American Journalist Sold Out to China's Spy Agency for $100K
A Texas-born American journalist who spent years writing propaganda for Chinese state media just got handed a two-year federal prison sentence for doing...
Trump Is Holding 1,900 Migrant Kids for 6 Months While Their Families Wait
The Trump administration is holding roughly 1,900 migrant children in shelters and foster care, without their parents, for an average of six months, while...
OpenAI Lets Trump Officials Peek at Its Most Dangerous AI Yet
OpenAI is about to release what it internally classifies as its most dangerous AI model to date, and the only thing standing between that and your eyeballs is...
China Is Winning the Brain Implant Race and Neuralink Is Part of Why
The United States is currently losing a race to let computers talk to human brains, and the country that is beating us is not exactly known for its restraint...
250 Days at Sea, First Stop: Thai Mall and Go-Go Bars
After a record 250 days locked inside a steel warship in the Middle East, nearly 5,000 sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln finally made landfall this week....
DOJ Threatens to Gut $76B in Welfare Funds If States Don't Snitch on Immigrants
The Justice Department just told every state in America to choose: either report undocumented immigrants to federal authorities, or lose access to over $76...
NBA Drops $30M Hammer on Clippers for Funneling Millions to Kawhi
The NBA just handed the LA Clippers the largest fine in league history — $30 million, five first-round draft picks, and a one-year suspension for their...
Musk Promised to Spend 'A Lot Less' on Politics. Then Came the $100M Midterm Fund.
Last year, Elon Musk looked into a camera and said he thought he'd "done enough" political spending and planned to do "a lot less" in the future. Then he...
Pentagon Orders Mandatory T-Level Tests for Troops 30 and Up
Pete Hegseth announced mandatory testosterone screening for U.S. troops in a social media video he personally titled 'The High-T Department of War,' and now,...
Tim Curry Died of Coronary Artery Disease at 80, Cause Confirmed
Tim Curry, the man who made fishnet stockings and a corset look like the most powerful outfit in cinema history, died on August 25 at his Los Angeles home. He...
Dad Raped His 14-Year-Old, Got Her Pregnant, and Is Now Hiding Her From Police
A 14-year-old girl in California is wanted for murder. Her father is wanted for raping her. He is also, according to the Monterey County Sheriff's Office, the...
63% of Americans Say No to 'Lake America,' Trump's Dumbest Rename Yet
Donald Trump renamed Lake Ontario "Lake America," and the country looked up from its phones long enough to say: absolutely not. A Reuters-Ipsos poll from late...
GOP Tried to Lock In Their 6-3 Court Forever. Democrats Said No.
On Wednesday, House Republicans tried to permanently lock in the Supreme Court that Donald Trump built, by amending the Constitution to freeze it at nine seats...
Bessent Blames Ukraine for High Gas Prices While Cutting Oil Deals With Venezuela
With gas averaging $4.12 a gallon and midterm elections ten weeks out, the Trump administration has landed on its villain: Ukraine, the country currently being...
50 States vs. One App: Kalshi's Sports Betting Empire Hits the Supreme Court
A tech startup that insists it is absolutely not a sportsbook — even as sports bets make up 80% of its weekly trading volume — has now landed its fight to...
Nazi Salutes at Orlando MMA Brawl, City Says Its Hands Were Tied
A professional MMA event in Orlando last Saturday ended with the winning fighter throwing what appeared to be Nazi salutes from the ring, calling his Jewish...
Trump's Commerce Chief Says Anthropic Is 'Back on the Right Side' After AI Standoff
Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary who somehow makes every room feel like a used car lot, just told Axios that the Trump administration now fully trusts...
Trump Puts His Own Face on a Dollar Coin That Isn't Even Gold
The United States Mint began selling gold-colored $1 coins bearing Donald Trump's face on Wednesday, priced at up to two and a half times their actual legal...
Man Dead 24 Hours Into ICE Detention. DHS Won't Say If He Was Ever Screened.
A 51-year-old Chinese man was found unresponsive in an ICE detention facility less than 24 hours after he was booked in. The government is required by its own...
U.S. Strike Hit an Iranian Wedding. Trump's Response: 'Rise Up.'
Iran says an American airstrike hit a wedding party in a private home Tuesday night, killing or wounding more than 50 people, including women and children. The...
DOJ Sends Beef Price Warning Letters to Walmart, Costco, Amazon, and Five Other Giants
The Department of Justice just sent strongly worded letters to eight of the largest grocery retailers in America, including Walmart, Costco, and Amazon, over...
USPS Whistleblower: New Ballot System Could Reject Thousands, Built in Weeks
A U.S. Postal Service whistleblower is alleging the agency defied court orders and hammered together a new ballot-processing system in a matter of weeks, a...
US Borrowing Costs Hit 18-Month High as Oil, Inflation Gang Up
The 10-year Treasury yield just climbed to 4.79%, its highest point since January 2025, oil is sitting above $92 a barrel, and Fed officials are now openly...
413-2: House Censures GOP Rep Who Skipped Votes to Decorate Staffer's Christmas Tree
A Republican congressman who hired a singer to serenade one of his young female staffers with an Ed Sheeran song 'from a special someone,' skipped House votes...
Russia Kills 38+ in Single Strike West of Kyiv, War's Deadliest This Year
A Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv this weekend killed more than 38 people, making it the single deadliest attack of 2026 in a war that has now...
Milo Yiannopoulos, Deported by the ICE Machine He Cheered On, Is 'Really, Really Terrified'
Milo Yiannopoulos spent years demanding that the United States deport "millions and millions and millions of people." Last week, ICE obliged him personally....
Cop Shot Unarmed Student With Hands Up, Then Lied About It
A Pennsylvania police officer shot and killed an unarmed college student who knocked on the wrong door, then told fellow officers the kid had charged at him...
Congress Kicks Shutdown Can to December, Calls It Governance
After two record-long government shutdowns in the past year totaling 119 days of collective dysfunction, Congress has heroically agreed to not shut down the...
Trump Gives Pentagon a 35% Stake in a Venezuelan Oil Baron's Company
The United States government is now, effectively, a business partner of a controversial Venezuelan oil baron. The Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital is...
ICE Jails 76-Year-Old Cancer Patient Who Paid Taxes for 30 Years
ICE arrested a 76-year-old man with stage 4 prostate cancer at his own citizenship interview. He has lived in the United States for over thirty years, renewed...
A Random Stab in Times Square Killed a 32-Year-Old Lawyer on Her Lunch Break
A 49-year-old Queens woman pulled two knives out of a red Target bag on a Monday afternoon in the middle of Times Square and stabbed two strangers twenty...
Wendell Berry, Who Chose a Farm Over NYU at 28, Dies at 92
Wendell Berry had a tenured English professorship at New York University at 28, a promising literary career ahead of him, and the entire cultural machinery of...
Lindsay Clancy Jury Deadlocked After 17+ Hours: A Mom, 3 Dead Kids, and No Easy Answer
A jury of nine women and three men has spent more than 17 hours trying to decide whether Lindsay Clancy is a murderer or a woman who lost her mind so...
Bullet Casings Said 'Hey Fascist! CATCH!' — Now Tyler Robinson Faces Death
Nearly a year after a single rifle shot killed Charlie Kirk in front of 3,000 people at Utah Valley University, a judge is deciding Tuesday whether the man...
Trump Kills Disability Access Rule, Says $112M in Retrofits Was Too Much
The Trump administration just handed landlords a get-out-of-accessibility-free card, scrapping an Obama-era rule that required property owners to fix...
Apple Sues OpenAI for Allegedly Poaching Staff to Steal Hardware Secrets
Apple is accusing OpenAI of using Apple's own employees as moles to extract the company's most closely guarded hardware secrets. Two of the most secretive,...
America's Libraries Are 'At Breaking Point' and Book Banners Are Winning
A new PEN America report out Tuesday says American public libraries are "at breaking point," and if you want to understand why, consider this: more than half...
Tropical Storm Edouard Eyes Texas With 9-Inch Rain Threat and 5-Foot Surge
Tropical Storm Edouard is closing in on the Texas and Louisiana Gulf coast with the National Hurricane Center warning it could approach hurricane strength...
Russia Bombs Kyiv on First Day of School for the Sixth Day Straight
Russia chose the first day of the Ukrainian school year to deliver its sixth consecutive overnight assault on Kyiv, killing at least 12 people while several...
Trump Demands FCC Investigate NBC Host for Calling His Endorsements 'Mixed'
The president of the United States went on Truth Social Sunday to demand that a federal regulator investigate an NBC anchor for accurately describing his...
Kaepernick's Knee Was Eric Reid's Idea, Not the Veteran's — He's Setting the Record Straight
Ten years after a quiet act of sitting on a bench during a preseason game detonated one of the most ferocious cultural firestorms in American sports history,...
The Support Group Helping People Quit MAGA Like a Drug Addiction
A former MAGA pundit who wrote Donald Trump's 2016 campaign call scripts, donated money, and went on Fox News to sell the movement now runs a non-profit...
900 Dead, 4,400 Missing: Nepal's Glacier Didn't Collapse, We Melted It
A wall of mud moving at 40 miles per hour buried entire families alive in Nepal and Tibet this summer, and the death toll has now passed 900 with more than...
RFK Jr Called Babies' Measles Deaths 'Fabricated.' CDC Erased Them.
A newborn baby died shortly after birth in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His mother had measles so severe it sent her into labor a month early. Robert F....
Dolly Planned Her Own Goodbye — and It's a Two-City Festival
Dolly Parton died on August 25th at the age of 80. And even that she handled better than any of us would. While the rest of the world was still processing the...
FTC Says Amazon Secretly Rigged Its Own Ad Auctions for $69B
Amazon has been quietly running one of the most lucrative scams in advertising history, according to the federal government. The FTC and a bipartisan coalition...
Keffe D Convicted of Tupac's Murder — His Own Book Did Him In
Nearly thirty years after Tupac Shakur bled out in a Las Vegas hospital, a jury took less than three hours to decide that Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, 63, organized...
Florida Just Banned Flock Cameras After a Cop Stalked His Ex 2,000 Times
A Kentucky cop used a police surveillance network to track his ex-girlfriend more than 2,000 times. Florida watched that story land, and on Monday the state...
GOP's First Day Back From Vacation Is a Sexual Misconduct Vote
Welcome back from summer vacation, Republicans. Your first order of business: a vote on whether to formally censure one of your own members for sexual...
Man Allegedly Conned 26 Women Out of $1.3M By Faking 49ers Career
A 35-year-old man allegedly convinced 26 women he was a San Francisco 49ers player and the heir to one of Switzerland's richest families, then talked them into...
Dolly Parton Buried Quietly as Family Mourns the Woman Who Called at 4 AM
Dolly Parton, one of the most beloved human beings to ever walk this earth, was buried on Friday in a private ceremony attended only by family. She was 80...
85,000 Acres Burning in North Texas While Molson Coors Assures You the Beer Is Fine
A wildfire that started as a 25-acre brush fire outside the small town of Ross, Texas just before lunch on Monday has exploded into an 85,000-acre catastrophe...
Gunmen Open Fire on Trenton Block Party, Killing 2 and Wounding 8
Multiple gunmen walked up to a block party on Locust Street in Trenton, New Jersey, just after midnight Sunday morning and opened fire into a crowd of roughly...
Seven Kids, One House in Nottingham, Zero Grand Plan: Meet Classical Music's Unlikeliest Dynasty
Seven children. Seven instruments. One semi-detached house in Nottingham where every room is occupied by someone practicing Bach at full volume. The...