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OVER AND OUT
Billy Bush Out at ‘Today’
After appearing in a tape with Donald Trump in which he talks about groping women.
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
Trump Foundation Stops Fundraising in NY
Granted extension to file financial paperwork.
NOT SORRY
Melania Defends Bill Clinton Attacks
“They’re asking for it," she says in new interview.
PASSING THE BLAME
Trump: Maybe Ryan Doesn’t Want a Win
Suggested he’s preparing to run in 2020.
BREACHED
Hacked RNC Website Had Credit Card Data
NRSC site was infected for six months while taking donor info.
GOOD CALL
Conway: I Would Not Mock Accusers’ Looks
In response to Trump saying woman “would not be my first choice.”
HMM
Rolling Stone Deletes NBA Critique
After an NBA representative disputed some of the claims.
REALITY CHECK
Rubio Dismisses Trump’s Rigging Claims
“This election is not being rigged.”
UP TO NO GOOD
Houston Man Pleads Guilty to ISIS Plot
Authorities say he was planning to attack two malls.
DISTRESSING
NYPD: 40 Frozen Cats Found in Freezers
Some found in serving trays.
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Dems Worry About Clinton’s Ground Game
Dems Worry About Clinton’s Ground Game
As Donald Trump pulverized his own Republican Party on Twitter Tuesday afternoon, Congressional Democrats were having a conference call about how the election is shaping up in their states. A recent Wall Street Journal poll not only showed Trump c...
Hillary Clinton has a better ground game than Donald Trump’s, but it still falls far short of the campaign network Democrats in some critical states consider the gold standard: Presi...
Trump’s Deplorables Wage War on Muslims
Trump’s Deplorables Wage War on Muslims
The racism and bigotry ginned up by Donald Trump appears to have recently inspired not only more hate crimes but shockingly even a possible terrorist attack on U.S. soil by his fans. On Friday, three Kansas men who were allegedly part of a militia...
Attacks on Muslims by people praising Trump or spouting his rhetoric are on a sharp rise. Muslims have never been more fearful for their children’s safety than now.
Confessions of an Elector
Confessions of an Elector
With Donald Trump facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and openly battling the leaders of his own political party, the most surreal and disturbing week in modern American politics may have drawn to a close. But more disturbing still is...
It’s the vote in December, not the one in November, that truly counts. And there’s a just a few electors voting their conscience who could save America from itself.
Meet the Women Who Are Forever Trump
Meet the Women Who Are Forever Trump
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina—They’re young, they’re old, blond and brunette. They’re rich and poor and everything in between. But the women at Donald Trump’s rallies have one defining trait in common, other than being overwhelmingly white. They can’t...
While most women voters are fleeing Donald Trump’s campaign in droves, some are standing by their mogul until the very end.
Pence, Kaine Defend Toxic Campaigns
Pence, Kaine Defend Toxic Campaigns
With the top of the two presidential tickets off the campaign trail to prepare for what promises to be another soul sucking debate this week, their vice presidential nominees hit the Sunday shows to defend them and dodge questions in their stead. ...
The vice presidential nominees for each party drew the short straw on Sunday and had to defend their nominees from a week's worth of negative news.
Entertainment
‘Moonlight’: A Powerful Oscar Favorite
‘Moonlight’: A Powerful Oscar Favorite
“I never expected this thing to go the way it’s been going so far,” marvels filmmaker Barry Jenkins, whose lyrical drama Moonlight has captivated critics and entered the awards race with real buzz—and, perhaps, a real shot at upending the usual Os...
Filmmaker Barry Jenkins on his awards hopeful—a mesmerizing coming-of-age tale about a young gay man in a rough section of Miami.
SNL’s Melania Trump Goes Full Beyoncé
SNL’s Melania Trump Goes Full Beyoncé
“Here lies my last nerve, Donald,” we hear Cecily Strong as Melania Trump say at the top of Saturday Night Live’s strongest pre-taped sketch of this political season. In Lemonade, Beyoncé took revenge on her cheating husband Jay-Z. Now, thanks to ...
Melania Trump finally gets her revenge on The Donald on SNL’s ‘Lemonade’-inspired music video.
SNL Debate Coronates ‘President Clinton’
SNL Debate Coronates ‘President Clinton’
In its season premiere earlier this month, Saturday Night Live perfectly encapsulated the first presidential debate by casting the positively gleeful Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton against the snarling, unhinged Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump. By ...
This week, ‘Saturday Night Live’ opened with the second debate and Donald Trump’s downward spiral into madness.
How Hollywood Depicts Drunken Blackouts
How Hollywood Depicts Drunken Blackouts
The film adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ bestseller, “The Girl on the Train,” was last weekend’s top earner, but it opened to mixed reviews.[Warning: slight spoilers ahead.]It’s told mostly through the bloodshot eyes of Rachel (played by Emily Blunt)...
The film version of Paula Hawkins’ bestselling book examines a phenomenon that’s more prevalent than ever: women who drink until they can’t remember.
The Filmmaker Who Tore The Iron Curtain
The Filmmaker Who Tore The Iron Curtain
In the fall of 1968, when I was a newly arrived exchange student in Poland, I went to a screening of Andrzej Wajda’s “Ashes and Diamonds” in my dormitory at the university in Krakow. This was shortly after Warsaw Pact tanks had crushed the Prague ...
At time when the temptations of totalitarianism are on the rise, we should look at what Spielberg called this “artist’s view of history, democracy and freedom.”
‘Family Guy’ Mocks Trump Tape
‘Family Guy’ Mocks Trump Tape
Even Peter Griffin knows that wasn’t “locker room talk.”Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy thrust itself into the presidential race on Sunday when one of the show’s rare live-action cutaway moments found Peter Griffin riding the Access Hollywood bus wit...
On Sunday night’s ‘Family Guy,’ Peter Griffin got on the ‘Access Hollywood’ bus with Trump and Billy Bush.
Bill Maher Goes After ‘Stupid’ Ken Bone
Bill Maher Goes After ‘Stupid’ Ken Bone
Perhaps it was election fatigue or perhaps, amid the cacophony of sexual assault allegations, hacked emails, and ghosts of Clinton accusers past, the American people just needed a good ol’ fashioned pick-me-up. For whatever reason, the public made...
The jolly man in the red sweater is no “folk hero,” claims the ‘Real Time’ host. He’s just an idiot.
World News
Russia Is Preparing for Nuclear War
Russia Is Preparing for Nuclear War
MOSCOW — Managers of the Zenit Arena, a giant half-built stadium in St. Petersburg, received an official letter from the Ministry of Emergency Situations last week demanding that they immediately create shelter facilities for wartime. The stadium,...
Is this self-defense, an implied threat to the West, an excuse for political repression, or all of the above?
The Biggest Collection of Tiny Things
The Biggest Collection of Tiny Things
Overwhelmed. It’s what one feels when entering the sacred confines of the various churches and monasteries that dot Kiev like rainbow sprinkles.Their interiors are covered floor-to-ceiling in gold and frescoes. The air is choked with incense and r...
Hidden inside a Kiev religious complex lies the mind-blowing Museum of Microminiatures, which holds ships carved out of gold, books of poetry, and tiny shoes for a flea, all smaller ...
The Filmmaker Who Tore The Iron Curtain
The Filmmaker Who Tore The Iron Curtain
In the fall of 1968, when I was a newly arrived exchange student in Poland, I went to a screening of Andrzej Wajda’s “Ashes and Diamonds” in my dormitory at the university in Krakow. This was shortly after Warsaw Pact tanks had crushed the Prague ...
At time when the temptations of totalitarianism are on the rise, we should look at what Spielberg called this “artist’s view of history, democracy and freedom.”
'Black Black Metal' Takes South Africa
'Black Black Metal' Takes South Africa
A new documentary explores an emerging rock scene that challenges stereotypes.
A new documentary explores an emerging rock scene that challenges stereotypes.
Italy Has a Massive Child Porn Addiction
Italy Has a Massive Child Porn Addiction
ROME—More than a quarter century ago, Father Fortunato di Noto warned that the internet would become a vile pornographic playground for pedophiles. He was right. The Catholic priest has spent the last two decades seeking out child pornography mak...
Child pornography has risen more than 500 percent in Italy and one priest has dedicated himself to the fight against it.
How the Nazis Sold the Third Reich
How the Nazis Sold the Third Reich
Hitler was the prime mover in the propaganda regimen of the Third Reich, its editor and its first author, at the center of the propaganda process. Many historians perhaps unwittingly imply a propaganda order where Goebbels was the brilliant practi...
Hitler understood that people could not be beaten and bullied into the Nazi fold. They had to be persuaded. The Nazi mix of truth, lies, and sentimentality has become a paradigm.
U.S.
Christians Damn Anti-Muslim Terrorists
Christians Damn Anti-Muslim Terrorists
LIBERAL, Kansas—Until Friday, Liberal, a small Kansas town with a population slightly over 20,000, wasn’t often featured in national news.Then, three men who called themselves The Crusaders—Curtis Allen and Gavin Wright, both 49, of Liberal, and P...
Kansans are disturbed by a homegrown plot to kill hundreds of Somalis, but they stop short of blaming Trump’s Islamophobic rhetoric.
Woman Told Police ‘Shoot Me, Kill Me’
Woman Told Police ‘Shoot Me, Kill Me’
An Austin, Texas husband called police early Sunday morning to request help from a mental health officer. His wife was armed and acting erratic, he reported. But the mental health call turned deadly after the responding officers arrived on the sce...
Police responding to a request for help from an Austin husband shot and killed his wife who pointed a gun at them.
Christian Campus Group Accused of Purge
Christian Campus Group Accused of Purge
When InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA endorsed Black Lives Matter last December, it saw racial reconciliation as “an expression of the gospel.” The evangelical student outreach, which has 1,011 chapters on 667 campuses, was both criticized an...
InterVarsity, one of the largest Christian presences on campuses, shocked members with a hardline stance on LGBT issues that many interpreted as a step to purging its ranks.
Bad Writing Costs Businesses Billions
Bad Writing Costs Businesses Billions
There is a fundamental inefficiency at the heart of American business. It is right in front of all of our faces, and yet we fail to recognize it.It’s the fuzzy, terrible writing we slog through every day at work. And it’s costing American business...
It’s not just a chore to wade through the badly written memos, emails, and other lousy business communication—this inefficiency costs us insane amounts of money.
The Case for Closing Bad Schools
The Case for Closing Bad Schools
At a time when social mobility, income inequality and joblessness for the under-educated dominate the national discussion, it is notable that our Presidential candidates have largely avoided talking about elementary and secondary education. In Ame...
When year after year schools try to improve but do not, dramatic intervention is urgently needed.
Tech + Health
How Hollywood Depicts Drunken Blackouts
How Hollywood Depicts Drunken Blackouts
The film adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ bestseller, “The Girl on the Train,” was last weekend’s top earner, but it opened to mixed reviews.[Warning: slight spoilers ahead.]It’s told mostly through the bloodshot eyes of Rachel (played by Emily Blunt)...
The film version of Paula Hawkins’ bestselling book examines a phenomenon that’s more prevalent than ever: women who drink until they can’t remember.
Is ‘Toxic Mold’ Real?
Is ‘Toxic Mold’ Real?
Recently a patient of mine was hospitalized for liver failure due to alcohol. His history of liver disease was well documented, but he adamantly denied that anyone had warned him to avoid alcohol.An initial confession of “a few drinks” turned into...
A search for ‘toxic mold’ will result in hundreds of scary warnings and ‘studies,’ but few are based in science—and many are motivated by profit.
Dating While Trans
Dating While Trans
In the third season of Transparent, Maura Pfefferman goes where the character has never gone before: the bedroom. After Pfefferman, played by Emmy-winner Jeffrey Tambor, meets Vickie (Angelica Huston), a breast cancer survivor, at a women’s mus...
The Daily Beast spoke to transgender people across the country to find out what challenges they face in relationships.
How Trees Will Save Humanity
How Trees Will Save Humanity
By Hamish Gordon and Cat Scott, Research Fellows in Amospheric Science at the University of Leeds. The pre-industrial atmosphere contained more particles, and so brighter clouds, than we previously thought. This is the latest finding of the CLOUD ...
Trees are much better at creating clouds and cooling the climate than we thought.
The Pop-Up Stem-Cell Clinic Problem
The Pop-Up Stem-Cell Clinic Problem
By KHN senior correspondent Emily Bazar A website for five affiliated stem-cell clinics hails a “breakthrough” for Parkinson’s disease: “Stem Cells Replace Damaged Nerves, Reverse Symptoms.”For those of you whose lives—or whose loved ones’ lives—h...
Stem-cell transplants are only approved for a handful of rare conditions—but that hasn’t stopped for-profit clinics from using them for a host of issues.
The Truth About Yo-Yo Dieting
The Truth About Yo-Yo Dieting
Jessica Migala, Life by Daily Burn It’s so tempting: You’ve got something big coming up on the calendar that you want to look your best for. Why not diet hard and exercise a ton to get some weight off? Inevitably, though, even if you succeed, stud...
Why We Need an LGBT Census
Why We Need an LGBT Census
If you were asked to list the most pressing issues that LGBT people face in the United States, data collection probably wouldn’t be anywhere near the top.But as boring as numbers might be, they matter.“We’re fighting over LGBT rights on a daily ba...
For policy to change in the U.S., we need a better way to track and measure LGBT people.
Arts + Culture
Who Stole the Irish Crown Jewels?
Who Stole the Irish Crown Jewels?
On the morning of July 6, 1907, the cleaning woman assigned to Bedford Tower in Dublin Castle arrived at work to find the door to the safe-room standing wide open. The inner security door was closed and bolted, but the keys, which also opened the ...
Was it an inside job? Was the truth buried because of a royal sex scandal? The disappearance of the Irish Crown Jewels in 1907 remains unsolved.
Meet Gina Miller, The Anti-Brexit Star
Meet Gina Miller, The Anti-Brexit Star
The United Kingdom voted by a percentage of 52 to 48 to leave the EU in a referendum this summer.While many millions of people are far from happy about the prospect of Brexit—and not just because of the rising price of making Marmite—few are be as...
Gina Miller, an influential London fund manager, is taking Theresa May, Britain's PM, to court in what critics say is an attempt to overturn Brexit via a legal backdoor.
Do We Really Need a New Pooh Story?
Do We Really Need a New Pooh Story?
Oh bother.Now there’s another character to keep track of in the 100 Acre Wood.The Best Bear in All the World, a new book just published and timed to celebrate Pooh’s 90th anniversary (that would be today), contains four new stories, including one ...
For Winnie the Pooh’s 90th, we have a new book with a new story about everyone’s favorite bear. But maybe it’s time to stop adding to Pooh Corner.
Will ‘Heisenberg’ Capture Your Heart?
Will ‘Heisenberg’ Capture Your Heart?
Set on the sparest, most un-Broadway-like stage, Simon Stephens’s play Heisenberg is an intriguing tale of unlikely love.With a few tables and chairs, arranged and rearranged by the actors themselves, we are convincingly transported—in an unbroken...
Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt star in a play about secrets, lies, and the joy of listening to every kind of music.
Ready to Take a ‘White Privilege’ Test?
Ready to Take a ‘White Privilege’ Test?
Long before the phrase “check your privilege” became a progressive meme and a BuzzFeed quiz (“How Privileged Are You?”), Peggy McIntosh, a woman’s studies scholar at Wellesley College, wrote a totemic paper on privilege theory. In 1988, she articu...
Its critics claim the ‘white privilege’ survey in schools pushes a political agenda in an inappropriate setting, while the survey’s supporters say it spurs important conversation.
Jane Pauley: I Was Sexually Harassed
Jane Pauley: I Was Sexually Harassed
Since Jane Pauley burst upon America’s collective consciousness 40 years ago this week—as a fresh-faced 25-year-old on Oct. 11, 1976, when she began cohosting NBC’s Today program after toiling in local news in her native Indianapolis and Chicago—t...
In a candid interview, Pauley talks about an NBC executive being ‘inappropriate’ with her, her mental health struggles, and taking over CBS’s ‘Sunday Morning.’
How Brexit Almost Killed Marmite
How Brexit Almost Killed Marmite
The post-Brexit collapse of Sterling has been of largely academic interest to the majority of the British public up till now.However, Brexit got real for millions of shoppers Thursday, when the country’s biggest supermarket, Tesco, pulled hundreds...
A tussle over the price of the popular yeast extract, triggered by the falling value of the post-Brexit pound, showed how leaving the EU might disrupt everyday British life.
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