
He reportedly told congressional leaders an unverified story to back up his false claim.
80-year-old star was hospitalized in “grave condition.”
“Whatever you think of [him]... he’s the president.”
Taxpayers will be “reimbursed at a later date.”

Facebook pages, web pages, and data will be “subject to review.”
Recalls the “bully” culture he created.
“With respect to torture, that’s banned,” said Thune.
Claims he heard from “people at the highest level of intelligence.”
Refuses to release book on same publisher as alt-right troll.

Tweeted internee photo with anti-racism quote.

‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ was much more than a TV show. On screen and off, it changed how American women saw themselves, and how men saw them.

The trailer for the action movie, starring Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver, confirms that it sees a transgender person’s transition in purely physical terms—and as a lurid to...

While we mourn the woman who turned the world on with her smile, revisit her perfect performance in the standout ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show’ episode, “Chuckles Bites the Dust.”
Once the home of cute animal pictures and weather advisories, the Badlands National Park’s Twitter account is now the front line of a burgeoning government censorship war.Hours after the National Parks Service retweeted side-by-side photos of Pres...
Hours after dryly listing facts scientists agree on, but which the president has disputed, the account removed the evidently offending content.
Monday was not only Donald Trump’s “working day one” as president of the United States, it was also Seth Meyers’ first opportunity to take “a closer look” at his nascent presidency. And so far, the Late Night host is not encouraged. Meyers began b...
In his first “closer look” of Donald Trump’s presidency, Seth Meyers called out his administration for “openly lying" to the American people.
After a brutal start, the CIA is set to mend fences and win over “Customer Number One,” President Donald Trump, putting aside his awkward address to the agency on Saturday and doing what they do best: recruit him to their way of thinking.“Congratu...
Langley is ready to woo the new president like a foreign leader. The key? Flattering his ego: ‘He is extremely insecure like an adolescent boy.’
Once the home of cute animal pictures and weather advisories, the Badlands National Park’s Twitter account is now the front line of a burgeoning government censorship war.Hours after the National Parks Service retweeted side-by-side photos of Pres...
Hours after dryly listing facts scientists agree on, but which the president has disputed, the account removed the evidently offending content.
In the final days of the Obama administration, an immigration attorney based in Long Island made a remarkable discovery: that the Justice Department accidentally doxxed some of its most powerful employees.The mistake has implications for a Freedom...
The Department of Justice thought it had adequately redacted the names of immigration judges involved in complaints. It didn’t, and now it might be sued.
President Trump’s pick for chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is a sworn enemy of the free internet.Ajit Pai, whom Trump designated as FCC chairman on Monday, is vocal opponent of net neutrality, a policy that requires internet serv...
When the FCC voted to uphold the policy that requires internet service providers to treat all data equally, Ajit Pai dissented—and now Trump has made him head of the agency.
Things haven’t gone quite as planned so far in the year’s first Grand Slam, the 2017 Australian Open. Both the top seeds in the men’s and women’s singles brackets were knocked out in the fourth round of the tournament, with Angelique Kerber fallin...
Federer, Wawrinka, Nadal, and both Venus and Serena Williams, will compete for a chance to advance to the finals of the 2017 Australian Open. Here’s how to watch live.
“When someone sees a Texas lawman, the first thing you notice is the hat,” Sheriff Parnell McNamara told Jeff Bridges over the phone.McNamara, a Waco native, owns more than 50 cowboy hats—some Stetsons, some bespoke, some worn, some new.“You don’t...
Parnell McNamara inspired the Oscar-nominated role in Hell or High Water, and his real-life exploits hunting down “weird sickos” could be their own movie.
Yes, it’s that time again: Oscar time. On the evening of February 26th, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel will emcee the 89th annual Academy Awards at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. Expect heaps of jokes about Kimmel’s pseudo-nemesis Matt Damon passing on ...
On the morning of Jan. 24, the Academy Award nominations were announced. And there were plenty of surprises.
Early Tuesday, actor Ewan McGregor, star of such films as Trainspotting and the Star Wars prequels, explained why he wouldn’t be appearing on the show Good Morning Britain that day—and it had to do with the show’s embarrassing, sexist clown of a c...
The star of ‘Trainspotting’ refused to go on Morgan’s morning program ‘Good Morning Britain’ following the host’s gross comments about the women’s marches.
“When someone sees a Texas lawman, the first thing you notice is the hat,” Sheriff Parnell McNamara told Jeff Bridges over the phone.McNamara, a Waco native, owns more than 50 cowboy hats—some Stetsons, some bespoke, some worn, some new.“You don’t...
Parnell McNamara inspired the Oscar-nominated role in Hell or High Water, and his real-life exploits hunting down “weird sickos” could be their own movie.
LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Spend four days surrounded by porn stars, immersed in a culture that could whet almost any sexual appetite, and it’s easy to forget about the rest of the world. But that wasn’t possible during this year’s AVN Adult Entertainmen...
The GOP branded porn a “public health crisis” and Trump himself signed an anti-porn pledge. So what will happen to the XXX biz under President Trump?
Nintendo wants to sell you Mario Kart 8 again. The game remains one of the best titles ever released for the Wii U and was also their most effective foray into downloadable content (DLC) yet. But this new version, known as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, is ...
This is the system that Nintendo has been working toward for the entirety of the 21st century. But is it different enough from what's come before to succeed?
Robert Smigel’s Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was one of 2016’s most vital political satirists, hitting the campaign trail early in the primaries and sticking with it all the way through the conventions over the summer. So it was only fitting that ...
Conan O’Brien sent Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to Trump’s inauguration and he came back with gold.
LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Spend four days surrounded by porn stars, immersed in a culture that could whet almost any sexual appetite, and it’s easy to forget about the rest of the world. But that wasn’t possible during this year’s AVN Adult Entertainmen...
The GOP branded porn a “public health crisis” and Trump himself signed an anti-porn pledge. So what will happen to the XXX biz under President Trump?
After a brutal start, the CIA is set to mend fences and win over “Customer Number One,” President Donald Trump, putting aside his awkward address to the agency on Saturday and doing what they do best: recruit him to their way of thinking.“Congratu...
Langley is ready to woo the new president like a foreign leader. The key? Flattering his ego: ‘He is extremely insecure like an adolescent boy.’
No, U.S. and Russian warplanes are not flying combat missions together over Syria. Yet.That startling claim, which spread across the U.S. news media on the afternoon of Jan. 23, 2017, began with a vague and misleading tweet by the Associated Press...
The Associated Press reported what it said was a Russian government announcement of a joint U.S.-Russian airstrike on Syria. The Pentagon says no way.
KOBLENZ, Germany—Last year, they were still dining together in secret.But on Saturday, one day after the world watched Donald Trump getting sworn in as president of the United States while pledging “America first,“ and as millions of women (and me...
The populist far right in Europe would like to believe Trump’s victory assures their own, and they came together to proclaim just that. But nothing’s quite that simple.
DENVER—On a cold Saturday morning in January 2002, a farm worker in northern France unloading dirty stable hay into a field noticed a tree stump that looked out of place. As he got closer, he realized that what he thought was a log was actually a ...
Thanks to American science and a determined French cop, a young woman whose burned corpse was found by a farmer 15 years ago may get justice.
No, U.S. and Russian warplanes are not flying combat missions together over Syria. Yet.That startling claim, which spread across the U.S. news media on the afternoon of Jan. 23, 2017, began with a vague and misleading tweet by the Associated Press...
The Associated Press reported what it said was a Russian government announcement of a joint U.S.-Russian airstrike on Syria. The Pentagon says no way.
In 2022, approximately five years from now, a new star will appear in the night sky. Scientifically speaking, the appearance of this nova is the product of the collision of two other astral bodies. And for six months this new star will—to the nake...
Humans across the world will get to see a star born in 2022, and one rabbi says it’s a sign from the Bible of a new military leader for Israel.
PENNE—Like most kids under ten, Edoardo, Samuele and Ludovica were growing anxious as they waited in the lobby of the Rigopiano Resort Hotel on Wednesday afternoon after 5pm. Due to dangerous blizzard conditions and a level four (out of five) aval...
As rescuers continue to dig for survivors in the aftermath of an avalanche, more survivors are uncovered.
El Chapo has finally been brought down to size.Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, whose Spanish nickname means “Shorty,” once ran a drug cartel as big as a country. On Friday, he reduced to standing in a federal courtroom. The Brooklyn chamber was p...
The man who once ran a cartel as big as a country was confined to a federal courtroom to face charges stemming from the sale of 200,000 kilos of cocaine in the U.S.
In 2022, approximately five years from now, a new star will appear in the night sky. Scientifically speaking, the appearance of this nova is the product of the collision of two other astral bodies. And for six months this new star will—to the nake...
Humans across the world will get to see a star born in 2022, and one rabbi says it’s a sign from the Bible of a new military leader for Israel.
“When someone sees a Texas lawman, the first thing you notice is the hat,” Sheriff Parnell McNamara told Jeff Bridges over the phone.McNamara, a Waco native, owns more than 50 cowboy hats—some Stetsons, some bespoke, some worn, some new.“You don’t...
Parnell McNamara inspired the Oscar-nominated role in Hell or High Water, and his real-life exploits hunting down “weird sickos” could be their own movie.
A Las Vegas restaurant allegedly bribed a crooked federal agent to raid their rival restaurant, the alleged victims claim.Club Yamang and Club Sonagi were two Korean supper clubs, which offered food and music, often accompanied by attractive hoste...
An ICE agent who’s already pleaded guilty to taking bribes allegedly drove a Korean supper club out of business in exchange for free food and drinks from a rival joint.
DENVER—On a cold Saturday morning in January 2002, a farm worker in northern France unloading dirty stable hay into a field noticed a tree stump that looked out of place. As he got closer, he realized that what he thought was a log was actually a ...
Thanks to American science and a determined French cop, a young woman whose burned corpse was found by a farmer 15 years ago may get justice.
“When someone sees a Texas lawman, the first thing you notice is the hat,” Sheriff Parnell McNamara told Jeff Bridges over the phone.McNamara, a Waco native, owns more than 50 cowboy hats—some Stetsons, some bespoke, some worn, some new.“You don’t...
Parnell McNamara inspired the Oscar-nominated role in Hell or High Water, and his real-life exploits hunting down “weird sickos” could be their own movie.
After the explosion, the next thing Army Staff Sgt. Herbert Edwin “Ed” Larson remembered was a cascade of feathers falling as if from on high.“He saw all these feathers coming down around him and he thought he was in heaven,” his older brother, Da...
He was in and out of hospitals after Vietnam, but Ed Larson ‘did pretty well.’ On Jan. 19, he was one of the last laid to rest at Arlington under Obama’s watch.
Those who are shell shocked and depressed following the inauguration of Donald Trump as our 45th president may at least find some small solace from this: in a late December interview with CNN’s David Axelrod, Obama’s former senior advisor, the out...
Jefferson set an impossibly high standard for subsequent presidents in many areas, including memoir. No one matched him until Grant, and since then it’s been spotty.
In Greek mythology, Prometheus taught man how to farm. But when he gave man fire, the gods felt he had gone too far. And so as punishment, Zeus chained Prometheus to a rock where every day an eagle would come and eat his liver, which would regrow ...
Science and the digital world have overhauled our world, but the stakes just got higher: Now technology wants to remake you, using everything from the internet to stem cells.
What does gender dysphoria feel like?For those who are not transgender themselves—and, in the United States, that’s all but 1.4 million of us—the idea of our actual gender not matching the one we were assigned at birth might seem foreign or, worse...
A study has shown that trans people may sense touch differently than cisgender people according to particular body parts. We should be curious, but also careful, what we extrapolate ...
I first heard the name Bradley Manning at a cheap Japanese restaurant near Sacramento, California, sitting across from the ex-hacker who’d just turned the soldier in.It was May 2010, and I was following up on a remarkable story I’d heard in crypti...
Over and over, the young private who exposed so much of the U.S. government’s inner workings trusted people—only to get knifed.
The North Dakota Army National Guard has deployed two surface-to-air missile-launchers near a critical work site for the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, or DAPL.Protestors spotted one of the Avenger missile systems on Jan. 16 and posted phot...
The Avenger missile launcher is foremost a weapon of war. What is it doing at the site of a peaceful protest?
What does gender dysphoria feel like?For those who are not transgender themselves—and, in the United States, that’s all but 1.4 million of us—the idea of our actual gender not matching the one we were assigned at birth might seem foreign or, worse...
A study has shown that trans people may sense touch differently than cisgender people according to particular body parts. We should be curious, but also careful, what we extrapolate ...
In a mystery worthy of the master detective himself, the BBC is investigating the possibility that the final episode of its hit sleuth series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, was illegally leaked online by a state-sponso...
Reports are circulating that state-sponsored agents circulated a Russian-language copy of the finale of the hit BBC series as part of Moscow’s war with the British broadcaster.
A mysterious hacking group has been bedeviling the U.S. intelligence community for months, releasing a tranche of secret National Security Agency hacking tools to the public while offering to sell even more for the right price. Now with barely a w...
A gang of elite hackers, believed by many to be Russian, say they’re quitting—just as Donald Trump gets ready to enter the Oval Office.
Members of anti-vaccine fringe groups have taken Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent meeting with President-elect Donald Trump as a sign that his promise to “Drain the Swamp” will extend to the country’s immunization policy-makers.But it is unclear jus...
Are the president-elect’s meetings with anti-vaxxers a signal he’s going to change immunization policy? And does he have the power to do so?
In a mystery worthy of the master detective himself, the BBC is investigating the possibility that the final episode of its hit sleuth series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, was illegally leaked online by a state-sponso...
Reports are circulating that state-sponsored agents circulated a Russian-language copy of the finale of the hit BBC series as part of Moscow’s war with the British broadcaster.
Is the new Zeitgeist of Trumpism threatening the First Amendment?One can only hope not.But at least six reporters are facing felony rioting charges arising from their coverage of violent demonstrations in Washington, D.C., last Friday during journ...
At least six reporters are facing felony rioting charges arising from their coverage of violent demonstrations in Washington, D.C., last Friday.
A group of African-American men sit around a grungy cab office. They are mostly drivers, but there are a few regular customers too. Then—soon to appear through its doors—there’s Booster (Brandon J. Dirden), the son of the cab firm’s owner, Becker ...
The brilliant MTC production of Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ is so good you want to stay in the company of the actors for as long as possible.
The British TV presenter and exhaustingly dedicated Trump blowhard Piers Morgan was seemingly desperate for attention during the Women’s March on Washington Saturday, firing off a series of contemptuous tweets.How pathetic that participants believ...
After Madonna’s remark at the Washington Women’s March that she’d like to blow up the White House, condemnation and insults soon rained down on her.
It was more than an hour into White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s first formal briefing to the media on Monday—a much-hyped event that dragged on so long that it resembled War and Peace (surprisingly, mostly peace)—that President Trump’s pug...
Sean Spicer, White House press spokesman, was ready to not only take on President Trump’s media critics—but also to play the victim.
A group of African-American men sit around a grungy cab office. They are mostly drivers, but there are a few regular customers too. Then—soon to appear through its doors—there’s Booster (Brandon J. Dirden), the son of the cab firm’s owner, Becker ...
The brilliant MTC production of Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ is so good you want to stay in the company of the actors for as long as possible.
In-laws, eh?Prince Harry’s potential future brother-in-law, Tom Markle Jr., looks set to steal the title of most embarrassing relative from Kate’s naughty uncle, Gary Goldsmith.The 50-year-old half-brother of Prince Harry’s actress girlfriend Megh...
His girlfriend has a troubled half-brother facing a gun charge—one who could embarrass the royals by invoking Harry’s name.
It is rare to cheer the television set these days, but watching Helen (Maura Tierney) bundle her insane, awful parents into a fortress-like panic room in the basement of their Montauk home was one such moment. Thank you, The Affair, for that—and f...
Helen decided it was time to ’fess up about killing Scotty, and the identity of Noah’s assailant was finally revealed in the penultimate episode of Season 3 of ‘The Affair.’
Their cab pulled around the curved driveway of Delvet Hospital. Daphne took a fold of lira from her coat pocket. Holding it low, between her knees, she counted out the fare. Haris thanked her as she passed the bills to the driver, mentioning how h...
An excerpt from Elliot Ackerman's latest novel, a love story set along the Turkish-Syrian border amidst the ongoing civil war.
In-laws, eh?Prince Harry’s potential future brother-in-law, Tom Markle Jr., looks set to steal the title of most embarrassing relative from Kate’s naughty uncle, Gary Goldsmith.The 50-year-old half-brother of Prince Harry’s actress girlfriend Megh...
His girlfriend has a troubled half-brother facing a gun charge—one who could embarrass the royals by invoking Harry’s name.



















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