
Federal government declares major disaster.
By October if he's still sinking.
During protest in Milwaukee after traffic stop turned deadly.
Notes on cash payments made by Yanukovych include Manafort.

After violence following an officer-involved shooting.
By lone gunman.
Reports of gunfire led to temporary chaos.
Developed engine problems and went down before landing.
He said during a rally in Connecticut.

Major police operation underway.

Baz Luhrmann’s new Netflix series is certainly messy. But if there's one thing it does powerfully, it’s connect struggles of the past to battles still being fought today.

The pop princess has entered the arena in the war of words between Beliebers and their Pop God, accusing her ex-boyfriend of being unfaithful.

The way the GOP candidate dresses tells us all we need to know about a man whose idea of dressing well extends no further than how expensive his clothes are.
For weeks, Democratic politicians have been bracing for the release of more embarrassing emails that U.S. officials believe were stolen by Russian hackers and then handed over to WikiLeaks.But Republicans have reason to worry, too. Computer securi...
Cybersecurity experts have linked one of the groups that stole emails from the DNC to a campaign against lawmakers and officials, including John McCain.
Hillary Clinton made a lot of money last year as did her husband, former President Bill Clinton, according to their 2015 tax return released Friday. But the release wasn’t about their federal tax rate of 34.2 percent or the fact they made $10.6 ...
The couple is nowhere as rich as the Republican nominee, but they’re much more transparent about their finances.
Richard Lee Whitley needed a lawyer. The Northern Virginia handyman had confessed to murdering a neighbor and then sexually assaulting her with umbrellas, and the volunteer lawyer handling his case had just moved out of state. It was 1983, the Sup...
As a young lawyer, Tim Kaine defended the most indefensible crimes not because he wanted to, but because he felt he must.
For weeks, Democratic politicians have been bracing for the release of more embarrassing emails that U.S. officials believe were stolen by Russian hackers and then handed over to WikiLeaks.But Republicans have reason to worry, too. Computer securi...
Cybersecurity experts have linked one of the groups that stole emails from the DNC to a campaign against lawmakers and officials, including John McCain.
Now that Bernie Sanders can no longer become the Democratic presidential nominee, his campaign has shifted focus to his new project Our Revolution. The pretensions to the presidency are gone, but instead of going quietly into the night or vocifero...
Phase one: Rehashing a drama from his unsuccessful presidential bid and stoking divisions within America’s political left. This is not a welcome development.
First things first: A source close to the Hillary Clinton campaign tells me that there has been no outreach to Henry Kissinger. This whole welter of outrage started when Politico reported the other day, according to their own unnamed “person close...
The real issue here isn’t who she’s praised or who endorses her, but what kind of foreign policy president she would be.
With a voice compared to Joe Cocker and a smoothness on par with Michael McDonald, Tim Hockenberry could play and sing just about anywhere.But instead of Vegas, instead of Nashville, and instead of his old haunts around San Francisco, you’ll find ...
Tim Hockenberry has had a long and fruitful career as a musician, but after being made famous by reality TV, he's set up shop down South.
August: the thirstiest month of the year. The summer is almost over, the temperature keeps rising, and swimmer abs have us feeling some type of way. The internet has decided to quench this thirst with a sea of celebrity D, making it one of the sex...
Ex-‘Entourage’ star Adrian Grenier wants in on the summer of male celebrity oversharing.
Most of us never dreamed that 2016 would bring an unadulterated vision of anthropomorphic foodstuffs making sweet, filthy, uninhibited love to other foodstuffs. Well, the R-rated Sausage Party is here to gift us that and more. But fair warning: Fo...
This R-rated animated comedy from the minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg balances teen sex jokes with witty riffs on theology and acceptance. It’s also a total riot.
“Turns out you can rent a tank!” says Robert Smigel. “It costs something like $5,000, and we blew our big production budget on the tank.”The last time Smigel and I talked back in March, he was backstage at the first Triumph the Insult Comic Dog El...
Robert Smigel’s Emmy-nominated (!) creation is back with Hulu’s ‘Triumph’s Summer Election Special.’ He chats with The Daily Beast about the politics of comedy and vice versa.
August: the thirstiest month of the year. The summer is almost over, the temperature keeps rising, and swimmer abs have us feeling some type of way. The internet has decided to quench this thirst with a sea of celebrity D, making it one of the sex...
Ex-‘Entourage’ star Adrian Grenier wants in on the summer of male celebrity oversharing.
Fans already preparing for release in December.
The many journeys of Werner Herzog have taken Germany’s greatest living philosopher-auteur across the globe in search of human truths in all their forms, distilling his Herzogisms upon everything from lives lived in isolation at the ends of the ea...
The legendary filmmaker—with the legendary voice—gives his take on the most controversial music video of the year. [Warning: NSFW]
With a role in the R-rated animation Sausage Party, a high profile stint on Mr. Robot, his upcoming Spike TV game show, and a surprising award-winning turn in the Sundance darling Morris From America, we are currently experiencing a bountiful mome...
The comedian, who won an acting award at Sundance for ‘Morris From America,’ in theaters Aug. 19, opens up about his acclaimed turn to drama and much more.
Fans already preparing for release in December.
Sebastian Junger says Tribe is his last book about war. As last words go, it’s a good way to end, as this particular monograph may end up shaping—and changing—how the current generation of troops feels about combat and coming home. “Why is it tha...
Veterans returning home from recent tours have found themselves feeling out of sync with society, and journalist Sebastian Junger thinks he knows why.
ATHENS — In a neighborhood of shuttered shops and crumbling 19th century buildings less than a mile from the Acropolis, someone has scrawled a graffito on the side of a downtown building here: “No Public Toilets, Mr. Mayor!” Most of the nearby gra...
Greece’s economic collapse and social disarray make the country ripe for satire, which helps explain why a centuries-old comedy by Aristophanes is a big hit there this summer.
The Olympic’s relationship to literature did not get off to an auspicious start. Baron de Coubertin had long believed that sport was not antithetical to the arts, but a distinct and important component of a society’s cultural life. It therefore se...
Tucked away in the vast library of mediocre books about the Olympics are some real gems. Olympic historian David Goldblatt surveys the field and picks the gold.
Allyson Felix, who will compete for Team USA in the 2016 Rio Olympics, isn’t just one of the most impressive female athletes of the decade—she’s one of the most impressive athletes, period.Felix, 30, has won more world championship gold medals tha...
After being sidelined by an ankle injury and failing to qualify for the 200-meter race by 0.01 seconds, Allyson Felix prepares to do her best to win at least one gold in the 2016 Rio...
ATHENS — In a neighborhood of shuttered shops and crumbling 19th century buildings less than a mile from the Acropolis, someone has scrawled a graffito on the side of a downtown building here: “No Public Toilets, Mr. Mayor!” Most of the nearby gra...
Greece’s economic collapse and social disarray make the country ripe for satire, which helps explain why a centuries-old comedy by Aristophanes is a big hit there this summer.
For weeks, Democratic politicians have been bracing for the release of more embarrassing emails that U.S. officials believe were stolen by Russian hackers and then handed over to WikiLeaks.But Republicans have reason to worry, too. Computer securi...
Cybersecurity experts have linked one of the groups that stole emails from the DNC to a campaign against lawmakers and officials, including John McCain.
Olympic history has been made ten times over at the 2016 Rio Games. Michael Phelps has proven himself to be the greatest swimmer of all time — and perhaps the greatest athlete of all time. He’s broken so many records, including his own, in Rio tha...
Simone Biles, Michael Phelps, and Simone Manuel make history at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
BANGKOK — Four people have been killed and more than two dozen injured in a wave of lethal bombings across Thailand that appeared to target the country’s crucial tourism industry at the start of a long holiday weekend. Officials tightened security...
For once, ISIS is not the suspect, and military rulers have many enemies. But the attacks may signal the spread of a slow-burning Muslim insurgency.
For weeks, Democratic politicians have been bracing for the release of more embarrassing emails that U.S. officials believe were stolen by Russian hackers and then handed over to WikiLeaks.But Republicans have reason to worry, too. Computer securi...
Cybersecurity experts have linked one of the groups that stole emails from the DNC to a campaign against lawmakers and officials, including John McCain.
Your correspondent Mr. Nale made a business trip last week to Acton, California, to interview a pig. Your other correspondent is not as young as he used to be and stayed home—missing not only the pig but a goat, two friendly cows, one cow that was...
Lessons on retirement—and staying gone—for newsies and other animals.
“I am going into the very bowels of the Confederacy,” wrote William Tecumseh Sherman early in 1864 to his superiors in the Union command, “and will leave a trail that will be recognized fifty years hence.” It seemed at the time a rather over-the-t...
Gen. William Sherman waged war on the Confederate army and civilians alike, hastening the end of the Civil War but ensuring that he would be reviled by Southerners to this day.
For weeks, Democratic politicians have been bracing for the release of more embarrassing emails that U.S. officials believe were stolen by Russian hackers and then handed over to WikiLeaks.But Republicans have reason to worry, too. Computer securi...
Cybersecurity experts have linked one of the groups that stole emails from the DNC to a campaign against lawmakers and officials, including John McCain.
Your correspondent Mr. Nale made a business trip last week to Acton, California, to interview a pig. Your other correspondent is not as young as he used to be and stayed home—missing not only the pig but a goat, two friendly cows, one cow that was...
Lessons on retirement—and staying gone—for newsies and other animals.
When Texas homeowner Doug Dallmer stepped into his garage Thursday night, he was greeted by a 300-pound alligator.“I took two steps in and his head was literally right there,” Dallmer told KSAT.Dallmer called the police, who arrived with a profess...
A thrashing, 300-pound gator totaled a Texas man’s garage as police struggled to remove it.
No one loves the Second Amendment more than Donald Trump, according to Donald Trump. What’s more, he says, only he can save it from the likes of Hillary Clinton, whom, he recently claimed without evidence in a seeming incitement of violence, would...
The Republican nominee’s plan to rescue the Second Amendment leans heavily on Project Exile, a program Hillary Clinton’s running mate implemented as mayor of Richmond, Virginia.
In a November episode of The Mindy Project, a pajama-clad Dr. Lahiri told an auditorium of bright-eyed college students that their baby days were numbered.“Your body does not care if you are dating the wrong guy, or [if] the guy you’re with is als...
Extend Fertility, a new private clinic in Manhattan, offers egg freezing at half market price. It’s also the first standalone practice of its kind in the U.S. How beneficial will it ...
There’s something terribly wrong with kids these days: a series of major surveys, conducted by the government every two years, suggest that they might just be the most well-behaved generation in recent memory.Teens are increasingly swearing off al...
Hard-partying Baby Boomer parents are more tolerant of drugs and alcohol, and their liberal attitudes may be paying off in an unexpected way.
In 1993, a sexual assault rocked the online community known as Lambda MOO, a chat room and virtual world populated by early adopters to the internet. Using a virtual voodoo doll, a user known as “Mr. Bungle” forced simulated sex acts on another co...
A conversation with former journalist Julian Dibbell about his game-changing article and the internet 20 years later.
By Samantha Lefave, Life by Daily Burn Whether you’re into stouts, IPAs, or sours, the concept of downing beer after your workout isn’t new. Social sports leagues have been doing it for years—just for the pure enjoyment of it. Plus, a 2013 study f...
A mango-flavored, protein-fortified IPA sounds way better than a clumpy protein shake.
There’s something terribly wrong with kids these days: a series of major surveys, conducted by the government every two years, suggest that they might just be the most well-behaved generation in recent memory.Teens are increasingly swearing off al...
Hard-partying Baby Boomer parents are more tolerant of drugs and alcohol, and their liberal attitudes may be paying off in an unexpected way.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, We have a situation in #Turkey #Incirlik” the cry went out on Twitter last Saturday night, as news spread of the Turkish forces surrounding the U.S. airbase in Incirlik.Thousands of armed police had reportedly surrounded the...
Fake news stories from Kremlin propagandists regularly become social media trends. Here’s how Moscow does it… and what it means for America’s election 2016.
Why can’t an overworked, overstimulated, pharmaceutically-obsessed society just come up with the perfect chemical supplement to make us smarter, faster, and more engaged in today’s accelerated world? One without the self-destructive trade-offs lik...
After a hero dose of nootropic drugs, I was anything but bulletproof.
Millennials are not some vast unsolvable mystery. According to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau (PDF), they earn $2,000 less than their parents did at a comparable age, they are more likely to live in poverty, and they are more likely to live ...
If you’re wondering why millennials don’t have much sex, and don’t buy cars, forget social theorizing: the harsh truth lies in their near-empty wallets.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, We have a situation in #Turkey #Incirlik” the cry went out on Twitter last Saturday night, as news spread of the Turkish forces surrounding the U.S. airbase in Incirlik.Thousands of armed police had reportedly surrounded the...
Fake news stories from Kremlin propagandists regularly become social media trends. Here’s how Moscow does it… and what it means for America’s election 2016.
After the age of 21, your body slowly stops releasing an important hormone known as HGH (Human Growth Hormone), which covers everything from gray hair to sex. It’s all downhill from there—that’s all I have to say.When I was recently invited to spe...
To remain engaged and excited by reading, writing, and by life itself, says a seasoned novelist, we must constantly seek to discover the new, to engage the unknown.
From Spicoli’s burner cool to every buff, bronzed, board bro character trope, California’s surf culture is as burned into pop culture as blond highlights are in sun and salt bleached hair. While wave riding itself has been happening for thousands ...
The Beach Boys introduced sunny Southern California’s aesthetic to pop culture, helping to make baggies and Woodies and surfing look and sound hip even in Kansas.
In an announcement that took employees and business associates alike by surprise, digital media entrepreneur and sleep guru Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington abruptly resigned Thursday morning as editor in chief of The Huffington Post, her eponymo...
Arianna Huffington resigned Thursday morning as editor in chief of The Huffington Post. Next stop: monetizing the land of nod.
One of the largest choral events in Lincoln Center history will take place on Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza on Saturday, Aug. 13 at 5 p.m.A thousand volunteer singers from around New York City, crowd-sourced from an online campaign, will ...
This weekend’s ‘Public Domain’ will bring together 1,000 volunteer singers from around New York City, crowd-sourced from an online campaign, to participate in a choral event whose ly...
From Spicoli’s burner cool to every buff, bronzed, board bro character trope, California’s surf culture is as burned into pop culture as blond highlights are in sun and salt bleached hair. While wave riding itself has been happening for thousands ...
The Beach Boys introduced sunny Southern California’s aesthetic to pop culture, helping to make baggies and Woodies and surfing look and sound hip even in Kansas.
“Actually I am a weeper,” Nick Denton confided. “But usually only for TV shows and for movies. Any story of triumph over adversity, teams coming back from behind, brings out the tears in me.” Who knew that the 49-year-old Denton, an even-tempered...
Conventional wisdom is that it's all over for Nick Denton's Gawker. So why did he sound so upbeat at a wake for the site last night?
It may well be steamy outside, but in department stores it’s already fall, since stores typically get their seasonal shipments of new items well in advance of temperatures actually changing. The choice of what clothing is for sale has been made by...
A fashion director for Barneys for almost four decades, Tom Kalendarian talks about what he thinks men will be buying this fall, from slouchy sportswear to sleek suits.
In a November episode of The Mindy Project, a pajama-clad Dr. Lahiri told an auditorium of bright-eyed college students that their baby days were numbered.“Your body does not care if you are dating the wrong guy, or [if] the guy you’re with is als...
Extend Fertility, a new private clinic in Manhattan, offers egg freezing at half market price. It’s also the first standalone practice of its kind in the U.S. How beneficial will it ...
“Actually I am a weeper,” Nick Denton confided. “But usually only for TV shows and for movies. Any story of triumph over adversity, teams coming back from behind, brings out the tears in me.” Who knew that the 49-year-old Denton, an even-tempered...
Conventional wisdom is that it's all over for Nick Denton's Gawker. So why did he sound so upbeat at a wake for the site last night?



















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