Chicago Had the World's Worst Air Quality Last Night, Thanks to 180 Canadian Wildfires
Chicago had the worst air quality of any city on the entire planet Thursday evening. Not worst in the Midwest. Not worst in the US. Worst. On. Earth. That was...
Trump Is Literally Selling Wall Street Early Access to His Own Words
The president of the United States is about to get a cut of the money banks pay to read his tweets faster. Trump Media announced this week that it will launch...
Trump's Prime-Time Election Speech Is Built on Intel His Own Agencies Debunked
Donald Trump took over prime-time television Thursday night to tell America, once again, that the 2020 election was stolen from him, and to promise new...
Trump's Teleprompter Guy Made $100K Betting on Trump's Own Words
The man who scrolls Donald Trump's words across a screen before Trump says them allegedly turned that job into a nearly $100,000 prediction market windfall....
Tillis Won't Vote to Confirm Trump's AG Until He Meets Epstein Victims
The man Donald Trump wants as his permanent Attorney General can't get out of committee because a Republican senator is demanding he first sit down with the...
ICE Has Killed 4 People With No Body Cams. DHS Blames Democrats.
Four people are dead at the hands of federal immigration agents, none of the officers involved were wearing body cameras, and the Department of Homeland...
857 Fires, 'Hazardous' Air, and a World Cup Final in the Crosshairs
Detroit currently has the worst air quality of any city on Earth. Not Beijing. Not Jakarta. Detroit. Meanwhile, 857 wildfires are burning across Canada, a...
GOP Senators Can't Confirm Mitch McConnell Is Alive and Functioning
The United States Senate cannot confirm the operational status of one of its own members. Senator Mitch McConnell has been absent since June 14, his colleagues...
Yale's Secret Trump Deal Shows Who Universities Really Work For
Yale's leadership started quietly negotiating with the Trump administration, and for a brief, illuminating moment, we all got to watch a supposedly free...
Trump Slaps Brazil With 25% Tariffs After Year-Long Investigation
The Trump administration has decided Brazil is the problem, slapping a 25 percent tariff on certain Brazilian imports after a yearlong investigation concluded...
Got Food Stamps? Trump Says That Might Cost You Your Green Card
The Trump administration has a new way to deny you a green card: find out if you ever used Medicaid, food stamps, or housing assistance, and hold it against...
TrumpRx Has 92 Drugs. The Companies Behind It Make 800.
The president called TrumpRx "the biggest thing to happen in healthcare in many, many decades." Nearly six months in, the site covers fewer than 12% of the...
Trump's Intel Nominee Refused to Say Who Won 2020
Jay Clayton, Donald Trump's nominee to run the entire United States intelligence apparatus, sat in front of the Senate on Wednesday and refused to say who won...
Oil Giants Pocketed $30M Per Hour While You Paid at the Pump
While you were wincing at the gas pump after the U.S.-Iran war sent oil prices through the roof, the world's top 100 oil and gas companies were quietly banking...
ICE Used Force in 1-in-3 Arrests. Then Shot Two Men in Their Cars.
ICE officers pushed, tackled, choked, tased, and rammed cars so often that a new ACLU report had to invent a phrase for it: 'default tool.' The report,...
Billionaires Can Now Buy a Bunker Condo With a Spa and Cigar Lounge for the Apocalypse
A Canadian crypto mogul bought a 64,000-square-foot Cold War nuclear bunker for roughly the price of a used Honda Civic and is now converting it into luxury...
Trump Is Sanctioning Americans for Talking About the ICC
The Trump administration slapped sanctions on an international war crimes court and the human rights groups that work with it. Now two American advocacy...
Uber Just Dropped $14.8B to Swallow a Global Food Delivery Empire
Uber has decided that dominating American streets wasn't quite enough, so on Thursday it launched a $14.8 billion public takeover offer for Delivery Hero, the...
Warren Buffett Says America's Gone Full Degenerate Gambler
Warren Buffett, the man who spent seven decades quietly compounding wealth while everyone else chased the next hot thing, has finally said out loud what a lot...
Messi Assists Both Goals as Argentina Breaks England's Heart Again
England led. England had sixty good minutes. England had Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham and an entire nation praying at the altar of 'this time.' Then a...
You Need a 740 Credit Score to Not Get Gouged on a Mortgage Right Now
Mortgage rates have been camped out around 6.5% for months now, and if your credit score isn't at least 740, lenders are going to charge you even more than...
Wildfire Smoke Turns NYC Sky Brown and Ranks It Among World's Most Polluted Cities
New York City ranked among the most polluted cities on Earth this week, not because of anything the city did, but because Canada and Minnesota are on fire and...
Blue States Are Taxing Vapes Up to $17.90 — Same Product Costs $0.36 in Red States
The exact same vaping product can cost you nearly eighteen dollars more in taxes depending on which side of a state line you're standing on. Minnesota and...
Trump Hits Brazil With 25% Tariffs While Exempting Brazilian Beef and Coffee
The United States is slapping 25% tariffs on Brazil starting July 22, citing unfair trade practices by the world's tenth-biggest economy. The list of exempted...
Lindsey Graham Dead at 71, Sister Sworn In to Finish His Term
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the five-term South Carolina Republican who spent three decades making himself indispensable to everyone in Washington while consistently...
Man Raised by Wrong Family for 36 Years Sues Hospital That Lost the Paperwork
A Colorado man took a DNA test two years ago and discovered he had spent 36 years living with the wrong family, raised by people who were not his biological...
Hegseth Orders Mandatory Testosterone Tests for Soldiers Over 30
Pete Hegseth, a man who was confirmed as Secretary of Defense despite allegations that would have disqualified him from serving in the military he now...
Trump Killed $317M in Cancer Research. Now Black and Rural Americans Will Pay With Their Lives.
The Trump administration canceled 181 National Cancer Institute grants totaling more than $317 million, and a new report from the American Association for...
Grocery Outlet Wants to Scan Your Face to Catch Shoplifters
A grocery chain in the Bay Area has decided that the best way to catch shoplifters is to scan the face of every single person who walks through the door. Not...
China's Economy Posts Worst Quarter in 3 Years and the Numbers Are Ugly
China's economy grew at its slowest pace in over three years last quarter, posting a 4.3% annualized growth rate for April through June, well below the 5% clip...
Americans Say Economy Is Trash. Then They Go Shopping.
Americans are telling every pollster who will listen that the economy is a catastrophe, a disaster, a rock-bottom nightmare from which there is no escape. Then...
Biden's Memoir Drops Two Weeks After Midterms Because Why Not
Joe Biden is publishing a presidential memoir, and he has chosen to drop it exactly two weeks after the midterm elections in which Democrats are desperately...
Dead Relatives Can't Take Your Money — But These 5 Myths Might
Total U.S. consumer debt just hit $18.23 trillion, credit card rates are sitting at nearly 22%, and inflation is still chewing through everyone's paycheck at...
7,000 People Waited 3 Hours to Smell a Plant That Reeks of Corpses
Seven thousand people drove to San Marino, California, stood in line for up to three hours, and paid for the privilege of smelling something that reeks of a...
7,000 Americans Have Explosive Diarrhea and Nobody Knows Why Thanks to RFK's CDC Cuts
Nearly 7,000 Americans across 34 states are currently experiencing frequent, explosive, watery diarrhea from a parasitic outbreak, and public health officials...
Three Dead in One Week: ICE's Killing Spree Has a New Twist
A 28-year-old man is dead after running from federal immigration agents in a Florida parking lot and getting struck by a semi truck on a busy highway. It is...
Congress Finally Noticed It Had Ghosts. Now There's a Bill.
One senator and one congressman disappeared from their jobs for months, told nobody why, and the American public was just supposed to be cool with that. They...
Trump Ditches His Own Hormuz Toll After Gulf Leaders Call Him
Donald Trump declared himself guardian of the world's most critical oil chokepoint on Monday, slapped a 20% fee on every ship that passes through it, and then...
Trump Slaps Brazil With 25% Tariffs for Daring to Moderate Elon's App
Brazil's Supreme Court told Elon Musk's X and Mark Zuckerberg's Meta to stop hosting hate speech and coup-adjacent propaganda, because Brazil had just survived...
Threats Against SCOTUS Justices Up 38% and Climbing Fast
The Supreme Court Police Department is bracing for a 38% surge in threats against justices this year, on top of a 25% increase the year before. Justice Elena...
RFK Jr Froze the Kids' Tobacco Panel While Big Vape Got Flavors Back
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has built a brand around protecting children from corporate poison, has spent over a year preventing a federal health panel from...
Republicans Want 60% to Pass Amendments, But 51% to Pass Theirs
Republican lawmakers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Missouri are asking voters this year to make it harder for those same voters to pass...
Trump Bans Americans From Flying Home as Ebola Patient Gets Sent to Germany
The Trump administration is blocking American citizens in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from flying home on commercial flights, even as the US quietly...
Trump Drained the Reflecting Pool to Fix Damage He Can't Prove Was Vandalism
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been drained for repairs after weeks of Donald Trump insisting that roving vandals slashed it open with knives and...
Trump Ballroom Donor Gets $200M Armenia Fund Job He Happens to Already Profit From
A Russian-born Chicago investor who donated $12 million to Trump's political operation and an undisclosed sum to Trump's ballroom project has been appointed...
412 Verified Cases: ICE Crowd Control Weapons Blinded and Brain-Damaged Protesters
A damning new report documents 412 verified incidents of federal and local law enforcement misusing crowd control weapons on immigration protesters across the...
Two Climbers Found Dead at Bottom of 65-Foot Alpine Crevasse
Two Romanian climbers who went missing in the Italian Alps last week were found Monday morning at the bottom of a crevasse roughly 65 feet deep, authorities...
Trump Says Strait Is 'Open.' Experts Say It'll Take 50,000 Troops.
Donald Trump went on Truth Social Monday morning to announce that the United States would 'probably run' the Strait of Hormuz and charge foreign ships a 20%...
Amazon Has More Workers on Medicaid Than Anyone in Nevada. Its Fix? Raise the Minimum Wage.
Amazon has had more employees enrolled in Medicaid than any other company in Nevada every single year since 2020. The company's official response, when asked...
The World Cup Final Is Tomorrow, and It's Not the Final
The FIFA World Cup semifinals kick off Tuesday, and the soccer gods have already played their cruelest trick: the two best teams in the world are meeting...
Summer 2026's Live Music Scene Is Aggressively, Gloriously Alive
Six hundred performers. Ten stages. Six hundred and thirteen thousand people on a lakefront in Wisconsin. If anyone told you live music was dying, summer 2026...
Congress Is About to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent, God Help Us All
Congress, having thoroughly handled healthcare, housing, the national debt, and climate change, has turned its full attention to the clock. The Sunshine...
Rubio Wants to Dismantle the War Crimes Court. Wonder Why.
Marco Rubio wants to destroy the world's war crimes tribunal, and he's not being subtle about it. The Secretary of State published a full op-ed in the Wall...
Trump Quietly Greenlit Saudi Strike on Yemen That Could Restart a War
Sometime before Monday, Donald Trump looked at a map of the Middle East, which has been on fire in various configurations for the better part of a decade, and...