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Unexpected
Trump Apologizes for Previous Remarks
Doesn't specify which ones.
PROOF
Manafort Lobbied For Ukraine in D.C.
Emails acquired by the AP show that his lobbying firm tried to sway the American public opinion.
EPIDEMIC
Report: Hackers Targeted Trump Camp
At least one Trump staffer's email was infected with malware.
Mass Exodus
2 More Fox News Execs Leave Network
Two more staffers close to Roger Ailes are out amid scandal.
HOT WATER
Lochte Indicted for False Crime Report
Brazilian police confirmed.
WHOOPS
Bayh Is An Inactive Voter in His State
Fueling GOP attacks that he ditched Indiana for D.C.
CLINTON CASH
Clinton Fdn: No More Foreign Donors
Changes to come if Hillary is elected.
RANSOM?
State: Iran Cash Got Detainees Released
U.S. officials held cash to time with freeing of detainees.
END OF AN ERA
Gawker.com Shutting Down Next Week
Days after Univision bought it.
‘TOUGH COP’
Report: Fox Dumps Ailes’s Top Detective
Blames New York mag reporter for his termination.
Keep ReadingDr. Drew Pinsky, he of celebrity rehabs and adult radio, is joining the chorus of those who say Hillary Clinton is unwell and unfit to be president.
Dr. Drew Leads Clinton Health Truthers
Keep ReadingAmy Schumer speaks out about her relationship with comedian and ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ writer Kurt Metzger, who got in hot water for defending an accused serial rapist.
Schumer: Kurt Metzger Is ‘The Problem’
Keep ReadingJoshua Monroe, the artist behind five headline-attracting, ball-less statues that appeared in American cities Thursday, reveals he was planning to vote Trump.
Unmasking the Man Who Makes Nude Trumps
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Politics
Kerri Walsh Jennings: Grace in Defeat
Kerri Walsh Jennings: Grace in Defeat
Beach volleyball queen Kerri Walsh Jennings may not have had any practice at losing at the Olympics, but she seemed good even at that.After Walsh Jennings lost her first of 26 Olympic matches and saw her chances for a fifth gold medal evaporate af...
The queen of beach volleyball remained generous and gracious even as she unexpectedly lost her chance at a fifth gold medal.
Alt Right Rejoices at New Trump CEO
Alt Right Rejoices at New Trump CEO
Donald Trump’s campaign is under new management—and his white nationalist fanboys love it.The campaign’s new chief executive, Stephen Bannon, joins from Breitbart News—where he helped mainstream the ideas of white nationalists and resuscitate the ...
As Breitbart’s chief, Steve Bannon did a lot to normalize the racist, anti-Semitic world of the alt right. Now they rejoice as he joins the campaign of their king.
Arab Cops Come Out of the Shadows
Arab Cops Come Out of the Shadows
DEARBORN, Michigan — As Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson looked out to the crowd of police officers before him, there sat women in hijab and officers with origins from Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. Some welcomed each other in Arabic with a c...
The Middle East Law Enforcement Officers Association, started by a female Palestinian and a male Chaldean, are the ‘ground force’ in the fight against extremism, Homeland Security Se...
Watch: Trump Says Your Town Sucks
Watch: Trump Says Your Town Sucks
Wherever you live, if Donald Trump comes to town, he'll probably tell you it sucks. Typically it's because all your jobs have disappeared. Or maybe you have a tremendous problem with drugs. Or perhaps, as he said on at least one recent o...
Everywhere the Donald goes, he quickly informs his audience their town is a basket case.
The Green Veep’s False-Flag Flirtations
The Green Veep’s False-Flag Flirtations
Ajamu Baraka, professorial with kind eyes, was an accomplished human-rights activist before joining the Green Party ticket as Jill Stein’s running mate.But the two leftist candidates—due for a mainstream close-up in a CNN town hall on Wednesday—al...
Ajamu Baraka, Jill Stein’s Green Party vice-presidential pick, has a history of engaging with fringe theories.
Entertainment
Lewis Black: The Election ‘Has to Stop!’
Lewis Black: The Election ‘Has to Stop!’
With a big bowl of booze on the table, courtesy of Stephen Colbert, Larry Wilmore hosted his second-to-last roundtable segment Wednesday night with a man who is never at a loss for words when it comes to politics. Making his seventh and final appe...
The longtime ‘Daily Show’ contributor made one last epic appearance on ‘The Nightly Show’ to talk 2016.
Trump’s Bizarre ‘Seinfeld’ Connection
Trump’s Bizarre ‘Seinfeld’ Connection
Back in May, billionaire businessman and now pro-Hillary Clinton celeb Mark Cuban declared that Donald Trump was going to run “the Seinfeld campaign.”“It’s going to be the campaign about nothing,” he predicted.Today, Cuban’s mocking comment takes ...
Stephen Bannon, who’s produced right-wing propaganda docs, also used to front a company that owned a big chunk of several sitcoms—including ‘Seinfeld.’
Bella Hadid Bares All
Bella Hadid Bares All
Bella Hadid has followed in the footsteps of her older sister Gigi, 21, and posed nude for a high-end fashion magazine. The 19-year-old stunner—who is dating Canadian R&B crooner The Weeknd—will grace the cover of the coveted September issue ...
The supermodel—and little sister of Gigi—has bared all for the French edition of Vogue magazine.
Inside Barack and Michelle’s First Date
Inside Barack and Michelle’s 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 Aug. 26. But how accurately does it depict the moment the Obamas began to fall in love?
Colin Quinn: Trump Doesn’t Get ‘Sarcasm’
Colin Quinn: Trump Doesn’t Get ‘Sarcasm’
A few days after the third season of his under-the-radar but consistently hilarious web series Cop Show premiered on YouTube, Colin Quinn gave The Daily Beast a call to talk about it from the Comedy Cellar in New York City, where he was set to per...
The former ‘Weekend Update’ anchor talks about how he left ‘SNL,’ Donald Trump’s sense of humor, and the third season of his web series ‘Cop Show.’
Kris Jenner Quits ‘Kardashian U’
Kris Jenner Quits ‘Kardashian U’
Kris Jenner is pulling out of the university she helped relaunch after learning of its troubled past, The Daily Beast has learned—but the school might have much bigger problems.The New York State Education Department on Tuesday informed the Legacy...
The momager will no longer serve as chairwoman of the Trump Tower-based Legacy Business School, which allegedly advertised degrees without state permission.
Wilmore Fires Back: We Did ‘Resonate’
Wilmore Fires Back: We Did ‘Resonate’
Larry Wilmore had just finished taping what would now be his third to last episode of The Nightly Show on Comedy Central when he gave The Daily Beast a call to discuss his thoughts about the untimely end of his reign as the country’s only African-...
In a new interview with The Daily Beast, Larry Wilmore opens up about the end of ‘The Nightly Show’ and what comes next.
World News
How the Olympics Wound Up in Brazil
How the Olympics Wound Up in Brazil
In 2009, at the IOC congress in Copenhagen, Rio de Janeiro, unusually, chose the nation’s central-bank president, Henrique Meirelles, rather than a former Olympian or leading politician, to give the keynote address to the committee, due later in t...
There are many ways things can go wrong, but when it comes to the story of how Brazil convinced the world it should host the Olympics, everything went horribly awry.
Russia Teams Up With Iran to Bomb Syria
Russia Teams Up With Iran to Bomb Syria
Russia has deployed bomber aircraft to Iran for air strikes on rebels in Syria, the Russian defense ministry confirmed on Tuesday.As the main backers of the regime of Syrian president Bashar al Assad, Russia and Iran have long been de facto allies...
The attacks mark a closeness between Moscow and Tehran that hasn’t been seen since World War II.
U.S. Kept Quiet After Americans Attacked
U.S. Kept Quiet After Americans Attacked
PARIS — It’s been more than a month since soldiers in South Sudan, a country that gets more than a billion dollars a year in U.S. assistance, singled out American aid workers for beatings and abuse amid an orgy of theft, intimidation, and gang rap...
Soldiers in South Sudan singled out American aid workers amid an orgy of theft and gang rapes last month. The UN didn’t stop them, and the U.S. said nothing.
Italy May Outlaw Veganism for Kids
Italy May Outlaw Veganism for Kids
ROME — Italians do love their wild boar pasta and thick Florentine steaks. So it is no wonder that not long after Chiara Appendino, the new mayor of Turin, announced that she would like to see her northern Italian town become the country’s first “...
An Italian lawmaker wants to equate veganism to child abuse and send offending parents to jail.
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.
The Putin-Trump Mind Meld
The Putin-Trump Mind Meld
We have now reached the point in the American electoral cycle where surrogates for both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are happily propagating each other’s lies without guile or even the slightest concern they’ll be discovered doing so.Consider t...
In the old days, the KGB fed lies to politicians, then played them back as fact. Today, Putin’s propagandists do the same—and who’s that politician?
The Bigotry Behind France’s Burqini Ban
The Bigotry Behind France’s Burqini Ban
PARIS — Not long after the horror in Nice a month ago—as soon as the police barricades were cleared, and while flowers and stuffed toys were piling up in memory of the 85 people who died—topless sunbathers were back on the beach beside the azure w...
The ban in Cannes of the Muslim bathing suit known as a ‘burqini’ was intended as a statement of secularism. In fact, it’ s a declaration of intolerance.
U.S.
Arab Cops Come Out of the Shadows
Arab Cops Come Out of the Shadows
DEARBORN, Michigan — As Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson looked out to the crowd of police officers before him, there sat women in hijab and officers with origins from Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. Some welcomed each other in Arabic with a c...
The Middle East Law Enforcement Officers Association, started by a female Palestinian and a male Chaldean, are the ‘ground force’ in the fight against extremism, Homeland Security Se...
Watch: Trump Says Your Town Sucks
Watch: Trump Says Your Town Sucks
Wherever you live, if Donald Trump comes to town, he'll probably tell you it sucks. Typically it's because all your jobs have disappeared. Or maybe you have a tremendous problem with drugs. Or perhaps, as he said on at least one recent o...
Everywhere the Donald goes, he quickly informs his audience their town is a basket case.
Zika Hits Miami’s Outdoor Restaurants
Zika Hits Miami’s Outdoor Restaurants
MIAMI — August is already a slow month in Miami. Between the oppressive heat, suffocating humidity, and frequent rain, the locals who haven’t already fled to a less tropical clime prefer to stay inside. Add news of a Zika outbreak to the mix and b...
Wynwood Yard is an outdoor eatery and event space in a bustling Miami neighborhood. And three of its employees have been diagnosed with Zika.
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State to Release Deleted Clinton Emails
Date has not been announced.
Kris Jenner Quits ‘Kardashian U’
Kris Jenner Quits ‘Kardashian U’
Kris Jenner is pulling out of the university she helped relaunch after learning of its troubled past, The Daily Beast has learned—but the school might have much bigger problems.The New York State Education Department on Tuesday informed the Legacy...
The momager will no longer serve as chairwoman of the Trump Tower-based Legacy Business School, which allegedly advertised degrees without state permission.
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?
Tech + Health
Zika Hits Miami’s Outdoor Restaurants
Zika Hits Miami’s Outdoor Restaurants
MIAMI — August is already a slow month in Miami. Between the oppressive heat, suffocating humidity, and frequent rain, the locals who haven’t already fled to a less tropical clime prefer to stay inside. Add news of a Zika outbreak to the mix and b...
Wynwood Yard is an outdoor eatery and event space in a bustling Miami neighborhood. And three of its employees have been diagnosed with Zika.
Inside NYC’s Radical Egg-Freezing Clinic
Inside NYC’s Radical Egg-Freezing Clinic
In a November episode of The Mindy Project, a pajama-clad Dr. Lahiri told an auditorium of bright-eyed college students that their baby days were numbered.“Your body does not care if you are dating the wrong guy, or [if] the guy you’re with is als...
Extend Fertility, a new private clinic in Manhattan, offers egg freezing at half market price. It’s also the first standalone practice of its kind in the U.S. How beneficial will it ...
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.
Arts + Culture
Amber and Johnny’s $7 Million Divorce
Amber and Johnny’s $7 Million Divorce
It began as a feminist issue, with allegations of domestic abuse, and ended—in spectacular Hollywood fashion—with a $7 million out-of-court divorce settlement.It’s been nearly three months since Amber Heard filed for divorce from Johnny Depp, arri...
Heard has dropped her domestic abuse allegations against Depp, settling for a $7 million out-of-court divorce settlement instead.
School Sex Assault Victim to Be Named?
School Sex Assault Victim to Be Named?
An elite New Hampshire boarding school has denied reports that it wishes to publicly identify the victim of a high-profile campus sexual assault in a civil suit against the school.On Monday, several reports that St. Paul’s School had asked a feder...
Exclusive New Hampshire boarding school St Paul’s has denied it wants to name the victim publicly, but would like her name to be used in court in an upcoming civil suit.
‘Cats’ Is Back and It’s Irresistible
‘Cats’ Is Back and It’s Irresistible
It could be the early 1980s all over again, the time when, as a young, country-living boy, I was taken by my parents to see Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats in London.The revolving stage—an innovation I remember being dazzled and gobsmacked over—was ama...
It feels resolutely ’80s, and it has no strong plot, but the magic of Mr. Mistoffelees and ‘Memory’ still makes Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical a winner with audiences.
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 Van Gogh That Keeps Getting Stolen
The Van Gogh That Keeps Getting Stolen
Since his death over a century ago, Vincent van Gogh has become something of a poster child for tormented artists. His life was troubled and tragic, plagued by mental illness and anxiety that resulted in his now notorious act of madness, cutting o...
One museum in Egypt has faced the indignity of having the same Van Gogh painting stolen not once, but twice, and ‘Poppy Flowers’ (1887) remains missing to this day.
The True Secret To Staying Young
The True Secret To Staying Young
After the age of 21, your body slowly stops releasing an important hormone known as HGH (Human Growth Hormone), which covers everything from gray hair to sex. It’s all downhill from there—that’s all I have to say.When I was recently invited to spe...
To remain engaged and excited by reading, writing, and by life itself, says a seasoned novelist, we must constantly seek to discover the new, to engage the unknown.
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.
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