“I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president.”
Thinks she should apologize for bashing him.
“I have a football season to worry about.”
Surveillance footage from store.
from Mott & Bow
Dozens injured.
In the Strait of Hormuz.
In Washington, D.C.
San Diego on edge after three gruesome murders.
Hague tribunal sides with the Philippines.
Using everything from graffiti to blood, New York artists are collaborating with fashion houses and designers to make clothing that’s wearable and collectible.
Theresa May wore a pair of leopard print kitten heels the day she delivered a landmark 2002 speech—and the day she found out she would become Britain’s prime minister.
A new exhibit reveals how the great photographer found inspiration in the Big Apple.
If Donald Trump really is auditioning Newt Gingrich for a role in his administration, one job Trump should definitely give to someone else is Treasury secretary. Although Gingrich has long been a deficit hawk when it comes to the country’s balance...
If Donald Trump is the king of debt, Newt Gingrich’s last campaign’s balance sheet might make him a fitting prince.
HONG KONG — Donald Trump is all about branding, and here’s a striking irony: while his political brand is built on Muslim-bashing, Hispanic-bashing, and, not least, China-bashing, his hotel brand appears to be thriving here in Asia.Last October, w...
Trump’s overblown antics have only drawn the Chinese to his brand; nowadays, a trip to New York is not complete without a selfie in front of Trump Tower.
If there is one thing that Black Lives Matter protesters and the nation’s cops can agree on, it is outrage over the utter uselessness of the current political leadership in Washington.Top law enforcement representatives, still struggling to proces...
Congress talks a good game about the importance of protecting men and women in blue. But these top cops say it’s just that: talk.
We’ve just lived through three gun-related tragedies in one week—including for the first time in recent memory the slaughter of police officers, which is the kind of thing you might think would get Republicans’ attention. But despite Rep. John Lew...
The so-called “house of the people” won’t allow a vote on something 80 percent of the people want. Keep at it, John Lewis!
When FBI Director James Comey recommended the government bring no criminal charges against Hillary Clinton over her use of a personal email server while secretary of state, he removed the last serious obstacle to her becoming the first woman presi...
She’s damn lucky she’s running against him, because she’s an empty pantsuit with no vision for the future except for her own ambition.
It’s been an unbearably cruel summer: a dystopia straight out of the ‘80s, as if we’re all trapped in the film Do the Right Thing with a racist Gordon Gekko vying for Leader of the Free World. We’re in need of a respite from this deluge of tragedy...
HBO’s crime miniseries is your new summer TV obsession.
Lying in bed, I pull out my phone and boot up my newest app. An overworld comes up, based on my location—a digital approximation of my New York City block. On it, a 3D Rattata wanders around. Rattata! I don’t have one of those yet. Giddy, I tap it...
You’ve been warned.
Now stable, but had gone into cardiac arrest.
In the summer of 1984, crossing the streams was the ultimate male taboo the original Ghostbusters broke to defeat ghoulish evil from another dimension. In 2016, it’s female solidarity among four heroines whom the world has labeled hysterical, defy...
Paul Feig’s all-female reboot provides enough thrills and winning performances to silence its critics, but may still have a tough time converting die-hard fans of the 1984 original.
The Wu-Tang Clan is with her.Yes, on the heels of Ghostface Killah’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president comes the news that the Wu’s de facto leader, RZA, is on Team Hillary as well. Speaking to The Daily Beast in support of his new grou...
Banks and Steelz, a new project from Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and Interpol’s Paul Banks, drops August 26th. Marlow Stern sat down with the duo to discuss music, politics, and more.
In 2007’s Live Free or Die Hard, Timothy Olyphant’s evil cyber-terrorist Thomas Gabriel initiates a paralyzing attack on the nation’s technological infrastructure—seizing control of its transportation, communication, military, and power systems—wh...
Alex Gibney’s new doc ‘Zero Days’ chronicles the Stuxnet worm, a piece of malware the west used against Iran, and its even more dangerous sister virus: “Nitro Zeus.”
Twenty years ago, Saturday Night Live star Dana Carvey got an offer he couldn’t refuse after leaving the late-night NBC institution that made him a star: his own primetime variety show. But after seven episodes, ABC pulled the plug on The Dana Car...
Dana Carvey looks back at ‘The Dana Carvey Show,’ a short-lived slice of comedy gold that showcased many of today’s top comedic talents.
CARACAS — The sense of abandonment in the streets of Venezuela these days is hard to describe. It goes far beyond the queues outside every single supermarket, the pharmacies stocked with trinkets and toys instead of medicines, the streets made dar...
The country’s supreme court has all but extinguished the rule of law—and may ignite a revolution.
VATICAN CITY—In yet another example showing just how out of touch celibate prelates can be when it comes to the realities of modern sexuality, a conservative Catholic bishop in the United States has come up with what amounts to a handbook about ho...
A conservative bishop in Philadelphia says remarried Catholics can take communion just as long as they aren’t having sex. And gays? Fuggedaboutit.
In 1847 and 1848, as their fellow Americans fought the Mexican War, crowds in Washington, DC, and then all over the nation, flocked to see her. In an era that had much less leisure time and fewer artistic crowd scenes, as many as 100,000 people ul...
She was sensual and classically beautiful, and she also triggered a debate about ending slavery.
I have a theory about Donald Trump’s success. I think that one reason he manages to survive the terrible things he says and does is that he gives liberals too much material. With so much insensitivity, racism, and misogyny pouring out of his campa...
While his may have been in awful taste, Donald Trump is not the first to use a religious symbol for less than altruistic reasons.
The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future. --Night, by Eli Wiesel.This week, just after the death of Eli Wiesel, I traveled with ...
Remembering Elie Wiesel, and reading his shattering book Night, during a visit to the largest crime scene in human history.
As we mourn the loss of Elie Wiesel, who described himself as “a witness… having survived by chance,” and whose Nobel Peace Prize award hailed him as “a messenger to mankind,” we remember how he taught us to never forget.I am a child of Holocaust ...
We say we’re a pious country. And yet we turn our backs on the very people in the world who are suffering the most.
TOKYO — In the Land of the Rising Sun, a conservative Shinto cult dating back to the 1970s, which includes Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and many of his cabinet among its adherents, finally has been dragged out of the shadows. The group is ca...
Nippon Kaigi, a small cult with some of the country’s most powerful people, aims to return Japan to pre-WWII imperial ‘glory.’ Sunday’s elections may further its goal.
Chuck and Martha Ann Kaczmarczyk documented everything.Chuck was meticulous with his digital camera, snapping pictures of the crime scene every time he moved a gun or repositioned Robert McClancy’s corpse. Martha uploaded all the pictures to her c...
When Robert McClancy was found poisoned by his own PTSD meds, his wife and her boyfriend—who pretended to be 9/11 first responders—got his benefits.
An officer shot during a traffic stop in a town near St. Louis, Missouri, was described as kind-hearted, outgoing, and a “centerpiece” of the police department by friends and colleagues.Michael Flamion was shot in the neck during a traffic stop in...
A police officer is in ‘bad shape’ after being shot in the neck during a routine traffic stop.
We’ve just lived through three gun-related tragedies in one week—including for the first time in recent memory the slaughter of police officers, which is the kind of thing you might think would get Republicans’ attention. But despite Rep. John Lew...
The so-called “house of the people” won’t allow a vote on something 80 percent of the people want. Keep at it, John Lewis!
In 1968, as President Lyndon Johnson and the Senate were in a pitched battle over Chief Justice Earl Warren’s replacement on the Supreme Court, I wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine entitled “Nine Men in Black Who Think White.” My arg...
In 1968, Lewis Steel argued that one justice’s vote did not matter much. Five decades of close decisions by the court have persuaded him to rethink that argument.
San Diego — I spent Friday morning, processing the horrible events in Dallas, alternating between sorrow and rage, and crying over the deaths of complete strangers as if I’d lost a member of my own family. Actually, I lost five. My dad is a retire...
The broad-brush painting of law enforcement and a debate marked almost solely by hostility has created an atmosphere in which violence was an inevitable outcome.
On Andrew Sadek’s 20th birthday, North Dakota police made him an offer: moonlight as a confidential informant and avoid rotting in prison.It was November 2013, and Sadek had never been in trouble before. Months earlier, he’d sold a small amount of...
When Andrew Sadek was caught selling $80 of pot, cops pressured him into being an informant and told him to go after ‘harder drugs.’ Then he turned up dead.
By Laura Newcomer, Life by Daily Burn Still not wearing your sunscreen? Here are a few good reasons to start: Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. It’s also the most preventable, says Clinical Associate Professor of Dermatology at N...
Want to keep your skin healthy but not quite sure how to cut through all the myths? Here you go.
Police stood by as a small white drone touched down in Northern Ireland last Tuesday on the banks of the Clanrye River. Two women, awaiting its arrival, turned to face news cameras before consuming the drone’s controversial cargo: pills used to in...
Once a renegade ship sailing international waters to provide abortions, Women on Waves is embracing drone technology to expand their service.
It was a car crash of all things that gave him away.In September 2015, Michigan abortion doctor Michael Arthur Roth asked the West Bloomfield police to retrieve some items from his car, which had been impounded after an accident. But when police l...
A Michigan doctor found with human tissue in his car—and who allegedly stole fentanyl for illegal abortions—has been charged with a slew of crimes.
“Goodbye pills. Hello real vitamins.”That’s the tagline for Tespo, a new high-tech vitamin dispenser that turns powdered nutrients into clear “liquid vitamins”—all with the touch of a button.The $150 dispenser—available only online—aims to provide...
Tespo says it will turn your vitamins into a daily drink—but the science behind liquid supplements remains murky.
In Australia last year, a young woman named Olivia Meville faced an onslaught of Tinder shaming by strange men for simply posting a Drake lyric in her bio—“The type of girl that will suck you dry and then eat some lunch with you.”The first wave of...
‘I was drunk,’ ‘I was joking,’ ‘It’s free speech’: men are making awful excuses for why they harass women online.
“When I first heard about applying electricity to your naked body during sex, my first thought was ‘oh my god why would you do that?! Zappy, ouchy, dangerous!” says Jess Wilde.“But now I have completely changed my mind: the idea of turning you and...
Couples who use electricity between the sheets say it taps into the body’s nervous system.
One of the most basic definitions of a design, is that it is a plan to give form to function. By that definition, recipes surely qualify as designs. But a recipe can have several functions that often seem to compete. The most basic purpose of food...
The contemporary food landscape is full of abominations, but one of my favorite comfort foods has become unnecessarily tedious.
Of course, the Instagrammed pictures of frolicking in the sea en masse, or shooting down water slides, or sitting on the porch enfolded in Tom Hiddleston’s arms should make us all really envy being on July 4 holiday with Taylor Swift and her buddi...
That Independence Day getaway looked like ‘Mean Girls Gone Wild.’ Did anyone save Ryan Reynolds? What about the poor official photographer?
Sometimes when Sarah Shourd met with prisoners, looking at them through a thick pane of glass or in a cage, both of them would just start laughing because they were so excited they had managed to connect.“It’s pretty empowering to defy a draconian...
Sarah Shourd spent 410 days in solitary in a prison in Iran. Now she has written a play about what it is like to be locked up, all alone.
Miami BeachSee this as no more than a snapshot and forget about everything that came later, with one caveat: He’ll be called Muhammad Ali—the name he chose for himself—even though it wasn’t what people called him at the time. History muddles thing...
He knew his business even before he took his name. So did the wiseguys who ran Miami Beach.
There are few cocktails that have their own theme song. But not only does the Piña Colada have one, but Rupert Holmes’ 1979 hit Escape (listen to it here), which immortalizes the creamy tropical concoction, is a guilty pleasure that is nearly impo...
For National Piña Colada Day, Rupert Holmes reveals the secrets behind the writing of his 1979 hit song, Escape.
In the final scene of Some Like It Hot (1959), Jack Lemmon, who is so good at female impersonation that he has provoked a proposal of marriage, is trying to explain to the man in love with him why a union between them won’t work. He offers a serie...
We all know the feeling: In the midst of an argument, the other person short circuits the discourse with a reply that’s not really an answer but leaves you with nothing to say.
Just like the bunt and the intentional walk, baseball wouldn’t be baseball without a cold beer. In fact, there are few drinking traditions in America as time honored as sipping a cold one while cheering (or jeering) on the home team. At the stadiu...
Beer and baseball are essential parts of America’s identity and have a shared history. Before you watch Tuesday’s all-star game pour yourself a cold one and brush up on this intersec...
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