ICE Puts $10M Bounty on El Chapo's Last Two Fugitive Sons
ICE just slapped a fresh wanted poster on the last two at-large sons of the most famous drug lord alive, complete with big red Xs over their captured brothers'...
The Fed's Inflation Ruler Is Getting Shorter Right When Inflation Is High
The government is about to change the math on its most important inflation measurement, and the new math will make inflation look better. This is either a...
Trump Named a $1,000 Kids Savings Account After Himself (He Says He Didn't Ask)
Donald Trump stood in the Oval Office on Monday, rang the New York Stock Exchange bell for the first time ever at the White House, and launched a government...
Xbox CEO Admits 'Our Business Is Not Healthy' as 3,200 Jobs Get Cut
Microsoft's new Xbox CEO just sent a memo to her employees that read, and we are quoting directly here, 'Our business today is not healthy.' Then the company...
American Private Equity Just Bought Your Cheap Ryanair Rival for $6.7B
A Minneapolis private equity firm that most people have never heard of just agreed to buy one of Europe's most recognizable budget airlines for $6.7 billion....
Indonesia Just Made Being Gay a National Security Threat
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has officially designated the spread of LGBTQ culture as a threat to national defense, placing it in the same regulatory...
In 1973, a Gay Preacher Built a Street Gang to Protect Queer People. The City Wouldn't.
On July 6, 1973, a gay preacher in San Francisco got so tired of watching his community get beaten in the streets that he formed a vigilante group armed with...
JD Vance Is Trump's Chosen One Now and Rubio Wasn't Even Plan B
JD Vance has had himself a summer. The Vice President brokered a tentative peace deal with Iran, wrote a bestselling book, went on a media blitz that would...
Medicare for All Is Back, Baby, and the Centrists Are Sweating
The centrists spent years telling you Medicare for All was a fantasy cooked up by people who don't understand how anything works. Then the 2026 primaries...
Trump's White House Wrote a 162-Page Report Attacking the Smithsonian for Teaching History
The Trump White House spent what appears to have been a substantial chunk of taxpayer time and money producing a 162-page report, released on the Fourth of...
Russian Bomber Buzzed a British Aircraft Carrier at Low Altitude. Twice.
A Russian military aircraft spent last Thursday flying unnecessarily close to Britain's flagship aircraft carrier in the Norwegian Sea, dropping sonar devices...
Russia Fired 29 Ballistic Missiles at Kyiv. Every Single One Hit.
Russia fired 29 ballistic missiles at Kyiv overnight and every single one of them hit something. At least 12 people are dead, 60 more are wounded, residential...
Trump Calls FIFA, Gets Red Card Overturned, Now Takes Credit for Record Crowds
America is falling in love with soccer, attendance records are being shattered, millions of people who couldn't have named a single USMNT player two weeks ago...
Trump Paid $2.6B to Kill Wind Jobs and Blame Birds for It
Donald Trump has now spent more than $2.6 billion in taxpayer money buying out wind energy leases, killing projects that were already under construction and...
Walk Fast in Your 80s, Keep Your Brain: Study Cuts Dementia Risk in Half
Here is a finding that should make every shuffling, sedentary American put down their crossword puzzle and go outside: people in their 80s who walk faster than...
NOAA Is Hiring Rookies to Forecast Hurricanes Because It Fired All the Veterans
The Trump administration spent 2025 firing and buying out roughly 600 experienced National Weather Service meteorologists, shrinking the agency by about 15...
Taylor Swift's Wedding Had 1,000 Guests and Everyone Is Hungover
Taylor Swift married Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden on Friday night in front of roughly a thousand of their closest friends, which is to say, basically...
Medicare Dropped 140,000 Seniors for Unpaid Bills as Small as $8.10
A 77-year-old man in Minnesota is rationing his stroke-prevention medication because his Medicare drug plan dropped him over $28.80 in unpaid premiums he never...
Charlie Kirk Murder Hearing Starts Monday With Autopsy Evidence, Confession Texts
The man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk dead in front of thousands of people at a Utah university is heading into a five-day evidence hearing this week, and...
Man Died Waiting for Heart Meds After Insurance Switch. His Wife Is Furious.
A man who survived a heart transplant died in front of a Dollar General in Kissimmee, Florida, after his new health insurance plan failed to get him the...
Russia Killed 11 in Kyiv Monday. We're Out of Missiles to Stop Them.
Russia launched a massive overnight missile and drone assault on Kyiv early Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 60 more, just four days after a...
China Fires Nuclear Sub Missile Into Pacific 'Free Zone' It Promised to Respect
China fired a long-range ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine into the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone on Monday, the same zone China legally...
A Firework Hit a Passenger Jet on Final Approach Into Chicago
A commercial passenger jet was struck by a fireworks mortar while descending into Chicago Midway Airport on the Fourth of July, and somehow that sentence is...
The Baseball Team That Sells Out Fenway With Stilts, Grandmas, and Foster Kids
A man in a yellow tuxedo has figured out how to sell out Fenway Park with a game that bans bunting, puts grandmas on the field, and makes a baby dressed as a...
London Cabbies Memorized 25,000 Streets. Waymo Wants Their Jobs.
To drive a black cab in London, you have to memorize 25,000 streets, 6,000 landmarks, and every shortcut between them — a feat so cognitively brutal that...
Trump Gave a 37-Minute Speech at 1am in a Thunderstorm to 150,000 Wet Strangers
At some point past midnight on July 5th, 2026, the President of the United States stood on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., soaking wet in the aftermath...
Americans Now Spend Just 35 Minutes a Day With Other Humans
Thirty-five minutes. That is the average amount of time an American adult now spends socializing on any given day, down from 45 minutes two decades ago....
Charlie Kirk Murder Trial Begins: DNA, a Confession Note, and a Death Penalty Ask
A 23-year-old man who allegedly shot conservative activist Charlie Kirk in front of thousands of people, then texted his roommate about it, then left a written...
Three Firefighters Dead, 250,000 Acres Burning, and Colorado's Getting Thunderstorms Instead of Help
Three firefighters are dead, a memorial service just wrapped up, and the state of Colorado is staring down a weekend forecast that reads less like weather and...
Super Typhoon Bavi Bears Down on Guam With 180 MPH Winds
A super typhoon with winds expected to hit 180 miles per hour is bearing down on Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands right now, and the local meteorologist...
National Guard Troops Deployed to Fight Crime Just Killed a 20-Year-Old in Memphis
The National Guard troops Donald Trump deployed to Memphis to make the streets safer just shot and killed a 20-year-old man on those streets. Tyrin Johnson is...
25 Dead in US Heatwave While Trump's Mall Fair Shut Down Sick Visitors
At least 25 people are dead across the United States after a record-breaking heat dome parked itself over the eastern half of the country during the Fourth of...
Two Immigrant Congressmen Explain America to a White House That Wants Them Gone
On the weekend America turned 250, two men who came to this country as children speaking no English sat down on national television and explained, with more...
Seaplane Crashes in NYC's East River, Second One in Three Weeks
Two seaplanes in three weeks. Same river. New York City is apparently running some kind of stress test on its emergency responders, and the East River keeps...
McMorrow Drops Out, Leaving Michigan Senate Race a Mess
Mallory McMorrow, the Democratic rising star who was supposed to be one of the party's best shots at holding a Senate seat in a Trump-won swing state,...
Ex-CDC Chief: RFK Jr. Refused Measles Briefing, Installed Unvetted Vaccine Panel
The man running America's public health apparatus refused to receive a briefing on an active measles epidemic from the CDC's top medical official. That's not a...
Clinton's July 4th Shots at Trump: 'Masked Agents,' Unconstitutional Wars, Profiteering
On the nation's 250th birthday, while Donald Trump was busy congratulating himself at Mount Rushmore, Bill Clinton posted a statement that read less like a...
25 Dead as July 4th Heat Wave Bakes 40 Million Americans
America celebrated its 250th birthday this week by trying to cook itself alive. A weeklong heat wave has now killed at least 25 people, with 40 million...
California Just Admitted 'Sell By' Dates Were Made Up This Whole Time
For decades, Americans have been hurling perfectly edible food into the trash because a little stamp on the package told them to. California just passed a law...
Navy Ends 102-Hour Search After Iran War Claims Its 14th American
The U.S. Navy searched 14,000 square miles of the Arabian Sea for more than 102 hours and still couldn't bring one of its pilots home. On Sunday, they stopped...
NCAA Chief: Fans Are Texting College Kids 'Don't Catch the First Pass So I Can Win Money'
College athletes are getting messages from people in their own social circles asking them to intentionally perform badly on specific plays so that someone can...
Putin Told Trump Russia Is 'Winning' While Ukraine Was Bombing Crimea
While Donald Trump was on the phone with Vladimir Putin hearing about how brilliantly Russian forces are advancing across Ukraine, Ukrainian drones were...
Paul Pelosi, 86, Hits Parked Car, Drives Away, Plays Dumb
Paul Pelosi, 86-year-old husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, hit a legally parked car in California wine country on Friday, briefly stopped, and then...
People Are Paying $20 to Sit in a Dark Room and Listen to Records
Somewhere in Seattle, a woman with a David Bowie tattoo took off her shoes, sat down in a back room, and paid twenty dollars to listen to an album she could...
The 'Ratepayer Protection Act' Protects Everyone Except Ratepayers
Congress has produced a bipartisan bill with "ratepayer protection" right there in the name, and according to consumer advocates, it does almost none of that....
Four Kids Shot on the Fourth: Coney Island Fireworks Ended With a 6-Year-Old Hit in the Stomach
While the rest of America was still watching fireworks, a gunman opened fire on West 31st Street in Brooklyn's Coney Island neighborhood, shooting eight people...
Pope Leo Calls Out 'Tyrants' in Washington, Moscow, and Jerusalem by Name
The sitting pope looked out at a global political order run by Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Benjamin Netanyahu and called them, with essentially zero...
FBI Has Seized 600+ Drones Buzzing World Cup Stadiums
Six hundred drones. Seized. In less than a month. Apparently the 2026 World Cup is not just the biggest soccer tournament on American soil in history, it is...
America Turns 250 and the Party Is a Malfunctioning Ferris Wheel
America turned 250 years old this Fourth of July weekend, and the official celebrations included a UFC event, a state fair with a broken ferris wheel, and what...
Taylor Swift Married Travis Kelce at MSG and Adam Sandler Officiated
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got married at Madison Square Garden on the Fourth of July, with Adam Sandler officiating the ceremony, Stevie Nicks performing,...
Neo-Nazis Marched on the Capitol on the Fourth of July and the White House Had Nothing to Say
Hundreds of masked white supremacists paraded a Confederate flag through Washington DC on the Fourth of July, the 250th anniversary of American independence,...
Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI to Stay in His Good Graces
Sam Altman, the guy who spent years telling Congress that AI would save humanity, is now reportedly offering Donald Trump a 5% slice of OpenAI just to stay on...
DNA Just Gave a Name Back to a 13-Year-Old Who Died for America in 1780
For 246 years, a shallow grave in the pine forests of Camden, South Carolina held a young man the country had completely forgotten. His name was John Pumphrey,...
Nigerian Kids Learn to Dodge Parasitic Worms Via Board Game
In a part of Nigeria where a third of screened residents have an active parasitic worm infection, someone looked at the public health crisis and thought: what...