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NEVER CHANGE
Hillary Reacts to Trump Shake-Up
“There is no new Donald Trump. This is it.”
LIKE MAGIC
Rowling to Release 3 New ‘Potter’ Books
Coming Sept. 6.
HYPOCRITICAL OATH
RNC Spox: Lawyers Defend Bad People Too
“I don’t think it’s unique to my profession.”
CARTEL WARS
Video: El Chapo’s Son Being ‘Abducted’
Jesus Alfredo Guzman allegedly taken on Monday.
PANIC
Trump Dumps Campaign Chief
82 days before election.
DELAYED
FL Keys Blocks Anti-Zika Mosquito Test
FDA approved new bug, but locals resist testing.
PRO-TRANS POLICY
Target to Install Single-Stall Bathrooms
To alleviate concerns about its pro-trans policy.
EXTORTION?
Aetna Threatened ACA Pullout Over Merger
According to letter from company to DOJ.
RISING WATERS
LA Flooding ‘Worst Disaster Since Sandy’
Death toll climbs to 11 as volunteers rush in.
UNDISCLOSED
Manafort Aided Secret Pro-Putin Lobbying
Demoted Trump aide could face charges.
Keep ReadingThe momager will no longer serve as chairwoman of the Trump Tower-based Legacy Business School, which allegedly advertised degrees without state permission.
Kris Jenner Quits ‘Kardashian U’
Keep ReadingIn a new interview with The Daily Beast, Larry Wilmore opens up about the end of ‘The Nightly Show’ and what comes next.
Wilmore Fires Back: We Did ‘Resonate’
Keep ReadingThe Oscar-winning actor’s charity and the production company behind ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ have come under scrutiny for ties to a $3 billion embezzlement scandal.
Leo’s Real-Life Embezzlement Scandal
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Politics
Kaine: Bill Should Have Quit White House
Kaine: Bill Should Have Quit White House
Bill Clinton should have resigned over the Monica Lewinsky scandal—at least, that’s a view Tim Kaine once held.Kaine’s remark—reported 14 years ago in the Richmond Times-Dispatch in the aftermath of a state-level sex scandal—hasn’t drawn any atten...
Hillary’s running mate is pretty much part of the Clinton family at this point. But in 2002, he said Bill should have stepped down in the wake of his affair.
State to Release Deleted Clinton Emails
State to Release Deleted Clinton Emails
Date has not been announced.
Like Trump? You’ll Love the Illuminati.
Like Trump? You’ll Love the Illuminati.
It’s confirmed: Donald Trump’s supporters on social media have all the best sources, and those sources are telling them the world is run by a single shadowy organization intent on controlling your mind.Data provided to The Daily Beast by social me...
Trump fans are 4.2 times more likely to tweet about the New World Order—and four times more likely to follow professional conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Trump Took Liberal Icon Soros’s Money
Trump Took Liberal Icon Soros’s Money
Tim Kaine is taking some right-wing heat for getting dinner with the son of lefty billionaire and top GOP villain George Soros.“NEW SOROS SEED RISES: Tim Kaine Dines with Billionaire Son,” blared a Drudge Report headline. It linked to a Breitbart ...
He’s is a villain of the right wing, but that certainly didn’t stop Trump from cozying up to him before the candidate was an official part of the Republican Party.
Trump Cribs War Plan From ISIS ‘Founder’
Trump Cribs War Plan From ISIS ‘Founder’
Donald Trump says he has a master plan to defeat ISIS. But on Monday it was clear he has yet to update it to reflect the changing dynamics on the battlefield, which went either unnoticed or ignored by the Republican nominee in what was billed as a...
Most of what he wants to do to the Islamic State is already being done by President Obama and would be continued by Hillary Clinton.
Entertainment
Amber and Johnny’s $7 Million Divorce
Amber and Johnny’s $7 Million Divorce
It began as a feminist issue, with allegations of domestic abuse, and ended—in spectacular Hollywood fashion—with a $7 million out-of-court divorce settlement.It’s been nearly three months since Amber Heard filed for divorce from Johnny Depp, arri...
Heard has dropped her domestic abuse allegations against Depp, settling for a $7 million out-of-court divorce settlement instead.
Werner Herzog: ‘We Will Become Extinct’
Werner Herzog: ‘We Will Become Extinct’
Being a human being in the year 2016 can be an anxiety-inducing experience in itself. Being a human being on the internet—that vast digital cesspool of wonderment, discovery, faves, likes, schadenfreude, memes, Twitter friends, anonymous trolls, s...
The German auteur on the disquieting anxieties of internet lyfe, Donald Trump, and modern love: ‘Don’t panic.’
Justin Bieber Forced Off Instagram
Justin Bieber Forced Off Instagram
Shit just got real.In the early hours Tuesday morning, Justin Bieber chose to delete his Instagram account. This was, of course, no simple task—the pop superstar had amassed some 77 million followers on the photo-sharing social media network, whic...
The pop prince, after receiving a tidal wave of harassment and abuse, has chosen to delete his Instagram account. #RIPBeliebers.
Wilmore: ‘Unblackening’ Happened to Me
Wilmore: ‘Unblackening’ Happened to Me
“So,” Larry Wilmore asked his studio audience, “how was your day?”Thus, after an explosion of wistful cheering of “Larry! Larry!” and repeated “thank yous” and “I love yous” for the host of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show seated at his anchor ta...
The host of ‘The Nightly Show’ addressed its cancellation on Monday night, and reiterated how proud he was of how they’ve conducted themselves throughout this crazy election.
Noah ‘Feels Bad’ for Trump Spokeswoman
Noah ‘Feels Bad’ for Trump Spokeswoman
It’s hard out there for a Donald Trump campaign surrogate.The challenge of speaking for Trump, as The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah examined Monday night, is perhaps best exemplified by his “spokesperson” Katrina Pierson, who just this past weekend wen...
‘The Daily Show’ host examines the role of Donald Trump surrogate Katrina Pierson, who has the most thankless job in politics.
‘Making a Murderer’: Life-Saving TV
‘Making a Murderer’: Life-Saving TV
Romance-killing true love franchises and nine seasons of Big Bang Theory aside, television can be genunely life-changing. It’s full of tempting life hacks, from sleeping with the POTUS, who is your boss (like in Scandal), to sleeping with a doctor...
Netflix’s true-crime series ‘Making a Murderer’ helped get Brandon Dassey’s conviction overturned. Here are 12 more shows that have saved real-world lives.
6 Women Who Could Replace Wilmore
6 Women Who Could Replace Wilmore
Despite insisting otherwise in his interview with The Daily Beast last month, Trevor Noah has essentially “replaced” Jon Stewart as the host of The Daily Show. Much of that flagship show’s branding and staff remained the same. The big changes were...
Now that Larry Wilmore’s ‘Nightly Show’ has been canceled, here are six women who would make great successors.
World News
ISIS Left Behind Booby-Trapped Hospitals
ISIS Left Behind Booby-Trapped Hospitals
MANBIJ, Syria — Even after its liberation from the so-called Islamic State, this city in northern Syria remains draped in jihadist black banners. Anything and everything might be rigged with explosives, and often it is, so people don’t rip down fl...
Black flags still drape the city and the terror continues from IEDs. But the biggest questions are about what comes next.
How the Spanish ‘Pope’ Lost His Faith
How the Spanish ‘Pope’ Lost His Faith
ORENSE, Spain — She was called Nieves, and he, Gregorio. They fell in love in torrid, romantic Andalusia. She had had her eye on him, it was said, since they were teenagers and she was an aspiring nun. Now he was 56 and they could confess their mu...
The ex-pontiff says his crypto-Fascist church (which made Franco a saint) was only ever intended, really, to bring its leaders sex and money.
Why Vets Come Home And Miss the War
Why Vets Come Home And Miss the War
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.
The ISIS-Inspired War on Christians
The ISIS-Inspired War on Christians
WARRI, Nigeria — The so-called Islamic State has different strategies in different parts of the world, but in Africa and in Europe, certainly, its core objective is becoming clear: to kill Christians. Its long-term goal: to provoke a new Crusade, ...
The coup that replaced Boko Haram's leader puts the ISIS subsidiary's focus on killing Christians in hopes it can unite, expand, and endure.
Drug King Ran Cartel to Save Daughter
Drug King Ran Cartel to Save Daughter
The roughest area of Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, the largest favela in Brazil, is almost at the very top. Rua Um, Road One, is where Lulu has his office. Lulu is Dono do Morro, King of the Hill, head of the local drugs trade and political boss of t...
Antônio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, or as he was better known, Nem, ran Rio de Janeiro’s most powerful cartel until it all came screeching to a halt.
She Kept Uranium Out of the Nazis’ Hands
She Kept Uranium Out of the Nazis’ Hands
In August 1939 Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt, warning of the potential of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime to use uranium to develop an atomic bomb. “The most important source of uranium,” he added, was in Africa—in the...
Shirley Chidsey’s love of travel and adventure helped land her in the Congo during World War II, when as an OSS operative she helped the U.S. hoard precious uranium.
Brazil Finally Embraces The Games
Brazil Finally Embraces The Games
Earlier this month, Sylvia Berutti, an insurance saleswoman in Rio, had her doubts about the globe’s eyes on her country as her city prepared for the Olympics. She worried about terrorism. She felt ashamed about the endless news reports about Braz...
Despite the corruption, the polluted water and the terrorism fears, Brazilians are finally loving the fact that the Games came to Rio.
U.S.
Climate Change Is Behind the CA Wildf...
Climate Change Is Behind the CA Wildf...
The number of wildfires in California has decreased over the past 25 year, but try telling that to the hundreds of firefighters on the ground attempting to put out multiple fires raging across Northern California.Map provided by Google Maps. Appro...
Over 100,000 acres of California’s land has been scorched due to destructive wildfires.
Watch: Trump Says Your Town Sucks
Watch: Trump Says Your Town Sucks
Wherever you live, if Donald Trump comes to town, he'll probably tell you it sucks. Typically it's because all your jobs have disappeared. Or maybe you have a tremendous problem with drugs. Or perhaps, as he said on at least one recent o...
Everywhere the Donald goes, he quickly informs his audience their town is a basket case.
State to Release Deleted Clinton Emails
State to Release Deleted Clinton Emails
Date has not been announced.
Pizzeria Sells “Black Olives Matter” T’s
Pizzeria Sells “Black Olives Matter” T’s
“Black Olives Matter.”That’s the slogan used by a restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico to promote their new tuna and black olive tapenade dish. After generating controversy in July for using that play on words on the restaurant’s sign, Paisano’s ...
Who thought this was a good idea?
Why Milwaukee Is Really Seething
Why Milwaukee Is Really Seething
MILWAUKEE — The gas station that was torched on Saturday night following the police killing of Sylville Smith wasn’t burned at random, just as the unrest wasn’t all about Smith.Smith fled a from a traffic stop on Saturday afternoon, emerged from h...
Sylville Smith’s death is unlike many that have led to unrest in America: He was armed and killed by a black cop. That’s not what the protests are about, though.
Tech + Health
Climate Change Is Behind the CA Wildf...
Climate Change Is Behind the CA Wildf...
The number of wildfires in California has decreased over the past 25 year, but try telling that to the hundreds of firefighters on the ground attempting to put out multiple fires raging across Northern California.Map provided by Google Maps. Appro...
Over 100,000 acres of California’s land has been scorched due to destructive wildfires.
Inside NYC’s Radical Egg-Freezing Clinic
Inside NYC’s Radical Egg-Freezing Clinic
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 ...
James Patterson: Prostate Test Saved Me
James Patterson: Prostate Test Saved Me
On June 21 I had prostate surgery. The operation was a success and my recovery has been smooth. But this isn’t about me. It’s a plea to men out there who are over forty.Talk to your doctor about PSA testing. All the test requires is a blood sample...
A prostate cancer survivor, the bestselling author advises men over 40 to get a PSA exam as the simple first step in diagnosing the disease—and maybe saving your life.
Jesus Wants Me to Smoke This Joint
Jesus Wants Me to Smoke This Joint
When Rhode Island State Police arrived to arrest 46-year-old Alan Gordon for growing pot, he was on the toilet. The armed officers, startled, subbed out the typical “put your hands above your head” for a more relevant directive: “wash them.” Accor...
One Rhode Island group claims that when they’re lighting up a joint, it’s for religious reasons. Are they genuinely devout, or do they just want to get high?
Your Kids Are Better Behaved Than You
Your Kids Are Better Behaved Than You
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.
The Original Internet Abuse Story
The Original Internet Abuse Story
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.
Drink This Beer After Working Out
Drink This Beer After Working Out
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.
Arts + Culture
School Sex Assault Victim to Be Named?
School Sex Assault Victim to Be Named?
An elite New Hampshire boarding school has denied reports that it wishes to publicly identify the victim of a high-profile campus sexual assault in a civil suit against the school.On Monday, several reports that St. Paul’s School had asked a feder...
Exclusive New Hampshire boarding school St Paul’s has denied it wants to name the victim publicly, but would like her name to be used in court in an upcoming civil suit.
The Van Gogh That Keeps Getting Stolen
The Van Gogh That Keeps Getting Stolen
Since his death over a century ago, Vincent van Gogh has become something of a poster child for tormented artists. His life was troubled and tragic, plagued by mental illness and anxiety that resulted in his now notorious act of madness, cutting o...
One museum in Egypt has faced the indignity of having the same Van Gogh painting stolen not once, but twice, and ‘Poppy Flowers’ (1887) remains missing to this day.
The True Secret To Staying Young
The True Secret To Staying Young
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.
The Feminist Trial of Judge Aaron Persky
The Feminist Trial of Judge Aaron Persky
Ever since Judge Aaron Persky handed down an appallingly lenient six-month jail sentence to Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman on campus, a grassroots campaign to unseat the Santa Clara County jud...
After his lenient sentencing of Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault, activists have been campaigning to unseat Judge Aaron Persky.
A Tale of Two Sex Assaults
A Tale of Two Sex Assaults
This week, news that a former University of Colorado student will not spend time in prison despite being convicted of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman seemed to echo the Brock Turner case at Stanford.On the surface, it seemed like another ...
The lenient sentence given to a University of Colorado student for sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman mirrors the case of ex-Stanford swimmer Brock Turner.
He Was Princess Di’s Bodyguard
He Was Princess Di’s Bodyguard
In the 15 years since he first published his account of being Princess Diana’s bodyguard, Diana; Closely Guarded Secret, former royal protection squad police officer Ken Wharfe, Princess Diana’s bodyguard, has been called many things.A traitor, a ...
Her break-up with Charles, the affairs… For a second time, Ken Wharfe is spilling his secrets about working for Princess Diana.
How the Beach Boys Invented Surf Style
How the Beach Boys Invented Surf Style
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.
Politics