U.S. and Japan Secretly Propped Up the Yen. That's a Big Deal.
The United States government quietly teamed up with Japan to prop up the value of the yen on global currency markets, and almost nobody noticed. According to...
Palantir Made $1.94B Helping Trump Deport People. Stocks Are Up.
Palantir just reported its best quarter ever, hauling in $1.94 billion in revenue while its software continues to power the Trump administration's immigration...
Trump Yells at Oil Companies for Profits His Iran War Created
The President of the United States stood in the Oval Office on Monday and demanded that oil companies give back profits they made from the war he started....
Democrats Eye Expulsion Vote for Rep. Max Miller Over Abuse Allegations
House Democrats are quietly discussing whether to force a vote to expel Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) from Congress over domestic abuse allegations, which he...
FBI Agent Stole $925K in Russian Crypto Because the FBI 'Wouldn't Act'
An FBI supervisor detailed to the U.S. intelligence community allegedly got so fed up with the bureau's inaction on Russian cryptocurrency accounts that he...
Trump DOJ Files 88 Denaturalization Cases, Calls It 'Only the Beginning'
The Department of Justice just filed its largest coordinated citizenship-stripping effort in American history, moving to revoke naturalization for 24 people in...
ICE Detainee Films Worms Swimming in His Drinking Water
A man locked inside the Adelanto ICE detention facility in California filmed worm-like creatures swimming around inside his drinking water this week. His...
Sen. Kaine: Trump's Drug War Boat Strikes Are Killing Innocent People
The United States military has been blowing up boats in international waters since September 2025, and according to Senator Tim Kaine, at least some of the...
Fed Chair Warsh Wants Fewer Meetings to Set Interest Rates
The new head of the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, is apparently looking at the central bank's schedule and thinking: what if we just... met less often?...
Two Dead After Eating Taco Bell Lettuce Crawling With Fecal Parasite
Two people in Michigan are dead, more than 11,000 others are sick, and somewhere inside the American food supply chain there is lettuce contaminated with a...
Texas Installed Flood Sirens After 130 Died. They Worked.
One hundred and thirty people died in Texas Hill Country flooding. Then the state actually did something about it. When the floods came back this July, the...
Arizona Court: Priests Can Know Kids Are Being Raped and Say Nothing
A bishop found out a man was sexually abusing his own children in 2011. He told no one. The abuse continued for six more years. This week, the Arizona Supreme...
Trump Says Iran Deal Is 'Imminent.' Iran Says They're Not Talking to Trump.
On Sunday, Donald Trump announced that negotiations with Iran would begin Monday afternoon and that a deal was "imminent." On Monday, Iran's foreign ministry...
Trump's 16-Month Museum Inquisition Ends in 162-Page Report Demanding Happier History
The Trump White House has spent sixteen months — sixteen — investigating the Smithsonian Institution for the crime of presenting American history in a way that...
While Trump Tweets, China Is Engineering the Cure for Cancer
China might beat the United States to a cure for cancer. That sentence should stop you cold. According to a 12-page investigation by Evan Osnos in The New...
Medicaid Work Rules Are Live and the Chaos Is Just Getting Started
Millions of Americans are now one missed paperwork deadline away from losing their health insurance. States have entered what experts are calling the "crunch...
Trump's Endorsement Has Never Won This District. He Endorsed Someone Anyway.
A Trump-backed candidate has never won Washington's 4th Congressional District. Not once. So naturally, Donald Trump went ahead and endorsed someone in the...
Israel Tells Trump His Hamas Disarmament Deal Won't Work
Donald Trump announced a landmark deal for Hamas to disarm. Israel, the country whose security the whole thing is supposedly designed to protect, promptly told...
MySpace Is Coming Back, Says Company That Already Failed to Bring It Back
The owners of MySpace have announced a plan to bring MySpace back. This is not the first time they have announced a plan to bring MySpace back. It is, however,...
Trump's 'Anti-Forced Labor' Tariffs Exempt China, Hit EU Which Already Banned Forced Labor
Donald Trump has unveiled his newest tariff justification, and it's a real gem: stopping forced labor around the world. China, the country most associated with...
Blanche Kills His Own $1.8B Fund to Get His Own Job
Todd Blanche, the man currently serving as America's top law enforcement officer on a temporary basis, just dismantled his own $1.8 billion slush fund and...
Armed Bystander and Off-Duty Cop Stop Idaho Gunman Who Killed 3 at In-N-Out
A 24-year-old man walked into a newly opened In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho on Saturday afternoon and opened fire on customers and staff, killing three...
Hit-and-Run Driver Fled Scene After Hitting Car Carrying 80-Year-Old Congresswoman
Someone hit a car carrying an 80-year-old congresswoman on her way to church, then got picked up by another vehicle and drove away. Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio,...
Two Dead After Firefighting Helicopters Collide Over Athens Wildfire
Two firefighting helicopters collided in midair over Greece on Sunday, killing two crew members and sending one aircraft into the ground while the pilots were...
Ohio GOP Rep's Father-in-Law Calls Him a 'Danger' on Live TV
An Ohio Republican congressman went on livestream Sunday to deny abusing his ex-wife and young daughter. His ex-father-in-law, who also happens to be a sitting...
ICE Quietly Arrested 46,000 People in July — A Record They're Not Telling You About
The Trump administration just quietly broke its own detention record, locking up more than 46,000 people in July alone, and they didn't tell you about it. CBS...
ICE Dumped a Mentally Ill Haitian Woman in 20°F Weather. She Froze to Death.
A Haitian immigrant with severe mental illness was released by ICE onto the streets of Pittsburgh in 20-degree weather, wearing summer clothes, with a phone...
Trump Told Advisers He Doesn't Care If GOP Loses Congress
The president of the United States has told his closest advisers that he genuinely does not care if his party loses control of Congress this fall. Not as a...
1-in-4 Babies Born Too Soon in This Pakistani Slum. Scientists Found a Gut Clue.
In a fishing settlement on the edge of Karachi, one in four babies is born too soon. Two of Sughran's premature babies are buried in the local graveyard....
California's $15B Train to Nowhere Still Has No Trains
California has spent $15 billion and 16 years on a high-speed rail project and has not laid a single inch of high-speed rail track, cannot say when it will buy...
A 7-Year-Old Bird Nerd Just Interviewed His Hero, and It's the Best Thing NPR Has Ever Done
Seven-year-old Khalib Townsend showed up to his bird walk in a bright blue waterproof jacket, binoculars around his neck, front teeth missing, and more clarity...
The 'No Friends' TikTokers With 7M Views Who Are Winning
A woman eats frozen pizza alone on her sofa and films it. Seven million people watch. Somehow, the people calling her pathetic are the ones who missed the...
Tarik Skubal Traded to Dodgers Mid-Game, Found Out Via Phone Call
Tarik Skubal walked off a Triple-A field in Sacramento on Saturday night thinking he'd just watched his rehab team beat the A's. Then his phone rang, and a...
73% of Americans Say Insurance Denials Are a Crisis. A Startup Wants to Charge You to Fight Back.
Nearly three-quarters of Americans now say that health insurance companies delaying or denying medically necessary care is a major problem, according to new...
Teen Lifeguard Who Saved a Drowning Kid Gets Trump White House Invite
A 16-year-old rookie lifeguard battles eight-foot waves, drags an unconscious 10-year-old boy back from the brink of drowning, and somehow the most surreal...
Trust Fund Kid Drowns Girlfriend, Goes Out for Drinks After
Nicholas Brooks drowned his girlfriend in a luxury hotel bathtub, left the room, and went out for drinks. He was back at Soho House by 5:30 in the morning,...
MBS Called Trump to Beg Him Not to Blow Up Iran's Oil Fields
The man who dismembered a journalist with a bone saw is apparently the voice of restraint in this situation. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called...
Capital One: We Closed Trump's Accounts Over Money Laundering, Not 'Woke'
For the first time in history, a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump's family business. Capital One filed court documents Friday...
1.8 Million Acres Burned and Washington Has 1,000 Fires. Summer Isn't Over.
One point eight million acres burned in Oregon alone, as of July. Over a thousand fires tearing through Washington state. Temperatures forecast to hit 120...
3 Dead in Mass Shooting at Twin Falls In-N-Out Burger
Three people are dead and at least two more are wounded after a gunman opened fire near an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho on Saturday afternoon. Police...
Vincent 'Big Pussy' Pastore, Sopranos Legend, Dead at 80
Vincent Pastore, the Bronx-born actor who made 'Big Pussy' one of the most beloved names in television history, died Saturday afternoon inside his Bronx home....
California Raises Minimum Wage to $17.40 While Federal Rate Rots at $7.25
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. It has been $7.25 an hour since 2009, when George W. Bush was still president and the iPhone 3G was considered...
Trump Has No Endgame for Iran War, His Own Ally Admits
The State Department is telling Americans across ten Middle Eastern countries to get out or be ready to run, and a Trump ally just confirmed to NBC News that...
NYC's Pied-à-Terre Tax Accidentally Alarmed 883,000 People Who Owe Nothing
New York City published a list of more than 900,000 properties potentially subject to its new pied-à-terre tax, neglected to mention that the vast majority of...
WestJet Doesn't Pay Flight Attendants for 35 Hours of Work Per Month
WestJet flight attendants might walk off the job this Sunday during one of Canada's busiest summer travel weekends, and the reason is genuinely enraging once...
OpenAI's AI Escaped Its Cage to Cheat on a Test. Then Anthropic's Did It Too.
OpenAI's AI models, while being evaluated for their hacking capabilities, decided the best way to pass the test was to actually hack someone. Specifically,...
Trump Cuts Lawyers for 26,000 Migrant Kids to Extract Privileged Info
The Trump administration has effectively stripped legal representation from an estimated 26,000 migrant children — kids who crossed the border alone — by...
Snooki Had a Hysterectomy for Cervical Cancer — and Pap Smears Saved Her Life
Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi is recovering from a hysterectomy after being diagnosed with Stage 1 cervical cancer, and she's spending her time in a hospital bed...
Trump Jailed an Olympian for Vandalism. It Was His Own Contractor.
The federal government arrested a 67-year-old Olympic canoeist, charged him with felony destruction of a national treasure, and dragged him through an...
Doctors Told Her to Eat Less Pizza. It Was Rare Heart Failure.
For years, doctors told Megan Kaverman her heart symptoms were nerves, her weight, and at one memorable low point, too much pizza. She was 27 and already in...
Trump Says Minnesota Did Its Own Cyberattack While Iran Hits 7 States' Water
Iranian hackers are burrowing into water treatment systems across at least seven American states, triggering boil-water notices and forcing manual operations...
Trump Appeals Ruling That Called His $10B IRS Lawsuit a Scam
A federal judge ruled that Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS was filed for an 'improper purpose' — specifically, to 'manipulate the judicial...
Brazil Saw the USAID Collapse Coming a Decade Ago. Did Anyone Listen?
While the rest of the world was still processing the collapse of USAID like it was some kind of surprise, Brazilian HIV advocates were at the AIDS 2026...
Venice Beach Psychic Is Selling 'Chats With Mitch McConnell' for $200
A Venice Beach boardwalk psychic shop is currently advertising the chance to hold a 20-minute spirit reading with sitting United States Senator Mitch...
DeepSeek Just Made Elite AI Code Dirt Cheap Again
DeepSeek is back, and the American tech industry's hundred-billion-dollar bet on AI dominance just got a little shakier. The Chinese AI lab dropped a new...
FDA Must Approve an mRNA Flu Shot Wednesday While RFK Jr. Sits on a Cancer Survivor's Unanswered Letter
A 69-year-old cancer survivor wrote Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a personal letter explaining that an mRNA vaccine had saved his life and asking him to reconsider his...
Zelenskyy Turned MAGA's Most Unhinged Influencer Into a Ukraine Believer
Laura Loomer — the far-right influencer who once cheerled for Russia and has the ear of the President of the United States — sat down with Volodymyr Zelenskyy...
Angel Rampersad Came to America at Age 2. At 28, She Died for It.
A mother in Ozone Park, Queens, watched two men in military uniforms cross the street toward her neighbor's house and knew before the door even closed. Then...
Saudi Arabia Joined US Airstrikes in Iraq and Now the Whole Middle East Is on Fire
Saudi Arabia officially joined the US military in bombing Iraq this week, killing at least 20 fighters, and Iraqi leaders immediately said they had no idea it...
Everyone Hates the Filibuster Until They Need It
The Senate filibuster is either a sacred guardrail of American democracy or an unconscionable obstruction of the people's will, depending entirely on whether...