$905M Powerball Jackpot Drawn With No Winner in Sight
Monday night, someone theoretically could have won $905 million. The odds were 1 in 292,201,338. Nobody has won since May. The numbers were 6, 37, 54, 55, 64,...
A Toddler Just Cancelled a Flight for 100+ People and We Have Questions
A Porter Airlines flight from Victoria to Toronto was cancelled on August 6th because a small child refused to sit down and buckle up, and the plane missed its...
Trump Hid in a Catering Cart to Sneak Off Air Force One During Iran Threat
The President of the United States hid inside an airport catering truck to sneak off Air Force One during a NATO summit in Turkey last month, while journalists...
Judge Blocks Mamdani's Tax on $5M Second Homes After Rich Homeowners Cry Foul
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani tried to make wealthy absentee homeowners pay their way, and a state judge just told him to pump the brakes. A temporary...
Trump's Social Media Company Lost $238M While Selling Wall Street Early Access to His Posts
Donald Trump's media company lost $238 million in a single quarter — more than ten times its loss from the same period last year — and its big new revenue idea...
Lauren Boebert's Son Arrested for Filming Sex With a 17-Year-Old
Tyler Boebert, the 21-year-old son of Rep. Lauren Boebert, was arrested Sunday on charges of sexually exploiting a child after allegedly recording himself...
Noah Wyle Walks Out on Agency That Forgot to Tell Him His Agent Left
Noah Wyle, current Emmy darling and star of HBO Max's "The Pitt," just fired his talent agency. The reason? They forgot to tell him his own agent had quit. In...
Trump Just Quietly Gutted the Childhood Vaccine Schedule
On Monday, Donald Trump signed an executive order cutting the recommended childhood vaccine schedule from 18 diseases down to 11, ending COVID vaccine...
Gold Just Lost $1,000 an Ounce. Here's Why Your Portfolio Is Sweating.
Gold, the investment that's supposed to be your financial panic room, is currently sitting more than $1,000 below its January 2026 peak. As of this month, you...
Bernie Sanders Threatens to Regulate AI Out of Existence If Zuckerberg, Altman, and Amodei Won't Stop It Themselves
An 84-year-old democratic socialist from Vermont is currently the most credible threat to the trillion-dollar AI industry, and that sentence should tell you...
Zuckerberg Launches AI Model, Begs Washington to Help Him Beat China
Mark Zuckerberg published something he called a manifesto on Monday, dropped two new AI models, and asked the US government to please stop making it hard for...
Tupac's Murder Trial Starts Monday, 30 Years Later
Thirty years. That is how long it took to get someone into a courtroom for the murder of Tupac Shakur. On Monday, the trial of Duane Davis, known as "Keefe D,"...
AOC Freezes Her Eggs, Conservatives Immediately Lose Theirs
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced Saturday that she is freezing her eggs, sharing the deeply personal process on Instagram to open up a broader conversation...
Netanyahu Torches Trump's Gaza Peace Plan in Cabinet Meeting
Benjamin Netanyahu walked into a Cabinet meeting Sunday and publicly torched the Gaza peace plan that Donald Trump has been bragging about for months. The same...
Astronaut Mark Kelly Gets Drafted for 2028 by Group Tired of Anti-Science Government
A liberal organization that exists specifically to get scientists into elected office has decided that the antidote to RFK Jr. running public health policy...
Accused of Abuse, Ohio Rep. Max Miller Misses His Own Exit Ramp
Ohio Congressman Max Miller, facing domestic abuse allegations from his ex-wife and a public resignation demand from his own father-in-law, had one job: decide...
Apple Is Testing Chinese Memory Chips for iPhones as Tim Cook Quietly Hedges His Bets
Apple, the company that spent years loudly diversifying away from China, is now apparently testing memory chips from China's largest chipmaker for use in...
Lake Mead Hits Lowest Level in 90 Years and It's Still Dropping
Lake Mead just hit the lowest water level recorded since the reservoir was filled roughly ninety years ago. Not a seasonal dip. Not a bad month. The lowest...
Cassidy Admits IRS Shield for Trump Family Is 'Totally Wrong,' Then Votes Yes Anyway
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy went on national television Sunday morning, looked into the camera, and said that giving Donald Trump's family special...
AOC Won't Rule Out 2028 Run — or Primarying Schumer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on ABC Sunday and declined to rule out either running for president in 2028 or kneecapping her own Senate colleague Chuck Schumer...
Leprosy Is Making a Comeback in Florida and Armadillos Are Suspects
Florida has given us hurricanes, election chaos, and Guy Fieri. Now it's giving us leprosy. State health data shows 17 active cases so far this year, on the...
Britney Spears' Botox Left Her Eye Droopy for Four Weeks and She Has Notes
Britney Spears would like you to know that her Botox doctor messed up her left eye so badly that it drooped for four full weeks, and she went on Instagram to...
Solar Eclipse Next Week: Europe Gets Totality, America Gets 4%
On Wednesday, August 12, people in Spain will witness the first total solar eclipse visible from the country's mainland in 121 years. Americans in Washington,...
Courts to Trump: You Can't Just Demolish the White House for a Ballroom
In October 2025, Donald Trump demolished a 120-year-old wing of the White House to make room for a $400 million ballroom. He did not ask Congress. He did not...
Puerto Rico Has Lost Water 118 Days This Year. Now It's Rationing.
San Juan just endured its driest July in over 120 years, and as of Friday, more than 180,000 households and businesses in Puerto Rico are now on a mandatory...
Phil Mickelson MIA at Trump's Golf Club While LIV Scrambles to Survive
Phil Mickelson, the six-time major winner who helped build LIV Golf into a thing that exists, was nowhere to be found this week as the league played its New...
Two Women and a 9-Year-Old Lost on Michigan River for Days Found Safe
For more than two days, two 28-year-old women and a 9-year-old child were somewhere on or near the Muskegon River in Michigan, and nobody knew where. A broken...
16-Year-Old Lifeguard Who Saved Drowning Boy Gets Baywatch Jacket from Stephen Amell
A 16-year-old rookie lifeguard pulls a drowning child from a pounding California surf, and the world apparently decides this is the wholesome story it...
Texas Moms Sue Over Ten Commandments in Schools Using the Parental Rights Law Republicans Passed
Three Texas mothers have filed a state lawsuit against the law requiring Ten Commandments posters in every public school classroom, and they're using the...
Skip Cigarettes, Control Your Blood Pressure, Keep Your Brain for 13 Extra Years
A massive 26-year study just handed us about the most actionable piece of medical news in recent memory, and it has nothing to do with a miracle drug or a...
Jobs Report Looks Fine Until You Look At It
The July jobs report landed Friday and the headline number wasn't a catastrophe, which is the new bar we're apparently measuring success against. But Axios...
Economy Lost 23,000 Jobs in July While Experts Expected to Gain 83,000
The U.S. economy shed 23,000 jobs in July. Economists had forecast a gain of 83,000. That is not a miss. That is a different planet entirely. And it landed on...
Trump Calls Hegseth 'One of My Best' While His Own Allies Say He Can't Run a War
With the United States six months into an unpopular war with Iran, Donald Trump rang up NBC News to personally vouch for the man running the Pentagon. "I think...
FCC Just Killed the Rule Stopping One Company From Owning Your Entire Local News
The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to eliminate the rule that stopped any single company from owning TV stations reaching more than 39% of...
Meta Hit With $567M Judgment for Knowingly Wrecking Kids' Brains
A New Mexico court just handed Meta a $567 million bill for what jurors already decided in March: the company knowingly damaged children's mental health and...
Trump's Endorsement Loses in Tennessee as Ogles Gets Booted
Tennessee Republicans looked at their Trump-endorsed congressman and said, politely but firmly, no thanks. Rep. Andy Ogles, a second-term MAGA loyalist, lost...
Netflix Locked a Guy in a Billboard for 3 Days to Sell You a Movie
Netflix took a man, put him inside a fake house bolted to a billboard thirty feet above Sunset Boulevard, and left him there for three days. This is a real...
FAA Orders Inspections of 1,900 Boeing 737 Max Jets for Cracks
Boeing's latest gift to the flying public: cracks. Specifically, cracks in the structural reinforcement around the forward service door of some of its planes,...
Tennessee Gerrymandered Its One Blue Seat Out of Existence, Then Dared Democrats to Win It Back
Tennessee Republicans redrew their congressional map, carved Memphis into three separate Republican-leaning districts, forced the state's only Democratic...
Capybaras Keep Crashing Brazil's Legislature and Honestly Same
Two enormous, completely unbothered capybaras waddled through the doors of a Brazilian state legislature last week and interrupted an active voting session,...
A Flesh-Eating Fungus Is in 27 States and Kills Up to 60% of Its Victims
There is a drug-resistant fungus spreading through American hospitals and nursing homes right now, it has shown up in 27 states, and depending on which study...
Coco Gauff Calls Out People Using Trans Athletes as an Excuse to Just Be Cruel
Coco Gauff stood in front of reporters at a tennis tournament this week and did something almost no prominent athlete is willing to do right now: she told the...
Trump's Own Park Service Says His Vanity Arch Wrecks 37 Historic Sites
Donald Trump wants to stick a 250-foot arch between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, and this week his own National Park Service told him...
Trump Calls Weapons Stockpile Reporting 'Treasonous' While America Fights Iran
The United States is actively fighting a war with Iran, the country's weapons stockpile is apparently a problem serious enough for the President to lose his...
GAO Confirms DOGE's $110B 'Savings' Were Mostly Made Up
The Department of Government Efficiency, the federal agency literally named after not wasting money, spent a year and a half posting fake savings to social...
Congress Is About to Hand Trump a 100% Tariff Cannon, Bipartisan
Congress, having watched a president spend the better part of two years running legal obstacle courses just to impose tariffs on a whim, has apparently decided...
Spokane Is Burning. Seattle Is Choking. Nobody Knows Who's Next.
Seattle, a city people move to partly because it doesn't feel like it's on fire, is currently buried under wildfire smoke. The source is Spokane, Washington,...
Beef Is Up 12% and Nobody in the Whole Supply Chain Is Making More Money
American beef is 12% more expensive than it was a year ago — more than three times the rate of general inflation — and the BBC spent a week tracing every link...
New CDC Director Inherits Measles Crisis, RFK Jr., and a Vaccine Webpage That Still Lies
The Senate confirmed a new CDC director on Wednesday, and the good news is the agency finally has permanent leadership for the first time in nearly a year. The...
Trump Pocketed $2.2 Billion in Year One. Pulitzer Winners Are Asking How.
Donald Trump made an estimated $2.2 billion during the first year of his second term as President of the United States. That sentence is not from a political...
Trump Ranked Himself Above Genghis Khan — Then Complained His Own Judges Hurt Him
Donald Trump keeps a document asserting he is the most powerful person to ever walk the earth, ranked above Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Stalin, and...
Trump's DOJ Is 0 for 31 in Voter Roll Lawsuits and Still Going
The Trump Justice Department has now sued 30 states plus Washington D.C. to force them to hand over sensitive voter data, and judges appointed by both parties...
SpaceX Drops 8% After Spending 86% of Its Budget on AI Nobody's Sure Works
SpaceX just reported its first public quarterly earnings, beat expectations on revenue, narrowed its losses, and still watched its stock crater 8% in a single...
New Mexico Sues DOJ for Hiding Epstein Ranch Files It Was Legally Required to Hand Over
The Department of Justice was handed a legal deadline, a transparency law signed by Donald Trump himself, and a very explicit warning from the New Mexico...
Detroit Voters Dump Crypto-Losing, Israel-Rebranding Incumbent for 34-Year-Old Democratic Socialist
A two-term incumbent congressman who lost more than $2 million in campaign funds through cryptocurrency investments, used taxpayer money to run what looked...
Snakes, a Lemur, and a Parking Garage on Fire: Maryland Men Charged for Illegal Exotic Animal Photoshoots
Two Baltimore men have been charged with 23 counts each after allegedly hauling a lemur, a spider monkey, and several snakes into a luxury mall's parking...
Progressives Finally Win Something Real: El-Sayed Beats AIPAC's $52M in Michigan
Outside groups dumped $52 million into Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, much of it from AIPAC and its aligned PACs trying to stop a progressive...
Disney Just Handed TikTok the Keys to Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars
Disney, the company that spent decades and billions of dollars building some of the most legally protected intellectual property on earth, has decided to hand...
GOP Rep Gave Staffers Gifts, Dinners, and Vacation Invites. Ethics Panel Called It Harassment.
A sitting Republican congressman showered two young female staffers with lavish gifts, invitations to intimate dinners, vacation offers, notes about his...
America Is Running Out of Missiles Mid-War With Iran
The United States is currently at war with Iran and has burned through most of its long-range precision missiles doing it. NPR has confirmed that PrSMs and...