Musk Set to Drop $200M on Midterms to Save Ken Paxton From Himself
Ken Paxton has raised $9.2 million for his Senate campaign. His Democratic opponent has raised $68.6 million. Elon Musk has noticed this problem and is...
Bernie Backs Nixon After She Crushed the Dem Establishment's Guy
Two days after Angie Nixon sent the Democratic Party establishment into a quiet, tight-lipped panic by defeating heavily funded favorite Alex Vindman in...
mRNA Cancer Vaccine Just Stopped Melanoma Coming Back in Major Trial
The same mRNA technology that got us through COVID just showed it can stop skin cancer from coming back after surgery. Moderna and Merck announced trial...
Ghana Wins the Jollof Wars Again — and America Almost Kept Up
Two thousand people stood in line near D.C.'s Union Market last Saturday for a yellow box of six color-coded taster cups and the chance to settle one of the...
The 30-Year Treasury Just Hit Its Worst Level Since 2007 and Your Mortgage Is Next
The 30-year Treasury yield hit 5.3% this week, its highest point since before the 2008 financial crisis, and the bond market is essentially standing in the...
Walmart Got $2.9B in Tariff Refunds and Is Cutting Prices With It
Walmart just pocketed nearly $3 billion from the federal government in tariff refunds, and it is putting that money directly into lower prices for the...
You Kicked Out Flock Cameras. Meet Your New Surveillance Overlord.
Residents in Longmont, Colorado spent months organizing against Flock Safety's mass license plate surveillance, won a city council vote, and then watched their...
Man Voted in Someone Else's Name, Then Reported the Victim for Voting
A Massachusetts man allegedly voted in the 2024 presidential election using his former landlord's identity, then anonymously reported the landlord to federal...
Trump Threatens the Entire World Economy Over Iran in a Truth Social Post
Donald Trump announced Wednesday night that he is launching what he called 'economic D-Day' on Iran, threatening the entire global economy with 'TREMENDOUS...
Unlicensed Limo Driver Ran Illegal Harbor Cruises, Killed Mom and Baby
The man who capsized a birthday party boat in New York Harbor this month, drowning a 27-year-old mother and her 5-month-old daughter, was not a licensed...
Trump's 'Binky' Flew on the Secret Qatar Plane and Nobody Can Explain Why
The President of the United States fled Turkey on a secret plane amid an alleged Iranian threat, and he apparently needed to bring his comfort blanket. Natalie...
Someone's Friend Just Found a Human Jaw at Lake Mead. Again.
A woman visiting Lake Mead on August 16th watched her friend pick up what he thought was a rock, look closer, and realize he was holding a human jaw with teeth...
Boy, 13, Died on Carnival Ride That Workers Knew Was Missing Restraints
A 13-year-old boy is dead because carnival workers allegedly knew at least ten seats on a spinning ride were missing restraints, signed off on inspections...
Trump's Third FDA Pick Wants to Restrict the Abortion Pill 'to Protect Women'
Donald Trump has nominated his third FDA commissioner pick in a single term, and this time he went with a doctor who wants Congress to strictly regulate the...
Trump Pocketed $2.2B in 2025 and Congress Just Watched
Donald Trump made $2.2 billion in revenue last year while serving as President of the United States. Congress looked at that number, shrugged, and went back to...
Lance Bass and Joey Fatone Sipped Jack and Coke Onstage at Every NSYNC Tour Finale
For years, Lance Bass and Joey Fatone performed the final songs of every single NSYNC tour with Jack and Coke quietly sloshing around in their water bottles....
Glacier Melts, Spits Out Two Climbers Missing Since 1992
Two Belgian men went hiking in the Swiss Alps in 1992 and never came home. Thirty-four years later, a melting glacier handed them back. The climate crisis is...
Florida Dems Pick Socialist Over $16M Impeachment Hero
A progressive member of the Democratic Socialists of America just knocked out the man who helped spark Donald Trump's first impeachment, despite being outspent...
Aussie Teen Stabbed Twice in the Back at NYC's 'Murder McDonald's'
A 19-year-old Australian tourist sat down for a McDonald's at 2 a.m. in Midtown Manhattan and got stabbed twice in the back for his trouble. His lung is...
Frank Beard, the One ZZ Top Guy Without a Beard, Dead at 77
Frank Beard, the drummer for ZZ Top and, yes, the one member of ZZ Top who famously did not have a beard, has died at age 77. CBS News confirmed his death...
ICE Agent Shot a Man, Lied About It, and Greg Abbott Won't Send Him Back
An ICE agent shoots a man through a closed door, makes up a story about being attacked with a broom and a snow shovel to cover it up, gets charged with assault...
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...
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 Voted by Mail Again. He Has an Executive Order Against That.
Donald Trump, the man who signed an executive order in March restricting mail-in voting and has spent six years falsely claiming it's a vector for mass fraud,...
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...
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...
Robot Border Guards: The Pitch Is Wild, the Contract Is Fake
A tech CEO went on Fox News to announce that humanoid robots could soon patrol the southern border, which sounds extremely science fiction until you read the...
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...
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...
USS Lincoln Sailors Hit 260 Days at Sea With Broken Toilets and Food Shortages
The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for more than 260 consecutive days, a record, and according to sailors' families, the conditions aboard have gotten...
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...
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...
July Was the Hottest Month Ever. The Bill Is Already Here.
A brewery in Duluth, Minnesota lost multiple days of peak summer revenue in July because the heat dome sitting on top of the Midwest killed its air...
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...