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Penn. AG Guilty on All Charges
Convicted in perjury case.
DOG WHISTLE
Trump: Hillary Is Too Sick to Fight ISIS
She lacks "mental and physical stamina."
Bad Deeds
CA Man Charged With Arson for Clayton...
Accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed 175 homes.
Tragic
At Least 33 Killed in Nepal Bus Crash
Were heading to collect payouts for victims of last year's earthquake.
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Milwaukee Imposes 10PM Curfew
After second night of violence.
LIGHTS OFF
Larry Wilmore’s Show Canceled
Didn’t “resonate” with audience.
DEVELOPING
Gunmen Abduct Group at Mexican Resort
Media reports of up to 16.
INHUMANE
Airstrike Hits Yemen Hospital
Doctors Without Borders facility struck.
From Bad to Worse
LA Flooding Death Toll Climbs to 9
Authorities now fear Zika will strike the flood-devastated areas.
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.
Larry Wilmore: This Is the End
Keep ReadingBaz 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.
The Get Down’s Black Lives Matter Moment
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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.
Why Debates Will Decide the Election
Why Debates Will Decide the Election
Barring some unforeseen event, such as a serious terrorist attack at home, the decisive event that will determine who wins the 2016 presidential election is almost certainly going to be the series of debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trum...
Beginning with the televised debate between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon, the perceived winner of the presidential debates has gone on to occupy the White House.
Trump Echoes Russians, Crazies on ISIS
Trump Echoes Russians, Crazies on ISIS
If Donald Trump were actively trying to elect Hillary Clinton, would he be conducting himself any differently?On Wednesday, the Republican nominee took a break from suggesting Clinton should be assassinated and calling her “the devil” to focus his...
Trump’s charge that Obama and Hillary Clinton co-founded ISIS would sound familiar if you lived in the Kremlin or in a bunker in your backyard.
Entertainment
‘Cats’ Is Back and It’s Irresistible
‘Cats’ Is Back and It’s Irresistible
It could be the early 1980s all over again, the time when, as a young, country-living boy, I was taken by my parents to see Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats in London.The revolving stage—an innovation I remember being dazzled and gobsmacked over—was ama...
It feels resolutely ’80s, and it has no strong plot, but the magic of Mr. Mistoffelees and ‘Memory’ still makes Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical a winner with audiences.
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.
TV’s Most Lovable Toothless Geek
TV’s Most Lovable Toothless Geek
Stranger Things, Netflix’s buzziest binge hit of the summer, has a lot going for it: the cool-girl majesty of Winona Ryder, a Tumblr crushworthy turn from David Harbour, a terrific new talent in Millie Bobby Brown, and a palpable, nerdy enthusiasm...
The best thing about Netflix’s sci-fi hit is the sweet, hilarious Dustin. Here young Gaten Matarazzo talks on-set antics and how his cleidocranial dysplasia is inspiring real-life kids.
How I Got to Carnegie Hall
How I Got to Carnegie Hall
Getting to Carnegie Hall, the old joke goes, takes practice, practice, practice. Or: You can be invited to take a once-in-a-lifetime bow on the most famous stage in New York City by a movie studio promoting the Meryl Streep period biopic Florence ...
The Daily Beast’s singing sensation Jen Yamato on how she made it all the way to the Carnegie Hall stage. Eat your heart out, Florence Foster Jenkins.
De Niro on Trump: ‘God Help Us’
De Niro on Trump: ‘God Help Us’
Robert De Niro on Saturday told a Sarajevo audience that America’s Republican nominee Donald Trump is “totally nuts.” Speaking as part of a presentation of the digital version of the film Taxi Driver, De Niro expressed confusion that Trump had man...
Says GOP nominee is ‘totally nuts.’
World News
Why Vets Come Home And Miss the War
Why Vets Come Home And Miss the War
Sebastian Junger says Tribe is his last book about war. As last words go, it’s a good way to end, as this particular monograph may end up shaping—and changing—how the current generation of troops feels about combat and coming home. “Why is it tha...
Veterans returning home from recent tours have found themselves feeling out of sync with society, and journalist Sebastian Junger thinks he knows why.
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.
Allyson Felix in the Rio 2016 Olympic...
Allyson Felix in the Rio 2016 Olympic...
Allyson Felix, who will compete for Team USA in the 2016 Rio Olympics, isn’t just one of the most impressive female athletes of the decade—she’s one of the most impressive athletes, period.Felix, 30, has won more world championship gold medals tha...
After being sidelined by an ankle injury and failing to qualify for the 200-meter race by 0.01 seconds, Allyson Felix prepares to do her best to win at least one gold in the 2016 Rio...
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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.
Russians Suspected of Hacking GOP
Russians Suspected of Hacking GOP
For weeks, Democratic politicians have been bracing for the release of more embarrassing emails that U.S. officials believe were stolen by Russian hackers and then handed over to WikiLeaks.But Republicans have reason to worry, too. Computer securi...
Cybersecurity experts have linked one of the groups that stole emails from the DNC to a campaign against lawmakers and officials, including John McCain.
The DEA Just Blew It on Pot
The DEA Just Blew It on Pot
The Drug Enforcement Administration teased an “announcement” about the classification of marijuana today at 11 a.m., an uncharacteristically transparent move for the tight-lipped agency. But hopes of change were quickly vanquished as an old famili...
The federal government had a big chance, but wouldn’t budge on moving marijuana away from Schedule I. It did, however, bend a bit on research.
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.
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 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.
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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