Meta's Free Cash Flow Fell 91% and Zuckerberg Wants to Spend More
Meta just reported that its free cash flow fell 91% in a single year, from $8.55 billion down to $784 million, and Mark Zuckerberg's response was to announce...
Rushdie's Attacker Convicted of Terrorism, Faces Life on Top of 25 Years
A jury took one look at the evidence against Hadi Matar and said yes, all of it, guilty on every count. The 28-year-old who climbed on stage at a writers'...
Iran Is Using Troops' Instagram Posts to Aim Its Next Strike
American troops in Jordan are about to have their phones taken away, and the reason is as grim as it is avoidable: Iran has been watching their social media...
St. Paul's First Female Mayor Hit With Sexual Harassment Complaint From Her Own Police Chief
St. Paul's first female mayor is seven months into office and already the subject of a formal sexual harassment investigation, after her own police chief filed...
DOJ Wants Judges to Punish Immigrant Lawyers — But ICE Attorneys Are Exempt
The Justice Department wants to give immigration judges the power to fine attorneys and their clients up to $3,500 for defying court orders. There is just one...
Six Months In, the 'Four-Week War' With Iran Is Melting Trump's Base
The war that was supposed to last four to six weeks is now six months old, draining U.S. missile stockpiles, spiking gas prices, and quietly destroying Donald...
Fed Holds Rates While Three Officials Mutiny and Markets Tank
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday, which should have been good news. Instead, stocks cratered, three central bank officials openly...
Senate Unanimously Tells Trump: No Pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell
Every single United States Senator, Republican and Democrat alike, just went on record saying Donald Trump should not pardon a convicted child sex trafficker....
Dr. Oz Just Made Your Grandma's Drug Coverage 50% More Expensive
Dr. Mehmet Oz, television's favorite snake oil pitchman turned Medicare czar, just announced on X dot com that he is ending billions in subsidies that kept...
Trump's AG Pick Is Tanking Because DOJ Won't Kill Trump's IRS Slush Fund
Todd Blanche, the man who prosecuted seashell photos on behalf of Donald Trump and called it justice, is now watching his own confirmation collapse because the...
Epstein Was a Camper, Then a Donor, Then an Alleged Predator at the Same School
Jeffrey Epstein attended Michigan's Interlochen Center for the Arts as a camper in 1967, later donated over $400,000 to the school, got a lodge named after...
Trump and Bibi's Iran Meeting Was So Grim Even the Jokes Stopped
Something unusual happened in the Oval Office on Tuesday: Donald Trump apparently stopped cracking jokes. Senior Israeli officials who were in the room told...
"She Killed the Kids": Patrick Clancy's 911 Call Plays in Courtroom
A Massachusetts courtroom went silent Wednesday as jurors listened to Patrick Clancy's 911 call from the night he came home to find his three children...
OpenAI Is Giving 100,000 Academics Free GPT Access. What's the Catch?
OpenAI announced Wednesday that it will hand 100,000 academic researchers free access to its most powerful AI models through 2027, including GPT-5.6 Sol Pro....
FIFA Wants to Sell the World Cup to Trump's In-Laws
Gianni Infantino, the man who runs world football like it's his personal vanity project, would like to sell you the World Cup. Not metaphorically. FIFA has...
TSA Is Now ICE's Airport Snitch, and Agents Call Travelers 'Easy Targets'
An ICE source just told CBS News, out loud, on the record, that travelers at U.S. airports are "easy targets" for immigration arrests. The Transportation...
Chiefs OC's Son Shot His Mom. She Still Called 911 Herself.
A 57-year-old woman was shot inside her own home by her 27-year-old son, and her first move was to pick up the phone and call 911 herself. That woman is Mia...
Trump's $22B Dulles Makeover Includes Gold-Mirrored Ceilings
Donald Trump has personally reviewed 3D models from competing contractors and signed off on a $22 billion plan to rebuild Washington Dulles International...
Ohio GOP Gov Tells Truth About Haiti, Gets Eaten Alive By His Own Side
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine looked at the situation in Haiti, looked at the 30,000 Haitian TPS holders living and working in his state, and said the quiet part...
The Novel China Wants You to Hate Just Won the Booker Prize
A novel about Japanese colonial-era Taiwan just won the most prestigious literary prize in the world, and China is losing its mind about it. The book is a love...
DOJ Asked Sammy 'The Bull' and ChatGPT to Prove Seashells Are a Murder Plot
The United States Department of Justice, unable to confirm that the number 86 implies violence, consulted ChatGPT, Google AI, and a confessed murderer of...
Trump Wants Senate to Pass Another Megabill Before August Vacation
The ink is barely dry on the last catastrophic megabill and the White House is already back at the Senate's door with another one. According to Axios, Trump...
Yes, Hospitals Can Still Send You to Collections — Here's What They Won't Tell You
The hospital saved your life. Now it wants its money, and it will absolutely hand your debt to a collections agency if you don't come up with a plan. Recent...
Invasive Mussels Are Eating the Great Lakes Alive, Five Years Left
Biologists are now warning that the lake whitefish, a fish so central to Great Lakes identity that an 1888 Ohio town literally called it their pride and joy,...
Howard Dumped 500 Black Students Weeks Before Move-In Day
Howard University sent disenrollment notices to 502 incoming freshmen, roughly 20% of its entire incoming class, just weeks before the August 11 move-in date....
Democrats Tour Texas Detention Holding a 2-Month-Old, Call Conditions 'Inhumane'
A group of House Democrats visited an ICE family detention center in Dilley, Texas on Tuesday and came out calling the conditions inhumane, citing a...
Trump Vows to 'Beat the F---ing S--- Out of' Iran as Dow Drops 700
Iran fired ballistic missiles at US military positions in Jordan overnight, and President Trump responded Wednesday morning by telling Fox News, on camera,...
BTS Tells the Grammys to Keep Their Trophy
The Recording Academy spent last month patting itself on the back for creating new 'Asian pop' categories at the Grammys, a bold inclusivity move that managed...
Rebel Wilson Can't Explain Why Her Company Appears in Website Smear Metadata
Rebel Wilson was shown metadata in an Australian courtroom indicating that her own production company, Camp Sugar, was listed as one of the authors of a...
Free Childcare Is Winning Elections and Republicans Have No Answer
For fifty years, Republicans killed universal childcare by calling it a threat to "family values," and Democrats mostly let them. Then the cost of daycare blew...
The Yellow School Bus Is Dying and Nobody in Charge Seems to Care
In 34 Ohio school districts, fewer than 10% of vacant bus driver positions have been filled. Across the country, nine states have already cut or proposed...
Iran Shoots Missiles at Jordan While Iraq Burns: The Middle East Is Fully on Fire
Iran fired ballistic missiles at Jordan on Wednesday. Jordan shot them down. Hours earlier, the United States and Saudi Arabia were bombing militia sites...
A Ghost Gun With a 33-Round Mag Killed Two Bystanders at a Cotton Candy Line
A woman was standing in line for cotton candy with her daughter at a free food festival when someone opened fire and ended her life. Two other people are dead,...
Trump Hosts Zelensky and Netanyahu in Same Day White House Blitz
Donald Trump held back-to-back meetings at the White House on Tuesday with two of the world's most complicated relationships in American foreign policy:...
Trump Killed the Agency That Saved 20,500 Lives and $7.7B — to Save Nothing
Congress gave the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality $345 million this year. The Trump administration spent less than $15 million of it, fired...
Trump's Senate Doormat May Soon Have Even Less to Stand On
John Thune has somehow managed to tell Donald Trump "no" and still wake up every morning with his job intact. That trick is getting harder to pull off, and...
Trump Bans Chinese Robot Imports Because They Might Spy on You
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is banning imports of foreign-made humanoid robots, because apparently the dystopian future we were promised...
300,000 Haitians Lose Legal Status While State Dept. Still Warns: Don't Go to Haiti
The Trump administration is stripping legal status from 300,000 Haitian immigrants on the grounds that Haiti is now safe enough for them to return. The State...
China Is Shipping Iran 400 Missile Launchers Through Pakistan (Which Totally Isn't Happening)
China is sending Iran up to 400 shoulder-fired missile launchers, routed through Pakistan, in a $60-70 million deal designed to help Tehran shoot down the...
Tupac's Accused Killer Wrote a Book Confessing. Now It's Evidence.
A man who allegedly helped orchestrate the murder of Tupac Shakur, then wrote a memoir about it, then gave a police interview about it, is now upset that...
7.1 Quake Kills 13 in Japan, Mall Still Burning, More Shocks Coming
A magnitude-7.1 earthquake tore through Japan's Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday afternoon, killing at least 13 people, partially collapsing a shopping mall, and...
Trump Recited Graham's Phone Number at His Own Funeral
Senator Lindsey Graham died earlier this month. On Tuesday, at his state funeral inside the Washington National Cathedral, President Donald Trump paid his...
Comey Says DOJ Tracked His Phone Illegally to Build a Seashell Case
The federal government may have illegally tracked James Comey's phone to build a criminal case against him over a beach photo. The Secret Service agents they...
AI Isn't Driving the Productivity Boom. Oops.
Everyone has been telling you that artificial intelligence is turbocharging the American economy. The charts, the TED talks, the breathless CNBC segments, the...
Barron Trump May Be Subpoenaed Over His Tate Brothers Ties
Barron Trump, the 20-year-old crypto millionaire who has carefully avoided saying anything publicly since he told a crowd he liked his suitcase at age four,...
Kentucky Gov. Demands McConnell Prove He's Alive or Quit
Mitch McConnell has not been seen outside of staged photographs released by his own office in more than 40 days, and Kentucky's Democratic governor has finally...
AI Companies Now Print More Money Than McDonald's and Starbucks Combined
Two companies that didn't exist in any meaningful commercial form five years ago are now collectively printing money faster than the golden arches and the...
Wall Street Is Already Picking AI Winners and Losers — and It's Not Just Tech
Sam Altman wants to sell you intelligence the way your utility company sells you electricity, and a new economic study tracking 380 trillion AI tokens suggests...
Trump Made a Billion Dollars in Year One. Half of Swing Voters Shrugged.
Donald Trump made more than a billion dollars in his first year back in office, struck a deal with his own government to stop the IRS from auditing his family,...
J&J Will Pay $5.5B for Baby Powder Cancer Claims It Still Swears Are Fake
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay up to $5.5 billion to settle roughly 76,000 lawsuits claiming its baby powder gave people ovarian cancer. The company would...
7.1 Quake Hits Japan at Maximum Intensity, Tsunami Warnings Issued
Japan got hit with a 7.1-magnitude earthquake Tuesday afternoon that registered at the absolute maximum level on the country's own seismic intensity scale....
Nvidia Lost the 'World's Most Valuable' Crown to Apple in One Day
Nvidia spent months as the crown jewel of the global economy, the living symbol of AI mania, worth more than any company on earth. Then Monday happened. One...
Two Pacific Storms at Once: Hawaii on Watch as Cat 5 Churns Nearby
The Pacific Ocean is running two storms simultaneously this week, and one of them just briefly hit Category 5, the first East Pacific storm to do so in two...
Cracker Barrel CEO Out After Logo Fiasco That Even Trump Weighed In On
A restaurant chain managed to anger its customers so thoroughly over a new logo that the President of the United States took time out of his schedule to...
Fox Poll: 70% of Voters Don't Want a Data Center Near Them
The AI boom has a public relations problem, and it is a big one. A new Fox News poll finds that by a 40-point margin, American voters do not want a data center...
Both Red Panda Cubs Born at Santa Barbara Zoo This Summer Are Dead
Both red panda cubs born at the Santa Barbara Zoo this summer are dead. The second cub, pulled from his mother on July 19 after staff noticed he wasn't nursing...
Six Months Gone: Savannah Guthrie Begs Her Mom's Kidnappers for Answers
An 84-year-old woman who needs daily medication was kidnapped from her home near Tucson, Arizona, six months ago. Her daughter, NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie,...
Scientists Say Cities Are Blowing a $3-Per-Dollar Return by Ignoring Trees
Dozens of scientists just published a paper arguing that trees — yes, trees, the tall wooden things you walk past every morning without looking up — should be...
Idaho Killer Wants a Do-Over, Claims Innocent After DNA, Video, and a Knife Sheath Disagreed
Bryan Kohberger stabbed four college students to death, left his DNA at the scene, pleaded guilty, and is now serving four consecutive life sentences. So...
Biden Tapes Drop: 'I Just Found All the Classified Stuff Downstairs'
Joe Biden, on tape, in his own voice, telling his ghostwriter "I just found all the classified stuff downstairs" like he'd stumbled across a box of old VHS...