
82 days before election.
According to letter from company to DOJ.
Demoted Trump aide could face charges.
Death toll climbs to 11 as volunteers rush in.

With his family.
SoCal homes hit by blaze that’s spreading quickly.
Bill cut from $30M under Chris Christie.
For $135 million.
Caitlyn Jenner’s show axed.

Tells Wisconsin rally Clinton is “against the police.”

Playing a libidinous hairdresser in the classic 1975 film ‘Shampoo,’ the actor mocked his own reputation for lechery and unleashed some fashion trends still hot today.

In a new interview with The Daily Beast, Larry Wilmore opens up about the end of ‘The Nightly Show’ and what comes next.

Writer-director Richard Tanne’s Linklater-esque romantic drama hits theaters August 26th. But how accurately does it depict the moment the Obamas began to fall in love?
Every four years amid the presidential election, another kind of popularity contest gets underway, one that selects the new members of the professional peanut gallery of pundits, writers, and (in the modern era, anyway) social media stars who, thr...
Donald Trump is trailing badly in the polls, but not according to his most ardent fans who see the polls as just another tool of the liberal, lying media.
Date has not been announced.
It’s confirmed: Donald Trump’s supporters on social media have all the best sources, and those sources are telling them the world is run by a single shadowy organization intent on controlling your mind.Data provided to The Daily Beast by social me...
Trump fans are 4.2 times more likely to tweet about the New World Order—and four times more likely to follow professional conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Date has not been announced.
Every four years amid the presidential election, another kind of popularity contest gets underway, one that selects the new members of the professional peanut gallery of pundits, writers, and (in the modern era, anyway) social media stars who, thr...
Donald Trump is trailing badly in the polls, but not according to his most ardent fans who see the polls as just another tool of the liberal, lying media.
Tim Kaine is taking some right-wing heat for getting dinner with the son of lefty billionaire and top GOP villain George Soros.“NEW SOROS SEED RISES: Tim Kaine Dines with Billionaire Son,” blared a Drudge Report headline. It linked to a Breitbart ...
He’s is a villain of the right wing, but that certainly didn’t stop Trump from cozying up to him before the candidate was an official part of the Republican Party.
Donald Trump says he has a master plan to defeat ISIS. But on Monday it was clear he has yet to update it to reflect the changing dynamics on the battlefield, which went either unnoticed or ignored by the Republican nominee in what was billed as a...
Most of what he wants to do to the Islamic State is already being done by President Obama and would be continued by Hillary Clinton.
The very public divorce battle between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp has taken a graphic turn after Heard alleged that her ecstasy-fuelled husband sliced off the tip of his finger in a jealous rage and used the bleeding digit to scrawl on a wall mes...
The ugliest divorce in Hollywood right now just got uglier, with Amber Heard accusing Johnny Depp of using a sliced finger to scrawl messages in blood accusing her of cheating.
“So,” Larry Wilmore asked his studio audience, “how was your day?”Thus, after an explosion of wistful cheering of “Larry! Larry!” and repeated “thank yous” and “I love yous” for the host of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show seated at his anchor ta...
The 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.
It’s hard out there for a Donald Trump campaign surrogate.The challenge of speaking for Trump, as The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah examined Monday night, is perhaps best exemplified by his “spokesperson” Katrina Pierson, who just this past weekend wen...
‘The Daily Show’ host examines the role of Donald Trump surrogate Katrina Pierson, who has the most thankless job in politics.
Romance-killing true love franchises and nine seasons of Big Bang Theory aside, television can be genunely life-changing. It’s full of tempting life hacks, from sleeping with the POTUS, who is your boss (like in Scandal), to sleeping with a doctor...
Netflix’s true-crime series ‘Making a Murderer’ helped get Brandon Dassey’s conviction overturned. Here are 12 more shows that have saved real-world lives.
“So,” Larry Wilmore asked his studio audience, “how was your day?”Thus, after an explosion of wistful cheering of “Larry! Larry!” and repeated “thank yous” and “I love yous” for the host of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show seated at his anchor ta...
The 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.
Despite insisting otherwise in his interview with The Daily Beast last month, Trevor Noah has essentially “replaced” Jon Stewart as the host of The Daily Show. Much of that flagship show’s branding and staff remained the same. The big changes were...
Now that Larry Wilmore’s ‘Nightly Show’ has been canceled, here are six women who would make great successors.
At some point late Monday night or early Tuesday morning, otherwise known as the golden hour of social media mistakes, Justin Bieber made a decision. It had been a trying couple of days for the teen idol. After publicly dating a series of intercha...
Exes Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez publicly accused each other of cheating this week, setting off a wave of drama affecting Kardashians, Baldwins, and Beliebers alike.
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!)
Despite insisting otherwise in his interview with The Daily Beast last month, Trevor Noah has essentially “replaced” Jon Stewart as the host of The Daily Show. Much of that flagship show’s branding and staff remained the same. The big changes were...
Now that Larry Wilmore’s ‘Nightly Show’ has been canceled, here are six women who would make great successors.
MANBIJ, Syria — Even after its liberation from the so-called Islamic State, this city in northern Syria remains draped in jihadist black banners. Anything and everything might be rigged with explosives, and often it is, so people don’t rip down fl...
Black flags still drape the city and the terror continues from IEDs. But the biggest questions are about what comes next.
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.
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.
WARRI, Nigeria — The so-called Islamic State has different strategies in different parts of the world, but in Africa and in Europe, certainly, its core objective is becoming clear: to kill Christians. Its long-term goal: to provoke a new Crusade, ...
The coup that replaced Boko Haram's leader puts the ISIS subsidiary's focus on killing Christians in hopes it can unite, expand, and endure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Date has not been announced.
“Black Olives Matter.”That’s the slogan used by a restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico to promote their new tuna and black olive tapenade dish. After generating controversy in July for using that play on words on the restaurant’s sign, Paisano’s ...
Who thought this was a good idea?
MILWAUKEE — The gas station that was torched on Saturday night following the police killing of Sylville Smith wasn’t burned at random, just as the unrest wasn’t all about Smith.Smith fled a from a traffic stop on Saturday afternoon, emerged from h...
Sylville Smith’s death is unlike many that have led to unrest in America: He was armed and killed by a black cop. That’s not what the protests are about, though.
Date has not been announced.
A small army of pizza restaurants in Washington state is prepared to face off against one of the world’s most notorious accused hackers.On Monday, Russian native Roman Seleznev appeared in a federal courtroom in Seattle for the first day of trial ...
The son of a Moscow politician, Roman Seleznev allegedly stole credit card info from hundreds of businesses—and his lawyer represented Ted Bundy.
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.
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.
On June 21 I had prostate surgery. The operation was a success and my recovery has been smooth. But this isn’t about me. It’s a plea to men out there who are over forty.Talk to your doctor about PSA testing. All the test requires is a blood sample...
A prostate cancer survivor, the bestselling author advises men over 40 to get a PSA exam as the simple first step in diagnosing the disease—and maybe saving your life.
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?
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.
On June 21 I had prostate surgery. The operation was a success and my recovery has been smooth. But this isn’t about me. It’s a plea to men out there who are over forty.Talk to your doctor about PSA testing. All the test requires is a blood sample...
A prostate cancer survivor, the bestselling author advises men over 40 to get a PSA exam as the simple first step in diagnosing the disease—and maybe saving your life.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Ever since Judge Aaron Persky handed down an appallingly lenient six-month jail sentence to Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman on campus, a grassroots campaign to unseat the Santa Clara County jud...
After his lenient sentencing of Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault, activists have been campaigning to unseat Judge Aaron Persky.
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.
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.
Ever since Judge Aaron Persky handed down an appallingly lenient six-month jail sentence to Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman on campus, a grassroots campaign to unseat the Santa Clara County jud...
After his lenient sentencing of Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault, activists have been campaigning to unseat Judge Aaron Persky.
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.
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.
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...
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.



















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