
“He took my hand, and grabbed me, and went for the lips.”
Seemed to body shame first female presidential candidate at NC rally.
At least another 12 injured after shootout in restaurant.
Taken toward Mali border by unknown gunmen.

from Jack Reacher
“This election is incredibly painful.”
Two more bodies found in submerged vehicles.
Says Trump wouldn't stop talking about women's breasts at White House dinner.
“I think we should take a drug test prior to the debate.”

“Check out her Facebook page.”

The Donald didn’t seem to understand that the term was a slur, and kept using it even after that was explained to him.

Hidden inside a Kiev religious complex lies the mind-blowing Museum of Microminiatures, which holds ships carved out of gold, books of poetry, and tiny shoes for a flea, all smaller ...

A new documentary explores an emerging rock scene that challenges stereotypes.
With weeks to go before Election Day in 2012, a video went viral. You know the video. In it, a crying 4-year-old girl is consoled by her mother off camera. “I’m tired of Bronco Bama and Mitt Rom-in-ee!” she sniffs, her little spirit all but crushe...
As a punishing and ugly election season grinds toward the finish line, Americans are at the end of their ropes.
“When you’re a star they let you do it,” is how Donald Trump explained his sexual prowess in 2005 to Billy Bush, as they peered out the window of a bus to ogle an actress.“You can do anything,” he said, for emphasis.On Friday, we may have learned ...
Summer Zervos, a former contestant on ‘The Apprentice,’ claims Donald Trump took advantage of her attempts to get a job in his organization in order to have sex with her.
Although they have never been recognized as a constituency, millions of American voters—men as well as women—have been sexually abused, and for them, the presidential campaign has become a riveting drama and a source of fresh pain. They recognize ...
Before I wrote a book on Trump, I wrote one about the Catholic priest abuse scandals. And I see a heck of a lot of similarities.
With weeks to go before Election Day in 2012, a video went viral. You know the video. In it, a crying 4-year-old girl is consoled by her mother off camera. “I’m tired of Bronco Bama and Mitt Rom-in-ee!” she sniffs, her little spirit all but crushe...
As a punishing and ugly election season grinds toward the finish line, Americans are at the end of their ropes.
In the days since a video emerged showing Donald Trump bragging about his ability to get away with sexually assault, several women have stepped forward to allege the Republican presidential nominee touched them inappropriately. Together, their all...
At least 11 women, including his first wife, have accused Donald Trump of forcibly kissing, inappropriately touching or looking at them, or worse.
Trump confidante Roger Stone has found himself in an uncomfortable position: the crosshairs of the Clinton campaign, which alleges he has ties to Wikileaks, the organization mounting its own assault against the Democratic nominee.In short, they ar...
The Clinton campaign is demanding an investigation into Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidante and conspiracy theorist who is now the subject of his own conspiracy theory.
The first YouTube comment Colleen Ballinger ever received made her LOL.It came just after she posted her first video as Miranda Sings in February of 2008. Still a student at Azusa Pacific University, an evangelical Christian college east of Los An...
With ‘Haters Back Off!’ Colleen Ballinger has given a character who started as an inside joke on YouTube her own Netflix series.
Hillary Clinton was supposed to appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show a month ago. But two days before her planned trip out to Los Angeles, the Democratic candidate nearly passed out from pneumonia-induced dehydration during a 9/11 memorial and decid...
The Democratic candidate took her get out the vote operation to ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ Friday.
The Toronto Blue Jays are ready to take on the Cleveland Indians after beating the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Wild Card Game and sweeping number-one seeds Texas Rangers 3-0 in the American League Division Series (ALDS) 2016.While the...
Toronto Blue Jays have made it to the ALCS as a Wild Card team, but the Cleveland Indians and a best-of-seven series stands between them and the World Series.
After outlasting the Washington Nationals in a down-to-the-wire, five game National League Division Series (NLDS), the Los Angeles Dodgers will have a quick turnaround, taking on the Chicago Cubs in Game 1 of the Championship Series (NLCS) on Satu...
All you need to know about the National League Championship Series: Cubs vs. Dodgers.
Hillary Clinton was supposed to appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show a month ago. But two days before her planned trip out to Los Angeles, the Democratic candidate nearly passed out from pneumonia-induced dehydration during a 9/11 memorial and decid...
The Democratic candidate took her get out the vote operation to ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ Friday.
Talk about building them up to knock them down.With his red sweater and earnest questions about energy policy at the Clinton/Trump town hall debate, Kenneth Bone quickly became a shorthand for all that is right about American democracy: mutual res...
Ken Bone was hailed as a symbol of all that is right and good in America after his debate question on Sunday. Now, however, a fuller picture of the guy in a red sweater is emerging.
It’s been a trying year for Trent Reznor, to say the least—one that began with the death of his idol and tourmate David Bowie, who inspired the Nine Inch Nails frontman to kick heroin in the late ’90s, and may end with the election of a racist, pu...
The Nine Inch Nails frontman and film composer opens up about ‘Before the Flood,’ climate change, and why the 2016 election is so goddamn important.
Things just keep getting worse for Donald Trump and Seth Meyers could not be enjoying the Republican presidential candidate’s “tailspin” more. On his final night broadcasting from Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Meyers examined the latest string of ...
The ‘Late Night’ host takes on Donald Trump and the Republicans who enabled him on his last night in Washington, D.C.
Talk about building them up to knock them down.With his red sweater and earnest questions about energy policy at the Clinton/Trump town hall debate, Kenneth Bone quickly became a shorthand for all that is right about American democracy: mutual res...
Ken Bone was hailed as a symbol of all that is right and good in America after his debate question on Sunday. Now, however, a fuller picture of the guy in a red sweater is emerging.
LONDON — This city feels like the capital of a country that has been hijacked by a tribe for whom London represents everything that they hate: they hate its prosperity, its cosmopolitanism, its social diversity, its cultural exoticism, its bawdine...
After the Brexit, hate crimes have exploded and Britain’s new government fuels an economic disaster by purging universities and businesses of foreigners.
The U.S. Navy blasted three radar installations in Houthi-held territory in southern Yemen, the first direct American intervention in the ongoing conflict there. The U.S. military is hoping that doesn’t lead to yet another war for American forces....
American troops are already fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. Now U.S. ships are attacking targets in Yemen. Does that mean we’re headed for yet another undeclared war?
BANGKOK — Thailand’s revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-serving head of state, died Thursday at the age of 88 after a long illness, sparking a tidal wave of profound sorrow and raising the prospect of eventual violent confrontati...
The beloved monarch’s death comes as Thais chafe under a military regime that overthrew the elected government and forced a referendum that will entrench the generals for years.
JÉRÉMIE, Haiti — The roads were lined with Gordian knots of massive uprooted trees, twisted, severed palms, torn corrugated roof parts, crushed rural dwellings, schools, local shops. Mile after mile the scenery repeated itself; the devastation gro...
After traveling through the once beautiful, now devastated peninsula that bore the brunt of the storm, it is hard to believe there will ever be a full recovery.
The U.S. Navy blasted three radar installations in Houthi-held territory in southern Yemen, the first direct American intervention in the ongoing conflict there. The U.S. military is hoping that doesn’t lead to yet another war for American forces....
American troops are already fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. Now U.S. ships are attacking targets in Yemen. Does that mean we’re headed for yet another undeclared war?
VIENNA — Edit Schlaffer, a jolly, petite woman, has seen many crying and terrified mothers of radicalized Muslim boys. Often the women have lost their children to the so-called Islamic State, to jihadist suicidal attacks, to violent battles.Today,...
How do you know when your child is flirting with suicide in Syria? Women Without Borders is educating women about the danger signs and best responses.
The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee are publicly accusing WikiLeaks of being a front for the Russian government and an ally in efforts to help elect Donald Trump, but U.S. intelligence officials aren’t so sure.On Mon...
Democrats accuse WikiLeaks of working with Moscow to elect Trump by leaking embarrassing emails. Are they getting ahead of U.S. intelligence?
ROME — There are few places in all of Italy like the southern region of Puglia (the heel of Italy’s boot), where the only thing that comes close to the importance of folklore is an intrinsic suspicion of outsiders.Puglia is an unforgettably beauti...
In Puglia, olive trees are an obsession, and locals see no reason to cut them down or dig them up for a gas pipeline, no matter how strategic or economically important.
VIENNA — Edit Schlaffer, a jolly, petite woman, has seen many crying and terrified mothers of radicalized Muslim boys. Often the women have lost their children to the so-called Islamic State, to jihadist suicidal attacks, to violent battles.Today,...
How do you know when your child is flirting with suicide in Syria? Women Without Borders is educating women about the danger signs and best responses.
What comes to mind when you think about Orange County? Probably, images of lascivious housewives and blonde surfers. And certainly, at least if you know your political history, crazed right-wing activists, riding around with anti-UN slogans on the...
Immigrants have dramatically altered the California county that was a birthplace of conservatism. But two things haven’t changed: perfect weather, and the beach.
Artists are taking The Donald’s orangeness to a new level.
Artists are taking The Donald’s orangeness to a new level.
A sergeant who used hand-sanitizer to draw a penis on his female subordinate’s car. Rape investigators accused of joking about masturbating to victims’ stories. These are just a few of the scandals to rock the Seattle-area sheriff’s office over th...
One sergeant is accused of grabbing a coworker’s crotch. Rape investigators joked about pleasing themselves to victims’ stories. That’s just the start.
What comes to mind when you think about Orange County? Probably, images of lascivious housewives and blonde surfers. And certainly, at least if you know your political history, crazed right-wing activists, riding around with anti-UN slogans on the...
Immigrants have dramatically altered the California county that was a birthplace of conservatism. But two things haven’t changed: perfect weather, and the beach.
Nine Boston police officers were wounded, two of them critically, in a late-night shootout with wannabe cop.Kirk Figueroa, 33, was wearing body armor and carrying an assault rifle when he opened fire on officers responding to a domestic disturbanc...
Kirk Figueroa opened fire with an assault rifle after spending years supposedly as a private investigator, constable, and aspiring bounty hunter.
When a groper lacks a tower or a limousine or a beauty-contest dressing room, he is liable to do his groping in the subway system, as allegedly was the case for 44-year-old Kenneth Jacobson of the Bronx.Unlike a celebrity self-proclaimed groper su...
As thousands cheered Donald Trump, Kenneth Jacobson was in a holding cell, charged with serial groping such as Trump had described with glee.
Recently a patient of mine was hospitalized for liver failure due to alcohol. His history of liver disease was well documented, but he adamantly denied that anyone had warned him to avoid alcohol.An initial confession of “a few drinks” turned into...
A search for ‘toxic mold’ will result in hundreds of scary warnings and ‘studies,’ but few are based in science—and many are motivated by profit.
Jessica Migala, Life by Daily Burn It’s so tempting: You’ve got something big coming up on the calendar that you want to look your best for. Why not diet hard and exercise a ton to get some weight off? Inevitably, though, even if you succeed, stud...
If you were asked to list the most pressing issues that LGBT people face in the United States, data collection probably wouldn’t be anywhere near the top.But as boring as numbers might be, they matter.“We’re fighting over LGBT rights on a daily ba...
For policy to change in the U.S., we need a better way to track and measure LGBT people.
Earlier this week, Toyota unveiled a robot specifically designed to keep Japanese drivers company. The bot, Kirobo Mini, is a coffee mug-sized android with tiny limbs and huge, vulnerable eyes, and Toyota was perfectly clear about its purpose.“Kir...
As Japan’s population plunged, Toyota figured out what product drivers really needed: a friend.
Jessica Migala, Life by Daily Burn It’s so tempting: You’ve got something big coming up on the calendar that you want to look your best for. Why not diet hard and exercise a ton to get some weight off? Inevitably, though, even if you succeed, stud...
An Australian pilot cruised casually over the River Thames in an actual goddamn jetpack on Wednesday, looking like a cross between an astronaut and the Rocketeer. David Mayman, a former commercial pilot from Australia, had been developing the jetp...
David Mayman flew over the Thames in a real-life jetpack on Wednesday. Watch it here.
PHILADELPHIA — In 2009, with opioid-painkiller deaths at an all time high in America, a British consumer goods company you’ve probably never heard of was facing a crisis of its own.That year, Reckitt Benckiser’s patent for its opiate-treatment dru...
The company behind America’s most popular drug to treat addicts actually claimed its pills could kill kids to get a new patent and $1 billion.
If you’ve had an abortion, you might want to look up your doctor’s voter registration.A new study from Yale researchers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences found that Democratic and Republican primary-care physicia...
A new Yale study shows that Republican doctors discourage patients from abortions, while promoting scientifically unsound and potentially dangerous ‘mental health aspects’ of the pro...
An Australian pilot cruised casually over the River Thames in an actual goddamn jetpack on Wednesday, looking like a cross between an astronaut and the Rocketeer. David Mayman, a former commercial pilot from Australia, had been developing the jetp...
David Mayman flew over the Thames in a real-life jetpack on Wednesday. Watch it here.
I took up the Irish tin whistle late in life but why not—better than taking it up early, as I probably would have driven away most of my friends by now. However, they are accustomed to anything by now, and would not stop dropping in merely because...
Novelist Paulette Jiles knows all about the solitary rigors of the writing life, but when she took up the tin whistle, she rekindled the joy of making music with others.
Oh bother.Now there’s another character to keep track of in the 100 Acre Wood.The Best Bear in All the World, a new book just published and timed to celebrate Pooh’s 90th anniversary (that would be today), contains four new stories, including one ...
For Winnie the Pooh’s 90th, we have a new book with a new story about everyone’s favorite bear. But maybe it’s time to stop adding to Pooh Corner.
Set on the sparest, most un-Broadway-like stage, Simon Stephens’s play Heisenberg is an intriguing tale of unlikely love.With a few tables and chairs, arranged and rearranged by the actors themselves, we are convincingly transported—in an unbroken...
Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt star in a play about secrets, lies, and the joy of listening to every kind of music.
Long before the phrase “check your privilege” became a progressive meme and a BuzzFeed quiz (“How Privileged Are You?”), Peggy McIntosh, a woman’s studies scholar at Wellesley College, wrote a totemic paper on privilege theory. In 1988, she articu...
Its critics claim the ‘white privilege’ survey in schools pushes a political agenda in an inappropriate setting, while the survey’s supporters say it spurs important conversation.
Oh bother.Now there’s another character to keep track of in the 100 Acre Wood.The Best Bear in All the World, a new book just published and timed to celebrate Pooh’s 90th anniversary (that would be today), contains four new stories, including one ...
For Winnie the Pooh’s 90th, we have a new book with a new story about everyone’s favorite bear. But maybe it’s time to stop adding to Pooh Corner.
Since Jane Pauley burst upon America’s collective consciousness 40 years ago this week—as a fresh-faced 25-year-old on Oct. 11, 1976, when she began cohosting NBC’s Today program after toiling in local news in her native Indianapolis and Chicago—t...
In a candid interview, Pauley talks about an NBC executive being ‘inappropriate’ with her, her mental health struggles, and taking over CBS’s ‘Sunday Morning.’
The post-Brexit collapse of Sterling has been of largely academic interest to the majority of the British public up till now.However, Brexit got real for millions of shoppers Thursday, when the country’s biggest supermarket, Tesco, pulled hundreds...
A tussle over the price of the popular yeast extract, triggered by the falling value of the post-Brexit pound, showed how leaving the EU might disrupt everyday British life.
Before the bracing torrent of anecdotes and stories issues forth—from an early love of paisley to getting bullied to meeting Cher; from coming out to heady fame to Botox and plastic surgery; all of this delivered lightning-fast and filled with gos...
Carson Kressley, one of the breakout stars of ‘Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,’ talks candidly about LGBT equality, aging, dating, fighting gay disapproval, and dressing Cher.
Since Jane Pauley burst upon America’s collective consciousness 40 years ago this week—as a fresh-faced 25-year-old on Oct. 11, 1976, when she began cohosting NBC’s Today program after toiling in local news in her native Indianapolis and Chicago—t...
In a candid interview, Pauley talks about an NBC executive being ‘inappropriate’ with her, her mental health struggles, and taking over CBS’s ‘Sunday Morning.’


















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