Ted Cruz Wants Venezuela Democracy — Just Not More Than Its Oil
Ted Cruz went on Meet the Press Sunday to demand free and fair elections in Venezuela. He also made clear, in the same breath, that the United States does not...
USDA Kills Cyclospora Research Mid-Outbreak After 17,000 Fall Sick
While more than 17,000 Americans have gotten sick from a parasitic outbreak sweeping 48 states, the Trump administration is busy shutting down the government...
Flash Flood Destroys Grand Canyon's Phantom Ranch, 20+ Still Missing
Half an inch of rain fell in thirty minutes at the Grand Canyon on Saturday, and the canyon did what canyons do with half an inch of rain in thirty minutes: it...
U.S. Bombs Iran Again to Stop New Hormuz Mines, One Week After 'Zero Tolerance' Warning
The United States military has bombed Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz again, this time to stop Iran from putting new mines in the water that the U.S....
A 13-Pound Marmot Named Dawn Just Won Fat Marmot Week and Honestly We Need This
A six-year-old yellow-bellied marmot named Dawn, described by researchers as a father who enjoys the taste of rocks, has won the inaugural Fat Marmot Week...
85 Americans Missing in Nepal After Flood Kills 750, 3,000 Still Lost
A catastrophic flood near the Nepal-Tibet border has killed at least 750 people, swallowed entire villages whole, and left 85 Americans unaccounted for, the...
Putin's Economy Is Cratering. Congress Has a Bill That Could Finish the Job.
Vladimir Putin is staring down a $125 billion deficit, a 14% interest rate on his national debt, and an economy that Sen. Richard Blumenthal says is 'on the...
CIA Chief Ratcliffe Flew Secret to Moscow to Propose Trump-Putin-Zelensky Summit
The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency quietly flew to Moscow this week and proposed a three-way summit between Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and...
Trump Renamed Lake Ontario 'Lake America' and Now Everyone Is Yelling
Donald Trump, locked in a trade war with Canada that just escalated to 50% tariffs, has decided the real problem is the name of a Great Lake. On Thursday, he...
Gunman Opens Fire at Swiss Rave, Kills One, Still at Large
Someone pulled out a gun at a rave in Switzerland early Sunday morning and opened fire, killing one person and wounding five others, some of them seriously....
Mike Lindell Lost by 45,000 Votes and Won't Accept That Either
Mike Lindell spent years screaming that Donald Trump had the 2020 election stolen from him by voting machines. Now the MyPillow guy has lost his own race by...
Lithium-Ion Battery Blast Kills Teen at Brooklyn Public Housing
A lithium-ion battery explosion tore through the 12th floor of a Crown Heights public housing complex Friday evening, killing an 18-year-old man and sending...
SCOTUS Just Made It Nearly Impossible to Prove Racial Gerrymandering
The Supreme Court didn't repeal the Voting Rights Act. They just made it functionally useless by requiring plaintiffs to prove something nearly impossible to...
Dutch Lab Issues 'Red Alert' on Trump-Shaped Ecstasy Pills That Can Kill You
Someone in the Netherlands is pressing Donald Trump's face onto ecstasy pills, and those pills might kill you. The Trimbos Institute, a respected Dutch drug...
Sony and Warner Sue Anthropic for 'History's Biggest IP Theft'
Late on a Friday night, because that's when you drop news you want people to miss, units of Sony Music and Warner Music filed a federal lawsuit against AI...
Meta's $17 Billion 'We Didn't Do It' Apology Bans Kids From Instagram at Night
Meta has agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion to settle a federal lawsuit claiming the company designed Facebook and Instagram to be addictive for children, while...
Lindsay Clancy Saw 13 Meds, 70 Witnesses, and Zero Actual Help
Lindsay Clancy called a suicide hotline, went to the emergency room, was turned away from inpatient treatment, saw multiple psychiatrists, and was put on 13...
Iran Built Fake Americans on Instagram to Trash Republicans
Iran ran a network of fake Americans on Facebook and Instagram designed to look like your neighbors, your coworkers, your cousin who won't stop posting about...
FBI Shrink Who Last Saw Postpartum Psychosis in the '90s Just Decided Lindsay Clancy Was Faking It
The prosecution's star final witness in the Lindsay Clancy trial is a forensic psychiatrist who last treated a woman with postpartum psychosis sometime in the...
9/11 Trial Set for June 2028, Only 27 Years After the Attack
Twenty-seven years after Khalid Sheikh Mohammed allegedly helped murder nearly 3,000 people, a military judge has finally set a trial date. Mark your calendars...
Trump's Mail-In Voting Ban Just Cleared a Big Legal Hurdle
A federal judge in Boston just handed Donald Trump a significant win in his ongoing crusade against mail-in voting, clearing the way for the U.S. Postal...
Nvidia Posts 70% Growth and Wall Street Still Pouted
Nvidia projected 70% revenue growth, beat its earnings expectations, and watched its stock tick downward in after-hours trading anyway. Seventy percent....
Medicare's $50 Wegovy Deal Is Moving 200,000 Prescriptions and Counting
Two months ago, Medicare started letting eligible seniors get Wegovy and similar obesity drugs for fifty bucks a month. CVS and Walgreens have each filled...
Bill Gates: AI Will Gut White-Collar Jobs Within a Decade
Bill Gates just published a nearly 6,000-word essay arguing that AI will obliterate white-collar jobs in law, medicine, software, and customer service within a...
Trump Says Iran War Has 'No Timetable' While Iran and Russia Split His Oil Money
Six months into a war with no exit ramp, Donald Trump told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that the U.S. is 'achieving a very big victory' in Iran, and that the...
ICE Arrested 50,000 People in July. That's 1,599 a Day.
The Trump administration arrested 49,571 people through ICE in July alone, the highest monthly total of Trump's second term, according to government data...
FDA Just Cracked the 'Undruggable' Cancer That Kills 52,000 Americans a Year
For decades, the mutation driving more than 90% of pancreatic cancer cases was considered simply undruggable. Scientists knew exactly what was killing people....
24 States Sue USPS Over Mail Vote Rules That Could Blow Up the Midterms
The United States Postal Service, an agency historically responsible for delivering your Amazon packages and birthday cards from grandma, has been conscripted...
Tim Curry, the Legend Who Made Evil Irresistible, Dead at 80
Tim Curry, the British actor who spent five decades proving that the villain is always the most interesting person in the room, died Tuesday evening at his...
CIA Chief Flew to Moscow Unannounced and Nobody Told Ukraine Until It Was Time to Shut Up
The director of the CIA flew to Moscow on Tuesday for an unannounced, unexplained meeting with Russian intelligence services, and the United States asked...
Flash Floods Kill 18, Leave 380 Missing in Nepal — Including Americans
An earthquake cracked a mountain, a landslide dammed a river, and then the Bhote Koshi turned into a wrecking ball. At least 18 people are dead and more than...
Jeffries Won't Rule Out Impeachment If Dems Win the House
Ten weeks out from the midterms, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sat down with Wolf Blitzer and said the quiet part at a reasonable volume: if Democrats...
Target Sold a Blackface Clown Costume for Kids. Yes, Really.
Target, the same company that just finished announcing it was done with all that pesky diversity stuff, somehow approved a children's Halloween costume that...
Chucky Mask Maniac Caught in Vegas After Asking Jogger 'Are You Ready to Die?'
A 22-year-old man allegedly spent fifteen minutes before sunrise on August 12th running up to strangers near Philadelphia City Hall in a Chucky Halloween mask,...
Secret Service's Own Spokesman Put on Leave for 'Misconduct'
The United States Secret Service, an agency whose entire brand is keeping things quiet, has placed its own chief of communications on administrative leave for...
Dolly Parton, Queen of Country and America's Sweetheart, Dies at 80
Dolly Parton is gone. The girl born in a one-room Appalachian cabin to a father who couldn't read, who went on to sell 100 million records and build a $650...
Judge to Maxwell: Your 'New' Epstein Evidence Actually Just Proves You're Guilty
Ghislaine Maxwell tried to use the newly released Epstein files to get out of prison. A federal judge just ruled that those same documents actually make her...
Lightning Kills Florida Mom and Her 2-Year-Old Daughter Next to Their Car
A mother and her two-year-old daughter were struck by lightning in Margate, Florida on Sunday and killed — standing next to their car, in a suburb, on an...
AI Just Disproved an 80-Year-Old Math Problem. Mathematicians Are Freaking Out.
Forty of the world's top mathematicians walked into OpenAI's offices earlier this month for a meeting so uncomfortable they made it off-the-record. The agenda,...
California Sheriff Refuses to Return 650K Seized Ballots, Tells State Supreme Court to Pound Sand
A California sheriff has been sitting on 650,000 ballots from a completed election for the better part of a year, the state's top lawyer is furious, and the...
Iran Promises to 'Expect an Attack' After U.S. 'Economic D-Day'
The United States just declared what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called 'the single greatest financial offensive ever' against Iran. Iran's response was...
ICE Detained a Latin Grammy Winner at Miami Airport and Called Him an 'Illegal Alien'
A man who won a Latin Grammy in 2022 and sits on the Latin Recording Academy's voting body landed at Miami International Airport on August 19th and was...
Wall Street Has Been Betting on Your Death Since the AIDS Crisis
There is a multibillion-dollar financial market built entirely around waiting for people to die, and there is a decent chance your life insurance policy is...
49ers Owner Jed York Busted in Ohio Prostitution Sting for $140
Jed York, the 46-year-old billionaire who owns the San Francisco 49ers, Leeds United, and Scottish Premiership club Rangers, was jailed in Ohio after being...
Secret Service Nabs Homeless Woman Pushing Cart Into Mar-a-Lago. Again.
A 65-year-old homeless woman pushed a utility cart loaded with her belongings past a massive "RESTRICTED AREA: NO TRESPASSING" sign and straight onto Donald...
Trump Fired the CDC's Entire Brain Injury Team. Kids at Camp Cranium Are Paying Attention.
The Trump administration fired the entire CDC team tracking traumatic brain injuries in early 2025, killing a nationwide concussion surveillance system right...
DHS Sent Undercover Agents to Churches, Libraries, and a Self-Defense Class to Spy on ICE Protesters
An undercover federal agent wore a wire to a self-defense class at a Baptist church in Minneapolis. Another agent crashed a meeting at a Lutheran church and...
Kanye's Russia Shows Collapse Before a Single Ticket Gets Scanned
Kanye West, who has spent the last several years declaring himself a Nazi, apologizing for declaring himself a Nazi, and then trying to sell tickets to a...
UK Gives Ukraine Blueprint to Build Its Own Strike Missiles
Britain just handed Ukraine the classified technical blueprints to build its own long-range cruise missiles, a move that would have been unthinkable eighteen...
LAX Worker Caught Smuggling 24 Lbs of Fentanyl in Airport Bathroom
A Los Angeles airport worker thought the men's restroom was a fine place to run a drug operation. It was not. Federal authorities arrested 24-year-old Miguel...
UAW Goes After Deere's AI Gold Rush: 'You're Either With Workers or Millionaires'
John Deere makes tractors. Caterpillar makes bulldozers. Neither company has anything to do with artificial intelligence, or so you'd think. Turns out, when...
Lindell Has $825K for Recount But Won't Pay It
Mike Lindell lost a Republican primary by more than 45,000 votes, promised on election night to personally pay $825,000 for a recount, and has now declined to...
Paramount Is Paying $7M a Day and Just Blew Up Its Own Settlement Talks
Paramount is staring down a $7 million-a-day penalty fee, twelve state attorneys general, and a trial date in March — and somehow, apparently, someone on their...
63,000 People Flee Reno as the Hawk Fire Eats Nevada Alive
A wildfire the size of a small city has exploded across the foothills outside Reno, Nevada, forcing 23,000 people to drop everything and run while another...