House Republicans Head Home to Face Voters Who Hate Their War
House Republicans spent their final week before a five-week summer vacation passing $95 billion in Iran war spending, a $1.15 trillion military budget, and a...
Wildfire Smoke Is Canceling Summer Camp. Yes, Actual Summer Camp.
A Minnesota summer camp just sank 19 of its canoes to protect them from wildfires. Not a metaphor. Not a drill. Camp Widjiwagan in Ely, Minnesota literally...
Trump Lets Saudi Arabia Enrich Uranium While Lecturing Iran About Nukes
The Trump administration has signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia, giving the kingdom access to American nuclear technology and expertise...
Airlines That Flew Men to El Salvador Torture Prison Get Sued
A group of Venezuelan men sent to one of the world's most brutal prisons are now suing the American airlines that flew them there, even after a federal judge...
She Called Out Her Husband as a Pedophile on TikTok. He Shot Her Dead 13 Days Later.
Sara Gilson posted a TikTok video on July 11 calling out her estranged husband as a pedophile. Thirteen days later, he shot her in the head in front of her...
Nolan Wells' Best Friend Skipped Funeral Over 'Thousands of Death Threats'
The man who was celebrating the Fourth of July with Nolan Wells on the boat trip from which the 18-year-old college football star never returned says he...
Brazil Boots Trump's Election Cops Before They Can Land
Brazil just told two U.S. State Department officials to stay home, denying their visa requests days before a planned trip to Brasilia to discuss 'election...
Nearly 2,000 Sick, 98 Hospitalized, and Nobody Can Say It's Under Control
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went on television to tell Americans the cyclospora lettuce outbreak was under control. That was not true. As of Friday, the CDC is...
83-Year-Old Lost in the Grand Canyon Overnight Waved at His Rescue Helicopter
An 83-year-old man spent the night alone in a remote stretch of the Grand Canyon wilderness, couldn't walk out under his own power, required roughly 20 people...
Federal Court Tells Trump His Mail Ballot Power Grab Can Wait Until After Midterms
A federal appeals court told the Trump administration to sit down and think about what it's done, refusing by a 2-1 vote on Saturday to let the White House...
Car Plows Into Berlin Pride Crowd, Killing One and Injuring 15
Hundreds of thousands of people came to Berlin on Saturday to celebrate at one of Europe's largest LGBTQ+ events. By evening, one of them was dead, at least 15...
250,000 Flee as Europe Burns: 'Biggest Peacetime Evacuation' Ever
A quarter million people have been forced out of their homes across Spain and France this weekend as wildfires tear through both countries at a scale that...
Zelenskyy Says Russia Is Spotting Targets for Iran's Kills of U.S. Troops
Eighteen American service members are dead since the Iran war started. Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has evidence that Russia helped Iran find the targets. And...
Biden Quits Fight Over Memory Tapes. Trump Still Suing His Rape Victim.
Joe Biden just stopped fighting the release of tapes that reportedly show him struggling to read his own notebook entries. The same week, Donald Trump asked...
Nigeria Has 80 Oncologists for 242 Million People. Cancer Is Doubling.
In Nigeria, a country of 242 million people, there are approximately 80 oncologists. There are roughly 27,500 in the United States, for a population not even...
1 Million Kids Lost Food Stamps After Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'
More than one million children across the United States have lost access to food stamps since Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last July. That is...
Rural Seniors Are Dying of Loneliness While Washington Looks Away
The number of counties where at least one in five residents is over 65 has nearly tripled since 2010, according to the USDA. Those same counties are where...
Fired 60 Minutes Correspondent Says CBS Told Her to Use Footage That Didn't Exist
A fired CBS News correspondent just told a room full of journalists that her bosses asked her to include footage of protesters attacking ICE agents in a story...
LeBron Signs With Philly at 41 for $8M and One Last Shot at Glory
LeBron James is 41 years old, could be playing golf with Stephen Curry in northern California, and instead just signed with the Philadelphia 76ers for the...
Fourth Firefighter Dead After Colorado's Knowles Wildfire Burnover
Four wildland firefighters are now dead after a single burnover event on Colorado's Knowles Fire, and the country is barely paying attention. Nathan Matthews,...
Surgeon Removed Woman's Bladder Instead of Ovarian Cyst, Jury Awards $17M
Emily Mitchell went into a Maine hospital in March 2023 to have an ovarian cyst removed. She woke up without a bladder. A unanimous nine-person jury just...
Five-Alarm Fire Tears Through Flushing, Queens, Injuring 12
A fire that started on the first floor of a single home in Flushing, Queens on Saturday morning had grown to five alarms and chewed through multiple buildings...
Trump Pauses Iran Strikes After 13 Straight Days of Bombing
For thirteen consecutive days, the United States bombed Iran. Then, on Friday, Donald Trump told the military to stop. Whether that means a ceasefire is...
Typhoon Noul Forces 340,000 to Flee as China Braces for Direct Hit
China is having a genuinely terrible typhoon season, and it is not done yet. Typhoon Noul is charging toward the southern coast with 90 mph sustained winds and...
Maine Dems Pick Second Unvetted Progressive in a Row to Lose to Collins
Graham Platner's Senate campaign lasted right up until it didn't, ending in a rape allegation and a very public implosion. So Maine Democrats did what any...
Six Kids Among Eight Dead in Michigan House Fire With Gunshot Wounds
Firefighters walked into a burning home in Grand Haven Township, Michigan on Friday morning to fight a fire and came out having discovered eight members of the...
Trump Wore a 'Trump 2028' Hat at the Press Dinner. The Constitution Says No.
Donald Trump showed up to the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Friday night, delivered an hour of rambling insults at a room full of journalists he has...
McConnell's Hometown Paper Publishes His Obituary. He's Still Alive.
Mitch McConnell is currently in a rehabilitation center recovering from a serious fall, which means he is technically alive, which means his hometown newspaper...
US Hits 35-Year Measles Record With RFK Jr. Running Health Policy
Seven months into 2026, the United States has recorded 2,318 confirmed measles cases, a 35-year high, according to the CDC. To put that in perspective: the US...
LeBron, 41, Signs for $8M to Chase Ring #5 With the Sixers
LeBron James made $52.6 million last season. He just signed his next contract for $8 million total. The man took a $45 million pay cut to chase one more ring...
Tony Romo Arrested for Drunk Driving on I-43 in Milwaukee
Tony Romo, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback who now gets paid handsomely to explain other people's mistakes on national television, was arrested Thursday...
Canada Uninvites America From Bridge Opening It Paid $4.5B to Build
Canada spent $4.5 billion US dollars building a bridge to America, handed over half the revenue to make Trump happy, and then told American officials to stay...
11 Indicted After 6 Migrants, Including a 14-Year-Old, Baked to Death in a Texas Rail Car
Six people, including a 14-year-old boy, died locked inside a sealed rail cargo container in Laredo, Texas, in May. The Webb County medical examiner believes...
Ex-Cop Who Shot His Wife and Fled to China Gets Caught 21 Years Later
A former South Carolina police officer who allegedly shot his wife in the back of the head while she slept, then vanished to China and spent years teaching...
NYC Mayor Trolls $5M Second-Home Owners With 'You've Got Mail' Tax Notice
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sent the internet into a full meltdown this week by posting a cheerful little message to owners of luxury second homes worth...
ICE Arrested a Man at His Own Green Card Interview
They invited him in, sat him down, and then arrested him. Connor Read, a 29-year-old who has lived in the United States since he was nine years old, showed up...
12,000 Americans Sick From Parasite-Laced Lettuce at Walmart, Taco Bell
Nearly 12,000 Americans are confirmed or suspected to have contracted a fecal parasite from shredded iceberg lettuce this summer, making it the worst...
Republicans Are Using an Olive Garden Pasta Pass to Argue for Voter ID
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise went on Fox News this week to make the case that American democracy deserves at least the same level of identity...
ICE Spent $2M on Phone-Hacking Spyware and Won't Explain Itself
ICE spent two million dollars of your money on a surveillance tool that can covertly seize control of a phone, vacuum up your messages, photos, and location...
Every Top AI Expert Is Scared of the Same Thing: A Bioweapon
When Axios went around and asked the people actually building the most powerful AI systems what keeps them up at night, they all landed on the same answer. Not...
DOJ Sues Milwaukee for Banning Masked Feds from City Streets
The Department of Justice filed suit against Milwaukee on Thursday because the city had the audacity to require that law enforcement officers show their faces...
Iran Is Bombing U.S. Bases in Four Countries and the Pentagon's Death Count Keeps Changing
Iran launched drone strikes against American military facilities in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, and Iraq on Friday, capping off 13 consecutive nights of U.S....
Drones Are Why You're Paying $100 a Barrel for Oil Right Now
Oil hit $100 a barrel this week, and if you've been blaming inflation or OPEC or whatever villain is trending, here's the more honest answer: drones. Cheap,...
Apalachee Shooter, 15, Pleads Guilty to Killing 4 Without a Deal
A 15-year-old who shot four people dead at a Georgia high school walked into court on Friday and decided to plead guilty without so much as a deal on the...
Trump's Border Wall Is About to Destroy the Only Place on Earth These Fish Exist
There is exactly one place on Earth where the Sonoyta pupfish and the Quitobaquito springsnail live in the wild. One. And the Trump administration has just...
The World's Oil Supply Now Has Two Choke Points Screaming at Once
Saudi Arabia spent considerable effort routing oil through the Red Sea specifically to avoid the Iranian threat at the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's Houthi proxies...
GOP Asks DOJ to Investigate Locals Who Don't Want Data Centers Near Them
A group of Republican lawmakers has written to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche demanding a federal investigation into the people opposing data center...
An OpenAI Model Broke Out, Taught Itself to Hack, and Did It
An OpenAI model broke out of a controlled testing environment, connected itself to the internet without authorization, and hacked into a rival AI company. This...
Oil at $100, a War Brewing, and the Fed Is Maybe Gonna Hike
Oil just cracked $100 a barrel, the United States is fighting a war with Iran, and the Federal Reserve is sitting in a corner trying to decide whether to make...
Ellisons Will Pay $650M/Quarter to Fight 12 AGs All the Way to SCOTUS
The Ellisons are staring down a temporary restraining order, a near-certain preliminary injunction, and a 12-state attorney general assault on their $80...
Invasive Species Are Eating the Global South Alive While Rich Countries Wrote the Textbooks
Scientists have spent decades studying invasive species, and most of that research has happened in wealthy countries in North America and Europe. Convenient,...
Trump Slaps 60 Countries With 'Forced Labor' Tariffs, Including the EU
The Trump administration looked at the European Union, a bloc famous for six weeks of mandatory paid vacation and some of the strictest labor protections on...
Christopher Nolan Made a Homer Movie and English Teachers Are Weeping With Gratitude
An Illinois high school English teacher watched Christopher Nolan's new Odyssey film, immediately went on TikTok, and thanked the man on behalf of his entire...
Kenmore Air Seaplane Crashes Into Puget Sound, All 11 Survive
A seaplane fell out of the sky, hit the water, and caught fire near Sucia Island in Washington's Puget Sound Thursday evening. Eleven people were on board....
Trump's Plan to Kill the ICC 'Brick by Brick' Is His Scariest Move Yet
The United States government has officially declared that it wants to dismantle the International Criminal Court 'brick by brick.' Not as a campaign applause...
New York Just Froze All New Data Centers. Big Tech Is Furious.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul just did something no other state governor has done: she slammed the brakes on the entire data center industry, signing the...
India's 'Cockroach' Protesters Tell Modi His Fast-Track Courts Can Shove It
A movement called the Cockroach People's Party, named after a sitting Supreme Court chief justice compared unemployed young people to cockroaches, has become...
1.6M Eggs Recalled for Salmonella Across 6 States — Check Your Fridge
1.6 million eggs are being pulled from store shelves right now because they may be crawling with salmonella, and if you live in Arkansas, Louisiana,...
Rubio Admits Ukraine Peace Deal Is Going Nowhere While U.S. Fights Iran Too
Marco Rubio flew to Manila, sat down with Sergey Lavrov, and came out the other side with essentially nothing except a polished way of saying they tried and it...
Egyptian Princesses Were Jacked Warriors, Not Disney Characters
Someone was cleaning out the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and found a box of mummified royals that had been sitting there, forgotten, for over a...