“We’ve seen such tragedies far too many times.”
FBI director shuts down GOP accusation.
“This kind of racism exists.”
But no Trump endorsement yet.
Resulting in false positives.
Cousin called it “self-serving and disgusting.”
Encouraged others to “target racist cops.”
To refute allegations of sexual harassment.
The cause of blast is still unknown.
Lied when he said he had accessed it.
In the wake of Gretchen Carlson’s sexual harassment suit against boss Roger Ailes, several women who once worked at Fox News tell The Daily Beast that Ailes also harassed them.
The designs were elaborate. The beading was extravagant. The rich and beautiful flocked there. But the dividing line between classy and tacky was blurred at Paris’ couture shows.
The pop superstar unleashed a powerful statement on her website and a moment of silence at a concert. It's the latest in her laudable history of Black Lives Matter activism.
It’s a job that Sen. Bob Corker never really wanted.Anyone who had spoken with the Tennessee Republican in recent weeks noticed the distaste with which he viewed various scandal-oriented questions regarding Donald Trump. On Wednesday, he told the ...
Sen. Bob Corker took a pass Wednesday on a job he never wanted: Trump’s veep.
A tweet from Carl Paladino, a former candidate for New York governor and a current surrogate for Donald Trump’s campaign, appeared to suggest that the attorney general of the United States should be lynched on Wednesday morning.“Lynch @LorettaLync...
A staffer apologizes for a racially inflammatory Twitter post from Carl Paladino, who has a history of saying such things.
Here’s one way to hit back at the hateful rhetoric from the likely GOP nominee. And you might even get candy.
Here’s one way to hit back at the hateful rhetoric from the likely GOP nominee. And you might even get candy.
Before there was the controversy over a tweet involving the Star of David, Hillary Clinton, and a pile of money, there were other screw-ups.Dan Scavino, Donald Trump’s social media chief, once shared a video he claimed was of Syrian refugees rally...
How many hoax videos or anti-Semitic memes can you share before you’re out? That’s the question for Dan Scavino, Trump’s director of social media.
PARIS — I return here to reckoning the debits and credits of the Obama years.I stand by my earlier criticisms of a foreign policy that has ceded too much to Bashar al-Assad, to Vladimir Putin, and to the enemies of the United States generally.And ...
As Obama campaigns for his successor, we can’t be sure how history will judge him, but here’s how an influential French philosopher, and frequent critic, sizes him up.
In a shocking turn of events, there’s a theory going around the internet. The revolutionary global system of interconnected computer networks behind cat videos, free porn, and memes has produced one of its most fascinating hypotheses yet: that Tom...
‘We’re actually witnessing complete symbiosis—between Taylor Swift, the men who kind of love her, the fans who follow her, and the tabloids that convert all of this intimacy into pro...
Scales 925, T.I.’s shockingly mediocre Atlanta Soul Food restaurant, is getting buzz for all the wrong reasons. The rapper/gun collector/Iggy Azalea apologist has just been hit with a lawsuit by 12 disgruntled employees. The suit names Clifford Ha...
Twelve disgruntled employees at the rapper’s downtown Atlanta restaurant are accusing him of ripping them off. This isn’t the first time the restaurant has met with controversy.
People who enter the Mega Millions lottery may only have about a 1-in-259 million chance of winning the top jackpot, but that doesn’t stop thousands from playing every year. For those who don’t know, the Mega Millions lottery is a multi-state lott...
Feeling lucky? The odds of winning are slim, but here’s how you enter the multi-million dollar lotto.
50 Cent knows a thing or nine about cheating death. As the story goes, in early 2000, the then-unknown rapper’s track “Ghetto Qu’ran” leaked online. In it, he touched on the history of Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff and his Supreme Team, a crack-dealin...
The acclaimed rapper and producer/star of the Starz series ‘Power,’ returning on July 17, discusses the Bobby Shmurda case, Tupac, and much more.
The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah may have dedicated the opening of his show to Hillary Clinton’s rough day on the campaign trail, but he saved his harshest critique for Donald Trump’s social media catastrophe from this past holiday weekend.Yes, the Re...
On ‘The Daily Show’ Tuesday night, Trevor Noah broke down the blatant anti-Semitism of Donald Trump’s Star of David tweet.
HBO’s new eight-part miniseries The Night Of tells the story of one supremely unlucky young man who ends up on trial for a murder he almost certainly did not commit. We know this because, as viewers, we are right there with Nasir Khan — played by ...
Here’s why this HBO miniseries, about a young man on trial for a murder he likely didn’t commit, is about to be your new summer obsession.
What a time to be alive. Ciara and Future’s ongoing legal battle has taken a turn for the homicidal. According to newly filed documents in her defamation lawsuit, Ciara is claiming that her ex has made murder threats against her current fiancé, Se...
New documents in a defamation suit claim the R&B singer’s ex is threatening her fiancé. How did their relationship come to this?
AMSTERDAM — A Belgian civil court has fined a Catholic home for the elderly €6,000 ( $6,660) for interfering with a doctor trying to euthanize a patient.The case, decided last week, stands out in a country where assisted dying has become almost co...
Since 2002, thousands of patients have been helped to die in Belgium, many of them in Catholic hospitals. But a battle is brewing.
ROME — Last year when aid agencies in Italy shared the grim news that as many as 10,000 migrants and refugees, many under the age of 18, had disappeared without a trace, most people assumed they had just escaped to other parts of Europe.Now, it wo...
A human trafficker turned informant exposes a sinister ring where migrants and refugees who can’t pay their bills are sold to an Egyptian gang for their body parts.
PARIS — I return here to reckoning the debits and credits of the Obama years.I stand by my earlier criticisms of a foreign policy that has ceded too much to Bashar al-Assad, to Vladimir Putin, and to the enemies of the United States generally.And ...
As Obama campaigns for his successor, we can’t be sure how history will judge him, but here’s how an influential French philosopher, and frequent critic, sizes him up.
By Roland Elliott Brown Abbas Kiarostami, Iran’s best-known filmmaker, died Monday, July 4. He was 76.In recent months, Kiarostami had undergone a series of surgeries for gastrointestinal cancer.Kiarostami was the winner of some of the top honors ...
Pics or it didn’t happen?At a news conference on June 5, Indian police officers Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod announced that they had climbed Mount Everest, the tallest peak in the world. By early June, multiple news outlets reported on the climb...
Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod said they made it to the top of the highest mountain in the world, but they probably only summitted with Photoshop.
AMSTERDAM — Hundreds of Eastern European children are living what the Dutch press calls a modern Oliver Twist story, some held against their will, others in thrall to their handlers as they are forced to beg and steal their way around Western Euro...
The Netherlands has launched a major international investigation into the human trafficking behind Europe’s plague of child pickpockets.
President Obama announced Wednesday yet another delay in his plan to wind down the war in Afghanistan, saying 8,400 troops would remain there for a list of enemies that has grown from al Qaeda to the Taliban and now to the so-called Islamic State....
“There is no desire to end the war in Afghanistan. There is a desire to… make it a problem for the next administration,” one defense official tells The Daily Beast.
Boy Scouts and “Hooters Girls” don’t seem like a likely combination at most events. Nevertheless, a Colorado Boy Scout troop is in hot water with parents after the restaurant sponsored a crafting event for local scouts."It’s just the philosop...
Denver moms are wondering why they weren’t informed that Hooters was hosting this Boy Scout day camp.
Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson has sued the network’s president, Roger Ailes, claiming that he fired her after she rebuffed his sexual advances.In a lawsuit filed Wednesday morning, the former daytime host says the Fox News mastermind repea...
Gretchen Carlson claims the most powerful man in cable news repeatedly demeaned her with ‘severe and pervasive’ sexual harassment—then fired her.
Jailers in Oklahoma crushed an inmate’s throat so hard that paramedics couldn’t insert a life-saving tube after five attempts, according to medical records obtained by The Daily Beast.A state medical examiner found the bone supporting Darius Robin...
Darius Robinson was arrested for not paying child support and killed by guards who broke a bone in his throat and held him down as he foamed from the mouth.
On Andrew Sadek’s 20th birthday, North Dakota police made him an offer: moonlight as a confidential informant and avoid rotting in prison.It was November 2013, and Sadek had never been in trouble before. Months earlier, he’d sold a small amount of...
When Andrew Sadek was caught selling $80 of pot, cops pressured him into being an informant and told him to go after ‘harder drugs.’ Then he turned up dead.
Virtual reality has been the talk of the entertainment industry for the last couple of years, as the TV, film, gaming, and social media worlds all look to immersive experiences as the next advancement in digital experiences.But while big budget pr...
In the coming years, virtual reality will be about recording personal moments. But what’s to stop people from living fully inside those memories?
Police stood by as a small white drone touched down in Northern Ireland last Tuesday on the banks of the Clanrye River. Two women, awaiting its arrival, turned to face news cameras before consuming the drone’s controversial cargo: pills used to in...
Once a renegade ship sailing international waters to provide abortions, Women on Waves is embracing drone technology to expand their service.
It was a car crash of all things that gave him away.In September 2015, Michigan abortion doctor Michael Arthur Roth asked the West Bloomfield police to retrieve some items from his car, which had been impounded after an accident. But when police l...
A Michigan doctor found with human tissue in his car—and who allegedly stole fentanyl for illegal abortions—has been charged with a slew of crimes.
“Goodbye pills. Hello real vitamins.”That’s the tagline for Tespo, a new high-tech vitamin dispenser that turns powdered nutrients into clear “liquid vitamins”—all with the touch of a button.The $150 dispenser—available only online—aims to provide...
Tespo says it will turn your vitamins into a daily drink—but the science behind liquid supplements remains murky.
In Australia last year, a young woman named Olivia Meville faced an onslaught of Tinder shaming by strange men for simply posting a Drake lyric in her bio—“The type of girl that will suck you dry and then eat some lunch with you.”The first wave of...
‘I was drunk,’ ‘I was joking,’ ‘It’s free speech’: men are making awful excuses for why they harass women online.
“When I first heard about applying electricity to your naked body during sex, my first thought was ‘oh my god why would you do that?! Zappy, ouchy, dangerous!” says Jess Wilde.“But now I have completely changed my mind: the idea of turning you and...
Couples who use electricity between the sheets say it taps into the body’s nervous system.
Luxury sex-toy manufacturer LELO wanted to reinvent the condom. But by making Charlie Sheen their pitchman, they could end up tanking their own reputation instead.Once beloved by feminist sex workers, bloggers, and educators for its sleek vibrator...
A Swedish sex toy company once beloved by feminists is trumpeting Charlie Sheen as its new condom spokesman—and pissing off customers who point to the actor’s history of abusing women.
Bill Thomas has 4,500 bottles of whiskey at his house and nearly 2,700 bottles at Jack Rose Dining Saloon, his Washington, D.C. bar and restaurant. Many of them are worth thousands of dollars and are one or two of a kind. Despite their rarity, Tho...
From liquor cabinets to ghost distilleries, whiskey collectors are hunting for the rarest bottlings to add to their collections.
Listen to Bruce Springsteen’s new foreword to the 40th anniversary edition of Born on the Fourth of July, published here courtesy of Audible (audio version of the book available from Audible here). Introduction to Born on the Fourth of July Repri...
‘Born on the Fourth of July,’ Ron Kovic’s account of his time in Vietnam, is out in a new edition. Listen to Bruce Springsteen’s new foreword and read Kovic’s introduction.
Of course, all the throbbing penises, phallic flowers, and hot bodies Robert Mapplethorpe fans could wish for are present at the two retrospectives of his work at Los Angeles’ Getty (to July 31) and LACMA (also to July 31) museums. Of the two, the...
Two great exhibitions in Los Angeles reveal the lifetime’s work of photographer Mapplethorpe—with his confrontational treatment of sexuality and male body taking center-stage.
On a recent afternoon at Spring Place, the new members-only club in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood, the atmosphere was so hush-hush that even directions to the bathroom were whispered. In the reception area, one prospective member strained to he...
The owners of Spring Place hope jet-setting creative professionals will seek it out to host meetings with clients—and cavort with other jet-setting creative professionals.
Barcelona would not be Barcelona without the work of two titans of the Modernista movement—Lluís Domènech i Montaner and the more famous Antoni Gaudí. From the Hospital Sant Pau to the Sagrada Familia, their colorful, nature-inspired, trippy works...
The designer of such architectural masterpieces as Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia, Antoni Gaudí left behind designs for a monumental Manhattan hotel that was never built.
Every few years, book publishing is hit by a major scandal. Someone like Jonah Lehrer is caught making up quotes. There were supposedly major factual inaccuracies in the controversial Primates of Park Avenue, and passages in Ben Carson’s book were...
Gay Talese is only the latest red-faced author to publish a book replete with errors—errors a routine fact-check would have caught. Why doesn’t book publishing do a better job?
“Phillip had been drinking, and later he repeatedly told people close to him that he’d taken LSD that night. Somewhere behind him was a grizzly, and Harry’s flashlight was lost. Phillip stumbled downhill through the forest and burst into the moonl...
Grizzly attacks on humans in and around our national parks always make the news, but you’re more likely to be attacked by bison, or ticks. Here’s a guide for wary campers.
Cabin Creek, Colorado, is for sale.The five-acre ghost town includes a gas station, a motel, a restaurant, an RV park, and zero people—all for the low, low price of $350,000, according to an ad posted on Craigslist.“Ghost Town for Sale!!” the ad c...
The unpopulated town of Cabin Creek, Colorado, is available for $350,000.
Animal rights protesters rushed the stage at the Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest in Coney Island on Monday, spraying fake blood on the contestants and knocking over trays of hot dogs. Soon afterward NYPD officers grabbed and removed the pro...
Chaos ensued as protesters rushed the stage at the Coney Island hot dog eating contest.
A severed foot and other body parts were found on Copacabana beach Wednesday, adding one more problem to the long list plaguing Rio de Janeiro’s upcoming Summer Olympics.The mutilated remains were found just a few yards away from where Rio is plan...
Human remains turned up at the venue for the Games’ volleyball matches.
Among the many Democrats running for Congress this year, two are trans women. Both, oddly enough, are named Misty.On Tuesday, Misty Snow and Misty Plowright became the first openly trans candidates to win major party primaries for Congress, the Wa...
Two trans women ran in two separate Democratic primaries for Congress. Both won.
DJ Sven Vath had a lot to keep track of this past weekend at a Netherlands music festival—including the soccer game on his phone. Pictures posted to Facebook by photographer Mr. After Party show the Awakenings festival from Vath's point of vi...
Photos clearly show DJ Sven Vath’s phone streaming a UEFA game between his turntables.
Humanity is still destroying itself with its own greed and stupidity, Stephen Hawking told Larry King on Saturday.Reiterating the concerns he had expressed in 2010, the legendary scientist said on Larry King Now that human shortsightedness is stil...
“We certainly have not become less greedy or less stupid,” Hawking told Larry King.
California's market for marijuana products could get a lot bigger this fall. Currently, more than 700,00 patients take part in the state's medical marijuana program. But, with the 2016 election looming, that could change.A measure to leg...
On November 8, Californians will vote on whether to legalize recreational marijuana use.
![A boy works on a turntable in the neighborhood of "Pinto Salinas" during a hip-hop performance in Caracas April 21, 2006. [In the sprawling, urban ghettos of Caracas, President Hugo Chavez's self-styled socialist revolution is getting a hip hop flavor. Tiuna El Fuerte, a collective named after an local indigenous hero, is bringing rap shows and street performances to impoverished neighborhoods as part of Chavez's oil-financed social reforms for the poor. Organizers say their cultural project mirrors Chavez's programs, which supporters say have given more participation to the poor majority long abandoned by previous governments.] - RTXOJ50](http://cdn.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/06/30/dj-caught-watching-soccer-on-phone/jcr:content/tall.crop.300.600.jpg/48910361.cached.jpg)
![A boy works on a turntable in the neighborhood of "Pinto Salinas" during a hip-hop performance in Caracas April 21, 2006. [In the sprawling, urban ghettos of Caracas, President Hugo Chavez's self-styled socialist revolution is getting a hip hop flavor. Tiuna El Fuerte, a collective named after an local indigenous hero, is bringing rap shows and street performances to impoverished neighborhoods as part of Chavez's oil-financed social reforms for the poor. Organizers say their cultural project mirrors Chavez's programs, which supporters say have given more participation to the poor majority long abandoned by previous governments.] - RTXOJ50](http://cdn.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/06/30/dj-caught-watching-soccer-on-phone/jcr:content/square.crop.490.600.jpg/48910361.cached.jpg)
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