She Saw Severed Heads Out the Window and Thought: I Made a Mistake
A young woman raised in Canada since she was two years old joined ISIS in 2014, rode in a van through the Turkish darkness toward Syria, and saw human heads...
Wisconsin Congressman Survives Plane Going Down in Lake Wausau
A Wisconsin congressman running for governor ended his Saturday night by swimming out of a sinking plane in Lake Wausau. Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany was...
39 Million People Under Flood Alerts as NYC Braces for 7 Inches of Rain
Thirty-nine million people woke up Sunday under flood alerts as a wall of thunderstorms tore up the East Coast from Washington, D.C., to New Haven,...
NC Detention Officer Faked Judge Signatures 20 Times to Hold Immigrants for ICE
A North Carolina detention officer apparently decided that due process was more of a suggestion than a requirement, allegedly forging judges' signatures on 20...
Netherlands Just Pulled 86 Tons of Gold Out of America
The Netherlands just physically moved 86 tons of gold out of the United States and Canada, calling it a hedge against "extreme systemic risks." France already...
The Guy Who Built the AI Says Stop Building the AI
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic and one of the most powerful AI developers on earth, is publicly calling for a slowdown in AI development before rogue AI...
America's West Nile Early Warning System Is Just… Chickens
West Nile virus is having its worst early summer in over two decades, and the CDC is sounding the alarm. Delaware's response? Eighty chickens stationed across...
JD Vance Told America to Call Their Neighbors' Employers. They Did.
A year after Charlie Kirk was shot dead at a Utah Valley University debate, the courtyard where it happened sits empty and the country he left behind is...
Nashville Votes to Name Airport After Dolly Parton, Making Her the First Woman on a Top-50 U.S. Airport
Two governments that have been suing each other for control of Nashville's airport sat down last Friday and agreed on something for the first time in years:...
KSM's Trial Is Now Scheduled for 27 Years After 9/11. Let That Sink In.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been in U.S. custody since 2003. He has confessed. He is not missing. His trial is currently scheduled to begin June 5, 2028, which...
The 3,000-Year-Old Ram's Horn That Still Stops the World Cold
No app, no algorithm, no $4,000 Sonos speaker system has come close to doing what a hollowed ram's horn has been doing for three thousand years: stopping...
The Pilot Who Almost Shot Down Flight 93 Is Now America's Top General
Twenty-five years ago, a fighter pilot at Andrews Air Force Base loaded his jet with live air-to-air missiles and took off knowing he might have to destroy a...
CIA Warned Bush a Plane Could Hit a US City. They Knew Three Years Before 9/11.
A September 1998 CIA briefing delivered to President Bill Clinton warned that bin Laden's supporters 'may fly an explosive-packed airplane into a US city.' The...
Second Legionnaires' Outbreak Hits NYC in Weeks, One Dead in South Bronx
New York City health officials had just finished patting themselves on the back for closing out a Legionnaires' outbreak on the Upper East Side. Then the South...
Surrogate Who Fled to Texas to Avoid Abortion Now Wants SCOTUS to Give Her the Baby
A surrogate who secretly traveled to Texas to avoid terminating a pregnancy with a severe heart defect is now asking the US Supreme Court to give her custody...
Trump's Own Contractor Caused the Reflecting Pool Damage He Blamed on Vandals
Donald Trump spent months demanding criminal prosecutions for vandals he said destroyed the Reflecting Pool. There was just one problem: according to documents...
Fed Set to Hike Rates for First Time Since 2023 as Oil War Burns
Diesel just broke six dollars a gallon, oil is trading above $100 a barrel, and the Federal Reserve is now almost certain to raise interest rates for the first...
The Neo-Nazi Party Sweden Once Banned From Politics Is About to Run It
In 2018, Sweden's current Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson personally assured a Holocaust survivor that he would never work with the Sweden Democrats. On Sunday,...
CDC Says Cyclospora Lettuce Outbreak Is Over. FDA Disagrees.
The CDC announced Friday that the Cyclospora outbreak tied to Taylor Farms lettuce is officially over. The FDA, which investigates where these things actually...
AI Is Already Designing Viruses and Nobody's in Charge
Somewhere right now, an AI model is helping design biological experiments, and the people responsible for making sure that doesn't end civilization are still...
25 Years After 9/11, America Stops to Remember the Day It Changed Forever
Twenty-five years ago this morning, nearly 3,000 people went to work and never came home. On Friday, the United States stopped — at memorials, firehouses, and...
Feds Ran ICE Observer's Face Through Facial Recognition. Then Showed Up at His House.
The federal government has been photographing legal observers, revoking their Global Entry, threatening them with domestic terrorism watch lists,...
JD Vance Told a Protester to Move to Mexico and MAGA Loved It
JD Vance told a Mexican-flag-waving protester to "get your ass over there" at the GOP's Dallas convention on Friday, and approximately ten thousand Republican...
Flesh-Eating Maggots Are Now Eating Texas Horses
A working ranch horse in Presidio County, Texas, is now the first horse in the United States to be infected with the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating fly...
The Iran War Is Now Crashing the Housing Market Too
American home sales just hit their slowest pace in more than a year, mortgage rates are closing in on 7%, and the median home price just set an all-time August...
30 Beds, All Full, No Vaccine: Ebola Is Killing Congo's Kids
Last week, an Ebola treatment unit in eastern Congo lost eight patients. All of them were under five years old. The unit has 30 beds. Tonight, according to...
25 Dead After Cargo Ship Burns at World's Largest Shipbuilder
A cargo ship docked for repairs at a major Chinese port caught fire Thursday morning and killed 25 people before crews managed to extinguish the blaze roughly...
5 When Her Mom Died on 9/11. Now 30, She's Pushing Her Kids on the Same Swings.
In the final minutes of her life, flight attendant Amy Sweeney stayed on the phone with her supervisor aboard American Airlines Flight 11 and methodically...
August Was Earth's Hottest Month Ever and We're Still Burning Coal
Earth just had its hottest month in recorded human history, blew past a major international climate threshold by nearly a tenth of a degree, and set an...
Trump Promises Every American $5K He Doesn't Have Yet
Donald Trump stood in front of a arena full of people in sparkly MAGA hats on Wednesday night and promised every adult American $5,000 if Republicans win...
Poop Concrete Is 42% Stronger and Scientists Are Not Joking
Researchers in India have made concrete out of processed human feces, and it is stronger than regular concrete. Not slightly stronger. Forty-two percent...
A.J. Brown's Patriots Debut Lasts Three Quarters Before Ankle Ends It
New England traded a 2028 first-round pick and a fifth-rounder to get A.J. Brown into a Patriots uniform. They got three quarters and 26 yards before a Seattle...
ICE Deported 2,000+ 'Known Terrorists.' That Phrase Is Doing a Lot of Work.
On the eve of the 25th anniversary of September 11, the Department of Homeland Security dropped a number designed to make your jaw hit the floor: ICE has...
GOP Holds 'Trumpapalooza' While 35 House Republicans Hide
Republicans gathered in Dallas Tuesday night for what they're actually calling 'Trumpapalooza,' a two-day convention designed to fire up the MAGA base heading...
Zelenskyy's Plane Nearly Hit by Russian Drone En Route to a King's Funeral
Volodymyr Zelenskyy flew to a king's funeral this week and nearly got a drone chaser as a send-off. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store confirmed...
Trump's Gifted Qatar Jet Blew an Emergency Slide on the Tarmac
The plane a foreign government gave the President of the United States as a gift blew out an inflatable emergency slide on the tarmac Wednesday before Trump...
Treasury's $6B Bond Buyback Won't Fix a $40 Trillion Problem
The U.S. national debt blew past $40 trillion last month, having doubled in less than a decade, and the Treasury Department's big plan to deal with the fallout...
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...
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...
The HSI Agent Who Trained Teachers to Spot Predators Was One
A Homeland Security Investigations special agent whose literal job was pursuing child predators just got indicted for being one. Kent Blacklidge, 43, was...
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'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...
China Is Running AI Hacks From Your Hacked Computer
Chinese government hackers have figured out how to run artificial intelligence models on networks they have already broken into, letting them conduct entire...
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...