U.S. Now Paying $3 Billion a Day in Interest While Stocks Party
The United States government is now paying $3 billion in interest every single day, the national debt just punched through $40 trillion for the first time in...
ICE Let Iran Pick Who Got Deported Back to Iran
While Donald Trump was posting on social media telling people to evacuate Tehran, his immigration agency was quietly letting the Iranian government decide...
Evergrande Founder Gets Life in Prison for $80B Fraud Nobody Stopped
The founder of Evergrande, the real estate developer that collapsed with over $300 billion in liabilities and helped crater the Chinese property market for...
Ossoff Called Trump's Social Media Manager 'Natalie' and CNN Lost Its Mind
Jon Ossoff walked up to a microphone at an Atlanta rally, said one woman's first name, and then stood back and watched CNN do the rest of his dirty work for...
Lindsay Clancy's Mom Told Court Her Daughter Said Meds Were 'Destroying' Her Mind
Five days before Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, she was Googling 'symptoms of postpartum psychosis.' Three months before that, she was texting...
MTG Says Trump Admin Is Discussing Nuclear Strikes on Iran
This article has been updated to include a response from White House Spokesperson Davis Ingle. Marjorie Taylor Greene, until very recently one of Donald...
Supreme Court Tells Trump to Just Pay E. Jean Carroll Already
The Supreme Court has, for the second time this year, looked at Donald Trump's request to erase a jury's $5 million finding that he sexually abused E. Jean...
Gen Z Is Too Broke to Date and Honestly, Same
A $150 tab for two entrees, two drinks, an appetizer, and tip is apparently enough to make an entire generation swear off romance. According to multiple recent...
AI Satellites Are Catching Wildfires Before Anyone Dials 911
A wildfire the size of a beach bonfire. That is what the new FireSat satellite network is designed to detect, from orbit, faster than your neighbor can find...
Trump Killed $15M in Alzheimer's Research Because It Surveyed Black Patients
The Trump administration just canceled $15 million in Alzheimer's disease research at two leading universities because the grants studied how racism affects...
Gen Z Is Going Outside to Read Books in Silence Together
A generation raised on Tinder swipes and Instagram DMs has apparently reached its breaking point, and the solution they've landed on is going outside to watch...
GOP States Are Banning Student IDs at Polls With Zero Evidence of Fraud
A federal judge looked at Indiana's ban on student IDs at polling places and wrote that it "looks more like a solution in search of a problem." That's the...
Hayden Panettiere, 'Heroes' and 'Nashville' Star, Dead at 36
Hayden Panettiere, who spent her entire life in front of a camera and her last few years bravely dismantling the myth that any of it was easy, died Sunday...
The Secret War Hiding Inside Mardi Gras Nobody Tells You About
Every Mardi Gras, while the rest of the country thinks New Orleans is just drunk college students catching plastic beads on Bourbon Street, something genuinely...
7.7 Quake Kills 53 in Indonesia, Nearly 1,000 Aftershocks Follow
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake ripped through eastern Indonesia's Flores region early Saturday morning, killing at least 53 people, destroying more than 900 homes,...
Margaret Atwood's Books Are Banned in 135 Districts. She Lit One on Fire.
Margaret Atwood is 86 years old, has written 64 books, won more than 50 awards, and her work has been banned from 135 American school districts. Her response...
Flock Safety's AI Spy Network Is Getting So Big Even Cops Are Getting Sued
A private company has quietly built one of the largest vehicle surveillance networks in American history, and it turns out people are not thrilled about it....
Trump Guts Korea War Games to Impress Kim Jong Un
One day before the United States and South Korea were scheduled to begin their regular joint military exercises, Donald Trump announced he was ordering them...
Tommy John, the Pitcher Who Rewrote Baseball Medicine, Dies at 83
Tommy John died Saturday at his home in Bradenton, Florida, surrounded by family, at 83 years old. He was a four-time All-Star who won 288 games over 26...
Feds Take Tribal Land for Border Wall Using Teddy Roosevelt's 1907 Loophole
The federal government just got a judge to greenlight building a border wall on Native American land by citing a proclamation Teddy Roosevelt signed when...
Ro Khanna Wants Rules on Data Centers. 71% of Americans Agree.
Seventy-one percent of Americans say they oppose building AI data centers in their communities. That is not a fringe position. That is a supermajority, and Ro...
Trump's AG Says POTUS Will 'Never' Ask Him to Do Anything Illegal
Todd Blanche, the attorney general of the United States, went on national television Sunday and said, with a straight face, that Donald Trump will 'never' ask...
A Food Safety Law Sat Idle for 15 Years. Then 30,000 People Got Sick.
Congress passed a law in 2011 to make it easier to trace contaminated food back to the source before it kills people. Fifteen years later, the law still isn't...
Ukraine Sends 600 Drones at Moscow in One of the War's Biggest Strikes
Ukraine sent somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 drones toward Moscow overnight Sunday, in what is shaping up to be one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of...
Robotaxis Are 68% Safer Than You, But Will Block Traffic for 4 Minutes
The good news: robotaxis are finally real, expanding into cities across America, and according to independent research, they crash 68% less often than human...
Indiana Floods Smash 1913 Records, Kill 5, Rescue 91 People and 45 Pets
The White River crested nearly two feet above a record that had stood since 1913, and Indiana is still counting its dead. At least five people are gone, 91...
Russia Lost 43,000 Soldiers in July. Putin Is Recruiting Africans Now.
Russia lost 42,860 soldiers in a single month. Not the war. One month. July 2026 was the fourth bloodiest month of the entire conflict since 2022, according to...
NJ Man Charged After Drunk Boating Killed Two Kids, Ages 7 and 9
A 63-year-old New Jersey man has been charged with reckless vessel homicide after police say he was drunk at the wheel of a 30-foot boat when it slammed into a...
FEMA's Flood Maps Miss 98% of Homes — Midwest Is About to Find Out the Hard Way
The White River in Anderson, Indiana just hit 24.9 feet, shattering a flood record that had stood since 1913. At least three people are dead, more than 150,000...
45 New AI Billionaires in One Year, and the Oldest Is 32
Forty-five people became billionaires from artificial intelligence in the past twelve months alone. The oldest profiled in this new crop is 32. One of them had...
Trump Wants to Privatize Hacking. What Could Go Wrong?
The Trump administration has issued a memo that would let private American companies hack foreign cybercriminals on behalf of the U.S. government, which is...
Trump Wants to Claim the Strait of Hormuz. Iran Has Notes.
Standing in front of a crowd of law enforcement officers at a Nassau County police academy, Donald Trump announced that he would soon declare the Strait of...
Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty, Admits He Emailed UnitedHealthcare to Find His Target
Luigi Mangione walked into a Manhattan federal courtroom on Friday and told a judge, out loud, in public, that he emailed UnitedHealthcare pretending to be a...
Someone Bubble-Bombed the WWII Memorial and Spray-Painted It Pink
Someone filled the National World War II Memorial fountain with soapy bubbles and spray-painted 'Clean hands dirty $' in pink across the stone, and yes, that...
AI Is Blowing Up Both Parties at Once and Nobody Has a Clue
New York just became the first state to slap a moratorium on data centers, and the coalition that made it happen — a centrist governor and a progressive state...
Florida Deputized Every Single County to Do ICE's Job For $72 a Day
Every single county in Florida has signed a cooperation agreement with ICE. All 67 of them. The state didn't just embrace the Trump administration's mass...
JD Vance Says Cheap Gas Is 'Goal Number One' in a War That Made Gas 40% More Expensive
JD Vance went on Fox News Thursday to explain that keeping oil and gas cheap for Americans is now "goal number one" in the Iran war. The average gallon of gas...
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...
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...
White House Gave Rubio a Framed Collage of 68 Memes Mocking Him
Marco Rubio has three official jobs in the Trump administration and is apparently the punchline of a fourth. For his 55th birthday, White House staffers and...
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....
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...
Flock Safety Tracks Billions of Plates Monthly, Offers You One Less Week of It
Flock Safety, the company quietly logging the movements of virtually every car in America, announced this week that it will hold your location data for one...
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...