Buffett Freezes Gates Foundation Billions Over Epstein Ties
Warren Buffett has donated roughly $48 billion to the Gates Foundation over two decades without missing a single year. This is the year he missed. The Wall...
Man Who Legally Named Himself Santa Claus Busted in Child Predator Sting
A 75-year-old New Orleans man who legally changed his name to Santa Claus was arrested last weekend after allegedly using a dating app to solicit sex from...
Ford Fired Its Best Engineers, Hired AI, Then Had to Beg the Engineers to Come Back
Ford spent years quietly losing its most experienced engineers, bet big on AI to fill the gap, and then watched the AI fail badly enough that the company had...
47 Ronin Director Spent $638K of Netflix's Money on Two Mattresses
A Hollywood director asked Netflix for $11 million to finish a sci-fi series, spent $638,000 of it on two mattresses, and is now headed to prison for two and a...
Private Equity Bought Up Every Wheelchair Repair Shop. Now People Are Dying in Bed Waiting.
Destiny Maxam was on a breathing machine for two weeks after her wheelchair broke and she was stuck in bed. When she came off the ventilator, the first thing...
Trump's Task Force Is Using Michigan's Guard Troops. Whitmer Wants Them Back.
Michigan sent 161 National Guard members to Washington, D.C. to help with Fourth of July celebrations. Then a video surfaced of those same troops patrolling...
America's Emergency Oil Stash Is Half-Empty and Falling Apart
The United States government's emergency oil reserve, the thing we're supposed to crack open when the world goes sideways, is sitting at less than half its...
AI Has Turned Every Script Kiddie Into a Hacker. We're All Cooked.
The Five Eyes intelligence agencies, the exclusive English-speaking spy club that includes the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, released a joint...
Biden Calls Trump 'A Loser' and Says He's Wrecked America's Global Standing
Joe Biden has apparently decided that retirement is overrated. The former president stood up at a Maryland Democratic Party gala on Saturday and called Donald...
Heat Dome Cooking Two-Thirds of America Straight Through July 4
The National Weather Service is warning that 'dangerous to record-setting heat' will blanket the eastern two-thirds of the United States through the July 4...
Influencer Filled a Pool With 50,000 Pickles and Powered Utah With Them
An influencer filled a swimming pool with 50,000 pickles, swam in it, threw a neighborhood pool party, and then converted the entire soggy mess into natural...
Your Coffee Grounds Could Replace Coal in 90 Seconds
Every year, humanity throws away more than 10 million tons of used coffee grounds, most of it straight into landfills and incinerators, because apparently we...
America Just Built the Biggest Renewable Project in History. On Time. On Budget.
The largest renewable energy infrastructure project in American history just flipped on, and somehow the news cycle barely blinked. The SunZia wind and...
Slotkin to Fellow Dems: New Leadership Needed, or We Keep Losing
Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin went on SiriusXM this week and said out loud what a lot of Democratic voters have been screaming into their pillows since...
USA Loses to Turkey 3-2 But Somehow That's Fine Actually
The United States men's national soccer team lost 3-2 to Turkey on Thursday night at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, in front of what had to be a...
Budapest Hospital Worker Arrested With Human Face, Brain, and Heart in a Jar
A 30-year-old hospital worker in Budapest was arrested last week after Hungarian investigators found a human face, facial skin, a lower leg, a brain, a hand,...
RFK Jr. Pulled Flu Vaccine Ads Mid-Season, Emails Confirm
During one of the worst flu seasons in years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the CDC to kill its own flu vaccine advertising campaigns. Internal emails released...
235 Dead After Venezuela's Worst Quake in a Century Buries Hundreds in Rubble
Two massive earthquakes hit Venezuela within sixty seconds of each other on Wednesday, and if that sounds like a cruel cosmic joke, the punchline is that at...
Only 17% of Americans 'Very Proud' of U.S. — GOP Blames the Left, Not the Guy Running It
A Gallup survey found that only 17 percent of American adults described themselves as 'very proud' of their country last year, the lowest number in the poll's...
China's New AI Can Hack You For Half the Price of America's
A new Chinese AI model just hit the internet, it matches the best American models at automating cyberattacks, and it costs half as much to run. Sleep tight....
RFK Jr Told Senate His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' His Colleague's Email Says Otherwise.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the United States Senate, twice, under oath, that his 2019 trip to Samoa had 'nothing to do with vaccines.' A newly obtained email...
Judge Blocks Trump's Scheme to Hold Mail Ballots Hostage to Voter Data
The Trump administration had a plan: give us your voter rolls or your constituents don't get mail ballots. A federal judge in Boston looked at that plan on...
Supreme Court Gives Monsanto a Golden Shield, Cancer Patients Get Nothing
The Supreme Court just told tens of thousands of cancer patients that the federal government's pesticide label is more important than their tumors. In a 7-2...
Jamie Dimon's Succession Race Just Got a Starting Gun
Jamie Dimon has been running JPMorgan Chase since 2006, survived two presidential administrations, one global financial meltdown, and roughly ten thousand...
Iran Threatens Ships Using New Hormuz Route: 'Violators Will Be Dealt With'
A Liberian oil tanker called the Stoic Warrior sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday using a new route hugging Oman's coastline, while Iran's...
Twin 7.2 and 7.5 Quakes Hit Venezuela in Under 60 Seconds
Two major earthquakes hit northern Venezuela within less than a minute of each other on Wednesday evening, and the ground had barely stopped shaking before the...
5.6 Quake Rattles Northern California, 10 Million People Feel It
Ten million people felt the ground move Wednesday morning when a 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck Mendocino County at 8:10 a.m., sending wine bottles shattering...
Mortgage Rates Are a Mess in 2026. Here's Who's Actually Worth Your Time
In early March 2026, the average 30-year mortgage rate was sitting comfortably below 6%. By late spring, it had surged more than half a percentage point,...
Another American Kid Bitten by a Shark in the Bahamas
A 12-year-old American boy is in stable condition after a shark took a bite out of him in the Exuma Cays on Tuesday afternoon, the Royal Bahamas Police Force...
Leaked: Peter Thiel's Secret Club Rates You A, B, or C and Knows Your Food Allergies
Somewhere in the world, a spreadsheet exists that has graded Josh Brolin a VIP and cited his role as a purple alien to justify it. That spreadsheet belongs to...
Bode Miller Says the Magic Mushrooms Weren't His, Actually
Olympic skiing legend Bode Miller got pulled over in Idaho earlier this month and ended up in handcuffs over 4.1 grams of psychedelic mushrooms a deputy found...
SpaceX Stock Already Underwater 10 Days After Biggest IPO Ever
Ten days. That's how long it took for the largest IPO in human history to start hosing ordinary investors. SpaceX shares plunged 16% on Monday, closing below...
Nvidia Says Its New AI Chip Won't Guzzle Water. Sure, Jan.
The company that built the engine powering the AI boom would like you to know that the AI boom is actually fine now, water-wise, trust them. Nvidia announced...
Alan Greenspan, the Man Who Broke the Economy, Dies at 100
Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman who ran the US economy like a god operating in secret for nearly two decades, died Sunday at age 100 from...
Trump Claims Reflecting Pool Was Sabotaged. Zero Evidence. Zero Arrests Confirmed.
Donald Trump took to social media over the weekend to announce that United States Park Police had arrested multiple people for deliberately sabotaging the...
Science Confirms Dad Jokes Are Good For You, So Shut Up and Laugh
Your dad has been vindicated by science, and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. Researchers studying the neurochemistry of humor have concluded...
The WWII Soldier Who Knew No One Would Believe the Holocaust Without Proof
Three Jewish women gave birth inside a Nazi concentration camp and managed to hide their newborns from their captors long enough for a 22-year-old American...
The Great Whites Vanished From Cape Town. Nobody Knows Why.
A decade ago, wildlife photographer Chris Fallows could count 250 to 300 individual great white sharks in the waters off Cape Town in a single year. Then, over...
Two Orcas Named Port and Starboard Ate All the Sharks
For decades, the waters off Cape Town were the single best place on Earth to see great white sharks. Then two orcas with collapsed dorsal fins showed up,...
Trump's Fed Pick Just Told Trump to Go to Hell (Politely)
The whole rap on Kevin Warsh was that Trump had finally gotten his guy at the Fed — a loyalist who'd slash rates on demand and juice the economy before the...
Arizona's Wildlife Overpasses Cut Roadkill Collisions by 90%
While the federal government is busy dismantling environmental protections at a historic clip, Arizona is quietly doing something that actually works. The...
Dwyane Wade's Wife Wears a Scent That Gets Him Going, He Told a Room of Strangers
Dwyane Wade, retired NBA champion, cancer survivor, and apparently a man with absolutely no filter, showed up to the Fragrance Foundation Awards this week and...
Reformed Mob Hitman Turned NJ Councilman Arrested for Extortion
A New Jersey council member who, by his own admission, committed 15 murders and beat over 100 people with pipes and baseball bats was arrested on extortion...
Iran Says It's Closing Hormuz. JD Vance Says Record Oil Just Moved Through It.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps announced Saturday that it was closing the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which roughly a fifth of the world's...
Trump's Treasury Chief Called Zelenskyy 'Mr Bean on Crack' Then Compared Trump to Soros
Scott Bessent, the United States Secretary of the Treasury, reportedly called the president of a wartime ally a 'little fucker,' a 'special-needs child,' and...
Three Hikers Dead in One Week as Grand Canyon Hits 109°F
Three people are dead after hiking into one of the hottest places on earth during a week when temperatures in the Grand Canyon's inner canyon exceeded 109...
Trump Called Anthropic a National Security Threat. It's American.
At some point last week, the President of the United States decided that Anthropic, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company founded by Americans...
Bush Hands Michelle Obama Altoids at Obama Center and America Briefly Feels Human Again
George W. Bush showed up to the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago on Thursday and handed Michelle Obama a tin of Altoids. That's the whole...
Two Trains Collide Near London, Passengers Describe 'Blood Everywhere'
Two trains slammed into each other Friday between Luton and Bedford, about 56 miles north of London, and the passenger accounts coming out are exactly as bad...
DOJ Sues Virginia for Requiring ICE Agents to Show ID
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Virginia last week for passing laws that would require federal immigration agents to wear visible...
Trump's 'More Powerful Than Hitler' Doc Was Written by a Golf Caddy
Donald Trump, the 47th President of the United States, once proudly showed reporters a document claiming he was more powerful than Adolf Hitler. He later...
Epstein's Prison Notes on Trump: 'Total Con Artist, Never Had Money'
Jeffrey Epstein spent his final weeks in federal prison furiously scribbling on a legal pad, trying to dig up dirt on Donald Trump that might shave a few years...
Trump Told Italy's PM He 'Felt Sorry For Her' at G7. Italy Just Canceled On Him.
Donald Trump told an Italian television network that Giorgia Meloni "begged" him for a photo at the G7 summit and that he only agreed because he "felt sorry...
Army Daycares Are Abusing Kids and Shredding the Evidence
While Amanda Feindt sat in Pete Hegseth's Senate confirmation hearing listening to him talk about protecting military families, staff at a Fort Belvoir Army...
Norwegian 6-Year-Old Finds 1,300-Year-Old Viking Sword on School Trip
A six-year-old Norwegian boy named Henrik went on a school field trip and came home having personally expanded the archaeological record of early medieval...
Trump Names 'Little Trump' to Run All 18 US Spy Agencies
The man reportedly nicknamed 'Little Trump' inside the White House, a housing finance regulator with zero intelligence experience who used his last job to...
Big Tech Is So Desperate for Power It's Accidentally Saving Clean Energy
The American clean energy industry spent four years getting beaten up by inflation, hostile federal policy, and collapsing stock prices. Then the AI boom...
World Cup Tourists Are Losing Their Minds Over Free Refills and Buc-ee's
Seventy-five percent of the 2026 FIFA World Cup matches are being played in the United States, which means millions of international visitors are currently...
British Guy Sailed, Cycled, and Flew Around the Entire Planet. All Three.
A 43-year-old British man just sailed 34,175 miles around the planet, which sounds impressive enough on its own, until you find out he already cycled around it...
Gromit Is Writing a Memoir and Has More to Say Than Wallace Ever Did
Gromit, the long-suffering, perpetually expressive, canonically mute dog from Wallace & Gromit, is writing a memoir. He has, according to publisher Ebury, been...