According to Belgium's Federal Prosecution Office.
Former New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith.
Later enlisted in the Air Force.
After Laquan McDonald's death.
As Trump's campaign has host of mistakes.
Paving the way for President Obama.
In a Hindu temple.
When he coached high school wrestling.
Fugitive after killing dentist.
Anthony Garver allegedly tortured a woman to death.
The Rolling Stones have created a lavish, over-priced celebration of themselves at the Saatchi Gallery. It's hard not to love them for it.
One hundred years after construction began, the shell of a subway tunnel still lies beneath Cincinnati's streets, empty and unfinished.
In this week’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ cold open, a frustrated Hillary Clinton delivered a message to America after losing eight of the past nine primary contests.
“Why they have to shoot me?”Those were the words of a teenager shot seven times by a Trenton, New Jersey police officer last year. Three officers alleged that they were responding to reports of gunfire when they saw three boys walking near the sce...
The former president hints at concerns about "superpredators" before backing down, at least a bit.
President Obama is no stranger to the Washington Sunday shows—he’s appeared on ABC’s This Week, CBS’s Face the Nation, and NBC’s Meet the Press—but, until now, and for his entire time in the White House, Obama has cut and shunned Fox News Sunday.“...
President Obama is appearing on Fox’s Sunday politics show to push Republicans to support Merrick Garland—but he will make bigger news talking about Hillary’s email scandal.
An anonymous group of conservative billionaires is ready to place their bets on a man dubbed “Mad Dog,” hoping to draft him into the presidential race to confront Donald Trump.Think of it as a Plan B should Trump be nominated by the Republican Par...
Gen. James Mattis doesn’t necessarily want to be president—but that’s not stopping a group of billionaire donors from hatching a plan to get him there.
Donald Trump was 16 years old when the minced remains of a teen who died in a botched abortion were recovered from a clogged residential sewer line a dozen blocks from his family’s home in Queens.Investigators told reporters that a fiendish family...
Donald Trump was just 16 years old when one of his neighbors, an illegal abortion doctor, chopped up a young patient and threw her body in the sewer.
You might not expect the first transgender political action committee (PAC) to be bipartisan.After all, the Republican National Committee’s official platform encourages state legislatures to pass anti-transgender bathroom legislation. Republican l...
The first ever transgender PAC will make its endorsement in the coming weeks—and it might not be for a Democrat.
On Friday, in a blog post titled “Ian Connor Is a Rapist, and I Know Firsthand,” Malika Anderson, a senior at Emory University, accused Connor of rape. “I pursued charges against Ian Connor for raping me,” she wrote. “Yes, that’s right folks, Ian...
The stylist and A$AP Mob member has been accused of rape in a detailed blog post by Emory University student Malika Anderson.
At a rally in Jupiter, Florida, last month, Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who has a disturbing history of misogynistic behavior, grabbed then-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields and shoved her aside, allegedly leaving a black-and-blue m...
The host of HBO’s ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ supported Lewandowski, and claimed that “nothing happened” in his alleged simple assault of ex-Breitbart reporter Fields.
Bernie Sanders has been doing a bit of damage control in the days since he stood up at a Philadelphia rally and declared Hillary Clinton “unqualified” to be president. Last night, he told Seth Meyers that while he does not regret the comments, he ...
Just three days after Hillary Clinton sat down with the ladies of The View, Bernie Sanders stopped by and got a slightly colder reception.
Tonight, the Class of 2016 will reach a career peak—celebrated by their peers. But they all had to start somewhere.
Tonight, the Class of 2016 will reach a career peak—celebrated by their peers. But they all had to start somewhere.
Nicki Minaj shocked fans and (most likely) her boyfriend on Ellen this week, when she told the talk show host, “I don’t even want to say I’m in a relationship anymore.”Minaj explained, “I used to say I wasn’t in a relationship even though I was in...
The A-list rapper/pop star put her D-list rapper ‘boyfriend’ in check—and on ‘Ellen’ no less!
This. Was American Idol.It was, as President Barack Obama said in his opening address for the finale (yes, all of our favorite singers were there), the show that transformed television. It was the show that made talent competitions vital to our we...
The ‘American Idol’ finale was a fan’s dream: super corny, nostalgic, and ultimately spellbinding. Very moving and very silly, it was everything that made the show great.
Rob Delaney looks at an array of tea offerings during a busy press day for his critically celebrated Amazon comedy Catastrophe and groans.“In the U.K. the tea is just blaaaaack,” he says, deciding on the lesser of floral-scented evils. “Here there...
‘Catastrophe’ stars Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan talk about creating a show that is brutally real about how awful kids and marriage can be. (Coincidentally, it’s TV’s best rom-com.)
In the late ’30s my parents, like all Germans, were required to go to city hall to prove they were pure Aryans. Since nobody in my family aspired to higher office, they had it relatively easy. They needed only “The Lesser Aryan Certificate,” which...
This German granddaughter has always wondered how Hitler persuaded decent people like her grandmother to vote for him. Listening to Trump, now she knows.
TEL AVIV — A years-long delay in the extradition of an ultra-Orthodox educator, who fled to Israel from Australia after being accused of abusing her female students, has child protection advocates worried that Israel has become a haven for interna...
The case of Malka Leifer, accused of molesting eight girls in Australia and holed up in a religious community in Israel, is just one of many.
KIEV — A pile of car tires is a strong symbol in post-revolutionary Ukraine. It is associated with unrest, crowds on the streets, clashes between riot police and protesters and eventually lots of black smoke. This week, piles of tires appeared in ...
Activists are furious at Petro Poroshenko for not tackling corruption—while keeping offshore, tax-dodging accounts.
Wednesday’s referendum result in the Netherlands may not end up having much impact on Ukraine’s Association Agreement with the European Union. The vote was not legislatively binding; portions of the agreement have already come into effect; the tur...
UKIP leader Nigel Farage used EU money to advertise against the EU Association Agreement in the Netherlands.
VATICAN CITY — For anyone who thought, however delusionally, that the pope’s highly anticipated “apostolic exhortation” on “Love in the Family” would somehow clear the way to the altar for same-sex couples or divorced and remarried Catholics—or, o...
The pontiff’s highly anticipated statement on ‘Love in the Family’ could open doors to gays and divorcees, but not for them to marry or receive Communion in the Catholic Church.
BEER SHEVA, Israel — Nineteen Yemeni Jews are adjusting to life in Israel after a covert airlift brought them here in March, marking the end of their struggle to survive as a tiny minority in the crosshairs of hate amid the fighting in Yemen’s bru...
For generation after generation, they fought to preserve their faith and culture, but Yemen’s civil war finally made that impossible.
As one of Russian parliament’s only real opposition deputies, Dmitry Gudkov knows something about unorthodox politics.But America’s presidential election has him intrigued. “It seems very strange,” he tells me over lunch at The Smith near Lincoln ...
Dmitry Gudkov, the young opposition Duma deputy who’s been denounced as a traitor, says the Panama Papers hit the Russian strongman’s weak spot—and there’s more to come.
The fight between Apple and the FBI over access to iPhones is far from over.On Friday, the Justice Department announced that it will press forward with a warrant application that would force Apple to help extract information from a locked iPhone i...
Investigators say a secret method for unlocking a phone used by a dead terrorist won’t work on all devices they want to crack.
Tyler Summitt, the son of trailblazing University of Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt, has resigned as the head coach of Louisiana Tech’s women’s basketball team over an inappropriate relationship with a player.Multiple sources aware...
While his mother made history by respecting female players and winning eight national titles, Tyler reportedly impregnated one of his players at Louisiana Tech.
The auto industry never been short of talented salesmen, but across 100 years of history the business has never seen anything like the 325,000 pre-orders racked up by Elon Musk's Tesla Model 3 in the first week after its unveiling.Especially ...
Elon Musk’s company has failed to live up to expectations before and it’s never tried to manufacture at this volume. EV hype has led even established giants like Nissan astray.
Twitter was widely praised when it announced its new “family leave” policy this week that gives new moms and dads 20 paid weeks off. That’s swell. But the company’s not actually offering paid family leave but paid parental leave, which is not the ...
Families come in many sizes, but too many corporate-leave policies are still one-size-fit-all.
When police came to Pamela White’s work on March 31 last year, they told her that her son had died of a heart attack on his way to the hospital.What they didn’t say was that Phillip White died after Vineland, New Jersey, police officers Louis Plat...
Phillip White was tackled and mauled, then police told his mom he died of a heart attack. The authorities won’t even tell her the official cause of death.
Sugar is a delectable enemy. Once thought to hold the secret to health, it is now believed to be fueling an obesity epidemic that encompasses 640 million people worldwide.Despite an abundance of evidence about its dangers, Americans just can’t qui...
Americans are eating more sugar than ever. Could another addictive substance stop our infinite sweet tooth?
Medical advances can come from the strangest places. The Sonoran Desert of Arizona and New Mexico is a hostile place to call home, but the Gila monster (Heloderma suspectumare) doesn’t seem to mind the lack of rain and scorching heat.North America...
Its spit contains enzymes that treat diabetes—but the lizard could be on its way to extinction.
With 33 countries in the Americas now identified as carrying the Zika virus, the need for a solution to the epidemic is great. But with limited funds in the regions where it’s spreading the fastest, the need for a cost-effective one is even greate...
Researchers built a cheap, easy, and successful solution to mosquitos carrying Zika virus.
There’s another stimulant hiding in your supplements—oxilofrine.In a nine-page report released Thursday morning, researchers from Cambridge Health Alliance reveal the science behind the banned stimulant and expose brands that are secretly hiding i...
Oxilofrine, which has serious side effects, is being added to at least 14 weight-loss and sports supplements, a new report says—the latest sign of a dangerously unregulated industry.
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?
If we’re not alone in the universe and there’s intelligent life out there on another planet, we need to boldly go looking for it. But for anyone who’s seen Independence Day or any number of disaster-filled alien invasion flicks, and for the scien...
The brightest (and richest) minds on Earth share a common goal: to find intelligent life on another planet.
A story for Donald Trump, and all the other Republicans who have ideas about somehow punishing women who have abortions, or perhaps their doctors: Let’s just say that I didn’t offer her an abortion right away. She came in at 19 weeks, and it was ...
‘It’s my job to keep you from getting sick.’ I said. ‘This is the safest way we have now.’
As it turns out, Beyoncé is not the only one who carries hot sauce in her bag.The spicy condiment is currently having a moment, as proclaimed proudly in Beyoncé’s hit song, ‘Formation’. More than half of all American households, according to the N...
Poor old mayo and ketchup. More than half of all American households currently have a bottle of hot sauce lurking on a shelf.
To most of the world, Diane von Furstenberg is a glamorous fashion tycoon and progenitor of a dress that has transcended 40 years of fashion. If only they could have seen her at last night’s 7th annual DVF awards at the United Nations in New York,...
The women celebrated at DVF Awards on Thursday night ‘have had the courage to fight, the power to survive and the leadership to inspire.’
When’s a beer not a beer? No this isn’t a bad joke or a philosophical question but thanks to a range of products that contain, you guessed it, suds you can now enjoy your pint in a myriad of new ways. (A beer shower, now it’s possible!) Whether yo...
From hot sauce and pickles to chocolate bars, there are more ways to enjoy your beer than out of a pint glass.
The food writer and chef Ella Woodward is just 24, but she is probably the most influential person cooking in Britain today.Her first book, Deliciously Ella, was the fastest-selling cookbook on record in the U.K., beating such Amazon legends as Ni...
Her cookbook was the fastest-selling on record in the U.K., and now Ella Woodward has set her healthy-eating sights on the U.S.
The 2016 campaign, and especially the remaining candidates running for president, have made some former White House occupants nervous about America’s fate.“I have this tiny 6-month-old baby, and I worry about our future,” Today show correspondent ...
Jenna Bush Hager made her feelings clear about the quality of the candidates at a talk at a ‘Women in the World’ talk.
Google today doodles to celebrate what would have been the 96th birthday of sitar legend Pandit Ravi Shankar, who died in 2012. Ravi Shankar, as Google says in its explainer, led the way in the use of Indian instruments in Western music, introduc...
Google doodles to celebrate the man who brought the sitar sound to Western music.
In 1988, the Rev. Jesse Jackson—then a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination—joined students at Stanford in chanting, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go!”With that spectacle, the university promptly dropped required course...
Stanford students are voting on a plan to reinstate the controversial Western Civilization curriculum more than 25 years after Jesse Jackson helped kill it.
In an age of racism and sexism, Katherine Johnson broke both barriers at NASA.
The chain says its biggest store ever will feature ‘coffee as theater.’
A phone number created by Sweden’s tourism bureau connects the world to random Swedes.
Tommy Davis, who lost his son, nephew and brother in the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster of 2010, says the company’s chief deserves much worse than a year in jail.Outside the courthouse where ex-CEO Don Blankenship was sentenced to one year in pris...
A man who lost three relatives in the 2010 UBB mine disaster says Blankenship got off easy.
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.
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