Micah Johnson moved it up due to recent police shootings.
Beats Milos Raonic in straight sets.
He will deliver remarks at an interfaith memorial service.
Edged out ‘Finding Dory.’
Rival factions at war in the capital.
Possible vice presidential option for Trump.
In a 21-minute speech entitled "We Are All Osama."
In Baton Rouge and St. Paul.
86 demonstrators detained.
Alert issued by the United Arab Emirates Embassy.
Paul Feig’s all-female reboot provides enough thrills and winning performances to silence its critics, but may still have a tough time converting die-hard fans of the 1984 original.
Banks and Steelz, a new project from Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and Interpol’s Paul Banks, drops August 26th. Marlow Stern sat down with the duo to discuss music, politics, and more.
For National Piña Colada Day, Rupert Holmes reveals the secrets behind the writing of his 1979 hit song, Escape.
Caitlyn Jenner will be in Cleveland, Ohio, during the Republican National Convention.However, when the sports and transgender icon touches down there later this month, she won’t be headed to the Quicken Loans Arena to show support for the GOP or D...
Caitlyn Jenner is headed to Cleveland the week of the GOP Convention—but so far, has no plans to attend.
Over the past several years, numerous police killings of unarmed black men have fueled a growing outrage that ultimately gave birth to the Black Lives Matter movement. This week, a lone gunman used that movement as a platform to shoot 12 police of...
While the shooting of 12 police officers at a Dallas Black Lives Matter protest has ratcheted up the rhetoric on all sides, some of the worst reactions have come from the right.
He offered his thoughts and prayers.She said black lives matter.He referred to them as “two motorists.”She repeatedly said their names.Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have reacted to the uniquely American bloodshed that defined this week—just bef...
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have taken different paths on every single issue possible—but the murders of police in Dallas had them sounding the same…almost.
It looks as if Hillary Clinton is going to try to skate past the email saga by essentially arguing that Donald Trump is a lot worse.That is manifestly true. He’s infinitely worse, as he insisted on showing us again Wednesday night with that biliou...
Clinton should spell out what specific steps she’d take as president to ensure that something like the email debacle doesn’t happen.
Outraged by the FBI’s decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email system, Republicans have opened a new front in their long battle with the soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee, accusing her of lying to Congress...
Clinton may not hang for her private server. But some apparent misstatements—or, if you’re a Republican, lies—could send the FBI after her again.
Twenty years ago, Saturday Night Live star Dana Carvey got an offer he couldn’t refuse after leaving the late-night NBC institution that made him a star: his own primetime variety show. But after seven episodes, ABC pulled the plug on The Dana Car...
Dana Carvey looks back at ‘The Dana Carvey Show,’ a short-lived slice of comedy gold that showcased many of today’s top comedic talents.
Calvin Harris is totally over Taylor Swift, and he’s not crying right now. Calvin Harris is so over Taylor Swift that he and his six to nine abs wrote a song that definitely isn’t about Taylor Swift!! Like any pseudo artistic ex-boyfriend with a b...
Calvin Harris’s new track “Olé” is rumored to be about his ex Taylor Swift, who is now dating Tom Hiddleston. But he’s totally over her, just so you know. Sooo over her.
Do you need another reason not to watch the Teen Choice Awards? The awards ceremony most likely to make you feel old and decrepit has decided to bestow its greatest honor on Justin Timberlake, in light of his tireless work over the past 10 years t...
After this year’s ‘woke’ Tonys and BET Awards, the Teen Choice Awards will honor a performer with a history of tone-deaf responses to race. The timing couldn’t be worse.
Comedians Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome fell in love in Africa. Professionally, at least.The popular stand-ups and actresses had known each other for years—both performed with the Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles and have run in the sam...
On Comedy Central’s ‘Another Period,’ sisters in 1902 Rhode Island strive to ‘keep up,’ so to speak, with society’s rich and famous. Co-creator Natasha Leggero explains its genius.
Before Trevor Noah took over from Jon Stewart, he indicated that The Daily Show would not be putting as much focus on skewering Fox News as it did in the past. But after Gretchen Carlson abruptly left the network and dropped a sexual harassment la...
How does Trevor Noah know Gretchen Carlson is telling the truth about Roger Ailes? Because he says he’s watched Fox News plenty.
After ceding the spotlight to Larry Wilmore on Wednesday, Trevor Noah made the latest series of unarmed black men killed by police the centerpiece of The Daily Show Thursday night. He began with a plea for the two opposing sides in this conflict t...
Trevor Noah breaks down the two sides of a conflict that came to a head Thursday night.
After a week of police killings, Beyoncé has updated her website with a full-page letter on the topic of black lives—the respect they deserve and the violence they continuously endure. The pop superstar’s response to the murders of Alton Sterling ...
The pop superstar unleashed a powerful statement on her website and a moment of silence at a concert. It’s the latest in her laudable history of Black Lives Matter activism.
Early in February 1946 the 167 inhabitants of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a remote U.S. possession in the Pacific Ocean, were told that in order to “end all world wars” they would have to leave this, their ancestral home, and pick up the...
The atomic age showed its chops on a remote Pacific atoll named Bikini 70 years ago – and gave a name to the most provocative invention of the sexual revolution.
One thing has become very clear since the unexpected popular vote in Britain to exit the European Union – the political, economic, social and journalistic elites on both sides of the Atlantic don’t get it.For two weeks I have been taking in all th...
Everyone’s talking about where the bankers will go now, with nary a word about the people whose votes stunned the rich and powerful.
ROME — In what must surely be a relief to Pope Francis, a Vatican tribunal ruled on Thursday that the press is free, that secretaries aren’t to blame, that new mothers shouldn’t go to jail, and that one of their own is the only one who truly deser...
After a messy, ill-thought-out trial, the Vatican reaches a compromise and convicts one of its own.
Twenty-six years after Russia’s only aircraft carrier entered service, she is reportedly heading into combat for the very first time—in Syria.“The general staff has prepared a plan for involvement of the deck aircraft in delivering strikes on terr...
The Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia’s only aircraft carrier, may be a rusting hulk, but its first combat deployment makes a lot of economic sense for the Kremlin.
AMSTERDAM — A Belgian civil court has fined a Catholic home for the elderly €6,000 ( $6,660) for interfering with a doctor trying to euthanize a patient.The case, decided last week, stands out in a country where assisted dying has become almost co...
Since 2002, thousands of patients have been helped to die in Belgium, many of them in Catholic hospitals. But a battle is brewing.
In an unprecedented escalation in the last two decades, Iranian Kurdish rebels have broke a unilateral ceasefire with a series of attacks against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the mountainous Kurdish cities in northwestern Iran.A series...
A center-left separatist insurgency, based in northern Iraq, has taken to fighting Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
PARIS — Saudi King Salman bin Abdelaziz sounded at once angry and plaintive as he marked the end of this blood-drenched month of Ramadan.The so-called Islamic State, ISIS, had just staged attacks in three Saudi cities, hitting near the U.S. consul...
Like communists of yore, the soldiers of the caliphate are seeking to ‘exacerbate the contradictions’ of those ranged against them.
Texas’s Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has a history of making inflammatory statements at inopportune moments, but his reaction to the killing of five police officers by a sniper at last night’s Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas seemingly goes far beyond...
During an appearance on Fox News, the outspoken conservative smeared the protesters caught in sniper’s crossfire.
When Dallas police finally cornered one of the suspected shooters in Thursday's deadly ambush at a Black Lives Matter rally, they were reluctant to put more cops in harm's way in order to finally end the bloody episode.So they sent in a ...
Dallas police took out suspected cop-killer Micah Xavier Johnson with a robot. It’s the first time American cops have done so. But it won’t be the last.
The murder of five Dallas police officers on Thursday is the deadliest day for American law enforcement since September 11, 2001.In addition to the dead, seven officers and two civilians were wounded. This is what we know about them so far.BRENT T...
Five officers were killed and nine more people were wounded in the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since 9/11. These are some of their stories.
DALLAS — He served his country overseas. Then he came home, became radicalized, and turned into a mass murderer. Micah Johnson, 25, of Mesquite, Texas, was identified by police as the sniper who shot 12 people during a Black Lives Matter protest i...
The sniper who murdered five officers during a Black Lives Matter protest was a fan of anti-police groups and a reservist who deployed to Afghanistan.
“It’s okay, Mommy…”Four-year-old Dae’Anna was speaking to her mother in the back of a police radio car, her voice tender and reassuring in the face of what no child should witness. She was proving herself in these harrowing moments on Wednesday ni...
‘Where’s my daughter?’ Lavish Reynolds asked after the cop shot her boyfriend, Philando Castile. ‘Get on your knees, get on your knees,’ the cop ordered.
On Andrew Sadek’s 20th birthday, North Dakota police made him an offer: moonlight as a confidential informant and avoid rotting in prison.It was November 2013, and Sadek had never been in trouble before. Months earlier, he’d sold a small amount of...
When Andrew Sadek was caught selling $80 of pot, cops pressured him into being an informant and told him to go after ‘harder drugs.’ Then he turned up dead.
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.
Police stood by as a small white drone touched down in Northern Ireland last Tuesday on the banks of the Clanrye River. Two women, awaiting its arrival, turned to face news cameras before consuming the drone’s controversial cargo: pills used to in...
Once a renegade ship sailing international waters to provide abortions, Women on Waves is embracing drone technology to expand their service.
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.
The evening of Sept. 2, 1998 was a peaceful one for the people living on the coast of Nova Scotia near the hamlet of Peggy’s Cove. The forecast predicted a chance of rain, and a thick cloud cover had started to roll in as the small community went ...
When a flight crashed into the Atlantic, besides the terrible and huge loss of human life, the ocean also claimed much of the plane’s luggage, including a mysterious Picasso painting.
Poor Joe Walsh.The “former congressman and syndicated radio guy Joe Walsh,” as he kept referring to himself in the third person, again and again, on The Joe Walsh Show even as he insisted, “I don’t like to talk about me much,” has been enduring th...
The shock jock returned to radio Friday, ranting that he didn’t mean to incite violence against President Obama or start a race war. Then he said he didn’t take anything back.
Does the New York Post have, at long last, no sense of decency?That, anyway, was the reaction of the Rev. Al Sharpton Friday morning when he saw the rabble-rousing cover of Rupert Murdoch’s American tabloid—a blurry photograph of two prostrate Dal...
Rev. Al Sharpton speaks out after violently phrased tweets from shock jock Walsh, and an NY Post front page that proclaimed ‘Civil War’ after Dallas shootings.
It is somehow perfect that Kate Middleton made her Snapchat debut at Wimbledon on Thursday in an extremely cute clip captured by tennis champ Serena Williams, in which Sophie, Countess of Wessex (wife of Prince Edward), is also enjoined into the f...
British royals and celebrities get a free pass at genteel Wimbledon, which makes the British tennis tournament a fascinating petri-dish of fame.
If embattled Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes’s on-air stars, especially women, have until now been publicly silent in his hour of need, Greta Van Susteren is a notable exception—eager to go on the record with a ringing defense of her beleaguered bos...
In an exclusive interview, the host says she doesn’t believe Roger Ailes sexually harassed Gretchen Carlson—who, she thinks, is ‘quite unhappy that her contract wasn’t renewed.’
In a story confirming every stereotype about Wall Street bros who frequent the Hamptons, a thirtysomething hedge funder who organized a July 4th party complete with champagne guns, costumed midgets, and inflatable swans is being threatened with a ...
The owner of a mansion wrecked after a party held by now-fired hedge funder Brett Barna intends to sue: ‘This was not Wolf of Wall Street glamour. This was criminal behavior.’
PARIS — Does high couture represent the dumbing down of fashion? It's a question one finds oneself asking after a week of being bombarded by the sight of sequins, beads and all things that glitter, during Couture Week, which wrapped here in t...
The designs were elaborate. The beading was extravagant. The rich and beautiful flocked there. But the dividing line between classy and tacky was blurred at Paris’ couture shows.
A Boston cab driver returned a passenger’s backpack to him last week—which is lucky, since it contained $187,000.The driver, Raymond “Buzzy” MacCausland, said the customer was a homeless man who abruptly left the cab to meet a friend, leaving his ...
A homeless man who’d just cashed his inheritance left it all in a cab. Fortunately for him, the driver returned it.
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.
Animal rights protesters rushed the stage at the Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest in Coney Island on Monday, spraying fake blood on the contestants and knocking over trays of hot dogs. Soon afterward NYPD officers grabbed and removed the pro...
Chaos ensued as protesters rushed the stage at the Coney Island hot dog eating contest.
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.
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.
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