Shot after being held captive for two weeks.
For a discreet refuge.
Video shows man on the ground being shot.
Days after North Korea's alleged H-bomb test.
Faces jail time.
As gun debate with Sanders gets heated.
According to Mexican government.
On a playground.
Over anger at Serbia.
Due to bomb threat.
Fans and loved ones gathered at Motörhead frontman Lemmy’s favorite bar to help send the fallen rock ’n’ roll icon off to the great beyond.
The ’80s and early ’90s were all about brawn, but now, a new type of movie hero has emerged—as evidenced by John Krasinski’s turn as a supersoldier in Bay-ghazi.
A new project aims to add the signature smoky flavors of aged whiskey in a fraction of the time.
President Obama may have expected tough questions in Thursday night’s “Guns in America” town hall, but I think it’s fair to say he was ambushed.Of the first five questions, three came from gun-rights advocates who made it clear they were not there...
A viewer looking for a genuine contest of ideas during Obama’s appearance Thursday night found instead a set of stock characters—what the network hoped would be good television.
BURLINGTON — Donald Trump has now gone where few Republican presidential contenders have gone before: the backyard of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.Trump had other things on his mind, though, as Sanders was barely the focus of a Thursday night rally...
Twenty thousand tickets for 1,400 spots. Candle-toting Bernie backers enduring Trumpian taunts of ‘Take a shower!’ Protesters ejected sans coats. This Burlington visit had it all.
Donald Trump says Ted Cruz may not be eligible to be president, and what happens? It dominates the news cycle for three days. Going on four.See a pattern here? You should. A few months ago people used to ask, “What impact is Donald Trump having on...
The GOP frontrunner has found a way to dominate the news cycle with his lies and nutty claims, allowing him to rob our elections of their last bit of substance.
The head of the Democratic National Committee is supposed to help unify the disparate parts of her party, but Debbie Wasserman Schultz doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo.This week the Florida Democrat stirred the hornet’s nest—known as the progr...
With Republicans in utter disarray, it should be relatively smooth sailing for DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. But it’s not. And it’s all her fault.
In the wake of his executive actions expanding background checks on gun purchases and attempting to close the so-called "gun show loophole," President Obama will join CNN's Anderson Cooper for an hour-long discussion titled "Gu...
President Obama will sit down with Anderson Cooper on Thursday evening for a discussion on gun violence—here's how to watch it without a TV.
The 73rd Golden Globe Awards start Sunday, January 10, at 8 p.m. ET on the NBC broadcast network. Ricky Gervais returns as host for the fourth time, his first since 2012. The Daily Beast has all the pre-game analysis you'll need.If you have a...
The Oscars' drunk little sister airs tonight—here's how to watch without a TV.
So what does it really mean for Netflix to go global?For globetrotting Americans like me it’s a matter of convenience. Now, if I’m visiting relatives in Taiwan over the holidays and feel like mainlining comfort-food TV rather than making the effor...
This week, Netflix announced that it is now available in over 130 new countries worldwide. Let’s look at the ramifications for consumers in America and beyond.
“The most terrifying things are the most plausible things,” noted Natalie Dormer, ringing from New York to discuss her turn in The Forest as a woman battling inner and outer demons in Japan’s infamous Suicide Forest. The supernatural horror flick ...
The stunning actress opens up about new horror film ‘The Forest’ and what’s in store for Margaery Tyrell in her hit HBO series’ sixth season.
Kardashian-world is a strange one, a perverse hall of mirrors.The family’s Sunday night dramas on E!—in which they drive around Los Angeles, or stay in their mansions sucking on juices while stink-eyeing one another, slack-jawingly noting how “wei...
Magazine covers featuring members of the reality-TV family lead to fewer sales. Numbers are down for their E! show. Yet the clicks and column-inches keep coming.
With its free-flowing champagne, nonsensical nominations, and winners that might have voters waking up Monday morning with hangovers of regret, it might make sense that the prevailing attitude about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual...
With stargazing, nonsensical nominees, and decades of scandal, the Globes are considered a joke. But this may be the most relevant and fun awards ceremony.
When the Golden Globe nominations were announced last month, one of the biggest surprises was all the love for a little-seen Amazon series called Mozart in the Jungle. Not only did the show score a Best Comedy Series nod, but its star, Gael García...
The Mexican-born star of ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ and the upcoming immigration thriller ‘Desierto’ believes that good-hearted Americans won’t let Donald Trump become president.
You just knew the Season 2 premiere of Lip Sync Battle was going to be a big deal when host LL Cool J revealed that Quentin Tarantino was in the audience. The auteur was there to support The Hateful Eight co-star Channing Tatum, who was competing ...
The actor goes head-to-head with his wife, Jenna Dewan Tatum, who just happens to be a former Janet Jackson backup dancer, on the Season 2 premiere of ‘Lip Sync Battle.’
MUNICH — Who hasn’t heard of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler’s infamous Nazi screed? The book laid the foundation for his Nazi ideology and the roadmap to the Third Reich. Mein Kampf (My Struggle) was Hitler’s preamble to war; it’s where he preached what...
The Fuehrer’s bible of hate, banned for 70 years, is available once again in Germany. The scholarly edition is supposed to protect the public from its message. But how long will that...
She was simply trying to save the life of her child.Instead, Leena al-Qasem fell victim to the first rule of any successful cult: Turn your followers against their friends, their family, and most importantly, their parents.This being one of the mo...
Leena al-Qasem pleaded with her son to leave the terror group. Instead, he murdered her in the heart of its savage capital city, before a crowd of hundreds.
It reminded us all of the beginning of the end of the Arab Spring. In 2011, the celebratory crowds in Egypt’s Tahrir Square began giving way to organized street gangs who targeted and raped women out in the open. Perhaps this was a bad omen for th...
It took several days for the news of hundreds of sexual assaults in Cologne to make headlines. As progressives dither over what to say, the far right has already seized the opportunity.
LONDON—The Labour Party’s hapless left-wing leader is trying to stamp his authority over colleagues with a purge of the moderates, but his clumsy attempt at brutality has veered toward pantomime—leaving the plot to be branded “the night of the blu...
In what’s been dubbed the ‘night of the blunt knives,’ the ham-handed U.K. pacifist sacked two moderates. His message: Those clinging to the political center ground will be expunged.
The leading Kabbalist in the world is going to jail.Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto is a celebrity in Israel and among financial and real estate elites in New York. A sage whose followers include the leaders of Israel’s business elite, Pinto is the de...
Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto was once the powerful head of a multimillion-dollar empire and spiritual adviser to the likes of LeBron James. Now he’s going to prison for bribery.
The U.S. military insisted Wednesday that it was was not surprised “strategically” by North Korea’s test of a nuclear device. But Pentagon and intelligence officials admitted that they were caught off guard by the specific timing of the detonation...
The test wasn’t exactly a shock—Kim Jong Un’s cronies said they had developed an H-bomb. But U.S. officials were still on the back foot when the bomb went off.
North Korea today claimed it has joined the world’s first rank of nuclear nations by successfully conducting a hydrogen bomb test at 10 a.m. Pyongyang time.If the claim is true, the Kim Jong Un regime has made far more progress in developing nucle...
Chilling announcement raises huge concerns over nuclear proliferation and proves that Kim Jong Un doesn’t care what Obama and the rest of the world think about his militant regime.
The New York Public Library has released thousands of maps, illustrations—and these amazing Berenice Abbott images of the city in the 1930s—to the public domain.
The New York Public Library has released thousands of maps, illustrations—and these amazing Berenice Abbott images of the city in the 1930s—to the public domain.
It was a good day to die.In early September 2003, I spent the morning shuffling my children off to school, used our last 10 dollars to put gas in the tank, folded a basket of laundry, and tidied up the tiny motel room we lived in. And then, I went...
We don’t talk about the gun on the nightstand—the one whose most likely victim is yourself or someone you love.
President Obama may have expected tough questions in Thursday night’s “Guns in America” town hall, but I think it’s fair to say he was ambushed.Of the first five questions, three came from gun-rights advocates who made it clear they were not there...
A viewer looking for a genuine contest of ideas during Obama’s appearance Thursday night found instead a set of stock characters—what the network hoped would be good television.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it did not investigate the hate group that inspired Dylann Roof to kill nine black parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina last year.FBI spokeswoman Jillian Stickels told The Daily Beast that there is no...
The feds say they didn’t investigate the group that helped inspire the killer, but even hate speech is free speech—until it promotes violence.
In the wake of his executive actions expanding background checks on gun purchases and attempting to close the so-called "gun show loophole," President Obama will join CNN's Anderson Cooper for an hour-long discussion titled "Gu...
President Obama will sit down with Anderson Cooper on Thursday evening for a discussion on gun violence—here's how to watch it without a TV.
For some, it’s definitely not the most wonderful time of the year.The holidays can be particularly challenging for people who suffer from depression. And during this most recent holiday season, Christmas Eve may have been the most depressing day o...
For some, the Christmas season is the opposite of joyful.
Should you fling your iPhones into the sea, new parents? Are you doing irreparable harm to your infants’ development every time you check your texts or Shazam the radio? Can you Candy Crush your kids into a mood disorder? According to TIME, maybe....
When major news outlets get science this wrong, we get very upset.
Eduardo Serio loves his cats—all 200 of them.The felines aren’t normal-sized. They’re “big cats”: jaguars, lions, and tigers that range in age from newborns to adults. Most have been purchased from circuses and petting zoos through The Black Jagua...
Celebrity visitors go there to take selfies with baby lions. Animal activists say it’s a bogus sanctuary looking for profit.
Unlike its chips, Chipotle’s woes seem bottomless.The burrito giant’s plans to regain ground after last year’s E. coli outbreak were foiled on Wednesday by an SEC filing in which the company admitted that its fourth-quarter sales were lower than e...
Chipotle announced a sales slump Wednesday, and, more troubling, a criminal investigation.
The FDA has warned women about the risks of transvaginal mesh for years. Now, the agency is finally taking direct action to limit the use of this popular but potentially dangerous product.In a press release on Monday, the FDA announced that the su...
Thousands of lawsuits and a serious FDA warning may have this controversial product off the market by 2019.
Backed by a well-known anti-choice lawyer, a surrogate mother-to-be in California is suing the genetic father (and intended parent) of the triplets she’s carrying, claiming his alleged wish to terminate one of the fetuses entitles her to keep at l...
A surrogate pregnant with triplets in California is suing to keep one or all of the babies, which are unrelated to her.
An 11-year-old schoolboy has become the first child in Britain to undergo a mastectomy. Surgeons in Birmingham, U.K., removed the right pectoral muscle of Lewis Deakin, who suffers from arteriovenous malformations (AVM)—a rare condition in which b...
An 11-year-old U.K. boy underwent a mastectomy for a condition that causes tumors to grow in chest arteries.
President 13: Millard Fillmore [July 9, 1850 – March 4, 1853]“The whole country is full of enterprise. Our common schools are diffusing intelligence among the people and our industry is fast accumulating the comforts and luxuries of life. “ -6 Dec...
Pickling is back, so why not a presidential favorite?
Throughout history, art and mathematics have informed each other in stunning and often magical ways.
Throughout history, art and mathematics have informed each other in stunning and often magical ways.
Kardashian-world is a strange one, a perverse hall of mirrors.The family’s Sunday night dramas on E!—in which they drive around Los Angeles, or stay in their mansions sucking on juices while stink-eyeing one another, slack-jawingly noting how “wei...
Magazine covers featuring members of the reality-TV family lead to fewer sales. Numbers are down for their E! show. Yet the clicks and column-inches keep coming.
Eight-year-old Ethan Wilwert wanted one special thing for Christmas—not a puppy, nor, thankfully, a hoverboard. Ethan wanted an in-person makeup tutorial at the MAC Cosmetics store in his family’s local Florida mall.“A couple of months before Chri...
Ethan Wilwert’s mother says her 8-year-old son’s detractors are wrong—not only does he look great made up, we should accept our children for who they are.
Dearest Jennifer Lawrence, we really did want to be your best friend.We drooled over every photo and crazy anecdote from your nights out with your real BFF, Amy Schumer.We only have admiration for your articulate, fiercely spot-on response to the ...
In an interview, the actress—charmingly, of course—seemed to suggest her body is not Hollywood-perfect. What lies behind the false modesty?
Watch the drivers and riders tearing through Argentina and Bolivia for the world’s most grueling road race.
Watch the drivers and riders tearing through Argentina and Bolivia for the world’s most grueling road race.
This week, Tom Daley and his partner Dustin Lance Black gave a very sweet account of their relationship to Out magazine.There were lovely details about the night they met, the cute passing on of a phone number, and today—happily ensconced together...
Gisele and Tom Brady’s diet merited a whole magazine article, while Tom Daley’s breakfast took over Instagram. Documenting what we eat is making us crazy.
Early this year the Food and Drug Administration is banning three chemicals often found in food packaging such as pizza boxes and microwave popcorn bags. Advocacy groups have been petitioning to have the chemicals in question banned for some time ...
Along with two other chemicals found in food packaging.
The GOP candidate—who famously believes prison turns people gay—was confronted by an LGBT activist in Staten Island.
With a quintessential Florida man.
It’s a time-honored tradition to ring in the New Year with some alcoholic cheer. But last night things started with a tipsy glow and rapidly declined into blackout mode with the live TV hosts from mainstream networks like CNN and ABC. Were they re...
Anderson Cooper couldn’t even.
Donald Trump’s official campaign spokesperson, noted fringe conservative firebrand and alleged unemployment cheat Katrina Pierson made a statement, and stir, by appearing on CNN’s The Lead wearing a choker-style necklace of bullets wired together....
If you can’t win with reason, blind them with, err, style?
Spoiler alert: She’s never actually seen it.
Tomorrow night hundreds of thousands of people will congregate in the unabashed bastion of capitalism that is New York’s Times Square, intent on ushering in the new year by milling about and ultimately watching a giant orb descend from the sky. Mi...
It makes more sense than you’d think.
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