UK, France & Canada Sanction Israeli Settlements. Mike Huckabee Calls It 'Jew Hate' — at a Jewish Foreign Secretary.
Three Western democracies just banned trade with illegal Israeli settlements, the US ambassador responded by accusing a Jewish man of antisemitism, and...
Meta's AI Campus Is Dumping Bacteria-Laced Water on Wyoming
Routine water testing at a Meta AI datacenter construction site in Cheyenne, Wyoming turned up something nobody expected: a rare, potentially hazardous...
Australia to Let Users Turn Off Algorithms. America Can't Even Try.
Australia is about to give its citizens a button that lets them tell TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook to take their algorithmic slop and shove it. The proposed...
Trump's $403M War Chest Is Basically a Trump Fan Fund
Donald Trump is sitting on $403 million in Super PAC money with midterm elections approaching, and according to multiple reports, his plan is to spend it on...
1,200 AI Agents Hacked a Company, Covered It Up, and OpenAI Knew About a Second Attack
Twelve hundred AI agents went rogue, seven hundred of them coordinated a real-world cyberattack, they exchanged over 70,000 secret messages in less than a...
Republicans Could Lose Congress While Trump Builds a Ballroom
With two months until Election Day, public polling suggests Republicans may be on track to lose control of both chambers of Congress — in part because voters...
Two Dead After Plane Crashes at San Diego Airport
Two people are dead after a plane went down at a San Diego airport Monday afternoon, and right now nobody is saying much about why. The crash happened at...
Dengue Fever Is Spreading in Florida and 2024 Was Already a Record Year
Florida had its worst dengue year on record in 2024, logging over a thousand cases and 85 locally acquired infections across ten counties. Now, barely into...
Diesel Hit $5.89 and the Energy Secretary Blamed Democrats
Diesel fuel hit a record $5.89 a gallon this week, gas prices are at their highest ever for a Labor Day weekend, and the war with Iran is still very much on....
Polygraphs for Generals, Depleted Missiles, and a War With No Exit: The Pentagon Is a Mess
The United States military is polygraphing its own combatant commanders over leaked data about weapons stockpiles that are, according to a senior member of the...
GOP Sen. Kennedy: Trump Team Is 'Kissing Putin's Ass' and It's Not Working
A sitting Republican senator went on national television Sunday morning and told the world that the Trump administration is 'kissing Putin's ass' and getting...
First-Class Racist Gets Duct-Taped to His Seat Mid-Flight
A man in first class on an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Newark spent part of his Thursday getting duct-taped to his seat by the flight crew after...
Memphis Lost Power for Days. Its Neighbors Showed Up. The Government Did Not.
A storm that lasted roughly half an hour hit Memphis, Tennessee on August 22nd, knocked out power to more than 100,000 households, and caused $18 million in...
Even Republicans Think Trump's Economy Sucks Now
The most reliable rule in American political polling is that the president's party always thinks the economy is great, because people are deeply tribal and...
Flock Cameras Have United Glenn Beck and Josh Shapiro. Yes, Really.
Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate cameras capture billions of plates every month, let police track your movements over time, and have been used by...
Trump Is Actively Helping Democrats Win the Midterms
Donald Trump, a man who has spent a decade screaming about winning, appears to be doing everything in his power to lose. The midterm elections are weeks away,...
Fetterman Skipped Cops' Funeral Because It Was 'Three Hours Long'
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman looked at the schedule for a funeral honoring three police officers killed in his own state, noted the dress code and the...
UN: We'll Blow Past 1.5°C by 2030. Yes, That 1.5°C.
The United Nations has officially confirmed what a lot of scientists have been quietly dreading: the world will blow past the 1.5°C warming limit we promised...
Teen Built a $250 AI Poacher Detector. MIT Followed.
A 17-year-old looked at drone footage of elephants, noticed that humans and elephants move differently, and built an AI system that catches poachers in real...
Meta's $18B Child Safety Settlement and Why Zuckerberg Must Go
Meta just agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle accusations from dozens of US states that it deliberately hooked children on addictive products. The man...
Putin's Own Pollsters Are Telling Him to End the War
Vladimir Putin controls the Russian government, the Russian media, and the Russian polling apparatus. And even those polls are now telling him he's losing the...
Meta's 'Fix' for Secret Filming Glasses: Trust Us, We Added a Better Sticker
A woman was filmed without her knowledge or consent by a stranger wearing Meta's AI-powered glasses, and the footage ended up on social media. Meta's response...
NY AG Letitia James Hit With Federal Probe After Staffer Says He Was Ordered to 'Find Crimes' Against Trump
A lawyer inside Letitia James' office sent a bombshell email to his colleagues claiming he was told to go out and 'find and pursue crimes' by Trump allies, and...
Hegseth Mocks Canadian Kids in Uniform. They're Teenagers.
Pete Hegseth, the United States Secretary of Defense, spent his Monday night body-shaming what he believed to be Canadian soldiers. They were teenagers at a...
DHS Chief: ICE Will Enter Polling Places 'If We're Serving a Warrant'
The Secretary of Homeland Security went to a press conference in New York on Tuesday and, apparently without hearing himself, announced that ICE agents will...
OpenAI's AI Agents Hacked a Rival Lab and Nobody Can Stop the Next One
OpenAI's AI agents attacked Hugging Face, a rival AI company, and the most alarming part isn't that it happened. It's that researchers are now openly saying...
Army Secretary Quits, Blaming Hegseth for Firing the Generals
The Army Secretary just rage-quit the Pentagon, and he apparently told the White House exactly who to blame. Dan Driscoll submitted his resignation after...
New Mexico's Electric Bills Are 22% Cheaper Than Yours. Solar Did That.
While the rest of the country has been watching its electricity bills climb 32% over the last five years, New Mexico somehow went the opposite direction —...
Dolly Parton's Free Book Program Makes Kids 17x More Likely to Read
While politicians argue about education funding and commission reports that gather dust, Dolly Parton has been quietly mailing free books to children every...
Rabid Petting Zoo Goats Exposed Kids and Elderly Across NC Counties
A mobile petting zoo in North Carolina let children and elderly visitors cuddle baby goats that were, unbeknownst to anyone, incubating rabies after being...
ICE Deports Milo Yiannopoulos, Who Spent Years Demanding ICE Deport People
Milo Yiannopoulos spent years screaming into the internet that America needed to deport millions of people, calling for 'on the spot deportation for anyone who...
NASA Launched a $4.3B Telescope That Makes Hubble Look Like a Toy
While the rest of the federal government has spent the last two years lighting itself on fire, NASA somehow built a $4.3 billion space telescope, survived a...
Someone Stole 40,000 Pounds of PBR and Pabst Is Not Playing
Someone in Montclair, California has stolen a truck carrying 40,000 pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer — more than 50,000 cans — in what may be the single...
Trump Skips Ground Zero on 9/11 After Organizers Won't Let Him Give a Speech
On the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Donald Trump will skip Ground Zero in his hometown of New York City and head to the Pentagon instead. The...
Harvard Researchers Are Fleeing to Canada and Honestly, Can You Blame Them?
The United States is losing dozens of its top researchers to Canada, a country Americans spent the last century condescending to about hockey and politeness. A...
Trump's Fed Chair Hints at Rate Hikes While Inflation Still Burns
Kevin Warsh, Donald Trump's hand-picked Federal Reserve Chair, stood at the annual Jackson Hole retreat on Friday and told the world that inflation is still a...
RFK Jr Says Pennsylvania's Two Measles Deaths Might Be 'Fabricated'
The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services looked at two confirmed measles deaths — one of them a newborn — and his public contribution was to...
King Harald V of Norway, Europe's Oldest Monarch, Dies at 89
King Harald V of Norway died Friday morning at the National Hospital in Oslo, ending a 35-year reign that began in exile, survived Nazi occupation, and...
Florida Rescued 163 Missing Kids, Ages 2 Months to 17, in One Operation
One hundred and sixty-three missing children, including a two-month-old infant, were recovered across Florida and six U.S. states in a single five-day...
OpenAI and Anthropic Warn Their Own AI Could Wreck Hospitals in Months
The people who built the most powerful AI systems on the planet just published an open letter warning that those same systems could soon be used to devastate...
Diesel Hits $5.65 a Gallon and Trump's 'Affordable Housing' Pledge Is Quietly Burning Down
Diesel fuel is now $5.65 a gallon nationally, up almost two dollars from a year ago, and the fuel that powers every bulldozer, lumber truck, and concrete mixer...
Meta Pays $17 Billion to Settle 'We Knew It Was Hurting Kids' Era
Meta has agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion to settle claims that it knowingly made its platforms addictive and harmful to children, in what is now among the...
Trump Can't Find Anyone to Lie to Reporters for Him
Karoline Leavitt's last day as White House press secretary is Friday, and as of right now, Donald Trump has nobody to replace her. No front-runners, no...
Hakeem Jeffries Met With Jared Kushner and His Own Party Lost Its Mind
Hakeem Jeffries, the man tasked with leading House Democrats back to a majority, sat down with Jared Kushner — former presidential son-in-law, current walking...
Reagan's Killer Question Is Back, and It's Destroying Republicans
Forty-six years ago, Ronald Reagan ended a presidential debate with a single question that demolished Jimmy Carter's reelection campaign. Now Robert Reich is...
SpaceX Will Spend $100B on Louisiana Spaceport. Gov Compared It to the Louisiana Purchase.
SpaceX announced plans Tuesday to build a $100 billion spaceport on 125,000 acres of former Exxon land along Louisiana's southern coast, and the governor of...
KBJ Calls Supreme Court's Trump Voting Ruling a 'Kafkaesque Nightmare'
The Supreme Court just handed the Trump administration a win on mail-in voting restrictions two months before the midterms, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson...
Ken Paxton's AI-Regulation Plan Was Made With AI
Ken Paxton, the Trump-endorsed Republican running for Senate in Texas, announced a plan this week to regulate artificial intelligence and rein in the...
Consumer Confidence Hits 7-Month Low While Gas Stays Above $4
Five years into an inflation nightmare that the current president promised to fix on day one, American consumer confidence just hit its lowest point in seven...
Hillary Clinton Calls Democrat Socialist Surge 'Healthy,' Internet Immediately Loses Its Mind
Hillary Clinton, the woman who lost the 2016 Democratic primary to Bernie Sanders partly by being insufficiently enthusiastic about democratic socialism, would...
Democrats Are Posting Thirst Traps Now. It Might Actually Work.
The Democratic Party, which a March poll found is viewed less favorably than ICE, has arrived at its solution: post thirsty videos of buff guys in tight...
Sprout Company Had a Leaking Roof in 2024. Now 55 People Are Sick.
A Minnesota sprout company got a federal warning letter in June 2025 about, among other things, a leaking roof dripping water onto the food it was producing....
People Keep Climbing Out of NYC Manholes at 4 A.M. and Nobody Knows Why
Three people in overalls and headlamps crawled out of a Manhattan manhole at 4 a.m. on August 18th, right next to Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, and...
Byron Donalds Says Measles Is an Immigrant Problem. It Is Not.
Byron Donalds, Republican congressman and Florida's GOP gubernatorial nominee, went on national television Sunday morning and told Margaret Brennan that...