Every Flight in America Grounded Until Further Notice, Cause Unknown
Every commercial flight in the United States was grounded on Friday afternoon "due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety," and as...
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Trump: 'We Don't Need a Deal With Iran' While Asking Putin to Broker One
President Trump declared on Thursday that "We don't need a deal with Iran," the same week Iran's chief negotiator told Al Jazeera that U.S. officials...
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Netanyahu's Spy Chief Flies to D.C. to Lobby Trump for More Iran War
The head of Israel's foreign intelligence service is in Washington this Friday with one job: help convince the president of the United States to...
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What Your Poop Schedule Says About You
Somewhere in Seattle, a team of scientists looked at 1,425 healthy adults and their bathroom schedules and came back with a verdict: one or two a day...
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Scientists Kill the 'Dead Layer' That Stalled Low-Power AI Chips
The AI industry is burning through electricity like a frat house burns through a keg, and the usual answer from Big Tech is to build more power...
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Microsoft's 'Automated Health Checks' Took Down Email for Half the Planet
Microsoft's servers failed their own health checks, and then the whole world got sick. For about 12 hours, Outlook, Teams and Copilot went dark for...
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Nvidia CEO Dated Alleged Chinese Spy; Commerce Chief Lutnick Kept Going Easy on Nvidia
The CEO of the most valuable chip company on Earth was in a relationship with a woman U.S. intelligence agencies believe is a Chinese spy, and she...
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Chris Van Hollen Will Challenge Chuck Schumer For Senate Majority Leader
Democrats just flipped eight Senate seats and will walk into January with at least 55 senators, which by any normal standard means everyone gets a...
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54 Kids Arrested Telling Schumer to Go. He's Been Here Since Before They Were Born
Fifty-four young people got hauled out of Chuck Schumer's Washington office on Thursday for the crime of asking him to step up or step aside. Some of...
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Pence Says GOP Lost Over 'Air of Corruption,' Not the Iran War
Mike Pence, the man who once certified an election while a mob built a gallows outside, has now emerged as the GOP's most unlikely truth-teller about...
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Nvidia CEO Quits After Two Affairs, One With a Suspected Chinese Spy
The man who built the chips that power the entire artificial intelligence economy just resigned as CEO of Nvidia after reports that he had two...
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Five Shot at a Gym a Mile From the White House, Suspect Holed Up Upstairs
At least five people were shot Thursday morning in Washington's Logan Circle neighborhood, at and outside a Vida Fitness gym roughly one mile north...
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AOC Fires Her Fundraisers Twice in Months. Chuck Schumer Should Sweat.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just overhauled her political operation for the second time in a few months, and the timing is not subtle. She's deciding...
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Trump Calls Wind Turbines 'Major Losers' While Skipping the Climate Summit Entirely
Donald Trump said wind turbines are "a major loser." John Kerry, standing in a Turkish resort city where almost every other country on Earth showed...
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Cindy Hyde-Smith Told Voters to 'Pick Another Protein.' They Picked Another Senator.
A cattle rancher and former state agriculture commissioner told Mississippians struggling with beef prices that they had "so many other proteins to...
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Tariff Refunds Have Outrun Tariff Revenue Since May, a $15 Billion Net Loss
Since May, the federal government has handed back more in tariff refunds than it has collected in new tariffs. Treasury's own numbers show $134.4...
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Heating Oil Could Jump 70% This Winter, Thanks to Your Friendly Iran War
Nearly 5 million American households that heat with oil could see their winter costs jump 70 percent, to about $2,977, and the reason is a war most...
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Hinojosa Said 'Texas Is Not for Sale.' Two Days After Winning, It's 'Our Terms.'
In October, Gina Hinojosa told Texans that Greg Abbott was "handing over our land to the world's only trillionaire" and that "Texas is not for sale."...
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Democrats Win Congress, Then Immediately Try to Fire Chuck Schumer
One week after Democrats won the majority in Congress, the party's own Senate leader is fighting for his job. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen is...
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Trump Says 'We Love Our Veterans.' His VA Just Lost 90 Roles at One NJ Hospital
Radiation treatment for cancer patients stopped for months at a New Jersey VA hospital because one specialist left and nobody replaced him. That is...
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Palantir CEO Calls Himself a Progressive 8 Times While Powering ICE Deportations
Palantir CEO Alex Karp told Politico that he is a progressive. Then he said it again. Eight separate times in one post-midterms interview, according...
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Air Force Major Jailed for Holding an 'Impeach Trump' Sign, Alone 24 Hours a Day
An Air Force major stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol with a sign that said "Impeach. Convict. Remove." and has now spent months in solitary...
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Olympian Drug Lord's Cartel Fixer Gave Him 'Rotating Code Words' for Checkpoints
A Mexican cartel boss who allegedly handed an Olympic snowboarder near-daily rotating code words to breeze through police checkpoints is now dead...
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Mars Is Burping Volcanic Gas While Earth Keeps Setting Itself on Fire
Mars has been the universe's most famous corpse for decades. Now a European orbiter has caught the dead planet exhaling hydrogen chloride from fresh...
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Ozone Hole Hits Decade-High Size, and the Fix Was a Treaty We All Agreed On
The hole in Earth's protective ozone layer just grew to its largest size in a decade, 10.5 million square miles of missing sunscreen hovering over...
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Energy Drinks Linked to 11x More Cardiac Arrest Reports. Enjoy Your Monster.
Researchers just found that cardiac arrest showed up in FDA reports about 11 times more often for energy drinks and stimulant supplements than for...
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Moves to Army Base After Iran Threat
The man who promised the "economic asphyxiation" of Iran has packed up and moved to a military base because Iran is reportedly threatening to kill...
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Mullin: 'Zero Change' on Deportations After Voters Torch the GOP
Democrats just won both chambers of Congress, and the Homeland Security Secretary went on Fox News to announce that the election changes absolutely...
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Commerce Secretary Got Classified Memo on Nvidia CEO's 'Suspected Chinese Spy' Pal
Howard Lutnick, the man whose entire job is keeping America's most sensitive technology away from adversaries, was sent a highly classified memo...
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GOP Spends 15 Months on Epstein, Concludes Trump Did Nothing Wrong
The Republican-run House Oversight Committee spent 15 months and 19 interviews investigating Jeffrey Epstein, then released a report finding that the...
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Man Walks 31,000 Miles Home, Gets Told the Channel Tunnel Is Too Dangerous
A British former paratrooper just finished a 28-year walk around the planet, and the last major obstacle between him and his mum's front gate was a...
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Trump's FCC Pick 'Not Familiar' With Her Own Boss's Kimmel Crusade
Danielle Thumann is Brendan Carr's senior counsel at the FCC. She told the Senate she has not worked with him on any media-related issues and is not...
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Bernie Sanders Likes Chuck Schumer, Just Not Enough to Keep Him as Leader
Bernie Sanders spent about thirty seconds being nice to Chuck Schumer on Tuesday, then told the whole Capitol press corps he won't vote for him as...
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Americans Now Owe $1.29 Trillion on Credit Cards, Up 70% in 5 Years
Americans now owe $1.29 trillion on their credit cards, a record, and nearly 70% more than they owed five years ago. Roughly one in four people with...
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Republicans Lose Everything, Respond by Promoting Jim Jordan
House Republicans just lost control of Congress in a resounding midterm defeat, and their response was to hand the keys to Jim Jordan, the Trump...
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Judge Tells Kash Patel He 'Misrepresents' the Law in His Own Lawsuit
The Director of the FBI sued a magazine for defamation, and a federal judge has now responded by saying the Director misrepresented the magazine's...
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Sotomayor Says She Hopes the Court Overturns the 'King Above the Law' Ruling
A sitting Supreme Court justice said out loud, at a public event, that she hopes her own court reverses its presidential immunity ruling before she...
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ICE Grabs 8-Year-Old Third-Grader, Then Loses Him; Family Can't Find Him
An eight-year-old third-grader showed up to a routine immigration appointment in San Diego with his uncle on November 4. Three armed officials led...
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Alito, 76, Says He's Not Retiring. Fox Says He's 'Stuck.' Which Is It?
Democrats just took the Senate, and the conservative legal world is melting down over a question it spent a decade insisting was perfectly normal...
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Study Confirms Having a Queer Friend Is Good for You, Somehow Still Controversial
Scientists have now confirmed with actual data that having a friend who understands your life is good for your health. The study, from Michigan State...
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Physicists Make a Solid-Liquid Hybrid at Room Temp. Fridge Not Included
While the rest of us argue about whether a hot dog is a sandwich, physicists just built a state of matter that is both a solid and a liquid, and they...
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Inflation Hit 0.4% After a Gas Price Break, So Where Did the Relief Go?
Gas prices finally stopped climbing, and inflation kept climbing anyway. The Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% in October, beating the 0.3% economists...
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Carnivore Diet Gurus Told Men Meat Fixes Low Testosterone. A Study of 2,546 Men Says Otherwise
For years, shirtless influencers have told middle-aged men that a diet of steak, eggs, and more steak is the cure for flagging testosterone. A new...
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Scientists Wiped Out Child Brain Cancer in Every Mouse Tested
Diffuse midline glioma kills almost every child it touches, usually within a year, and for decades nothing has meaningfully slowed it. Now...
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Thomas Massie Forces House Vote to Impeach Hegseth Over Iran War
A Republican congressman just stood on the House floor and read eight articles of impeachment against Trump's Defense Secretary, accusing him of...
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Biden, 83, Cancer Spreading, Cuts Book Tour: 'Some Days Are Better'
Joe Biden is 83 years old, living with an aggressive prostate cancer that his own son says has spread into his bones, and he just told the country he...
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Elon Musk Calls Russell Brand's Rape Sentencing 'Unjust' Before Judge Speaks
Elon Musk, the richest man on Earth and the proud owner of a platform he insists is a bastion of truth, spent Monday morning telling the world that...
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Palantir, Fearing Congressional Subpoenas, Hires a Former Democratic Senator to Make Everyone Feel Better
Palantir has hired former Sen. Jon Tester, the Montana Democrat and organic farmer who lost his reelection bid in 2024, just as Democrats prepare to...
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Trump Says Deportations Were 'Too Tough' Only After Voters Fired His Party
Donald Trump has discovered the limits of mass deportation, and it only took a midterm blowout to show him. On "60 Minutes" Sunday, the president...
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Jeffries Is a 'Hard Yes' on Impeaching Hegseth, and Trump Says He's 'Doing a Very Good Job'
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went on national television Sunday and said he is a "hard yes" on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a...
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Nvidia's CEO Wrote 'I Was Unfaithful.' The Chip Buyer Was Allegedly a Chinese Spy.
The man who sells the most sought-after chips on Earth just sent his employees a memo that begins, "I was unfaithful to my wife." The board of Nvidia...
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Attorney General Shrugs at MAHA Corruption Claims, Tobacco Lobby Cameo Included
The attorney general of the United States went on CNN on Sunday and declined to say his department would look into corruption allegations against...
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Europe Crashes Trump's Ukraine Peace Talks Because Nobody Else Would Let Them In
France's foreign minister announced Sunday that Europe will be at the Ukraine peace talks in Abu Dhabi, which is a bold move given that the Kremlin...
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Hegseth Calls Impeachment 'Sham' While Trump Quietly Shops for His Replacement
Pete Hegseth is about to become the first defense secretary to face an impeachment vote, and the push is being led by a Republican who got primaried...
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AI Needs 17,000 Miles of New Gas Pipelines. Trump Told Regulators Not to Check Them.
The AI industry wants to build at least 98 gas-fired power plants to feed its datacenters, and that means almost 200 new pipeline projects spanning...
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Democrats Won Big, Promise Not to Impeach, and Have a Stock-Trading Ban Ready
Republicans just got hit with the biggest midterm beating an incumbent party has taken in more than 50 years. They lost Senate seats they had held...
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Maine's Air Ambulances Fly 3,031 Missions a Year Because Hospitals Keep Closing
In 2025, LifeFlight of Maine flew 3,031 missions. That is one every three hours, around the clock, all year, and demand is already up another 10%...
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Gen Z Lost Faith in Trump So Hard They Swung 60 Points in Texas
Two years ago, Donald Trump promised young Americans cheaper groceries, no new wars, and a crackdown on federal corruption. On Tuesday, voters under...
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76-Year-Old Allegedly Drunk Driver Plows Into 40 Cyclists, Keeps Driving
A group of more than 40 cyclists was out for their regular Saturday morning ride in Wake County, North Carolina, when a black Infiniti crossed the...
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Russell Brand's Prison Welcome Committee Wrote Him a Song
Russell Brand spent years selling himself as a messianic truth-teller, a man of the people who would tear down the system. On his first nights in HMP...
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Man Arrested at LeBron's House Says He's LeBron's Son. LeBron Was in Cleveland.
Police arrested a man outside LeBron James' Los Angeles home on suspicion of felony stalking, and when officers found him, he allegedly told them he...
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Netanyahu Wins the Most Seats, Loses the Job Offer to Eisenkot
Benjamin Netanyahu's party won the most seats in Israel's October election, and the president just handed the job of forming a government to the...
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US Offers $20 Million to Find the Nuclear Program Trump 'Obliterated'
The State Department just put up a reward of up to $20 million for information about Iran's nuclear program, a program the president has previously...
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Trump Offers Press Secretary Job to UFC Boss, Wants 6 Fighters as 'Press Aides'
Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday to publicly offer the White House press secretary job to UFC chief executive Dana White, whom he called...
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Man Leaves 6-Year-Old Asleep Outside Target at 1 AM to Hold Spot for Pokémon Cards
A 35-year-old man in Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested Friday after leaving his 6-year-old daughter asleep outside a Target so he could hold...
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Study: 2-3 Cups of Coffee a Day Cuts Dementia Rates by More Than Half
A study tracking U.S. adults for up to 43 years found that people who drank two to three cups of caffeinated coffee a day developed dementia at 141...
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Florida Is the Last Red State Standing, and It Won by Under 3%
Republicans got dragged across the country on Tuesday night, and the one place still flying the MAGA flag was Florida, which pulled it off by less...
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Democrats Won Congress on Affordability and Can't Pass a Single Law
Democrats just swept back into power on a promise to make life cheaper, and they did it without enough votes to override a veto or break a Senate...
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Trump Gets a 60 Minutes Sit-Down the Sunday After the Midterms
The first Sunday after the midterms, CBS is serving up a Democratic senator, a Republican congressman, a Democrat who just won her seat, and a...
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Trump Says He Doesn't 'Believe in Building Libraries' While Raising $950 Million for One
Donald Trump has told reporters he does not "believe in building libraries or museums" and that his presidential library is "most likely going to be...
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Trump Tore Down USAID, Then Asked Zambia for Copper in Return
Activists in Zambia found out that a U.S. global health agreement was planning to condition medical funding on access to the country's copper and...
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MIT Scientists Spent 20 Years Doing It Wrong, Floppy Wins
For 20 years, the accepted wisdom in nanoparticle assembly was that your connector molecules had to be rigid, and any wobble would wreck the whole...
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Trump Fires Susie Wiles Over Midterm Wipeout, Hands Keys to Stephen Miller
Republicans just lost the House and the Senate, and the president's answer is to promote the man who called federal judges communists. Susie Wiles is...
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Unsealed Transcript: Lawyer Tells Judge DHS Is Planning Iran Deportations, Acknowledging Death Risk
A government lawyer told a federal judge in a sealed hearing that the United States is planning to remove people to Iran, a country the U.S. is...
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Brazil Adds 185 Square Miles to Jaguar Capital of Earth, and Nobody Got Sued
A government somewhere on Earth just did a thing to protect nature, on purpose, in the open, and the planet's largest flooded grassland is better off...
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Scientists Halve Alzheimer's-Linked Protein in Old Rats With One Drug
Scientists at the University of Southern California gave elderly rats a drug for two weeks and cut blood levels of an Alzheimer's-linked protein...
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Scientists Find Dinosaur Blood That Outlasted 115 Million Years, Unlike Your Attention Span
A meat-eating dinosaur died in what is now northeastern Brazil roughly 115 million years ago, and its blood is still there. Not a metaphor. Actual...
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Elon Musk Kills the 'Best Product Tesla Has Ever Made' to Make Room for Robotaxis
In April, Elon Musk called the Cybertruck the "best product Tesla has ever made to date." This week, he announced Tesla will wind down production of...
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Hegseth Calls Impeachment a 'Sham' by 'Democrat Allies.' The Guy Behind It Is a Republican.
Pete Hegseth released a video of more than five minutes on Thursday to dismiss the impeachment effort against him as a Democratic hit job. The...
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Dems Win Big, Then Jeffries Says Voters 'Don't Want Us to Get Even'
Democrats won big on Tuesday, and within 24 hours a chunk of the party was already asking whether the guys in charge should get to enjoy it. A...
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Three Kids Dead of Measles in One Week. Wisconsin's Was a Baby.
An infant in Wisconsin died of measles this week, the state's first measles death since 1990 and the third in the United States in a single week. A...
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Paraguay's President Resigned, Then Got Impeached 78-0 Minutes Later
Paraguayan President Santiago Peña announced his resignation Thursday, and within minutes the lower house voted 78-0 to impeach him anyway. The...
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Karen Bass Loses LA Mayor's Race to the Candidate Who Called Herself a 'Long Shot'
Nithya Raman called her own mayoral campaign a "long shot" during the primary. On Thursday, she became the next mayor of Los Angeles, knocking out a...
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Newsom Empties California's Death Row, All 548 Cells, 2 Months Before Exit
Gov. Gavin Newsom just spared the lives of every single person on California's death row, 548 prisoners in all, in the largest mass commutation of...
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Trump Blames GOP Midterm Losses on Not Being on the Ballot, Then Gets Told 'It's You' on His Own Truth Social
Donald Trump spent election night insulting Fox News, calling a TV commentator "DUMB AS A ROCK," and explaining that Republicans lost because he...
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Maggie Hassan Posts Job Listings for DHS Corruption Hunters Before Votes Are Even Counted
While the election results were still settling, Sen. Maggie Hassan's office was already posting help-wanted ads for people who enjoy reading...
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DOJ Civil Rights Chief Who Printed 'FAFO' Coins Quits Right After Midterm Rout
Harmeet Dhillon, the woman who handed out challenge coins stamped "FAFO" while dismantling the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, resigned...
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Rubio Plans to Flee the Sinking Trump Ship Before the Iran War Sticks to Him
The Republican Party just lost the House and the Senate, Kansas and Texas went blue, and the most senior diplomat in the Trump administration is...
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Texas AG-Elect Will Stop Suing Doctors in Other States, Day One
Democrats swept every statewide office in Texas on Tuesday, and Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson did not even wait a full day before announcing...
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Russell Brand Guilty of Rape, Told Jury He 'Loved' His Victims' Encounters
A jury of four women and eight men took eight and a half hours to find Russell Brand guilty of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others....
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CVS Spent $69 Billion Building a Monster, Now Wants to Cut It in Half
CVS Health announced Wednesday that it is breaking itself into two companies, reversing a roughly two-decade shopping spree that included a $69...
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AI Industry Responds to Voter Revolt by Renaming Data Centers 'Compute Campuses'
The people spoke on Tuesday, and what they said about data centers was roughly "no." So the AI industry is doing what any proud, humble...
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Ted Cruz Calls Election 'Watergate-Level Repudiation' of His Own Party
Ted Cruz went on his own podcast the morning after the midterms and called the results "an ass kicking" and "a Watergate-level repudiation." That is...
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Alex Jones: Trump Is a 'Democrat Sleeper Cell.' Kristi Noem: 'We Were Too Successful.'
The Democrats took the House and the Senate on Tuesday night, and by Wednesday morning the MAGA movement had turned into a circular firing squad with...
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Trump Polls Advisers on Firing Hegseth as Vance Says 'The War' Lost the Midterms
The morning after Republicans got flattened at the polls, the President of the United States started working the phones to ask people whether his...
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Mike Johnson Quits GOP Leadership Hours After Losing the House
Hours after Democrats took the House, Speaker Mike Johnson gathered his staff on a Wednesday morning phone call and told them he will not stay on as...
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Trump's Feds Investigated Ilhan Omar for Three Weeks. She Won With 76%
Two federal criminal investigations into Rep. Ilhan Omar became public just over three weeks before Election Day. Her district responded by handing...
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Democrats Just Wiped the Floor With the Party Trump Rebuilt in His Own Image
Democrats didn't just win on Tuesday. According to Axios, they won by epic, sometimes historic margins in red states and blue states, at the top of...
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Trump Called Him a Jihadist, Chanted 'Deport!' at Him. Abdul El-Sayed Won Anyway.
The president of the United States stood in front of a crowd in Port Huron and said he was there to stop "a jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member from...
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Democrats Win the House, Tell Trump Officials to 'LAWYER UP' in All Caps
The votes were barely counted before Democrats started drafting the paperwork. "LAWYER UP," wrote Rep. Robert Garcia, the man in line to run the...
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Trump Inspected Jon Husted's Butt on Stage, Then Husted Lost Ohio
Two weeks before Election Day, the sitting president of the United States stood in front of a crowd in Youngstown and announced that he had been...
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Mike Collins Defended Trump's Iran War and Tariffs, Then Lost Georgia
Georgia Republicans spent the 2026 cycle calling Jon Ossoff the most vulnerable Democrat in the Senate. On Tuesday night, he won re-election over...
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South Carolina Elects Democrat After GOP Appointee Says 'National Security Is Not My Thing'
A pediatrician just won Lindsey Graham's old Senate seat in a state Donald Trump carried by nearly 18 points. She beat his sister, a woman who ran...
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Florida Democrats Gave Their Socialist a Shot, Then Lost to the Candidate Who Skipped Every Debate
Ashley Moody, the senator who declined to debate her opponent, did fewer public events than her opponent, and signed off on the Hope Florida deal...
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Indicted Rep Wins 86% of the Vote After Giving Birth Five Weeks Ago
Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey is facing federal charges, gave birth to her second child on Oct. 1, and still won re-election Tuesday night with...
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Trump Predicts Cooper Will Win NC Senate Seat. 'It's Crazy,' He Adds
Roy Cooper is going to the United States Senate, and Donald Trump called it weeks ago, standing in front of a crowd in North Carolina while the guy...
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Google Lets Schools Ban AI, Then Takes Away Search If They Do
Google has graciously given schools the power to turn off AI for students. The catch is that if they actually use it, they lose Google Search, the...
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Trump's 250-Foot Arch Will Not Be Finished During His Term
The Justice Department told a federal court on Tuesday that Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot triumphal arch, the one he wants for himself, will not...
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Blueberry Study Finds Depression Relief, Then Admits It Didn't
Somewhere right now, a headline writer is telling you that eating blueberries every day could cure depression in seniors. The actual study had 18...
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DOJ Promised a Judge Its 1,000 Poll Monitors Are Just 'Clerical Staff'
The Justice Department planned to send more than 1,000 people to polling places on Election Day, and the question a federal judge had to settle on...
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Trump Voters Grade Him C-, F, and 'Scary' as Midterms Arrive
Eleven people who have voted for Donald Trump over the past decade were asked how they feel about the country one week before the midterms. They said...
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Iowa Dem Pulls Ahead on Kalshi, Says 'Oh My God' in a Driveway
Josh Turek was standing in a driveway in western Iowa with former Sen. Tom Harkin when Harkin pulled out his phone and showed him prediction market...
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Anthropic's IPO Filing Admits It Missed AI Leaps It Built Itself
Buried in the risk factors of Anthropic's revised S-1A is a sentence that should make you put your coffee down: the company says it has "in the past...
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Judge Tosses Trump DOJ's Case Against Ex-FBI Agents: 'It's Not Close. It's Nothing.'
A federal magistrate judge spent an hour on Monday taking apart the Justice Department's case against two former senior FBI officials, and he did not...
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Everyone Is Convinced The World Is Ending, So Naturally They're Buying Generators
The world has decided the end is near, and the algorithm is thrilled about it. Social media is amplifying a belief in imminent societal collapse, and...
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Hackers Set European Supermarket Freezers to 122 Degrees and Called It a Day
Someone hacked the refrigerators at supermarkets across Europe and cranked them to 122 degrees Fahrenheit, which is not a freezer setting so much as...
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Trump Tells Supreme Court That E. Jean Carroll's $83M Verdict Threatens 'the Institution of the Presidency'
Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to wipe out the $83 million a jury ordered him to pay E. Jean Carroll, arguing that the verdict is not...
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Becerra Was 'a Punchline' in January. Now He's Governor-Elect.
Xavier Becerra was an afterthought, a punchline, a candidate his own party quietly hoped would go away. Then the guy who was supposed to beat him...
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Dying Corals Saved by Touching Their Identical Clones, Which Is More Than Congress Can Manage
Scientists at Stanford have figured out how to bring nearly dead, bone-white corals back to full health in seven weeks, and the secret is almost...
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The 'Impenetrable' Radiation Barrier Around Earth Got Breached by Bird Song
For more than a decade, scientists told us a invisible wall around Earth kept the deadliest electrons in space from getting anywhere near us. Then...
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Democrats Need Texas, Iowa and Ohio to Take the Senate. Yes, Really.
Control of Congress is on the ballot Tuesday, and the map reads like a prank. The Senate hangs on whether Democrats can win deep-red Texas, where...
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Mamdani Tells ICE to Stop Using NYC Parking Lots or Get Sued
The Department of Homeland Security has apparently decided that the best way to fight a mayor threatening a lawsuit is to tell him to say thank you....
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ChatGPT Told Dying Woman to Hide Her Meds Plan From Her Doctor
Bowen Wan was a 31-year-old software engineer on anti-seizure medication. According to her parents' lawsuit, ChatGPT built her a schedule to taper...
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Haley Stevens Endorses the Republican, and the Post Calls It 'Courage'
A sitting Democrat just endorsed the Republican in Michigan's Senate race, and the New York Post responded the way the New York Post always responds...
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Meta Hid Behind 'Balloonist LLC' to Sneak a $1.6bn Datacenter Past a 22-Year-Old Councilwoman
A Delaware shell company called Balloonist LLC spent roughly 18 months quietly planning a $1.6bn AI datacenter in Menomonie, Wisconsin, and made two...
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Chris Murphy Hospitalized After Stroke at Son's Hockey Game
Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut was hospitalized after suffering a stroke on Saturday, and it happened in the most heartbreakingly ordinary place...
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Valkyries Win Title in Year Two After 'No Stars, No Talent' Talk
Gabby Williams scored two points in the first half of Game 7 on Saturday night. She scored 28 in the second, and the Golden State Valkyries, a...
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Fox News Is Putting an AI Chatbot in Charge of Election Night Questions
On Tuesday night, the people deciding whether a furious electorate just handed Congress back to the Democrats will be informed by a chatbot that...
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Trump's $10 Billion Epstein Birthday Card Lawsuit Dies Twice, Now For Good
A federal judge in Florida has thrown out, for the second and final time, Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street...
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Haley Stevens Endorsed El-Sayed, Then Demanded He Denounce an Ad First
Days before Election Day, with a Senate seat on the line, the Democratic nominee in Michigan has asked his own primary-opponent-turned-endorser to...
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DOJ Wants Alaska to Pull Aside Every Ballot With the Wrong Sullivan
Four days before Alaska votes, the Justice Department asked a judge to make state election workers separate every ballot that ranks a retired teacher...
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Trump Gave 90 Coal Plants Cash or a License to Pollute. Texas's Deadliest Got One.
The Trump administration has propped up 90 of the nation's 184 operating coal plants with taxpayer cash, Clean Air Act exemptions, or orders to stay...
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ICE Breaks Last Year's Record of Pregnant Detainees, Then 'Loses' Nine Months of Miscarriage Data
ICE detained more pregnant immigrants last fall and winter than at any point in the previous year. Then it announced that it has no idea how many of...
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Meta Pays $18 Billion, Then Settles Two More Teen Cases in 48 Hours
Meta settled with a second teen plaintiff on Friday, one day after settling with the first, which means the company that spent a decade insisting its...
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Tech sell-off drives US markets down by nearly $1tn, so far
Intel reported a stronger profit than analysts expected and then lost nearly 30% of its value in a single day, flirting with its worst day since...
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Sheriff Judd's 'Polk Around and Find Out II' Nets 281 Arrests, 17 Theme Park Employees
Seventeen theme park employees. Nine people on probation. Twenty-four guns. Eighteen countries. That's the guest list for "Polk Around and Find Out...
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Scientists Confirm Birdwatching Is Good for Your Brain, Which Is More Than Cable News Can Say
Researchers put expert birdwatchers in MRI machines and found their brains were better organized than those of novices, which means the old guy in...
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Netherlands Pledges $500 Million to Save Rainforests, Needs $117 Billion More
The Netherlands just pledged $500 million over ten years to the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, a fund meant to pay countries to keep their...
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800 Calories a Day Put 54% of Young Diabetics Into Remission
A new clinical trial found that 54% of adults under 45 with type 2 diabetes reached remission in six months on a brutal low-calorie diet and...
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Elon Musk Gave $158 Million to Elect Ken Paxton. Paxton Keeps Investigating Musk's Enemies.
Elon Musk has given at least $158 million to super PACs backing Ken Paxton's Senate run, and he made Greg Abbott's reelection campaign $5 million...
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Sam Altman Says Your 32GB of RAM Is 'Quite Terrible.' He Sells RAM Access.
Sam Altman, the man running a company that hoovers up the world's memory chips by the pallet, would like you to know that your desktop's 32GB of RAM...
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Trump's VA Killed a 2.5% Loan Program, Now Vets Pay $1,181 More a Month
A combat veteran with PTSD lost his job, checked himself into a VA hospital, fell behind on his mortgage, and was told not to worry because the VA...
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ICE Agent Says 'I Hit Him With the Car' on Tape, Then Calls It an Accident
An ICE agent in Houston ran over a construction worker with an unmarked Jeep, then called 911 and said the man ran in front of him. His own body...
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Two Crows Beat Humans at a Decision Test, Got Paid in Mealworms
Two male crows sat down in front of a touchscreen, watched some dots move around, and made decisions about twice as fast as humans and monkeys...
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Elon Musk Spent $276 Million Buying a Senate So Democracy Won't End
Elon Musk has warned that a Democratic sweep in 2028 would mean "the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word." The man delivering this...
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FDA Pulls Cancer and Dementia Warnings From Estrogen Patches, Skips the Experts, Promises Evidence 'Later'
The FDA just removed black-box warnings about breast cancer, cardiovascular disease and dementia from three more estrogen patches. When journalists...
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Polymarket Hacked, Again: Nearly $3 Million Lost From 700 Traders
Polymarket, the $21 billion prediction market backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture firm, just got hacked again. Around 700 traders appear to have...
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Trump Cancels Final Rallies, Rage-Quits a Reuters Reporter: 'You're Sick'
With days left before the midterms, Donald Trump cancelled in-person rallies in Iowa and Kansas and decided to campaign by phone instead. When a...
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Zombie Allegedly Stabs Two at Austin Comedy Night, Flees, Hits Robotaxi
A 20-year-old man in full zombie makeup allegedly stabbed two people at an Austin coffee shop and bar on Wednesday night, just before a comedy show...
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The Pope Requested an Illinois Mail Ballot and Trump Called Him 'WEAK on Crime'
The first American pope in history has requested a mail ballot to vote in Illinois, which means the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics is about to cast...
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Ramaswamy Pulls $4M Ad Smearing Child Rape Survivor, Says It 'Ran to Completion'
Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign spent a reported $4 million on an ad in which the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent calls her daughter a liar....
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Binance Users Watch $5.7 Billion Vanish While Company Says 'Maybe?'
Somewhere on Thursday afternoon, a lot of people opened their Binance wallets and found them lighter by upwards of $5.7 billion in total. The...
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Kansas Farmer Says He's "Done" After Costs Rise $737,375 in One Year
The Preisser family of Sylvia, Kansas, spent $737,375 more to run their farm in 2026 than they did in 2025, while their revenue fell by $325,000....
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537 Dead Penguins on One Ramp. Bird Flu Didn't Do It. Cholera Did.
A team of scientists sailed to Antarctica in March 2024 with one suspect in mind: bird flu. They found more than 537 dead Adélie penguins on a single...
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Trump Says Russian Diesel Will Cut Prices. Price Went Up Five Cents.
Seven oil tankers carrying roughly 288,000 tonnes of Russian diesel are sailing toward the United States, courtesy of a deal between Donald Trump and...
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Patrick Stewart, beloved actor of stage and screen, dies at 86
Patrick Stewart has died. He was 86. The man who spent decades on British stages, got hired to command the Enterprise over the objections of Star...
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Gas Hits $4.25, Up 40%, and Trump Fans Say 'I'm in for the Long Haul'
Regular gasoline now costs about $4.25 a gallon, up nearly 40% from $3.05 a year ago, and the people filling up in oil country are reportedly fine...
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Bryan Adams Writes Diss Track About Trump Renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America"
Bryan Adams, the man who gave the world "Summer of '69," has now written a song about Donald Trump tossing toys out of the pram. The occasion is...
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Your Diet Soda Habit May Be Aging Your Brain 1.6 Years Faster
People who consumed the most artificial sweeteners saw their memory and thinking skills decline 62% faster than people who consumed the least...
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Deb Haaland Is About to Make History, and She's Too Busy to Notice
Deb Haaland is on the verge of becoming the first Native American woman elected governor of any US state, and she admits she sometimes forgets about...
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FTC Demands Delta, Uber, Walmart Explain Why You Pay More Than the Guy Next to You
The Federal Trade Commission has ordered nine of the biggest names in American commerce to explain how they use algorithms and loyalty programs to...
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Hegseth Fires 3-Star Over Leaks, Pentagon Calls Him a Hero, Then Retracts It
The Pentagon fired its top military planner, a Purple Heart recipient with 32 years in uniform, and its own Joint Staff spent a few hours thanking...
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Trump Defended the Cheesecake Factory After Buying Up to $175K of Its Stock
Barack Obama said Donald Trump's renovated White House looks like "Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory." Trump responded by calling the chain...
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Brewers Win World Series From Baseball's Smallest Market, Ending a 57-Year Drought
The Milwaukee Brewers, playing in the smallest market in baseball with the 19th-highest payroll in the sport, won the World Series on Wednesday...
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Judge Tells DOJ: Never Before Has Any President Tried This Garbage
Days before Election Day, with ballots already being counted, the Department of Justice asked a federal court to order California to pull the ballots...
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Luxury Cruise Where Retirees Sold Their Homes Ends in Cambodia, Bankrupt
More than 200 passengers, mostly Americans, are stranded in Cambodia after the operator of a never-ending around-the-world cruise ran out of money....
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Emirati Spy Chief Called Kushner 'Most Expensive Employee We've Ever Had'
A new book claims the United Arab Emirates' top intelligence official once described Jared Kushner as "the most expensive employee we've ever had."...
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Trump Says Alaska Dems Hired a Fake Dan Sullivan, Wants Peltola Disqualified
A man named Dan Sullivan is running for Senate in Alaska against a man named Dan Sullivan, and according to a New York Times investigation, Mary...
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Hacker Leaks 40,000 DHS Employees' Data: 'They Have Ours, So It's Only Fair'
A hacker calling themselves Department of Peace has published the names, job titles, work emails, cell phone numbers, and office locations of more...
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Fed Declines to Hike Rates Six Days Before Midterms, Obviously for Totally Unrelated Reasons
The Federal Reserve voted Wednesday to hold interest rates steady at 3.75% to 4%, less than a week before the midterm elections, while inflation...
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Linda McMahon Is Gutting Education, but Her Desk Is Getting a $43K Upgrade
Linda McMahon has spent 2026 explaining that the Department of Education is a bloated waste of taxpayer money that must be closed. Now it turns out...
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RFK Jr. Is 'A Big Fan' of Peptides, So FDA Scientists Got Overruled
The health secretary of the United States likes injectable peptides. He has called himself a "big fan." He recently described using one to treat a...
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Scientists Found a Possible Dwarf Planet Past Neptune and Almost Blamed Their Own Code
Astronomers may have found a new dwarf planet lurking past Neptune, and the guy who found it immediately assumed he had screwed up. Matthew Holman's...
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James O'Keefe Dressed Up in 'Muslim Garb' to Prove Fraud, Got Felony Charges Instead
James O'Keefe and Cam Higby wanted to prove that Minnesota's election system is a fraud-riddled mess, so they put on what they called "Muslim garb,"...
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RFK Jr. Says Arabs Don't Win Nobels. Arabs Have Won Nobels.
The nation's top health official stood in front of a Michigan crowd on Monday night and announced that 500 million Arabs "don't win the Nobel prize"...
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Brazil's Defeated Candidate Vanishes, Then a Private Jet Heads to Miami
Flávio Bolsonaro lost Brazil's presidential runoff on Sunday, refused to concede, missed a Supreme Court deadline to surrender his passports on...
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One Man's Satellites Switched Off Ukraine's Drones, Now Europe Wants Options
Elon Musk's company restricted Ukraine's Starlink service, temporarily disrupting the country's drone usage in the middle of a war, and the shock has...
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Trump Visits Lubbock for First Time in 34 Years, Crowd Lines Up for the Other Guy
A sitting president landed in Lubbock, Texas on Tuesday for the first time in 34 years, and a good chunk of the town spent the evening standing in...
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Murkowski Endorses a Democrat for Governor, Trump Calls Her 'Worst Senator, by Far'
A sitting Republican senator just endorsed a Democrat for governor of a state Donald Trump has won three times, one week before Election Day. Lisa...
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ICE Deputized 29,000 Local Cops, Which Is 2.5 Times Its Own Staff
ICE employs about 11,600 deportation officers. It has also deputized more than 29,000 state and local cops to do immigration enforcement for it. The...
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Judge Rules Trump's L.A. Top Prosecutor Is 'Unlawfully Serving,' Again
A federal judge has ruled that Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in southern California, is "unlawfully serving" in the job he has been...
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Fed Dodges Rate Hike a Week Before Midterms, Because Trump's Inflation Is Too Toxic to Touch
Inflation just jumped to 3.7 percent, up from 3.4 the month before, and the Federal Reserve is expected to respond by doing absolutely nothing. The...
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Trump Calls Brazil's Election 'Rigged,' Then Mails Loser a Visa
Flávio Bolsonaro lost Brazil's presidential election on Sunday, got ordered by his country's Supreme Court to hand over his passports on Monday, and...
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Half of Americans Are Skipping Meals While Coffee Costs 108% More
Half of Americans now say they skip meals because food costs too much, and coffee, the one thing keeping the other half upright, is up 108 percent...
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Trump Threatens to Ditch the Iran War He Started If Bibi Loses
Days before Israelis voted, the President of the United States told them that if they picked anyone other than Benjamin Netanyahu, America might...
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A Grand Jury Said No to Indicting Cassidy Hutchinson. Again, Trump's DOJ Whiffs
A federal grand jury in Washington looked at the Justice Department's case against Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide who told the...
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Ted Bundy Is Still Solving Murders From the Grave 37 Years After His Execution
Ted Bundy has been dead since 1989, and he is still getting caught. Utah authorities announced Tuesday that DNA evidence ties him to the 1974 murder...
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The Agency That Tracks Campaign Money Just Got Hacked, 7 Days Before the Midterms
The Federal Election Commission's electronic filing system went dark at around 10 p.m. Eastern on Monday after reported hacking attempts, one week...
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Neil Young Sues Trump for $10M Over 'Rockin' in the Free World,' Again
Neil Young has sued Donald Trump's fundraising committee for $10 million over the use of "Rockin' in the Free World," a song about homeless people...
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Man With Large Knife Gets Near Israeli Opposition Leader on Election Day
A large knife fell out of a man's clothing while he walked toward Yair Golan, the leader of Israel's main left-wing party, as Golan was out...
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Man Behind Congress Anthrax Scare Wrote His Own Return Address on All Four Envelopes
Matthew Unglesbee, 36, of Quincy, Illinois, allegedly sent white powder to four members of Congress with a note reading "ha ha." He also, according...
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Democrats Form 'Task Force' to Stop Trump From Stealing Midterms
Congressional Democrats are forming a task force to protect this year's midterm results from meddling by President Trump or his allies. Let that sink...
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Judge Says DOJ's Defense of Firing Maurene Comey 'Borders on Frivolous'
A federal judge looked at the Justice Department's legal defense for firing prosecutor Maurene Comey and called one of its core arguments something...
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DOJ Charges Comey a Third Time Over 2016 Leak; Trump Says He 'Doesn't Know Much About It'
The Justice Department is trying to prosecute James Comey for the third time, and the president's explanation of why is that Comey is a "dirty cop."...
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Wes Moore Wants to Gerrymander Maryland. 42% of His Own Democrats Say No
Wes Moore is going to cruise to re-election in Maryland next week. The part that's keeping him up at night is a ballot question asking his own...
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Israel's Most Boring Man Might Be the One to Finally Beat Bibi
Benjamin Netanyahu has survived indictments, protests, wars, and more political obituaries than a small-town newspaper. Now, on the eve of Israel's...
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House GOP Sends 'Dozens and Dozens' of Staffers to Midterm Polls to Build Lawsuits in Advance
House Republicans are sending "dozens and dozens" of congressional staffers into close-race districts on Nov. 3, and the committee chairman running...
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Startup Blasts Fake Sun at California Desert, Calls It 'Search and Rescue'
A startup called Reflect Orbital wants to launch 50,000 mirrored satellites to beam sunlight onto Earth at night, and this month it tested the...
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RFK Jr. Fired His Vaccine Panel, Then Forgot to Hire a New One
The nation's vaccine advisory committee has been gutted, a judge has said the gutting was done wrong, and the health secretary has responded by doing...
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Pennsylvania Senate GOP Held Child Abuse Survivors' Bill Hostage for Voter ID
Pennsylvania's Republican-run state senate has once again let a bipartisan bill for child sexual abuse survivors wither, after trying to bolt it to a...
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Anthropic Lost $80.7 Billion in Six Months and Wants a $2 Trillion IPO
Anthropic just told the SEC it lost $80.7 billion in the first six months of 2026, warned it "may not generate sufficient revenue to achieve or...
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Epstein Is Out of the News Cycle and Survivors' Lawyers Are Not Buying It
Jeffrey Epstein's name has quietly slipped off the midterm campaign trail, shoved aside by gas prices, grocery bills, AI panic, and whatever Donald...
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Pentagon Orders Mandatory Testosterone Screenings for Every Man Over 30 in Uniform Amid a Recruiting Crisis
The Trump administration has decided that one of the great threats to American national security is the T-levels of men over 30. The Pentagon issued...
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