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TRAGIC
Marlins Pitcher Dead in Boat Accident
Jose Fernandez.
TRUTH SQUAD
Debate Head: No Fact-Checks By Moderator
Janet Brown says moderators shouldn’t be an “Encyclopedia Britannica.”
SCATHING
Power to Russia: Stop Syria ‘Barbarism’
“Instead of pursuing peace, Russia and Assad make war.”
NOT QUITE
Pence: Trump Charity Answered Questions
It hasn’t.
FREE EXPRESSION
Oculus Execs Weigh In on Palmer Luckey
Luckey apologized for funding anti-Hillary Internet memes.
TIP-TOEING
Pence: Trump’s Flowers Tweet Not Serious
Says Gennifer Flowers will not be at the debate.
SAFETY FIRST
Security Upped in Charlotte for NFL Game
As protests rage over fatal police shooting of black man.
CAUGHT
WA Shooting Suspect Arrested
20-year-old Arcan Cetin.
NO TRIAL
Jordan Man Killed for Anti-Islam Cartoon
Outside courthouse where he was standing trial.
CONGRATS
Jane Pauley to Lead ‘CBS Sunday Morning’
Replacing Charles Osgood.
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Politics
Watch for Media Bias in Debate Coverage
Watch for Media Bias in Debate Coverage
With the explosion of pumpkin-spiced everything, a few trees changing colors, and much of the nation diving headlong into football season, the signs that election year autumn has arrived have also become loud and clear.One of those signs is happen...
Style over substance and truth is often what wins plaudits from the superficial Beltway media.
Will Bill Clinton Be Eleanor Roosevelt?
Will Bill Clinton Be Eleanor Roosevelt?
It’s been the hottest ticket in town, an invite to attend CGI, the annual gathering of the Clinton Global Initiative, a fundraising behemoth that President Bill Clinton hosted for the last time this week. But as the spouse of a likely next preside...
As the former president sheds his ties he built up in his post-presidential years, many wonder about what role he will play if his wife is elected president.
How Truman Reinvented Campaigning
How Truman Reinvented Campaigning
On a Monday night in the spring of 1948, a group of President Harry Truman’s advisers met for their weekly gathering at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., overlooking Rock Creek Park. Over steak dinner, the men discussed the president’s r...
In a chapter from ‘Whistlestop,’ his new book about presidential campaign history, the Face the Nation moderator describes how Harry Truman rose from the dead in 1948.
Losers Think Trump Makes Them Supermen
Losers Think Trump Makes Them Supermen
In Kill Bill: Vol. 2, David Carradine, as Bill, explains the mythology behind super heroes: that all but Superman put on a costume to inhabit their powerful alter-egos. But not Superman. He does it the other way around. His costume is Clark Kent. ...
It’s still kind of hard to believe that such a large percentage of our fellow citizens affirmatively want this vulgarian to be president. As best I can tell, here’s why.
Democracy’s at Stake in the First Debate
Democracy’s at Stake in the First Debate
Like most Americans, I’m looking forward to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s first debate on Monday, when these two forces of nature engage in a battle of intellect, contrasting their visions for America. I hope their exchange will give voters a...
Lester Holt should have Clinton and Trump, two candidates who profess to recognize that they’re in a flawed system, debate democracy first.
Entertainment
Bill Maher: Tulsa Cop ‘Also a Victim’
Bill Maher: Tulsa Cop ‘Also a Victim’
Last week, 40-year-old Terence Crutcher—who is black—was gunned down after his SUV was stopped on the street in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Several police cameras captured Crutcher, unarmed and with his hands over his head, absorbing a fatal gunshot wound fr...
The ‘Real Time’ host shared his thoughts on the controversial shooting of the unarmed Crutcher—which has resulted in manslaughter charges being brought against the officer.
The New ‘Mystery Show’: The Election
The New ‘Mystery Show’: The Election
The woman who made one of most popular podcasts in the world has ended her sabbatical in the most obvious way: She’s now producing (and sometimes guest starring in) a separate podcast about gambling on the election, hosted by a domain name reselle...
‘Mystery Show’ show host Starlee Kine has finally emerged after a long disappearance with a new podcast about gambling on the election.
Shondaland Is Back. Blessed Are We.
Shondaland Is Back. Blessed Are We.
I don’t remember when I first fell in love with Shonda Rhimes. It may have been the first time Scandal cold opened with an extended sex scene set to a groovy Motown track. Or it might have been when Annalise Keating, the star of Rhimes’s 2014 offe...
Thursday night blessed us with the return of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘How to Get Away With Murder,’ two miraculous shows in which women rule the world and every twist is f**king bonkers.
Joe Biden’s Crazy ‘SVU’ Episode
Joe Biden’s Crazy ‘SVU’ Episode
When the news broke that Vice President Joe Biden, Obama’s perpetually grinning, ice cream and choo-choo train-loving boy Friday, would be appearing on an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, our imaginations went into overdrive. Woul...
The episode, airing Sept. 28, is a riff on the series ‘Making a Murderer,’ about a man whose rape conviction was overturned then finds himself—once again—accused of rape.
Life After Gamergate
Life After Gamergate
“I want freedom, the right to self-expression,” turn-of-the-century activist Emma Goldman once said when a man chided her for dancing. “Everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.” Those words, from a woman once dubbed one of the most dangerou...
The feminist vlogger discusses her new internet series ‘Ordinary Women: Daring to Defy History,’ the harassment of Leslie Jones, and more.
Dear TMZ: Stop Blaming the Victim
Dear TMZ: Stop Blaming the Victim
This June, NBA star Derrick Rose left the Chicago Bulls for the New York Knicks in a high-profile trade. Hometown coach Jeff Hornacek gloated, “This is an exciting day for New York and our fans.” The ubiquitous sports media coverage largely failed...
In its coverage of the Derrick Rose rape case and beyond, the gossip site’s sexist coverage is more than despicable—it has real-world consequences.
The Pfeffermans on Transparent’s Return
The Pfeffermans on Transparent’s Return
When the Pfefferman children finally appear in the second episode of Transparent’s spectacular new season, which launched on Amazon Friday, their arms are linked and they’re walking cautiously through a county hospital, gawking in disgusted wonder...
Gaby Hoffman, Amy Landecker, and Jay Duplass—the ceaselessly entertaining Pfefferman siblings—talk white privilege, parenting, and the new season of ‘Transparent.’
World News
Corbyn Wins: Hard-Left Kills Off Labour
Corbyn Wins: Hard-Left Kills Off Labour
At 11.45am this morning Theresa May, the newly ensconced leader of the Conservative party, won a handsome victory at Britain’s next general election. It was also the time, the precise moment, when the Labour party ceased to exist as a functioning ...
After a year of Corbyn’s ineffectual leadership, Labour had a chance to return to mainstream politics. Instead, its members chose to indulge in the sanctimony of permanent opposition.
Pope Francis: Thou Shalt Not Gossip
Pope Francis: Thou Shalt Not Gossip
ROME — It is certainly no secret that Pope Francis frowns upon idle chatter. Since taking the helm of the Roman Catholic Church in 2013, he has scolded his priests and nuns and parishioners on countless occasions against wagging tongues. “Gossip i...
The pontiff warned journalists not to use their craft for fear-mongering and spreading lies.
Russia’s Brutal Pro-Trump Coverage
Russia’s Brutal Pro-Trump Coverage
MOSCOW — If you think the American elections look ugly where you are, you should watch the coverage in Russia. News about them is all over Russia’s mainstream media, and it’s brutal.When Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tried to p...
In recent weeks, Russian broadcasters have proclaimed Hillary Clinton dead and praised Trump as a great statesman. Hard to know which is more bizarre.
Back to School in World’s Murder Capital
Back to School in World’s Murder Capital
Sophia* has a cascade of dark curls and Cupid’s-bow lips that impose happiness on her whole face regardless of what she’s saying. Even when, in an empty classroom, the 15-year-old goes over a bleak list of options for surviving one of the most dan...
In El Salvador, students are afraid to study and teachers say doing their job is more dangerous now than it was during the bloody 10-year civil war.
The Curse of Being a Royal Nobody
The Curse of Being a Royal Nobody
When Lord Ivar Mountbatten made the recent decision to come out as gay in the British media, he was identified as “the Queen’s cousin,” which is a somewhat economically truthful version of the real situation—he is actually the queen’s third cousin...
The recent coming-out of a distant relative of Queen Elizabeth highlights the perils inherent in the business of being a minor royal—you do have the name, but not much else.
Cracking Russia’s Crooked Money Machine
Cracking Russia’s Crooked Money Machine
U.S. federal prosecutors just won’t let go of their three-year-old criminal action against alleged beneficiaries of stolen and laundered Russian taxpayer money.It was launched as part of what’s known as the Magnitsky Affair, a contentious story of...
The feds bring an alleged lawyer for the Russian mob before a grand jury in the Magnitsky investigations.
You Can Fuhgeddabout Rome’s Olympics Bid
You Can Fuhgeddabout Rome’s Olympics Bid
ROME — It takes, oh, about 10 seconds in the Eternal City these days to see that the former caput mundi is actually close to kaput. Between the piles of garbage and the graffiti, the inefficient public transportation and the wringing of the hands ...
The Eternal City’s a mess and its no-nonsense new mayor says there are far bigger priorities than an expensive attempt to win the 2024 Summer Games.
U.S.
7 Days Left to Release Keith Scott Video
7 Days Left to Release Keith Scott Video
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Police have seven days to release video showing Keith Scott’s death before a new law effectively seals the footage from the public.Scott’s family, protesters, the state’s attorney general, and even Hillary Clinton are c...
A new law signed by North Carolina’s Republican governor will make it almost impossible to “show the tape” after next week. Until then, it’s Chief Putney’s call.
Protest Killer Flashed Guns on Facebook
Protest Killer Flashed Guns on Facebook
The North Carolina man charged with murdering a protester on Wednesday was arrested early Friday morning.Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Chief Kerr Putney announced at a press conference that the department’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Team arrest...
Rayquan Borum was arrested for shooting Justin Carr in the head at a protest Wednesday and made his fondness for firepower clear on social media.
How Famine Could Come to America
How Famine Could Come to America
Starvation has always been a weapon of war. From salting fields to blockading harbors to slaughtering herds of buffalo, nations have consistently used hunger to bring their enemies to their knees. For that reason, food security has always been a b...
When the sale goes through, a Germany company will control a big chunk of the seed market. Germany wouldn’t blackmail us. But what if the Germans sold to someone who would?
Deadly Viruses Mistakenly Sent 21 Times
Deadly Viruses Mistakenly Sent 21 Times
By R. Jeffrey Smith and Patrick Malone, Center for Public IntegrityPublic, academic, and private laboratories that work with deadly diseases have mistakenly transferred highly contagious viruses and bacteria to unsecure locations at least 21 times...
Believing the deadly pathogens had been deactivated, scientists and officials at U.S. labs sent highly contagious viruses and bacteria to unsecure locations at least 21 times.
Tulsa DA: Cop ‘Overreacted’ in Shooting
Tulsa DA: Cop ‘Overreacted’ in Shooting
The Oklahoma cop who fatally shot an unarmed black man last week “reacted unreasonably” and became “emotionally involved to the point that she overreacted,” investigators said in an affidavit Thursday.Betty Jo Shelby, 42, is charged with first-deg...
A source tells The Daily Beast that Officer Betty Jo Shelby, who’s been charged in the death of unarmed Terence Crutcher, was ‘always on the skittish side.’
Tech + Health
The Real Dangers of Food Porn
The Real Dangers of Food Porn
By K. Aleisha Fetters, Life by Daily Burn We’re only a week and a half into September, but this month has already celebrated National Gyro Day, National Baby Back Ribs Day, National Cheese Pizza Day, National Coffee Ice Cream Day, National Beer Lo...
Jim Carrey Lawsuit Just Got Uglier
Jim Carrey Lawsuit Just Got Uglier
The wrongful death lawsuit against Jim Carrey just went from strange to stranger.In an amended complaint filed Thursday, Mark Burton, the estranged husband of Jim Carrey’s late ex-girlfriend Cathriona White, is claiming that the Liar, Liar star ga...
A lawsuit that alleges the actor had involvement in the death of Cathriona White was amended Thursday. It claims Carrey gave White multiple sexual transmitted diseases, including her...
Facebook, Stop Messing With the Election
Facebook, Stop Messing With the Election
“You’re on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls!”In 2004, that’s how ex-Daily Show anchor Jon Stewart famously rebutted Crossfire host Tucker Carlson’s allegation that he had gone too soft on John Kerry. Seven years...
Still denying it’s a media company, Facebook says it’s just a technology company. But given its influence on the election, how much longer can it keep up the charade?
Facebook Fat Cat Funding Trump Memes
Facebook Fat Cat Funding Trump Memes
A Silicon Valley titan is putting money behind an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and circulating internet memes maligning Hillary Clinton.Oculus founder Palmer Luckey financially backed a pro-Trump political organization ...
Palmer Luckey—founder of Oculus—is funding a Trump group that circulates dirty memes about Hillary Clinton.
Please Do Not Hack Your Own EpiPen
Please Do Not Hack Your Own EpiPen
EpiPens are so expensive that some people are trying to make their own. But the makeshift cure might be just as dangerous as a severe allergic reaction.After pharmaceutical company Mylan acquired the EpiPen patent in 2007, the emergency allergy me...
In response to EpiPen’s 600 percent price hike, some users are hacking cheap, DIY versions at home. But experts warn of infection and overdose.
Is This the End of Lesbian Media?
Is This the End of Lesbian Media?
Lesbian bars have been closing for years. Lesbian websites may not be far behind.On Tuesday, AfterEllen editor-in-chief Trish Bendix announced on her Tumblr that the 14-year-old site for lesbian and bisexual women “will be effectively shutting dow...
Why is it so hard to keep queer women’s media in business?
Two-Headed Calf Is ‘Lucky’ Indeed
Two-Headed Calf Is ‘Lucky’ Indeed
Raising cattle in Campbellsville, Kentucky, Stan McCubbin is used to things that would make most people squeamish. But even he wasn’t expecting one of his cows to give birth to a double-headed calf last Friday.Walking along the farm’s property, Mc...
A Kentucky farmer got a surprise last Friday when one of his calves was born with two heads.
Arts + Culture
How a White Trash Girl Stumbled on Grace
How a White Trash Girl Stumbled on Grace
I am a writer. It seems unlikely yet inevitable that I should have become one. I didn’t go to college, have no degree, but I do have what they call, “a past.” I was named after my father, Willie, a con artist, card sharp, and sometimes garden-vari...
Her father was a thief, her mother a drunk, but Billie Livingston was determined to be a writer. She succeeded, then it got hard, and then the magic happened.
The Play Putting Dubya on Trial
The Play Putting Dubya on Trial
President George W. Bush was found guilty of war crimes last night at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. The jury vote was 6-3.Don’t worry if you didn’t know the 43rd president was on trial. This was an off-Broadway verdict, the conclu...
In a new play, Bush is charged with three overarching crimes resulting from the war in Iraq—and every night a jury of audience members votes on whether he is guilty or not.
Ex-Exec Sues ‘Paranoid’ Glenn Beck
Ex-Exec Sues ‘Paranoid’ Glenn Beck
The abrupt end of a beautiful friendship—nearly two decades of mutual admiration between struggling media entrepreneur Glenn Beck and his fired top executive, Christopher Balfe—has become a legal battle of ugly accusations that only promise to get...
The Blaze owner has driven his company ‘into the ground due to his own erratic behavior, excessive spending, and mismanagement,’ his ex-top executive alleges.
‘Drug-Dealing’ Aristocrat Shot Dead
‘Drug-Dealing’ Aristocrat Shot Dead
The daughter of one of Britain’s most notorious aristocrats, Tony, the 3rd Lord Moynihan, has been found shot dead on a Philippines street, making her one of the most high-profile victims of President Rodrigo Duterte’s extra-judicial war on drugs ...
The body of Aurora Moynihan was found dumped on a Manila street last week with a hand-written sign alleging she was a drug dealer to celebrities.
Actors Reveal the Real Edward Albee
Actors Reveal the Real Edward Albee
The actor Bill Irwin’s friendship with Edward Albee began when Irwin appeared in The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? in 2002, opposite Sally Field; on Broadway in 2005 he played George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, opposite Kathleen Turner as Martha...
The playwright could be inscrutable, difficult, warm, and funny, recalls Bill Irwin, while Eileen Fulton remembers how he led her to put out a fire on stage.
This Is the Global Language of Grief
This Is the Global Language of Grief
A loud bang reverberated throughout the hall of New York’s Park Avenue Armory, like a gunshot, then the sound of mourning began: a dissonant chorus of sorrowful chants, cymbals and drums, humming, and caterwauling.It was just after sundown, and a ...
Visitors attending Taryn Simon’s monumental installation piece, ‘An Occupation of Loss,’ which explores grieving rituals from around the world, will leave shaken and stirred.
How to Win the Emmys Red Carpet
How to Win the Emmys Red Carpet
On the Emmys red carpet, Claire Danes dazzled in Schiaparelli, Taraji P. Henson in Vera Wang, and Ellie Kemper in Jenny Packham.
On the Emmys red carpet, Claire Danes dazzled in Schiaparelli, Taraji P. Henson in Vera Wang, and Ellie Kemper in Jenny Packham.
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