Rubio Sanctions ICC's President and a Lawyer for Daring to Exist
The United States government has now sanctioned the president of the International Criminal Court, a Japanese jurist named Tomoko Akane, along with a senior...
Even Zoomers Are Over AI Now: 55% of Under-30s Say They're Scared, Not Stoked
The generation that grew up terminally online, that learned to code before they learned to drive, that treated tech CEOs like rock stars — yeah, they're done....
DOJ Rigged Ivy League Antisemitism Probes, Whistleblower Says
The Department of Justice launched antisemitism investigations into Ivy League universities with the outcomes already decided, according to a new whistleblower...
Study: Companies That Kept DEI Paid Zero Financial Price for It
Companies that told Trump to take his anti-DEI executive order and shove it financially did just as well as the ones that panicked and started dismantling...
Florida Has Executed 13 People This Year and Ron DeSantis Isn't Done
Florida executed its 13th prisoner of the year on Tuesday, which means one state is responsible for more than half of every execution carried out in the United...
America Now Spends More on Debt Interest Than Guns
The United States is now spending more money paying interest on its debt than it spends on its entire military. Annualized interest costs have hit $1.2...
Jill Stein No-Showed Her Assault Trial and Now Has a Warrant
Jill Stein, who spent much of 2024 telling voters she was the only honest alternative to a broken system, apparently decided the court system didn't apply to...
Trump's Border Wall Crew Pauses Big Bend Bulldozing After Even Republicans Complained
The Trump administration has temporarily paused border construction inside Big Bend National Park after bulldozers were spotted ripping through one of the most...
Trump Threatened to 'Bomb the Shit' Out of Oman
The President of the United States threatened, on Monday, to 'bomb the shit' out of Oman. That sentence is real. It happened. And now Congressional Democrats...
DOJ Now Letting Felons Apply to Get Their Guns Back
Attorney General Todd Blanche has officially created a federal process allowing people who are legally barred from owning guns to apply to get those rights...
Trump Is Taxing Hockey Sticks Now, Using a Law From 1930
The United States is about to tax Canadian hockey sticks, plywood, wine, and dairy using a 96-year-old law that no president has ever touched before. Talks...
California May Let Kids Sue TikTok for Making Them Addicted to TikTok
California is about to make it illegal to algorithmically addict a child, and then let that child's parents take the company to court over it. Two bills...
Trump Said USS Lincoln Hasn't Been Deployed 'Nearly Long Enough.' Sailors Are Running Out of Soap.
The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for nearly nine months, its sailors running short on food, hygiene products, and mental health support, while their...
Trump Guts South Korea War Games as a Gift to Kim Jong Un
Donald Trump announced Sunday that he is ordering the Pentagon to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea because, in his own words, North Korea...
Minneapolis Mayor Dances at Black Business Fair, Fox News Has a Meltdown
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey attended a celebration of Black-owned businesses last week, danced a little, and conservative media spent the next several days...
Taxi Drivers Rarely Die of Alzheimer's. Your GPS Is Killing Your Brain.
Out of 443 occupations studied across nearly 9 million death certificates, taxi and ambulance drivers came in dead last for Alzheimer's risk. Not doctors. Not...
NYC Council Freaks Out Over Housing Pick Who Called Them 'Cartels'
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has nominated a housing official who once called wealthy homeowners blocking new development "cartels" to chair a powerful...
Trump's AG Refuses to Promise DOJ Will Act Independently of Trump
The Attorney General of the United States went on national television Sunday and refused to promise that the Justice Department would act independently of...
GOP Rep. Bacon Breaks With Trump: Tariffs Are a Tax, $4 Gas Isn't Fine
On a Sunday morning political show, a Republican congressman from Nebraska publicly told his own president that tariffs are a consumer tax and that bragging...
Andy Beshear Calls for Abolishing the Electoral College and Term Limits for SCOTUS
Kentucky's Democratic governor went on national television Sunday morning and casually announced he wants to abolish the Electoral College, impose term limits...
Alaska Woman Fights Off Brown Bear Mid-Run With Bear Spray
A woman went for a solo trail run in Anchorage this week and came back in an ambulance, which is honestly still a better outcome than it sounds. She survived a...
Hurricane Lala Could Be First Storm to Hit Big Island in 155 Years
The last time a hurricane made landfall on Hawaii's Big Island, Abraham Lincoln was still alive. According to the New York Post, that 155-year streak is now...
Kate Douglass Swims 23.49, Breaks Her Own World Record Before Lunch
Kate Douglass showed up to a preliminary heat at the Pan Pacific Championships on Saturday and, apparently not content to just qualify like a normal person,...
1.6M Dozen Eggs Recalled as Salmonella Hits 98 People in 17 States
Nearly 1.6 million dozen eggs have been slapped with the FDA's highest-risk recall classification, meaning the agency believes eating them carries 'a...
USDA Chief Pulled Fire Planes From Other Blazes to Protect His Ranch
The man who runs the US Forest Service reportedly spent July on the phone pressuring agency officials to send nine aircraft, including air tankers and...
Consumer Confidence Just Fell Off a Cliff Again
Americans were briefly feeling slightly less terrible about the economy. Then August arrived. The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index dropped 8%...
Wages Can't Beat Inflation Again, Gas Is Up 25%, and the Debt Just Hit $40 Trillion
The federal government is barreling toward a $40 trillion debt load, gasoline costs 25% more than it did a year ago, and American workers just lost the...
A Man in a Trash Can Just Got 27% Against Nigel Farage
A man who wears a garbage can on his head and whose campaign platform includes nationalizing Adele just received 9,455 votes in a British parliamentary...
Julianne Hough Went to Sardinia and Had a Whole Reckoning About Hustle Culture
Julianne Hough went to Sardinia for a girls trip, posted the requisite bikini photos, and then had a surprisingly candid public breakdown about whether she has...
Kushner, Tony Blair, and a Guy Named Mladenov Walk Into Gaza
Jared Kushner, the man who once promised to solve the Middle East in his spare time between real estate deals, is boarding a plane to the region again. This...
Surveillance CEO Sorry Cops Used His 120,000 Cameras to Stalk Women
A company that built a network of 120,000 license plate cameras across America and sold access to police departments is very sorry that some of those police...
OpenAI's Revenue Chief Quits Ahead of IPO. So Did the Last Guy. And Three Before That.
OpenAI's Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser is leaving the company she joined less than a year ago, the New York Post reports, making her the second senior...
USS Lincoln Sailors Are Jumping Overboard. The Navy Says Morale Is Fine.
The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for over 200 consecutive days, breaking records nobody wanted to break. Sailors are allegedly attempting to jump...
Clinton's Nuclear Football Carrier: Air Force One Leaker Was 'Highly Placed'
The man who literally carried the nuclear football for Bill Clinton is praising Trump's Ankara decoy operation as "brilliant" — and then immediately warning...
Kennedy Center Board Defies Federal Judge, Slaps Trump's Name Back On
A federal judge said no. Congress never said yes. So the Kennedy Center board just went ahead and did it anyway. On Thursday, the board voted to slap Donald...
Flock Safety Cuts Cop Data Access After Admitting 'Police Abuse Has Been a Problem'
A company that built one of the largest vehicle surveillance networks in American history just admitted the people operating it cannot be trusted to use it...
Trump Made $2.2B From His Presidency in 2025 While His Crypto Investors Lost $3.8B
Donald Trump made $2.2 billion in personal revenue during his second presidential term's first year, according to financial disclosures reviewed by the...
Fox Poll: Maine Voters More Scared of Collins+Trump Than Jackson Being Too Left
Susan Collins has survived everything Maine politics could throw at her for nearly three decades, but a new Fox News poll out Wednesday suggests her biggest...
Rob Reiner's Son Indicted for Stabbing Both Parents to Death in Brentwood
Nick Reiner, 32, stood in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to stabbing his father, director Rob Reiner, and his mother, Michele Reiner,...
Luigi Mangione Plea Deal Rumors Heat Up Days Before Murder Trial
With his New York murder trial three weeks away, Luigi Mangione's legal team and federal prosecutors just filed a surprise joint request for a hearing in...
The Sky Is Doing Something Incredible This Week and You Have No Excuse
The universe is putting on a double feature this week and it is free, it requires no subscription, and it will not ask for your data. The Perseid meteor shower...
AI Hackers Are Coming. Corporate Security Chiefs Are Just... Standing There.
The people whose entire job is to protect your data from hackers have bigger budgets than ever, a ticking clock, and a clear and present threat. They have...
$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...
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...