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...
208 Dead: The U.S. Military Is Blowing Up Boats and Calling It Drug Policy
The U.S. military blew up another boat in the eastern Pacific on Tuesday, killing one person and leaving two survivors treading water while the Coast Guard...
NYC Biology Teacher Busted with Baby Porn on His Way to School
A New York City high school biology teacher was arrested on his way to work carrying a backpack with a meth pipe and a thumb drive loaded with over 150 images...
Science Confirms Your Partner's Gut Bugs Are Basically Moving In Too
Congratulations on moving in with your partner. You're now sharing a bathroom, a Netflix queue, and approximately one-fifth of each other's fecal bacteria. A...
Trump at G7: Putin 'Should Make a Deal' After Months of Siding With Him
Donald Trump, the man who spent the better part of a year acting as Vladimir Putin's most useful diplomat, showed up to the G7 summit this week and announced...
Trump Signs Ukraine Support Deal He Spent 18 Months Trying to Kill
At a lakeside resort in the French Alps, Donald Trump just co-signed a document promising to flood Ukraine with air defense systems, long-range weapons, and...
Haitian TPS Lawyers Drop New Bombshell: DHS Staff Said Don't Do This
New documents suggest the Trump administration's attempt to strip legal protections from more than 330,000 Haitian immigrants was, according to lawyers for...
ICE Quietly Empties 'Alligator Alcatraz' and Won't Say Where Anyone Went
The federal government has quietly emptied its most infamous immigration jail, a facility where detainees were allegedly forced to drink water containing...
Pentagon Is Out of Missiles and Hegseth Says the Stockpiles Are 'Great'
The United States may have burned through more than half of its inventory of four critical munitions fighting Iran, including Tomahawk missiles, and the...
Active Shooter at Delaware Hospital Sends ER Into Divert, Two Shot
Two people were shot inside a hospital in Wilmington, Delaware on Tuesday afternoon, sending the campus into lockdown and forcing the emergency department to...
Moped Riders Throw Sulfuric Acid on Group of Six in Jersey City
Two people on a moped drove past a group of women on a residential Jersey City street Monday evening and threw sulfuric acid on them. Six people were injured,...
Senate Votes to Keep Trump's Secret Iran War Going, 48-47
The United States has been at war with Iran for over 100 days under a legal justification the administration refuses to explain publicly, pursuing a deal whose...
DOJ Sues Hochul's Team for Rigging $11B Medicaid Bid for 'Favored Vendor'
One week into New York's big Medicaid homecare transition, exactly 43 out of 214,000 people had successfully completed it. Forty-three. The Hochul...
Kushner's Albanian Resort Is Displacing Flamingos for 10,000 Hotel Rooms
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump found their dream vacation property the old-fashioned way: they swam to an uninhabited Albanian island from a friend's yacht and...
Trump Strips Education Dept of Special Ed and Civil Rights, Calls It 'Less Micromanagement'
The Trump administration announced Tuesday it is ripping two of the Education Department's most critical functions away from the agency and scattering them...
Millions Retiring Broke: The Debt Trap Swallowing Social Security Checks
Something has gone badly wrong when the finish line of a lifetime of work looks like this: credit card balances compounding at 21%, a mortgage that isn't close...
GOP Senators Say They Haven't Read the Iran Deal Trump Already Signed
Donald Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran to end a war, set a ceremonial signing date in Geneva for Friday, and apparently forgot to tell...
Israel to U.S.-Iran Deal: Thanks, We're Keeping Lebanon
The United States spent what we can only assume was considerable diplomatic energy brokering a ceasefire deal with Iran, and Israel's ambassador to Washington...
Trump May Fire Hegseth and Ratcliffe for Opposing His Iran Deal
Donald Trump reportedly wants to fire his own Secretary of Defense and CIA Director for the crime of disagreeing with him about a nuclear deal. Not leaking....
NY's Pied-à-Terre Tax Could Stick Entire Co-op Buildings With One Rich Guy's Bill
New York State just passed a tax targeting wealthy second-home owners, and somehow managed to write it in a way that could financially kneecap the middle-class...
A Parent's Text Stopped a Drone Attack on Trump's UFC Party
Twelve suspects across four states allegedly plotted to rain explosive drones onto the White House lawn during a UFC event, then pick off the fleeing crowd...
JD Vance Walks Into 'The View' Armed With a Faith Book and Zero Shame
JD Vance, the man whose co-hosts on 'The View' have called a coward, a hypocrite, a duplicitous opportunist, and a 'carbon copy' of Donald Trump, is popping by...
6.3 Quake Hits Remote Chinese Province, Kills One, Traps Miners
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake tore through a remote high-altitude corner of northwestern China on Tuesday afternoon, killing at least one person, injuring four...
Epstein's Jailhouse Notes: Trump Is a 'Con Artist' With No Money
Jeffrey Epstein, in the final weeks of his life, was obsessively scribbling one-liners about Donald Trump on a legal pad in a Manhattan federal jail, desperate...
Gold Hit $4,075 an Ounce and Silver Is Up 200% Since Last Year
Gold is now worth more than four thousand dollars an ounce. Let that sit for a second. The shiny yellow rock that your grandfather buried in a coffee can is,...
Trump Paid $14.2M to Make a Pool Blue. It Turned Green.
Donald Trump spent $14.2 million of your money to repaint the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool a shade he called 'American flag blue.' It has been green for...
Paramount Censored an Ad About Paramount Censoring People
A press freedom organization tried to pay Paramount roughly $300,000 to air a 30-second ad criticizing Paramount's billionaire owners. Paramount said no,...
FBI Busts Plot Against Trump's White House UFC Event
The FBI has arrested multiple people in connection with an alleged plot targeting President Trump's White House UFC event, according to FBI Director Kash...
Microsoft Exec Tells Tech Bros to Shut Up About AI Apocalypse
A Microsoft executive with 33 years at the company walked into his own industry's party and told everyone to stop catastrophizing. Brad Smith, vice chair and...
OB-GYNs Break With CDC to Publish Their Own Vaccine Schedule for Pregnant Women
The top professional organization for OB-GYNs in the United States just did something it has never had to do before: publish its own vaccination schedule for...
U.S. Banned Its Own AI Model So Fast Nobody Could Even Copy It First
Anthropic released its most advanced AI model on June 9th. Three days later, the U.S. government classified it as a dangerous munition and banned foreign...
Trump to Netanyahu: 'What the F*** Are You Doing?'
Donald Trump, the man who has spent a decade telling anyone who will listen that he is Israel's greatest protector, called his closest foreign ally's military...
Trump Is Rigging the Refs Before the Midterms and Barely Hiding It
The Trump administration is using the Justice Department, the FBI, and a presidential executive order to systematically dismantle American voting rights before...
Trump Threatens to Seize DC If the 'Wrong' Democrat Wins Tuesday
Donald Trump, a man who does not live in Washington DC, does not vote in Washington DC, and has spent considerable energy trying to hollow out Washington DC,...
AI Deepfake Attack Ads Are Everywhere Now and Nobody Has to Tell You
Political campaigns are now running AI-generated attack ads that place their opponents in completely fabricated, compromising situations, and here is the...
Artist Turns Belts Into Paint Brushes to Ask Why We Hit Our Kids
A Washington, D.C. artist is dipping belts in paint and beating canvases bloody-looking to ask a question a lot of Black families have been avoiding for...
Scientists Are Watching a See-Through Fish Think in Real Time
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus just announced it is tripling its fish tank space, hiring up to 100 new scientists, and pointing...
Whale Trapped by Fishing Rope Freed Off Cape Cod With Minutes to Spare
A young humpback whale spent Sunday essentially nailed to the ocean floor by a rope wrapped around its tail, off the coast of Massachusetts, while a storm...
Zelensky Flies to G7 With No Trump Meeting Scheduled
Volodymyr Zelensky flew to a G7 summit in France on Monday without a confirmed meeting with Donald Trump on the books, while Russia greeted the occasion by...
Airboat Capsizes in Florida Canal, Kills 2 and Leaves 1 Missing
Seven people got on an airboat in Highlands County, Florida, on Monday morning. Two of them are now dead. A third is still missing somewhere in the Istokpoga...
American Doctor Survives Ebola Strain With No Vaccine, Returns Home
An American doctor who caught Ebola in Congo, was airlifted to Berlin, and survived a strain of the virus for which there is no vaccine or approved treatment...
Trump Shows Up to G7 After Starting a War Nobody Asked For
Donald Trump flew into a French spa town this week to discuss ending a war in Ukraine that he swore he'd fix in 24 hours, fresh off wrapping up a different war...
Brazilian Bungee Instructors 'Blacked Out' and Forgot the Rope
Three bungee jumping instructors in Brazil forgot to attach the rope to a 21-year-old woman before throwing her off a 130-foot bridge, watched her fall to her...
Three Kids Shot at an Arkansas Public Pool on a Saturday Afternoon
Three children were shot near a public swimming pool in Stuttgart, Arkansas on a Saturday afternoon, including one kid who took a bullet to the chest. A...
12 Dead After Skydiving Plane Spins Into Ground Near Butler, MO
Twelve people boarded a skydiving plane in rural Missouri on Sunday morning and none of them came home. The aircraft spun out of control and slammed into the...
Mississippi Cop Shot a 1-Year-Old Dead Over Alleged Diaper Theft
A one-year-old boy is dead because a Mississippi police officer decided that a shoplifting call at a Walmart was worth pulling the trigger on a moving car....
Trump Ends Iran War He Started, Leaves Nuclear Stuff for Later
Donald Trump launched a war with Iran in February over its nuclear program, and on Sunday he announced a deal to end that war — without actually resolving...
Republicans Now Running Dem Primaries, and Democrats Have No One to Blame But Themselves
Republicans are now spending real money to pick which Democrats they'll face in November, boosting the weakest primary candidates in what Axios describes as a...
A Retired Teacher Named 'Dan Sullivan' Just Got Booted Off Alaska's Senate Ballot
A retired schoolteacher with no Republican history filed to run in Alaska's Republican Senate primary under the name 'Dan Sullivan,' which is also the name of...
Melting Glaciers Are Accidentally Building New Reefs on the Arctic Floor
Glaciers are disintegrating. Icebergs are hauling their rocky guts into the ocean. And somewhere on the floor of the Arctic sea, a coral is making itself at...
B-52 Nuclear Bomber Crashes at Edwards AFB Amid Iran War
A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress -- a nuclear-capable strategic bomber that has been actively flying bombing raids on Iran -- crashed shortly after takeoff...
Meta's 6,500-Person AI Team Is 'Literally the Gulag,' Workers Say
Someone interrupted a live-streamed Meta meeting earlier this month to scream, on the record, that a company executive is "a piece of s--t" and that employees...
Trump's DOJ Is Now Investigating Newsom's Wife Too
The Department of Justice is investigating Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer, the California governor announced Monday in a video posted to X. Newsom says...