ICE Beat a Black Man in Chicago, Left Him Bleeding, He's a U.S. Citizen
Two ICE agents in Evanston, Illinois tackled a Black man, pinned him to the pavement, and injured him badly enough that bystanders had to call 911. Then they...
US F-16 Crashes in Germany Days After Another F-16 Crashed in Michigan
A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed on approach to Spangdahlem Air Base in western Germany on Tuesday afternoon, the second F-16 to go down in less...
Iran Offers to Reopen Hormuz in 7 Days If U.S. Backs Off
Seven months into a war that has choked off nearly a fifth of the world's seaborne oil supply, Iran just blinked — sort of. According to Reuters, Tehran...
Hayden Panettiere, 36, Killed by Fentanyl Cocktail While Boyfriend Held the Bag
Hayden Panettiere was 36 years old when she died on August 16 in a Greenville, South Carolina apartment, and on Tuesday the Greenville County Coroner made it...
Trump Fired the Climate Scientists. They Just Published Anyway.
In April 2025, the Trump administration told hundreds of volunteer climate scientists they were no longer needed, killed funding for the congressionally...
ICE Barred a Congresswoman From Talking to Detainees at a Camp Where Guards Beat a Man to Death
A sitting member of Congress showed up to inspect a detention camp where a man was beaten to death by guards, two separate disturbances had just happened, and...
298,000 Americans in the UK Could Vote. Only 3.8% Did.
There are roughly 298,000 voting-age American citizens living in the United Kingdom right now. In the last midterm elections, fewer than four percent of them...
Grand Jury Finds No Crime in Mississippi Teen Nolan Wells' Death
A Mississippi grand jury has declined to charge anyone in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, the Black teenager last seen on a remote barrier island on July...
Trump and Xi Are Meeting at the White House and AI Is Already on the Table
The two most powerful leaders on the planet are about to sit down together in Washington, and the pre-game warm-up happened inside a JPMorgan Chase conference...
Trump Wants a Board to Veto 'Woke' Cancer Research
The Trump administration is reportedly planning to create a political board with veto power over which biomedical research the federal government funds,...
Kamala's Own People Think She's Not Running in 2028
The people who know Kamala Harris best, who worked for her, fundraised for her, and publicly vouched for her, are quietly telling reporters they don't think...
Andy Beshear Is Running for President, He Just Won't Say It Yet
Andy Beshear would like you to know that he is not running for president. He is simply doing a national book tour, granting interviews to Axios about his...
GOP Rep Admits Half of 57,000 July Deportees Had No Criminal Record
A sitting Republican congresswoman went on national television Sunday morning and casually confirmed that half of the 50,000 people the Trump administration...
Hunter Shot a Woman Walking With Her Kids. He Thought She Was a Deer.
A 74-year-old hunter in Delaware shot and killed a woman who was walking through an open field with a man and two children, because he thought she was a deer....
Trump's Son Took $250K from a Kremlin Guy. Republicans Called It Corruption. He Paid It Back.
The president's son accepted a $250,000 wedding gift from a billionaire with deep ties to the Kremlin, called it totally fine, and then quietly paid it back...
AI Assistants Can Now Run Your Life. Nobody Asked If They Should.
Tech companies have spent years promising you a digital assistant that actually does things. Now they're delivering, all at once, in a crowded sprint to...
EPA Let Bayer Pick Its Own Pesticide Rules From a Menu
The Environmental Protection Agency, the federal agency theoretically in charge of protecting you from toxic chemicals, handed Bayer a menu of its own...
America Is 10/10 Pissed Off and the 2026 Midterms Are About to Prove It
The Working Families Party's national director Maurice Mitchell put it in terms that no focus group could have workshopped: most Americans are, quote, '10 out...
SpaceX Gets 25 Years of Louisiana Tax Breaks, Locals Get Sonic Booms
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed laws shielding SpaceX from property taxes, public records requests, and lawsuits over sonic booms, then thanked the lawmakers...
Ed Sheeran Tells Philly Crowd Gaza Is 'Catastrophic' After Billionaire Booted His Opener
A billionaire Patriots owner got a rapper fired from a pop tour for saying 'Free Palestine,' and now the pop star is standing in front of 60,000 people in...
Surrogate Fled to Texas to Deliver Baby She Refused to Abort. Now He's Heading to L.A.
A surrogate who traveled to Texas specifically to give birth to a baby she refused to abort has lost her bid to block that baby from leaving the state for...
Measles Train Tour Hits Six CA Counties While RFK Jr. Cheers Anti-Vaxxers
An unvaccinated person boarded an Amtrak train and proceeded to give six California counties a measles problem, hitting Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Stockton,...
Trump Creates 'AI Force' While Calling AI Safety a 'Hoax'
Donald Trump announced Saturday that he will create an 'AI Force' and appoint an artificial intelligence tsar to oversee a technology he simultaneously insists...
Trump Bans CNN, Politico, and MS Now from the White House After a Really Bad Week
Donald Trump, fresh off getting spanked by the Supreme Court, the Federal Reserve, and a federal judge in the span of about five days, responded to his...
GOP Dumps Millions Into NFL Ads to Win Back Men Who've Abandoned Trump
The Republican Party's midterm strategy apparently bottoms out at this: buy enough football commercials and maybe men will forget what's happened to their...
25,000-Year-Old Teeth Prove Humans Have Always Needed to Take the Edge Off
Scientists examining 25,000-year-old human teeth from Indonesia found grooves so deep and strange that the world's leading dental archaeologists had absolutely...
Johnson Fled Town to Save Hegseth From a Vote He'd Probably Lose
House Speaker Mike Johnson sent the entire House of Representatives home seven weeks early this month, and the timing is not a coincidence. Republican Rep....
Ponzi Schemer Who Robbed Travis Kelce Tried a $100 Jailhouse Wedding to Dodge Deportation
A man who stole tens of millions of dollars from professional athletes, blew it on private jets and luxury hotels, and then tried to coach victims and wipe...
Italy Has 650 West Nile Cases This Summer and Europe Is Just Getting Started
Italy has recorded more than 650 West Nile virus infections so far this year, which is roughly half of every case reported across the entire continent of...
Mortgage Rates Hit 7.2% and the First-Time Buyer Is Cooked
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate just hit 7.2%, its highest point in a year and a half, while the average American home price sits near a record...
Warren Buffett, 96, Exits as Berkshire Chair After 5,500,000% Return
Warren Buffett, 96 years old and still making billion-dollar bets on Alphabet as recently as this summer, announced Friday that he is stepping down as chairman...
Hasan Piker Wants to Campaign for AOC in 2028. Democrats Are Already Sweating.
Hasan Piker, the left-wing Twitch streamer with millions of followers and a talent for making Democratic party operatives visibly uncomfortable, has announced...
Trump Killed a 15-Year Alzheimer's Study — 600 Black Seniors Won't Get Their Results
Six hundred mostly Black seniors in Pittsburgh sat through cognitive tests, wore sleep monitors, answered deeply personal questions about their childhoods and...
Trump Is Funneling Migrant Kids Into Texas 'Deportation Factory'
The Trump administration has quietly funneled over 90% of unaccompanied migrant children with new immigration court cases into Texas, a state where their...
Congress Can't Pass an AI Kill Switch While AI Learns to Talk Humans Out of Using It
The United States Senate cannot pass a law requiring companies to install an off switch for potentially civilization-ending AI because Rand Paul thinks they...
One Drugged Driver, a Mangled Bus, and a Helicopter Falling Out of the Sky: Five Dead in LA
One woman drove the wrong way down a busy Los Angeles street, high on drugs, blew a red light, and plowed her SUV into a city bus. Two people died. Then the...
4 Dead From Measles in PA While RFK Jr. Calls Deaths 'Fabricated'
Pennsylvania has recorded four measles deaths in a single month — two infants, an 18-year-old, and a 40-year-old woman — the first measles deaths in the state...
GOP Rep Files 8 Articles to Impeach Hegseth for Iran War Nobody Voted For
A Republican congressman walked onto the House floor Tuesday, read eight articles of impeachment against the Secretary of War for over an hour, and then dared...
AG Blanche: Trump Will Keep Attacking SCOTUS 'First Time Won't Be Last'
The Attorney General of the United States stood in front of reporters on Monday and announced, with a straight face, that the President of the United States...
IDF Grabs Terrorist Mid-Plot to Shoot Jews on Rosh Hashanah
Israeli security forces arrested a man this weekend who was actively planning to shoot Israeli civilians during Rosh Hashanah, timing the attack to coincide...
Rob Reiner's Son Won't Face Death Penalty for Stabbing Both Parents
Nine months after Rob and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death inside their Brentwood home, Los Angeles prosecutors announced Tuesday they will not seek...
ICE Stopped Counting Miscarriages in Its Detention Centers
ICE detained a record number of pregnant women, recorded 18 miscarriages in its first nine months under Trump, and then simply stopped keeping track. Not...
Iran Tried to Steal a U.S. Navy Drone. It Did Not Go Well.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard tried to steal an American military drone in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. The U.S. military responded by destroying two Iranian...
The Texas Police Department That Jailed a Water Whistleblower Got Disbanded for Being Useless
A Texas police department that arrested a woman for posting on Facebook about contaminated water has been ordered shut down after state investigators...
Trump's Canada Tariffs Are Hitting the Farmers Who Voted for Him
Montana farmers voted for Donald Trump three times. Now Canada has slapped retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of U.S. goods, including the farm equipment...
FBI Now Hiring People Who Stole From Bosses and Committed Bestiality
The FBI, the federal agency responsible for maintaining law and order in the United States, has quietly decided that applicants who stole from their employers,...
Fed-Up Neighbors Who Killed $130B in Datacenter Projects Are Now Running for Office
Regular people — teachers, cybersecurity professionals, neighborhood organizers — spent the last year blocking more than $130 billion worth of datacenter...
Trump Tells Towns Blocking Data Centers They'll 'End Up Poor'
Donald Trump would like you to know that if your community doesn't want a massive, water-guzzling, electricity-sucking data center built near your home, you...
RFK Jr. Asked CDC Not to Count Measles Deaths. Then CDC Stopped Counting Measles Deaths.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. allegedly asked the CDC director not to count measles deaths in the official tally. The very next day, the CDC changed its death-counting...
Putin's Oligarch Pal Reportedly Bankrolled Don Jr.'s Wedding
A Russian oligarch who changed his name to sound more like the Kremlin, was convicted of extortion and assault, and once said Vladimir Putin personally creates...
DHS Employees Ordered to Illegally Access State Voter Databases, Whistleblower Says
The Department of Homeland Security allegedly instructed its own employees to dig into state voter databases in ways that a whistleblower says break state law....
McConnell Ghosts His Own Senate Return, Still MIA at 84
UPDATE: Mitch McConnell showed up. The 84-year-old senator returned to the Capitol Monday evening for a vote, months after a fall and hospitalization fueled...
GOP Women Warn 'Repeal the 19th' Crowd Is a Real Threat to the Party
A woman is acquitted by reason of insanity after killing her three children while suffering postpartum psychosis, and a chunk of the online right's response...
Trump Demanded 'Lowest Rates in the World.' His Own Fed Pick May Hike Them.
Donald Trump spent months demanding the Federal Reserve slash interest rates to the lowest of any country on Earth, then personally selected the man to run it....