Wisconsin Tornado Flips Cars, Shreds Roofs, Knocks Out Power to 30,000
At 12:20 in the afternoon on Monday, the sky over northeastern Wisconsin went black as midnight. Then the roofs started coming off. A tornado confirmed by the...
Canadians Canceled the U.S. and It's Costing Billions
Canadians decided they'd rather not, thanks. After two years of tariffs, trade threats, and being told their entire country is basically a future American...
D4vd Going to Trial for Stabbing, Dismembering 14-Year-Old Fan He'd Abused Since She Was 13
A Los Angeles judge ruled Monday that singer D4vd, born David Anthony Burke, will stand trial for the murder, sexual abuse, and dismemberment of 14-year-old...
Trump's Spy Chief Pick Advances While the Actual Spy Program Sits Dark
America's most important counter-terrorism surveillance program has gone dark for the first time in its history, the guy tapped to run it couldn't say who won...
Iran Is Running Out of Gas. Iran. The Oil Country.
One of the most oil-rich nations on earth is experiencing gasoline shortages. Let that sentence fully load before you keep reading. Iran, sitting on the...
GOP Gov Calls Trump's Haiti Deportation Blitz 'A Mistake' That Sends People 'Back to Hell'
A Republican governor just looked at the Trump administration's plan to deport 300,000 Haitians and said, out loud, that it sends people 'back to hell.' Ohio...
Every AI Giant Signed the Open-Source Letter. Anthropic Didn't.
Every major player in artificial intelligence signed a letter asking Washington to keep its hands off open-weight AI models. Nvidia signed it. Microsoft signed...
Georgia Teen Stormed Capitol With Loaded Shotgun to 'Scare Congress Into Truth'
An 18-year-old from Smyrna, Georgia drove to the U.S. Capitol in February with a loaded shotgun, body armor, camouflage gear, a gas mask, and a Kevlar helmet,...
MIT Study: 20% Chance AI Kills Millions Within 5 Years
One in five. That is the probability that artificial intelligence develops dangerous weapons capabilities or causes mass harm killing millions of people within...
Authors Won $1.5B From Anthropic. AI Can Still Read Your Book.
Anthropic just agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle with authors whose work it used to train its AI models, which sounds like a massive win until you read the...
The Same Small Businesses That Beat Trump in Court Are Suing Him Again
You would think that losing a tariff case at the Supreme Court might give a president pause. You would be wrong. The same small businesses that already dragged...
Comey's Lawyers Use Trump's Own Words to Sink the Seashell Case
The Trump Justice Department is trying to send a former FBI director to trial over a beach photo. Comey's lawyers just fired back with the most satisfying...
France's First Fire-Generated Thunderstorm Shows Up, Politicians Look Away
France just experienced its first pyrocumulonimbus, a fire-generated thunderstorm that makes wildfires nearly impossible to predict or contain, and which until...
Washington Buries Lindsey Graham, Its Most Exhausting Survivor
Lindsey Graham spent three decades outlasting every political moment that should have finished him, surviving Trump's insults, his own contradictions, and the...
McConnell, 84, Still Trapped in Rehab Six Weeks After Mystery Fall
Mitch McConnell has now been absent from the Senate for six weeks, missed 38 votes, and is still not medically cleared to leave his rehabilitation facility,...
Someone Shot at the US Consulate in Toronto. Again.
Someone fired a gun at the United States consulate in Toronto on Monday morning, the second time this has happened in less than five months. A white car with...
Fauci Called Trump 'Truly an Obnoxious Adolescent' in Secret Diary
Anthony Fauci kept a diary during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it turns out he was not a fan of his boss. The journal, released by Rand Paul in what was...
Fed May Hike Rates This Week With Zero Warning. That's New.
The Federal Reserve has spent the better part of thirty years building a reputation for being the most boringly predictable institution in American public...
Trump Paused Iran Bombing to Let Jared Kushner Do Diplomacy
The United States has paused its military strikes on Iran, and the man now helping steer the diplomatic fallout is Jared Kushner. Yes, that Jared Kushner. The...
Secret Service Agent Arrested for Frat Hazing That Left Victim Needing Skin Grafts
A Secret Service agent was arrested this weekend after allegedly spending several days beating college fraternity pledges with canes and paddles so severely...
Hackers Shut Down Fairlife Milk Plants and Stole Data from a $7B Brand
Someone hacked the milk. No, really. Hackers hit Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy brand with a ransomware attack so severe it shut down four U.S. production plants...
Netanyahu and Zelenskyy Both Flying to DC to Beg Trump at a Funeral
Lindsey Graham isn't even in the ground yet and his funeral has already become the hottest diplomatic backroom in the world. Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodymyr...
Trump Tariffed 80 Countries to Fight Forced Labor. He's Lost 75,000 Factory Jobs.
Donald Trump this week imposed sweeping new tariffs on more than 80 countries, justified partly by concerns about forced labor abroad and partly, and this is...
The EEOC Just Voted to Stop Counting Workplace Discrimination
The federal agency responsible for fighting workplace discrimination just voted to stop systematically measuring it. No repeal of the Civil Rights Act...
Big Tech's 'Green' Cooling Uses Forever Chemicals the EPA May Rubber-Stamp
The tech industry has been bragging about its water-free datacenter cooling systems for years. Turns out the reason those systems don't use water is because...
13 Nights of Bombs, Then Trump Posts AI Art and Calls It Diplomacy
After 13 consecutive nights of US airstrikes on Iran and a tit-for-tat exchange that killed four American soldiers and dozens of Iranians, Donald Trump paused...
America's Top Spy Job Is Being Run by a Housing Guy
The United States currently has a housing finance regulator overseeing all 18 of its intelligence agencies. That sentence is not a joke, a hypothetical, or a...
Day 150: Iran Controls the Strait, the U.S. Controls the Spin
One hundred and fifty days into a hot war with Iran, the United States is claiming the Strait of Hormuz is open while Iran is literally firing warning shots at...
Kalshi Calls 1849 Wisconsin Election Law 'Voter Suppression' So You Can Bet on Elections
A company worth billions of dollars looked at a Wisconsin law that has been on the books since before the Civil War, a law that simply says you cannot bet...
Elon Musk Calls Vigilante Murder of Refugees the 'Moderate Response'
Elon Musk, the world's richest person and owner of X, promoted a film about a vigilante who murders refugees and police officers across Europe, then reposted a...
Baltimore Is Rerouting 911 Calls Away From Cops to People Who Actually Help
A woman called 911 because she was in mental health crisis and wanted to go to the hospital. The last time she'd tried to get help on her own, a cop arrested...
185 Cases in One Sitting: How Trump's Courts Are Deporting People Who Never Showed Up
One immigration judge in Chicago handled 185 cases in a single sitting this summer. The previous typical load was about 20. This is not a court system...
US Fired 1,000+ Tomahawks Against Iran. It Only Bought 38 in 2025.
The United States military has fired over a thousand Tomahawk cruise missiles since a war with Iran started in February. The Pentagon bought 38 of them in the...
Trump's 'Anti-Crime' Memphis Task Force Was an ICE Raid All Along
Trump launched an anti-crime task force in Memphis last fall, loudly promising to crack down on 'dangerous career criminals.' Nobody mentioned immigration....
Jeffries: Republicans Have 'Nothing to Run On' With 18 Dead and Gas Prices Exploding
One hundred days out from the midterms, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went on CNN and said the quiet part loud: Republicans have nothing to run on...
Canadian TikToker, 49, Chose Her Own Death Before Alzheimer's Could
Rebecca Luna was 49 years old, had 90,000 followers, a wicked sense of humor, and a body that was failing her in the cruelest way imaginable. Last Saturday,...
Shein Lost $99M After Trump Killed the Cheap Package Loophole
Shein made $395 million in profit in the first quarter of 2025. One year later, same quarter, it lost $99 million. What changed? Donald Trump signed away the...
Dear Abby Just Retired After 39 Years and Didn't Even Make It the Main Story
Jeanne Phillips, the woman who has been dispensing wisdom to tens of millions of Americans under the name Dear Abby for nearly four decades, announced her...
ICE Deported a Brain-Damaged Ex-NFL Player. Called Him 'Dangerous.'
A man who doctors described as 'acutely psychotic with traumatic brain injury' was deported by ICE in June, and the agency would like you to know it's very...
Democrats Need 4 Senate Seats. Here's Why That's Still a Coin Flip.
The 2026 midterm Senate map is taking shape, and the answer to whether Democrats can actually claw back control is: maybe, sort of, possibly, who knows....
Gunfire Erupts at Seattle's Bite of Seattle Food Festival
People came to Seattle Center on Sunday to eat dumplings and drink craft beer on the last day of the city's beloved Bite of Seattle food festival. Some of them...
Pentagon Split Its Own Iran War in Two to Dodge the Law
The Pentagon has apparently decided that if the law doesn't work for you, you just chop the war in half and pretend you have two shorter ones. According to The...
Democrats Are Stealing 'America First' and Trump Has No One to Blame But His Iran War
Donald Trump spent a decade branding 'America First' as his personal political property, and now Democrats are walking out of the store with it. A progressive...
Netanyahu Calls NYC's Mayor 'Hate-Fomenter' for Wanting Him Arrested
Benjamin Netanyahu, a man currently facing international war crimes charges, went on Fox News Sunday to complain that the mayor of New York City was being mean...
Taylor Farms Called the White House to Delay a Parasite Recall
A food company tied to a parasite outbreak that has sickened thousands of Americans picked up the phone and called the White House to ask the government to...
67% Want the Iran War Over. Trump's At 35% Approval. Good Meeting Though!
Five months into a war that Congress never authorized, two-thirds of Americans want the United States to end the conflict with Iran right now. President Trump...
130 Million Workers Have Zero AI Protections. Congress? Busy.
American companies are using artificial intelligence right now to rewrite job descriptions, eliminate positions, and restructure entire workforces, and for...
Waltz Says Trump Is 'President of Peace' While Moving More Bombs Into the Region
Mike Waltz, the man who got fired as National Security Advisor and was immediately rewarded with a UN ambassadorship, went on television Sunday to explain that...
Bernie's Still Got His Stump Speech, His Billionaires, and Zero Regrets
Bernie Sanders went on national television Sunday to pump up his slate of progressive 2026 candidates, declare war on the billionaire class for the ten...
RFK Jr Wants Alzheimer's Screening While Blocking the Panel That Could Make It Happen
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went before Congress and called the lack of Alzheimer's screening 'almost regulatory malpractice.' He said this while his own department...
NJ Just Made It Illegal for Stores to Charge You More Because They Know Too Much About You
A store knows you live in a wealthy zip code, that you've bought this exact product a dozen times, and that you're unlikely to shop around. So it quietly...
RFK Jr. Says No Cuts to Food Safety. CDC Lost 8 of 11 Parasite Scientists.
More than 11,000 Americans have been hit with weeks of "debilitating, explosive diarrhea" from a feces-linked parasite hiding in contaminated iceberg lettuce,...
Ryan Gosling Is Ghost Rider and Yes, This Is Really Happening
Ryan Gosling walked out onto the San Diego Comic-Con stage on Saturday to the sound of thousands of people absolutely losing their minds, and announced he is...
85 Million Americans Have Checked Out of Democracy. Here's Why.
Thirty-five percent of the American electorate, roughly 85 million people, have effectively rage-quit democracy. Not because they stopped caring about their...
NASA Astronaut Lands in Kazakhstan After 241 Days, Finds Vodka Matryoshka Doll Waiting
A NASA astronaut with a PhD from MIT and a Harvard medical appointment just spent 241 days hurtling around the planet at 17,500 miles per hour, and when he...
Trump's Dusting Off the Red Scare and It's 1953 Again, Baby
Donald Trump stood at Mount Rushmore on July 3rd, two days before America's 250th birthday, and promised a crowd that he would 'vanquish communists quickly'...
US and Russian Astronauts Land Together in Kazakhstan While Their Governments Hate Each Other
Three men climbed into a Russian capsule, hurtled through the atmosphere at several thousand miles per hour, and parachuted into the Kazakh steppe on Sunday...
Tour de France Fan Chaos Sends Cyclist to Hospital, Ends His Race
A fan fell into the road at the Tour de France's most iconic climb on Saturday, a team car screeched to a halt to avoid crushing his skull, and Colombian...
Bombed Out of Their Homes, Lebanese Villagers Are Crowdfunding Satellite Photos to See If Anything's Left
The residents of Yaroun, a village in southern Lebanon that Israel has largely reduced to rubble, cannot go home. They cannot send anyone to check on their...
ICE Is Coming for 300,000 Haitians, Starting in Springfield
The same administration that spent months telling voters Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating cats and dogs is now drawing up arrest-and-deport...