DOGE Paid $9.5B in Salaries for People to Not Work
The Department of Government Efficiency, which exists to save money, spent $9.5 billion in 2025 paying federal employees to sit at home and do absolutely...
Feds Are Blocking Alzheimer's Research Because the Word 'Gender' Is In It
The federal government has been quietly running NIH research grants through a list of 235 banned keywords — words like 'gender' and 'racist' — and killing the...
Trump Has Cut or Frozen $177bn in Grants Across All 50 States
One hundred and seventy-seven billion dollars. That is the amount in federal grants the Trump administration has cut, frozen, or delayed since taking office —...
Bessent Wants AI Safety Talks With China While Trump Refuses to Slow AI Down
The Trump administration has spent months insisting that slowing down AI development for any reason — safety, regulation, sanity — would hand China a victory....
Kirk Family Sues Over Rooftop Assassination: 'Walked Him Into a Fishbowl'
A year after Charlie Kirk was shot dead from a rooftop during a campus rally, his family is pointing the finger at the university that hosted him, the police...
Trump Threw a Tantrum, Closed the Kennedy Center, and a Judge Blocked His Name Again — All Before Lunch
On Tuesday, a federal judge blocked Donald Trump from putting his name back on the Kennedy Center for the third time, and Trump responded with the kind of...
Inflation Is Back, It's Worse, and Nobody in Power Seems to Care
Gasoline is expensive. Groceries are expensive. Anything that touched a shipping container on its way here is definitely expensive. NPR is asking Americans how...
Your Diet Soda Habit Has a DNA Problem, Scientists Say
A byproduct linked to sucralose, the artificial sweetener in Splenda, broke up DNA in human cells and punched holes in a laboratory model of the human gut...
Trump's DOJ Subpoenas Ex-CIA Chief Brennan in 'Grand Conspiracy' Witch Hunt
The Trump Justice Department has subpoenaed former CIA director John Brennan to testify before a Florida grand jury as part of a sprawling criminal...
Feds Confirm 'Alligator Alcatraz' Kept People in 16-Sq-Ft Cages Called 'Calming Areas'
The Department of Homeland Security's own watchdog has now confirmed that immigrants held at Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention facility were locked in...
Kennedy Center May Close Tuesday Unless It Puts Trump's Name Back On It
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts may shut its doors as early as Tuesday, and the Trump-installed trustees running it have a solution: put Donald...
Oil Hits $108 as Houthis Seize Key Strait and Blow Up Saudi Pipeline
Saudi Arabia has roughly five to seven days of oil export stocks left after drone strikes from Iraqi territory knocked out its east-west pipeline, sending...
Canada Is Trying to Join Europe to Escape Trump
The United States has spent the better part of two years threatening to annex Canada, rename its lakes, and strangle its economy with tariffs. Canada's...
Judge: Kristi Noem Illegally Gutted FEMA, Then Officials Deleted the Proof
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration's plan to slash FEMA's workforce in half is flatly illegal — and then, almost as an afterthought,...
California Kids Are Getting Straight A's. They Can't Do Fractions.
The number of California students applying to the University of California system with a perfect 4.0 GPA or higher has doubled in a decade, jumping from...
70-Year-Old Found Alive After Week Lost on Roadless Island
A 70-year-old man spent seven days alone, injured, and hypothermic in 200 square miles of roadless boreal wilderness on a Lake Superior island, and somehow...
Trump Killed Harris's Secret Service Detail. A Year Later, Someone's On Her Property.
A woman arrived by Uber at Kamala Harris's $8.1 million Malibu home on Friday night, walked onto the property uninvited, was turned away, and then came back a...
Trump Called Bike Lanes 'DEI.' No, Really. That's the Policy Now.
The Trump administration has decided that bike lanes are a form of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is freezing or canceling federal grants to prove it....
Star Trek Turns 60 With No New Trek In Sight
Star Trek turned 60 last week, and the party favor is a void. According to NPR, there are currently no new Star Trek TV series or movies definitively...
Art Garfunkel, 84, Says Trump's Venezuela Takeover Has Him Eyeing the Exit
Art Garfunkel, the 84-year-old voice behind some of the most beloved songs in American musical history, has looked at what this country has become and said,...
Sam Altman Kills OpenAI IPO, Cites AI Extinction Risk
Sam Altman has decided that now is probably not the best time to take a company public when researchers at a rival firm are warning that said company's core...
Scaramucci Book: Trump Said 'I Don't Want His Filth Tainting You' About His Own Chief of Staff
Donald Trump looked his own chief of staff in the eye and told his incoming communications director, quote, 'I don't want his filth tainting you.' The chief of...
Ted Cruz Stood Silent as His Crowd Chanted to Shoot Democrats
At a convention convened specifically to mourn a political assassination and warn against violent rhetoric, Republicans in Dallas spent Thursday night calling...
Diesel Hits $6 a Gallon. Your Groceries Are Next.
Diesel fuel just crossed $6 a gallon for the first time in American history, and experts are being unusually blunt about what happens next: everything gets...
Michigan Hockey Coach Told Hazed Players to Be a 'Michigan Man' While Teammates Had Blowtorches
Sixteen former University of Michigan hockey players filed a federal lawsuit this week alleging they were subjected to ritualized sexual abuse by teammates for...
Trump Promises $5K Checks If You Vote Right, GOP Calls It Bribery
Donald Trump stood at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas and promised every American adult a $5,000 check — but only if you keep his party in power....
27-Year-Old DSA Socialist Just Knocked Out Providence's Mayor
A 27-year-old part-time professional wrestler and democratic socialist just ended a sitting mayor's career in Providence, Rhode Island, and the progressive...
Kansas Inmates Raised $4,267 to Pay Kids' Lunch Debt. Congress Couldn't.
Thirty incarcerated men in a northwest Kansas prison did something the United States Congress, the Department of Agriculture, and roughly a thousand...
Elon's 'Town Square' Is Now Just a Group Chat for AI Bros
Elon Musk paid $44 billion for what he called civilization's 'common digital town square.' According to Axios, that town square has since been rezoned into a...
Fetterman Endorses a Republican at the GOP Convention. Yes, Really.
Democratic Senator John Fetterman walked into the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night and endorsed a Republican senator on national television,...
GOP House Candidate Called Homeless People 'Cheaper Than Ham'
A Republican running for a competitive Texas congressional seat once filmed himself shooting a ham and remarking that buying it for target practice was "still...
Scientists Are Literally Feeding Yogurt Cousins to Dying Coral and It's Working
The world's coral reefs are bleaching, cooking, and dying in real time as ocean temperatures climb, and the best news in marine conservation this week is that...
White House Caught Bootlegging Tetris, Zelda, Sega, and Xbox All at Once
The official website of the President of the United States was, until this week, hosting an unlicensed Tetris clone where players stacked bricks to repel a...
Anthropic Researcher Quits, Says AI 'Could Kill Us All by End of Decade'
An Anthropic researcher just rage-quit one of the most powerful AI companies on earth and, on his way out the door, told the entire internet that the people...
Your Grocery Store Wants to Charge You More Based on Your Personal Data
Your grocery store wants to charge you more for allergy medicine when pollen counts are high. It wants to change prices multiple times a day based on your...
AI Chiefs: We Might Be Building Something Uncontrollable, Please Stop Us
The people building the most powerful artificial intelligence systems in human history would like you to know they are a little worried about the most powerful...
South Park Renames Itself 'South America' to Mock Trump's Renaming Addiction
South Park, the show that put Satan in bed with Donald Trump and depicted Kristi Noem as a Botox-melting puppy murderer, has announced it is officially...
Hegseth Has Now Purged So Many Generals the Army Has No One Left to Run His Wars
The United States Army Secretary just resigned because Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News pundit with no combat command experience, kept firing the generals...
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...
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...
People Are Injecting a Skincare Peptide With Zero Human Safety Data
People are drawing a blue peptide compound into syringes and injecting it under their skin, guided primarily by social media influencers and online grey-market...
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...
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,...
Trump Signs Order to Strip Wolf Protections So Ranchers Can Shoot Them
The Mexican wolf was down to four individual animals in the wild in 1998. Twenty-seven years of federal protection later, there are 319. Donald Trump signed an...