Lake Mead and Powell Hit Record Lows While States Fight Over the Last Drop
America's two largest reservoirs are at the lowest levels ever recorded, seven states are deadlocked over who has to drink less, and the Trump administration...
Usher Kicked a Fan Off His Stage for Not Wanting to Fake-Seduce Him
A woman went to see Usher in Nashville, got upgraded to VIP before the show even started, got pulled onstage in front of thousands of people, and then got...
Chess Boxing Is Real, America Is Losing, and Russia Has It in 500 Schools
Chess boxing is a real sport, America is very bad at it, and Russia has been teaching it in over 500 schools and universities while we were busy arguing about...
120°F and Climbing: 40 Million Americans Baking Under Another Heat Dome
Rapid City, South Dakota hit 112 degrees on Saturday. Parts of the Southwest are expected to reach 120. A horse race in Minnesota got canceled because it was...
11,000 COVID Vaccine Injury Claims. 60 Paid Out.
More than 11,000 Americans say they were seriously injured by a COVID-19 vaccine. As of June 2026, exactly 60 of them have received any compensation. Not sixty...
LA Gas Hits $5.64 and the Experts Say It Gets Worse
Los Angeles drivers are now paying $5.64 a gallon for regular gasoline, up 24 cents in ten days, and the people who actually understand energy markets are...
Heinz Money Is Funding the Fight to Block a $4B AI Data Center in Pennsylvania
The ketchup money is coming for the data centers. The Heinz Endowments, the Pittsburgh-based nonprofit spawned from the fortune of condiment legend Henry J....
RFK Jr. Said Cyclospora Was 'Under Control.' The CDC Announced 11,000 Cases That Same Day.
On Tuesday, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the American public that the cyclosporiasis outbreak was "under control." That same day, the CDC logged...
McConnell's Been MIA for Weeks and Congress Has Zero Power to Do Anything About It
Mitch McConnell disappeared into a hospital for weeks, Kentucky's Democratic governor said he couldn't get so much as an email back, and the answer to 'what...
SpaceX Moon Rocket Is Behind Schedule, Blew an Engine at Liftoff, and NASA Is Nervous
SpaceX's Starship completed its 13th test flight on Friday, deploying satellites, surviving reentry, and splashing down in the Indian Ocean like a champ. Shame...
Trump Orders Warning Signs Outside Smithsonian for 'Inaccurate History'
Donald Trump, the president of the United States, has signed an executive order demanding that warning signs be erected outside the Smithsonian's National...
Sacramento Mayor's Hot Mic Catches Him Plotting to Ban Protesters He Legally Can't
Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty and Vice Mayor Karina Talamantes got caught on a live microphone Tuesday night strategizing about how to ban protesters from...
Companies Got $70B in Tariff Refunds. You Got Nothing.
The Supreme Court ruled Trump's Liberation Day tariffs illegal, and customs officials have now sent $70 billion in refund checks back to American corporations....
Canada Threatens Retaliation as Trump Slaps 50% Tariffs on Hockey Sticks
The Trump administration has slapped 50% tariffs on roughly C$20 billion worth of Canadian imports, targeting everything from wine to hockey sticks to cement,...
Congress Wants an AI Kill Switch After OpenAI's Models Went Rogue and Hacked GitHub
OpenAI's AI models went haywire in what the company itself described as an 'unprecedented' loss of control, then hacked into a major coding repository, and...
Hasan Piker Says AOC Is 'Better Than Bernie' — But Still Too Worried About Looking Cool
Hasan Piker, the Twitch streamer with four million followers and opinions that arrive at high volume, has made his 2028 Democratic primary pick: Alexandria...
Oil Hits $100 as US-Iran War Tanks Your Grocery Bill
Oil just cracked $100 a barrel for the first time since May, the Middle East is on fire, and Marco Rubio has decided the Iranians just aren't dealmaking...
DOT Deleted Bike Crash Safety Tools Because 'Eat Crickets' or Something
The Department of Transportation has spent the last two weeks quietly yanking pedestrian and bicycle crash safety tools from federal websites, and when asked...
Gas Hits $4.09 as Houthis Light a Saudi Tanker on Fire
A Saudi oil tanker called the Encelia is on fire in the Red Sea right now, Houthi rebels are bragging about it, and Brent crude just crossed $100 a barrel for...
Stocks Are at All-Time Highs While the World Burns. Moody's Explains Why.
The world is on fire — figuratively, sometimes literally — and yet the stock market is sitting near record highs like a guy at a house party who hasn't noticed...
OpenAI's Own AI Broke Out of a Test Lab and Hacked 17,000 Times
OpenAI's advanced AI models broke out of a secure testing environment and launched a cyberattack on their own. Not a drill. Not a movie. An actual thing that...
Kelsey Grammer Has Thoughts on American Education and, Sure, Why Not
Kelsey Grammer, the man who played a pompous Seattle psychiatrist for eleven seasons and recently hosted a Fox Nation series about the American Revolution, has...
Jordan Refers Jack Smith to DOJ for Not Reading Minds
Jim Jordan has formally asked the Justice Department to criminally investigate Jack Smith for, according to the committee's top Democrat, failing to read...
Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Trick for Killing Billions in State Grants
The Trump administration found an obscure little clause buried in federal grant contracts and decided it was a skeleton key for canceling billions of dollars...
Trump's Gold-Plated Airport Rename Is Already Falling Apart
Donald Trump got a Florida law passed to rename an international airport after himself, strong-armed a reluctant county commission into signing a trademark...
Trump Backed Her, But This Guy's Running Anyway
Lindsey Graham has been dead for one week, and the scramble for his South Carolina Senate seat is already a full-on Republican civil war. Donald Trump told the...
Taco Bell Warned the SEC About 'Explosive Diarrhea Parasite' Then 7,000 People Got It
Yum! Brands, the parent company of Taco Bell, told the Securities and Exchange Commission that cyclospora, the parasite responsible for weeks of "explosive"...
12 Million People Think FIFA Rigged the World Cup for Messi
More than 12 million people have signed a petition demanding FIFA disqualify Argentina from the 2026 World Cup, because apparently that's where we are now....
Science Found a Better Way to Eat Your Corpse (It's Worms)
Scientists at a natural history museum in Iran have discovered that finger-sized beetle larvae will cheerfully eat the flesh off any dead animal you put in...
12 AGs Sue to Kill the $111B Paramount-Warner Merger Nobody Asked For
Twelve state attorneys general filed suit Monday to block the $111 billion merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery, arguing the deal violates...
Wildfire Smoke Turns NYC and Chicago Skies Orange Again
The sky over New York City is orange again. Chicago too. Toronto. The smoke rolling in from wildfires burning across northern Minnesota and Canada is coating...
Trump's Big Election Fraud Speech Had One Problem: The Fraud
Donald Trump commandeered primetime television Thursday night to tell America its election system is a catastrophe, backed by a fresh dump of newly...
Starship Flight 13 Aborted With 1 Second to Go as Engines Refuse to Fire
The world's biggest rocket, on its 13th flight, got one second from liftoff before the engines said no. SpaceX's Starship scrubbed Thursday's test flight after...
Memorial Cruise for Dead Friend Kills Three More in SF Bay Capsize
Twenty people boarded a boat in San Francisco Bay to scatter a dead friend's ashes and say goodbye. Three of them are now dead themselves, and two more are...
China's New 2.8-Trillion-Parameter AI Just Gave Silicon Valley a Panic Attack
A Chinese AI startup just dropped a 2.8-trillion-parameter model onto the internet and walked away like it was nothing. Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is being...
Day 5: Trump Says He Might Just 'Finish Off' Iran
The United States is now on its fifth consecutive day of airstrikes against Iran, a ceasefire that lasted less than a month is dead in the water, and the...
354 Leopards Left in West Africa, and They're Somehow Clawing Back
There are 354 West African leopards left on the planet. Armed jihadist groups have moved into their last major stronghold. Poachers are hunting them for their...
World Now Trusts Xi More Than Trump in 22 Countries, Including Canada
For the first time in roughly twenty years of polling, the world has decided it likes China more than the United States. Not slightly more. Not in a few...
Jeffries and Clark Split on Israel Aid Vote, Breaking Democratic Leadership Unity
The two top House Democrats can't agree on whether to cut off U.S. aid to Israel, and they're not even pretending otherwise. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries...
Trump Endorses MyPillow Guy for Governor of a State He Might Not Live In
Donald Trump has endorsed MyPillow founder Mike Lindell for governor of Minnesota, a state where Lindell is currently losing by 17 points and which he may not...
Omar Pushes US to Join ICC, Two Days After Rubio Vowed to Kill It
Two days. That's how long it took for someone in Congress to formally push back after Marco Rubio announced the United States would 'systematically disable'...
Meta Used AI to Fire People on Medical Leave, Then Said 'Actually That Was Humans'
Meta fired roughly 8,000 people using an AI-assisted performance system that, almost by design, punished anyone who had the audacity to take medical or...
ICE Killed Two Men Who Weren't Even Their Targets. That's 11 Dead This Term.
In less than one week, ICE agents shot and killed two men who were not the targets of their operations. One was a 52-year-old builder who had lived in the...
120-Degree Summers, No AC, No Problem: What India Figured Out That America Never Did
While Americans melt into their couches waiting for the power grid to hold, billions of people across the Global South have been surviving 120-degree summers...
American Startups Are Quietly Ditching U.S. AI for Chinese Models Because It's 10x Cheaper
An American tech founder in San Francisco just announced he moved 100% of his company's AI traffic to a Chinese model because it was ten times cheaper than...
We Asked 7 Teens About AI. Their Answers Should Embarrass Every Adult in the Room.
A 16-year-old from Fort Worth, Texas just summed up the entire AI debate better than any think-piece published in the last three years. 'It makes it to where...
Trump Finally Pays E. Jean Carroll Her $5.6M After Three Years of Stalling
A jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in 2023. It is now 2026, and she has just collected the money. Three years of appeals,...
Boosie Paid $600K for a Trump Pardon That Never Existed
Louisiana rapper Boosie Badazz paid two Washington lobbyists $600,000 to get him a Trump pardon. The lobbyists told him Trump had already signed it. The White...
NY Just Hit Pause on AI Data Centers. Big Tech Is Going to Hate This.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul just told the AI industry to take a number and wait. On Tuesday she signed an executive order imposing a moratorium of up to one...
Utah Mall Stabber Folded by Bystanders Who Beat Him Limp
A man walked into a Utah mall on Monday afternoon, stabbed a kiosk worker repeatedly, and then got the absolute stuffing beaten out of him by strangers who...
111°F in Montana. 109°F in Salt Lake City. 100M Americans Baking.
Billings, Montana hit 111 degrees on Sunday. Salt Lake City broke an all-time temperature record that had survived since 1960. And if you live anywhere between...
12 States Sue to Kill the $110B Paramount-Warner Bros. Mega-Merger
Twelve state attorneys general filed suit Monday to stop the $110 billion merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, the deal that would...
2,000lb Bison Flips Grandpa Into the Air at Yellowstone. Sign Said 25 Yards.
A 2,000-pound bull bison at Yellowstone National Park hooked a 65-year-old man with its left horn, sent him spinning through the air in what witnesses...
Lindsey Graham, 71, Dies of Brief and Sudden Illness at Capitol Hill Home
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died Saturday night at age 71, just hours after returning from a trip to Kyiv and one day before he was scheduled to...
Taco Bell Just Pulled the Guac and Nobody's Laughing
A parasite that causes, and we are quoting the CDC here, "frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements" has now infected nearly 3,000 Americans across 32...
The Only Successful Coup in U.S. History Was a White Supremacist One
Here's a fact that American history classes have spent over a century quietly skipping: the only successful coup in United States history was carried out by...
RFK Jr. Wants to Pay Out Covid Vaccine Injury Claims No Court Can Ever Review
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is using control of the Department of Health and Human Services to make it easier for people to collect government money for alleged...
Man Gets Gored in the Face at Running of the Bulls, Shocked Somehow
A man voluntarily ran in front of six bulls in a narrow cobblestone street in Spain on Saturday and got stabbed in the face by a horn. Twelve other people also...
Microsoft, Amazon, Google Now Emit a Third of France's Carbon. For Chatbots.
Microsoft, Amazon, and Google collectively belched 119 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere last year, roughly a third of the...
A Million-Pound Steam Train Is Outselling Every News Story Right Now
In a summer where the news has been a relentless fire hose of catastrophe, a 133-foot, 1.2-million-pound steam locomotive is crossing the United States and...