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FBI Finds 15K Undisclosed Hillary Emails
Will begin releasing them in October.
SUNK COST
Trump Dead Last in Poll of Economists
GOP nominee fares worse than even “Don’t Know/No Opinion.”
DUMPED
Speedo and Ralph Lauren Ditch Lochte
Speedo will donate part of contract to charity.
OUTDATED
GMA Host: Sorry I Said ‘Colored People’
“Not at all a reflection of how I feel.”
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Judge Blocks Obama’s Transgender Rules
On school bathrooms, locker rooms.
#NEVERFORGET
Cincy Zoo: Stop Making Harambe Memes!
Not everyone is laughing at the internet trend.
SMALL WORLD
Killer Disney Gator May Be Out There
Officials made no positive DNA match.
BUMMER SUMMER
‘Ben-Hur’ a Box Office Flop
Hollywood’s dog days continue with a $100M flop.
THE FIXER
Pence Laughs at Trump Black Voter Claim
VP pick unwittingly laughs along with America.
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NBC’s ‘Today’ Show Marries Billy Bush
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Frank Ocean’s ‘Blonde’: Worth the Wait
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Trump’s Chief Called GOP Leaders ‘C**ts’
Trump’s Chief Called GOP Leaders ‘C**ts’
Donald Trump’s new campaign boss—the guy white supremacists are so excited about—once described D.C.’s top Republicans as “cunts.”Stephen Bannon, the Trump campaign’s new chief executive as of Wednesday, used the phrase two years ago in emails wi...
Steve Bannon had some strong feelings about Republican leadership in Congress two years ago, which may complicate any further campaign charm offensives on Capitol Hill.
Manafort Thrown From Trump Crazy Train
Manafort Thrown From Trump Crazy Train
In the end, a 48-hour period in August may be remembered as the moment that Donald Trump stopped trying to win the presidency.On Wednesday, Trump announced that he had hired as the “CEO” of his campaign Steve Bannon, the chief executive of Breitba...
By the time Donald Trump brought in Steve Bannon, Paul Manafort was already dead.
Breitbart Star’s White Charity Gives $0
Breitbart Star’s White Charity Gives $0
Months after he was supposed to give away more than $100,000 for college scholarships, Milo Yiannopoulos says all of the money is still sitting in his bank account.The Breitbart editor and professional political agitator (recently banned from Twit...
Alt-right icon Milo Yiannopoulos promised in January he'd give scholarships to white men this year, but he still hasn’t filed with the IRS or handed out a penny.
Trump Wants to Bar Doctors From America
Trump Wants to Bar Doctors From America
Everybody is worked up about “extreme vetting,” and that’s fine, there’s a lot to be worked up about in the idea of a loyalty oath for all immigrants. Law professor Jonathan Turley did a good job of running through the history and the debate the o...
The Republican presidential nominee can’t seem to tell the difference between terrorists, refugees, and normal visa seekers.
Meet the Man Who Stripped Trump Naked
Meet the Man Who Stripped Trump Naked
Residents in five neighborhoods of New York City, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Cleveland awoke to discover a life-sized, naked Donald Trump statue in their midst.The five identical statues were erected simultaneously at around 8 a.m. E...
Joshua Monroe, the artist behind five headline-attracting, ball-less statues that appeared in American cities Thursday, reveals he was planning to vote Trump.
Entertainment
Tony Robbins Assesses the 2016 Election
Tony Robbins Assesses the 2016 Election
Tony Robbins has the firmest handshake I’ve ever experienced. The towering, impeccably tan life expert is sitting across from me at a hotel bar in Midtown Manhattan to discuss his new Netflix documentary, Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru—a chronic...
The self-help king sat down with Marlow Stern to discuss Trump vs. Hillary, both of whom he’s consulted with, as well as how men have become more “feminine.”
Fox Killed Anti-Trump ‘Idiocracy’ Ads
Fox Killed Anti-Trump ‘Idiocracy’ Ads
Back in February, screenwriter Etan Cohen (not to be confused with Ethan Cohen), who’s written the celebrated comedy offerings King of the Hill, Idiocracy, and Tropic Thunder, fired off a tweet in reference to the political rise of former reality ...
The filmmaker behind the futuristic satire and creator of HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ dishes on why the election season ads he’s been cooking up are ‘not going to happen.’
Give This Indie Trans Romance the Emmy
Give This Indie Trans Romance the Emmy
Chances are you have never been harassed in a public restroom, detained at an airport, or denied medical care because of your gender. But you probably have fallen in love. That’s what executive producer Kate Fisher was counting on when she and her...
The web series ‘Her Story’ has earned praise not only for casting trans actors in trans roles but for acknowledging the beauty they bring into their friends’ and partners’ lives.
Jon Stewart Sends Off Larry Wilmore
Jon Stewart Sends Off Larry Wilmore
Back when The Nightly Show was still called Minority Report, Jon Stewart had an idealistic idea of what Larry Wilmore’s late-night show could become. The show would be “a comedic look at news, current events and pop culture from unique perspective...
‘Nightly Show’ producer Jon Stewart helped say goodbye to Larry Wilmore on his final night as a late-night host.
Schumer: Kurt Metzger Is ‘The Problem’
Schumer: Kurt Metzger Is ‘The Problem’
Comedian Amy Schumer probably wanted to be talking about her new book, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, with Charlie Rose in an episode of his talk show set to air on Friday. But instead, she had to spend time both defending and condemning fel...
Amy 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.
Amy Schumer Condemns Rape Bro-pologist
Amy Schumer Condemns Rape Bro-pologist
Last week, multiple women came forward with allegations of sexual assault and harassment against New York comedian Aaron Glaser. Their testimonies launched an internal Upright Citizen’s Brigade investigation that resulted in a permanent ban for Gl...
Former ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ writer Kurt Metzger is under fire for his trollish, misogynistic rants. Schumer distanced herself from his ‘recent’ behavior—but this goes a long way back.
Trump Is ‘Futurama’s’ Zapp Brannigan
Trump Is ‘Futurama’s’ Zapp Brannigan
The internet asked for the voice actor behind Futurama’s Zapp Brannigan to recite a bunch of Donald Trump quotes in the voice of Captain Brannigan, and that’s exactly what the internet got during this chaotic election.In recent months, politically...
The voice of ‘Futurama’s’ vain, misogynistic, and clueless warmonger has transformed his iconic character into Trump.
World News
Where’s the Outrage Over Nun Beachwear?
Where’s the Outrage Over Nun Beachwear?
SABAUDIA, Italy — Go to any public beach in Italy and chances are you’ll eventually see a woman wearing a veil and long skirt. But she likely won’t be a Muslim in a version of the controversial burqini. She will almost certainly be a Catholic nun ...
While the French are banning Muslims in burqinis, Italian Catholic bishops find it ironic there’s alarm when a woman is “overdressed while swimming in the sea!”
The Cowboy Novels That Obsessed Hitler
The Cowboy Novels That Obsessed Hitler
The aura of Indian names—Massachusetts, Monangahela, Arapahoe County, Mississippi, Minnesota—hangs over America, even after the indigenous people are often gone. A Founding Amnesia has long erased the stories of Native Americans in history texts a...
The adventure stories of Karl May set in the American Southwest have charmed millions of Germans, but especially Hitler, who patterned Nazi policies on their plots.
Watch Brazil Go For Their First Ever ...
Watch Brazil Go For Their First Ever ...
Brazil men’s soccer team has never won Olympic gold. This year’s team, led by Neymar—widely considered one of the world’s top players—is just one step away from claiming the gold at home in Rio.Currently ranked ninth by FIFA, the Brazilian nationa...
The Epic Downfall of Medellin’s Top Pimp
The Epic Downfall of Medellin’s Top Pimp
American tourists visiting Medellín knew him as “Colombia Jake,” the friendly local American guide who made sure they had a good time. He could fix them up with an apartment, rent them a motorbike, or arrange for them a “Pablo Escobar tour,” visit...
Prostitution is legal in Pablo Escobar’s old hometown, but pimping is not—and according to police Colombia Jake was pimping little girls.
Why We Love Gabby Douglas
Why We Love Gabby Douglas
Gold-medal gymnast Gabby Douglas had had a rough few days. She finished seventh out of eight competitors on the uneven bars last week, and online bullies attacked over almost everything she did. She was criticized for not putting her hand over her...
Gold-medal gymnast Gabby Douglas endured trial after trial during the Rio Games—and now she’s got a powerful message for young girls: ‘Be strong and have a strong mind.’
The Spy Who Broke Into Polish Ghettos
The Spy Who Broke Into Polish Ghettos
In the summer of 1942, Jan Karski, a 28-year-old courier for the Polish underground, was instructed to undertake an extremely dangerous mission: a trip across Nazi-occupied Europe to London, where, with the help of the Polish government-in-exile t...
Jan Karski was a courier for the Polish underground determined to bring evidence of Nazi inhumanity—but the West wasn’t ready to listen.
How Local Fans Cheer on Brazilian Soccer
How Local Fans Cheer on Brazilian Soccer
For three hours on Wednesday afternoon, Rio’s Copacabana beach was empty. It was lunchtime, and everybody (even the cops) was watching Brazil trounce Honduras 6-0 in the Olympic semifinals in soccer.Soccer is, of course, one of Brazil’s national o...
The streets of Rio will be empty on Saturday as Brazil watches its soccer team face off against Germany in the gold medal match—and viewers won’t be able to relax until the referee b...
U.S.
No Punishment for Preacher-Killing Cop
No Punishment for Preacher-Killing Cop
The murder in cold blood and in broad daylight of a religious leader is horrifying enough. Especially in America, we associate our preachers with words not swords and expect them to be immune from violence. But merely a half-century ago, someone c...
In 1965 Alabama, Episcopal seminarian Jonathan Daniels was gunned down while trying to buy a Coke with two black girls. The cop who shot him was acquitted.
Everyday Heroes of the Louisiana Flood
Everyday Heroes of the Louisiana Flood
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Sanders Davis of Baton Rouge saw the Great Flood of 2016 up close and personal last week.Davis, 25, lives in the Sherwood Forest subdivision, a leafy, standard-issue middle class enclave that lies east of the 27-story Capi...
Teachers, stagehands, and countless others are helping the state recover when it almost seems like no one else will.
How to Watch Usain Bolt’s Last Olympi...
How to Watch Usain Bolt’s Last Olympi...
Tonight we might be saying goodbye to both the fastest man on earth and to one of the most impressive female track-and-field athletes of all time.Usain Bolt, the 29-year-old Jamaican sprinting all-star, announced his intention to retire after the ...
How to watch Usain Bolt and Allyson Felix in the 4x100m relays on Friday night.
Bin Laden SEAL Wins War With Pentagon
Bin Laden SEAL Wins War With Pentagon
Four years after a former Navy SEAL was threatened with prison for writing about the Osama bin Laden raid, the Pentagon has dropped its claim that Matt Bissonnette revealed secrets harmful to national security.Bissonnette, who wrote No Easy Day un...
Matt Bissonnette's book on the famous raid was called a national security threat and he was threatened with prison. Now he's being forced to pay almost $7 million to the feds.
Ryan Lochte’s Mom Isn’t Helping
Ryan Lochte’s Mom Isn’t Helping
First Ryan Lochte said he and his Olympic teammates had been robbed at gunpoint in Rio. Then Rio police said the robbery never happened and that the U.S. swimmers had actually vandalized a gas station. Then Lochte allegedly said surveillance video...
Did the U.S. Olympic swimmer set off an international incident by lying to his mom about a robbery in Rio?
Tech + Health
The Man Who Networked the World
The Man Who Networked the World
Contact: A hundred years before iconic figures like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs permeated our lives, 60 years before Marshall McLuhan proclaimed media to be “the extensions of man,” an Irish-Italian inventor laid the foundation of the communication ...
In giving us the wireless world, the Irish-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi was arguably the first truly global figure in modern communication
Dr. Drew Leads Clinton Health Truthers
Dr. Drew Leads Clinton Health Truthers
On a radio show this week, Dr. Drew Pinsky of Celebrity Rehab fame added his name to the long list of conspiracy theorists who believe that Hillary Clinton’s health could be failing—a list that so far includes the National Enquirer, Fox News host ...
Dr. 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.
Can Bacteria Make Your Skin Healthier?
Can Bacteria Make Your Skin Healthier?
Antibacterial cosmetics are so last year; the latest craze is for face creams, serums, and washes that actually add bacteria to the skin in order to make it look younger and healthier. But experts think that these products aren’t backed up by enou...
Cosmetics companies claim that tweaking the bacteria on the skin can make it healthier. But does the science stack up?
Climate Change Behind the CA Wildfires
Climate Change Behind the CA Wildfires
The number of wildfires in California has decreased over the past 25 year, but try telling that to the hundreds of firefighters on the ground attempting to put out multiple fires raging across Northern California.Map provided by Google Maps. Appro...
Over 100,000 acres of California’s land has been scorched due to destructive wildfires.
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.
Should Louisiana Be Scared of Zika?
Should Louisiana Be Scared of Zika?
Days after a severe flood in Louisiana that left six people dead and 10,000 in shelters, some experts are expressing concern that the event may usher in a large Zika outbreak.The fears are not entirely unfounded. When the water currently rushing t...
Faced with severe flooding, Louisiana could be in for another disaster: Zika. But experts say it isn’t time to panic yet.
3-D Printed Guns Could Crush Gun Control
3-D Printed Guns Could Crush Gun Control
Legislators can pass bills for things like universal background checks and the “no fly, no buy” rule, but those policies target if someone can purchase a gun. Things become a lot more complicated when citizens can make their own guns at home—and t...
As the technology becomes cheaper and more widely available, tackling 3-D printed guns is going to be a massive challenge.
Arts + Culture
The Burning of Churchill's Portrait
The Burning of Churchill's Portrait
It must have been quite the awkward situation. On Nov. 30, 1954, a proud British Parliament gathered for a large ceremony at Westminster Hall to present their beloved leader, Sir Winston Churchill, with a portrait of him in celebration of his 80th...
Britain's wartime PM Winston Churchill diplomatically commented of Graham Sutherland's portrait of him that it was “a great example of modern art.” Unofficially, he and his w...
How Harvey Milk Became a Navy Ambassador
How Harvey Milk Became a Navy Ambassador
Earlier this week, the U.S. Navy officially commemorated the new USNS Harvey Milk, a 677-foot fleet oiler and first navy ship to be named after a member of the LGBTQ community.It was the latest of many milestones for Milk, who was assassinated a y...
The USNS Harvey Milk is the first Navy ship to be named after a member of the LGBT community—and, like the brave advocate it is named after, it will take its message of equality ever...
The Curse of a Controversial Aristocrat
The Curse of a Controversial Aristocrat
A controversial Kenyan aristocrat of British descent who killed two local Kenyan men on separate occasions has died aged 48 of a heart attack, following complications after a routine hospital operation in Nairobi.Tom Cholmondeley (pronounced Chuml...
Tom Cholmondeley killed two black Kenyans on his father’s game reserve. Now he himself is dead, and one of the victim’s families says the curse that killed him will be visited on his...
Is Glenn Beck Suing Himself?
Is Glenn Beck Suing Himself?
Glenn Beck seems to be an endless source of nutty stories.Maybe the multimedia oddball spent too much time being spun around while strapped in a giant gyroscope that, as he told his fans, helped cure him of a mysterious brain illness that “quite h...
In a multimillion-dollar fraud, breach of contract, and dereliction of duty lawsuit, Glenn Beck appears to be suing himself, and may even end up having to pay damages to himself.
Trump TV Is Real
Trump TV Is Real
The odds are, if you believe the polls, that Donald Trump will never be president. But there is more than a possibility that the reality show billionaire will start his own television network shortly after the election.“A TV network is a logical w...
Whatever happens in the presidential election, the plan for a Donald Trump TV station is far from fanciful. Indeed, it might make extremely lucrative sense.
This Is How Gawker Died
This Is How Gawker Died
Was it a murder or a suicide?In other words, did Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel savagely kill Gawker.com—or was its demise the inevitable result of a self-inflicted wound, namely the October 2012 decision to publish a grainy sex video feat...
The site is no more—and founder Nick Denton paid tribute to its staff’s hustle and originality in a memo sent after the official death announcement was made.
Meet the Man Who Stripped Trump Naked
Meet the Man Who Stripped Trump Naked
Residents in five neighborhoods of New York City, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Cleveland awoke to discover a life-sized, naked Donald Trump statue in their midst.The five identical statues were erected simultaneously at around 8 a.m. E...
Joshua Monroe, the artist behind five headline-attracting, ball-less statues that appeared in American cities Thursday, reveals he was planning to vote Trump.
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