"You defend people who kill the lives you say matter."
And other tax havens.
Will attend ceremony, however.
Governor signs two executive orders.
British PM's father named in Panama Papers.
In Washington.
Haruka Weiser, a freshman, was found dead Tuesday.
Will vote for him in NY primary.
He died from a fractured skull, burns, and broken ribs.
Prosecutors hope footage can help track escape route.
She’s been lauded for criticizing AdWeek’s Photoshopping of her. But how ‘real’ do Hollywood stars really want to look?
In an interview with Katie Couric, the Fox News host opened up about her feud with the GOP frontrunner—and hit the rest of the media for going easy on him.
Call him a country musician if you must, but the late Merle Haggard was more than that. He was a contrarian in the American grain and an artist without equal.
Donald Trump just blew off pro-life leaders exactly one week after he angered the movement by calling for “punishment” for abortion.Trump was reportedly expected to address Priests for Life and the 115 Forum conference during a conference call on ...
The formerly pro-choice Republican, already in deep trouble after talking about ‘punishment’ for women, just ticked off a lot of conservative activists.
Donald Trump’s point man in the House of Representatives improperly used campaign funds on videogames and his children’s private Christian school, according to Federal Election Commission filings. And his staff’s explanations for the expenses are ...
Candidates aren’t allowed to spend campaign funds to pay for their lifestyle—which, Duncan Hunter found out, includes videogames and private-school tuition.
If Republicans won’t even meet with President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, and refuse to vote on his nomination, it seems like the president is out of options. Yet while the president may not be able to compel hearings, he...
If all else fails, and it looks like it will, there is one option remaining for President Obama: invoke his constitutional authority to compel the Senate into session—and off the cam...
Lawyers for the State Department want to limit the types of questions that a watchdog group can ask former aides to Hillary Clinton, and potentially the former secretary of state herself, about her creation and use of a private email system while ...
Lawyers object to any attempt to ask Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and others about how information was handled—and are dead set against Clinton testifying.
While the United States hovers on the brink of flaxen-haired disaster, our northern neighbors have ushered in their era of Twinklingly Handsome Social Justice. If Trump wins, we could always up and move to Canada. Right?Well, maybe you can. My fam...
If Donald Trump becomes president, my family can’t flee north. Why? Because our son has disabilities that are considered ‘too expensive.’
The trailer for the new season of The Real Housewives of New York is a glorious wine-soaked overture of screaming matches, catty remarks, and tearful confessions, a cacophony that translates as sweet music to the ears of reality TV fans. Bottles a...
Carole Radziwill is an Emmy-winning journalist, a best-selling author, and, um, a princess. Not exactly who you’d expect at a leg-throwing dinner. And that’s why she’s so great.
So did he do it? That’s a joke, folks. How odd that series can be this captivating when the ending was already so well-known. (History: the ultimate spoiler alert.) It’s how we got to that verdict that was so captivating, that turned “the run of h...
After Tuesday’s surprisingly moving finale, is there any reasonable doubt (heh) that ‘American Crime Story’ is the best thing on TV in 2016 thus far?
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story’s Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski hoped their explosive 10-hour miniseries would get America talking about the colliding racial, gender, and class politics that helped football hero and accuse...
The creators of the FX sensation open up about the people and evidence that got left out of the show—and how the ex-football hero got away with murder (probably).
As with many quick-to-escalate Twitter feuds, this one started with a hoax.Over the weekend, rapper Azealia Banks spotted a fake article posted by a parody website that quoted Sarah Palin as saying, “Negroes loved being slaves and they were doing ...
The rapper got exactly what she wanted when Palin called her out and threatened to sue over a string of ugly tweets.
It’s a big primary day in the Midwest, but Hillary Clinton isn’t doing voter outreach in Wisconsin. Instead, she’s in New York, home of the next big delegate prize, taking her message to The View. And as moderator Whoopi Goldberg said in her intro...
Clinton received more love than criticism during an extended appearance on the talk show Tuesday morning.
Yes, if Instagram is to be believed, Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna are engaged:This news—if it’s not an elaborate troll, mind you—comes on the heels of Rob meeting with Blac Chyna’s mother and stepfather, who claimed to be huge fans of the only bo...
Rob Kardashian reportedly proposed to the video vixen, who is the mother of rapper Tyga’s baby, who is dating Rob’s younger sister, Kylie Jenner. Yep.
MOSCOW — Before the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released the now famous Panama Papers, the enormous leak of offshore financial records, almost nobody in Russia remembered that Vladimir Putin’s closest friend from the 1970...
Few people had heard of the cellist Sergei Roldugin, but since his name showed up in the Panama Papers as the likely bag man for Putin, his name’s becoming a household word.
LONDON — Asad Shah was a much-loved Muslim shopkeeper in Scotland’s first city of Glasgow. Embodying the slogan of his mosque: Love for All and Hatred for None, he would post inclusive social media messages such as “a very Happy Easter, especially...
The stench of Islamic extremism has become all too common among the religious and community leaders of the U.K.
Before Nevada, there was Niue.Niue being a Polynesian speck of a nation that became known as Savage Island after it thrice repulsed Captain James Cook in 1774. It proved considerably more welcoming when the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca prop...
How Niue, a coral outcropping with just 1,190 residents, rolled out the welcome mat for Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of the massive records leak—and made a tidy profit.
ODESSA, Ukraine — Defense lawyer Yuriy Grabovskiy often told his friends and colleagues: “Surprisingly, nobody has rubbed me out yet.” But his words were never taken seriously. None of his friends thought of recommending that the charismatic lawye...
Attorney Yuriy Grabovskiy took the hard cases, and it appears because of the last one, defending an alleged Russian intelligence officer, he paid with his life.
LONDON — Phony terrorism strategies employed by some of America’s key counter-terror partners are at the heart of a shocking surge in death penalty usage, which has reached its highest level in a quarter of a century.Amnesty International recorded...
Shocking rises in death penalty executions, particularly in Saudi Arabia, are being justified as part of the war on terror, says Amnesty International.
Torture—enhanced interrogation, if you prefer—is yet again a hot-button issue in American politics. For some presidential candidates, the question isn’t if they’d allow it under their leadership, but how much.That these candidates know nothing of ...
Eric Fair’s new memoir, “Consequence,” details his involvement in the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Fallujah. In a frank interview, he talks about the toll of that experience.
The Panama Papers revealed this week how billions of dollars secretly moved around the world to benefit a Saudi king, the president of Argentina, the prime minister of Iceland (who is reportedly resigning because of them), allies of Russian Presid...
America has its own state thieves, embezzlers and liars (steal) protection acts.
A female U.S. Army soldier said she was beaten so severely by a soldier after making out with another man in their unit that she “thought I was about to die.” Jacob Andrew Avila, a combat engineer, and his friend Lucas Curtis stumbled onto the 18-...
Two men in Texas are under investigation for allegedly strangling and punching a woman after catching her in bed with a man.
“Kill me!” the madman demanded of cops 50 times as he wielded a massive, blood-stained knife.Incredibly, the officers didn’t take the bait.“All hell broke loose,” Glendale, Ohio’s police chief Dave Warman said of the March 29 confrontation in the...
Pablo Aleman tried to beat a murder rap by begging for suicide by cop. Officer Josh Hilling didn’t give him what he wanted, despite a massive blade coming for him.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did nothing to protect two Navajo children from sexual abuse in the 1970s and early 1980s while they were enrolled in a program to convert and assimilate Native American students, according to a laws...
Two Navajo siblings say a foster program that placed Native American children with white Mormon families failed to intervene and stop years of alleged abuse.
If Republicans won’t even meet with President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, and refuse to vote on his nomination, it seems like the president is out of options. Yet while the president may not be able to compel hearings, he...
If all else fails, and it looks like it will, there is one option remaining for President Obama: invoke his constitutional authority to compel the Senate into session—and off the cam...
America’s pastime isn’t for the faint of heart. Or soft of skull.
The feds are cracking down on an East Texas meth ring that’s believed to have united the Aryan Brotherhood and unidentified African-American street gangs. And in an unusual twist, a federal prosecutor has singled out a group of white women as the ...
Three blondes and 14 others—including alleged members of the Aryan Brotherhood—were busted for running a Texas meth ring linked to local murders.
As someone who’s decided it was okay to drive after one too many joints, I know it’s a bad idea. Reaction time can slow, tiredness can ensue, and other aspects of your perception can make it unsafe to operate a vehicle. Many states are currently t...
As medical (and recreational) marijuana becomes ubiquitous, how will states tackle high drivers?
Clinic blockades nearly doubled. Arsons and bomb threats quadrupled. Acts of vandalism went up fivefold. Threats of bodily harm increased by 94 times. And an armed gunman named Robert Lewis Dear killed a police officer and two civilians inside a C...
2015 was the worst year in history for anti-abortion violence, according to a new report by the National Abortion Federation.
If you’ve ever been concerned about your picture being forever in the cloud, your fear may soon become an inevitability, as more and more companies are beginning to adopt the selfie as a security feature.Mashable reported that Amazon is the latest...
Amazon and MasterCard want to use selfies as passwords, meaning they’d collect hundreds of pictures of you.
During a recent Executive Program at Silicon Valley’s Singularity University, the institution’s co-founder Peter Diamandis made some confident predictions.Within the next decade, he said, self-driving cars will eliminate all driving fatalities. Ar...
The students and teachers at Singularity University welcome a future where robots run the world.
While the United States hovers on the brink of flaxen-haired disaster, our northern neighbors have ushered in their era of Twinklingly Handsome Social Justice. If Trump wins, we could always up and move to Canada. Right?Well, maybe you can. My fam...
If Donald Trump becomes president, my family can’t flee north. Why? Because our son has disabilities that are considered ‘too expensive.’
Inside this tiny plane in wet, windy California sits a bunch of blood.It looks like one of those RC doohickeys, and it can only handle 3 1/2 pounds of the stuff, but it’s an RC doohickey that’s going to save a lot of lives in Rwanda in a couple of...
A tiny plane made by a California-based startup is set to begin making deliveries of blood throughout Rwanda, where roads ‘are washed out 95 percent of the time in the rainy season.’
In Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel Snowcrash, people study pizza delivery to ensure they can put pies in customers’ hands inside 30 minutes, without fail. Not much is certain in the book’s futuristic society, but the timely delivery of pizza is a g...
One thing in our future is certain: pizza bots.
It doesn’t quite rank up there with the prowler who made his way into the Queen’s bedroom for a late night chat, or the reporter who got a job serving the Queen breakfast.But a British pop duo have pulled off a publicity coup by blagging their way...
British band Cat’s Eyes once talked their way into the Vatican for an impromptu performance. Now they have blagged their way into Buckingham Palace for the same purpose.
When it comes to fashion, designer Isaac Mizrahi’s approach is no color left behind. This is evident from the first step on to the second floor at The Jewish Museum in New York City where the all-American designer is the subject of his first-ever ...
The Jewish Museum is hosting a retrospective of the designer’s clothes—and what impresses is his longevity and originality.
How can a former royal girlfriend get on with a successful life of her own after she splits with her royal love?It’s a tough challenge, as public fascination with royal exes persists in a way that it does not when it comes to the otherwise non-fam...
It isn’t easy being the one-time romantic partner of royalty. Scandal may await you, as well as the ongoing curiosity of media and public.
When it comes to Hulk Hogan’s sex video/invasion of privacy lawsuit against Gawker Media, it ain’t over till it’s over.In two defense motions filed with the trial court in St. Petersburg, Florida, Gawker is asking the judge to throw out the shocki...
In two defense motions filed with the trial court in St. Petersburg, Florida, the company is asking the judge to throw out the $140.1 million awarded to Hulk Hogan.
Oberlin College in Ohio currently employs Joy Karega, an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition, who publicly professed on Facebook that ISIS was run by the CIA and Mossad, the Israeli counterpart to the U.S. agency.Karega also posted on ...
Students on campus are quick to protest incidences of supposed cultural insensitivity—even over sushi—but not when it comes to a professor’s anti-Semitism.
Bernie Sanders is drawing bigger and more enthusiastic crowds than Hillary Clinton, and outraising the Democratic frontrunner by millions of dollars.Now he is poised to beat her in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary while giving the former secretary of s...
Politics-watchers are mystified that Sanders’s staff cooperated in a front-page postmortem on his election campaign—when he’s still fighting to win.
Emma Watson—Hermione of Harry Potter fame—became a feminist hero when she called on men to fight for women’s rights in a watershed United Nations speech last year.Now, curiously, one of the most lauded, voluble, and UN-approved celebrity feminists...
Adverts the ‘Harry Potter’ actress did for a ‘skin lightening’ cream have earned her unmerited online wrath.
The chain says its biggest store ever will feature ‘coffee as theater.’
In an age of racism and sexism, Katherine Johnson broke both barriers at NASA.
A Florida farmer put down an 800-pound alligator. Why? It was eating his livestock.
A private security guard bullied demonstrators with his phone. Then a real cop stepped in.
The Red Planet may have actually been more habitable when asteroids were pummeling it.
A new technology used by Facebook describes photos to blind users.
The man who voiced 'Star Wars' fan favorite Admiral Ackbar died on Sunday.
A weird image in the clothing chain’s new ad campaign has sparked accusations of ‘passive racism.’
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