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    Leaked Bannon emails

    Trump’s Chief Called GOP Leaders ‘C**ts’

    Trump’s Chief Called GOP Leaders ‘C**ts’

    Donald Trump’s new campaign boss—the guy white supremacists are so excited about—once described D.C.’s top Republicans as “cunts.”Stephen Bannon, the Trump campaign’s new chief executive as of  Wednesday, used the phrase two years ago in emails wi...

    Steve Bannon had some strong feelings about Republican leadership in Congress two years ago, which may complicate any further campaign charm offensives on Capitol Hill.

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    Paul Manafort, campaign manager for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, appears on the floor during the last night of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio on July 21, 2016.  The GOP ends their convention tonight with Donald Trump accepting the Republican nomination for president of the United States.

    Manafort Thrown From Trump Crazy Train

    Manafort Thrown From Trump Crazy Train

    In the end, a 48-hour period in August may be remembered as the moment that Donald Trump stopped trying to win the presidency.On Wednesday, Trump announced that he had hired as the “CEO” of his campaign Steve Bannon, the chief executive of Breitba...

    By the time Donald Trump brought in Steve Bannon, Paul Manafort was already dead.

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    Breitbart Editor Milo Yiannopoulos Takes $100,000 for Charity, Gives $0

    Breitbart Star’s White Charity Gives $0

    Breitbart Star’s White Charity Gives $0

    Months after he was supposed to give away more than $100,000 for college scholarships, Milo Yiannopoulos says all of the money is still sitting in his bank account.The Breitbart editor and professional political agitator (recently banned from Twit...

    Alt-right icon Milo Yiannopoulos promised in January he'd give scholarships to white men this year, but he still hasn’t filed with the IRS or handed out a penny.

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    Leaked Bannon emails

    Trump’s Chief Called GOP Leaders ‘C**ts’

    Trump’s Chief Called GOP Leaders ‘C**ts’

    Donald Trump’s new campaign boss—the guy white supremacists are so excited about—once described D.C.’s top Republicans as “cunts.”Stephen Bannon, the Trump campaign’s new chief executive as of  Wednesday, used the phrase two years ago in emails wi...

    Steve Bannon had some strong feelings about Republican leadership in Congress two years ago, which may complicate any further campaign charm offensives on Capitol Hill.

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    Trump Wants to Keep Out Doctors

    Trump Wants to Bar Doctors From America

    Trump Wants to Bar Doctors From America

    Everybody is worked up about “extreme vetting,” and that’s fine, there’s a lot to be worked up about in the idea of a loyalty oath for all immigrants. Law professor Jonathan Turley did a good job of running through the history and the debate the o...

    The Republican presidential nominee can’t seem to tell the difference between terrorists, refugees, and normal visa seekers.

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    People pose for selfies with a naked statue of U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that was left in Union Square Park in New York City, U.S. August 18, 2016.

    Meet the Man Who Stripped Trump Naked

    Meet the Man Who Stripped Trump Naked

    Residents in five neighborhoods of New York City, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Cleveland awoke to discover a life-sized, naked Donald Trump statue in their midst.The five identical statues were erected simultaneously at around 8 a.m. E...

    Joshua Monroe, the artist behind five headline-attracting, ball-less statues that appeared in American cities Thursday, reveals he was planning to vote Trump.

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    Tony Robbins Interview

    Tony Robbins Assesses the 2016 Election

    Tony Robbins Assesses the 2016 Election

    Tony Robbins has the firmest handshake I’ve ever experienced. The towering, impeccably tan life expert is sitting across from me at a hotel bar in Midtown Manhattan to discuss his new Netflix documentary, Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru—a chronic...

    The self-help king sat down with Marlow Stern to discuss Trump vs. Hillary, both of whom he’s consulted with, as well as how men have become more “feminine.”

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    Idiocracy

    Fox Killed Anti-Trump ‘Idiocracy’ Ads

    Fox Killed Anti-Trump ‘Idiocracy’ Ads

    Back in February, screenwriter Etan Cohen (not to be confused with Ethan Cohen), who’s written the celebrated comedy offerings King of the Hill, Idiocracy, and Tropic Thunder, fired off a tweet in reference to the political rise of former reality ...

    The filmmaker behind the futuristic satire and creator of HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ dishes on why the election season ads he’s been cooking up are ‘not going to happen.’

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    Her Story

    Give This Indie Trans Romance the Emmy

    Give This Indie Trans Romance the Emmy

    Chances are you have never been harassed in a public restroom, detained at an airport, or denied medical care because of your gender. But you probably have fallen in love. That’s what executive producer Kate Fisher was counting on when she and her...

    The web series ‘Her Story’ has earned praise not only for casting trans actors in trans roles but for acknowledging the beauty they bring into their friends’ and partners’ lives.

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    Stewart and Wilmore

    Jon Stewart Sends Off Larry Wilmore

    Jon Stewart Sends Off Larry Wilmore

    Back when The Nightly Show was still called Minority Report, Jon Stewart had an idealistic idea of what Larry Wilmore’s late-night show could become. The show would be “a comedic look at news, current events and pop culture from unique perspective...

    ‘Nightly Show’ producer Jon Stewart helped say goodbye to Larry Wilmore on his final night as a late-night host.

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    Idiocracy

    Fox Killed Anti-Trump ‘Idiocracy’ Ads

    Fox Killed Anti-Trump ‘Idiocracy’ Ads

    Back in February, screenwriter Etan Cohen (not to be confused with Ethan Cohen), who’s written the celebrated comedy offerings King of the Hill, Idiocracy, and Tropic Thunder, fired off a tweet in reference to the political rise of former reality ...

    The filmmaker behind the futuristic satire and creator of HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ dishes on why the election season ads he’s been cooking up are ‘not going to happen.’

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    Schumer: Kurt Metzger Is ‘The Problem’

    Schumer: Kurt Metzger Is ‘The Problem’

    Comedian Amy Schumer probably wanted to be talking about her new book, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, with Charlie Rose in an episode of his talk show set to air on Friday. But instead, she had to spend time both defending and condemning fel...

    Amy Schumer speaks out about her relationship with comedian and ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ writer Kurt Metzger, who got in hot water for defending an accused serial rapist.

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    'Inside Amy Schumer' writer Kurt Metzger's history of misogyny

    Amy Schumer Condemns Rape Bro-pologist

    Amy Schumer Condemns Rape Bro-pologist

    Last week, multiple women came forward with allegations of sexual assault and harassment against New York comedian Aaron Glaser. Their testimonies launched an internal Upright Citizen’s Brigade investigation that resulted in a permanent ban for Gl...

    Former ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ writer Kurt Metzger is under fire for his trollish, misogynistic rants. Schumer distanced herself from his ‘recent’ behavior—but this goes a long way back.

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    Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during the 2016 Republican Jewish Coalition Presidential Candidates Forum in Washington, DC, December 3, 2015. AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB / AFP / SAUL LOEB        (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

    Trump Is ‘Futurama’s’ Zapp Brannigan

    Trump Is ‘Futurama’s’ Zapp Brannigan

    The internet asked for the voice actor behind Futurama’s Zapp Brannigan to recite a bunch of Donald Trump quotes in the voice of Captain Brannigan, and that’s exactly what the internet got during this chaotic election.In recent months, politically...

    The voice of ‘Futurama’s’ vain, misogynistic, and clueless warmonger has transformed his iconic character into Trump.

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    Schumer: Kurt Metzger Is ‘The Problem’

    Schumer: Kurt Metzger Is ‘The Problem’

    Comedian Amy Schumer probably wanted to be talking about her new book, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, with Charlie Rose in an episode of his talk show set to air on Friday. But instead, she had to spend time both defending and condemning fel...

    Amy Schumer speaks out about her relationship with comedian and ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ writer Kurt Metzger, who got in hot water for defending an accused serial rapist.

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    World News

    Catholic Nuns and Burquini

    Where’s the Outrage Over Nun Beachwear?

    Where’s the Outrage Over Nun Beachwear?

    SABAUDIA, Italy — Go to any public beach in Italy and chances are you’ll eventually see a woman wearing a veil and long skirt. But she likely won’t be a Muslim in a version of the controversial burqini. She will almost certainly be a Catholic nun ...

    While the French are banning Muslims in burqinis, Italian Catholic bishops find it ironic there’s alarm when a woman is “overdressed while swimming in the sea!”

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    How Karl May's Wild West potboilers inspired Hitler

    The Cowboy Novels That Obsessed Hitler

    The Cowboy Novels That Obsessed Hitler

    The aura of Indian names—Massachusetts, Monangahela, Arapahoe County, Mississippi, Minnesota—hangs over America, even after the indigenous people are often gone. A Founding Amnesia has long erased the stories of Native Americans in history texts a...

    The adventure stories of Karl May set in the American Southwest have charmed millions of Germans, but especially Hitler, who patterned Nazi policies on their plots.

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    2016 Rio Olympics - Soccer - Semifinal - Men's Football Tournament Semifinal Nigeria v Germany - Corinthians Arena - Sao Paulo, Brazil - 17/08/2016. Lukas Klostermann (GER) of Germany scores past goalkeeper Emmanuel Daniel (NGR) of Nigeria during the first half. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker  TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.   - RTX2LLV6

    Watch Brazil Go For Their First Ever ...

    Watch Brazil Go For Their First Ever ...

    Brazil men’s soccer team has never won Olympic gold. This year’s team, led by Neymar—widely considered one of the world’s top players—is just one step away from claiming the gold at home in Rio.Currently ranked ninth by FIFA, the Brazilian nationa...

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    Prostitutes get ready for work in a brothel in Cartagena, Colombia, April 25, 2012. Cartagenans are perplexed over the recent sex scandal surrounding U.S. Secret Service agents and military personnel, but are also feeling anger and wounded national pride over their behavior. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)

    The Epic Downfall of Medellin’s Top Pimp

    The Epic Downfall of Medellin’s Top Pimp

    American tourists visiting Medellín knew him as “Colombia Jake,” the friendly local American guide who made sure they had a good time. He could fix them up with an apartment, rent them a motorbike, or arrange for them a “Pablo Escobar tour,” visit...

    Prostitution is legal in Pablo Escobar’s old hometown, but pimping is not—and according to police Colombia Jake was pimping little girls.

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    How Karl May's Wild West potboilers inspired Hitler

    The Cowboy Novels That Obsessed Hitler

    The Cowboy Novels That Obsessed Hitler

    The aura of Indian names—Massachusetts, Monangahela, Arapahoe County, Mississippi, Minnesota—hangs over America, even after the indigenous people are often gone. A Founding Amnesia has long erased the stories of Native Americans in history texts a...

    The adventure stories of Karl May set in the American Southwest have charmed millions of Germans, but especially Hitler, who patterned Nazi policies on their plots.

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    Women's Uneven Bars Final - Rio Olympic Arena - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 14/08/2016. Gabrielle Douglas (USA) of USA (Gabby Douglas) competes.  R

    Why We Love Gabby Douglas

    Why We Love Gabby Douglas

    Gold-medal gymnast Gabby Douglas had had a rough few days. She finished seventh out of eight competitors on the uneven bars last week, and online bullies attacked over almost everything she did. She was criticized for not putting her hand over her...

    Gold-medal gymnast Gabby Douglas endured trial after trial during the Rio Games—and now she’s got a powerful message for young girls: ‘Be strong and have a strong mind.’

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    Cloak & Dagger / HP Hed: The Spy Who Tried to Expose the Nazis

    The Spy Who Broke Into Polish Ghettos

    The Spy Who Broke Into Polish Ghettos

    In the summer of 1942, Jan Karski, a 28-year-old courier for the Polish underground, was instructed to undertake an extremely dangerous mission: a trip across Nazi-occupied Europe to London, where, with the help of the Polish government-in-exile t...

    Jan Karski was a courier for the Polish underground determined to bring evidence of Nazi inhumanity—but the West wasn’t ready to listen.

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    Neymar of Brazil controls the ball during the Semi Final match between Brazil and Honduras at Maracana Stadium on August 17, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    How Local Fans Cheer on Brazilian Soccer

    How Local Fans Cheer on Brazilian Soccer

    For three hours on Wednesday afternoon, Rio’s Copacabana beach was empty. It was lunchtime, and everybody (even the cops) was watching Brazil trounce Honduras 6-0 in the Olympic semifinals in soccer.Soccer is, of course, one of Brazil’s national o...

    The streets of Rio will be empty on Saturday as Brazil watches its soccer team face off against Germany in the gold medal match—and viewers won’t be able to relax until the referee b...

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    Why We Love Gabby Douglas

    Why We Love Gabby Douglas

    Gold-medal gymnast Gabby Douglas had had a rough few days. She finished seventh out of eight competitors on the uneven bars last week, and online bullies attacked over almost everything she did. She was criticized for not putting her hand over her...

    Gold-medal gymnast Gabby Douglas endured trial after trial during the Rio Games—and now she’s got a powerful message for young girls: ‘Be strong and have a strong mind.’

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    U.S.

    Jonathan Daniels: The Forgotten Civil Rights Preacher Killed by Cops in Alabama

    No Punishment for Preacher-Killing Cop

    No Punishment for Preacher-Killing Cop

    The murder in cold blood and in broad daylight of a religious leader is horrifying enough. Especially in America, we associate our preachers with words not swords and expect them to be immune from violence. But merely a half-century ago, someone c...

    In 1965 Alabama, Episcopal seminarian Jonathan Daniels was gunned down while trying to buy a Coke with two black girls. The cop who shot him was acquitted.

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    Troy Lukuette (L) and Cayde Lukuette fill sand bags as a response to flood waters in St. Amant, Louisiana, U.S., August 15, 2016.  REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman   - RTX2L0BZ

    Everyday Heroes of the Louisiana Flood

    Everyday Heroes of the Louisiana Flood

    NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Sanders Davis of Baton Rouge saw the Great Flood of 2016 up close and personal last week.Davis, 25, lives in the Sherwood Forest subdivision, a leafy, standard-issue middle class enclave that lies east of the 27-story Capi...

    Teachers, stagehands, and countless others are helping the state recover when it almost seems like no one else will.

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    Usain Bolt (JAM) of Jamaica tears off his number tags from his shorts and throws them to the ground after winning the gold.

    How to Watch Usain Bolt’s Last Olympi...

    How to Watch Usain Bolt’s Last Olympi...

    Tonight we might be saying goodbye to both the fastest man on earth and to one of the most impressive female track-and-field athletes of all time.Usain Bolt, the 29-year-old Jamaican sprinting all-star, announced his intention to retire after the ...

    How to watch Usain Bolt and Allyson Felix in the 4x100m relays on Friday night.

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    Jonathan Daniels: The Forgotten Civil Rights Preacher Killed by Cops in Alabama

    No Punishment for Preacher-Killing Cop

    No Punishment for Preacher-Killing Cop

    The murder in cold blood and in broad daylight of a religious leader is horrifying enough. Especially in America, we associate our preachers with words not swords and expect them to be immune from violence. But merely a half-century ago, someone c...

    In 1965 Alabama, Episcopal seminarian Jonathan Daniels was gunned down while trying to buy a Coke with two black girls. The cop who shot him was acquitted.

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    Torpedoman Mate 3rd Class Matt Bissonnette member from Navy Seal Team 5, San Diego, Calif., scans the area as they practice a beach incursion during Northern Edge 2001.

    Bin Laden SEAL Wins War With Pentagon

    Bin Laden SEAL Wins War With Pentagon

    Four years after a former Navy SEAL was threatened with prison for writing about the Osama bin Laden raid, the Pentagon has dropped its claim that Matt Bissonnette revealed secrets harmful to national security.Bissonnette, who wrote No Easy Day un...

    Matt Bissonnette's book on the famous raid was called a national security threat and he was threatened with prison. Now he's being forced to pay almost $7 million to the feds.

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    Ryan Lochte

    Ryan Lochte’s Mom Isn’t Helping

    Ryan Lochte’s Mom Isn’t Helping

    First Ryan Lochte said he and his Olympic teammates had been robbed at gunpoint in Rio. Then Rio police said the robbery never happened and that the U.S. swimmers had actually vandalized a gas station. Then Lochte allegedly said surveillance video...

    Did the U.S. Olympic swimmer set off an international incident by lying to his mom about a robbery in Rio?

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    Tech + Health

    (GERMANY OUT) 1874 - 1937Ingenieur, IRadiotechnikerMarconi mit seiner Radioversuchsstationan Bord seiner Yacht 'Elettra'1924 (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

    The Man Who Networked the World

    The Man Who Networked the World

    Contact: A hundred years before iconic figures like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs permeated our lives, 60 years before Marshall McLuhan proclaimed media to be “the extensions of man,” an Irish-Italian inventor laid the foundation of the communication ...

    In giving us the wireless world, the Irish-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi was arguably the first truly global figure in modern communication

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    Dr Drew Pinsky arrives at the 39th Daytime Emmy Awards in Beverly Hills, California, June 23, 2012.

    Dr. Drew Leads Clinton Health Truthers

    Dr. Drew Leads Clinton Health Truthers

    On a radio show this week, Dr. Drew Pinsky of Celebrity Rehab fame added his name to the long list of conspiracy theorists who believe that Hillary Clinton’s health could be failing—a list that so far includes the National Enquirer, Fox News host ...

    Dr. Drew Pinsky, he of celebrity rehabs and adult radio, is joining the chorus of those who say Hillary Clinton is unwell and unfit to be president.

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    Can Bacteria Make Your Skin Healthier?

    Can Bacteria Make Your Skin Healthier?

    Antibacterial cosmetics are so last year; the latest craze is for face creams, serums, and washes that actually add bacteria to the skin in order to make it look younger and healthier. But experts think that these products aren’t backed up by enou...

    Cosmetics companies claim that tweaking the bacteria on the skin can make it healthier. But does the science stack up?

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    A firefighter battles the Blue Cut wildfire near Cajon Pass, north of San Bernardino, California on August 16, 2016. 


A rapidly spreading fire raging east of Los Angeles forced the evacuation of more than 82,000 people on August 16 as the governor of California declared a state of emergency. Despite the efforts of 1,250 firefighters with more on the way, none of the inferno was contained as of late on August 16 , state firefighting agency Cal Fire spokeswoman Lynne Tolmachoff told AFP. The wildfire poses "imminent threat to public safety, rail traffic and structures," according to the website, which said 82,640 people fell under an evacuation warning.

    Climate Change Behind the CA Wildfires

    Climate Change Behind the CA Wildfires

    The number of wildfires in California has decreased over the past 25 year, but try telling that to the hundreds of firefighters on the ground attempting to put out multiple fires raging across Northern California.Map provided by Google Maps. Appro...

    Over 100,000 acres of California’s land has been scorched due to destructive wildfires.

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    Dr Drew Pinsky arrives at the 39th Daytime Emmy Awards in Beverly Hills, California, June 23, 2012.

    Dr. Drew Leads Clinton Health Truthers

    Dr. Drew Leads Clinton Health Truthers

    On a radio show this week, Dr. Drew Pinsky of Celebrity Rehab fame added his name to the long list of conspiracy theorists who believe that Hillary Clinton’s health could be failing—a list that so far includes the National Enquirer, Fox News host ...

    Dr. Drew Pinsky, he of celebrity rehabs and adult radio, is joining the chorus of those who say Hillary Clinton is unwell and unfit to be president.

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    Zika Hits Miami’s Outdoor Restaurants

    Zika Hits Miami’s Outdoor Restaurants

    MIAMI — August is already a slow month in Miami. Between the oppressive heat, suffocating humidity, and frequent rain, the locals who haven’t already fled to a less tropical clime prefer to stay inside. Add news of a Zika outbreak to the mix and b...

    Wynwood Yard is an outdoor eatery and event space in a bustling Miami neighborhood. And three of its employees have been diagnosed with Zika.

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    Should Louisiana Be Scared of Zika?

    Should Louisiana Be Scared of Zika?

    Days after a severe flood in Louisiana that left six people dead and 10,000 in shelters, some experts are expressing concern that the event may usher in a large Zika outbreak.The fears are not entirely unfounded. When the water currently rushing t...

    Faced with severe flooding, Louisiana could be in for another disaster: Zika. But experts say it isn’t time to panic yet.

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    3D printed guns

    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.

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    Bar at The Wynwood Yard

    Zika Hits Miami’s Outdoor Restaurants

    Zika Hits Miami’s Outdoor Restaurants

    MIAMI — August is already a slow month in Miami. Between the oppressive heat, suffocating humidity, and frequent rain, the locals who haven’t already fled to a less tropical clime prefer to stay inside. Add news of a Zika outbreak to the mix and b...

    Wynwood Yard is an outdoor eatery and event space in a bustling Miami neighborhood. And three of its employees have been diagnosed with Zika.

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    Arts + Culture

    Lost Masterpieces: Churchill’s destroyed portrait

    The Burning of Churchill's Portrait

    The Burning of Churchill's Portrait

    It must have been quite the awkward situation. On Nov. 30, 1954, a proud British Parliament gathered for a large ceremony at Westminster Hall to present their beloved leader, Sir Winston Churchill, with a portrait of him in celebration of his 80th...

    Britain's wartime PM Winston Churchill diplomatically commented of Graham Sutherland's portrait of him that it was “a great example of modern art.” Unofficially, he and his w...

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    Harvey Milk Navy ship naming

    How Harvey Milk Became a Navy Ambassador

    How Harvey Milk Became a Navy Ambassador

    Earlier this week, the U.S. Navy officially commemorated the new USNS Harvey Milk, a 677-foot fleet oiler and first navy ship to be named after a member of the LGBTQ community.It was the latest of many milestones for Milk, who was assassinated a y...

    The USNS Harvey Milk is the first Navy ship to be named after a member of the LGBT community—and, like the brave advocate it is named after, it will take its message of equality ever...

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    Thomas Cholmondeley (C), son of the fifth Baron Delamere and great-grandson of Kenya's most prominent early settler, arrives in Nairobi High court on May 7, 2009. A Kenyan court has found Chlomondeley guilty of manslaughter of a suspected poacher, reducing the charge of murder for which he has already served three years in jail. The 40-year-old Cholmondeley has already spent three years in a maximum-security prison and now faces up to life imprisonment for manslaughter, but could also walk free when sentence is handed down next on May 12. The Eton-educated aristocrat was accused of murdering Robert Njoya, a suspected poacher, in May 2006 but has only admitted to shooting dogs on his 55,000-acre Rift Valley ranch.      AFP PHOTO / SIMON MAINA (Photo credit should read SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images)

    The Curse of a Controversial Aristocrat

    The Curse of a Controversial Aristocrat

    A controversial Kenyan aristocrat of British descent who killed two local Kenyan men on separate occasions has died aged 48 of a heart attack, following complications after a routine hospital operation in Nairobi.Tom Cholmondeley (pronounced Chuml...

    Tom Cholmondeley killed two black Kenyans on his father’s game reserve. Now he himself is dead, and one of the victim’s families says the curse that killed him will be visited on his...

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    FJ2BH5 Conservative commentator Glenn Beck during the Nevada Courageous Conservatives rally with Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz hosted by Keep the Promise PAC at the Henderson Convention Center February 21, 2016 in Henderson, Nevada.

    Is Glenn Beck Suing Himself?

    Is Glenn Beck Suing Himself?

    Glenn Beck seems to be an endless source of nutty stories.Maybe the multimedia oddball spent too much time being spun around while strapped in a giant gyroscope that, as he told his fans, helped cure him of a mysterious brain illness that “quite h...

    In a multimillion-dollar fraud, breach of contract, and dereliction of duty lawsuit, Glenn Beck appears to be suing himself, and may even end up having to pay damages to himself.

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    Harvey Milk Navy ship naming

    How Harvey Milk Became a Navy Ambassador

    How Harvey Milk Became a Navy Ambassador

    Earlier this week, the U.S. Navy officially commemorated the new USNS Harvey Milk, a 677-foot fleet oiler and first navy ship to be named after a member of the LGBTQ community.It was the latest of many milestones for Milk, who was assassinated a y...

    The USNS Harvey Milk is the first Navy ship to be named after a member of the LGBT community—and, like the brave advocate it is named after, it will take its message of equality ever...

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    TRUMP TV

    Trump TV Is Real

    Trump TV Is Real

    The odds are, if you believe the polls, that Donald Trump will never be president. But there is more than a possibility that the reality show billionaire will start his own television network shortly after the election.“A TV network is a logical w...

    Whatever happens in the presidential election, the plan for a Donald Trump TV station is far from fanciful. Indeed, it might make extremely lucrative sense.

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    RIP Gawker

    This Is How Gawker Died

    This Is How Gawker Died

    Was it a murder or a suicide?In other words, did Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel savagely kill Gawker.com—or was its demise the inevitable result of a self-inflicted wound, namely the October 2012 decision to publish a grainy sex video feat...

    The site is no more—and founder Nick Denton paid tribute to its staff’s hustle and originality in a memo sent after the official death announcement was made.

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    People pose for selfies with a naked statue of U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that was left in Union Square Park in New York City, U.S. August 18, 2016.

    Meet the Man Who Stripped Trump Naked

    Meet the Man Who Stripped Trump Naked

    Residents in five neighborhoods of New York City, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Cleveland awoke to discover a life-sized, naked Donald Trump statue in their midst.The five identical statues were erected simultaneously at around 8 a.m. E...

    Joshua Monroe, the artist behind five headline-attracting, ball-less statues that appeared in American cities Thursday, reveals he was planning to vote Trump.

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    TRUMP TV

    Trump TV Is Real

    Trump TV Is Real

    The odds are, if you believe the polls, that Donald Trump will never be president. But there is more than a possibility that the reality show billionaire will start his own television network shortly after the election.“A TV network is a logical w...

    Whatever happens in the presidential election, the plan for a Donald Trump TV station is far from fanciful. Indeed, it might make extremely lucrative sense.

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