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‘Law and Order’
Trump: Blame Hillary for Milwaukee Riots
Tells Wisconsin rally Clinton is “against the police.”
TO BE RELEASED
State to Release Deleted Clinton Emails
Release date has not been announced.
SCARY
Double Murder Suspect Ate Victim's Face
College student may have been on drugs.
FINALLY
Trump To Begin Airing TV Ads
In Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
DISAPPEARED
El Chapo’s Son ‘Abducted’ at Resort
Mexican authorities say.
PEAS IN A POD
Roger Ailes to Advise Trump
For the presidential debates.
THE FUTURE
Ford to Sell Self-Driving Car by 2021
Doubles presence in Silicon Valley.
Natural Disaster
82,000 Evacuated Over CA Wildfire
Homes near L.A. hit by fire spreading at breakneck speed.
GROSS
Shaun White Sued for Sexual Harassment
By his band’s female drummer.
Keep ReadingPlaying a libidinous hairdresser in the classic 1975 film ‘Shampoo,’ the actor mocked his own reputation for lechery and unleashed some fashion trends still hot today.
How Warren Beatty Reinvented Sexy
Keep ReadingHeard has dropped her domestic abuse allegations against Depp, settling for a $7 million out-of-court divorce settlement instead.
Amber and Johnny’s $7 Million Divorce
Keep ReadingIn a new interview with The Daily Beast, Larry Wilmore opens up about the end of ‘The Nightly Show’ and what comes next.
Wilmore Opens Up About Cancellation
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Politics
State to Release Deleted Clinton Emails
State to Release Deleted Clinton Emails
The State Department has announced that all work-related emails recovered from Hillary Clinton's private servers will be released. In response to a lawsuit from Judicial Watch, the department said it will disclose the FBI-recovered messages. ...
Release date has not been announced.
Like Trump? You’ll Love the Illuminati.
Like Trump? You’ll Love the Illuminati.
It’s confirmed: Donald Trump’s supporters on social media have all the best sources, and those sources are telling them the world is run by a single shadowy organization intent on controlling your mind.Data provided to The Daily Beast by social me...
Trump fans are 4.2 times more likely to tweet about the New World Order—and four times more likely to follow professional conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Trump Took Liberal Icon Soros’s Money
Trump Took Liberal Icon Soros’s Money
Tim Kaine is taking some right-wing heat for getting dinner with the son of lefty billionaire and top GOP villain George Soros.“NEW SOROS SEED RISES: Tim Kaine Dines with Billionaire Son,” blared a Drudge Report headline. It linked to a Breitbart ...
He’s is a villain of the right wing, but that certainly didn’t stop Trump from cozying up to him before the candidate was an official part of the Republican Party.
How Hillary Can Fix Foundation ‘Scandal’
How Hillary Can Fix Foundation ‘Scandal’
I kept reading those Clinton Foundation email stories last week trying to figure out why I was even reading them. Take the name “Clinton” out of the equation and consider the known facts:An official of a nonprofit foundation emailed a staffer he k...
She—and Bill—need to say pre-emptively, ‘Here are the rules under which the foundation will operate’ if she’s elected.
What Is Trump Hiding on Maternity Leave?
What Is Trump Hiding on Maternity Leave?
The question of whether Donald Trump provides paid maternity leave for any of his 22,000 employees should be easy enough to answer. But if women at the Trump Organization do receive paid time off after the birth of a child, no one, least of all th...
Ivanka claims the Trump Organization is supportive of new mothers. But it’s unclear if anyone at the company receives paid time off after the birth of a child.
Entertainment
Barack & Michelle’s Romantic First Date
Barack & Michelle’s Romantic First Date
In the summer of 1989, future history books will teach the children of the world, 25-year-old Chicago lawyer Michelle Robinson reluctantly went on a non-date-date with a cute Harvard Law student named Barack Obama that changed America. That day is...
Writer-director Richard Tanne’s Linklater-esque romantic drama hits theaters August 26th. But how accurately does it depict the moment the Obamas began to fall in love?
Werner Herzog: ‘We Will Become Extinct’
Werner Herzog: ‘We Will Become Extinct’
Being a human being in the year 2016 can be an anxiety-inducing experience in itself. Being a human being on the internet—that vast digital cesspool of wonderment, discovery, faves, likes, schadenfreude, memes, Twitter friends, anonymous trolls, s...
The German auteur on the disquieting anxieties of internet lyfe, Donald Trump, and modern love: ‘Don’t panic.’
Justin Bieber Forced Off Instagram
Justin Bieber Forced Off Instagram
Shit just got real.In the early hours Tuesday morning, Justin Bieber chose to delete his Instagram account. This was, of course, no simple task—the pop superstar had amassed some 77 million followers on the photo-sharing social media network, whic...
The pop prince, after receiving a tidal wave of harassment and abuse, has chosen to delete his Instagram account. #RIPBeliebers.
Wilmore: ‘Unblackening’ Happened to Me
Wilmore: ‘Unblackening’ Happened to Me
“So,” Larry Wilmore asked his studio audience, “how was your day?”Thus, after an explosion of wistful cheering of “Larry! Larry!” and repeated “thank yous” and “I love yous” for the host of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show seated at his anchor ta...
The host of ‘The Nightly Show’ addressed its cancellation on Monday night, and reiterated how proud he was of how they’ve conducted themselves throughout this crazy election.
Noah ‘Feels Bad’ for Trump Spokeswoman
Noah ‘Feels Bad’ for Trump Spokeswoman
It’s hard out there for a Donald Trump campaign surrogate.The challenge of speaking for Trump, as The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah examined Monday night, is perhaps best exemplified by his “spokesperson” Katrina Pierson, who just this past weekend wen...
‘The Daily Show’ host examines the role of Donald Trump surrogate Katrina Pierson, who has the most thankless job in politics.
‘Making a Murderer’: Life-Saving TV
‘Making a Murderer’: Life-Saving TV
Romance-killing true love franchises and nine seasons of Big Bang Theory aside, television can be genunely life-changing. It’s full of tempting life hacks, from sleeping with the POTUS, who is your boss (like in Scandal), to sleeping with a doctor...
Netflix’s true-crime series ‘Making a Murderer’ helped get Brandon Dassey’s conviction overturned. Here are 12 more shows that have saved real-world lives.
6 Women Who Could Replace Wilmore
6 Women Who Could Replace Wilmore
Despite insisting otherwise in his interview with The Daily Beast last month, Trevor Noah has essentially “replaced” Jon Stewart as the host of The Daily Show. Much of that flagship show’s branding and staff remained the same. The big changes were...
Now that Larry Wilmore’s ‘Nightly Show’ has been canceled, here are six women who would make great successors.
World News
ISIS Left Behind Booby-Trapped Hospitals
ISIS Left Behind Booby-Trapped Hospitals
MANBIJ, Syria — Even after its liberation from the so-called Islamic State, this city in northern Syria remains draped in jihadist black banners. Anything and everything might be rigged with explosives, and often it is, so people don’t rip down fl...
Black flags still drape the city and the terror continues from IEDs. But the biggest questions are about what comes next.
How the Spanish ‘Pope’ Lost His Faith
How the Spanish ‘Pope’ Lost His Faith
ORENSE, Spain — She was called Nieves, and he, Gregorio. They fell in love in torrid, romantic Andalusia. She had had her eye on him, it was said, since they were teenagers and she was an aspiring nun. Now he was 56 and they could confess their mu...
The ex-pontiff says his crypto-Fascist church (which made Franco a saint) was only ever intended, really, to bring its leaders sex and money.
Why Vets Come Home And Miss the War
Why Vets Come Home And Miss the War
Sebastian Junger says Tribe is his last book about war. As last words go, it’s a good way to end, as this particular monograph may end up shaping—and changing—how the current generation of troops feels about combat and coming home. “Why is it tha...
Veterans returning home from recent tours have found themselves feeling out of sync with society, and journalist Sebastian Junger thinks he knows why.
The ISIS-Inspired War on Christians
The ISIS-Inspired War on Christians
WARRI, Nigeria — The so-called Islamic State has different strategies in different parts of the world, but in Africa and in Europe, certainly, its core objective is becoming clear: to kill Christians. Its long-term goal: to provoke a new Crusade, ...
The coup that replaced Boko Haram's leader puts the ISIS subsidiary's focus on killing Christians in hopes it can unite, expand, and endure.
Drug King Ran Cartel to Save Daughter
Drug King Ran Cartel to Save Daughter
The roughest area of Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, the largest favela in Brazil, is almost at the very top. Rua Um, Road One, is where Lulu has his office. Lulu is Dono do Morro, King of the Hill, head of the local drugs trade and political boss of t...
Antônio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, or as he was better known, Nem, ran Rio de Janeiro’s most powerful cartel until it all came screeching to a halt.
She Kept Uranium Out of the Nazis’ Hands
She Kept Uranium Out of the Nazis’ Hands
In August 1939 Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt, warning of the potential of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime to use uranium to develop an atomic bomb. “The most important source of uranium,” he added, was in Africa—in the...
Shirley Chidsey’s love of travel and adventure helped land her in the Congo during World War II, when as an OSS operative she helped the U.S. hoard precious uranium.
Brazil Finally Embraces The Games
Brazil Finally Embraces The Games
Earlier this month, Sylvia Berutti, an insurance saleswoman in Rio, had her doubts about the globe’s eyes on her country as her city prepared for the Olympics. She worried about terrorism. She felt ashamed about the endless news reports about Braz...
Despite the corruption, the polluted water and the terrorism fears, Brazilians are finally loving the fact that the Games came to Rio.
U.S.
Pizzeria Sells “Black Olives Matter” T’s
Pizzeria Sells “Black Olives Matter” T’s
“Black Olives Matter.”That’s the slogan used by a restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico to promote their new tuna and black olive tapenade dish. After generating controversy in July for using that play on words on the restaurant’s sign, Paisano’s ...
Who thought this was a good idea?
Why Milwaukee Is Really Seething
Why Milwaukee Is Really Seething
MILWAUKEE — The gas station that was torched on Saturday night following the police killing of Sylville Smith wasn’t burned at random, just as the unrest wasn’t all about Smith.Smith fled a from a traffic stop on Saturday afternoon, emerged from h...
Sylville Smith’s death is unlike many that have led to unrest in America: He was armed and killed by a black cop. That’s not what the protests are about, though.
Feds: Russian Hacked U.S. Zoo, Pizzerias
Feds: Russian Hacked U.S. Zoo, Pizzerias
A small army of pizza restaurants in Washington state is prepared to face off against one of the world’s most notorious accused hackers.On Monday, Russian native Roman Seleznev appeared in a federal courtroom in Seattle for the first day of trial ...
The son of a Moscow politician, Roman Seleznev allegedly stole credit card info from hundreds of businesses—and his lawyer represented Ted Bundy.
How Cops Caught Imam’s Alleged Murderer
How Cops Caught Imam’s Alleged Murderer
Video shows that a bicyclist pedaling through the searing heat on Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn did something real or imagined to anger a young man who drove past in an aging black Trailblazer.The Trailblazer did a sudden U-turn at the corner of ...
Less than 48 hours after an imam and his assistant were gunned down on a Queens street, a bicyclist's sharp eye snared the suspect. But was it a hate crime?
Jon Stewart’s Retirement Lessons
Jon Stewart’s Retirement Lessons
Your correspondent Mr. Nale made a business trip last week to Acton, California, to interview a pig. Your other correspondent is not as young as he used to be and stayed home—missing not only the pig but a goat, two friendly cows, one cow that was...
Lessons on leaving—and staying gone—for newsies and other animals.
Tech + Health
Should Louisiana Be Scared of Zika?
Should Louisiana Be Scared of Zika?
Days after a severe flood in Louisiana that left six people dead and 10,000 in shelters, some experts are expressing concern that the event may usher in a large Zika outbreak.The fears are not entirely unfounded. When the water currently rushing t...
Faced with severe flooding, Louisiana could be in for another disaster: Zika. But experts say it isn’t time to panic yet.
James Patterson: Prostate Test Saved Me
James Patterson: Prostate Test Saved Me
On June 21 I had prostate surgery. The operation was a success and my recovery has been smooth. But this isn’t about me. It’s a plea to men out there who are over forty.Talk to your doctor about PSA testing. All the test requires is a blood sample...
A prostate cancer survivor, the bestselling author advises men over 40 to get a PSA exam as the simple first step in diagnosing the disease—and maybe saving your life.
Jesus Wants Me to Smoke This Joint
Jesus Wants Me to Smoke This Joint
When Rhode Island State Police arrived to arrest 46-year-old Alan Gordon for growing pot, he was on the toilet. The armed officers, startled, subbed out the typical “put your hands above your head” for a more relevant directive: “wash them.” Accor...
One Rhode Island group claims that when they’re lighting up a joint, it’s for religious reasons. Are they genuinely devout, or do they just want to get high?
Your Kids Are Better Behaved Than You
Your Kids Are Better Behaved Than You
There’s something terribly wrong with kids these days: a series of major surveys, conducted by the government every two years, suggest that they might just be the most well-behaved generation in recent memory.Teens are increasingly swearing off al...
Hard-partying Baby Boomer parents are more tolerant of drugs and alcohol, and their liberal attitudes may be paying off in an unexpected way.
The Original Internet Abuse Story
The Original Internet Abuse Story
In 1993, a sexual assault rocked the online community known as Lambda MOO, a chat room and virtual world populated by early adopters to the internet. Using a virtual voodoo doll, a user known as “Mr. Bungle” forced simulated sex acts on another co...
A conversation with former journalist Julian Dibbell about his game-changing article and the internet 20 years later.
Drink This Beer After Working Out
Drink This Beer After Working Out
By Samantha Lefave, Life by Daily Burn Whether you’re into stouts, IPAs, or sours, the concept of downing beer after your workout isn’t new. Social sports leagues have been doing it for years—just for the pure enjoyment of it. Plus, a 2013 study f...
A mango-flavored, protein-fortified IPA sounds way better than a clumpy protein shake.
How Russia Dominates Your Twitter
How Russia Dominates Your Twitter
“Ladies and Gentlemen, We have a situation in #Turkey #Incirlik” the cry went out on Twitter last Saturday night, as news spread of the Turkish forces surrounding the U.S. airbase in Incirlik.Thousands of armed police had reportedly surrounded the...
Fake news stories from Kremlin propagandists regularly become social media trends. Here’s how Moscow does it… and what it means for America’s election 2016.
Arts + Culture
Trump Dresses Like a Spoiled Rich Kid
Trump Dresses Like a Spoiled Rich Kid
Throughout our current election cycle, the ideas and opinions of Donald Trump have been examined, analyzed, and argued about constantly. However, what hasn’t been talked about so often is his style. I believe that the way a man dresses says a lot ...
The clothes the GOP candidate wears tells us all we need to know about a man whose idea of dressing well extends no further than how expensive his clothes are.
The Feminist Trial of Judge Aaron Persky
The Feminist Trial of Judge Aaron Persky
Ever since Judge Aaron Persky handed down an appallingly lenient six-month jail sentence to Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman on campus, a grassroots campaign to unseat the Santa Clara County jud...
After his lenient sentencing of Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault, activists have been campaigning to unseat Judge Aaron Persky.
A Tale of Two Sex Assaults
A Tale of Two Sex Assaults
This week, news that a former University of Colorado student will not spend time in prison despite being convicted of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman seemed to echo the Brock Turner case at Stanford.On the surface, it seemed like another ...
The lenient sentence given to a University of Colorado student for sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman mirrors the case of ex-Stanford swimmer Brock Turner.
He Was Princess Di’s Bodyguard
He Was Princess Di’s Bodyguard
In the 15 years since he first published his account of being Princess Diana’s bodyguard, Diana; Closely Guarded Secret, former royal protection squad police officer Ken Wharfe, Princess Diana’s bodyguard, has been called many things.A traitor, a ...
Her break-up with Charles, the affairs… For a second time, Ken Wharfe is spilling his secrets about working for Princess Diana.
How the Beach Boys Invented Surf Style
How the Beach Boys Invented Surf Style
From Spicoli’s burner cool to every buff, bronzed, board bro character trope, California’s surf culture is as burned into pop culture as blond highlights are in sun and salt bleached hair. While wave riding itself has been happening for thousands ...
The Beach Boys introduced sunny Southern California’s aesthetic to pop culture, helping to make baggies and Woodies and surfing look and sound hip even in Kansas.
HuffPost’s Namesake Quits Her Brand
HuffPost’s Namesake Quits Her Brand
In an announcement that took employees and business associates alike by surprise, digital media entrepreneur and sleep guru Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington abruptly resigned Thursday morning as editor in chief of The Huffington Post, her eponymo...
Arianna Huffington resigned Thursday morning as editor in chief of The Huffington Post. Next stop: monetizing the land of nod.
How 1,000 Singers United New York
How 1,000 Singers United New York
One of the largest choral events in Lincoln Center history will take place on Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza on Saturday, Aug. 13 at 5 p.m.A thousand volunteer singers from around New York City, crowd-sourced from an online campaign, will ...
This weekend’s ‘Public Domain’ will bring together 1,000 volunteer singers from around New York City, crowd-sourced from an online campaign, to participate in a choral event whose ly...
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