The two frontrunners call the Empire State their home, and both came away with substantial wins on Tuesday evening.
From Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette.
From manslaughter to criminally negligent homicide.
12,000 jobs.
In North Carolina.
Declared unconstitutional.
$8,000 for consulting gig.
Grocer contradicts viral claim of homophobia.
Former Cleveland quarterback also loses agent.
Despite scheduled fight in July.
The author of a scandalous new book claims Camilla Parker-Bowles thought Kate Middleton too common to be Prince William’s wife and the future Queen.
The documentary ‘Southwest of Salem,’ which premiered at Tribeca, is a riveting true-crime film about four lesbian women wrongfully convicted of a gang rape.
Live from the New York Hall of Science.
Speaking to Morning Joe on the morning of New York’s primary, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) once again made it clear that he is no fan of Ted Cruz. And this time he took it to deadly extremes.“First of all, in case anybody is confused, I am not endorsing...
New York's loudest congressman threatens suicide if Cruz wins at the RNC.
If Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination, his victory will be celebrated not only in Mar-a-Lago, but also in Beijing.The Chinese Communist Party’s media conduits are swooning over the vulgar, politically-incorrect frontrunner, telegraphing t...
Chinese state-media publications are among Trump’s most dedicated—and unlikely—supporters.
On Sunday, Brazilian lawmakers voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff over alleged corruption. And that could make life a little uncomfortable for Hillary Clinton, who said just four years ago that Rousseff herself set “a global standard” for t...
In 2012, Clinton said soon-to-be-impeached Dilma Rousseff was the ‘global standard’ for transparency.
Over the weekend, Bernie Sanders supporters staked out Hillary Clinton’s George Clooney-hosted fundraiser in San Francisco and threw actual dollar bills at her motorcade as she drove by. They did so to decry the corrupting force of money in politi...
Hosts from CNN and MSNBC float the theory that Bernie supporters throwing dollar bills at Clinton tried to portray her as a sex worker.
A funny thing about the Nixon-tattooed showy master of the shadowy arts who’s helped make Donald J. Trump the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination: He worked out his playbook for using a larger-than-life New Yorker to blow up a p...
Advise a larger-than-life New Yorker? Check. Disrupt the party establishment? Check. Hijack the primary debates? Check.
Cruz Beckham, third child of David and Victoria Beckham, continued his stealth assault on the music industry Tuesday with a new video filmed by his dad David showing off his further singing—and percussion—skills on Instagram.The lad is clearly pit...
Speculation mounts that he’s being lined up for a starring role as a preteen heartthrob singer after his dad posted a second video of him singing online.
There’s a moment in the season finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend that perfectly captures what it’s like for a woman to make up with her best friend.After quietly feuding for most of the episode, lovesick lawyer Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) and her older co-...
Yes, the CW comedy musical is about a girl chasing a boy—but its real love story is a friendship. Co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna on the real-life inspirations behind Paul and Rebecca.
The Coachella music festival’s makeshift post office saw unexpected traffic this weekend, as festival-goers scrambled to file their tax returns last minute from the campground.Coachella, which kicked off on Friday, brings nearly 200,000 attendees ...
Almost a dozen concertgoers rushed to Indio, California’s post office to snail-mail returns to the IRS between dropping acid and listening to Guns N’ Roses, apparently.
The first weekend of Coachella came to a close Sunday night with what appeared to be a live rendition of the latest volume of Now That’s What I Call Music! With Calvin Harris as the closing-night headliner, the festival has proudly made the full c...
The Scottish ‘DJ’ Calvin Harris ended the three-day festival by pressing play on some pretty choice tunes by other, more worthy closing-night headliners.
The old charge that Australians don’t get irony looks set to be revived today, after Johnny Depp and his wife Amber Heard released a sarcastic video apologizing for bringing their pet dogs illegally into Australia, which the former Minister For Ag...
Johnny Depp has made a masterful, deeply sarcastic apology for smuggling his pet dogs into Australia. The authorities have lapped it up. Don’t they ‘do’ irony?
Kim Hardin had seen hundreds of kids. As days turned into months, the veteran casting director, whose impressive résumé includes Friday, Hustle & Flow, and Think Like a Man, was losing patience. Hardin’s specialty, as it were, was placing musi...
The only son of iconic MC Biggie Smalls is a scene-stealer in the film ‘Kicks,’ which premiered at Tribeca. He opens up about his famous Big Poppa, acting, and upcoming rap album.
Music pirates are boring nowadays. The pirate’s den is a bedroom in mom’s flat. Or maybe that’s a pirate using the free wi-fi at Dunkin Donuts.That wasn’t always the case. Music pirates once had their own ships, just like their skull-and-crossbone...
Renegade radio stations in the ’60s challenged government control of the airwaves from international waters and helped launch the rock revolution.
KUDILAH, Iraq — It is April, and fighting is stalled, with part of the Iraqi army forces camped at the village of Kudilah and unable to advance because of fierce resistance and counterattacks by the so-called Islamic State. The research team that ...
An in-depth report on the inconclusive battle to take one small village exposes the weakness of the strategy to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second-biggest city.
President Obama confirmed for the first time last week that the U.S. is conducting “cyber operations” against ISIS, in order to disrupt the group’s “command-and-control and communications.”But the American military’s campaign of cyber attacks agai...
Military hackers are disrupting ISIS’s encrypted chats, implanting viruses in terrorists’ computers, and mining the machines to launch real-world strikes.
In the past two weeks the Spanish government has announced that it is considering eliminating the siesta from the national schedule. The siesta—known as the afternoon nap to the rest of us—is a cultural staple in Spain. The move is encountering re...
Spain is debating whether to do away with the siesta. As the debate rages over the national tradition, it’s worth a look at how much human sleep varies.
LESBOS, Greece—If he could have, Pope Francis would have surely packed all 4,000 or so refugees of various nationalities stuck on the Greek island of Lesbos into the back of the papal plane when he flew home to Rome on Saturday. As it happened, he...
The pope took back 12 Syrian refugees, including 6 children when he left Lesbos. Will he set an example?
LESBOS, Greece — Bernie Sanders can officially thumb his nose at all the naysayers who criticized the political wisdom of a Democratic presidential candidate taking 36 hours off the campaign trail to travel to Rome just days before a major primary...
The encounter was short on substance, short on time, but high on symbolism. Just how much do the pontiff and the candidate have in common?
Héctor Luis “El Güero” Palma is scheduled for release from federal prison in Atwater, California, on June 11. Palma was the business partner of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán in the early 1990s during the grisly war for succession in the Pacific Cartel...
El Güero Palma was El Chapo’s partner in a gruesome drug war and relentless vendetta. It’s not over, and when he’s freed, he could be a dead man walking.
Every spring, the top people in America’s space industry—scientists, researchers, military officers and executives—gather for a four-day conference at the century-old Broodmoor Hotel nestled at the base of Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs.The...
The American military depends on satellites to direct its soldiers, bombs, and drones. But an eye-opening exercise showed that those spacecraft are frighteningly suceptible to attack.
The Coachella music festival’s makeshift post office saw unexpected traffic this weekend, as festival-goers scrambled to file their tax returns last minute from the campground.Coachella, which kicked off on Friday, brings nearly 200,000 attendees ...
Almost a dozen concertgoers rushed to Indio, California’s post office to snail-mail returns to the IRS between dropping acid and listening to Guns N’ Roses, apparently.
A young woman’s request to be allowed to wear the hijab as a cadet at The Citadel military academy has sparked debate at the strait-laced school and outrage on social media.The incoming cadet, who has not been named, asked that she be allowed to w...
An incoming cadet has asked permission to wear the headscarf at the conservative military academy, which has yet to rule on her request.
The great immigration showdown is finally here. Today, the Supreme Court hears ninety minutes’ worth of oral arguments in United States v. Texas, conservatives’ challenge to President Obama’s executive orders on immigration policy.The court may de...
The justices will decide if the president’s deferred action on deportation is an abuse of executive authority or whether Texas’s lawsuit is an abuse of the legal process.
On Monday, far-right activist Jim Stachowiak plans to grab his rifle and lead an armed rally outside the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta to unite likeminded citizens “against Islam and Islamic immigration.” The gun-toting activist wishes to “raise publ...
Get ready for a gun-toting protest with shredded images of the Prophet Muhammad, Hillary Clinton, and President Obama.
If you want to work for the Twin Cities Bible Church, you will have to disclose whether you were raped as a child.“Have you ever been physically or sexually abused as a child?” is one of the questions on the Urbana, Illinois, church’s job applicat...
Church job seekers are being asked if they were sexually abused as children based on the false belief that victims will become abusers. The worst part—this discrimination is legal.
When you’re gender nonconforming, it’s hard to know where you belong, especially when you’re using the bathroom.Alok Vaid-Menon, who works for the Audre Lorde Project and uses gender-neutral pronouns, explained that deciding whether to use the men...
It’s time for lawmakers and business owners to realize that gendered restrooms just don’t work.
Every spring, the top people in America’s space industry—scientists, researchers, military officers and executives—gather for a four-day conference at the century-old Broodmoor Hotel nestled at the base of Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs.The...
The American military depends on satellites to direct its soldiers, bombs, and drones. But an eye-opening exercise showed that those spacecraft are frighteningly suceptible to attack.
From The Six Million Dollar Man to Inspector Gadget to Robocop, humans with bionic body parts have become commonplace in fiction. In the real world, we use technology to restore functionality to missing or defective body parts; in science fiction,...
We’re moving beyond just prosthetics and wearable tech. Soon, we’ll all by cyborgs in one way or another.
New research shows that some areas of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the largest collection of coral in the world, are doing better than others. If the reef is to be protected and preserved, they might take a lesson from Dubai, and consider movin...
Dubai successfully transplanted a reef eight years ago, in the name of profit. Australia could too.
The rise and fall of blood-testing start-up Theranos can be tracked on the Walgreens website.Theranos, founded by charismatic tech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, skyrocketed to a $9 billion valuation with promises of accurate finger-prick blood te...
As the blood-testing start-up struggles with questions about the reliability of its finger-prick tests, Walgreens has quietly stopped promoting Theranos on its website.
With trillions of dollars worth of minerals lying just under the moon’s surface or spinning around the solar system inside asteroids, space mining is big business.Well, big potential business. No one has dug nickel out of an asteroid or scooped an...
It may sound like sci-fi, but millions and millions of dollars are pouring in to mine asteroids and the moon. And with a space gold rush comes space pirates.
It would be an exaggeration to say the government drove Christopher Baltz to break the law, but it definitely built the highway that took him there.On April 9, 2014, Baltz was arrested in a sting operation in the Dania Beach area of Fort Lauderdal...
The war on prescription-drug abuse has created ‘opioid refugees’ who can’t get prescriptions for legal painkillers filled and turn to illegal ones instead.
LONDON — When is underwear sexist and when is it simply sexy? This question comes to mind viewing the men’s and women’s styles of Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the largest-ever museum exhibi...
The largest-ever museum exhibition of underwear shows how and why we dress our nether regions to express ourselves, and impress and seduce others.
You feel a slight sheen of sweat on your brow. You take a long pull from your Cuba Libre as you lean back in your chair, your feet sliding over the warm sand. You can still taste the heavy bistec empanizado lunch you downed an hour before, capped ...
The most iconic mysteries and detective novels are anchored firmly by their sense of place, and no place is more hospitable to crime and violence than Miami.
Marseille, that great and ancient Mediterranean port of France, is ringed by mountains, and for generations the high ground to the east has been claimed by the Catholic basilica of Notre Dame de la Garde.There, since 1864, a gilded Madonna has sho...
15 years ago the French city of Marseille approved a giant mosque on one of the western hilltops as a symbol of approbation and integration. It remains unbuilt.
It’s been a shoe that had yet to drop.The praise for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical phenomenon has been resoundingly unanimous. There are already plans for a touring production, one in London plus a sit-down production in San Francisco. Miranda has ...
The year of universal praise for the play “Hamilton” was not meant to last, as those who make a career of finding racial flaws were biding their time.
On Friday, William and Kate were pictured looking young and attractive, and (unusually for public images) very in love, going for a mountain trek in casual clothes in Bhutan. Kate also wore a stunning red poppy-design dress for an official functio...
In India and Bhutan William and Kate have hiked, partied, and vitsted under-privileged children. The trip also had a barely-hidden political purpose.
The Hellenistic period inspired awe in works both big and small.That feeling of constant wonder can be found at a massive new exhibition five years in the making at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancien...
A major new Met exhibit shows the breadth and richness of Hellenistic art. Prepare for gold-plated head-dresses, and two meter-tall vases.
PJTV.com—the right-wing online television outlet named for bedtime clothing and funded by a reclusive Los Angeles tech billionaire—is shutting down after nearly eight rocky years, unable to figure out how to monetize ideological video on the Web.T...
After nearly eight years, Aubrey Chernick’s PJTV has died, unable to figure out how to monetize ideological video on the Web.
New film focuses on adventurers committed to pitching in where they play.
Lip augmentation is now the second-fastest growing facial surgery in the U.S.
A Korean War veteran, homeless and with no family, was given a hero’s memorial service.
Hillary Clinton is expected to win New York’s Democratic primary tomorrow, but who will win the dog vote? We went to the city’s dog parks to find out.
When horrifying meets fascinating.
“Permission to buzz the tower?”
A new Shanghai law enables parents to sue their kids if they don’t visit enough.
Researchers have found a link between sexism in video games and actual sexism.
President Obama has early access to the show’s sixth season.
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