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PEAS IN A POD
Roger Ailes to Advise Trump
For the presidential debates.
DISAPPEARED
El Chapo's Son ‘Abducted’ at Resort
Mexican authorities say.
SAYONARA
Depp Settles Divorce for $7 Million
Amber Heard withdraws restraining order request.
NEW FRONT
Russia Bombs Syrian Militants From Iran
For the first time.
GROSS
Shaun White Sued for Sexual Harassment
By his band's female drummer.
CONVICTED
Cleric Guilty of Inviting ISIS Support
Anjem Choudary.
JUSTICE
NYC to Pay Akai Gurley’s Family $4.1M
For shooting death in dark Brooklyn stairwell.
WHY?
Double Murder Suspect Ate Victim's Face
Officials found the suspect in the act.
REALITY
NBC Boss: Trump Is ‘Toxic,’ ‘Demented’
Ripped him on Facebook.
BACKING OUT
Aetna to Leave Most Obamacare States
Will stay in only four.
Keep ReadingThe host of ‘The Nightly Show’ addressed its cancellation on Monday night, and reiterated how proud he was of how they’ve conducted themselves throughout this crazy election.
Wilmore: ‘Unblackening’ Happened to Me
Keep ReadingThe pop prince, after receiving a tidal wave of harassment and abuse, has chosen to delete his Instagram account. #RIPBeliebers.
Justin Bieber Forced Off Instagram
Keep ReadingAt these New York restaurants, there is a very good chance that the person who waits on you will be the best dressed man in the dining room.
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Why Blacks Really, Really Loathe Trump
Why Blacks Really, Really Loathe Trump
There is almost no group left that Donald Trump hasn’t offended: Muslims, babies, women, Gold Star families, and of course Hispanics. Yet there is one group that despises Donald Trump more than any other: black Americans.At an average of just 2 pe...
The Republican nominee is no David Duke—since at least David Duke says what he means, while Trump just dog whistles.
Useful Idiots: Lefties Enabling Trump
Useful Idiots: Lefties Enabling Trump
In this weirdest year, there may be no weirder phenomenon than the rise of the progressive Donald Trump supporter.There exist two broad species of this political genus. First are the radical instrumentalists who see the Republican nominee as a nox...
The Republican nominee’s words are music to the ears of progressives averse to the Democratic nominee’s support for the U.S.-led liberal world order.
Is Hil Guilty of Pay-to-Play Politics?
Is Hil Guilty of Pay-to-Play Politics?
By Linda Qiu and Katie SandersRepublican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence lamented the “pay-to-play” politics of Hillary Clinton’s State Department on Sunday, pointing to newly released emails among State Department staffers and Clinton Founda...
Did Clinton Foundation donors really benefit from her State Department term, as Trump running mate Mike Pence and campaign manager Paul Manafort claimed Sunday?
Trump Becomes Sunday Show Whipping Boy
Trump Becomes Sunday Show Whipping Boy
Sen. Jeff Sessions seemed exasperated from the get-go during an interview on This Week on Sunday morning. “You’ve had this whole morning talking about nothing but negative on the Trump campaign,” he said to host Martha Raddatz, when asked to respo...
After a week in which Donald Trump managed somehow to continue to shock, some top Republicans piled on.
Hillary to Trump: I Pay Taxes, Do You?
Hillary to Trump: I Pay Taxes, Do You?
Hillary Clinton made a lot of money last year as did her husband, former President Bill Clinton, according to their 2015 tax return released Friday. But the release wasn’t about their federal tax rate of 34.2 percent or the fact they made $10.6 ...
The couple is nowhere as rich as the Republican nominee, but they’re much more transparent about their finances.
Entertainment
The ‘Unblackening’ of Late Night
The ‘Unblackening’ of Late Night
Late-night TV is experiencing, in Larry Wilmore’s own words, an Unblackening.Comedy Central announced Monday that, with just 12 weeks to go before the presidential election, the network is canceling The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore, with the fi...
What Comedy Central’s cancellation of ‘The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore’ could mean for the future of diversity in late night. (Hint: It’s certainly not good!)
The Get Down’s Black Lives Matter Moment
The Get Down’s Black Lives Matter Moment
The first few episodes of Baz Luhrmann’s new Netflix series The Get Down are nothing if not polarizing. A scan of reactions surface passionate swoons as often as distaste that borders on disgust. But, regardless of reception, one thing that can’t ...
Baz Luhrmann’s new Netflix series is certainly messy. But if there’s one thing it does powerfully, it’s connect struggles of the past to battles still being fought today.
John Oliver: Trump’s Campaign Cratering
John Oliver: Trump’s Campaign Cratering
Donald Trump should’ve been able to turn his campaign around this week. Released State Department emails revealed that Hillary Clinton provided meetings—and possibly even pay-to-play State Department positions—to prominent Clinton Foundation donor...
‘This was the 53rd consecutive week he was going to put his campaign back on track,’ joked the ‘Last Week Tonight’ host. It didn’t happen.
Selena Gomez Accuses Bieber of Cheating
Selena Gomez Accuses Bieber of Cheating
Selena Gomez just clapped back at her ex big-time—even more so than when she admitted to making the CK-lovin’ Canadian cry on Letterman. The pop star posted a comment under a Justin Bieber Instagram photo that reads, “Funny how the ones that ch...
The pop princess has entered the arena in the war of words between Beliebers and their Pop God, accusing her ex-boyfriend of being unfaithful.
Beliebers Revolt Against Bieber
Beliebers Revolt Against Bieber
Beliebers, like any online fan army, are a very passionate bunch. But late Saturday night, many of these acolytes of Justin Bieber, the chiseled and oft-naked Canadian pop icon, appeared to renounce their deity.It began innocently enough. You see,...
The #RIPBeliebers became a top trending topic on Twitter after the pop star criticized his fans for harassing his rumored girlfriend, model Sofia Richie (daughter of Lionel).
Donald Trump IS Lex Luthor
Donald Trump IS Lex Luthor
UPDATE 8/15/16: This article has been updated with comment from Man of Steel writer John Byrne.The self-destructing vortex of orange-tinted lunacy known as Donald Trump has earned apt comparisons to a cartoon villain since the nascent days of his ...
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
The Best Steakhouse Singer in America
The Best Steakhouse Singer in America
With a voice compared to Joe Cocker and a smoothness on par with Michael McDonald, Tim Hockenberry could play and sing just about anywhere.But instead of Vegas, instead of Nashville, and instead of his old haunts around San Francisco, you’ll find ...
Tim Hockenberry has had a long and fruitful career as a musician, but after being made famous by reality TV, he's set up shop down South.
World News
How the Spanish ‘Pope’ Lost His Faith
How the Spanish ‘Pope’ Lost His Faith
ORENSE, Spain — She was called Nieves, and he, Gregorio. They fell in love in torrid, romantic Andalusia. She had had her eye on him, it was said, since they were teenagers and she was an aspiring nun. Now he was 56 and they could confess their mu...
The ex-pontiff says his crypto-Fascist church (which made Franco a saint) was only ever intended, really, to bring its leaders sex and money.
Drug King Ran Cartel to Save Daughter
Drug King Ran Cartel to Save Daughter
The roughest area of Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, the largest favela in Brazil, is almost at the very top. Rua Um, Road One, is where Lulu has his office. Lulu is Dono do Morro, King of the Hill, head of the local drugs trade and political boss of t...
Antônio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, or as he was better known, Nem, ran Rio de Janeiro’s most powerful cartel until it all came screeching to a halt.
She Kept Uranium Out of the Nazis’ Hands
She Kept Uranium Out of the Nazis’ Hands
In August 1939 Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt, warning of the potential of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime to use uranium to develop an atomic bomb. “The most important source of uranium,” he added, was in Africa—in the...
Shirley Chidsey’s love of travel and adventure helped land her in the Congo during World War II, when as an OSS operative she helped the U.S. hoard precious uranium.
Brazil Finally Embraces The Games
Brazil Finally Embraces The Games
Earlier this month, Sylvia Berutti, an insurance saleswoman in Rio, had her doubts about the globe’s eyes on her country as her city prepared for the Olympics. She worried about terrorism. She felt ashamed about the endless news reports about Braz...
Despite the corruption, the polluted water and the terrorism fears, Brazilians are finally loving the fact that the Games came to Rio.
He Predicted Today’s Greece in 388 B.C.
He Predicted Today’s Greece in 388 B.C.
ATHENS — In a neighborhood of shuttered shops and crumbling 19th century buildings less than a mile from the Acropolis, someone has scrawled a graffito on the side of a downtown building here: “No Public Toilets, Mr. Mayor!” Most of the nearby gra...
Greece’s economic collapse and social disarray make the country ripe for satire, which helps explain why a centuries-old comedy by Aristophanes is a big hit there this summer.
The 10 Best Books About the Olympics
The 10 Best Books About the Olympics
The Olympic’s relationship to literature did not get off to an auspicious start. Baron de Coubertin had long believed that sport was not antithetical to the arts, but a distinct and important component of a society’s cultural life. It therefore se...
Tucked away in the vast library of mediocre books about the Olympics are some real gems. Olympic historian David Goldblatt surveys the field and picks the gold.
U.S.
How Senior Citizens Almost Stole Nukes
How Senior Citizens Almost Stole Nukes
In 2013, a Vietnam veteran named Michael Walli and two other nonviolent activists went on trial for breaking into the Y-12 National Security Complex, a nuclear weapons site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, that has been nicknamed “the Fort Knox of Uranium...
Author Dan Zak talks about the strange case of three elderly activists who easily broke into ‘the Fort Knox of Uranium’ in 2012.
Jon Stewart’s Retirement Lessons
Jon Stewart’s Retirement Lessons
Your correspondent Mr. Nale made a business trip last week to Acton, California, to interview a pig. Your other correspondent is not as young as he used to be and stayed home—missing not only the pig but a goat, two friendly cows, one cow that was...
Lessons on leaving—and staying gone—for newsies and other animals.
How General Motors Saved Rosa Parks
How General Motors Saved Rosa Parks
On the evening of August 30, 1994, a young drug addict broke down the rear door of a home in central Detroit. Back then, during the peak of the Great American Crime Wave, such a story was depressingly familiar. Crime was so ubiquitous, such burgla...
In 1994 Civil Rights legend Rosa Parks had her house broken into and robbed. Then, without any publicity, the car giant stepped in to help.
The Man Who Created Modern War
The Man Who Created Modern War
“I am going into the very bowels of the Confederacy,” wrote William Tecumseh Sherman early in 1864 to his superiors in the Union command, “and will leave a trail that will be recognized fifty years hence.” It seemed at the time a rather over-the-t...
Gen. William Sherman waged war on the Confederate army and civilians alike, hastening the end of the Civil War but ensuring that he would be reviled by Southerners to this day.
Trump Judge: ‘No Right to Remain Silent’
Trump Judge: ‘No Right to Remain Silent’
Lost in the furor surrounding Donald Trump’s remark that “Second Amendment people” might be able to do something about Hillary Clinton was the ad-lib’s context: Trump was talking about appointing judges and justices.Just a few sentences after the ...
Lost in the “Second Amendment people” controversy was Trump’s point about Supreme Court justices. The one he wants is truly radical.
Tech + Health
3-D Printed Guns Could Crush Gun Control
3-D Printed Guns Could Crush Gun Control
Legislators can pass bills for things like universal background checks and the “no fly, no buy” rule, but those policies target if someone can purchase a gun. Things become a lot more complicated when citizens can make their own guns at home—and t...
As the technology becomes cheaper and more widely available, tackling 3-D printed guns is going to be a massive challenge.
Jesus Wants Me to Smoke This Joint
Jesus Wants Me to Smoke This Joint
When Rhode Island State Police arrived to arrest 46-year-old Alan Gordon for growing pot, he was on the toilet. The armed officers, startled, subbed out the typical “put your hands above your head” for a more relevant directive: “wash them.” Accor...
One Rhode Island group claims that when they’re lighting up a joint, it’s for religious reasons. Are they genuinely devout, or do they just want to get high?
Your Kids Are Better Behaved Than You
Your Kids Are Better Behaved Than You
There’s something terribly wrong with kids these days: a series of major surveys, conducted by the government every two years, suggest that they might just be the most well-behaved generation in recent memory.Teens are increasingly swearing off al...
Hard-partying Baby Boomer parents are more tolerant of drugs and alcohol, and their liberal attitudes may be paying off in an unexpected way.
The Original Internet Abuse Story
The Original Internet Abuse Story
In 1993, a sexual assault rocked the online community known as Lambda MOO, a chat room and virtual world populated by early adopters to the internet. Using a virtual voodoo doll, a user known as “Mr. Bungle” forced simulated sex acts on another co...
A conversation with former journalist Julian Dibbell about his game-changing article and the internet 20 years later.
Drink This Beer After Working Out
Drink This Beer After Working Out
By Samantha Lefave, Life by Daily Burn Whether you’re into stouts, IPAs, or sours, the concept of downing beer after your workout isn’t new. Social sports leagues have been doing it for years—just for the pure enjoyment of it. Plus, a 2013 study f...
A mango-flavored, protein-fortified IPA sounds way better than a clumpy protein shake.
How Russia Dominates Your Twitter
How Russia Dominates Your Twitter
“Ladies and Gentlemen, We have a situation in #Turkey #Incirlik” the cry went out on Twitter last Saturday night, as news spread of the Turkish forces surrounding the U.S. airbase in Incirlik.Thousands of armed police had reportedly surrounded the...
Fake news stories from Kremlin propagandists regularly become social media trends. Here’s how Moscow does it… and what it means for America’s election 2016.
Smart Drugs Made Me Dumber
Smart Drugs Made Me Dumber
Why can’t an overworked, overstimulated, pharmaceutically-obsessed society just come up with the perfect chemical supplement to make us smarter, faster, and more engaged in today’s accelerated world? One without the self-destructive trade-offs lik...
After a hero dose of nootropic drugs, I was anything but bulletproof.
Arts + Culture
Trump Dresses Like a Spoiled Rich Kid
Trump Dresses Like a Spoiled Rich Kid
Throughout our current election cycle, the ideas and opinions of Donald Trump have been examined, analyzed, and argued about constantly. However, what hasn’t been talked about so often is his style. I believe that the way a man dresses says a lot ...
The clothes the GOP candidate wears tells us all we need to know about a man whose idea of dressing well extends no further than how expensive his clothes are.
The True Secret To Staying Young
The True Secret To Staying Young
After the age of 21, your body slowly stops releasing an important hormone known as HGH (Human Growth Hormone), which covers everything from gray hair to sex. It’s all downhill from there—that’s all I have to say.When I was recently invited to spe...
To remain engaged and excited by reading, writing, and by life itself, says a seasoned novelist, we must constantly seek to discover the new, to engage the unknown.
A Tale of Two Sex Assaults
A Tale of Two Sex Assaults
This week, news that a former University of Colorado student will not spend time in prison despite being convicted of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman seemed to echo the Brock Turner case at Stanford.On the surface, it seemed like another ...
The lenient sentence given to a University of Colorado student for sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman mirrors the case of ex-Stanford swimmer Brock Turner.
He Was Princess Di’s Bodyguard
He Was Princess Di’s Bodyguard
In the 15 years since he first published his account of being Princess Diana’s bodyguard, Diana; Closely Guarded Secret, former royal protection squad police officer Ken Wharfe, Princess Diana’s bodyguard, has been called many things.A traitor, a ...
Her break-up with Charles, the affairs… For a second time, Ken Wharfe is spilling his secrets about working for Princess Diana.
How the Beach Boys Invented Surf Style
How the Beach Boys Invented Surf Style
From Spicoli’s burner cool to every buff, bronzed, board bro character trope, California’s surf culture is as burned into pop culture as blond highlights are in sun and salt bleached hair. While wave riding itself has been happening for thousands ...
The Beach Boys introduced sunny Southern California’s aesthetic to pop culture, helping to make baggies and Woodies and surfing look and sound hip even in Kansas.
HuffPost’s Namesake Quits Her Brand
HuffPost’s Namesake Quits Her Brand
In an announcement that took employees and business associates alike by surprise, digital media entrepreneur and sleep guru Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington abruptly resigned Thursday morning as editor in chief of The Huffington Post, her eponymo...
Arianna Huffington resigned Thursday morning as editor in chief of The Huffington Post. Next stop: monetizing the land of nod.
How 1,000 Singers United New York
How 1,000 Singers United New York
One of the largest choral events in Lincoln Center history will take place on Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza on Saturday, Aug. 13 at 5 p.m.A thousand volunteer singers from around New York City, crowd-sourced from an online campaign, will ...
This weekend’s ‘Public Domain’ will bring together 1,000 volunteer singers from around New York City, crowd-sourced from an online campaign, to participate in a choral event whose ly...
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