And President Obama knew the whole time.
Initial reports said 165 in deadliest bombing since 2007.
Outrage in the streets of Baton Rouge after 37-year-old killed.
More ruthlessness, less critical thinking, he urges.
Outside of his home in the the Washington suburbs.
Headlining act on sidelines of Democratic Party convention.
Remains of the MQ-9 Reaper were destroyed.
Kathleen Kennedy, 28, posted image online.
Crew members attempted to put it out before plane crashed.
After FBI announces no charges against Clinton.
The creator of the Trump caricature has long slammed The Donald as an inciter of political violence and a threat to society.
New documents in a defamation suit claim the R&B singer’s ex is threatening her fiancé. How did their relationship come to this?
On ‘The Daily Show’ Tuesday night, Trevor Noah broke down the blatant anti-Semitism of Donald Trump’s Star of David tweet.
A pro-Donald Trump super PAC—subtly titled Crippled America PAC—is trying its hardest to tie Hillary Clinton to the Ku Klux Klan.The super PAC’s website, KKKlinton.com, features a photo of Clinton alongside late Sen. Robert Byrd, a member of the K...
The pro-Trump super PAC called Crippled America PAC is using its KKKlinton.com website to insinuate that Hillary Clinton has ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy has provoked one of the largest splits along educational and class lines among white voters in modern history. His success with poorer, less educated white Americans (particularly white males without college d...
The poor whites flocking to Trump have more in common with black folk than they do with Trump. Not that they’re likely to act on it.
Republicans are more skeptical of vaccine science than we may have previously realized—and Donald Trump may bear some of the blame.A new study, conducted for The Daily Beast by a researcher at Washington State University, found a relationship betw...
Study after study has shown no link between anti-vaxxers and party affiliation. Until now.
During his time in the Senate, Pat Toomey has rarely made an issue of police militarization and law enforcement responses to terrorism.Which is what makes his current push to arm the police so puzzling. In a letter to the White House last week, To...
In the race of his political life, the Republican is advocating a security platform that includes reinstating a program to arm police with weapons more suited for Baghdad than Scranton.
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.
No cartoon had ever quite done what Batman: The Animated Series did when it premiered in 1992. Over 85 episodes, it told dark, sometimes-ugly stories about conflicted heroes and complex villains. While aimed at children, it treated its audience li...
The man behind ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ and Harley Quinn opens up about the night he was almost brutally beaten to death, and how it inspired his latest work.
Act of ValorThis year’s Act of Valor stands as only the most recent in a long tradition of proudly America-praising movies. The film, which tells the story of a kidnapped CIA operative and a terrorist plot against the U.S., is jam-packed with ever...
This Fourth of July, kick back and watch clips of the most patriotic movies ever, from 1942’s ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’ to Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun’ to the Will Smith blockbuster ‘Independe...
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.
The late historian Stephen Ambrose once remarked, “More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source.” This quote, a polite stew of genuine reverence and thinly veiled critique of our dismal education system, is proudly display...
The acclaimed documentarian discusses Trump’s demagoguery, race in America, and more. A retrospective of his films is currently streaming at SundanceNow Doc Club.
Independence Day in America is a perfect time to reconsider the political life and career of Roseanne Barr, the groundbreaking comedian and actress who gave working class American women a voice in her long-running sitcom Roseanne and famously sang...
The 2012 Green Party presidential candidate and subject of the doc Roseanne for President! dishes to Jen Yamato about Trump, Hillary, and our corrupt two-party system.
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.
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.
China just boosted a high-tech, mysterious new satellite into orbit. It might be a weapon. It might not be a weapon. There’s no way to be certain, either way—and that’s a problem for all spacefaring countries.Especially the United States and China...
The Chinese say the high-tech satellite will clean up space debris, but its extendable robotic arm has some wondering whether it has a more sinister purpose.
Nigel Farage, the British politician without whom there would never have been a Brexit vote, dramatically quit on Monday morning as leader of the anti-E.U. UK Independence Party, aka UKIP.David Cameron made his ill-advised pledge to hold a referen...
Britain's crazy political turmoil just carries on. Why is the leader of anti-EU party UKIP quitting just days after getting what he wants?
DOVER, Delaware — The flag-draped transfer case carrying the remains back from Afghanistan was still inside the C-17 when friends and colleagues of the fallen gathered around Chaplain John C. Wheatley. It fell to the Army lieutenant colonel to exp...
Chaplain John C. Wheatley has sat with hundreds of families over the years when their loved ones return home dead from conflict—and it brings him to tears every time.
PARIS — Shakespeare and Company—the original Shakespeare and Company—is no more. The historic and iconic American bookshop in the City of Light, where an enraged Ernest Hemingway once knocked a large vase of tulips over some precious hardcovers an...
Don’t go searching for Hemingway’s Paris, it’s long gone, but the echoes of those old days still contribute to the modern symphony of life.
This is Part II of a two-part feature on one of World War II’s most fascinating spies. Part I can be found here.Exhausted, weary after the long tense night, Betty returned to her apartment and went straight for the telephone. She called John Peppe...
After seducing her way into the Vichy Embassy, could Betty Pack pull off one of the greatest heists of World War II?
The Great Rebellion is on and where it leads nobody knows.Its expressions range from Brexit to the Trump phenomena and includes neo-nationalist and unconventional insurgent movement around the world. It shares no single leader, party or ideology. ...
An unconventional, sometimes incoherent, resistance arises to the elites who keep explaining why changes that hurt the middle class are actually for its own good.
I am at dinner in a posh New York City home. As I study the elegant china, conversation turns to Syria. I express dismay at our nation’s inaction: first our refusal to contain the conflict, later our disengagement from the predictable calamity of ...
At a New York dinner party, guests look the writer directly in the eyes—and the scales begin to fall from them.
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.
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.
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.
I was in North Carolina this week accompanying my son and family for a meeting at the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro when Elisha Wiesel informed me that his father’s health had taken an irreversible turn for the worse. Elie, or Reb Eliezer ...
The world has truly lost a great man, and even at the end his words were powerful.
This week scientists found evidence that the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), may be able to remove the buildup of a toxic protein linked to Alzheimer’s. It’s good news for the fastest growing group of marijuana us...
It's going to be pretty hard to keep weed illegal when your grandparents are smoking it to prevent Alzheimer's.
It was a car crash of all things that gave him away.In September 2015, Michigan abortion doctor Michael Arthur Roth asked the West Bloomfield police to retrieve some items from his car, which had been impounded after an accident. But when police l...
A Michigan doctor found with human tissue in his car—and who allegedly stole fentanyl for illegal abortions—has been charged with a slew of crimes.
“Goodbye pills. Hello real vitamins.”That’s the tagline for Tespo, a new high-tech vitamin dispenser that turns powdered nutrients into clear “liquid vitamins”—all with the touch of a button.The $150 dispenser—available only online—aims to provide...
Tespo says it will turn your vitamins into a daily drink—but the science behind liquid supplements remains murky.
In Australia last year, a young woman named Olivia Meville faced an onslaught of Tinder shaming by strange men for simply posting a Drake lyric in her bio—“The type of girl that will suck you dry and then eat some lunch with you.”The first wave of...
‘I was drunk,’ ‘I was joking,’ ‘It’s free speech’: men are making awful excuses for why they harass women online.
“When I first heard about applying electricity to your naked body during sex, my first thought was ‘oh my god why would you do that?! Zappy, ouchy, dangerous!” says Jess Wilde.“But now I have completely changed my mind: the idea of turning you and...
Couples who use electricity between the sheets say it taps into the body’s nervous system.
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.
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.
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.
On a recent afternoon at Spring Place, the new members-only club in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood, the atmosphere was so hush-hush that even directions to the bathroom were whispered. In the reception area, one prospective member strained to he...
The owners of Spring Place hope jet-setting creative professionals will seek it out to host meetings with clients—and cavort with other jet-setting creative professionals.
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?
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.
“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.
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.
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...
Diets high in pasta can actually keep people slim, according to a new study from—of course—Italy.“As a traditional component of [a Mediterranean diet], pasta consumption was negatively associated with BMI, waist circumference and waist-to-hip rati...
Eating pasta helps keep a healthy weight, says a study funded by a pasta company.
Among the many Democrats running for Congress this year, two are trans women. Both, oddly enough, are named Misty.On Tuesday, Misty Snow and Misty Plowright became the first openly trans candidates to win major party primaries for Congress, the Wa...
Two trans women ran in two separate Democratic primaries for Congress. Both won.
DJ Sven Vath had a lot to keep track of this past weekend at a Netherlands music festival—including the soccer game on his phone. Pictures posted to Facebook by photographer Mr. After Party show the Awakenings festival from Vath's point of vi...
Photos clearly show DJ Sven Vath’s phone streaming a UEFA game between his turntables.
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.
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.
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.
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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