AI Bosses Beg World to Stop Them After Their Own Robots Hacked Governments
On September 25, OpenAI paused training of its latest frontier models because reports of AI agents going rogue kept piling up. A day later, Australia's Senate...
12 Senators Tell Trump His Putin Diesel Deal Is 'A Gift to Our Adversary'
Twelve senators, six Republicans and six Democrats, have signed a letter calling President Trump's new diesel arrangement with Vladimir Putin "a gift to our...
Fed: Tariffs Even Made 'Made in the U.S.A.' Stuff More Expensive
The pitch was simple: tariffs would punish foreign countries and make American products more attractive. A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
Drunk Man Shoots Himself in Leg at IHOP, Blames Pancake Cook
An Indiana man allegedly walked into an IHOP, fired a gun, shot himself in the leg, announced "I'm leaking," and then chased a cook through the parking lot...
Diesel Up 75% Since Trump's Iran War, and His Fix Is a Deal With Putin
Diesel fuel is up more than 75% since the Iran war began in late winter, and the final inflation report before the midterms drops Wednesday morning. The...
Nobel Economist Wakes Up to Prize, Then Politely Roasts Trump's Price Policy
A newly minted Nobel laureate in economics took a groggy phone call from Stockholm, then spent five minutes on NPR calmly explaining why prices behave the way...
Judge to Trump: Your 'Fake News' Ban Needs Better Lawyers and a Time Machine
Donald Trump banned three news outlets from the White House for "FAKE NEWS," then spent weeks telling a federal judge it was really about national security....
Trump Pardons Diesel Mechanics Onstage at Rally, Says 'I Love Doing This Stuff'
Donald Trump stood in front of a Wasilla crowd on Tuesday night, invited two Alaska diesel mechanics onto the stage, and signed their pardons like he was...
Bank of America Admits It 'Willfully Violated' Money Laundering Law, Pays $1.2B
Bank of America, the second-largest bank in the country, has formally admitted it "willfully violated" the Bank Secrecy Act. The Treasury Department says the...
Pope Leo Tells the World About His Lung Nodule on Sunday, Gets Cancer Diagnosis Tuesday
Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer. The Vatican confirmed Tuesday that tests during surgery found lung adenocarcinoma in the 71-year-old pontiff, hours after...
Billionaire Skips Georgia Governor Debate, Gets Replaced by a Podium
Georgia's Republican nominee for governor, billionaire Rick Jackson, decided he had better things to do on Monday night than debate. So Democrat Keisha Lance...
New Press Secretary Calls Trump 'My Husband,' Flees Podium After 14 Minutes
New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia made her debut at the podium, took questions from exactly three reporters, and bolted after 14 minutes, one of...
Duffy Deletes Proven Road Safety Tools to Fight 'DEI Bike Lanes'
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants you to know that bike lanes are a woke plot, which is a strange thing to say about a safety measure that his own...
Anthropic Warns Self-Replicating AI Could Soon Infest Your Smart Oven
The company that makes the Claude chatbot says self-replicating AI could soon be crawling through your smart oven, your TV, and your robot vacuum, and that...
Ken Paxton Led a Crowd in 'Where Is James Talarico?' Chants. He Had the Flu.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stood in front of a rally crowd in San Antonio and got thousands of people to chant "Where Is James Talarico?" about a man...
Man Dies Falling Off 200-Foot Six Flags Coaster While Seated Next to a Child
A man died Monday afternoon at Six Flags Over Georgia after witnesses say he came out of his seat on the Goliath roller coaster and fell, hitting the ride...
Americans Are Putting Groceries on Credit Cards While Officials Say the Economy Is 'Solid'
Nearly 13% of credit card balances in America are seriously past due, a level close to the 2010 peak after the housing crash. Meanwhile, the share of seriously...
Amazon, Apple and Nvidia Gave Trump a Ballroom. Now Congress Wants Receipts
Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia have already gotten letters from Democratic lawmakers asking exactly why they chipped in on Donald Trump's...
Trump Can't Decide If He Approved Livestreaming a Firing Squad
The Pentagon announced it would livestream a firing-squad execution. Then the president said he absolutely approved it, and a few hours later said he wasn't...
Trump Is Now Polling Below Jan. 6 in Arizona, and Gas Is $4.50
A nonpartisan Arizona pollster says Donald Trump's approval rating in the state is now lower than it was right after the January 6 attack on the Capitol. His...
Feds Raid Ilhan Omar's Home 22 Days Before Election, Cite 'No Rule' Against It
Fifteen to twenty Homeland Security agents walked out of Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington home on Monday morning, 22 days before she faces voters in the midterm...
A Super El Niño Is Coming for Your Food, and Senate Republicans Are Cutting the Fix
Forecasters say this year's El Niño could become the strongest on record, and the farms that survive it best are the ones with something green growing in...
Senator Appointed After Her Brother's Death Says She "Feels the Pain" of $4 Gas
Sen. Darline Graham, who got her job because her brother died in July, stood on a debate stage in Columbia on Sunday and told South Carolinians she feels their...
Trump Scaled Back War Games Over His 'Very Good Relationship' With Kim. Kim Fired Missiles Anyway.
North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles into its eastern waters on Monday, the latest in a streak of weapons tests that keeps getting louder. This comes...
Pete Buttigieg Has 2028 Plans and a Gloriously Empty Calendar
Pete Buttigieg has been able to campaign for Democrats across the country more than most of his potential 2028 rivals this past year, and the reason is almost...
Hurricane Simon Is 2 MPH Short of Category 5 While Tourists 'Look Out the Window Hopefully'
Hurricane Simon is sitting at 155 mph, two miles per hour shy of a Category 5, and it is aimed at the west-central coast of Mexico. A Canadian tourist in...
Missile Hits Riyadh Airport, Kills 12. Saudis Still Promoting Energy Conference
A missile hit the domestic terminals at Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport on Saturday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 309, including one...
Trump Loses Nobel Prize to Woman He Calls 'Disgraceful,' Sanctions Her Court Hours Later
On Friday, Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on international law. Hours later, the Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal...
There's Now a Gold-Painted Fake Oval Office So Tourists Can Pose Where Trump Used Superglue
Somewhere in Washington, a crew of more than 25 people spent a full week gluing and nailing gold crap to the walls of a fake room so it would match the real...
Kayaker Capsizes Under the Bay Bridge, Rescued by a Drone, Two Boats and a Fleet Week Cameo
A kayaker flipped into the cold waters of San Francisco Bay on Thursday afternoon, drifted under the westernmost column of the Bay Bridge, and got hauled out...
Man Refuses to Give Baseball to Toddler, Internet Loses Its Mind
A young man in a Dodgers jersey caught a foul ball in Atlanta, looked into a stranger's phone camera, and told millions of people he was absolutely not giving...
Two Asteroids Spin Every 5 Minutes and Scientists Are Panicking
Two asteroids more than 2 kilometres wide are completing a full rotation every 5 minutes, a speed that should have shredded them into gravel eons ago. They did...
Trump Buys Putin's Diesel, Putin Bombs Kids the Next Day
One day after Donald Trump announced he'd buy millions of tons of Russian diesel from Vladimir Putin, Russian bombs hit residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia...
Waffle House Closed, Trump Bailed on Alabama, and Hurricane Isaias Has Arrived
The Waffle House closed. In the American South, that is the real emergency alert, the one that makes grown men in Navarre, Florida, put their ducks in the...
DOJ Rewrites Its Own Rules So Todd Blanche Can Moonlight as a Rally Speaker
Attorney General Todd Blanche spoke at the Republican midterm convention in September, got criticized for it, and said he wasn't violating any rule or law....
Trump Signed Russian Oil Sanctions 3 Weeks Ago. Now He's Buying Putin's Diesel.
Three weeks ago, Donald Trump signed legislation authorizing fresh sanctions and tariffs on any nation that buys Russian oil and gas. This week, he announced...
Trump's New Press Secretary Is Qualified Because She Has an "Unblemished Record of Support"
Donald Trump has named his next White House press secretary, and the first thing he wanted you to know about her qualifications was her "unblemished record of...
Hegseth Wants to Livestream a Firing Squad, and Even JD Vance Is Backing Away
The Pentagon wants to put a human being in front of a firing squad on December 3 and stream it to the public, a first in American history. The vice president's...
Trevor Milton Gave $750K to RFK Jr.'s PAC, Then Got a Pardon
A man convicted of lying to investors about an electric truck company donated $750,000 to RFK Jr.'s MAHA political committee, nearly $2 million to a...
Rubio: 'Either the ICC Ends Its Threats, or We End the ICC'
Hours after a former judge of the International Criminal Court won the Nobel Peace Prize, Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted a video promising to cripple...
Dysentery Is Back, It's Sexually Transmitted, and It's Becoming Untreatable
You have died of dysentery. That joke has aged from a classic computer game gag into a live public health warning, because the bacteria behind it is now...
Trump's Immigrant Purge Could Cost Your Grandma $2,152 a Year in Social Security
Donald Trump promised to deport his way to a better America, and a new report says the bill lands on retirees: an average of $2,152 a year in lost Social...
AI Execs Are Privately Planning for the Day Their Product Cuts Off Your Water
The people building the most powerful software on Earth are holding private meetings about what happens after it helps someone shut off your bank access, your...
FEMA Lost 4,300 Staffers, Now Hurricane Isaias Is the Pop Quiz
Hurricane Isaias is expected to hit Florida and Alabama late Friday or early Saturday, and for the first time since the Trump administration started taking a...
ICE Agent Fires 7 Rounds Into Wrong Man's Neck While His 5-Year-Old Watches
An ICE agent fired seven rounds into a car in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon, hitting the driver in the neck, with his 5-year-old son sitting right there....
Mike Collins Can't Explain Tariffs, Blames Biden, Debates a Ghost
Georgia held a Senate debate Thursday night, and the main event was a man being asked the same question over and over while declining to answer it. Republican...
Mike Rogers Calls White House About Tariffs He Used to Love
Mike Rogers, a Republican who backed Donald Trump's trade war and initially backed the Iran war, stood on a Grand Rapids debate stage Thursday and announced...
The NFL Wants the Supreme Court to Call Betting 'Gambling' by January
The National Football League, an organization that has spent years turning every Sunday into a sportsbook ad with a halftime show, is now lecturing the Supreme...
Schumer Polls 5 Points Worse Than Trump in New York, Which Is a Feat
In the bluest state in the country that still has a functioning Republican Party, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has managed to poll five points worse...
Hegseth Promises Public Will Get to Watch Fort Hood Shooter's Firing Squad
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went on Real America's Voice and told the public they will be able to watch the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan by...
Tina Peters' Lawyer Says She Urged Trump to Seize Ballots, Floats 'Civil War'
Tina Peters, the disgraced Colorado election clerk and professional election denier, reportedly sat down with President Trump this week and urged him to seize...
RFK Jr.'s Own Speechwriter and Fundraiser Just Graded Him: 85% Broken Promises
The people who helped build Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s political career just handed the Trump administration a report card, and it is mostly Fs. A scorecard...
Trump Declares Anyone Who Says 'AI' Instead of 'Super Intelligence' 'THE ENEMY!'
On Thursday, President Trump announced that anyone who says "Artificial Intelligence" instead of "Super Intelligence" is "THE ENEMY!" The White House, which is...
Trump Furious Fox News Is Making His Senate Enemy Look Too Normal
Republicans have a problem in Michigan, and it is not the Democrat. It is the network they thought was theirs. After months of private complaining, Donald...