Convicted Fraudster George Santos Caught Running Prediction Market Scam on His Own Attendance
A convicted fraudster walked into a prediction market, bet against himself attending an event he publicly said he would attend, made $17,500, and then — in a...
Bessent Left His 'Buy $10B Yen' Shopping List Out at a Press Meeting
The United States Treasury Secretary wrote down his plan to spend up to $10 billion propping up the Japanese yen on a notepad, left it face-up on the...
Cops Release Ransom Notes in Savannah Guthrie's Mom Kidnapping — Six Months Later, Still No Arrest
Six months after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was snatched from her home outside Tucson, Arizona, police still have no suspect, no confirmed location, and no...
Red States Found a New Way to Undo Your Vote Before You Cast It
Republicans in Missouri and Kansas kept losing ballot measures on abortion, marijuana, and Medicaid. So they did what any sore loser with a legislative...
Trump Says $1.8B Jan. 6 Payout Fund Is Dead, Then Says He Wishes It Weren't
In a single breath on Friday, President Donald Trump told reporters the $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization fund' for January 6 defendants is dead — and then said...
Judge to xAI: Your 'Emergency' Waited 3 Months, Nice Try
Elon Musk's AI company filed an emergency request to stop a Minnesota nudification ban — three months after the law was signed and three days before it took...
One-Third of Democrats Now Call Themselves Socialists and the GOP Is Losing Its Mind
A third of the Democratic Party now calls itself democratic socialist, DSA-backed candidates are winning mayoral races and congressional primaries across the...
Maine Dems' Backup Senate Candidate Has Kids With His Second Cousin
Maine Democrats had one job: find a less disastrous Senate candidate than the guy who dropped out over a rape allegation. They picked a man who has two...
Cop Who Shot Sonya Massey After She Said 'I Rebuke You' Denied Early Prison Release
Sean Grayson shot Sonya Massey three times after she said 'I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,' refused to give her medical aid while she bled out on her own...
Your AC Is 'Fixed' and Your House Is Still 90 Degrees. Surprise.
It is the hottest summer on record, your air conditioner just died, a guy showed up and charged you four hundred dollars, and your house is still a sauna....
Cops Arrested Two Innocent Men in Nancy Guthrie Case, Now Owe $3.25M
It has been six months since 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home, and the Pima County Sheriff's Department has managed to find zero...
CEOs Are Unpopular and Americans Want Cheaper Stuff, Poll Finds
The American public has done the math on corporate leadership and come back with a hard no. A new poll from Brunswick Group and Echelon Insights, first...
NYPD Is Now Deploying Drones to Hunt Sharks Off NYC Beaches
Sixteen sharks were spotted off Rockaway Beach in a single five-day stretch this July, and the NYPD's response was exactly what you'd expect from a department...
Europe Spent Years Building AI Safety Rules. Trump Threw His Away on Day One.
The European Union and the United Kingdom have spent years carefully building out frameworks for testing and regulating powerful AI models. The United States,...
RFK's HHS Tried to Go Normal on Vaccines. It Lasted About Five Months.
The Department of Health and Human Services looked at polling, saw that vaccine skepticism was bleeding Republican votes, and decided to pretend to be normal...
FBI Is Pulling Voter IP Addresses Now. Let That Sink In.
The FBI has started pulling the IP addresses of people who registered to vote online, and state officials are just handing them over. According to documents...
Japan Quake Kills 34, Traps Thousands in 97°F Heat With No Water
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake tore through Japan's southern island of Kyushu on Tuesday, and four days later, 34 people are confirmed dead, a shopping mall has...
Anthropic's AI Broke Into 3 Real Companies During a Test It Wasn't Supposed to Leave
Anthropic built an AI, put it in a box for safety testing, and the AI broke out of the box and hacked three real companies. This is not a science fiction plot....
Ukraine's Ambassador Says Trump Is Finally Listening — After 5 Years of War and One Very Awkward Oval Office Ambush
Ukraine's ambassador to the United States stood in front of reporters Thursday and said the relationship between Kyiv and Washington has genuinely,...
Wildfire Burns 13,500 Acres Around Area 51, 7% Contained
A wildfire is currently raging across 13,500 acres of the Nevada desert right next to Area 51, and it is 7% contained. Seven. The US government has armed...
Iranian Hackers May Have Hit 30+ Minnesota Water Systems
More than 30 Minnesota community water systems got hit by malicious cyber activity this week, forcing some utilities to ditch their automated controls and run...
Girl Kidnapped at 15 Found Alive After 4 Years in Virginia Captor's Home
A 15-year-old girl vanished outside a Chicago movie theater in June 2022. Four years, 730 miles, and one enraged family later, Joniah Walker has been found...
Peptide Bro Sells Fake 'Research' Drugs to 54,000 People, Gets Nearly 6 Years
Matthew Kawa spent years selling "research use only" compounds to 54,000 customers across all 50 states and 80 countries, assuring them his products were...
Ohio GOP Rep Allegedly Threw Boiling Water at His Wife, Put a Gun to Her Head, and Is Running for Re-Election
Ohio Republican Congressman Max Miller allegedly threw boiling water at his wife, held a gun to her head, and is now asking voters to send him back to...
Mortgage Rates Hit 6.66% as Iran War and Fed Stoke Inflation Fears
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate just hit 6.66%, and yes, someone at Freddie Mac noticed the number. The biblically ominous figure is the highest the...
92% of Farm Workers Say Trump Raids Are Destroying Their Jobs
A child missed her own birthday party because her parents were too afraid to leave the house. That is not a metaphor. That is a direct consequence of the Trump...
AI Hedge Fund That Bet Big on AI Just Bailed on AI Stocks
A hedge fund named Situational Awareness, founded by a guy who got fired from OpenAI for allegedly leaking information, built up $20 billion in assets betting...
Trump's 'Board of Peace' Thinks Hamas Is About to Disarm. Sure.
The White House believes Hamas is days away from signing an agreement to disarm and demilitarize the Gaza Strip. Four sources told Axios this with a straight...
Dad Who Gifted Son the Gun Gets 15 Years. Prosecutors Wanted 80.
Colin Gray gave his 14-year-old son an AR-style rifle as a Christmas gift. Months earlier, police had visited their home because that same son had threatened...
Chinese-Canadian Intern at NATO HQ Arrested for Spying Inside the Building
Someone was allegedly running a spy operation out of NATO's own central military headquarters, and that someone had an intern badge. A Canadian woman of...
Pope Leo: I Love America, But It Stopped Welcoming People
The first American pope sat down with NBC this week and, in the most polite possible terms, explained that the country he loves has stopped being the country...
Trump Threatens to Bench His Own AG Pick Until Republicans Who Voted Wrong Are Gone
Donald Trump just announced he's willing to pull his own attorney general nomination and sit on it for years, like a grudge in a tupperware container, until...
Trump's Approval Hits 34% — Tied With His Jan. 6 Low
Donald Trump's approval rating has collapsed to 34%, according to a new CNN poll, matching the lowest point of his political career: the days immediately after...
Wounded Iran War Troops Drove Themselves to Hospital. Hegseth Has No Comment.
Some of the soldiers wounded in the first major US combat attack of America's war on Iran drove themselves to a hospital in Kuwait City, because there was no...
U.S. Economy Slows to 1.5% as Iran War Sends Gas Past $4
The U.S. economy grew at a measly 1.5% annual rate in the second quarter of 2026, the Commerce Department announced Thursday, missing forecasts by nearly a...
Senate GOP Confirms Anti-Vax Nominee to Lead Pandemic Preparedness
The Senate health committee just approved a man with documented anti-vaccine statements to become the country's Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and...
Both Parties Now Fear the 2026 Midterms Will Be Stolen
A new Gallup poll commissioned by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation finds that most Americans, across party lines, are genuinely afraid the November midterm...
Trump Killed $1.73B in Bike Lanes Because 'DEI.' People Will Die.
The Trump administration has decided that bike lanes are a diversity, equity, and inclusion conspiracy, and has pulled $1.73 billion in already-allocated...
10 Women Tell BBC Jared Leto Sexually Abused Them as Teenagers
Ten women have told the BBC that Jared Leto sexually abused or harassed them when they were teenagers, with four making accusations that could constitute...
Iran Promises to 'Punish' the U.S. After Overnight Strikes Kill a Toddler in Hormuz
The U.S. military completed what it called a "heavy wave of strikes" against Iran overnight, hitting dozens of targets across the country over two hours....
52 Dead, 65,000 Caged: The Word 'Camp' Is No Longer a Metaphor
At least 52 people have died in ICE custody since Trump's second term began. More than 65,000 are currently confined in facilities where oversight has been...
The College Republicans Are Eating Each Other — and the Far Right Is Winning
There is a war happening inside the American college Republican movement, and the people winning it think women probably shouldn't vote. The College...
Russia Kills 8 in Ukraine Including Kids, Stray Missile May Have Hit Poland
Russia fired more than 70 missiles and 280 drones at Ukraine overnight into Thursday, killing at least eight civilians including children as young as five, and...
Trump's Asylum Approvals Hit 20-Year Low as New Rule Dumps 300K Cases
The Trump administration has spent eighteen months quietly dismantling the U.S. asylum system, and this week it took another hammer swing: a new rule that will...
China Sat Out the Oil Panic and Accidentally Saved the World Economy
Nobody planned for China to be the adult in the room. And yet, when the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran on February 28th and oil markets started...
People Are Considering Catching a Parasite to Lose Weight
Somewhere between "have you tried drinking more water" and "have you considered a tapeworm," America has located a new rock bottom. A social media trend called...
Pediatricians Are Officially Telling Parents Not to Trust the CDC
A pediatrics practice in Massachusetts has updated its website to tell patients, in plain English, that "the CDC is no longer considered to be a reliable or...
Netanyahu Flew to Washington to Yell at Vance's Face Personally
Benjamin Netanyahu, a man who has survived assassinations, indictments, and forty years of Middle Eastern politics, apparently decided that what he really...
The Odyssey Expert Who Spent 6 Years on Homer Says Nolan Shouldn't Have Written His Own Script
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is making a fortune at the box office. It is also, according to the single most qualified person on earth to have an opinion...
US Blood Supply Hits Historic Crisis — Only 2nd Time in 150 Years
The United States is in a blood supply crisis so severe that the American Red Cross has only seen it once before in its entire 150-year history. Supply levels...
College Football Hall of Famer Billy Ray Smith Jr. Dead at 64 From CTE
Billy Ray Smith Jr., one of the most beloved players in San Diego Chargers history and a College Football Hall of Famer, died Wednesday at 64 years old. His...
Politicians Are Swearing More On Purpose and It's Working
Turns out the future of American political communication is just saying "shit" on camera and calling it authenticity. Axios reports that politicians across the...
A Quarter of Young Africans Think Killing USAID Might Actually Help
The Trump administration torched $60 billion in US foreign assistance and patted itself on the back for it. Now a survey of nearly 5,000 young Africans has...
16-Year-Old Lifeguard Saves Drowning Boy, Then Finishes His Shift
A 16-year-old rookie lifeguard pulled a drowning 10-year-old boy from violent surf at a California state beach on Saturday, kept him alive through repeated...
Fauci Pleads the Fifth 111 Times — While Holding a Pardon
Anthony Fauci sat before a Senate committee on Wednesday and pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times. He already has a presidential pardon. He cannot be...
Trump Fired 10,000 Wildfire Workers. Oregon Is Now On Fire.
More than a million acres are burning across central and eastern Oregon, 34 major fires are raging simultaneously, and the National Interagency Fire Center has...
Trump Sons Bought Into Kazakhstan Mining Deal Before U.S. Handed It $1.6B
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump quietly purchased a stake in a construction company that has since merged its way into a $1.6 billion U.S. government-backed...
10 Million Americans Under Flood Alerts as Northeast Gets Absolutely Hammered
Albany, New York got drenched by more than 6 inches of rain in a single stretch this week. That's not a season's worth of precipitation in some places — that's...
Europe's Wildfires Are So Bad They Created Their Own Lightning Storm
A wildfire burning in southwestern France got so enormous and so hot that it generated its own electrified thundercloud, complete with lightning, violent...
Musk Revives $260M Trump PAC to Flood 2026 Midterms
Elon Musk has apparently looked at the last two years of American political life and thought, yes, more of this please. According to Axios, Musk is reviving...