36 Million Under Flood Alerts as Historic Rain Buries the Midwest
A 70-year-old Indiana man finished renovating his home two months ago. This week it filled with floodwater, and he told CBS News, simply, "I'm cooked." He is...
A Bird, a Broken Window, and a Man Half Out of a Plane at 16,000 Feet
A 61-year-old man was partially sucked through a shattered airplane window at 16,000 feet while other passengers grabbed his body and physically held him...
Judge Tosses Nevada Fake Electors Case, Calls Fraud 'Political Theater'
Six Nevada Republicans signed a fraudulent certificate handing Donald Trump electoral votes he did not win, broadcast the whole thing on video, and a judge...
7th Appeals Court Torches ICE's 'Detain Everyone' Policy in 460-54 Rout
At this point it is less a legal debate and more a sustained judicial beatdown. A seventh federal appeals court has now ruled against the Trump...
Trump's Own Pollster Tells Republicans: Drop SAVE Act, Talk Health Care
Donald Trump's own campaign pollster just told Senate Republicans, in a private briefing, to stop talking about the thing Donald Trump won't shut up about....
Hawaii Braces for Hurricane Lala's 25-Inch Rain Threat This Weekend
A tropical storm that didn't even exist 48 hours ago is about to become a hurricane and park itself directly over one of the most geographically vulnerable...
ICE Is Getting Electric Shock Gloves. Yes, You Read That Right.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to spend up to $20 million on gloves that electrocute people on contact, dropping them to the ground and...
Lindsay Clancy Trial: Searches for 'How to Slit Your Throat' Found on Her Phone
On the 13th day of Lindsay Clancy's murder trial, a Massachusetts jury heard that her phone contained searches for 'How to slit your throat to die?' and 'Can...
DHS Sent Undercover Agents to Spy on Peaceful Protesters — One Tried to Recruit Them to Build Weapons
The Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents to infiltrate anti-ICE community meetings, join Signal chats, and obtain the financial records of...
Congress Has Proposed 68 Constitutional Amendments This Term. Zero Will Pass.
Sixty-eight. That is the number of constitutional amendments members of Congress have proposed this term. One got a floor vote. It failed. The Constitution...
Third Person Dies at Delaney Hall After ICE Changed Rules to Stop Counting
A Guatemalan immigrant named José Chajón-Raxón had a seizure at a Newark ICE detention facility, got hospitalized, got released from custody, and then died....
Judge Throws Out Trump's Harvard Antisemitism Suit, Calls Evidence Too Thin
The Trump administration marched into federal court to sue Harvard University for billions of dollars over alleged antisemitism on campus, and a federal judge...
GOP Rep Shared Nude Baby Photo With 400K Strangers to Save His Career
Ohio Republican congressman Max Miller, already facing allegations that he held a gun to his ex-wife's head, poured boiling water on her, and broke their...
Putin Ordered a Hit on a U.S. Citizen in Warsaw. Poland Stopped It.
Russia tried to have a U.S. citizen killed on the soil of a NATO ally, and the only reason we're reading about it instead of mourning it is that Polish...
Luigi Mangione Expected to Plead Guilty Friday to Federal Charges
Luigi Mangione, the 28-year-old accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson dead on a Manhattan sidewalk in December 2024, is expected to plead...
Dick Cheney's Longtime Cardiologist Says Trump Doesn't Look Well
The White House says Donald Trump, who turned 80 in June, is in "excellent health." His doctor used 22 medical specialists to reach that conclusion and won't...
Surrogate Gives Birth in Texas After Parents Ordered Abortion. Now She Can't Hold the Baby.
A surrogate mother who refused to abort a baby with a heart defect, fled her home state of Alaska, and triggered a multi-state legal war gave birth Wednesday...
Army Gynecologist Pleads Not Guilty to Secretly Recording 93 Patients
An Army gynecologist accused of secretly recording women during pelvic and breast exams stood before a military judge at Fort Hood on Wednesday and pleaded not...
DC Bomb Squad Spends Two Hours Defusing a $300 Sex Toy
Washington DC's finest bomb disposal experts spent the better part of Wednesday morning's rush hour locked in a tense standoff with a $300 automated sex toy....
Swastikas Spray-Painted Inside UCSD Jewish Frat House in Hate Crime
Someone broke into a Jewish fraternity house at UC San Diego and spray-painted swastikas, 'KKK,' and racial slurs across both the interior and exterior walls....
Another Day, Another Georgia School Shooting. One Student Down.
A student was shot on the campus of Warner Robins High School in central Georgia on Wednesday afternoon, the Houston County Sheriff's Office confirmed. One...
Army Apache Crashes Near Fort Hood, Kills Both Crew Members
A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter went down in a field south of Salado, Texas on Wednesday afternoon, killing both crew members on board and igniting...
Three Dead at Minneapolis Daycare in Stabbing, Including a Child
A parent drove up to drop their kid off at daycare Wednesday morning and found three people dead inside. Two adults and a young child were killed at Brown Bear...
Trump's Press Secretary Quits to 'Spend Time With Family' Two Months After Maternity Leave
Karoline Leavitt returned to the White House in July after taking maternity leave for the birth of her second child. She will leave again at the end of August,...
USS Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard After 250 Days at Sea
Sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to jump overboard during a record-breaking deployment that has kept 5,000 crew members at sea for 250...
Inflation Dipped in July Because a Lettuce Recall Made Salad Cheaper
The good news is that inflation cooled in July. The bad news is that one of the main reasons inflation cooled in July is that a foodborne illness outbreak made...
Ohio Haitians Fitted With Ankle Monitors After Supreme Court Killed Their Status
Monsanto Maler walked out of an ICE facility in Blue Ash, Ohio on Sunday morning, looked down at the metal box freshly bolted to his ankle, and collapsed on...
Eli Lilly Suing 6 Companies Selling Its Unapproved Weight-Loss Drug — That Bodegas Are Stocking
Eli Lilly is suing six companies for selling an unapproved version of its experimental weight-loss drug retatrutide, a drug that hasn't cleared FDA review,...
Spain's First Total Solar Eclipse in 121 Years Hits Today at 8:32 PM
Spain hasn't seen a total solar eclipse since 1905, which means everyone alive in that country today gets to witness something their great-great-grandparents...
3 Dead, 1M Without Power as 'Ring of Fire' Torches the Midwest
Three people are dead, a 4-year-old boy among them, after a ferocious storm system ripped through the Midwest on Tuesday, knocking out power for more than a...
Kansas Dad Called 911 to Announce He'd Killed His Wife and 4 Kids
A Kansas man called 911 Tuesday morning to announce he had just murdered his wife and four children, the youngest of whom was three years old, and that he was...
Lindsey Graham's Sister Beats Three Politicians to Win SC Senate Runoff Spot
Six weeks ago, Darline Graham was running a state agency for the blind. Today she is a sitting United States senator who just beat a congressman, another...
Judge Blocks Trump From Using USPS to Kneecap Mail-In Voting Nationwide
A federal judge in Boston just told the U.S. Postal Service it cannot help Donald Trump decide which Americans get their ballots delivered and which ones...
Trump Fled Iran Threat on Secret Jet, Left Staff and Press to Die as Decoy
Donald Trump snuck off Air Force One during last month's NATO summit in Turkey to dodge a credible Iranian assassination plot, and the people he left behind on...
SSA Quietly Does Something Good: 14 More Conditions Get Fast-Track Disability
If you have a rare, devastating illness and you need Social Security disability benefits, the federal government will normally make you wait six to eight...
Kennedy Center Must Pay Musician $252K It Sued for Skipping a Free Concert
The Kennedy Center sued a jazz musician over a free concert he didn't play, lost, and now owes him $252,479.70 in legal fees. This is the part where you laugh,...
Millions of Medicare Recipients Are Leaving Free Drug Money on the Table
There is a federal program that will cap what you pay for generic prescription drugs at $5.10, wipe out your Part D premium entirely, and eliminate your...
DOJ Just Made Trump's Shady Outside Advisers Untouchable
The Justice Department quietly dropped a 21-page opinion Monday that could shield everyone in Donald Trump's orbit from congressional investigators, whether...
Alito Made $2.9M From Oil and Now Gets to Rule on Big Oil's Biggest Case
Samuel Alito has made up to $2.9 million from oil and gas assets since joining the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is about to hear a massive case about...
Russia Frees American Held in 'Dissociative Stupor' for 47 Days
A 32-year-old American military veteran spent 47 days in a dissociative stupor, handcuffed to a hospital bed and fed through a tube, inside a Russian medical...
Luigi Mangione's Murder Trial Starts Sept. 8 and Nobody Knows What His Defense Actually Is
Less than a month out from the most-watched murder trial since O.J. Simpson wore that glove, Luigi Mangione's defense team still hasn't told anyone what their...
Hegseth Put Two Men on the Pentagon's Advisory Board Who Both Have Ties to Trump Jr.'s Venture Fund
Pete Hegseth just stocked the Pentagon's premier advisory board with two men who have direct financial ties to a venture capital fund co-run by Donald Trump's...
Man Asks AI to Book a Gym Class, It Commits Cybercrime
An Australian man asked his AI assistant to book him a spot in a sold-out fitness class. The AI, apparently deciding that rules are more of a suggestion,...
AI Is Making Your RAM Cost More. There Is No End in Sight.
The AI boom has a bill, and you're the one paying it. Memory chip prices are surging at a scale Axios describes as "unprecedented," and the ripple effects are...
Syria Sentences Assad to Death for Half a Million Murders
A Syrian court handed down a death sentence Tuesday to Bashar al-Assad, the man who spent fourteen years turning his own country into a mass grave. Assad,...
AI Is Making Oil Companies Drill Faster Than It's Saving the Planet
The tech industry spent years telling us AI was going to save the planet. Turns out it might be doing the opposite, and not just because of the monstrous...
Nvidia Just Convinced Wall Street to Treat AI Chips Like Roads and Bridges
Nvidia just got Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to collectively agree that AI chips are basically the new highway system, and...
Iran Tried to Missile Air Force One. Trump Escaped in a Catering Truck.
Iran had a credible plan to shoot a missile at Air Force One as it left Turkey. The President of the United States escaped by hiding in an airport catering...
NIH Chief Blamed CBS for CDC Shooting. The White House Cheered.
A gunman fired 200 rounds into six CDC buildings in August 2025, killing a police officer, after his father said he was convinced the COVID vaccine had made...
Zuckerberg's $390M Yacht Ignored a Distress Call. A 42-Year-Old Tugboat Saved the Day.
Mark Zuckerberg owns a $390 million, 387-foot superyacht with four engines pumping out nearly 24,000 combined horsepower. Last week, in Alaskan waters, the...
Zuckerberg Publishes 6,500-Word Essay Explaining Why You Should Trust Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg would like you to know that superintelligence is coming, it's going to be great, Meta is going to lead it, and you definitely shouldn't be...
Silicon Valley Billionaires Have Decided Democracy Is Inconvenient
A small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have apparently looked at American democracy, weighed it against their own preferences,...
July 2026 Was the Hottest Month in 131 Years of U.S. Records
The United States just cooked itself through the hottest July in 131 years of recorded history, and the margin wasn't even close. Federal climate scientists...
Trump's FDA Wants to Put America's Men on Testosterone. Doctors Say Slow Down.
The Trump administration wants to rewrite FDA rules so that virtually any man with low testosterone and a flagging libido can qualify for hormone therapy,...