Randolph Mantooth, the TV Medic Who Made America Care About Paramedics, Dies at 80
Before every firefighter-themed drama that's ever made you cry on a Tuesday night, there was 'Emergency!' And before 'Emergency!' meant anything to anyone,...
Tokyo's Robot Cafe Is Staffed by Real Humans Who Can't Leave Home
There is a cafe in Tokyo where robots bring you your food, and before you spiral into a Black Mirror episode, stop. Every single one of those robots is being...
Judge Calls Trump's Jan. 6 Views 'Fiction,' Then Erases Proud Boys Convictions Anyway
A federal judge just wiped out the seditious conspiracy convictions of four Proud Boys leaders, and he did it while explicitly saying that Donald Trump's...
Trump's DHS Fixer Corey Lewandowski May Face Criminal Referral Over Contract Scheme
Corey Lewandowski, former Trump campaign manager and professional chaos agent, walked into the Department of Homeland Security as a "Special Government...
Google, Amazon, Microsoft's Emissions Keep Climbing While Their Honesty Doesn't
The same companies that spent years plastering "net zero" and "carbon neutral" all over their press releases are now watching their own environmental reports...
America's Farms Are Falling Apart and Nobody in DC Can Agree on the Fix
Half of America's crop farmworkers are undocumented. More than half of dairy workers are undocumented. The Trump administration is deporting people at a record...
LAPD Pulls Plug on Surveillance Vendor That May Have Fed Data to ICE
The Los Angeles Police Department is pulling the plug on its contract with Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based surveillance company that operates part of the LAPD's...
Fetterman and His Republican BFF Just Opened a Joint Bank Account
John Fetterman and Republican senator Dave McCormick have officially opened a joint fundraising committee together, because apparently crossing the aisle to...
JD Vance's 72-Acre Estate Not Quite Enough, Needs Second Home
JD Vance, the man who wrote a whole book about the dignity of working-class struggle, is apparently finding it difficult to make do with his free 72-acre...
Sen. Markey Wants to Stop AI from Becoming a 'Pollution Bomb'
Senator Ed Markey has a message for the AI industry: the party is over, or at least it should be. The 79-year-old Massachusetts Democrat just unveiled a...
Bear Breaks Into Alaska Mall, Steals a Peach, Craps on the Floor, Leaves
A black bear walked into a shopping mall on a military base in Anchorage, Alaska on Sunday morning, stole a peach from the grocery store, ate it, defecated in...
Trump Fires the Entire Election Watchdog Board 4 Months Before Midterms
Four months out from the midterm elections, Donald Trump just fired the entire leadership of the federal agency responsible for certifying voting systems and...
MIT Built a Robot Puffin That Flies, Swims, and Launches Out of the Water in Under a Second
Scientists at MIT built a robot the size of a seabird that can fly through the air, swim through the ocean, and launch itself out of the water using nothing...
Trump Held a Housing Bill Hostage and Prices Just Hit $440K
The median price of an existing home in America is now $440,660, an all-time record, and the price has gone up for 36 consecutive months. Congress actually...
DHS Will Yank Billions in Safety Grants From States That Won't Audit Voter Rolls
The Department of Homeland Security has figured out a creative new way to bully states into compliance with Trump's election security agenda: hold disaster...
Japan Spends a Year Saving a Tree's Roots Before Moving It. America Just Cuts Them Down.
Japan sometimes spends over a year preparing the root system of a single ancient tree before moving it out of the path of development. Not cutting it down....
Dog Wins Standoff That Took Cops Over an Hour
Human police officers spent over an hour trying to get a man out of a car in a San Bernardino strip mall parking lot. Then they sent the dog, and the whole...
NYC Has Gone Subtropical and Now 28 People Have Legionnaires'
New York City's own health commissioner just stood up and said, out loud, that New York is now a subtropical climate, and the proof is 28 people on the Upper...
Trump Blew Up the Iran Ceasefire and Now Inflation Is Back on the Menu
The ceasefire with Iran lasted about as long as a Trump press conference apology. President Trump declared it over, the U.S. military hit dozens of targets...
America's Cheapest Theme Park Costs Less Than a Round of Drinks at Disney
While Disney World is busy charging families north of $300 to stand in line for three hours in the Florida heat, a 118-year-old amusement park in Connecticut...
Venezuela's Quake Survivors Are Sick, Homeless, and Inheriting a Healthcare System That Was Already Dead
Venezuela's June 24 earthquakes killed at least 3,535 people, left 18,000 homeless, and injured more than 16,700. Now, the survivors are fighting a second...
Obamacare Premiums Jumping 14% as GOP Let Subsidies Die
Obamacare premiums are about to take a 14% bite out of American wallets next year, and we're not talking about a one-time fluke. According to a new KFF...
Dear Abby Tells Husband Who Found Wife's Sex Emails to Just... Talk It Out
A man fixed his wife's old computer and accidentally discovered that, in the months before their wedding, she was trading explicit FaceTime sessions and steamy...
Anthropic Found a 'Workspace' in Claude's Brain. Uh Oh.
Anthropic announced Monday that it found a small internal workspace inside Claude, its flagship AI model, that the company says works a lot like the part of...
Kelsey Pfendler Rows 2,400 Miles Alone to Hawaii, Beats Every Record in Sight
A 21-foot rowboat named Lily pulled into Honolulu harbor on Friday night, and the woman aboard had just done something no American woman had ever done, no...
Private Equity Now Owns a Piece of 500+ Nonprofit Hospitals. Nobody's Watching.
Private equity firms have quietly wormed their way into more than 500 nonprofit hospitals, hospices, and health systems across the United States, and because...
Charles Uninvited Harry From Buckingham Palace Hours After He Said Yes
King Charles personally approved revoking Prince Harry's invitation to stay at Buckingham Palace — minutes after Harry publicly accepted it. The reason,...
National Guard Shoots and Kills 20-Year-Old in Memphis Trump Patrol
Soldiers deployed to Memphis as part of Donald Trump's federal crime patrol shot and killed a 20-year-old man at 4 in the morning on Sunday, making this at...
Oracle's CEO Wants You Scared Into Behaving. The AI to Do It Already Exists.
Larry Ellison, the Oracle billionaire who counts the Trump administration among his closest clients, recently said out loud that citizens will be on their...
Trump Called FIFA's Boss to Save a Soccer Player's Suspension
The President of the United States personally phoned the head of FIFA to get a soccer player's one-game ban reversed. That sentence is real. It happened this...
The Atlantic Just Reminded Everyone Vance Called Trump 'America's Hitler'
The Atlantic just dropped a little birthday present on America's 250th: a 10-year-old essay by JD Vance, the sitting Vice President of the United States,...
Your Fancy Rubber Mulch Is Killing Salmon and You Paid Extra For It
Millions of American homeowners spent more money than they needed to on rubber mulch because the bag said it was the responsible, eco-friendly choice. It was...
America Cancels Its Own Birthday Parade Because It's Too Hot Outside
On the exact day America turned 250 years old, the country canceled its own birthday parade because it was too hot to stand outside. The Independence Day...
Lockheed Martin Exec Told Trump's UFO Advisor: 'It's Not Wrong'
A former senior executive at Lockheed Martin, one of the biggest defense contractors on the planet, walked up to Trump's UFO advisor, sat down in his house,...
Scientists Find Potentially Habitable Planet 25 Light-Years Away
Astronomers have found a planet twice the size of Earth, sitting in the exact zone where liquid water can exist, just 25 light-years away. They're calling it...
America Turns 250 and Its Whole Life Story Is a Staged Photo
America turns 250 this year, and The Guardian has marked the occasion with a genuinely brilliant essay that asks the most uncomfortable birthday question...
Disneyland's 1 Billionth Guest Is an 8-Year-Old From Arizona on His Birthday
Somewhere in the multiverse, there is a child who showed up to Disneyland on his 8th birthday and got named the one billionth guest in the park's 70-year...
A 28-Year-Old Has Interviewed 3,000 WWII Vets. Only 30,000 Are Left.
Ten years ago, a kid in Southern California started driving around his neighborhood with a recorder, looking for old men with war stories. Today, Rishi Sharma...
Ronaldo's First Knockout Goal Ever Saves Portugal at 94 Minutes
Cristiano Ronaldo has played in five World Cups spanning more than two decades, and he had never once scored in a knockout round until yesterday. That changed...
Polymarket Paid Influencers to Fake $900K in Wins on Clone Sites
Somewhere out there, a guy filmed himself "winning" $100,000 on a prediction market bet about Donald Trump saying "McDonald's" on TV. Trump never said it. The...
Trump Wants His Face on Mount Rushmore. The Mountain Said No.
Donald Trump has had a federal building named after him, two naval warships, an airport, and a government savings account. He flew to Mount Rushmore on the eve...
Three Children Dead After Boat Capsizes on Geneva Lake in Fourth of July Weekend Storm
Three children are dead after a boat capsized on Geneva Lake in Wisconsin Friday when a severe storm rolled in without warning, killing them before rescuers...
AI Reads 2,000-Year-Old Burned Scrolls and Finds Lost Stoic Philosophy
A volcano destroyed these books nearly two thousand years ago and turned them into charcoal. A bunch of engineers with machine learning just read them anyway....
Poop Parasite Hits 18 States and Nobody Knows Where It's Coming From
More than 400 Americans are currently experiencing what the CDC clinically describes as 'watery diarrhea with frequent and sometimes explosive bowel...
Colorado Fire Torches 55,000 Acres, 0% Contained, No Rain in Sight
A wildfire in southern Colorado has burned 55,405 acres, destroyed more than 180 structures, forced entire communities to flee with whatever they could grab in...
Democrat Tells Party to Stop Losing the Flag to People Who Tried to Steal the Election
A Democratic congressman from Long Island has written a Wall Street Journal op-ed urging his party to stop ceding the concept of patriotism to the political...
Princess Cruises' 3rd Norovirus Outbreak This Year Hits Alaska Trip
Nothing says 'Alaskan vacation' quite like spending the return leg of your cruise trip isolated in your cabin while the ship gets hosed down for fecal...
Michigan Kids Were Getting Fined for Lemonade Stands
Somewhere in Michigan, a health department employee looked at a child's lemonade stand, thought "I should get paid for this," and actually followed through on...
Britain's Been Sitting on a Rare Declaration of Independence for 250 Years
A volunteer at the UK National Archives sat down on an ordinary Thursday morning in May, opened a dusty folder of 18th-century Royal Navy correspondence, and...
Marriott Just Dumped Pepsi After 34 Years and Nobody Asked You
Pepsi has been evicted from over 10,000 Marriott hotels across 146 countries, ending a 34-year partnership that nobody thought to defend until it was already...
Trump Made $2.2 Billion in His First Year Back. Historians Say Nothing Like This Has Ever Happened.
Donald Trump made at least $2.2 billion in his first year back in the White House, according to a mandatory financial disclosure report made public this week....
Trump's Iran War Just Blew Up the US-Saudi Alliance
The Trump administration launched a war in Iran over Saudi Arabia's explicit objections, ignored Saudi calls to end it, watched Iran attack Saudi Arabia...
Brennan Sues DOJ to Stop Trump From Shredding Evidence Before His Show Trial
Former CIA Director John Brennan walked into federal court Wednesday and essentially asked a judge to stop the Trump administration from burning the receipts....
Fed Chair Warsh Says Inflation Still Too High, Blames Apple and AI
The man in charge of America's interest rates stood in Portugal on Wednesday and told the world that prices are still too damn high, that AI is eating the...
Democratic Socialists Just Knocked Off a Progressive Icon in Colorado
The left just ate one of its own, and House Democrats are losing their minds about it. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Colorado progressive who has been in Congress...
Mexico Ends 40-Year World Cup Curse With 2-0 Stomping of Ecuador
Forty years. Seven consecutive knockout-stage losses. One catastrophic group-stage exit in Qatar that left an entire nation staring into the void. On Tuesday...
Trump Made $1B From Crypto While Gutting Crypto Regulations
Donald Trump made more than $1 billion from his personal cryptocurrency businesses in 2025, according to a federal disclosure filing released Monday. He also...
Supreme Court Locked Birthright Citizenship Into the Constitution and Now Congress Can't Touch It
The Supreme Court didn't just rule against Trump's birthright citizenship order. It did something considerably more permanent: it took the whole question away...
Workers' Share of National Income Hits Lowest Point Since WWII
Here is a number that should break your brain: American workers are taking home a smaller share of the national income than at any point since Harry Truman was...
GOP Rep Vanished for 4 Months, Traded Stocks, Then Gave a Speech About It
A sitting U.S. congressman vanished from Capitol Hill for nearly four months, missed hundreds of votes that his party desperately needed, reportedly traded...