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PIGGISH
Trump: ‘Check Out’ Machado’s ‘Sex Tape’
Calls former Miss Universe a “disgusting” con artist.
SHOW OF PEACE
Bibi, Abbas Shake Hands at Peres Funeral
Obama hails “gesture of peace” during moving eulogy.
TOUCHDOWN
Rosetta Spacecraft Safely Lands on Comet
Collected one final batch of data and images from surface.
BUT HANNITY SAID...
Stern: Trump Supported Iraq War in 2002
Despite Trump’s repeated claims he opposed it.
Blunt Talk is Back
Brit Expats on Election 2016
from Blunt Talk is Back
UNHINGED
Duterte: I’d Be Happy to Kill Addicts
“If Germany had Hitler, the Philippines would have...”
‘PRICELESS’
Stolen Van Goghs Found by Italy Cops
Taken 14 years ago in infamous Dutch heist.
WOOF
USA Today Denounces Trump
“Unfit for the presidency.”
R.I.P.
Hoboken Crash Victim Identified
Young mother had just moved to U.S. with family.
IT NEVER ENDS
Trump Foundation Not Properly Certified
It must be registered to solicit money from the public.
Keep ReadingThe iconic actor from ‘Mean Streets’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’ explains why, as a Marine veteran, he can’t back Trump: ‘There’s not much poetry in the man.’
Keitel: Tough Guys Don't Vote Trump
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The Power of a Bulletproof Black Man
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Chelsea Handler: I Know More Than Trump
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Lawsuit: Trump Is the Illuminati King
Lawsuit: Trump Is the Illuminati King
Donald Trump is a communist, a member of the New World Order, and may have been tangentially involved in a plot to use wireless brainwave technology to coerce a Disney World alligator into killing a toddler—if the lawsuits against him are to be be...
The most absurd of the frivolous lawsuits filed against the candidate this month was brought by a man who believes Trump is a would-be communist dictator.
Is Trump Private Prisons’ Last Hope?
Is Trump Private Prisons’ Last Hope?
Donald Trump’s regressive law enforcement views may be the last best hope for private prison companies.And given the past five weeks, they could use a lifeline.Their stock prices have been brutalized. A host of law firms have started putting toget...
Their stock prices plunged when the feds decided to phase them out—and again when Hillary Clinton said she’d stop using them at the state level, too. But they may have a lifeline.
Obama on Trump Criticism: ‘Blah Blah’
Obama on Trump Criticism: ‘Blah Blah’
In one of the last town-hall style meetings of his presidency, Barack Obama challenged the man who may yet be elected to succeed him: Donald Trump.Asked by a Gold Star mother Wednesday evening why he didn’t use the term “radical Islamic terrorism,...
At a town hall Wednesday night, the president took on the GOP candidate’s statements on Muslim Americans—and batted down his contention that the U.S. military is in a sorry state.
The Race to Smear Hil’s Miss Universe
The Race to Smear Hil’s Miss Universe
Alicia Machado, the former Miss Universe whom Donald Trump repeatedly attacked for her weight both in 1996 and this week, is a Venezuelan porn actress with a history of violence and palling around with shady characters running drug cartels. That’s...
Rush Limbaugh was quick to dub Trump foe Alicia Machado ‘porn star Miss Piggy’ because someone who looked like her appeared in porn. It wasn’t her, though.
Hillary Saved the Bombshells for Round 2
Hillary Saved the Bombshells for Round 2
Come along with me, people, because it’s already time to look ahead to the second debate. Consider this thought: Hillary Clinton took Donald Trump to the house Monday night without even playing some of the heaviest cards against him.What did come ...
She hardly had to scratch the surface to win the first contest—and there’s plenty more dirt where that stuff came from.
Entertainment
Colbert Mocks Gary Johnson’s ‘Ignorance’
Colbert Mocks Gary Johnson’s ‘Ignorance’
Stephen Colbert has spent so much time talking about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton over these past weeks and months that it must have been a relief to spend a few minutes Thursday night making fun of Gary Johnson.The Libertarian presidential ca...
The ‘Late Show’ host took a break from shaming Donald Trump to remind viewers why Gary Johnson is not a viable alternative.
Watch Cumberbatch Sing Pink Floyd Live
Watch Cumberbatch Sing Pink Floyd Live
Benedict Cumberbatch is one interesting chap. The Oscar-nominated star of The Imitation Game, the beloved TV series Sherlock, and the upcoming Marvel superhero film Doctor Strange has, among other things, taught English at a Tibetan monastery in ...
The Oscar-nominated actor can apparently do no wrong.
Tori Amos on Rape Culture and Trump
Tori Amos on Rape Culture and Trump
The first time Tori Amos watched Netflix’s documentary Audrie & Daisy, about two teen rape victims driven to suicide—one completing her attempt, the other a survivor—it left her numb. “It’s a call to arms,” she told The Daily Beast from Los An...
The acclaimed singer-songwriter opens up about her theme song to the poignant documentary ‘Audrie & Daisy,’ rape culture in America, and much more.
Chelsea Handler Burns Ann Coulter
Chelsea Handler Burns Ann Coulter
The first sign that something was up came when Chelsea Handler posted an Instagram story Wednesday afternoon in which she literally set fire to Ann Coulter’s latest book, In Trump We Trust.The conservative pundit, fresh off her crash-and-burn perf...
After Ann Coulter canceled her appearance on Chelsea Handler’s Netflix show at the last minute, the host spent most of the episode tearing her to shreds.
‘The Daily Show’ Finds Creepy Trump Clip
‘The Daily Show’ Finds Creepy Trump Clip
Donald Trump is, without question, the most misogynistic presidential candidate in modern American history. He views women as mere objects—even his own baby daughter. He possesses a pathological need to project his own body insecurities onto women...
Host Trevor Noah and his staff aired not one, but two clips of the Republican presidential candidate acting like a total scumbag.
Westworld Isn’t the Next Game of Thrones
Westworld Isn’t the Next Game of Thrones
It’s interesting that high expectations might be Westworld’s biggest problem. The feverishly anticipated HBO series reveals a world in which boundless expectation and possibility gets stifled when the bleakness and limits of reality sets in.The re...
HBO—or at least reporters who cover HBO—has long promised that ‘Westworld’ could succeed Westeros as its next great epic. It fails in that respect, but shows potential.
Colbert Blasts Trump’s ‘Fat-Shaming’
Colbert Blasts Trump’s ‘Fat-Shaming’
One night after he tore into Donald Trump for threatening to confront Hillary Clinton with her husband’s infidelities, Stephen Colbert was at it again, this time taking on the Republican candidate’s rediscovered history of “fat-shaming” women who ...
The ‘Late Show’ host went after Donald Trump Wednesday night for his decades of ‘fat-shaming.’
World News
Right Wing Peddles Anti-Migrant Spray
Right Wing Peddles Anti-Migrant Spray
ROME — There has never been any question about how some Danes really feel when it comes to refugees and migrants. After all, Denmark is a country where the parliament actually voted to seize certain high-value items from them to help offset the co...
How do you really feel about migrants, Denmark? A new pepper spray meant to be used against asylum-seekers is the latest right-wing propaganda tool aimed at keeping refugees away.
Shimon Peres: An Optimist Betrayed
Shimon Peres: An Optimist Betrayed
Shimon Peres was the last of Israel’s founding fathers, a larger-than-life figure and Nobel Peace laureate who made history several times over. Yet his legacy lies in a shambles.For someone who built the state of Israel, engineered its massive def...
Israel’s former prime minister, president, and defense minister, who died early Wednesday at age 93, was the last link to its founding generation.
Playboy Puts on the Hijab
Playboy Puts on the Hijab
Playboy magazine has just featured an article about a hijab-wearing Muslim-American, Noor Taguri, “making a forceful case for modesty.”Yes. You read that correctly.In its October “Renegades” issue, Playboy is showcasing a religious-conservative pr...
With the best of intentions, no doubt, the magazine has fallen into the slut-shaming game of Islamists around the world.
U.S. Warned of Attack on Syria Aid Group
U.S. Warned of Attack on Syria Aid Group
Two days prior to devastating aerial attacks, Michael Ratney, the U.S. special envoy to Syria, was told the Assad regime was planning to hit the Aleppo facilities of the Syrian Civil Defense, a volunteer rescue group.Raed al-Saleh, the head of the...
The Obama administration, desperate to save a shattered Syrian ceasefire, seems to have ignored concrete intelligence of an atrocity to come.
Mexico Can’t Stop Lying About a Massacre
Mexico Can’t Stop Lying About a Massacre
MEXICO — The lives of dozens of Mexican families were forever altered when bullets rained down on their sons, rural college students who dreamed of one day becoming teachers.Two years ago this Monday, a convoy of corrupt police ambushed students t...
The government claims the missing students were murdered by the cartels and incinerated en masse. But experts say they doubt that’s the truth.
If You Knew Putin Like We Know Putin…
If You Knew Putin Like We Know Putin…
Russia has come to occupy an outsize role in U.S. foreign policy and the forthcoming U.S. presidential election, and who knows more about the Bear than the Baltic States—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania? They were devoured by the Soviet Union on the...
Estonia’s president and Lithuania’s foreign minister talk to The Daily Beast about the menace Moscow poses to them, Europe, and the United States.
The Biggest Myths About Jesus Christ
The Biggest Myths About Jesus Christ
1. Jesus wasn’t tall and white. We’ve said it before but it bears repeating: Jesus was not the light-haired blue-eyed icon of European art. The problem isn’t limited to European painters: Willem Dafoe, Robert Powell, and Diogo Morgado have all bro...
Was he really a pacifist? And what did he think about marriage? Oh, and there’s that whole thing about the color of his skin…
U.S.
Dog Groomer Arrested in Murder-for-Hire
Dog Groomer Arrested in Murder-for-Hire
She was willing to kill for her “dream house.”An Ohio dog groomer was collared last week for allegedly hiring a hitman to zap her estranged husband in the middle of their divorce.Shelly Ann Carter, 42, offered an assassin $1,000 and a car to slay ...
Shelly Ann Carter was arrested along with her much younger boyfriend after the hired killer she allegedly approached to off her husband went to the police.
Lawsuit: Trump Is the Illuminati King
Lawsuit: Trump Is the Illuminati King
Donald Trump is a communist, a member of the New World Order, and may have been tangentially involved in a plot to use wireless brainwave technology to coerce a Disney World alligator into killing a toddler—if the lawsuits against him are to be be...
The most absurd of the frivolous lawsuits filed against the candidate this month was brought by a man who believes Trump is a would-be communist dictator.
He Survived Idi Amin—Not San Diego Cops
He Survived Idi Amin—Not San Diego Cops
Before he mastered boneless buffalo-wing and chili-fry orders as a Hooters line cook, Alfred Olango escaped war-torn Uganda.“You know he was a refugee,” Tunda Braxton, who through tears and by her husband Charles’s side spoke to The Daily Beast ab...
His sister called 911 to ask them to help her brother. When police finally arrived, they shot him down.
Here’s Why We’re Scared of Creepy Clowns
Here’s Why We’re Scared of Creepy Clowns
For the past several months, creepy clowns have been terrorizing America, with sightings of actual clowns in at least 10 different states. These fiendish clowns have reportedly tried to lure women and children into the woods, chased people with kn...
With reports of strange clown attacks on the rise across the United States, there’s a good reason we’re feeling extra creeped out.
Wells Fargo Stinks From The Head
Wells Fargo Stinks From The Head
Wells Fargo Bank committed a scam that stole from its customers, inflated its stock price, and lined the pockets of its top-level executives. Those same executives pinned the whole thing on their low-level employees – people making as little as $1...
To end these predatory practices, financial services sector employees should be given a seat at the table and allowed to collectively bargain.
Tech + Health
‘Opioid Cure’ Kratom Ruins Lives, Too
‘Opioid Cure’ Kratom Ruins Lives, Too
One mother says that her son stole $7,000 in checks from his dad to fuel his drug addiction, went to rehab, relapsed, and then committed suicide by driving his car into an overpass. His last known words: “I can’t live like this anymore.”A 33-year-...
A battle is brewing over the botanical substance known as kratom. Users say it’s safer than opiates, while critics call it just as dangerous.
The Real Dangers of Food Porn
The Real Dangers of Food Porn
By K. Aleisha Fetters, Life by Daily Burn We’re only a week and a half into September, but this month has already celebrated National Gyro Day, National Baby Back Ribs Day, National Cheese Pizza Day, National Coffee Ice Cream Day, National Beer Lo...
‘Nursebots’ Will Make Shortages Obsolete
‘Nursebots’ Will Make Shortages Obsolete
For years, the U.S. has experienced a shortage of registered nurses. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that while the number of nurses will increase by 19 percent by 2022, demand will grow faster than the supply, and that there will be over ...
By 2022, one million nurse jobs will be unfilled—leaving patients with lower quality care and longer waits. But what if robots could do the job?
Trump Techbro Sparks Pro-Hillary Revolt
Trump Techbro Sparks Pro-Hillary Revolt
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Oculus Rift developers are donating to Hillary Clinton in direct response to news that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is backing a political action group pushing “shitposts” on behalf of Donald Trump.Some developers ...
The Daily Beast revealed Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey as a Trump “shitposting” sugar daddy. Now the Virtual Reality community is coming out hard for Hillary Clinton.
Jim Carrey Lawsuit Just Got Uglier
Jim Carrey Lawsuit Just Got Uglier
The wrongful death lawsuit against Jim Carrey just went from strange to stranger.In an amended complaint filed Thursday, Mark Burton, the estranged husband of Jim Carrey’s late ex-girlfriend Cathriona White, is claiming that the Liar, Liar star ga...
A lawsuit that alleges the actor had involvement in the death of Cathriona White was amended Thursday. It claims Carrey gave White multiple sexual transmitted diseases, including her...
Facebook, Stop Messing With the Election
Facebook, Stop Messing With the Election
“You’re on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls!”In 2004, that’s how ex-Daily Show anchor Jon Stewart famously rebutted Crossfire host Tucker Carlson’s allegation that he had gone too soft on John Kerry. Seven years...
Still denying it’s a media company, Facebook says it’s just a technology company. But given its influence on the election, how much longer can it keep up the charade?
Facebook Fat Cat Funding Trump Memes
Facebook Fat Cat Funding Trump Memes
A Silicon Valley titan is putting money behind an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and circulating internet memes maligning Hillary Clinton.Oculus founder Palmer Luckey financially backed a pro-Trump political organization ...
Palmer Luckey—founder of Oculus—is funding a Trump group that circulates dirty memes about Hillary Clinton.
Arts + Culture
George and Charlotte Save the Royal Tour
George and Charlotte Save the Royal Tour
Princess Charlotte was teething, Kate admitted, and Prince George had been shoehorned into his usual knee-high Victorian socks, but the royal children let their hair down and had a ball today as they took center stage on their first joint official...
Bar Kate’s dresses, the Cambridges’ tour of Canada has scored few headlines, until Thursday and a public appearance by the royals’ two big draws—Prince George and Princess Charlotte.
The Most Powerful Man in Hair
The Most Powerful Man in Hair
Twixt a barber and the barbered, the full array of human emotion, the palette of power and the exertion of it, the circuits of cordiality and spurs of challenge can crackle through a few inches of air at every snip of the clippers. There are a tho...
Martial Vivot is no mere barber. He cuts and shapes the coifs of Manhattan’s movers and shakers, and to do that he employs not only his scissors but a keen sense of psychology.
Will and Kate’s So-What Tour of Canada
Will and Kate’s So-What Tour of Canada
It’s hard now to believe that just over three years ago, several hundred journalists, cameramen, and news crews spent several weeks in one of London’s hottest summers standing, sitting, and even sleeping on a pavement outside a London hospital wai...
William, Kate, George, and Charlotte are visiting Canada on what was intended to be a high-profile family tour. But so far it has registered a big fat zero on the global news feed.
Why Did CNN Make Lester Holt Invisible?
Why Did CNN Make Lester Holt Invisible?
To borrow one of CNN’s advertising slogans, the cable outlet decided to “go there” during Monday night’s great debate.If you depended on that particular news source, as I did, to watch Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump mix it up at Long Island’s Ho...
If you were watching CNN’s coverage of the Clinton vs Trump slugfest, moderator Lester Holt of NBC was nowhere to be seen—and today CNN won’t say why.
How Nat Turner Spent His Last Night
How Nat Turner Spent His Last Night
When the actor Phillip James Brannon wears the shackles that prevent his character, Nat Turner—the slave who led a rebellion of other slaves in Virginia in 1831—from moving, the weight of history is very literally on his shoulders.The shackles the...
In the New York Theatre Workshop play ‘Nat Turner in Jerusalem,’ the leader of the 1831 slave rebellion faces a long, dark night of the soul before his execution.
Royal Canadian Touchdown
Royal Canadian Touchdown
Prince George demonstrated he has the right stuff to be King today, showing a promising mastery for one so young at the art of the royal wave as he arrived with his mother Kate Middleton, father Prince William and sister Princess Charlotte at the ...
The royals have kicked off their big Canadian tour with a crowd-pleasing appearance at Victoria airport in British Columbia
Trumpet Lessons, Life Lessons
Trumpet Lessons, Life Lessons
My Aunt Harriet took me up on the bus to the Wurlitzer store on Sutphin Boulevard and bought a used trumpet, which she paid for with bills and change from the grandmother’s purse. Afterwards, each Saturday morning, my mother gave me three dollars ...
In an excerpt from his autobiographical novel—his first published work in a decade—Jimmy Breslin describes his first trumpet lessons, and stumbles upon a scene of heartbreaking beauty.
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