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Trump’s GA Chief Quits for Criminal Past
Pleaded guilty to criminal trespassing charges.
#RATANAZI
Latina Miss Universe: Trump a ‘Nazi Rat’
Trump has called her “Miss Piggy.”
OOF
Wells Fargo CEO to Forfeit $41 Million
As punishment for the bank's scandal.
FEELS GOOD, MAN
ADL: Pepe the Frog a ‘Hate Symbol’
Now included in searchable database.
DEFECTIVE?
Whistleblower: CDC Using Wrong Zika Test
Blunt Talk is Back
British Expats on Election 2016 Insanity
from Blunt Talk is Back
BURN
Obama Reviews First Debate
“The other guy” doesn’t have the temperament.
FREE SPEECH
U. Tenn. Will Not Punish ‘Instapundit’
For tweet calling for violence against Charlotte protesters.
BIGLY VIEWED
Clinton-Trump Most-Watched Debate Ever
Numbers will only increase when final numbers arrive.
THE RED PLANET
SpaceX Unveils Plans for Mars Mission
New spaceship aims to drastically cut costs in travel.
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The Hollywood Discovery of the Year
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Rob Tweets Out Kylie Jenner’s Digits
Keep ReadingThe same day he released his first memoir, the Boss released ‘Chapter and Verse,’ including five never-before-heard songs. Here are seven more rare tracks you need to hear.
The Best Bruce Songs You’ve Never Heard
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Latina Miss Universe Thanks Hillary
Latina Miss Universe Thanks Hillary
In the final moments of the first presidential debate Monday night, Hillary Clinton brought up Alicia Machado, a former winner of Trump’s Miss Universe pageant who told Inside Edition this year that Donald Trump referred to her as “Miss Housekeepi...
Clinton confronted Trump with his ‘Miss Housekeeping’ comment about Latina pageant winner.
Prison Hit Can Lock Up Votes for Hillary
Prison Hit Can Lock Up Votes for Hillary
An issue that rarely—if ever—gets play during presidential elections might give Hillary Clinton a surprising leg-up in Pennsylvania.That’s what was indicated by feedback from a swing-voter focus group that Frank Luntz conducted during the debate. ...
A focus group in Pennsylvania loved Clinton’s attack on prisons that profit from inmates. Her position could help win a decisive victory in the state.
Body-Language Expert: Trump ‘Defensive’
Body-Language Expert: Trump ‘Defensive’
Donald Trump may have a super-healthy testosterone level, as his purported medical stats indicated on Dr. Oz, but in his first-ever debate against Hillary Clinton, she was the more macho candidate.That was the analysis of Gonzaga University anthro...
During the first 2016 presidential debate, Trump’s ‘pugnacious pouts were fewer,’ the ‘uncertainty shrugs’ more numerous, says David Givens—and Clinton was totally in control.
Trevor Noah: Trump ‘Sniffing’ Bulls**t
Trevor Noah: Trump ‘Sniffing’ Bulls**t
The Daily Show was the first of several late-night shows to go live following Monday night’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. And host Trevor Noah was eager to weigh in on what will surely be one of the most-watched political event...
‘The Daily Show’ goes live after the first 2016 presidential debate—and declares the Donald the night’s biggest loser.
Trump Bungles Hillary Tax Attack
Trump Bungles Hillary Tax Attack
Donald Trump continued to stonewall on releasing his tax returns on Monday night, even when asked directly about it on a national stage by presidential debate moderator Lester Holt.He then gave different conditions for when he would finally public...
Maybe, says Clinton, Trump won’t release his tax returns because he’s not as rich as he says he is. ‘I have a tremendous income,’ he sputters.
Entertainment
‘Drunk History’s’ S**tfaced Brilliance
‘Drunk History’s’ S**tfaced Brilliance
Drunk History premiered as a Funny or Die web series in 2007 and became an instant viral sensation. Clickbait content has often been accused of pandering to the lowest common denominator via big boobs, epic fails, and whimsical animal pairings. So...
The fourth season of Comedy Central’s hilariously drunken history lesson promises a Lin-Manuel Miranda cameo and lots of bad decisions.
Photos: Remembering Buckwheat Zydeco
Photos: Remembering Buckwheat Zydeco
Born Stanley Dural Jr., the musician better known as Buckwheat Zydeco died at age 68.
Born Stanley Dural Jr., the musician better known as Buckwheat Zydeco died at age 68.
Angelina Blocks Brad in Custody Battle
Angelina Blocks Brad in Custody Battle
It’s been a busy weekend of briefing and counter-briefing in the biggest celebrity divorce of the decade, with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt stepping up their war of words as their separation threatens to become one of the most bitter custody dispu...
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have a fortune in the hundreds of millions of dollars—but, with an ‘iron-clad’ pre-nup in place, their divorce looks set to focus on custody of their six...
John Oliver Rips Wells Fargo a New One
John Oliver Rips Wells Fargo a New One
It had been close to a month since we’d last seen John Oliver spew well-researched venom on his HBO series Last Week Tonight. In the interim, Oliver and his staff picked up an Emmy Award, cementing his status as the heir apparent to Jon Stewart, a...
The ‘Last Week Tonight’ host blasted Wells Fargo—and its CEO John Stumpf—for its recent defrauding of customers.
Tim Burton on the Johnny Depp Scandal
Tim Burton on the Johnny Depp Scandal
After bringing countless fantasy worlds to life over three decades, it’s the real world that often feels the strangest, goth cinema icon Tim Burton told The Daily Beast Sunday in Austin.“Any story I read about anybody I know in the press, I always...
The acclaimed goth auteur opens up about the status of ‘Beetlejuice 2,’ his new film ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,’ and much more at Fantastic Fest.
The 12 Most Iconic TV Presidents
The 12 Most Iconic TV Presidents
Over the course of American history, all 44 presidents have been men and all but one have been white men. On television, our presidents have been a far more diverse bunch.Eight years into the Obama presidency and with the potential first female pr...
As America approaches our most consequential election yet, we look back at some of television’s most dynamic fictional presidents.
How ‘Transparent’ Changed Jeffrey Tambor
How ‘Transparent’ Changed Jeffrey Tambor
Jeffrey Tambor has a story he likes to tell about his role playing trans woman Maura Pfefferman on Transparent.The first season of the Emmy-winning Amazon series had aired and the actor, previously best known for his comedy work on Arrested Develo...
Jeffrey Tambor and Judith Light talk Season 3, their education on trans issues and rights, and how they talk to their friends about the progressive show.
World News
If You Knew Putin Like We Know Putin…
If You Knew Putin Like We Know Putin…
Russia has come to occupy an outsize role in U.S. foreign policy and the forthcoming U.S. presidential election, and who knows more about the Bear than the Baltic States—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania? They were devoured by the Soviet Union on the...
Estonia’s president and Lithuania’s foreign minister talk to The Daily Beast about the menace Moscow poses to them, Europe, and the United States.
Socialite Beat the Nazis By Playing Dumb
Socialite Beat the Nazis By Playing Dumb
PARIS—If you’re going to have an obit in The New York Times, it would be hard have a more intriguing headline than this one from March 2000: “Gertrude Sanford Legendre, 97, Socialite Turned Hunter and Prisoner of War,” unless they’d added, as they...
Big game hunter, legendary French Riviera partier, and a quintessential WASP—Gertrude Sanford was also a vital U.S. spy who managed to outmaneuver the Nazis after being captured.
Dien Bien Phu's Costly Unlearned Lessons
Dien Bien Phu's Costly Unlearned Lessons
In the fall of 1953, the fortunes of the Vietminh Communists looked brighter than ever in their seven-year war against Vietnam’s erstwhile colonial masters, the French. General Vo Nguyen Giap, chief architect and strategist of the People’s Army of...
In 1953, a hard fought battle between French and Vietnamese forces finished off France as a colonial power and eerily presaged the fate of the US in Vietnam a decade later.
Corbyn Wins: Hard Left Kills Off Labour
Corbyn Wins: Hard Left Kills Off Labour
At 11:45 a.m. Saturday 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 func...
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.
Pippa Middleton’s Hacker ‘Arrested’
Pippa Middleton’s Hacker ‘Arrested’
Just last weekend, Pippa Middleton gave an interview in which she bemoaned the intrusion into her privacy which her position as sister of the future queen, Kate Middleton, occasions.Today, those fears have taken on a nightmarish reality with the n...
A man has reportedly been arrested by British police after 3,000 photos stolen from Pippa’s account were offered for sale.
Forest Guardians Beat Back the Cartels
Forest Guardians Beat Back the Cartels
MORELIA, Mexico — One day in the late spring of 2012, Mexican police pulled over Efrén Olivares Valdez and told him he was delivering his truckload of raw pine resin to the wrong refinery. The grandfatherly driver, a leader of his indigenous triba...
Mexico’s drug lords aren’t satisfied with gang wars and narcotics trafficking. Their corruption runs deep in rural life. But some folks fight back.
One Woman Against The Mafia
One Woman Against The Mafia
ROME — Letizia Battaglia has smelled the blood and heard the desperate cries of despair caused by the Sicilian Mafia’s wrath. At 81, this truly extraordinary photographer remembers not just the moments of horror she witnessed, but what was going o...
Italy’s best known photographer of the Mafia reflects on her life-long battle against it and how the mob is changing to adapt to modern times.
U.S.
Watch: LeBron James on Police Shootings
Watch: LeBron James on Police Shootings
LeBron James fears what might happen to his 12-year-old son in an interaction with police, the NBA Finals MVP told reporters on Monday.“It’s a scary-ass situation,” James said at the Cleveland Cavaliers’ media day, “that if my son calls me and say...
“If my son calls me and says he’s been pulled over… I’m not that confident that things are going to go well and my son is going to return home,” James said.
Crime Is Up, but Trump Is Still Wrong
Crime Is Up, but Trump Is Still Wrong
Violent crime spiked in several major cities last year, pushing the national murder rate up by double digits, according to newly released annual crime data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.The FBI's 2015 Uniform Crime Report was made ...
The FBI reports murders jumped 10 percent last year, prompting fears of a new crime wave straight out of the GOP nominee’s nightmares—or dreams, if he thinks it will help him politic...
Trump’s White Firewall in Peach State
Trump’s White Firewall in Peach State
Sheryl-Ann Pruitt has managed to get a few things right. Keeping up the premiums on her late ex-husband’s life insurance policy was one of them. The other was getting hired on at an auto assembly plant, located an hour or so outside of Atlanta.Tha...
‘Ain’t no way in hell I’m voting for Hillary,’ she says. ‘I know she’s lying when she opens her mouth.’
Powerful Pictures of Charlotte’s Protest
Powerful Pictures of Charlotte’s Protest
Protests continued to roil Charlotte, North Carolina, this weekend after the fatal shooting of Keith Scott by police.
Protests continued to roil Charlotte, North Carolina, this weekend after the fatal shooting of Keith Scott by police.
The Man Who Went Full Trump for FDR
The Man Who Went Full Trump for FDR
It’s still hard to believe that Americans would fall for such a demagogic smear campaign: The false corruption charges, clouding past actions in shadowy tales of double-dealing. The "birther" attempts to question the president's ver...
He made up stories to smear the opposition and barely backpedaled when called out—Charlie Michelson perfected the nasty art of political mud-slinging.
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
Trumpet Lessons, Life Lessons
Trumpet Lessons, Life Lessons
My Aunt Harriet took me up on the bus to the Wurlitzer store on Sutphin Boulevard and bought a used trumpet, which she paid for with bills and change from the grandmother’s purse. Afterwards, each Saturday morning, my mother gave me three dollars ...
In an excerpt from his autobiographical novel—his first published work in a decade—Jimmy Breslin describes his first trumpet lessons, and stumbles upon a scene of heartbreaking beauty.
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.
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.
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