Bessent Is 'Sick of' the K-Shaped Economy. He Just Invented a Worse Letter.
The top one percent of Americans own one third of all the wealth in this country. The bottom half own less than three percent. Treasury Secretary Scott...
Cops Are Terrified of the Same Spy Glasses They'd Never Let You Point at Them
The NYPD's counterterrorism unit sent a memo in January warning officers that Ray-Ban Meta glasses are a "security and counterintelligence" threat. The threat...
Thieves Stole 4 Renoirs, Dropped One Running Away Like Idiots
Two thieves broke into the Renoir Museum on the French Riviera Tuesday morning, grabbed four impressionist paintings worth an estimated $10 million, and then —...
Trump's Beef Import Waiver Tanked Cattle Prices 10% Overnight
Donald Trump announced a 90-day waiver on ground beef import tariffs to lower prices for consumers, and within hours, American cattle ranchers watched the...
Americans Are Paying $10K a Year for Groceries That Might Kill Them
The average American household is now spending more than $10,000 a year on groceries, according to Axios, which sounds like a lot until you factor in that a...
U.S. Army's $3-Per-Shot Laser Is Vaporizing Cartel Drones at the Border
The United States Army is shooting down cartel surveillance drones with a laser weapon controlled by an Xbox controller, and each shot costs approximately...
Rob Reiner Wins Emmy Posthumously While His Son Awaits Murder Trial
Rob Reiner won an Emmy on Sunday for his guest role on The Bear, becoming the first person to receive a posthumous on-camera Emmy since 1995. He was murdered...
Trump's DOJ Is Sending 1,000 'Voter Fraud' Monitors to Midterms
The Justice Department division that has spent decades protecting Black, disabled, and non-English-speaking voters from discrimination at the polls is about to...
One Juror Hung the Lindsay Clancy Trial. He Was One of Only Three Men.
Eleven of twelve jurors were ready to find Lindsay Clancy not guilty by reason of postpartum psychosis. One was not. That one juror was a man who, according to...
Germany Just Elected the Far Right in a Landslide. Yes, Again.
Germany, the country that spent the better part of the twentieth century as the world's cautionary tale about what happens when you hand power to nationalist...
Russia and North Korea Open a Bridge — Because the Troops Weren't Enough
Two of the world's most sanctioned, most isolated, and most aggressively destabilizing regimes just cut the ribbon on a shiny new bridge. Russia and North...
Iran Just Threatened to Lock Down the World's Oil Spigot — and Gas Is Already $4.14
Iran just announced it's planning to declare an "exclusion zone" around the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that roughly 20% of the world's oil passes...
Foster Mom Who Traded Teen for a Monkey Gets Probation
A 70-year-old Missouri woman accused of trading a teenage foster child to a stranger in Texas in exchange for keeping the girl's government stipend checks —...
Amazon Cargo Plane Overshoots Miami Runway, Kills 5 on Labor Day Weekend
An Amazon Air cargo plane overshot the runway at Miami International Airport Sunday afternoon, plowed into several vehicles on the ground, burst into flames,...
Armed Man Lunges at Ohio Governor Candidate at County Fair
An armed person lunged at Amy Acton, Ohio's Democratic nominee for governor, at a county fair on Sunday afternoon, injuring several people in the process....
Trump Wants to Rename New Mexico 'New America' in Post #17 of 34
The President of the United States spent part of his Sunday posting 34 times on Truth Social in under an hour, including a map of New Mexico with the word...
Germany's Far-Right AfD Wins 44% in Regional Vote, Eyes First State Government
Germany's far-right Alternative für Deutschland just won roughly 44% of the vote in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, more than doubling its 2021 result,...
Trump Loses Mail Ballot Fight Again, Runs to SCOTUS Crying
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's mail voting restrictions for the third time in as many tries on Friday, and by Sunday the administration was...
The Rage Isn't About Policy Anymore. That's the Whole Problem.
Sixty percent of Australians think immigration is too high, and yet for a massive chunk of One Nation voters, immigration isn't even the point. Let that sit...
Raskin: Trump 'Undoubtedly' Impeachable, But Healthcare Comes First
Rep. Jamie Raskin went on national television Sunday and told America that Donald Trump has 'undoubtedly' committed impeachable offenses, that 'nothing comes...
69% of Americans Oppose AI Data Centers. Trump Called Them Backwards.
Nearly seven in ten Americans don't want an AI data center built near their home, according to a new NBC News Decision Desk poll. Donald Trump's response to...
'Come From Away' at 25: The 9/11 Musical That Rewrote the Rulebook
Two Canadian writers traveled to a tiny Newfoundland town to interview the people who housed seven thousand stranded airline passengers on the worst day in...
George Santos Bet on Skipping the SOTUS and Lost $97K for It
George Santos, a man who has never once in his life made a good decision, bet on himself to skip the State of the Union address, then skipped the State of the...
Muslim Pitmasters Are Conquering Texas BBQ While GOP Tries to Ban Halal Food
While Texas Republicans were busy floating a ban on halal food, Muslim pitmasters in the same state were winning Michelin awards, drawing hundred-person lines...
Iran Shot at a US Aircraft Carrier. We Sank Three of Their Oil Tankers.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps fired ballistic missiles at a US aircraft carrier and a guided-missile destroyer in the Persian Gulf on Saturday. Both ships...
Car Week Bros Did Doughnuts Past Fire Trucks, Then Killed a Local
While actual wildfires were burning on the California hillsides above Big Sur this August, Car Week attendees were filming themselves doing doughnuts at...
GOP Privately Knows Trump Is Killing Them, Publicly Cheers Anyway
The Republican Party has a Trump problem, knows it has a Trump problem, and is absolutely going to do nothing about it. With 59 days until the November...
Trump's Kennedy Center Yanks 24-Foot 'Blue' Sculpture That Dared to Dance
A 24-foot-tall blue metal stick figure that spent years welcoming visitors to the Kennedy Center was hauled away by a work crew this Wednesday, because...
First Santa With Down Syndrome Just Got Inducted Into the Santa Hall of Fame
A 37-year-old community theater actor from suburban Atlanta just became the first professional Santa Claus with Down syndrome in the United States, completed a...
ICE Got a Judge to Approve Stomach Surgery on a Man Who Refused to Eat
A federal judge in Texas quietly gave Immigration and Customs Enforcement permission to surgically cut into a detained Cuban man's abdomen and insert a feeding...
Republican Senator Calls Hegseth 'Most Inept' Defense Chief Ever, Demands Trump Fire Him
Pete Hegseth has not held a formal Pentagon press briefing since May 5th. There is a war on. Fifty thousand American troops are deployed in the Middle East....
Trump's Big Voter Fraud Bust: 5 People, 3 States, 330 Million Americans
After a sweeping multi-state federal investigation, repurposing an agency that used to chase cartels and terrorists, and filing lawsuits against nearly 30...
Alabama Boy's Birthday Wish: Ring 100 Strangers' Doorbells
An autistic kid in Huntsville, Alabama, asked strangers if he could ring their doorbells for his birthday. More than 100 of them said yes, and then they gave...
Mom Obsessed With Lindsay Clancy Trial Kills Her 2-Year-Old Son Hours Before Mistrial
A 40-year-old Illinois mother was texting friends about the Lindsay Clancy murder trial at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Three and a half hours later, police found...
Phillies Star Sued His Own Parents for Stealing His MLB Millions
Alec Bohm sued his own mom and dad for allegedly stealing millions of dollars he earned playing professional baseball, and now the whole messy thing is over....
McConnell, 84, May Hobble Back to Senate Sept. 14 After Summer Fall
Mitch McConnell fell in June, spent months in a rehabilitation facility, and his staff is now telling fellow Kentucky Republicans that getting the 84-year-old...
China Found a New Tick Virus With 18% Death Rate in Co-Infections
Chinese scientists have discovered a previously unknown tick-borne virus, and it has already shown up in over 10% of patients who came in after tick bites. The...
Man Dies at Burning Man as Rain, Mud Hit Festival Again
A man in his mid-50s is dead after suffering a medical emergency at Burning Man this week, festival organizers confirmed Thursday. It is the latest in a string...
Lindsay Clancy Mistrial: Jury Deadlocked 3 Times, Three Kids Still Dead
After six weeks of trial, seven days of deliberation, and three separate deadlocks, a Massachusetts jury could not agree on what to do with Lindsay Clancy, the...
Nigel Farage's Party Caught on Camera Arranging Illegal Foreign Donations
Nigel Farage's Reform UK had a plan for their annual conference: a triumphant reset after a rough summer, the populist faithful cheering, good vibes all...
US Military Just Figured Out Phones Have Ad Trackers (Iran Already Knew)
The United States military, operator of the most expensive war machine in human history, has only recently gotten around to disabling the same advertising...
Diesel Hits $5.85 as Trump's Iran War Drains Americans at the Pump
Americans are paying more for diesel than at any point in recorded history, and the guy responsible is now pitching a Venezuela oil deal as the fix. Diesel...
Trump Buried the School Civil Rights Report and Killed the Plain-English Version
The federal government has been collecting civil rights data on American schoolchildren for over fifty years. This week, the Trump administration finally...
Jobs Market Posts Third-Worst Month of Year After Losing 23K Jobs in July
The U.S. economy shed 23,000 jobs in July. Now August is expected to add a grand total of 53,000 — which, in a country of 330 million people, is approximately...
Record 401(k) Millionaires While 72% of Workers Can't Retire
Congratulations to America's 769,000 401(k) millionaires, a new all-time record. Now somebody go tell the 72% of workers who doubt they'll ever be able to...
Andrew Tate Officially Indicted in Romania for Trafficking Minors
After years of investigations, court appearances, arrests, extradition fights, and an absolute ocean of online defenders insisting it was all a setup, Romanian...
Fox Quietly Dumps Maria Bartiromo After 12 Years — No Explanation Given
Fox News Media announced Thursday that it has parted ways with Maria Bartiromo, one of the network's most recognizable faces, effective immediately — and...
Dolly Parton's Star Vandalized Days After Her Death. It's Already Fixed.
Dolly Parton died at 80, and within days, someone crawled out from whatever rock they live under and scratched up her Hollywood Walk of Fame star. The good...
Indian Tech Workers Now Face a 179-Year Green Card Wait
One hundred and seventy-nine years. That is not the lifespan of a tortoise or the age of a civil war monument. That is, according to a new report by the...
Collins: 'I'm Not Going to Bring Up' That Jackson Had Kids With His Cousin
Susan Collins walked into a Politico interview this week, announced she would absolutely not be bringing up the fact that her Democratic opponent fathered two...
Kim Zolciak's Son, 15, Cites Football Scholarships to Get Out of Jail on Sodomy Charges
A 15-year-old boy is sitting in a Georgia juvenile detention facility on charges of aggravated sodomy and aggravated sexual battery, and his legal defense...
1,200 Dead, 4,000 Missing: Nepal Families Burn Grass Effigies Because That's All They Have Left
A week after a wall of ice, water, and rock erased entire communities in Nepal, more than 1,200 people are confirmed dead and more than 4,000 are still...
Disney's 'Zombies' Star Carla Jeffery Dies at 33
Carla Jeffery, the actress who played cheerleader Bree in the Disney Channel's Zombies franchise and brought the character to life across three films, a sequel...
House Votes 435-0 to Stop Sex Offenders Dragging Victims Back to Court
A woman was sexually abused at age 12 by her teacher and soccer coach. Thirteen years later, he hauled her back into court to argue he had "moved on" and...