Gold Is Doing Backflips Before the Fed Meets Next Week
Gold has had a genuinely chaotic year, whipsawing on every inflation print, every Fed whisper, every geopolitical hiccup. Now the Federal Reserve is meeting...
Andrew Tate Denied Bail: Judge Says 7 Passports Is a Flight Risk, Actually
Andrew Tate spent eight hours in a Miami courtroom on August 27 arguing, with a straight face, that a man who has bragged online about carrying seven passports...
Bessent Tried to Cool Bond Markets. They Got Worse Immediately.
Scott Bessent stood up Wednesday and announced the US Treasury would buy back $6 billion in government bonds to calm a rattled bond market. The bond market...
Netanyahu Sued Haaretz for Reporting He Ignored a UAE Warning Before Oct. 7
An [Israeli newspaper...
Nvidia AI Researcher Gave a Work Presentation Hours Before He Was Found Dying — His Family Is Not Buying 'Suicide'
A 32-year-old Nvidia AI researcher gave a professional presentation at work, got positive feedback from colleagues, and then was found unconscious at his Palo...
Anthropic Built a Tool Showing AI Could Hit 14% Unemployment. Then Told Policymakers to 'Get Ready to Spend.'
Anthropic, the company that makes Claude, just released an interactive model showing that in its most extreme scenario, AI could throw nearly 14% of American...
Trump Wants to Erase Race, Immigration Status, and Gay People From the 2030 Census
The Trump administration just proposed the most radical changes to the U.S. census in its 240-year history, and the plan essentially boils down to: count fewer...
Trump Cheers On Germany's Classified Extremists With 'MGGA!!!'
Donald Trump logged onto Truth Social Tuesday night to celebrate the electoral victory of a political party that Germany's own internal intelligence service...
Trump Promised $2 Gas. Oil Just Hit $100 a Barrel.
On Monday, Donald Trump posted on social media that oil prices would drop to two dollars a gallon once America wins the war with Iran. On Wednesday, oil hit...
Court: IRS Sharing 1.28M Immigrant Tax Records With ICE Was Illegal
The federal government took the personal tax records of 1.28 million people and handed them to immigration enforcement without following the law. A federal...
TSA Lets Non-Flyers Past Security Again, 25 Years After 9/11 Ended It
Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks permanently rewired how Americans think about airport security, the TSA has quietly decided that actually,...
Trump Gave His Printer Lady $45,000 for Christmas
Donald Trump gave $45,000 Christmas gifts to three White House aides, including the woman whose entire job is to carry a portable printer around and hand the...
Trump's Next Move: Just Ban the Imports Entirely
Tariffs apparently weren't dramatic enough. According to Axios, the Trump administration is now exploring the nuclear option in its trade war: banning foreign...
Menendez Brothers Get Early Shot at Parole After Board Denied Them a Year Ago
Less than 13 months after a California parole board told Erik and Lyle Menendez to sit down and wait until 2028, the board has changed its mind and moved their...
Jerry Sandusky, 82, Ditches State Court to Chase Federal Freedom
Jerry Sandusky, the 82-year-old convicted child sex abuser who became one of the most reviled figures in American sports history, appeared in court via video...
NYC Hid 68 Boxes Proving 9/11 Air Was Toxic. For 25 Years.
New York City officials told people the air around Ground Zero was safe to breathe. They were lying, and they knew it, and they hid 68 boxes of documents...
Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Asks Trump for a Pardon After Mistrial
Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney went on Good Morning America this week to beg the President of the United States for a pardon on behalf of a woman who has...
Bessent Is 'Sick of' the K-Shaped Economy. He Just Invented a Worse Letter.
The top one percent of Americans own one third of all the wealth in this country. The bottom half own less than three percent. Treasury Secretary Scott...
Cops Are Terrified of the Same Spy Glasses They'd Never Let You Point at Them
The NYPD's counterterrorism unit sent a memo in January warning officers that Ray-Ban Meta glasses are a "security and counterintelligence" threat. The threat...
Thieves Stole 4 Renoirs, Dropped One Running Away Like Idiots
Two thieves broke into the Renoir Museum on the French Riviera Tuesday morning, grabbed four impressionist paintings worth an estimated $10 million, and then —...
Trump's Beef Import Waiver Tanked Cattle Prices 10% Overnight
Donald Trump announced a 90-day waiver on ground beef import tariffs to lower prices for consumers, and within hours, American cattle ranchers watched the...
Americans Are Paying $10K a Year for Groceries That Might Kill Them
The average American household is now spending more than $10,000 a year on groceries, according to Axios, which sounds like a lot until you factor in that a...
U.S. Army's $3-Per-Shot Laser Is Vaporizing Cartel Drones at the Border
The United States Army is shooting down cartel surveillance drones with a laser weapon controlled by an Xbox controller, and each shot costs approximately...
Rob Reiner Wins Emmy Posthumously While His Son Awaits Murder Trial
Rob Reiner won an Emmy on Sunday for his guest role on The Bear, becoming the first person to receive a posthumous on-camera Emmy since 1995. He was murdered...
Louisiana Mayor Raped a Teen, Got 90 Days, Is Already Home
Misty Roberts, the former mayor of DeRidder, Louisiana, raped a 16-year-old boy at a pool party in her backyard, got convicted by a jury, faced up to 17 years...
One Juror Hung the Lindsay Clancy Trial. He Was One of Only Three Men.
Eleven of twelve jurors were ready to find Lindsay Clancy not guilty by reason of postpartum psychosis. One was not. That one juror was a man who, according to...
Germany Just Elected the Far Right in a Landslide. Yes, Again.
Germany, the country that spent the better part of the twentieth century as the world's cautionary tale about what happens when you hand power to nationalist...
Russia and North Korea Open a Bridge — Because the Troops Weren't Enough
Two of the world's most sanctioned, most isolated, and most aggressively destabilizing regimes just cut the ribbon on a shiny new bridge. Russia and North...
Iran Just Threatened to Lock Down the World's Oil Spigot — and Gas Is Already $4.14
Iran just announced it's planning to declare an "exclusion zone" around the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that roughly 20% of the world's oil passes...
Foster Mom Who Traded Teen for a Monkey Gets Probation
A 70-year-old Missouri woman accused of trading a teenage foster child to a stranger in Texas in exchange for keeping the girl's government stipend checks —...
Amazon Cargo Plane Overshoots Miami Runway, Kills 5 on Labor Day Weekend
An Amazon Air cargo plane overshot the runway at Miami International Airport Sunday afternoon, plowed into several vehicles on the ground, burst into flames,...
Armed Man Lunges at Ohio Governor Candidate at County Fair
An armed person lunged at Amy Acton, Ohio's Democratic nominee for governor, at a county fair on Sunday afternoon, injuring several people in the process....
Raúl Castro, 95 and Allegedly Half-Dead, Shows Up in Full Uniform
Everyone spent last week writing Raúl Castro's obituary, and he responded by putting on his dress uniform and sitting in the front row of a military ceremony....
Germany's Far-Right AfD Wins 44% in Regional Vote, Eyes First State Government
Germany's far-right Alternative für Deutschland just won roughly 44% of the vote in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, more than doubling its 2021 result,...
Trump Loses Mail Ballot Fight Again, Runs to SCOTUS Crying
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's mail voting restrictions for the third time in as many tries on Friday, and by Sunday the administration was...
The Rage Isn't About Policy Anymore. That's the Whole Problem.
Sixty percent of Australians think immigration is too high, and yet for a massive chunk of One Nation voters, immigration isn't even the point. Let that sit...
Raskin: Trump 'Undoubtedly' Impeachable, But Healthcare Comes First
Rep. Jamie Raskin went on national television Sunday and told America that Donald Trump has 'undoubtedly' committed impeachable offenses, that 'nothing comes...
69% of Americans Oppose AI Data Centers. Trump Called Them Backwards.
Nearly seven in ten Americans don't want an AI data center built near their home, according to a new NBC News Decision Desk poll. Donald Trump's response to...
'Come From Away' at 25: The 9/11 Musical That Rewrote the Rulebook
Two Canadian writers traveled to a tiny Newfoundland town to interview the people who housed seven thousand stranded airline passengers on the worst day in...
George Santos Bet on Skipping the SOTUS and Lost $97K for It
George Santos, a man who has never once in his life made a good decision, bet on himself to skip the State of the Union address, then skipped the State of the...
Science Says You're Not Lazy, You're Just Doing Procrastination Wrong
Mozart couldn't finish his assignments either, and he turned out fine. A Cambridge University social science lecturer named Itamar Shatz has published a new...
Iran Shot at a US Aircraft Carrier. We Sank Three of Their Oil Tankers.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps fired ballistic missiles at a US aircraft carrier and a guided-missile destroyer in the Persian Gulf on Saturday. Both ships...
Car Week Bros Did Doughnuts Past Fire Trucks, Then Killed a Local
While actual wildfires were burning on the California hillsides above Big Sur this August, Car Week attendees were filming themselves doing doughnuts at...
GOP Privately Knows Trump Is Killing Them, Publicly Cheers Anyway
The Republican Party has a Trump problem, knows it has a Trump problem, and is absolutely going to do nothing about it. With 59 days until the November...
Trump's Kennedy Center Yanks 24-Foot 'Blue' Sculpture That Dared to Dance
A 24-foot-tall blue metal stick figure that spent years welcoming visitors to the Kennedy Center was hauled away by a work crew this Wednesday, because...
First Santa With Down Syndrome Just Got Inducted Into the Santa Hall of Fame
A 37-year-old community theater actor from suburban Atlanta just became the first professional Santa Claus with Down syndrome in the United States, completed a...
ICE Got a Judge to Approve Stomach Surgery on a Man Who Refused to Eat
A federal judge in Texas quietly gave Immigration and Customs Enforcement permission to surgically cut into a detained Cuban man's abdomen and insert a feeding...
Republican Senator Calls Hegseth 'Most Inept' Defense Chief Ever, Demands Trump Fire Him
Pete Hegseth has not held a formal Pentagon press briefing since May 5th. There is a war on. Fifty thousand American troops are deployed in the Middle East....
164 Countries Voted to Fix the World Map. The US Said No.
On Friday, 164 countries voted at the United Nations General Assembly to encourage the world to stop using a 16th-century map that makes Africa look roughly...
Alabama Boy's Birthday Wish: Ring 100 Strangers' Doorbells
An autistic kid in Huntsville, Alabama, asked strangers if he could ring their doorbells for his birthday. More than 100 of them said yes, and then they gave...
Mom Obsessed With Lindsay Clancy Trial Kills Her 2-Year-Old Son Hours Before Mistrial
A 40-year-old Illinois mother was texting friends about the Lindsay Clancy murder trial at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Three and a half hours later, police found...
Phillies Star Sued His Own Parents for Stealing His MLB Millions
Alec Bohm sued his own mom and dad for allegedly stealing millions of dollars he earned playing professional baseball, and now the whole messy thing is over....
McConnell, 84, May Hobble Back to Senate Sept. 14 After Summer Fall
Mitch McConnell fell in June, spent months in a rehabilitation facility, and his staff is now telling fellow Kentucky Republicans that getting the 84-year-old...
China Found a New Tick Virus With 18% Death Rate in Co-Infections
Chinese scientists have discovered a previously unknown tick-borne virus, and it has already shown up in over 10% of patients who came in after tick bites. The...