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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...