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    U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton smiles as she visits Galvanize, a learning community for technology, in Denver, U.S. June 28, 2016.

    Is Clinton Telling Truth About Emails?

    Is Clinton Telling Truth About Emails?

    By Lauren Carroll and Jon GreenbergSaturday’s news that Hillary Clinton spent more than three hours speaking with the FBI bled into the Sunday news shows, with Clinton again saying she did not send or receive material marked classified through the...

    The presumptive Democratic nominee joined the Sunday shows to put forward her version of the email scandal dogging her campaign.

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    Trump’s Hillary Meme Was Made by Racist

    Trump’s Hillary Meme Was Made by Racist

    The meme Donald Trump put on Twitter on Saturday that has been called anti-Semitic for featuring a six-point star like the Star of David was first created by a racist Twitter account.On Saturday, his campaign tweeted an image co-opting a graphic d...

    The image using an anti-Semitic trope to attack Clinton appeared on 8chan after a vile Twitter user created it two weeks ago.

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    Writer, Nobel Laureate and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel speaks to the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, May 4, 2010, following a private lunch with U.S. President Barack Obama.

    When Elie Wiesel Took on Ronald Reagan

    When Elie Wiesel Took on Ronald Reagan

    Elie Wiesel, who died Saturday at the age of 87, lived a life of heroism and eloquence that word by word, honor by honor, distanced him from the human hell he experienced in the Holocaust without ever quite freeing him. Even as he became famous, s...

    Time and again, the Holocaust survivor showed great courage, but in his last years he was saddened by how little the world had changed.

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    U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton smiles as she visits Galvanize, a learning community for technology, in Denver, U.S. June 28, 2016.

    Is Clinton Telling Truth About Emails?

    Is Clinton Telling Truth About Emails?

    By Lauren Carroll and Jon GreenbergSaturday’s news that Hillary Clinton spent more than three hours speaking with the FBI bled into the Sunday news shows, with Clinton again saying she did not send or receive material marked classified through the...

    The presumptive Democratic nominee joined the Sunday shows to put forward her version of the email scandal dogging her campaign.

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    Will Brexit Masterminds Work for Trump?

    Will Brexit Masterminds Work for Trump?

    Will Brexit Masterminds Work for Trump?

    In the week since the United Kingdom voted to part with the European Union, political analysts have been drawing parallels between to the so-called “Leave” campaign and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. Both have portrayed immigration as ...

    Cambridge Analytica has made a name for itself playing off citizens' fears of immigration, and they might be joining the Trump campaign.

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    Pakistani protesters from the United Citizen Action (UCA) group shout slogans and burn a US flag as they demonstrate against US drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal region in Multan on October 31, 2014. A US drone strike killed at least seven militants in Pakistan's restive tribal belt on October 30, including an important commander of the feared Haqqani network, security officials said. The attack happened in Nargas village of Birmil area, some 30 kilometres west of Wana, the main town of South Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border which is considered a stronghold of Taliban militants. AFP PHOTO/ SS MIRZA        (Photo credit should read SS MIRZA/AFP/Getty Images)

    Obama Lowballing Drone War Death Toll?

    Obama Lowballing Drone War Death Toll?

    The Obama administration said Friday it had killed as many as 116 civilians through its air campaign against jihadists in places like Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya.Yet no one who has studied the preferred U.S. tactic in the war against terro...

    The White House says its airstrikes only killed 116 civilians. At least one independent group of experts say the real number is in the thousands.

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    Celebrity 4th of July

    A Bad Person’s Guide to 4th of July

    A Bad Person’s Guide to 4th of July

    It’s easy to be jaded about a holiday like the Fourth of July that celebrates liberty for all when the American Dream is still out of reach for so many. But you know who isn’t jaded? Celebrities. In yachts from sea to shining sea, these diehard pa...

    Whether it’s using your friends as pawns, turning patriotism into profit or simply being a hot mess, no one does July 4th like the most insufferable people on Earth: Celebrities.

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    What It Was Like to Be Gay at MTV

    What It Was Like to Be Gay at MTV

    Justin Timberlake and Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst are in a booth at Los Angeles club. Verne Troyer, the two-foot, eight-inches tall star of Austin Powers, is with them, standing on a table. The unlikely trio is not the beginning of a “walk into a bar...

    In between interviewing Britney Spears and judging Spring Break wet T-shirt contests, former VJ Dave Holmes struggled with being openly gay on-air. Now he’s dishing about it all.

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    The Mystery of Charlie Parker's Lost Recordings

    Jazz Hero Charlie Parker’s Mystery Music

    Jazz Hero Charlie Parker’s Mystery Music

    When new works by dead artists are discovered, the first question asked is, Where have they been hiding all these years? Perhaps a safe deposit box in a Swiss bank? Or maybe a warehouse in a broken down industrial neighborhood? Or did a lucky coll...

    61 years after jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker died, a new album of hitherto unheard recordings is being released, and yet no one will say where they came from.

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    In this Feb 23, 1945 file photo, U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan. The Marines Corps announced Thursday, June 23, 2016, that one of the six men long identified in the iconic World War II photograph was actually not in the image. A panel found that Private First Class Harold Schultz, of Detroit, was in the photo and that Navy Pharmacist's Mate 2nd Class John Bradley wasn't in the image. Bradley had participated in an earlier flag-raising on Mount Suribachi.

    The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima

    The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima

    On June 23rd, the Marine Corps publicly acknowledged that a previously unidentified Marine named Harold H. Schultz was one of the six men pictured in what is arguably the best-known image of the last century: Joe Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning...

    Marine Lt. Col. Matthew W. Morgan, producer of the Smithsonian doc The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima, on the 70-year mystery behind one of America’s most iconic images.

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    Dave Holmes, former MTV VJ

    What It Was Like to Be Gay at MTV

    What It Was Like to Be Gay at MTV

    Justin Timberlake and Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst are in a booth at Los Angeles club. Verne Troyer, the two-foot, eight-inches tall star of Austin Powers, is with them, standing on a table. The unlikely trio is not the beginning of a “walk into a bar...

    In between interviewing Britney Spears and judging Spring Break wet T-shirt contests, former VJ Dave Holmes struggled with being openly gay on-air. Now he’s dishing about it all.

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    Watch What Happens Live

    My Wild Life as a Woman in Late-Night TV

    My Wild Life as a Woman in Late-Night TV

    I used to think that being a woman meant that I was simply too polite to handle the craziness of live, late-night TV, but my experience at Watch What Happens Live completely erased any doubts I had. It’s 10:57 p.m. on a Tuesday night, the show goe...

    Deirdre Connolly, a producer on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, writes about the craziness of making a late-night TV show.

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    Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll - Pictured: Denis Leary as Johnny Rock. CR. Danny Clinch/FX

    Denis Leary: Trump Exploited 9/11

    Denis Leary: Trump Exploited 9/11

    Denis Leary is fired up. In the halcyon MTV days it was his default setting, whether playing a hell-raising Keith Richards on Remote Control or unleashing a series of motormouthed rants to the camera in a turtleneck and duster, but since then he’s...

    The veteran actor and comedian opens up about the second season of ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll,’ the presidential election, and those Louis C.K. allegations.

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    Kids: Porn Is Not Real Sex

    Dear Teens: Porn Sex Is Not ‘Real Sex’

    Dear Teens: Porn Sex Is Not ‘Real Sex’

    Sex Education. Someone has to do it, but who? Whether it’s parents, the school system, or spiritual advisors, no one really knows who should take responsibility for these very necessary conversations, and no one is willing to take the reins. Heck,...

    A new study suggests that 53 percent of boys believe the aggressive sex they see in porn is how people actually have sex. And a lack of sex education is to blame.

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    Watch What Happens Live

    My Wild Life as a Woman in Late-Night TV

    My Wild Life as a Woman in Late-Night TV

    I used to think that being a woman meant that I was simply too polite to handle the craziness of live, late-night TV, but my experience at Watch What Happens Live completely erased any doubts I had. It’s 10:57 p.m. on a Tuesday night, the show goe...

    Deirdre Connolly, a producer on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, writes about the craziness of making a late-night TV show.

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    World News

    The Green-Eyed Secret Agent Who Seduced the French to Steal Nazi Codes

    She Seduced the French to Get Nazi Codes

    She Seduced the French to Get Nazi Codes

    **This is Part I of a two-part feature on one of World War II’s most fascinating spies. Tune in tomorrow for Part II**Trust was a rare and elusive quality in the shadowy world of espionage that Betty Pack, Allied secret agent, inhabited and yet, p...

    Time and again, Betty Pack used the bedroom to get secrets out of Axis officials. To steal codes from the Vichy, an expert in seduction would be the Allies’ greatest weapon.

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    Tales From The Trenches

    Why 4th of July Matters to Muslims

    Why 4th of July Matters to Muslims

    Nearly 600 years before the Fourth of July was a big deal for us Americans, it was a date for celebration across the Muslim world, which was then near its peak. That, obviously, takes a little bit of explaining.So, back in late 1095 AD a Pope name...

    Under one of the greatest rulers in Middle East history, united Muslim armies stomped Christian forces in the Holy Land.

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     C-Fam loses its marbles / HP Hed: Catholic Hardliners’ New BFF: Iran?

    Catholic Fundamentalists’ New BFF: Iran?

    Catholic Fundamentalists’ New BFF: Iran?

    You’d think, in the wake of the Orlando massacre, anti-gay gang violence in Russia, and the gruesome murder of (alleged) gays by ISIS, that having a UN “special rapporteur” investigate discrimination against LGBT people would be a pretty reasonabl...

    Citing an international plot to defeat "truth and goodness," a far-right consortium together with Muslim theocracies, Russia, and China is urging the United Nations not to ...

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    The Green-Eyed Secret Agent Who Seduced the French to Steal Nazi Codes

    She Seduced the French to Get Nazi Codes

    She Seduced the French to Get Nazi Codes

    **This is Part I of a two-part feature on one of World War II’s most fascinating spies. Tune in tomorrow for Part II**Trust was a rare and elusive quality in the shadowy world of espionage that Betty Pack, Allied secret agent, inhabited and yet, p...

    Time and again, Betty Pack used the bedroom to get secrets out of Axis officials. To steal codes from the Vichy, an expert in seduction would be the Allies’ greatest weapon.

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    Dinner at the Coliseum

    Italy's Most Fabulous Dinner of 2016?

    Italy's Most Fabulous Dinner of 2016?

    ROME—Sitting on a gilded, red velvet chair inside the ancient Roman Colosseum on a glorious July evening listening to a soprano sing O soave fanciulla from La Bohème, two things come to mind. The first, of course, is that this sure beats the usual...

    The man who spent a small fortune to save the ancient arena from ruin celebrated with a glitzy gala held inside.

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    Bangladesh Border Guards are seen near Gulshan restaurant, after gunmen stormed a restaurant popular with expatriates in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital, in Dhaka, Bangladesh July 1, 2016. Courtesy of  Dhaka Tribune/Mahmud Hossain Opu via

    Blood-Soaked Ramadan

    Blood-Soaked Ramadan

    LONDON — A terrorist hostage situation involving foreigners is incredibly rare, if not unprecedented, in Bangladesh. Friday night an organized attack unfolded in the capital city Dhaka, involving six gunmen and the deaths of seven or more of the t...

    The slaughter in Dhaka is part of a global insurgency that exploits local grievances.

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    How the DEA Got A Cartel Queen to Flip

    How the DEA Got A Cartel Queen to Flip

    How the DEA Got A Cartel Queen to Flip

    It was late in the day in mid-December 1991 that Detectives Morris and Hughes drove up in their unmarked white van to the little house in Boca where Pilar had moved with her two children after her husband went off to prison.Their knock on the door...

    After leaving her life laundering money for top cartel leaders, Pilar found herself running out of funds necessary to keep up her luxurious lifestyle—and then the DEA came knocking.

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    Dinner at the Coliseum

    Italy's Most Fabulous Dinner of 2016?

    Italy's Most Fabulous Dinner of 2016?

    ROME—Sitting on a gilded, red velvet chair inside the ancient Roman Colosseum on a glorious July evening listening to a soprano sing O soave fanciulla from La Bohème, two things come to mind. The first, of course, is that this sure beats the usual...

    The man who spent a small fortune to save the ancient arena from ruin celebrated with a glitzy gala held inside.

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    U.S. News

    African Americans in the Revolutionary War

    Secret History of Blacks in Revolution

    Secret History of Blacks in Revolution

    A central myth of American history teaching is that the American Revolution was fought for the “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” of each person. By each, Jefferson sadly meant mainly white farmers. This patriotic myth—what I call a Founding...

    As we know all too well, the Revolutionary War was not fought so that all men could be free, but its role in creating the seeds of abolition should not be forgotten.

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    Accepting Jefferson good and bad (by novelist Stephen O'Connor, author of Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings

    It’s Jefferson’s Ideals That Matter

    It’s Jefferson’s Ideals That Matter

    Today we celebrate the ideals of a hypocrite. Thomas Jefferson has always been controversial. During his long political career he was criticized for what some held to be his unconstitutional use of executive power in engineering the Louisiana Purc...

    The author of the Declaration of Independence was a slave owner and an adulterer, but his shortcomings should not taint the ideals he set forth for the country.

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     America as a boxer who needs to keep training Our Country's Toughest Fight

    Our Country’s Toughest Fight

    Our Country’s Toughest Fight

    I’m a boxing trainer. I get people ready for a fight. To do that properly, one must understand the essentials. Will, discipline, technique, conditioning, skill-sets, mental toughness, an understanding of your opponent and most of all an identity t...

    Quitting can seem easier, writes boxing legend Teddy Atlas, but America has prepared too hard and for too long to start taking dives now.

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    African Americans in the Revolutionary War

    Secret History of Blacks in Revolution

    Secret History of Blacks in Revolution

    A central myth of American history teaching is that the American Revolution was fought for the “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” of each person. By each, Jefferson sadly meant mainly white farmers. This patriotic myth—what I call a Founding...

    As we know all too well, the Revolutionary War was not fought so that all men could be free, but its role in creating the seeds of abolition should not be forgotten.

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    Independence Day Behind Bars

    Independence Day Behind Bars

    Independence Day Behind Bars

    For 13 Independence Days, I was a prisoner. To be a prisoner on the Fourth of July is to know the essential hypocrisy of contemporary America. In the early 1990s, when I was at the Collins Correctional Facility in western New York, July 4 was a bi...

    It was bizarre to celebrate a day dedicated to freedom from inside prison. Even after being released, the day smacks of hypocrisy for me.

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     C-Fam loses its marbles / HP Hed: Catholic Hardliners’ New BFF: Iran?

    Catholic Fundamentalists’ New BFF: Iran?

    Catholic Fundamentalists’ New BFF: Iran?

    You’d think, in the wake of the Orlando massacre, anti-gay gang violence in Russia, and the gruesome murder of (alleged) gays by ISIS, that having a UN “special rapporteur” investigate discrimination against LGBT people would be a pretty reasonabl...

    Citing an international plot to defeat "truth and goodness," a far-right consortium together with Muslim theocracies, Russia, and China is urging the United Nations not to ...

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    Tech + Health

     10 Ways You're Using Sunscreen All Wrong

    10 Ways You're Using Sunscreen All Wrong

    10 Ways You're Using Sunscreen All Wrong

    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.

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    FY5249 African woman's hand holding plenty of pills

    The Keurig of Vitamins Is Here

    The Keurig of Vitamins Is Here

    “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.

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    Men, Stop Excusing Online Rape Threats

    Men, Stop Excusing Online Rape Threats

    Men, Stop Excusing Online Rape Threats

    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.

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    THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, (from left): Elsa Lanchester, Boris Karloff, 1935

    ‘Electrosex’ Is Our Freaky Future

    ‘Electrosex’ Is Our Freaky Future

    “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.

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    FY5249 African woman's hand holding plenty of pills

    The Keurig of Vitamins Is Here

    The Keurig of Vitamins Is Here

    “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.

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Charlie Sheen
'Lelo Hex' launch, London, UK - 16 Jun 2016

    Feminists Say No to Charlie Sheen Condom

    Feminists Say No to Charlie Sheen Condom

    Luxury sex-toy manufacturer LELO wanted to reinvent the condom. But by making Charlie Sheen their pitchman, they could end up tanking their own reputation instead.Once beloved by feminist sex workers, bloggers, and educators for its sleek vibrator...

    A Swedish sex toy company once beloved by feminists is trumpeting Charlie Sheen as its new condom spokesman—and pissing off customers who point to the actor’s history of abusing women.

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    Twitter Trolls Terrorize Muslim Girls

    Twitter Trolls Terrorize Muslim Girls

    A band of Twitter trolls alleging to be from the Middle East spent Sunday and Monday repeatedly reporting “atheist” and pro-LGBT girls and women to the local authorities in places where blasphemy laws allow for punishments as severe as death.Stori...

    In Kuwait, the penalty for blasphemy can be death. That’s why a new campaign to dox young Kuwaiti women with independent minds is so dangerous.

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    Mandy Hargraves

    Mom Used Kids to Fake Cancer for Cash

    Mom Used Kids to Fake Cancer for Cash

    Mandy Hargraves was addicted to dying.She had been on the outs with her husband and going broke before cancer. Then her estranged husband returned and money started rolling in as donations to fund her fight against stage 4 stomach cancer.Except Ha...

    When Mandy Hargraves announced her diagnosis, she got her estranged husband back and tons of donations. Then the authorities saw her medical history.

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Charlie Sheen
'Lelo Hex' launch, London, UK - 16 Jun 2016

    Feminists Say No to Charlie Sheen Condom

    Feminists Say No to Charlie Sheen Condom

    Luxury sex-toy manufacturer LELO wanted to reinvent the condom. But by making Charlie Sheen their pitchman, they could end up tanking their own reputation instead.Once beloved by feminist sex workers, bloggers, and educators for its sleek vibrator...

    A Swedish sex toy company once beloved by feminists is trumpeting Charlie Sheen as its new condom spokesman—and pissing off customers who point to the actor’s history of abusing women.

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    Springsteen on 'Born on the 4th of July'

    Springsteen on ‘Born on the 4th of July’

    Springsteen on ‘Born on the 4th of July’

    Listen to Bruce Springsteen’s new foreword to the 40th anniversary edition of Born on the Fourth of July, published here courtesy of Audible (audio version of the book available from Audible here). Introduction to Born on the Fourth of July Repri...

    ‘Born on the Fourth of July,’ Ron Kovic’s account of his time in Vietnam, is out in a new edition. Listen to Bruce Springsteen’s new foreword and read Kovic’s introduction.

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    Lost Masterpieces

    Gaudi’s Lost Manhattan Tower

    Gaudi’s Lost Manhattan Tower

    Barcelona would not be Barcelona without the work of two titans of the Modernista movement—Lluís Domènech i Montaner and the more famous Antoni Gaudí. From the Hospital Sant Pau to the Sagrada Familia, their colorful, nature-inspired, trippy works...

    The designer of such architectural masterpieces as Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia, Antoni Gaudí left behind designs for a monumental Manhattan hotel that was never built.


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    Gay Talese Isn't Alone: Why Aren't More Books Factchecked?

    Why Aren't Books Factchecked?

    Why Aren't Books Factchecked?

    Every few years, book publishing is hit by a major scandal. Someone like Jonah Lehrer is caught making up quotes. There were supposedly major factual inaccuracies in the controversial Primates of Park Avenue, and passages in Ben Carson’s book were...

    Gay Talese is only the latest red-faced author to publish a book replete with errors—errors a routine fact-check would have caught. Why doesn’t book publishing do a better job?

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    What's Eating You in National Parks

    What’s Eating You (in National Parks)?

    What’s Eating You (in National Parks)?

    “Phillip had been drinking, and later he repeatedly told people close to him that he’d taken LSD that night. Somewhere behind him was a grizzly, and Harry’s flashlight was lost. Phillip stumbled downhill through the forest and burst into the moonl...

    Grizzly attacks on humans in and around our national parks always make the news, but you’re more likely to be attacked by bison, or ticks. Here’s a guide for wary campers.

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    Lost Masterpieces

    Gaudi’s Lost Manhattan Tower

    Gaudi’s Lost Manhattan Tower

    Barcelona would not be Barcelona without the work of two titans of the Modernista movement—Lluís Domènech i Montaner and the more famous Antoni Gaudí. From the Hospital Sant Pau to the Sagrada Familia, their colorful, nature-inspired, trippy works...

    The designer of such architectural masterpieces as Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia, Antoni Gaudí left behind designs for a monumental Manhattan hotel that was never built.


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    Norman Maclean on Fishing, Fire, and How ‘A River Runs Through It’ Got Pub

    How Your Dad's Favorite Book Got Made

    How Your Dad's Favorite Book Got Made

    This year, Norman Maclean’s indelible story collection, A River Runs Through It celebrates its 40th anniversary. Published by the University of Chicago Press after being rejected by the publishing community as unsellable, it remains a masterwork o...

    The classic story collection ‘A River Runs Through It’ turns 40 this year, and shows no signs of age, as befits a book by a man who didn’t start writing fiction until he was 70.

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    Britain's Prince Charles (R) and British Prime Minister David Cameron attend a ceremony in the cemetery at the Franco-British National Memorial in Thiepval near Albert, during the commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme, northern France, July 1, 2016.

    The Royal Split Over Brexit

    The Royal Split Over Brexit

    After a week of political chaos following the UK’s shock referendum decision to leave the European Union, it fell to the Queen to provide a symbol of continuity, calm and national decorum.Away from the political Punch and Judy show of David Camero...

    William and Kate are embarrassed on behalf of their Spanish nanny by the ‘Brexit’ result, while the Queen believes the referendum promises a new dawn for a truly independent UK—and m...

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    A Screaming Greenie slushy at the Tippler, a cocktail bar, in New York, June 28, 2013. The louche frozen drink, which in the late 20th century all but ruined the reputation of the daiquiri and margarita as serious cocktails, is back on many New York bar menus and it is selling.

    Stay Cool With Slushie Cocktails

    Stay Cool With Slushie Cocktails

    Slushie cocktails are the Rodney Dangerfield of the cocktail world: endlessly amusing but they get no respect.While they may not get the attention of many craft bartenders or cocktail snobs they can be undeniably satisfying to drink on a miserably...

    Forget going fancy: sometimes something very fruity and very icy will do. Cool down this holiday weekend with these super-cool drinks.

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    Norman Maclean on Fishing, Fire, and How ‘A River Runs Through It’ Got Pub

    How Your Dad's Favorite Book Got Made

    How Your Dad's Favorite Book Got Made

    This year, Norman Maclean’s indelible story collection, A River Runs Through It celebrates its 40th anniversary. Published by the University of Chicago Press after being rejected by the publishing community as unsellable, it remains a masterwork o...

    The classic story collection ‘A River Runs Through It’ turns 40 this year, and shows no signs of age, as befits a book by a man who didn’t start writing fiction until he was 70.

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    Locals and tourists enjoy the beach in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, on January 12, 2010. The heat wave hitting the city caused temperatures to rise up to 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) resulting in a wind-chill factor of 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit).   AFP PHOTO/Vanderlei Almeida (Photo credit should read VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)

    Body Parts Wash Up on Rio’s Shore

    Body Parts Wash Up on Rio’s Shore

    A severed foot and other body parts were found on Copacabana beach Wednesday, adding one more problem to the long list plaguing Rio de Janeiro’s upcoming Summer Olympics.The mutilated remains were found just a few yards away from where Rio is plan...

    Human remains turned up at the venue for the Games’ volleyball matches.

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    BEIJING, CHINA:  Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned physicist, delivers his lecture in Beijing, 18 August 2002.  Hawking is in China to attend the upcoming 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians that will be held in Beijing from August 20 to 28.              AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP/Getty Images)

    Hawking: Stupidity’s Still Destroying Us

    Hawking: Stupidity’s Still Destroying Us

    Humanity is still destroying itself with its own greed and stupidity, Stephen Hawking told Larry King on Saturday.Reiterating the concerns he had expressed in 2010, the legendary scientist said on Larry King Now that human shortsightedness is stil...

    “We certainly have not become less greedy or less stupid,” Hawking told Larry King.

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    (FILES) This file picture taken on October 8, 2007 in London shows a cannabis plant. Britain is to raise the legal classification of cannabis due to the growing prevalence of the potent skunk form of the drug, despite expert advice against doing so, the interior minister said Wednesday May 7, 2008. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told parliament she would press for cannabis to be re-classified in law as a Class B drug compared with its current, less serious Class C classification. AFP PHOTO/Leon Neal/FILES (Photo credit should read Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images)

    California Might Legalize Weed Soon

    California Might Legalize Weed Soon

    California's market for marijuana products could get a lot bigger this fall. Currently, more than 700,00 patients take part in the state's medical marijuana program. But, with the 2016 election looming, that could change.A measure to leg...

    On November 8, Californians will vote on whether to legalize recreational marijuana use.

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    Kellogg's Corn Flakes cereal is pictured at a Ralphs grocery store in Pasadena, California August 3, 2015. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni - RTX1MWX7

    The Restaurant That Only Serves Cereal

    The Restaurant That Only Serves Cereal

    Kellogg’s has created a restaurant that seems designed to appeal to Jerry Seinfeld.On July 4th, the company is opening Kellogg’s NYC, a restaurant in Times Square that will serve only Kellogg’s cereals and concoctions made from those cereals.“For ...

    A new Kellogg’s restaurant in Times Square will serve dishes made from the brand’s cereals.

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    BEIJING, CHINA:  Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned physicist, delivers his lecture in Beijing, 18 August 2002.  Hawking is in China to attend the upcoming 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians that will be held in Beijing from August 20 to 28.              AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP/Getty Images)

    Hawking: Stupidity’s Still Destroying Us

    Hawking: Stupidity’s Still Destroying Us

    Humanity is still destroying itself with its own greed and stupidity, Stephen Hawking told Larry King on Saturday.Reiterating the concerns he had expressed in 2010, the legendary scientist said on Larry King Now that human shortsightedness is stil...

    “We certainly have not become less greedy or less stupid,” Hawking told Larry King.

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    Watch: Insane Police Helicopter Chase

    A burglary suspect with the tenacity of the Terminator attempted to flee multiple police vehicles in Houston on Tuesday, and the entire epic chase was caught on video.Footage from Click 2 Houston’s helicopter camera shows the suspect running despe...

    A helicopter, an SUV, and a sprinting police officer stopped a fleeing burglary suspect in Houston.

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    Screenshot of Newsy video on Boston Dynamics' new robot dog, SpotMini, which can trip on a pile of banana peels and right itself back up.

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    Watch: Robot Dog Slips on Banana Peels

    Apparently kicking them wasn’t enough.Boston Dynamics, the company famous for producing amazing robot dogs and then relentlessly kicking and shoving them, has now released a new four-legged creation. This time, they’re tripping it with banana peel...

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    Beijing Is Literally Sinking

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    Stillshot from YouTube video of Houston Police Department helicopter chasing down a burglary suspect in Houston, 6/28/16. Posted by Bagunca Geral.

    Watch: Insane Police Helicopter Chase

    Watch: Insane Police Helicopter Chase

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    A helicopter, an SUV, and a sprinting police officer stopped a fleeing burglary suspect in Houston.

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