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Shady
Report: Trump Has Not Paid Top Staffers
At least 10 people in senior positions have reportedly gone without pay.
Anti-Belieber
Police Seek Vandal of Bieber Sculpture
Man 'threw himself' into meticulously sculpted Justin Bieber head at state fair.
Reunited
Dog Found Alive in Italy Quake Rubble
Survived for nine days in the wreckage.
Awkward
G20 Starts With China-U.S. Spat
Secret Service steps in after Chinese official confronts U.S. national security advisor.
Slap On The Wrist
Brock Turner Released From Jail
After half of six-month sentence served.
Shenanigans
'Homeless' Man Sneaks Onto Private Jet
Causes $5,000 worth of damage.
Faking It
Trump Surrogate Admits He Lied About Bio
'Overstated' both his military history and education.
Mother Nature
FL Declares Emergency After Hermine
300,000 homes without power.
Scary
5.6 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Oklahoma
Felt in at least three different states.
Gun Violence
Cop Wounded in Atlantic City Shootout
$20,000 reward offered for help finding two fugitive suspects.
Keep ReadingThe Russian royal family had their intricate, bejeweled Easter eggs crafted by Fabergé. Then they were killed, and the glittering treasures scattered.
The Great Fabergé Easter Egg Hunt
Keep ReadingThe feminist comedian tells Lena Dunham she understands why fans were concerned—but continues to downplay her ex-employee’s actions.
Amy Schumer Defends Rape Bro-pologist
Keep ReadingThe shock rocker weighs in on the superstar actor’s recent divorce from actress Amber Heard, which included allegations of spousal abuse.
Marilyn Manson Defends Johnny Depp
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Yes, There Is a Clinton Double Standard
Yes, There Is a Clinton Double Standard
It’s Labor Day weekend, and the polls have tightened in the last week. Donald Trump has done nothing to earn this, of course. His schizophrenic jaunt from Mexico to Arizona—I love the Mexican people! I love them so much I’m creating a police force...
Anyone writing sentences like ‘nevertheless fuels the perception that the Clintons may have…’ might want to stop and think about whether they are reporting news or innuendo.
Trump Hires the Original Hillary Hunter
Trump Hires the Original Hillary Hunter
It may be 2016, but the 1990s “vast right-wing conspiracy” is alive, well, and increasingly an integral part of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.Trump added the most recent addition on Thursday when he tapped David Bossie, a veteran conservati...
David Bossie has made a career of Clinton-hunting. And now he’ll be doing it for Donald Trump.
Feds to God: Prove You Exist
Feds to God: Prove You Exist
God is more than a concept by which we measure our pain—He is also a Republican presidential candidate in trouble with the Federal Election Commission.On Aug. 31, the FEC sent a letter to God’s campaign treasurer (also named God) at His kingdom on...
The FEC wants God to prove Himself or get out of presidential politics.
Oil Pipeline Fat Cats Suck Up Your Cash
Oil Pipeline Fat Cats Suck Up Your Cash
A regulation has forced Americans to pay the corporate income taxes of an industry that Congress exempted from that tax in 1986, an outrage I have chronicled for years.Now a federal court has determined that this taxpayer abuse is worse than I rep...
A terrible law, a ‘phantom tax,’ and a captured regulator mean that big businesses are forcing you to pay their taxes without even knowing it.
Trump to Mexico’s President: What Wall?
Trump to Mexico’s President: What Wall?
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president has compared the wake of Donald Trump’s campaign to that of the rise of Hitler. Trump, in turn, has repeatedly called Mexican immigrants “drug dealers, criminals, and rapists.”The tone was markedly different on Wed...
The tough-talking negotiator who was going to make Mexico pay for the wall went soft in front of the country’s leader.
Entertainment
‘South Park’ Makers Slam Hillary & Trump
‘South Park’ Makers Slam Hillary & Trump
This month, South Park will begin its 20th season on the air. And creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are in a celebratory mood. The pair made a rare appearance at Comic-Con earlier this summer and on the night of Sept. 1, they stopped by The Pale...
Before Before season 20 of ‘South Park’ kicks off this month, Trey Parker and Matt Stone tell us what they have planned for Hillary and Trump Season 20 of ‘South Park’ kicks off this...
Pam Anderson’s Bizarre Anti-Porn Crusade
Pam Anderson’s Bizarre Anti-Porn Crusade
It’s been a summer of strange bedfellows, from Jill Stein and Harambe to co-speechwriters Melania Trump and Michelle Obama. But no unexpected union says “the apocalypse is nigh” quite like actress Pamela Anderson and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s recent...
The former sex symbol’s condemnation of porn as the source of men’s bad behavior—including Anthony Weiner’s—is based more on hysteria than facts.
Trump: The ‘Law & Order SVU Candidate’
Trump: The ‘Law & Order SVU Candidate’
This week, Mother Jones published an explosive investigative look into Trump Model Management, the modeling agency owned and operated by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.Writer James West interviewed several former Trump Models, who ...
A shocking investigative report by ‘Mother Jones’ revealed that Trump’s modeling agency hired illegal immigrants—some underage—and housed them in squalid apartments.
‘La La Land’ Makes Musicals Great Again
‘La La Land’ Makes Musicals Great Again
VENICE, Italy — Somewhere along the line, perhaps it was Glee (it was Glee), live-action musicals went the way of Milli Vanilli, slap bracelets, and Donald Trump’s heel spurs. They degenerated into violent paroxysms of gaiety; singing for singing’...
Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to ‘Whiplash’ is a loving homage to movie-musicals past that will leave you smiling and tremendously satisfied.
Why Are Trans Actors Denied Star Roles?
Why Are Trans Actors Denied Star Roles?
If there’s one lesson that Hollywood should have learned by now, it’s that bad media representations of minorities age quickly and poorly.It wasn’t long after the full-on minstrel show in Irving Berlin’s 1942 classic Holiday Inn that blackface beg...
A transgender sex worker played by a cisgender man. A character forced to undergo gender reassignment. One day Hollywood will look back on this in shame.
‘Narcos’ Is Back and Better Than Ever
‘Narcos’ Is Back and Better Than Ever
In the opening scene of Narcos’ second season, a soldier searching for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar—who’s fleeing his self-made La Catedral prison following its invasion by the military and law enforcement—describes the kingpin as an unholy s...
In its second season, the Netflix docudrama masterfully unpacks the final days of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar—and the failures of the war on drugs.
The Lamest New ‘Bachelor’ Yet
The Lamest New ‘Bachelor’ Yet
After 20 seasons, The Bachelor franchise has somehow managed to surprise us. The Bachelor, unlike true love or genuine interpersonal connections, relies on formulaic casting and the routinization of courtship. The blandest girls in America are cor...
After failing to find love on three separate ‘Bachelor’-related seasons, Nick Viall is at it again, this time as the Bachelor himself.
World News
Race for Obama to Knock Off ISIS Capital
Race for Obama to Knock Off ISIS Capital
To hear members of the national security community tell it, ISIS is about to lose its grip on its Iraqi capital.In the last 10 days alone, the two U.S. generals leading the war effort have promised that the city of Mosul will be out of ISIS hands ...
There are only a few months left in the Obama presidency. Which means the pressure is on to score a major win against ISIS before he leaves the White House.
Did SpaceX’s Future Just Explode?
Did SpaceX’s Future Just Explode?
Facebook’s ambitious plan to bring internet to a huge swath of Sub-Saharan Africa suffered a setback on Thursday when a SpaceX rocket carrying the company’s first-ever satellite exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida.Taking a bigg...
Elon Musk’s rocket company is all about making space cheaper by speeding up launches, with an eye on grabbing the military’s business next.
Obama’s Outmaneuvered in ISIS War
Obama’s Outmaneuvered in ISIS War
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s week-old intervention into northern Syria, which began with the successful expulsion of the Islamic State terror group from the border town of Jarablus, could be the beginning of the end for the Islamic State terror group’s hav...
Switching partners: Ankara’s intervention, with tacit Russian backing, has raised tensions with Washington.
The Neo-Stalinist Tipping Point
The Neo-Stalinist Tipping Point
MOSCOW — For the first time in his adult life, Russian author and journalist Arkady Babchenko is planning to escape from his Moscow life, to take his family away from his home country to Europe.Babchenko has been one of the sharpest, most irrepres...
Putin’s appointment of a Stalin-apologist ideologue as education minister is, for many intellectuals, the last straw.
How the Mafia Murdered This Town
How the Mafia Murdered This Town
ROME — Not even the dead can find peace after the disastrous earthquake last week that killed hundreds in the mountainous region in central Italy. Of the 292 victims of the earthquake and its subsequent aftershocks, 231 were from the once pictures...
After the deadly Italy earthquake that killed 292, authorities fight over where to bury the dead and how to keep the Mafia from making things worse.
The Hero Who Beat Belize’s Anti-Gay Law
The Hero Who Beat Belize’s Anti-Gay Law
How does it feel, I asked Belize’s leading LGBT activist, to have finally prevailed in a six-year-long effort to have his country’s sodomy law declared unconstitutional?“Stressful,” he replied.At first, I laughed. I’ve known Caleb Orozco professio...
Caleb Orozco, who prevailed in a landmark supreme court case in Belize, insists there is much work to be done as American-backed fundamentalists plan to fight.
Death of the ISIS Attack Dog
Death of the ISIS Attack Dog
Officially, the 39-year-old Taha Subhi Falaha, better known as Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, was spokesman for the so-called Islamic State: a vitriolic but compelling rhetorician for the caliphate whose imprecations—against America, the Shia, insufficie...
ISIS says Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, mastermind of the group’s globalized savagery, is ‘martyred.’ U.S. officials are hinting they got him, but without solid confirmation.
U.S.
Pence’s Law Is Good for Child-Beaters
Pence’s Law Is Good for Child-Beaters
Mike Pence’s signature law, Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, is now being used to defend child abusers. And the abusers—one in particular—will probably win.On Feb. 3, 2016, Khin Park Thaing, a 30-year-old asylee from Burma, beat her s...
Indiana's ‘religious freedom’ law will probably let a Burmese refugee get away with striking her son 36 times because she says she’s practicing her faith.
Rachel Dolezal’s New Controversy
Rachel Dolezal’s New Controversy
Rachael Dolezal, the white woman caught masquerading as a black woman who ignited a national debate about race, has kept a relatively low profile since her fall last year.But this weekend she will headline the Naturally Isis Braid-On, Economic Lib...
The woman who was born white and identifies as black is causing an uproar for simply being invited to speak to a gathering focused on black hair.
The NFL’s Real Patriotism Scandal
The NFL’s Real Patriotism Scandal
So Colin Kaepernick, a professional athlete poised on the downside of his none-too-special career, isn’t standing up for the national anthem before pre-season football games. Ring the alarm!It took two weeks for the sports and political shouters t...
Sure, let’s all denounce the Niners’ QB. Meanwhile, teams accepting Pentagon payola to put on ‘heartfelt’ salutes to our troops? Hey, that’s patriotism!
And Now, College Classes in Adulthood?!
And Now, College Classes in Adulthood?!
Is 18 years enough time to prepare for the stresses of being an adult? For America’s increasingly fragile college students—thousands of whom are returning to campus in the next two weeks—the answer is a panic-stricken no.You may recall last year’s...
At East Carolina University, the poor dears are so stressed the school is offering ‘resilience’ education—a fancy of way of saying how to be a grown-up.
St. Paul’s Assault Survivor Speaks Out
St. Paul’s Assault Survivor Speaks Out
The teenage victim of a high-profile campus sexual assault has revealed her identity for the first time—along with her plan to help other survivors. In an interview with NBC’s Today, Chessy Prout, now 17, told Savannah Guthrie that she hoped going...
Prout shed her anonymity in a ‘Today’ interview, saying she wanted to send a message to other victims of sexual assault that they ‘don’t have to be ashamed either.’
Tech + Health
There’s Nothing Wrong With Being Asexual
There’s Nothing Wrong With Being Asexual
When asexual activist David Jay went on the Montel Williams Show in 2007 to explain his lack of sexual attraction, he was given the third degree.Had he been sexually abused as a child?“Nope,” said Jay.Did people just not want to have sex with him?...
New research aligns asexuality as a sexual orientation. Why is it so hard for society to accept?
No, Ohio Abortion Law Didn't Help Women
No, Ohio Abortion Law Didn't Help Women
When Ohio legislators passed restrictions for abortion providers prescribing the “abortion pill,” they did so under the guise of protecting women’s health. But a new study in PLOS Medicine suggests that this justification was misleading, and even ...
A new study shows Ohio women saw more negative outcomes after restrictions for medical abortions went into place.
The Most Historic Climate Decision Yet
The Most Historic Climate Decision Yet
One of the most significant court cases about climate change was decided this month by a federal appeals court in Chicago. Given that it was steeped in the enervating context of refrigerator regulations, you may have missed it. But amid the stulti...
For the first time, the federal government has put a price on carbon dioxide and it’s bound to transform how we fight global warming.
Watch: Scientists Leave Fake Mars Colony
Watch: Scientists Leave Fake Mars Colony
Six scientists returned to human civilization on Sunday, after spending a year isolated on a dormant Hawaiian volcano to simulate the conditions astronauts could face on Mars.The mission, funded by NASA, was the fourth one organized by the Hawaii ...
The scientists spent 12 months isolated on a Hawaiian volcano to simulate a Mars exploration mission.
Your Zika Apathy Is Spreading the Virus
Your Zika Apathy Is Spreading the Virus
You may not be a pregnant woman. You may not be the partner of a pregnant woman. But if you don’t care about Zika, you’re part of the problem.That’s the message that Joseph Conlon, a technical adviser for the American Mosquito Control Association ...
The American public doesn’t care about Zika—and that blasé attitude is not only careless, it’s dangerous.
Soylent Ads Sound a Lot Like Thinspo
Soylent Ads Sound a Lot Like Thinspo
Rob Rhinehart stopped eating and started a multimillion-dollar empire.In a 2013 blog post entitled, “How I Stopped Eating Food,” the then-24-year-old explained how he’d overhauled his diet by eliminating all solid foods from his life. For the past...
Marketed as a way to ‘stop eating,’ Silicon Valley’s miracle food has been glamorized by ‘pro-ana’ websites. Eating-disorder experts say even the accidental message is dangerous.
How Airbnb Kills Our Ideas of Privacy
How Airbnb Kills Our Ideas of Privacy
One of my memorable Facebook status updates went something like, “How long before newsreaders realize that we all know that the social networking website Twitter is a social networking website?” I got a lot of good feedback from that one, includin...
To make its home-away-from-home vibe work, the online housing broker insists on a level of transparency from hosts and guests that creates a level of intimacy bordering on the unseemly.
Arts + Culture
Zuck Shades Musk Over SpaceX Debacle
Zuck Shades Musk Over SpaceX Debacle
As tech billionaire feuds go, this one is shaping up to be priceless.Shortly after Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket exploded on the launch pad, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg took to his own social networking site to throw some snarky shade in his fellow bil...
When the SpaceX rocket blew up yesterday, it took Facebook’s new satellite with it. Now Zuck is threatening to ditch Elon Musk’s space company in a very public billionaire spat.
The Problem With Renée Zellweger’s Face
The Problem With Renée Zellweger’s Face
Renée Zellweger hoped we could do better. She hoped we’d stop obsessively speculating about her seemingly doctored face and focus on her acting achievements.Yet Zellweger’s recent cri de coeur in The Huffington Post has done little to quell the re...
The imminent release of ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’ has precipitated a fresh wave of speculation about what the actress has or hasn’t done to her face. Shame on us.
Eton Boys Scoop Audience With Putin
Eton Boys Scoop Audience With Putin
So, what did you do on your holidays?A group of Eton schoolboys, who have only recently graduated from the elite British school, have a pretty good answer to that eternal question after being granted an exclusive two-hour audience with Vladimir Pu...
He hasn’t entertained Theresa May yet, but ‘Vlad the Lad’ found time to entertain a group of schoolboys from Britain’s most elite private school.
Roger Ailes’ Poisonous Personal Vendetta
Roger Ailes’ Poisonous Personal Vendetta
Facing multiple allegations of sexually harassing female employees along with lawsuits from two of his accusers, to say nothing of advising Donald Trump on presidential debate prep, ousted Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes apparently still has time to...
Noted journalist Gabe Sherman is preparing a major exposé about the former Fox News chief and women for New York magazine—which may explain why the Ailes side is on the attack.
Science Can’t Explain Our Gift of Gab
Science Can’t Explain Our Gift of Gab
One bright night in the year 2016, my face aglow with godknows how many MilliGAUSS of x-radiation from the computer screen in front of me, I was surfing the net when I moused upon a web node reading: THE MYSTERY OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION.1 It seems th...
In a passage from his latest book, ‘The Kingdom of Speech,’ Tom Wolfe ponders why science has failed repeatedly to account for human speech, much less grasp what it means.
St. Paul’s Assault Survivor Speaks Out
St. Paul’s Assault Survivor Speaks Out
The teenage victim of a high-profile campus sexual assault has revealed her identity for the first time—along with her plan to help other survivors. In an interview with NBC’s Today, Chessy Prout, now 17, told Savannah Guthrie that she hoped going...
Prout shed her anonymity in a ‘Today’ interview, saying she wanted to send a message to other victims of sexual assault that they ‘don’t have to be ashamed either.’
How to Build a New York Mega-Mansion
How to Build a New York Mega-Mansion
Even the largest, most patrician Manhattan townhouses aren’t spectacular enough for Silicon Valley bigwigs and billionaire businessmen, who are buying up two or three adjacent ones and converting them into single labyrinthine super-mansions. Hav...
Sean Parker, Facebook’s co-founder, has bought three brownstones in Greenwich Village to build one super-mansion—following an extravagant trend set by Roman Abramovich and Michael Bl...
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