Prisoner swap on hold.
Supposedly out of confidence.
At least one dead.
After interrupting Henry Kissinger.
Unless medically cleared.
To start talks with U.S.
Less then 100 new cases per week.
Airline can now file insurance claim.
Jawbone suggest multiple extinct lineages.
The Sierra Nevada Red Fox.
After being riddled with guilt over choosing to watched ‘Chopped’ instead of what’s been hailed as TV’s best drama, one writer finally watches ‘The Americans.’ And he LOVES IT.
Oh Gwyneth. When will you stop passing on your absurdity in the form of healthy, scientific advice?
The towering Hawaiian actor, who currently stars on the Sundance drama The Red Road, opens up about how his career has come full-circle from Baywatch to Aquaman.
Two days after losing his reelection bid, Pennsylvania Governor Jim Corbett signed a bill with an amendment that allows the National Rifle Association (NRA) to sue cities and towns that pass ordinances regulating firearms by claiming they infringe...
Right after he lost, the Keystone State’s outgoing GOP governor sold his state out to the NRA. But now some mayors are fighting back.
“Will she or won’t she?” That’s the hot question on Capitol Hill.And it’s not about whether Hillary Clinton will formally declare for 2016, but whether she will ever appear before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.The latest drama involving t...
Republicans want Clinton to testify before the controversial House Select Committee on Benghazi in the never-ending probe into the 2012 attack. Democrats don’t see the point.
Before the 2016 campaign for president could even begin in earnest, the greatest political romance of our times has already died. And it could make all the difference next November.In a turn that was perhaps inevitable but nonetheless remarkable, ...
The Embarracuda is finished. Where will her peeps go? To one obvious successor. She may not field dress a moose, but she castrates pigs.
Black lawmakers are on the verge of a revolt over a proposal that could marginalize their political power, and are warning House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to crush the idea before it is discussed further -- or face an backlash.The Congressional...
African American Democrats are vowing to block a proposal they say will diminish the political power they’ve waited a generation to attain.
Chris Christie’s presence at Congressman Steve King’s subtly titled Iowa Freedom Summit in Des Moines seemed, on the surface, somewhat odd.Christie enjoys a reputation as a moderate conservative, while other speakers at the weekend event—Sarah Pal...
Chris Christie and Steve King may seem like polar opposites, but that’s how the best love stories begin.
At any given moment, Jason Momoa may brandish a sharp blade and plunge it deep into my aorta. Such is the enormity of his enmity. It’s evident in his green-eyed glare, the menace augmented by a lengthy scar above his left eye; a wound attained aft...
The towering Hawaiian actor, who currently stars on the Sundance drama The Red Road, opens up about how his career has come full-circle from Baywatch to Aquaman.
With The Colbert Report off the air and David Letterman yet to hand him the Late Night reins, this clip of Stephen Colbert’s last show at Chicago’s legendary Second City from 1994 is his biggest news in weeks. Introduced by a young Steve Carell, i...
See the Future King of Late Night as an up-and-comer in this 1994 clip.
“Whoa, this camera has testicles!”Workaholics stars Blake Anderson, Anders Holm, and Adam DeVine are crowded into their fictional boss’s office, waiting for the cameras to roll. In this scene, Alice (Maribeth Monroe) will harangue the trio over mo...
On set with the overachieving thirtysomethings behind the show about innocently idiotic slackers stuck in dead-end telemarketing jobs.
Eight years ago, Courtney Love approached filmmaker Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture) about directing the first fully authorized documentary on late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain. But Love had already sold much of Nirvana’s publishing ri...
Combining hundreds of hours of unreleased audio footage, songs, and home videos, a new doc provides the most intimate glimpse ever of the Nirvana front man.
“Wisdom is an interesting word,” Simon Helberg says. “I’d say this would be the opposite of wisdom.”Helberg, known best to you as gregarious geek Howard Wolowitz on the decade’s most popular sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, is questioning the wisdom o...
As he releases his directorial debut, ‘We’ll Never Have Paris,’ ‘Big Bang Theory’ star Simon Helberg reflects on the pitfalls and privileges of starring on TV’s most popular show.
Hip-hop artist 2 Chainz (born Tauheed Epps) has appeared on platinum records, collaborated with Kanye West and is perhaps the only rapper ingenious enough to rhyme “booty” with “booty.” So obviously the next step for him is electoral politics.In t...
The hip-hop musician says he wants to run for mayor of his hometown of College Park, but he apparently does not live in the Atlanta suburb—which could pose a problem.
America’s Sweetheart is under attack.On Tuesday afternoon, Taylor Swift’s Twitter account, boasting a mammoth 51.4 million followers, was reportedly hacked by a self-described “cyber caliphate” called Lizard Squad, which released the following twe...
They’ve claimed to have hacked the PlayStation Network, North Korea, and now Taylor Swift, threatening to release nude photos. And their members are reportedly as young as 13.
LONDON — This time Amal Clooney is taking on one of the greatest war crimes of the 20th century.The star human-rights lawyer is appearing at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, this week in the name of the victims of the Arme...
Can the celebrity human-rights lawyer buck the tide and get recognition of the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians?
MUMBAI — As U.S. President Barack Obama’s three-day visit to India came to a close on Tuesday, he emphasized the importance of religious toleration, opining that India will be a great success “so long as it is not splintered along the lines of rel...
PM Modi’s crucial development agenda is being disrupted by his own Hindu nationalist backers campaigning to “re-convert” Christians and Muslims to the ancient faith.
After capturing the long-contested Donetsk airport last week, separatist forces in eastern Ukraine are now surrounding government troops near a rail hub in Debaltseve. The militants are advancing in Ukraine, as President Obama said on Sunday, “wit...
The growing Chinese-Russian alliance is one of the most important geopolitical developments of the century.
TOKYO—A new audio clip attributed to a Japanese hostage held by the self-proclaimed Islamic State said a Jordanian would be executed “immediately” unless Jordan released a woman terrorist by Thursday at sunset. “I’m Kenji Goto Jogo,” the voice in ...
Mixing ruthlessness with political acumen, the terror group is now threatening a Jordanian pilot with immediate execution unless a female terrorist is freed by sunset Thursday.
ROME — Blatant anti-Islamic racism was bound to happen sooner or later as fear continues to spread across Europe after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris. And there is nothing subtle about a new measure being considered in Italy’s often-xenophobic...
Right-wing politicians in the Lombardy region have passed a provisionary law that would make it almost impossible for new mosques to be built—and that would heavily monitor existing ...
The Pentagon is embarking on an ambitious new plan to develop and build a next generation nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile. But experts question if the U.S. military really needs to spend billions of dollars on a new missile when ...
Even the defense secretary thinks new nuclear missiles are a waste. That’s not stopping the Air Force from getting ready to build an updated ICBM.
Nuns using visions of God to persuade novices to have sex, threesomes with priests, the poisoning of a fat German princess, a prominent theologian shacking up with a vicaress, young nuns murdered, fetuses removed from an abbess, and cardinals, the...
In the 19th century, a scandal involving sex and murder at a Rome convent ensnared practically every major player in the church hierarchy.
After a brief flurry of positive news for environmentalists out of the Obama White House—from a deal with China on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to a plan to restrict oil drilling in the Alaska wilderness—a news report this week felt like some...
The administration swore it would profit from the mistakes of the 2010 Gulf oil spill. The decision to allow drilling in the Atlantic makes you wonder if it learned anything at all.
Teenage pranksters are likely behind a recent spate of Twitter bomb threats targeting passenger planes, according to U.S. officials and airline employees. At least 20 planes have been targeted since Saturday, NBC News reported, and commercial fl...
A spate of tweets this week at airlines claiming there’s a bomb on one of their planes is the handiwork of teen pranksters craving attention, officials say.
With deflategate breathing new life into the NFL’s troubles, the modern gladiator domain remains a magnet for villainy. Every passing week brings another public relations disaster for the league of extraordinarily ungentle men. It’s important to r...
Deflated footballs are nothing compared to the guy who tried to rip off someone’s helmet and then use it as a weapon.
The NFL is trying its damndest to not be considered the league that protects domestic abusers—and it’s pulling out all the stops for its biggest night of the year.On Tuesday, the NFL released its PSA to air during a Super Bowl commercial break, th...
The NFL is throwing a lot of advertising money at a domestic abuse problem it shouldn’t have had in the first place.
In the 1990s, a small, mostly black neighborhood in south Florida developed a problem: Neighborhood kids started selling drugs at a stop sign in a development of about 200 houses known as “Homes of Lawrence.” Palm Beach County Sheriff Richard P. W...
When a police officers becomes a member of the community and not an occupying force, crime goes down. Almost every single study proves it. So why is the NYPD doing the opposite?
Among the 195 children exposed to measles at an Arizona clinic was Eli Jacks, who is only 10 months old and therefore too young to be vaccinated.Also exposed was his 3-year-old sister, Maggie Jacks. She belongs to a group of children who cannot be...
Vaccinations all but ended measles by 1982, when new cases hit Disneyland and elsewhere. Now health officials believe one infected person sparked a new outbreak at the theme park.
Big news for people who are wishy-washy about what they want to eat for breakfast. Investigators working in Australia and the US announced they have the know-how and the want-to at hand to unboil an already-cooked egg. So if you are two minutes i...
Scientists have manipulated egg protein to ‘unboil’ from a hard-boiled state. What in the world does this mean for curing disease?
The Pentagon is embarking on an ambitious new plan to develop and build a next generation nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile. But experts question if the U.S. military really needs to spend billions of dollars on a new missile when ...
Even the defense secretary thinks new nuclear missiles are a waste. That’s not stopping the Air Force from getting ready to build an updated ICBM.
Here’s a simple algebra equation to describe what it’s like to grow up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Take the year, subtract 20, and that’s the year it really is inside the Mormon gerontocracy.When I was a child, I was told t...
Elders announced Tuesday their provisional support of certain LGBT legal protections—with some conditions.
Earlier this week, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued an updated policy statement about the legalization of marijuana for both recreational and medical use in the United States. Since its last statement about the matter in 2004, many ...
The American Academy of Pediatrics’ newest statement about marijuana opposes legalization. Here’s why it’s wrong.
Despite forecasts for a “potentially historic” storm, it seems the only history the #blizzardof2015 made in New York City was that the subway was shut down for a snowstorm for the first time. Storm totals in Manhattan so far are around 8", fa...
New York City was bracing for 20”+ inches of snow, but only 8” fell. What happened?
What do Uber and Harvard have in common? Both only use the top 10 percent or so of their rating scales. For a Harvard student, the median grade is an A- and for an Uber driver, anything below a 4.7 out of 5 average rating from passengers spells tr...
Ever wonder how and why Uber drivers get banned? If it’s not for criminal behavior, the waters get murky.
It’s a good thing that the Internet—and not print on paper—is serving as the main forum for intellectuals, polemicists, bloggers, trollers, leftists and wingnuts to weigh in on New York magazine writer Jonathan Chait’s 4,700-word essay attacking t...
After writing an article attacking the shrill liberal left, Jonathan Chait was attacked by…guess who? He’s loving every moment.
Suddenly, “the Catskills” is everywhere, branded and proud. First you notice the word on the cheese at the local greenmarket, then you try Catskills craft brew at your favorite pub, the Catskills then makes the news when its casino plans get the g...
The gorgeous rural area, 100 miles outside New York, has languished for years—until now, with craft bars, cool inns, and ex-urbanite incomers looking to radically change their lives.
The Louisiana State Penitentiary boasts such pleasant nicknames as “Alcatraz of the South” and “The Bloodiest Prison in America,” but when pulled up on Google maps, it has a 4.4 star rating. “Was the loveliest place on earth. Loved it!” one review...
From ‘Gruesome Gertie,’ the electric chair, to the warden who lashed inmates with a leather strap, Louisiana State Penitentiary celebrates its hellish past in a museum.
Q: When does the conservative governor of a majority-Republican state start to resemble an old-line Communist apparatchik?A: When he uses taxpayer money to fund government-approved “journalism” to compete with privately-owned, independent news out...
Indiana Governor Mike Pence has attracted ridicule for his plan to set up a state-run news service. Now he says it was an ‘understandable misunderstanding.’
Somewhere between the silk worms and the sound of funk and the beautiful clothing at Paris' men's autumn/winter 2015 shows--and the infamous outbreak of penis at Rick Owens--one could glimpse the dapper gentlemen from yesteryear.He was m...
At the Paris men's collections, suits and silk belied some handsome looks. But with toga-like draping, the standout looks of the week brilliantly blurred gender lines.
“Numbah one! Numbah one!” rang out in a deafeningly unified cry among the fans that trecked over the Whitestone and Throgs Neck Bridge, traversed the Major Deegan and Cross-County expressways to see Mike Francesa, the man whose voice that had acco...
One thousand fans paid $15 each to attend this year’s FrancesaCon—a day of loud celebration dedicated to the Rush Limbaugh of sports. He told them they were ‘nuts.’
Ryan Ferguson is the prototypical polite Midwesterner, the type of kid parents dream their daughter will bring home: affable and well-mannered, charming but deferential, intelligent but unassuming. In some ways he seems younger than he is, despite...
After serving nearly a decade in jail for a crime authorities now say he didn’t commit, Ryan Ferguson has reinvented himself as a health expert.
For female urbanites—and New Yorkers in particular—Eloise represented their wildest fantasy come to life: a free-spirited, wildly independent young girl who lives in the penthouse of the Plaza Hotel and embarks on an endless array of First World adventures.And for Lena Dunham, the series of children’s books was her everything. She obtained her first copy when she was just two years old, and consuming the colorful mini-tomes became an addiction.“I had a copy of El...
The creator and star of HBO’s Girls sat down at Sundance to discuss her Eloise documentary, Hannah’s Iowa mess, and her legion of haters.
By Mahrokh GholamhosseinpourWhen I was growing up in southern Iran, there were many dark and painful stories about young women and girls whose loss—or whose alleged loss—of virginity effectively became a death sentence. Clearest in my mind is th...
In a culture where women who do not bleed on their wedding night may pay with their lives, there’s a creative way to fool the groom.
Does Hillary Clinton need binders full of women?Some Democrats, particularly women and people of color, think so.In interviews with The Daily Beast, nearly a dozen Democrats, said they were worried Clinton’s hires for the top echelons of her pre-c...
Hillary Clinton’s pre-presidential campaign has made some high-profile hires recently—but all of them, so far, are white males. And Democrats have noticed.
Goddaughter of Queen Victoria, offspring of a deposed Maharajah, and fashion icon—Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was as unlikely an activist as one could find, let alone one who would garner headlines for her support and funding ...
Goddaughter of Queen Victoria, scion of the Lion of the Punjab, feminist revolutionary, Princess Sophia finally gets a worthy biography.
SURUÇ, Turkey — Jalilia Shikho, 50, has been living in a plastic-sheet tent camp next to a warehouse here close to the Syrian border for four months. When she fled a village near the besieged town of Kobani with her family, her 16-year-old daughte...
The refugee camps in Turkey are prime recruiting grounds for the defenders of Kobani—when Ankara permits.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler may have taken the first jab at rape culture at the 2015 Golden Globes ceremony with their Bill Cosby joke, “I put the pills in the people,” but it was Broad City’s Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson that took it to the next l...
What happens when the guy you’re trying to get some with passes out during sex?
The frenzy over college sexual assault now sweeping the nation was triggered by a specific event.In 2010, a small team of investigative journalists published a report revealing, so they claimed, an epidemic of college rape. The report was a jumble...
College sexual assault is a very real problem—but news organizations and government bureaucrats do victims no favors when they exaggerate its prevalence.
Nuns using visions of God to persuade novices to have sex, threesomes with priests, the poisoning of a fat German princess, a prominent theologian shacking up with a vicaress, young nuns murdered, fetuses removed from an abbess, and cardinals, the...
In the 19th century, a scandal involving sex and murder at a Rome convent ensnared practically every major player in the church hierarchy.
Once upon a time, stretching as far back as the 8th century, some people tried to convince other people that they could turn base metals into gold.It can’t be done.In 2009, along came someone, or some people, who called himself, or themselves, Sat...
Bitcoin may now have an exchange backed by the New York Stock Exchange, but its biggest supporters come across as deranged zealots.
Though Mitt Romney has no foreign policy experience beyond running the Olympics, he is staking his potential political redemption on the idea that he can make America safer. At a speech in San Diego to the Republican National Committee’s winter me...
While a potential Mitt Romney comeback seems partially tied to his supposed prescience about Russia and the Middle East, his lack of actual policies speak volumes to the contrary.
70 years ago, Soviet soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Photos, provided by the United States Holocaust Museum, are a powerful reminder of this human tragedy.
70 years ago, Soviet soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Photos, provided by the United States Holocaust Museum, are a powerful reminder of this human tragedy.
January 27 is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. See the portraits and stories of some of the estimated 200,000 survivors, now well into their eighties and nineties.
January 27 is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. See the portraits and stories of some of the estimated 200,000 survivors, now well into their eighties and nineties.
Mohsin Hamid’s first three novels are canny, intimate reader-writer transactions. His debut, Moth Smoke (2000) casts the reader as judge (“Your gavel falls like the hammer of God”). The Pakistani protagonist of his second novel, The Reluctant Fund...
One of Pakistan’s most famous novelists, Mohsin Hamid, is out with a collection of essays that tackle everything from being Muslim-American to why Pakistan has become so messy.
The Trace By Forrest Gander New Directions, 240 pp, $22.95Dale and Hoa, the couple whose road trip across the southern border into Mexico is the focus of poet Forrest Gander’s new novel “The Trace,” are not exactly traveling for pleasure. True, ...
A vision quest gone wrong, a poet laurate looks back on life, and an academic reconsidering of Modernism in Nazi Germany. By Nicholas Mancusi
When Francis Ford Coppola first saw a screening of Peter Bogdanovich’s second movie, The Last Picture Show, he couldn’t believe the reception. The movie ended, credits rolled, and the audience stood and applauded. That kind of appreciation is the ...
The director hauled a film crew to Larry McMurtry's home town of Archer City, Texas. Grover Lewis tagged along and wrote one of the best stories about moviemaking ever written.
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