The New Surveillance State Has Billionaire Backers Peter Thiel and Andreessen Horowitz Are Behind the Flock Cameras Tracking America And the Surveillance Network Is Bigger Than Most People Realize There is something deeply unsettling about watching America’s self proclaimed anti-establishment...
Patrick Zarrelli 
Iran’s Hormuz Strategy Could Be Designed to Outlast Trump While America’s Missile Stockpiles Become the War’s Other Clock The war between the United States and Iran is increasingly being fought on two clocks. One is political. Iran appears to be...
Patrick Zarrelli 
Mind the Gap: My Horrible Experience With Nike Mind and a Shoe That Couldn’t Get the Basics Right I wanted to love the Nike Mind. Actually, after everything Nike put consumers through just to get a pair, I expected to...
Patrick Zarrelli 
John Oliver Warns Trump’s Justice Department Is Becoming a Political Weapon as Career Prosecutors Flee John Oliver used the latest episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight to deliver a sweeping indictment of the transformation taking place inside the U.S. Department...
Patrick Zarrelli 
Halloween Creep August Décor Halloween is still more than two months away, but the spooky season is already arriving at stores across the country. As August gets underway, shoppers are finding shelves packed with skeletons, pumpkins, ghosts, witches, inflatables and...
Darcy Fisher 
Kim Kardashian Burglary Attempt A 27 year old man was arrested Sunday after deputies responded to a reported burglary at a Hidden Hills property owned by Kim Kardashian, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Deputies Respond to Reported...
Darcy Fisher 
AOC Doesn’t Rule Out 2028 Presidential Run Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is doing something that will inevitably send both Democrats and Republicans into another round of political speculation: she is refusing to close the door on a potential 2028 presidential campaign. The...
Joshua Weiss 
Professor Says 32 Students Used AI A college professor says he designed a deliberate trap to identify students who used artificial intelligence to complete their midterm exams, and the results surprised him. Professor Jason Gibson recently discussed his experience with...
Darcy Fisher 
Brandon Clarke’s Cause of Death Brandon Clarke, the former Memphis Grizzlies forward, died at 29 years old in May 2026. Authorities have now revealed that his death was caused by the effects of heroin and cocaine and was ruled accidental....
Darcy Fisher 
Teacher Ran Fentanyl Operation in Maryland That Turned Deadly A Maryland first-grade teacher has gone from teaching children how to read and write to being sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl in...
Joshua Weiss 
$20 Burrito Debate A $20 burrito has become an unlikely symbol in the growing national debate over inflation, food prices and what Americans can realistically afford. What might seem like a simple question about the price of a restaurant meal...
Darcy Fisher 
U.S. Food Safety Struggles The latest Cyclospora outbreak is exposing a food safety system that has been under pressure for years. Tens of thousands of people across 47 states have reported illnesses connected to a Cyclospora outbreak that began in...
Darcy Fisher 
Many Dead and Buildings Collapsed… and the Counts Have Just Started A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Colombia today, Monday morning, August 10th , 2026, killing at least 22 people, collapsing buildings and sending terrified residents into the streets across large...
Joshua Weiss 
Why the ‘Knots Landing’ Star Is Making a Very 2026 Move Donna Mills is proving that Hollywood retirement is apparently optional. At 85-years-old, the actress best known for playing the scheming Abby Cunningham on the classic television drama Knots Landing...
Joshua Weiss 
John Summit Delivers Full Circle Hometown Headlining Set at Lollapalooza Chicago 2026 CHICAGO — John Summit’s rise from an accounting career in Chicago to the top of the global electronic music circuit reached a defining milestone at Lollapalooza 2026, where...
Patrick Zarrelli 
South Florida’s Democratic Civil War: Socialist Challenger Oliver Larkin Takes Aim at Jared Moskowitz in Florida’s 25th District FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — South Florida Democrats are heading toward an ideological showdown that will test whether the democratic-socialist movement gaining influence...
Patrick Zarrelli 
Woman Hospitalized After Alligator Bites Her Arm While Swimming in Florida’s Silver River MARION COUNTY, Fla. — A woman was hospitalized after an alligator bit her arm while she was in the Silver River in Marion County, prompting a major...
Patrick Zarrelli 
Kristi Noem Memorialized in $150,000 Bronze Statue Alongside Her Horse Iceman in South Dakota PIERRE, S.D. — Former South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has been immortalized in bronze, with a new life size statue depicting the Republican politician standing alongside...
Patrick Zarrelli 
White House Drafting Executive Order on Vaccines and Autism Despite Decades of Research Finding No Link The White House is reportedly drafting an executive order that could reopen federal scrutiny of childhood vaccines and autism, pushing the Trump administration deeper...
Patrick Zarrelli 
Bill Maher Takes Aim at Fauci, Rand Paul and America’s Failure to Honestly Reckon With COVID Bill Maher used the closing “New Rule” segment of HBO’s “Real Time” on Friday to revisit one of the most politically radioactive chapters in...
Patrick Zarrelli 
Trump’s Approval Slides as MAGA Fractures, Iran War Pressure Mounts and Republicans Face Midterm Anxiety President Donald Trump is confronting a politically dangerous combination heading toward the 2026 midterm elections: deteriorating approval ratings, economic frustration, an increasingly expensive war with...
Patrick Zarrelli 
Mau P Takes Over Awakenings 2026 With a Ruthless 90 Minute Tech House Masterclass There are electronic music festivals, and then there is Awakenings. In the Netherlands, where techno isn’t treated like a side attraction but practically an institution, getting...
Patrick Zarrelli 
SIDEPIECE Brings Relentless House Energy to Lollapalooza 2026 With a Full-Throttle Set at Perry’s Stage SIDEPIECE brought nearly an hour of pounding basslines, hip hop flips, vocal driven house and festival sized energy to Perry’s Stage at Lollapalooza 2026, delivering...
Patrick Zarrelli 
Katt Williams Turns Farm Life Into a Brutal Comedy Lesson About America, Labor and Reinvention Katt Williams has built a career by finding uncomfortable truths hiding inside ordinary situations, then pushing them far enough that audiences have no choice but...
Patrick Zarrelli 
Sad News Out of Argentina Jorge Messi, the father of soccer superstar Lionel Messi and one of the most important figures behind his son’s extraordinary career, has died at the age of 68. Jorge passed away Friday night, August 7th,...
Joshua Weiss 
South Florida Steakhouse Offers ‘Classy’ Nude Dining Experience South Florida has never been accused of being boring, but one Hollywood steakhouse has taken the concept of dinner and added a rather unexpected dress code: none at all. C.L.A.S.S. Soirée Steakhouse,...
Joshua Weiss 
The Carolina Panthers opened the 2026 NFL preseason in dramatic fashion, rallying for a 33-30 victory over the Arizona Cardinals in the Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio. The preseason opener delivered far more excitement than typically expected from...
Jeff Ruller 
Walmart Pistachio Nut Butter Recall A pistachio nut butter sold at Walmart is being recalled after testing found possible contamination with Salmonella, raising concerns for consumers who may have the product sitting in their homes. Boticelli Foods is recalling a...
Darcy Fisher 
Flock Cameras Are Spreading Across America Flock Safety cameras have become increasingly common in communities across the United States as police departments look for new ways to investigate crimes, locate stolen vehicles and identify cars connected to criminal cases. The...
Darcy Fisher 
Former Kardashian Nanny Leah Barrs Rumor Former Kardashian nanny Leah Barrs is pushing back against online speculation that she once had a sexual relationship with Travis Barker, Kourtney Kardashian’s husband. Barrs addressed the rumor during an appearance on Harry Jowsey’s...
Darcy Fisher 
