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    U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton winks at a supporter as she talks about climate change at a rally at Miami Dade College with former Vice President Al Gore in Miami, Florida, U.S. October 11, 2016.

    Hillary Clinton Slays the Alpha Males

    Hillary Clinton Slays the Alpha Males

    Hillary Clinton, FiveThirtyEight tells us, is the most dominant debate winner in recent presidential history. They did all that ciphering they do over there and decided she won her three debates by +71, the highest score going back to 2000. She di...

    She’s taken the hits, stayed on her feet, and hit back harder, again and again and again.

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    Supporters gather to rally with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a campaign speech in Fort Myers, Florida, U.S. September 19, 2016.

    The Awkward T-Shirts of Trump Supporters

    The Awkward T-Shirts of Trump Supporters

    From airbrushed tees depicting demonic Clinton caricatures to DIY-Sharpie shirts of the Donald, Trump supporters get weird with their fandom.

    From airbrushed tees depicting demonic Clinton caricatures to DIY-Sharpie shirts of the Donald, Trump supporters get weird with their fandom.

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    Schilling’s Brutal CNN Senate Kick-Off

    Schilling’s Brutal CNN Senate Kick-Off

    In just 17 days, America may finally get the chance to say goodbye to Donald Trump, assuming the polls are right and he goes quietly. But we are going to have to start getting used to Curt Schilling.The former Red Sox star announced this week that...

    The former Red Sox star channels Donald Trump on CNN in his opening bid to replace Senator Elizabeth Warren.

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    U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton winks at a supporter as she talks about climate change at a rally at Miami Dade College with former Vice President Al Gore in Miami, Florida, U.S. October 11, 2016.

    Hillary Clinton Slays the Alpha Males

    Hillary Clinton Slays the Alpha Males

    Hillary Clinton, FiveThirtyEight tells us, is the most dominant debate winner in recent presidential history. They did all that ciphering they do over there and decided she won her three debates by +71, the highest score going back to 2000. She di...

    She’s taken the hits, stayed on her feet, and hit back harder, again and again and again.

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    Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump listens as Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks during their third and final 2016 presidential campaign debate at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., October 19, 2016.

    No Plan for Debt As Election Approaches

    No Plan for Debt As Election Approaches

    Just 17 days from Election Day, it’s clear that neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump has a plan to reverse the growth of our national debt—and Trump would make it much worse.When Chris Wallace asked both candidates at the third debate why they...

    Our children deserve a prosperous future, not one where they are saddled with a debt burden that hinders their ability to reach their full potential.

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    Daly on Don Trump, son of Catholic hater, at Al Smith dinner

    Trump’s Al Smith Invite Was a Disgrace

    Trump’s Al Smith Invite Was a Disgrace

    Scripture advises us not to visit the sins of the father upon the son.So nobody should hold it against Donald Trump that his father was arrested on Memorial Day in 1927 for participating in a Klu Klux Klan riot in his home borough of Queens. The r...

    Cardinal Timothy Dolan was wrong to invite a demagogue who has sought to manipulate and inflame the very worst in us.

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    The Front Page

    Nathan Lane Saves 'The Front Page'

    Nathan Lane Saves 'The Front Page'

    An affection-streaked paean to journalism, indeed a raucous celebration of the trade at its most venal and exploitative, may seem wildly out of time in so many ways--still more when its plot is centered around securing a scoop interview with a whi...

    A star-studded adaptation of journalism comedy 'The Front Page' meanders aimlessly until the appearance of a brilliantly fiery Nathan Lane.

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    Excl: ‘Rocky Horror’ Pics by Mick Rock!

    Excl: ‘Rocky Horror’ Pics by Mick Rock!

    The iconic lensman, who snapped photos for the original 1975 musical-comedy, has done it again for the FOX remake. And they’re stunning.

    The iconic lensman, who snapped photos for the original 1975 musical-comedy, has done it again for the FOX remake. And they’re stunning.

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    Jay-Z and Kanye West perform at Yankee Stadium on September 13, 2010 in New York, New York.

    Are Kanye and Jay Z on the Outs?

    Are Kanye and Jay Z on the Outs?

    Seattle Kanye fans got even more than they paid for—if that’s even possible—at the rapper’s Wednesday Saint Pablo tour stop. Yeezy acolytes worship at the altar of shit-stirring and oversize controversy, and their lord and savior did not disappoin...

    The Chicago rapper turned designer and his OG Brooklyn mentor have apparently let a failing streaming service come between them.

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    Lady Gaga's album Joanne

    Are We Ready for a Normal Lady Gaga?

    Are We Ready for a Normal Lady Gaga?

    Lady Gaga’s new album is easy to like and hard to love. That’s not because it’s not ambitious, or good, or catchy. Returning to the pop music scene with the same stripped down production that reinvented and reincarnated the singer following the di...

    Lady Gaga sobers up, strips down, and dabbles in some country twang for new album ‘Joanne.’ Gone are the days of meat dresses and club bangers. The question is if we’ll miss them.

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    Excl: ‘Rocky Horror’ Pics by Mick Rock!

    Excl: ‘Rocky Horror’ Pics by Mick Rock!

    The iconic lensman, who snapped photos for the original 1975 musical-comedy, has done it again for the FOX remake. And they’re stunning.

    The iconic lensman, who snapped photos for the original 1975 musical-comedy, has done it again for the FOX remake. And they’re stunning.

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    Colbert Hits Trump’s Integrity Fake-Out

    Colbert Hits Trump’s Integrity Fake-Out

    Donald Trump stunned both his supporters and the media Thursday when he said at a rally “I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of ...

    The ‘Late Show’ host was almost fooled by Trump’s comments about accepting the election results—if he wins.

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    Journalist and author Jorge Ramos speaks at "America 2050: The Future of News & Latinos" at the John F. Kennedy Junior Forum at Harvard University Kennedy School Institute of Politics on April 14, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts

    Jorge Ramos on Trump’s ‘Bad Hombres’

    Jorge Ramos on Trump’s ‘Bad Hombres’

    Jorge Ramos lets out a small laugh when I ask him what he thought of Donald Trump’s promise to deport “bad hombres” during Wednesday night’s third and final presidential debate. But the Univision anchor and Fusion host doesn’t find anything about ...

    The country’s most powerful Spanish-language journalist was not impressed with Trump’s final debate performance.

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    Actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire attend the photocall for 'The Great Gatsby' at The 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 15, 2013 in Cannes, France.

    The Return of the Pussy Posse

    The Return of the Pussy Posse

    Just in time for Halloween, the long-dead Pussy Posse has returned to haunt Lavo bathrooms and modeling agencies from coast to coast. Leonardo DiCaprio and his band of merry man-children last surfaced at the 2016 Oscars, where DiCaprio celebrated ...

    Recently separated Tobey Maguire is reportedly dealing with heartbreak like a mature adult: by clubbing with his old pal Leo DiCaprio and chatting up 18-year-old Instagram stars.

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    Colbert Hits Trump’s Integrity Fake-Out

    Colbert Hits Trump’s Integrity Fake-Out

    Donald Trump stunned both his supporters and the media Thursday when he said at a rally “I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of ...

    The ‘Late Show’ host was almost fooled by Trump’s comments about accepting the election results—if he wins.

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    World News

    MOSUL, IRAQ - OCTOBER 20: A Kurdish peshmerga fighter sits in the back of a pick-up truck as Kurdish forces move forward from an assembly point as they begin an assault to recapture the village of Tiskharab from ISIS on October 20, 2016 near Mosul, Iraq. Kurdish and Iraqi forces, supported by numerous countries including Britain and the USA, have continued their advance towards towards Iraq's second largest city of Mosul which has been held by Islamic State militants since 2014.  (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

    Fighting ISIS From Pickup Trucks

    Fighting ISIS From Pickup Trucks

    NAWARAN, Iraq — Shortly before daybreak the armor-plated diggers begin to eat away furiously at the berm, or earthen wall, that runs across the road to Mosul.The two machines painted in camouflage patterns pace back and forth, headlights darting a...

    The Kurdish fighters vital to the Mosul offensive don’t give out the numbers, but they’ve started taking some serious casualties, not least for lack of proper equipment.

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    Is ISIS Losing—or Just Rebranding?

    Is ISIS Losing—or Just Rebranding?

    The capital of the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Iraq is now under assault. But ISIS isn’t going anywhere. Instead, the terror group is beginning to rebrand itself from a “caliphate” to an insurgency, a top U.S. general fighting ISIS said Wedne...

    Four days ago, the U.S. defense secretary was predicting a ‘lasting defeat’ of ISIS. Now, a top general is warning that the terror group is preparing for a guerrilla war.

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    U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi stand during an official arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 18, 2016.

    Italian PM Praying Obama Can Save Him

    Italian PM Praying Obama Can Save Him

    Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, mired in a political crisis at home, traveled to Washington on Tuesday hoping he could tap into President Barack Obama’s star power to salvage his own political future and, more broadly, that of Europe.Renzi ha...

    Once again, the U.S. hopes Obama’s popularity in Europe will help save a vital political ally and preserve unity. But as Brexit proved, that’s not a sure thing.

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    Rachel Daniel, 35, holds up a picture of her abducted daughter Rose Daniel, 17, as her son Bukar, 7, sits beside her at her home in Maiduguri May 21, 2014. Rose was abducted along with more than 200 of her classmates on April 14 by Boko Haram militants from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno state

    Jihadis Swapped for Missing Girls?

    Jihadis Swapped for Missing Girls?

    LAGOS, Nigeria — For two and a half years, their parents, their fellow citizens and people around the world have been demanding, pleading, begging the terrorists of Boko Haram to “bring back our girls.”Indeed, soon after more than 200 young women ...

    It’s believed 197 young women abducted in April 2014 are still being held—but by whom? And what’s the price of their freedom?

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    Is ISIS Losing—or Just Rebranding?

    Is ISIS Losing—or Just Rebranding?

    The capital of the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Iraq is now under assault. But ISIS isn’t going anywhere. Instead, the terror group is beginning to rebrand itself from a “caliphate” to an insurgency, a top U.S. general fighting ISIS said Wedne...

    Four days ago, the U.S. defense secretary was predicting a ‘lasting defeat’ of ISIS. Now, a top general is warning that the terror group is preparing for a guerrilla war.

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    Putin

    U.K. Is Right to Freeze ‘Russia Today’

    U.K. Is Right to Freeze ‘Russia Today’

    LONDON — The Royal Bank of Scotland Group just sent a powerful message to Russian President Vladimir Putin. As of December 12 this year, all British bank accounts belonging to Russia Today— that pro-Kremlin information agency posing as the news ch...

    The Kremlin organ is another of Putin’s weapons in an ongoing information war where the truth is irrelevant, and RT defenders are what Lenin called ‘useful idiots.’

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    ISIS MAFIA TRADE GUNS

    Mafia and ISIS Trade Stolen Art for Guns

    Mafia and ISIS Trade Stolen Art for Guns

    ROME — A fuzzy photo shows the decapitated marble head of an ancient Roman statue; the grainy image is standing in for the gilded sales bills usually displayed in the world’s finest auction houses. There are no certificates of authenticity or patr...

    Two Italian organized-crime rings are accused of trading in weapons with ISIS fighters for illegally pilfered artifacts from Libya.

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    Female sharia judges in India

    The Female Sharia Judges of India

    The Female Sharia Judges of India

    From her home in the Indian city of Bhopal, Safia Akhtar listens in on her neighbors’ most intimate dramas.As often as three times a week, women pass through her door to complain of deceitful husbands, evil in-laws, abandonment, and abuse. Akhtar,...

    Can women-run Islamic courts bring gender justice to India’s Muslims? One group that is training India’s first class of female ‘qazis,’ or Islamic judges, thinks it can.

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    Putin

    U.K. Is Right to Freeze ‘Russia Today’

    U.K. Is Right to Freeze ‘Russia Today’

    LONDON — The Royal Bank of Scotland Group just sent a powerful message to Russian President Vladimir Putin. As of December 12 this year, all British bank accounts belonging to Russia Today— that pro-Kremlin information agency posing as the news ch...

    The Kremlin organ is another of Putin’s weapons in an ongoing information war where the truth is irrelevant, and RT defenders are what Lenin called ‘useful idiots.’

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    U.S.

    Syria President Bashar al-Assad addresses reporters following his meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday Dec. 9, 2010.

    Assad’s Latest Lie Debunked by His Wife

    Assad’s Latest Lie Debunked by His Wife

    There are no surprises anymore for Syrians when it comes to denying the realities of their suffering and when it comes to the shamelessness of of those who accuse truth-tellers of being outright liars. This is especially the case when the shameles...

    The Syrian dictator claims the notorious photograph of Omran Daqneesh was a ‘forgery.’ Even Asma al-Assad begs to differ.

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    Fake Anti-Trump violence video

    Drudge Buys Fake Racist Pro-Trump Stunt

    Drudge Buys Fake Racist Pro-Trump Stunt

    On Monday, YouTube “star” Joey Salads claimed he had damning evidence that the “black community is very violent toward [Republican presidential nominee] Donald Trump and his supporters.” By Tuesday, YouTube “star” Joey Salads, a 22-year-old whose...

    A video of a group of black men destroying a Trump supporter’s car went viral after being picked up by conservative media. The problem? The guy who filmed it faked the whole thing.

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    Lawyer ‘Stole’ From Alzheimer’s Patients

    Lawyer ‘Stole’ From Alzheimer’s Patients

    Robert Novy’s website says he “derives tremendous satisfaction” from helping elderly clients, but the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office says the lawyer, who also served on state commissions for the elderly, stole more than $1.2 million from the...

    A New Jersey attorney was charged with deceiving clients and lining his own pockets, even though he was supposedly on a state commission for the aging.

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    Syria President Bashar al-Assad addresses reporters following his meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday Dec. 9, 2010.

    Assad’s Latest Lie Debunked by His Wife

    Assad’s Latest Lie Debunked by His Wife

    There are no surprises anymore for Syrians when it comes to denying the realities of their suffering and when it comes to the shamelessness of of those who accuse truth-tellers of being outright liars. This is especially the case when the shameles...

    The Syrian dictator claims the notorious photograph of Omran Daqneesh was a ‘forgery.’ Even Asma al-Assad begs to differ.

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    Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the third and final debate with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton (not pictured) at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., October 19, 2016

    Trump: Hil Will Take Guns, Kill Babies

    Trump: Hil Will Take Guns, Kill Babies

    Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton did not waste any time on Wednesday night sparring over two of the most contentious issues in U.S. politics: Americans’ rights to guns and abortions.Clinton was very careful with her rhetoric on gun rights, while T...

    He says she would repeal the Second Amendment, and that he would appoint justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade.

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    Millionaires Need to Back Public Schools

    Millionaires Need to Back Public Schools

    How many millionaires do you think there are in New York City? I’ve asked this question more than a thousand times. The answer might surprise you. Late last year, the consulting firm Capgemini released its annual United States Wealth Report, whi...

    New York’s wealthiest citizens need to step up with their checkbooks to back the city’s public schools. Equally important, they need to become real stakeholders in our shared success.

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    Tech + Health

    Donald Trump’s Abortion Fanfic

    Donald Trump’s Abortion Fanfic

    Voters pining for a debate question on reproductive choice finally got what they wanted Wednesday night when Fox News’s Chris Wallace, moderator of the third and final presidential debate of the year, asked both candidates about their views on abo...

    Vowing to overturn Roe v. Wade, the GOP candidate peddled the worst kind of abortion myths, drumming up ghastly images of babies ripped from wombs.

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    test for opiate addiction

    Can a DNA Test Predict Addiction?

    Can a DNA Test Predict Addiction?

    “Right this minute I’m detoxing like hell,” James, an opioid user, said.  On top of feeling fatigued but unable to sleep, his weakened muscles are draped in a relentless ache. These are the unbearable symptoms of withdrawal. James was run over by ...

    Many addicts get their first fix thanks to unsuspecting physicians treating them for pain. A new product claims it can predict with 93 percent accuracy someone’s risk. Why that’s pro...

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    LOST COLONY

    This Drone Could Find the Lost Colony

    This Drone Could Find the Lost Colony

    As viewers tune in for the pig-wallow witchcraft of American Horror Story: Roanoke, the real Roanoke Island remains a favored haunt of scientists, not spooks. From the beginning, England’s ventures in the New World were largely scientific: scope o...

    America’s oldest mystery—what happened to the first English colonists who disappeared with hardly a trace—is yielding tantalizing new clues to high-tech sleuths.

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    Internet's obsession with toxic molds

    Is ‘Toxic Mold’ Real?

    Is ‘Toxic Mold’ Real?

    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.

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    Can a DNA Test Predict Addiction?

    Can a DNA Test Predict Addiction?

    “Right this minute I’m detoxing like hell,” James, an opioid user, said.  On top of feeling fatigued but unable to sleep, his weakened muscles are draped in a relentless ache. These are the unbearable symptoms of withdrawal. James was run over by ...

    Many addicts get their first fix thanks to unsuspecting physicians treating them for pain. A new product claims it can predict with 93 percent accuracy someone’s risk. Why that’s pro...

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     Dating While Trans in America

    Dating While Trans

    Dating While Trans

    In the third season of Transparent, Maura Pfefferman goes where the character has never gone before: the bedroom. After Pfefferman, played by Emmy-winner Jeffrey Tambor, meets Vickie (Angelica Huston), a breast cancer survivor, at a women’s mus...

    The Daily Beast spoke to transgender people across the country to find out what challenges they face in relationships.

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    How Trees Will Save Humanity

    How Trees Will Save Humanity

    By Hamish Gordon and Cat Scott, Research Fellows in Amospheric Science at the University of Leeds. The pre-industrial atmosphere contained more particles, and so brighter clouds, than we previously thought. This is the latest finding of the CLOUD ...

    Trees are much better at creating clouds and cooling the climate than we thought.

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    Stem cells being used for things they shouldn't be

    The Pop-Up Stem-Cell Clinic Problem

    The Pop-Up Stem-Cell Clinic Problem

    By KHN senior correspondent Emily Bazar A website for five affiliated stem-cell clinics hails a “breakthrough” for Parkinson’s disease: “Stem Cells Replace Damaged Nerves, Reverse Symptoms.”For those of you whose lives—or whose loved ones’ lives—h...

    Stem-cell transplants are only approved for a handful of rare conditions—but that hasn’t stopped for-profit clinics from using them for a host of issues.

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     Dating While Trans in America

    Dating While Trans

    Dating While Trans

    In the third season of Transparent, Maura Pfefferman goes where the character has never gone before: the bedroom. After Pfefferman, played by Emmy-winner Jeffrey Tambor, meets Vickie (Angelica Huston), a breast cancer survivor, at a women’s mus...

    The Daily Beast spoke to transgender people across the country to find out what challenges they face in relationships.

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    Arts + Culture

    When Hollywood Built Its Own Berlin Wall

    When Hollywood Built Its Own Berlin Wall

    When Hollywood Built Its Own Berlin Wall

    In the months after the Berlin Wall rose in August 1961, thousands of East Germans fled to the West. They swam rivers, navigated sewers, climbed or smashed through the Wall. Some were shot by border guards. As new security measures made most metho...

    When East Germans began tunneling under the newly built Berlin Wall in 1961, Hollywood muscled in with on-location filming even as tunnelers worked beneath them.

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    Alan Turing (1912-1954). Private Collection. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

    Activists Slam U.K. Gay Sex ‘Pardons’

    Activists Slam U.K. Gay Sex ‘Pardons’

    British gay-rights campaigners have criticized a legal amendment that will see an estimated 15,000 living men convicted of the “crime” of having gay sexual relations prior to 2003 be “pardoned.” The campaigners say a “pardon” still implies guilt o...

    The Turing Law will confer ‘pardons’ upon gay men convicted of past consensual sex crimes. But does a ‘pardon’ go far enough to rectify the injustices they faced?

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    27

    Gertrude and Alice: The Opera

    Gertrude and Alice: The Opera

    “Her whole life is this big, fabulous ‘fuck you.’ She just was who she was whether you liked it or not until she became one of the most famous people in history. That is really inspiring to me,” composer Ricky Ian Gordon told The Daily Beast recen...

    ‘27’ tells the story of Stein and Toklas’s relationship, alongside the luminaries they called friends and championed, including Picasso, Matisse, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemi...

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    MSNBC

    Kristol, Scarborough Scream Over Trump

    Kristol, Scarborough Scream Over Trump

    Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol is often dubbed “The Wrongest Man in Politics,” but on Thursday morning he was right about one thing: MSNBC’s Morning Joe crew played at least a tiny role in enabling a Donald Trump presidential candidacy.Such a...

    The two conservative stars got into a heated tiff over whether the MSNBC show went ‘too easy’ on Trump.

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    Alan Turing (1912-1954). Private Collection. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

    Activists Slam U.K. Gay Sex ‘Pardons’

    Activists Slam U.K. Gay Sex ‘Pardons’

    British gay-rights campaigners have criticized a legal amendment that will see an estimated 15,000 living men convicted of the “crime” of having gay sexual relations prior to 2003 be “pardoned.” The campaigners say a “pardon” still implies guilt o...

    The Turing Law will confer ‘pardons’ upon gay men convicted of past consensual sex crimes. But does a ‘pardon’ go far enough to rectify the injustices they faced?

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    Ivanka Trump and Anita Hill

    Ivanka’s ‘Nice Chat’ With Anita Hill

    Ivanka’s ‘Nice Chat’ With Anita Hill

    Ivanka Trump and Anita Hill were photographed backstage Wednesday at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in what appeared to be a face-off: Trump mid-sentence and unsmiling, her right arm cocked and palm facing the ceiling in a “listen here” or “...

    Twitter went into meltdown over a picture that seemed to show them mid-disagreement, but a source says Trump and Hill had a ‘very nice, quick chat.’

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    Michelle Obama Already Won the Election

    Michelle Obama Already Won the Election

    Yes, it was a beautiful dress.The many plaudits paid to Michelle Obama’s custom-made rose gold Atelier Versace gown, which she wore for her and her husband’s final state dinner Tuesday night, not only set the seal on the sartorial pinnacle of Mrs....

    Obama wowed in a custom-made Atelier Versace gown for her final state dinner, sartorially underscoring what a potent political and cultural figure she now is.

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    6 Million Anti-Semitic Tweets in a Year

    2.6M Anti-Semitic Tweets in a Year

    2.6M Anti-Semitic Tweets in a Year

    There were 2.6 million anti-Semitic tweets on Twitter last year, with a total reach of 10 billion impressions. Of that, 19,253 of them were specifically directed at Jewish journalists—myself, and my Daily Beast colleague Sally Kohn, included. Rema...

    Most hate tweets originate from just 1,600 accounts, the Anti-Defamation League says.

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    Ivanka Trump and Anita Hill

    Ivanka’s ‘Nice Chat’ With Anita Hill

    Ivanka’s ‘Nice Chat’ With Anita Hill

    Ivanka Trump and Anita Hill were photographed backstage Wednesday at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in what appeared to be a face-off: Trump mid-sentence and unsmiling, her right arm cocked and palm facing the ceiling in a “listen here” or “...

    Twitter went into meltdown over a picture that seemed to show them mid-disagreement, but a source says Trump and Hill had a ‘very nice, quick chat.’

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