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...
The American Pope Spent July 4th Praying Over Dead Migrants
The first American pope spent the 250th anniversary of the United States not watching fireworks or eating a hot dog, but standing alone on a jagged jetty in...
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...
Egypt Just Dug Up an Entire Lost City, Complete With Gold Coins and a Deacon's House Church
Egypt just pulled off the archaeological equivalent of finding a fully furnished apartment behind a wall, except the apartment is an entire fourth-century...
Happy 250th, America: Your July 4th BBQ Now Costs $295
America turned 250 years old today, and to celebrate, grocery stores charged you $63 more than last year just to grill some meat in your own backyard. A...
You're Allowed to Cheer for the USMNT Even If You Hate the Government
The US men's national soccer team is one win away from matching their best-ever run in World Cup history, playing some of the best football this country has...
America Turns 250 and Charges $1,330 to Join the Party
America is throwing itself a 250th birthday party this Fourth of July, full of flags and founding-father pageantry and naturalization ceremonies at George...
One Year of MAGA Tax Law: $51B for Amazon, Medicaid Cuts for You
One year ago, Donald Trump signed what he called the One Big Beautiful Bill on the Fourth of July, because of course he did. Twelve months later, the...
Happy 250th, America. Now Please Don't Die Outside.
The United States is turning 250 years old this week, and the country is marking the occasion the way it does everything now: in crisis. A punishing heat wave...
Baby Formula Recalls Mount as Trump Gutted the FDA Inspectors Meant to Stop Them
Multiple brands of infant formula have been recalled in the United States over bacterial contamination, including two cases tied to active botulism outbreaks,...
102 Degrees, a 'Really Long' Trump Speech, and a Fraud Probe: Happy 4th
America is turning 250 years old tomorrow, and to celebrate, the president is planning to deliver what he himself described as a "really long" speech outdoors...
Trump May Pardon Diddy While Definitely Pardoning Diesel Cheats
The President of the United States spent part of his Friday afternoon in a meeting about whether to free a convicted sex tourism offender, a man who helped a...
Active-Duty Air Force Major Arrested at Capitol Calling for Trump's Impeachment
An active-duty United States Air Force major was arrested Wednesday at the Capitol steps while calling for the impeachment of President Trump, knowing full...
Ukraine Is Blowing Up Whatever It Wants Inside Russia Now
Moscow residents scrambled for cover as explosions rang out and what witnesses described as 'black rain' fell over the city. This is not a metaphor. This is...
Russia Drops 570 Missiles and Drones on Kyiv in Biggest Attack of the War
Russia fired 74 missiles and 496 drones at Kyiv overnight, killing at least 21 people and wounding 85 more in the single largest attack on the Ukrainian...
Trump's DOJ Sued Philly So Feds Can Keep Wearing Masks
The Trump Justice Department, which spent years calling mask mandates tyranny, just sued a major American city to protect the right of federal agents to wear...
FBI Mobilizes 260 Agents to Relitigate Georgia 2020 Race Trump Lost Twice
The FBI has ordered every field office in the country to send analysts to Atlanta to help dig through 2020 Fulton County election records, mobilizing 260...
Trump Made $1.4B in Crypto. His Tax Bill Is a Black Box.
Donald Trump made $1.4 billion off cryptocurrency while sitting in the Oval Office and regulating the industry he was personally profiting from. His financial...
Trump's Ed Dept Is Hiding School Civil Rights Data — 7 Months and Counting
The federal government tracks which kids are getting bullied, which students can access the internet, and which schools are failing their most vulnerable...
Trump Is Now Trading AI Access for Loyalty, Like a Tech Mob Boss
Forget NATO commitments, shared democratic values, or decades of security cooperation. According to Axios, the Trump administration has found a new way to sort...
Trump Accidentally Saves the Planet By Blockading 20% of World's Oil
Donald Trump, the man who called climate change a Chinese hoax and spent his presidency trying to resurrect coal like a deranged Dr. Frankenstein, may have...
Supreme Court Spent This Term Quietly Killing Congress
The Supreme Court just wrapped up one of the most consequential terms in modern American history, and the verdict is in: Congress lost. Not on one issue. Not...
Tariffs Are Now Ruining Weddings Too, Up 8.5% This Year
Nothing says "til death do us part" like going into debt over imported flowers that cost 30% more than they did two years ago. Wedding spending jumped 8.5% in...
Trump Blows Up North America's $2 Trillion Trade Deal
The United States has officially refused to renew the USMCA, the trade agreement that underpins roughly $2 trillion in annual commerce across North America,...
Netflix Stars Arrested After Proposing on Top of Empire State Building Spire
Two people in black masks scaled the full 1,454-foot height of the Empire State Building on Wednesday, unfurled a peace banner from the spire, got engaged...
Trump Pocketed $2B Since January and Flew Qatar's Gift 747 This Week
Donald Trump has raked in two billion dollars since returning to the White House, half of it from cryptocurrency he has been publicly promoting from the Oval...
Trump's 927-Page Finance Dump: $1B Crypto, $86M in Lawsuits, and a $208K Bible
The US Office of Government Ethics just dropped 927 pages of Donald Trump's financial life, and it reads less like a government filing and more like the fever...
Trump's First Flight on Qatar's $400M Gift to America
The President of the United States flew to North Dakota on Wednesday aboard a $400 million luxury Boeing 747 given to him by the government of Qatar. He called...
MAGA Found Its Feminist Era and It's Aimed Straight at Trans Kids
On the steps of the Supreme Court this week, a crowd of young women cheered a ruling that strips transgender students from girls' sports teams, holding signs...
Iran May Start Charging Tolls on the Strait of Hormuz — Yes, Really
Iran spent the early months of 2026 turning the Strait of Hormuz into a parking lot for the global oil supply. Now, with a shaky ceasefire in place, Tehran is...
UN Puts Tech CEOs and World Leaders in a Room to Fix AI Before It Fixes Us
The United Nations has apparently decided that the best way to handle the most consequential technology in human history is to put the people selling it in the...
Serena Williams, 44, Lost at Wimbledon. The Standing Ovation Said Otherwise.
Serena Williams walked onto Centre Court at Wimbledon on Tuesday for her first singles match in nearly four years, got a standing ovation before she even hit a...
Trump Threatens to Defund Kansas School for Not Outing Trans Kids to Parents
The Trump administration has decided that the most urgent use of federal enforcement power is forcing a Kansas school district to out transgender children to...
120 Million Americans Baking in a Heatwave Over July 4th Weekend
Happy Fourth of July, America. Your gift this year is a heat dome sitting on top of 120 million of you like a wet wool blanket soaked in fire. The National...
House Votes 420-0 to Expose Its Own Sex Harassment Slush Fund
The United States House of Representatives voted 420 to zero on Tuesday to force disclosure of the taxpayer-funded sexual harassment settlements that its own...
Taylor Swift Is Getting Married at MSG and 1,000 People Are Invited
Taylor Swift is not getting married in a chapel, or a vineyard, or some tasteful Tuscan villa like a normal obscenely famous person. She is getting married at...
LeBron James, 41, Dumps the Lakers After 8 Years
LeBron James, the 41-year-old man who has been playing professional basketball since most of his current teammates were in elementary school, is leaving the...
Trump White House Lifts Export Controls on Anthropic's Powerful AI Model After 18-Day Ban
The Trump administration quietly lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 AI model Tuesday evening, ending an 18-day stretch during which one of...
Zuckerberg Tried to Buy Kalshi, Got Rejected, Now Building Fake-Money Casino
Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy the hottest company in the prediction market boom, got turned away, and is now building his own knockoff version where nobody uses...
Google's Emissions Hit Record High as AI Boom Torches Climate Pledges
Google has spent years positioning itself as the responsible adult in the tech room, the company that takes climate change seriously, invests in renewables,...
GOP Rep Vanished for 142 Days. Turns Out It Was Depression.
For 142 days, a sitting member of Congress simply disappeared. No explanation. No timeline. Not even his own aides knew what was going on. On Tuesday, Rep. Tom...
Four Guys, 10 Days, $529K: The ATM Heist That's Almost Impressive
Four men allegedly walked up to ATMs along Interstate 95 in Connecticut, cracked the hoods open like they were checking the oil, loaded in some malware, and...
SCOTUS Takes Up AR-15 Bans, and Sandy Hook Families Brace
The Supreme Court has agreed to rule on whether states can ban AR-15-style rifles, which is a perfectly normal thing to have to litigate in a country where...
The 'Big Beautiful Bill' Just Blew Up Student Loans for Millions
Starting this week, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act tears up the federal student loan rulebook for millions of Americans, eliminating repayment options, capping...