Lula Beats Bolsonaro 51.8% to 48.2%, Brazilian Stocks Drop Nearly 20%
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 80 years old and trailing after the first round, just won a fourth term as president of Brazil. He took 51.8 percent of valid votes...
Peltola Hurt in Car Crash as DOJ Sues Over Two Dan Sullivans
Mary Peltola, the Democrat trying to flip an Alaska Senate seat, was hurt in a three-car crash on her way to a major banquet on Saturday night. Her campaign...
Elvis Estate Sues Anthropic Over 274 Songs, Including 'Don't Be Cruel'
The people who control Elvis Presley's music have sued Anthropic, claiming its Claude models were trained on his lyrics and will still spit out versions of his...
Netanyahu Begs Trump for Campaign Help; White House Calls It 'Desperation'
Benjamin Netanyahu has spent years bragging about his special relationship with Donald Trump. Days before Israel's Tuesday election, he is reportedly pleading...
Americans Spent October Posing Plastic Skeletons to Cure Child Cancer
A guy in Holly Springs, North Carolina built a skeleton display so big it made the local news, felt a little weird about the attention, and decided to point it...
2,200 Hebron Residents Displaced, City Sealed Shut, Election Tuesday
More than 2,200 people in Hebron, including nearly 200 children, have been pushed out of their homes since Friday, while every entrance and exit to the city...
Utah Mink Farm Spent 2 Months Marinating in Bird Flu. USDA: 'Not Our Mink.'
For two months, bird flu has torn through a mink farm about an hour from Salt Lake City, and the federal government's contribution to stopping it was telling...
Pentagon Hands Musk the Keys to Space Traffic Control He Spent 2025 Gutting
Elon Musk's Doge fired much of the staff at the government's fledgling space traffic control office in 2025. Now the Space Force has handed Musk's SpaceX the...
Trump Says He and Vance 'Never Talked' About 2028. Vance Is Standing Right There.
A day after JD Vance suggested Donald Trump would endorse him for president, a reporter asked Trump about it while Vance stood right behind him in the Oval...
Google Razed 250,000 Trees Before Asking Finland's Permission
Google allegedly leveled an estimated 250,000 trees across 816 acres of Finnish woodland to build an AI data center, and it did so before getting the legally...
Supreme Court Takes Up Whether You Can Legally Make Moonshine in Your Dining Room
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the federal government can send you to prison for five years for turning your dining room into a distillery. The...
DOJ Is 0-for-26 on Voter Roll Suits, So It's Threatening Election Clerks
The Justice Department has filed 31 lawsuits demanding state voter rolls, lost 26 of them, and won exactly none. So naturally, with ballots already coming back...
Rubio Tweets Cubans a 'Discrete Partnership With the CIA'
Marco Rubio, the sitting US secretary of state, publicly invited Cubans to seize this moment through a "discrete [sic] partnership with the CIA." He posted it...
Sam Altman Says We Can't Patch Our Way Out of the AI Hacking Crisis He Helped Build
Sam Altman, the man who spent years sprinting toward the AI cliff edge with a smile, has looked over the side and announced that the drop is bigger than anyone...
Top Democrats War-Game Trump Seizing Ballots Over Fake Spy Claims
The top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees are asking the CIA director and the Director of National Intelligence to keep their phones on...
Rashida Tlaib Said She'd Impeach 'the Motherfucker.' Now She Says Not So Fast.
In 2019, Rep. Rashida Tlaib stood in front of a crowd and promised to impeach "the motherfucker." In October 2026, the loudest impeachment voices in the House...
Scientists Set Coconut Oil on Fire in a Jet Engine, Oddly Good News
Chemists in Japan took leftover coconut fruit, mixed it with acetone and alcohol, poured the result into a micro jet engine, and lit it up. It worked. In some...
Banks Are Planning for the 'Day After' an AI Catastrophe. Cool Cool Cool.
The people who hold your mortgage, your savings, and your retirement account are now quietly drawing up plans for what happens the morning after an AI...
Quest Diagnostics Got Hacked and Has No Idea How Many Patients Got Burned
Quest Diagnostics, the company that handles lab work for roughly half of American physicians and hospitals, just told the public that someone broke into one of...
Pittsburgh Nurses Won 12 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave in 5 Months
Five months ago, a group of nurses in Pittsburgh decided the richest country in human history could manage to let new parents stay home with their babies...
Nazi-Adjacent German Party Begged Trump to Fix a UN Clause Written to Stop Nazis
Germany's far-right AfD spent a decade quietly begging for Donald Trump's attention, and a leak of more than 420,000 emails now shows exactly how desperate it...
Meghan Says 2018 Letter About Her Dad Is Why She Cut Him Off
Meghan Markle says a letter sent to London's Metropolitan Police eight years ago made "troubling and disturbing allegations" against her father, and that the...
Airfares Hit an All-Time High for the 10th Straight Month. Enjoy Your Peanuts.
Airfares rose 22% year over year in September, the tenth straight monthly increase in the government's airfare price index, which landed at an all-time high....
US and Israel Plan to Bomb Iran After Voters Can't React to It
The United States and Israel are drawing up plans to attack Iran in early November, after American voters have finished voting and after Israelis have finished...
Tom Skerritt Dies at 93, Having Been Every Dad and Cop You Trusted
Tom Skerritt died Wednesday of natural causes at 93, which is a better exit than he got in Alien, where he was dragged into a duct and removed from the movie...
Dad Abused Teen on Flight With Wife and 4 Kids Next to Him
A 48-year-old father from Newton, Massachusetts, sexually abused a 17-year-old girl on a crowded JetBlue flight while his wife and four children were on the...
Hegseth's Aides Skipped the Movers, Dropped Eisenhower's D-Day Globe, Impaled Antarctica
A 30-inch globe that Dwight Eisenhower reportedly used to plot the D-Day landings is now in pieces, because Pete Hegseth's aides decided they didn't need...
Young Voters Are Showing Up in November Mostly to Fire Trump
Nine percent. That is the share of Americans under 30 who say the country is headed in the right direction, the lowest number in the history of the Harvard...
Trump's Big Gas Price Fix Is 14 Hours of Russian Diesel and a $60 Discount
With fewer than two weeks until the midterms, Donald Trump has unveiled his plan to fix gas prices: let Russia sell the US 14 hours' worth of diesel, hand out...
Minnesota Republicans Haven't Won Statewide Since 2006. Now Michele Tafoya Is Within Four Points.
Minnesota has not elected a Republican to statewide office since 2006, back when the iPhone was a rumor and "Mike Lindell" was a guy selling pillows instead of...
Oil Buffer Is Gone, War Isn't, and Your Fed Is Out of Excuses
Traders have quietly changed their minds about how long oil is going to stay expensive, and the answer is bad news for anyone who buys groceries, drives a car,...
Trump's Envoy Calls Putin 'a Humanitarian.' Tillis Replies: 'WTF, Steve?'
Steve Witkoff, the man Donald Trump sent to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, stood in St. Petersburg this week and called Vladimir Putin "a...
Epstein's Lawyer and Accountant Pulled $26M Before His Death. Now They Want Executor Fees.
Jeffrey Epstein's longtime attorney and accountant, the two men who now run his estate, are being sued by the state of New Mexico for allegedly helping to...
Trump Promised Cheap Gas and Got a $2.2 Billion Year Instead
Donald Trump raked in $2.2 billion in 2025, and a new poll finds that 34% of Republicans think he is using the presidency to make himself rich. The gas he...
Vance Tells Republicans to 'Stop Whining' About Rape Victim Ad
Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign put a woman on television to call her own daughter a liar, a daughter who says that woman's husband raped her when she was 12. Then...
Pennsylvania's Top Election Official Got Threats for Counting Votes Correctly. Now He Preps for Round Two.
In 2020, Al Schmidt counted ballots in Philadelphia, did his job honestly, and got rewarded with a presidential insult campaign that put his safety at risk....
U.S. Is Now the Only Major Economy Whose Pollution Is Spiking
The world's emissions held flat last year. The United States, in a feat of bold national individualism, decided to go the other way. A new United Nations...
DOJ's 'Likely Noncitizen' List Has Voters Who Say They Were Born Here
The Department of Justice wants California to quarantine the ballots of 20,000 people it calls "likely" noncitizens. Then Los Angeles County checked a sample...
Elon Musk Throttled Ukraine's Drone Internet, Then Said It Wasn't Him
A private citizen with a rocket company reportedly flipped a switch on Oct. 14 that kept Ukrainian drones from connecting if they flew faster than 100 mph,...
Bloomberg Drops $80M on Democrats While Trump Moves $400M Around
Michael Bloomberg is spending $80 million to help Democrats win the House, which sounds like a lot until you learn that Donald Trump says he's putting $400...
Vivek Ramaswamy Ran an Ad Starring the Mother Who Stayed Married to Her Daughter's Abuser
Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign for Ohio governor has released an attack ad starring the mother of his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton, who says Acton's tale of...
Jesse Eisenberg Says One Razzie Wrecked His Movie Career, Took Up Directing, Got an Oscar Nod
Jesse Eisenberg says a Razzie for playing Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman terrified him so badly he started writing and directing movies just to stay employed....
AI Is Eating All the Money, the Fed Is Hiking Rates, and Housing Is the Lunch
Two giant forces are reshaping the American economy right now, and the housing market is standing directly between them like a guy trying to cross the highway...
Rogan and the Bro Podcasters Are Losing the Young Men They Delivered for Trump
The podcasters and online personalities who helped haul young men into Donald Trump's column in 2024 are reportedly losing their shine with the very audience...
Two Wars and a Weather Pattern Are Coming for Your Dinner
The world's farmers are getting hit from every direction at once, and a new report says it could spiral into a genuine food crisis. The Iran war and the...
Flock Misuse Probe Uncovers Charlotte Cops' Alleged 'Klan Rally' Texts. One Was Employee of the Month.
Five Charlotte police officers resigned after allegedly trading racist texts, one of which reportedly likened the group to a "clan rally." A sixth is...
Rubio Calls Zelensky for 45 Minutes to Say Trump Isn't Out to Get Him
Secretary of State Marco Rubio got on the phone with Ukraine's president for 45 minutes on Tuesday to personally assure him that Donald Trump has not ordered...
A 9-Year-Old Burned Over 70% of His Body Doing a Viral 'Fire Challenge'
A nine-year-old boy in New Orleans is fighting through what officials call "unbearable pain" after burning more than 70% of his body in a viral social media...
Most White Evangelicals Say Empathy Is Dangerous. Jesus Disagreed.
White evangelical Protestants are the only major religious group in America where a majority says empathy can become dangerous when it pulls people away from a...
Trump Calls US 'The Hottest Country' as Middle-Class Families Lose $1,700 Each
Donald Trump keeps telling voters, "We have the hottest country anywhere in the world." A BBC Verify fact-check ahead of the midterms found that the average...
Saudi Prince Wired Billions to Trump Family Firms, Got a Shrug in Return
Mohammed bin Salman spent years stuffing billions into Jared Kushner's private equity firm and the Trump Organization, signed a deal for dozens of F-35s, and...
Trump Cut a Diesel Deal With Putin, Then Called Ukraine's Drone Strikes a 'Disgrace'
Ukraine just launched what appears to be its biggest drone attack on Saint Petersburg since Russia invaded in 2022, and the American president's reaction is to...
Abdul El-Sayed Is Hunting Democratic Votes in the Upper Peninsula, Where Democrats Go to Die
Michigan's Democratic Senate candidate just drove into the Upper Peninsula, a region that has not sent a Democrat to Congress in over a decade, to ask for...
Trump Endorses Netanyahu, Threatens Iran War Unless Bibi Wins
Eight days before Israelis vote, President Trump endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu and attached a condition: if Israel elects anyone else, America might not finish...