nearly enough attention. A vote over U.S. aid to Israel turned into a...
Spain Beats Argentina 1-0 to Win the 2026 World Cup at MetLife
Spain outshot Argentina 20-3, dominated every single statistical category for 90-plus minutes of regulation, and still couldn't score until the 106th minute....
FDA's Lettuce Test Was Wrong While 1,600+ People Got Explosive Diarrhea
The Food and Drug Administration ran a test on contaminated lettuce, got a positive result, and then announced the test was wrong. Meanwhile, more than 1,600...
60 Minutes Chased 60 Million Butterflies Up an 11,000-Foot Mountain and Almost Got Nothing
Sixty million monarch butterflies roosted in a four-and-a-half-acre patch of forest on the side of a Mexican mountain, and Anderson Cooper rode a horse up...
Nolan Wells Died on a Mississippi Island. His Phone Came Back Without Him — and Without Its Messages.
An 18-year-old Black college freshman goes to a barrier island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast for a Fourth of July party with friends. His friends come back....
Trump Tried to Crash Spain's World Cup Party and Got Booed Off the Pitch
The United States co-hosted the World Cup, Spain won it in extra time, and Donald Trump celebrated by trying to plant himself in the middle of Spain's trophy...
Another U.S. Soldier Dead in Iran War — That's 17 Now
A U.S. service member is dead in northern Iraq after a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian drone went catastrophically wrong. He...
Your Apartment Is a Shoebox. Here's How to Stop Hating It.
The average New York City apartment is roughly the size of a parking space with delusions of grandeur. But according to interior designers speaking with NPR, a...
Messi vs. Mbappé: One Golden Boot, One World Cup Final, Zero Chill
Lionel Messi is 90 minutes away from winning both the World Cup Final and the Golden Boot, the kind of ending that would break the internet so thoroughly it...
Explosive Diarrhea, Screwworms, and Gutted Election Security: Welcome to MAGA America
The United States is currently managing a five-state outbreak of a parasite that causes 'explosive' diarrhea, a record-breaking measles surge, flesh-eating...
British Runner Shatters Mile Record That's Stood Since 1999
Josh Kerr told the world in March he was going to break the mile world record. On Saturday in London, he did exactly that, running 3 minutes and 42.66 seconds...
Andrew Tate Arrested in Miami: 7 Rape Counts, 19 Child Porn Charges
Andrew Tate, the internet's most famous rape apologist, was arrested Saturday in Miami on a sealed federal warrant connected to British extradition proceedings...
Iran Kills 2 U.S. Troops in Jordan, One Still Missing
Two American service members are dead, one is missing, and four more were medevaced to hospitals after Iran launched a wave of ballistic missiles and attack...
The U.S. Has Fought Wars for 20 of the Last 25 Years and Won Basically None of Them
The United States has been at war for more than 20 of the past 25 years, fought three massive conflicts in the same region, and has essentially nothing to show...
China's Kimi K3 Just Made OpenAI Look Like a Luxury Brand Nobody Asked For
Silicon Valley spent a decade telling everyone that building the smartest AI in the room was the whole game. China just changed the rules. Moonshot AI's Kimi...
Science Confirms You're Miserable Because You Have Too Many Choices
You have access to 2,000 pairs of jeans, every Netflix show ever made, and a dating app with literally millions of potential partners, and somehow you are more...
Spain Could Win Men's AND Women's World Cup Back-to-Back, Which Would Be Historic If the Country Wasn't Also a Walking Soccer Scandal
If Spain beats Argentina on Sunday, the Spanish football federation becomes the first in history to hold back-to-back World Cup titles on both the men's and...
Darline Graham, Senator for 24 Hours, Is Already Eyeing a Full Term
Lindsey Graham died on July 11. His sister Darline was sworn into his Senate seat on July 15. By July 17, according to the Associated Press, she was already...
Taco Bell's Lettuce Has Given 1,644 People Parasite Diarrhea
Somewhere in America, right now, a person who just wanted a Crunchwrap Supreme is lying on a bathroom floor with a parasite. At least 1,644 people have been...
Night Seven: The US Is Bombing Iran Every Single Night Now
The United States bombed Iran for the seventh night in a row on Friday. Not a typo. Seven consecutive nights of American airstrikes against a sovereign nation,...
Con Ed Left a Manhole Uncovered. A Woman Fell In and Burned to Death.
A 56-year-old overnight cleaner parked her car in midtown Manhattan, stepped out onto the sidewalk, and fell ten feet into an open manhole. She did not die...
DOJ Says TikTok Ban on Gov Devices Is Dead Now, Actually
The Justice Department has officially decided that the federal law banning TikTok from government devices does not, in fact, apply to TikTok anymore. This is...
One Dead as Legionnaires' Outbreak Hits NYC's Priciest Zip Code
One person is dead and at least 67 are sick after a Legionnaires' disease outbreak took hold in Manhattan's Upper East Side, the kind of neighborhood where the...
Biden Judge Just Killed New Jersey's AR-15 Ban. Yes, Really.
A Biden-appointed federal judge just wrote the opinion that gun control advocates have been dreading for years. On Friday, the full Third U.S. Circuit Court of...
Trump's '250K Illegal Voters' Number Is Made Up and He Knows It
The Trump administration is claiming that 250,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in four states, a number so alarming it prompted a nationally televised...
GOP Redraws Alabama Map, Erasing the District That Finally Gave Tuskegee a Voice
A 19-year-old in Tuskegee, Alabama recently decided to let a gashed, bleeding arm go untreated rather than travel to the nearest hospital and pay a bill he...
Europe and US Are Baking Alive. Phoenix Found a Fix. Nobody's Listening.
France recorded over 2,000 extra deaths during a record-breaking heatwave in late June. England and Wales have lost an estimated 2,700 people to heat since...
Lockheed Martin Is Paying $6M to Build Trump a Helipad He Doesn't Have Permission For
Donald Trump is installing a 100-foot-wide black granite helipad on the White House South Lawn, skipping congressional approval, bypassing the Commission of...
Your AC Bill Is Eating You Alive. Here's How to Stop It.
It's 100 degrees outside, you've been blasting your AC all day, and somewhere in a utility company office, a middle manager is looking at your account and...
7.3 Quake Rattles Mexico-Guatemala Border, Tsunami Alert Lifted
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake slammed the southern Mexican Pacific coast on Friday morning, shaking everything from Mexico City to El Salvador, triggering a...
Beshear Got Calls Saying McConnell Was Dead Before McConnell Said Anything
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear says he received calls from two separate agencies suggesting Mitch McConnell had died — and this happened before McConnell's...
Court Lets Pentagon Keep Babysitting Reporters Like Toddlers at a Museum
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Pentagon can keep requiring journalists to be escorted around its own headquarters like shoplifting suspects at...
Epstein Survivors Say AG Nominee Blanche Treated Them Like a To-Do List Item
Jeffrey Epstein's survivors finally got a meeting with the man who wants to be America's top law enforcement officer. According to Axios, they walked out...
Pakistan Kills 24 Taliban Militants in 24 Hours After Suicide Car Bomb
A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into police officers and civilians in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday. By Friday, 24 militants were...
Nobody Is Moving: Iran War Shuts Down the Strait of Hormuz
A Greek maritime CEO who monitors one of the world's most critical shipping chokepoints just said, flatly, "nobody is willing to move." Six consecutive nights...
Taco Bell's Shredded Lettuce Is Giving People Explosive Diarrhea in 5 States
The CDC's official description of cyclospora infection includes the phrase "frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements," which is exactly the kind of...
U.S. Bombed Six Bridges in Iran. Iran Shot at Kuwait. Oil Is Up 10%.
The United States bombed six bridges in Iran on Friday. Iran responded by launching missiles and drones at Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman. Pete Hegseth posted a...
Elon Musk Said Name One Kid Who Died. Here Are Three.
Elon Musk went on X at the end of June and issued a challenge: critics of the USAID shutdown "cannot cite a single name" of someone who died, he wrote. He...
GOP Outspends Dems $53M to $17M on Immigration Ads—and Counting
Republicans have spent $53 million on immigration-related political ads since January. Democrats have spent $17 million. That gap is not a rounding error — it...
Xi Plays Global AI Savior While US Hands Him the Script
While Washington was busy congratulating itself on blocking China from advanced chips, Xi Jinping walked into Shanghai on Friday, gathered leaders from across...
Johnson Plans to Lose a Budget Vote on Purpose
Mike Johnson has apparently decided that the best way to win is to lose first, on purpose, in public. The House Speaker is planning to hold a spending vote he...
Century-Old Pipe Explodes Under Sunset Strip, Swallows Buses
A water pipe installed before West Hollywood even existed as a city decided Thursday was the day to stop pretending everything was fine. The 36-inch riveted...
Trump Threatens to Kill NBC and ABC Licenses for Skipping His Speech
Donald Trump threatened Thursday to revoke the broadcast licenses of ABC and NBC because they declined to drop their regular programming and air his speech...
Bird Strike Killed Six on Hudson Tour — Their Copter Had a Bird-Strike Light With No Switch
A bird strike almost certainly tore a sightseeing helicopter apart over the Hudson River last April, killing a Spanish family of five and their pilot, the...
Trump Claims Intel Agencies Hid China's 2020 Election Meddling
On Thursday night, Donald Trump stood in the White House and told America that its own intelligence agencies have been lying to everyone about China and the...