After protesters stormed the parliament.
Drawing the ire of Trump supporters.
During public unrest over the government.
Led Catholic “new left.”
In his own shop.
The man riding with her was also injured.
In protest of poaching.
Over 12,000 families live in shelters.
Rules in favor of energy and chemical companies.
In Corsica.
The Oscar-winning actress is poised to be the next Clooney or DiCaprio, promoting environmental awareness in the doc ‘A Beautiful Planet’ and calling out Donald Trump.
President Obama was a tough act to follow, but Wilmore reminded some of Stephen Colbert with his audience-unfriendly jokes.
Drinking is better if you’re at New Orleans’ famed Jazz Fest obviously, but—if not—mix up these at home instead.
America’s leading Reagan loyalists declared war on Will Ferrell, and won.On Wednesday, Variety reported that the Hillary Clinton-supporting funnyman—and part-time Democratic donor—was attached to play the role of President Ronald Reagan in a comed...
This week the outrage mounted over a new comedy about the Reagan White House, but it isn’t clear it merited the venom.
Barack Obama’s swan song as Comedian-in-Chief—scheduled for Saturday night at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner—will doubtless display his natural comic timing and pointed wit that are rare for any politician, let alone the head of...
Saturday night’s annual dinner will be President Obama’s last—and, unlike presidents of old, he genuinely enjoys an evening where the jokes and jabs are his to deploy.
The man who invented Ted Cruz just endorsed him.Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who pioneered many of the anti-establish tactics and rhetoric that Cruz now uses, announced today that he supports Cruz’s presidential bid. The endorsement may have come just...
The last minute endorsement could boost Cruz’s chance in Indiana, but could hurt Pence’s bid for re-election this fall.
Maybe #nevergarland is a good thing.Sure, the unprecedented refusal of the Senate to even consider the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland is a violation of the senators’ oaths of office, a dangerous precedent, a constitutional fiasco financed by ...
If nothing else, raising the visibility of the Supreme Court as a key election issue can help rouse the American public from its irresponsible indifference to it.
A tale of two cities has become a city of two tales. One tale is what New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says about an ever widening pattern of ethically questionable fundraising and influence peddling as he pursues such noble causes as income e...
As New York City’s mayor touts his ‘Progressive, Honest, Responsible Government,’ the questions and subpoenas are mounting. He should try some real honesty.
Growing up in rural New York, I saw my hometown on the evening news exactly twice.Once was when our basketball team won the state tournament for small schools. The other time was when our school district was consumed by a vicious, sectarian, MySpa...
The eyeliner. The bangs. Fall Out Boy. It’s all back and coming to a concert venue near you.
With less than 9 months left in his second term, President Barack Obama “doesn’t give a fuck” anymore. At least that’s the message comedian Larry Wilmore has been broadcasting for the past year.This weekend, Obama will deliver his eighth and final...
More than any other comedian working today, Larry Wilmore has been the ideal voice for President Obama’s last year in office.
With its numerous allusions to extramarital affairs, unfaithful rap gods, and good-haired Beckys, Lemonade has landed Bey and Jay’s marriage in a swirl of rumors. But Beyoncé’s visual album is just as much an ode to errant fathers as it is to trif...
Yes, Queen B’s visual album is very much about her father, and how his indiscretions echo her current predicament.
Drake’s hotly awaited new album Views—described as his “tour through the city that made him”—features the artist sitting in a thoughtful pose on a high edge of Toronto’s iconic CN Tower.Ironically enough, he doesn’t appear to be taking huge pleasu...
The new Drake album, “Views,” is creating a storm with his fans worldwide, and moving in lockstep is a tide of parodies of the cover art.
Donald Trump desperately wants Americans to believe he is capable of acting “presidential,” but as The Daily Show demonstrated Thursday night, his natural demeanor more resembles a hip-hop star. “Trump doesn’t belong in the White House. Donald Tru...
This new hip-hop video from ‘The Daily Show’ features only 100 percent real quotes from the GOP frontrunner.
With the release of Lemonade just one week and one billion think pieces ago, Beyoncé infused an already astonishingly robust catalog of music with 12 new masterpieces to shore up her status as this generation’s singular musical icon. (Fight me on ...
When life gives you ‘Lemonade,’ well, you judge the 12 new tracks and then rank them against the best songs of her 13-year career thus far. Here’s our Top 50. We await your outrage.
Last summer, Amy Schumer reluctantly joined the fight to restrict Americans’ access to guns. After a man opened fire in a theater that was showing her film Trainwreck, the comedian appeared alongside her second cousin, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), t...
This week’s ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ features a hard-hitting sketch about just how easy it is to get a gun in America.
Syrian media activist Hadi al-Abdallah recorded a video yesterday, showing the devastation unleashed on Bustan al-Qaser and Kallaseh, rebel-held parts of Aleppo city, by what he quite clearly referred to as an aerial assault. Given that the only a...
The levels to which Russian propagandists will stoop to cover for the Assad regime continue to hit new lows.
LONDON — Britain’s bitterly divided Labour Party spun out of control today with the most bizarre and shameful public row in its 116-year history.Two senior Labour politicians were filmed arguing about the legacy of Adolf Hitler in the street as an...
The Labour Party’s gobsmacking anti-Semitism crisis spiraled even further out of control after a senior member tried to claim Hitler wasn’t so bad.
As the self-proclaimed Islamic State trumpets its global terrorist campaign, U.S. special operations forces have quietly killed more than three dozen key ISIS operatives blamed for plotting deadly attacks in Europe and beyond.Defense officials tel...
Delta Force and Navy SEALs have crippled the group’s ability to recruit foreign fighters and put pressure on the network responsible for striking Europe and Africa.
Where in the world is “God Save the Queen” a revolutionary call to arms? In Norfolk Island, whose 1700 citizens—half of them descended from Fletcher Christian’s HMS Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian partners—are resisting the forcible re-coloniz...
Norfolk Island will be colonized by Australia in July. Renowned lawyer Geoffrey Robertson explains why he is representing the island's 1700 people who are desperate to remain free.
LONDON — The left-wing leader of Britain’s Labour Party is under fire for refusing to immediately suspend one of his Muslim members of Parliament after it emerged that she had posted anti-Semitic messages on Facebook.Jeremy Corbyn said comments ab...
After some initial foot dragging, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn suspended Muslim MP Naz Shah, who had posted anti-Semitic messages on Facebook.
North Korea’s new sea-launched, nuclear-capable ballistic missile and the submarine that fires it are both technologically backward, unreliable, and wickedly unsafe for the unfortunate souls tasked with operating them. In short, Pyongyang’s new un...
North Korea’s new nuclear-missile subs are rudimentary and unreliable—but Kim Jong Un wants the world to think he’s just crazy enough to use them in an attack.
LONDON — It was Europe’s most deadly sporting disaster since a stand collapsed at the Circus Maximus in 140AD.A horrific crush at a soccer match inside Hillsborough stadium in 1989 killed 96 Liverpool fans. Among them were 37 teenagers. More than ...
For years the victims of the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster have been slurred as drunkards. Today, a British court ruled the 96 deaths that day had been ‘unlawful’—the fault of police.
Taking an even longer view of the human—wolf relationship, let’s remember that this species came to us in friendship perhaps more than 30,000 years ago, according to an emerging consensus among paleontologists. Pre-agricultural people and wolves m...
Wolves and their canine descendants are among our oldest animal partners, and yet we continue to hunt and kill them out of irrational fears that blind us to their many benefits.
“I object to the long arm of the federal government reaching into my home and controlling the children I gave birth to,” Irene McCabe told a reporter as she led a 620-mile protest “mothers’ march” from Michigan to Washington, D.C. in the spring of...
In 1972, a Flint, Michigan housewife led a 620-mile march to Washington to protest forced busing. TV’s adoring coverage was just the first step in distorting the busing battle.
Growing up in rural New York, I saw my hometown on the evening news exactly twice.Once was when our basketball team won the state tournament for small schools. The other time was when our school district was consumed by a vicious, sectarian, MySpa...
The eyeliner. The bangs. Fall Out Boy. It’s all back and coming to a concert venue near you.
The biggest non-event in every sports year is the NFL Draft, which took place last night. The weeks preceding the “event” are filled with mock drafts that predict which team will take which player in which round. (The predictions drift away like t...
On Thursday night, top prospect Laremy Tunsil was picked later than expected leading many to claim it was because he had character issues.
The nominating contest grinds on, but the Acela primary set the stage for a general election faceoff between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.Trump’s solid majorities mean that GOP voters, in their inscrutable wisdom, have spoken, choosing a polit...
Winning them will take more than the finger-pointing populism that’s dominated the Democratic primary campaign.
The last time I spoke at West Point, I was asked by a cadet if I worried that increased automation would lead to an eventual robot war. I joked that I wasn’t worried about the Cylons from “Battlestar Galactica” or Skynet from the “Terminator” movi...
While much of the worrying by humans about robots has focused on a war against robots, little is given to thinking about war by those displaced by robots.
On March 24, an Oklahoma appeals court unanimously ruled that “forcible sodomy cannot occur where a victim is so intoxicated as to be completely unconscious at the time of the sexual act of oral copulation” (PDF). Translated into English: Forcin...
Bizarre loopholes and double standards in rape legislation aren’t just confined to Oklahoma.
By K. Aleisha Fetters, Life by Daily BurnIt’s 3 p.m. on a Tuesday and you’d do anything for a donut… with chocolate filling… and those rainbow sprinkles on top. Are you hungry? Bored? You may just have a case of the “sleep munchies.” According to ...
Dear Mr. Ferrell,I saw the news bulletin—as did everyone—that you intend to portray my father in the throes of Alzheimer’s for a comedy that you are also producing.Perhaps you have managed to retain some ignorance about Alzheimer’s and other versi...
Ferrell is set to play Reagan with Alzheimer’s in a comedy movie. In an open letter, his daughter say she’s horrified her father’s illness will be played for laughs.
Wade Sweatt died from a white powder. Immediately after trying it, the 24-year-old told his wife that it was “making [him] sick,” his parents recalled in a statement. Then, his heart stopped working.“What followed was several long terrible days, i...
A spoonful of powdered caffeine is enough to kill someone—near instantly. How the deadly white powder slid past the FDA.
The porn industry just got a nerdy endorsement—the science world.According to new research released by Columbia University, men who watch sexually explicit material may actually be healthier than those who don’t. Published in the journal Plos One,...
In a country where some governors are dubbing porn a “health hazard,” researchers say porn that features safe sex promotes safe sex in those who watch it. And that could save lives.
The only thing more shocking than murder of an entire family in rural Ohio might be to learn how big the area they grew marijuana in is to the international drug trade. Eight members of the Rhoden family, ranging in age from 16 to 44, were shot to...
The rural area home to the Rhodens, who were running a huge pot operation when someone killed them, is a strategic link in the international drug trade.
He’s the one with the gun. The threat. The person the good, and slightly less bad, run from. He, and it’s usually a he, is the worst of the worst, because he goes the furthest. The criminal we perhaps find it hardest of all to understand. The hitm...
The hitman in literature is a perennial favorite: he or she is just like us, but for one fact: they kill for money. Are they maimed, or monsters, or more like us than we like to admit?
It’s never a great sign when a promotional video makes you cringe. It’s even worse when that clip—albeit for an excellent cause—features Queen Elizabeth, Prince Harry, President Obama, and first lady Michelle Obama.But a 40-second video released b...
It’s a silly promo spot—featuring the queen and the Obamas for the wounded soldiers’ games. And it’s beneath the dignity of Her Majesty.
William and Kate celebrate five years of married life today, and while there is little doubt that they are fulfilled and happy in their private lives, and are enthusiastically enjoying parenthood and their kids as no generation of royals has done ...
They may be very happy in private, but public goodwill to them is dwindling. For their fifth anniversary, they need new advisers.
During Wednesday night’s opening of her “Formation” world tour, Beyoncé overwhelmed the audience with her mane-tossing roars and megawatt smiles, belting out “Sorry,” “Daddy Lessons,” and other vengeance-tinged songs from her new album, Lemonade.T...
While Balmain’s creative director, Olivier Rousteing, has cultivated a roster of celebrity clients, the House of Balmain has attracted the rich and famous since it launched in 1945.
Poor Becky.Poor “Becky.”This week, it isn’t so great being called Becky, and even if you’re not called Becky, you could be suspected of being “Becky,” or even considered a “Becky.”Right now, “Becky” is possibly a real person’s name, possibly a mas...
The hunt is on for the ‘Becky’ in Beyoncé’s song ‘Sorry.’ Is she a real nemesis, a composite, a euphemism for white women? Whatever, the name has a big history of trouble.
Was a Harvard Law School student’s remark to a “smelly” visiting Israeli dignitary anti-Semitic—or simply bizarre? A small group of Jewish students and recent alumni have signed a letter defending Husam El-Qoulaq, a third-year Palestinian law stud...
A small group of Jewish students and alumni are defending Husam El-Qoulaq, a Palestinian law student, after he asked former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni, ‘How are you so smel...
There is no end in sight for the legal maneuvering and spin-doctoring in Hulk Hogan’s sex video lawsuit against Gawker Media—in which a St. Petersburg, Fla., jury awarded the celebrity wrestler $140.1 million in damages last month.The billable hou...
As Gawker Media preps for its appeal of the wrestler’s $140.1 million in damages, it is trumpeting the release of sealed motions claiming what it says is Hogan’s real reason for suing.
Pilgrim's Pride is recalling 4,568,080 pounds of chicken that may contain plastic, wood, rubber, and metal.
The company is protesting New Hampshire’s ban on "ballot selfies."
A firsthand look at riding like a pro.
Prince's gigantic estate at Paisley Park will be a public memorial.
Backstage antics take center stage in newly found clip.
As Obama’s last White House Correspondents’ Dinner approaches, here’s a look back at the best moments from his annual address since 2009.
When life gave this kid lemons, he sold lemonade—thousands of dollars of lemonade.
A new camera shows how sharks view each other, and even find love, underwater.
Prince frequently took the piss out of the King of Pop, and the King called Prince a “meanie.”
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