211 Dead and Counting: The US Military's Nameless, Evidenceless Drug War at Sea
The US military blew up another boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, killing three more people it described as "narco-terrorists," which is a word...
Florida Man Drove to AIPAC With 3 Guns to Kill Jewish Employees — Building Was Empty
A 27-year-old Florida man packed two rifles and a pistol into his truck, drove several hours to an AIPAC office he planned to shoot up, and found an empty...
Minneapolis May Finally Kill a 1988 Gay Bathhouse Ban a Gay Man Helped Pass
Minneapolis is about to vote on repealing a 38-year-old ban on bathhouses and other venues where consenting adults can have sex. The ban was passed in 1988....
Mortgage Rates Are Back in Mortgage Rate Hell, So When Can You Escape?
For one brief, shining moment in early 2026, mortgage rates dipped below 5% for the first time in nearly four years. Then inflation remembered it existed, the...
Tropical Storm Arthur Hits Texas With 'Life-Threatening' Floods Already Spreading
Tropical Storm Arthur made landfall along the upper Texas coast on Thursday, got downgraded from a cyclone to a low pressure area almost immediately, and then...
James Webb Found a Planet With Salt Clouds and We Have Questions
Fifty-seven light-years from Earth, there is a bubblegum-pink planet where it rains salt. Scientists just confirmed this using the James Webb Space Telescope,...
Trump's Iran 'Win': $300B, Nukes OK, Missiles Fine, Nothing Enforced
Donald Trump spent months bombing Iran and demanding "zero enrichment," then walked out to a G7 podium in France on Wednesday and said, actually, Iran can have...
JD Vance on Iran Deal: 'Words Don't Matter'
The Vice President of the United States walked up to a podium at the White House, looked into the cameras, and said the quiet part so loud it rattled windows:...
FDA Panel Unanimously OKs mRNA Flu Shot RFK Jr. Tried to Kill
The FDA's top vaccine advisory committee voted unanimously Thursday to recommend Moderna's new mRNA flu vaccine, mFlusiva, for adults 50 and older. This is the...
Trump's White House Bedroom: Soaked Carpets, Mold Fears, Chip Wrappers
The most powerful man in the world has allegedly been grinding chip wrappers into the White House carpet and leaving his bedroom soaked in spilled drinks while...
Mangione Drops Psych Defense One Day After Announcing It
Luigi Mangione's legal team announced a psychiatric defense in the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder case, then walked it back less than 24 hours later. The reversal...
Obama Library Opening Was a Four-Hour Burn of Trump Without Once Saying His Name
On Thursday, Barack and Michelle Obama opened their presidential center in Chicago with Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Stevie Wonder, and roughly four hours of...
Trump Lifts Iran Blockade, Gives Iran 60 Days to Behave Itself
The United States has lifted its naval blockade on Iranian ports, kicked off a 60-day negotiating countdown, and told the world's oil tankers to get moving...
JD Vance and RFK Jr. Are Eating Sauerkraut for Lent and Paying $18K for the Privilege
The most powerful cabinet in the free world is eating fistfuls of fermented cabbage on the advice of a private doctor who charges $18,000 for a consultation....
Trump Paid Iran Billions to Reopen a Strait He Closed by Starting the War
The United States has signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran that lifts sanctions, unfreezes billions in Iranian assets, and reopens the Strait of...
Three Boys in Zambia Are Orphans Because PEPFAR Got Cut
Joseph is 17 years old and he is the head of his household. His brothers are 15 and 12. They sleep on a bamboo mat and share a single blanket because they sold...
Russia's 'Skyfall' Nuke Missile Just Spews Radiation on Everyone Below It
Russia tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile last October that, according to a new MIT analysis, works by pumping air directly through its nuclear reactor...
DHS Plans to Hand Local Cops Facial Recognition Tech for ICE Sweeps
The Department of Homeland Security has a document. In that document is a plan. The plan is to hand facial recognition technology directly to local police...
Man Burned a Cross to Protest Trump. It Did Not Go Well.
A 21-year-old University of Illinois Chicago senior burned a cross in one of the most visible public spaces in America, placed a red MAGA hat on top of it, and...
A Black 16-Year-Old Died Inside CHOP. No One's Been Charged in Six Years.
A sixteen-year-old boy traveled a thousand miles to stand up for Black lives in the summer of 2020. He was shot and killed inside the protest zone that was...
Supreme Court About to Rule on Whether Being Born Here Is Enough
The Supreme Court is about to tell millions of American-born children whether the ground they're standing on still belongs to them. Before the term wraps up...
North Dakota Is Quietly Beating Texas and Florida on Taxes — and Big Oil Is Why
North Dakota collects more tax revenue per person than almost every state in the country, and somehow that's the argument for why it's a low-tax paradise. That...
Driver Left Horse to Take a Tourist Photo. An 18-Year-Old Is Dead.
A driver got off his carriage to snap a photo of his passengers. The horse bolted. An 18-year-old tourist from India is dead. And an industry that has spent...
Jet Fuel Is Cheaper. Airlines Are Keeping Your Money Anyway.
Jet fuel prices have fallen more than two dollars a gallon since their April peak, which is genuinely good news for the airline industry. Whether any of it...
Trump Threatened to Seize D.C. If a Socialist Won. She's Winning.
Donald Trump looked at Washington D.C.'s mayoral race and said, essentially, elect a democratic socialist and I will take over your city. The voters of D.C....
The G7 Is Falling Apart and Nobody Needed to Push It
Someone set a Tesla on fire outside the G7 summit last week, and honestly, it might have been the most coherent political statement made by anyone in the...
Trump Kills 37-Year Federal Mob Watchdog Over Teamsters Union
For thirty-seven years, federal prosecutors have kept a watchdog on the Teamsters union because of its well-documented history of mob infiltration. That...
Man Finds Four Blood Clots After AI Catches What His Chiropractor Missed
For five days, Gleb Tsipursky had what he figured was a muscle cramp in his calf. His chiropractor agreed. Then he asked an AI, which immediately flagged deep...
Two 20-Year-Olds Shot Into a Crowd at a Family Festival. Both Caught.
Two men, both 20 years old, apparently got into a beef at a neighborhood street festival in Toledo, Ohio, and resolved it by firing guns into a crowd of...
Trump's Iran Deal Leaves Out Nuclear Weapons, Missiles, and Hezbollah
Donald Trump stood at a G7 podium in France on Wednesday and declared a massive win over Iran. The actual text of the deal he was celebrating, however, is a...
Democrats to Rubio: Cool Iran Deal, Now Tell Us What's Actually In It
Congressional Democrats are doing something unusual: praising the Trump administration for pursuing diplomacy with Iran while simultaneously demanding to know...
Forest Service Fired 6,000 People, Now Claims It's Ready for Fire Season
Fires are ripping through the hills around Spokane, Washington right now, and the Trump administration would like you to know that everything is totally fine....
DOJ's New Anti-Trafficking Czar Has 300,000 Missing Kids to Find First
The Justice Department appointed a new national coordinator for human trafficking and child exploitation cases on Wednesday. Great. Wonderful. Standing...
Trump's Greenland Obsession Is Quietly Still Happening
You thought the Greenland thing was over. You thought it was a bit, a distraction, one of those early-term Trump fever dreams that fades into the noise....
Trump Gives Iran Billions and an Oil Bonanza Before Getting Anything on Nukes
The Trump administration has signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran that immediately lifts oil export sanctions and dangles a $300 billion...
White House Slaps Export Controls on Anthropic's AI, May Nuke the Industry It's Trying to Win
The White House has decided the best way to protect America's lead in artificial intelligence is to kneecap the companies actually building it. Using export...
Man Buys Foreclosed Home at Auction, Finds 3 Skeletons Inside
A Connecticut man bought a foreclosed home at auction, sight unseen, and discovered three decomposed human bodies when he walked through the front door for the...
Maxwell's Prison Is 'Park-Like.' She's the Only Sex Offender There.
Congressional staff toured Ghislaine Maxwell's Texas prison this week and the warden told them something remarkable: out of more than 600 women at that...
Trump Warns Iran: Comply With Deal or 'Bombs Right Smack in the Middle of Their Head'
The President of the United States stood in France on Wednesday and told the world that if Iran doesn't hold up its end of a deal whose text nobody has...
Gilgo Beach Killer Gets Max Sentence, Judge Tells Him to Get Out
A Long Island courtroom erupted in cheers Wednesday as a judge called Rex Heuermann a 'disgusting and despicable, small man' before throwing the book at him so...
Kamala Harris Calls Trump's Iran Deal a JCPOA Rerun From Vienna
Kamala Harris flew to Vienna to attend Arnold Schwarzenegger's climate summit and used the occasion to predict that Donald Trump's Iran deal will collapse the...
Mangione's Lawyers: He Was Emotionally Disturbed When He Shot the Health Insurance CEO
Luigi Mangione's lawyers are going to walk into a Manhattan courtroom in September, look a jury in the eye, and argue that their client was suffering from an...
Kash Patel Paid His Loyalist Crew $40K Bonuses While FBI Accounts Ran Dry
The FBI director apparently decided that running a 'payback squad' targeting Trump's political enemies wasn't quite enough fun, so he also allegedly set up a...
Trump Said Jay Clayton's Hearing Was Canceled. It Wasn't.
President Trump announced that the confirmation hearing for his Director of National Intelligence nominee Jay Clayton had been canceled. The only problem: it...
FBI File: Trump Tower Had Recruiters Picking Up Women for Trump — One Girl Ended Up Dead
Buried inside the millions of documents the Trump administration released as the so-called Epstein Files is an FBI interview describing two men who patrolled...
Georgia's Top Cop Traded Dept. Guns for Adderall to Fund Meth Habit
A Georgia sheriff's chief deputy spent years allegedly trading his department's own firearms for Adderall while quietly smoking meth on the side, according to...
LAPD Shot a Woman's Dog While She Was Celebrating the Knicks
A Los Angeles woman was celebrating the New York Knicks' NBA championship win on Saturday night, screaming with joy, when her neighbors called the cops. The...
Strangers Grabbed a Sledgehammer and Smashed Open a Burning Jet on a Texas Highway
A private jet owned by Warren Buffett's NetJets crashed onto a Texas highway Tuesday night, caught fire, and split nearly in half, and the people who saved...
Two Women Left at ERs Like Trash. Now Their Alleged Killer Is on Trial.
Two women were carried out of a black Prius and dropped at separate Los Angeles emergency rooms in the early hours of November 2021. The men who left them wore...
America Turns 250 Feeling Like It Hates Itself
The party invitations are already printed for America's 250th birthday, but the guest of honor apparently can't stand itself right now. A sweeping new survey...
Yankees' Caballero Is Breaking Baseball's Brain One Pitch Clock Loophole at a Time
José Caballero stepped into Tuesday's game against the White Sox still not entirely sure what the pitch clock rule actually requires of him — and then went...
Alaska Woman Shoots Bear Mid-Mauling, Dog Named Chaos Survives
A black bear on the Kenai Peninsula picked the wrong mushroom forager to mess with on June 7. Lori Price was out near Skilak Lake with her two dogs when a bear...
Mom Stepped Between Her Son and a Gun. He Shot Her in the Head.
A 40-year-old Indiana mother threw herself between her teenage son and a loaded gun during what was supposed to be a routine Facebook Marketplace watch sale on...
First Tropical Cyclone of 2026 Targets Texas Coast Already Drowning
San Antonio and Shreveport just got hit with the most rain they'd seen since the 19th century, and the Gulf Coast's response to that news was apparently: hold...