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OOPS
Johnson Can’t Name One Foreign Leader
“I guess I’m having an Aleppo moment.”
DISPLEASED
Obama: ‘Mistake’ to Override 9/11 Veto
Called the vote a “political” one.
WHAT?
Utah Man May Have Gotten Zika From Tears
His dying father may have had 100,000 times the normal level of the virus.
NOT GOOD
Ten State Election Databases Hacked
Chances of more cyberattacks before election day are high.
Blunt Talk is Back
Brit Expats on Election 2016
from Blunt Talk is Back
RESPECT
Obama: Flags At Half-Staff for Peres
Honoring the passing of the former Israeli president.
CATCHING UP
U.S. Extradites Man Over Genocide Claims
Rwandan professor accused of helping to massacre Tutsis.
ABOUT TIME
CA Ends Statute of Limitations for Rape
With bill inspired by allegations against Bill Cosby.
SCREWED UP
El Cajon Man ‘Pointed Device at Officer’
Causing officer to fatally shoot him.
NOT FORGOTTEN
‘NCIS’ Showrunner Glasberg Dies at 50
Passed away in his sleep in Los Angeles.
Keep ReadingAfter Ann Coulter canceled her appearance on Chelsea Handler’s Netflix show at the last minute, the host spent most of the episode tearing her to shreds.
Chelsea Handler Burns Ann Coulter
Keep ReadingHBO—or at least reporters who cover HBO—has long promised that ‘Westworld’ could succeed Westeros as its next great epic. It fails in that respect, but shows potential.
Westworld Isn’t the Next Game of Thrones
Keep ReadingRush Limbaugh was quick to dub Trump foe Alicia Machado ‘porn star Miss Piggy’ because someone who looked like her appeared in porn. It wasn’t her, though.
The Race to Smear Hil’s Miss Universe
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Skittish GOP Doesn’t Want to Talk Trump
Skittish GOP Doesn’t Want to Talk Trump
Skeptical Republicans were coming around. Donald Trump was gaining momentum and the polls were tightening.Then he had a train wreck of a debate.He got put on his heels by Hillary Clinton early, gave a confusing answer on his years-long “birther” c...
Donald Trump bombed his first general election debate, leaving prominent Republicans who were just warming to him ducking for cover.
Al Gore Coming to Clinton’s Rescue?
Al Gore Coming to Clinton’s Rescue?
Climate change got only fleeting attention on the debate stage Monday night, but when Donald Trump lied by insisting he’d never said global warming is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese, his 2012 tweet saying just that was re-tweeted tens of thousa...
A Democrat who knows a thing or two about third-party challenges, environmental dangers, and the once and perhaps future first family waiting in the wings.
Everyone Knows Trump’s Racist—but Trump
Everyone Knows Trump’s Racist—but Trump
Donald Trump may be one of the last people in America who doesn’t know that he is a bigot. After weeks of alleged “outreach” to black and Muslim communities, the GOP nominee Monday night littered the debate stage with racial stereotypes, doubling ...
A candidate incapable of acknowledging his own shortcomings keeps doubling down on them.
Pentagon Cringes at Trump’s War Talk
Pentagon Cringes at Trump’s War Talk
Troops based at the Pentagon watched Monday’s presidential debate—and grimaced. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump discussed the final days of the war in Iraq, the self-proclaimed Islamic State, and NATO in largely simplified terms. But in the ...
The first presidential debate had heads shaking in Arlington, as the candidates oversimplified war, counterterrorism, and cybersecurity.
Trump to Machado—Sit-Ups or You’re Fired
Trump to Machado—Sit-Ups or You’re Fired
Few (if any, really) of Hillary Clinton’s celebrity surrogates are as personally acquainted with Donald Trump’s history of misogyny and denigration as former Miss Universe Alicia Machado.On early Tuesday afternoon, she appeared on a press call hos...
The medically overweight nominee forced Machado to exercise in front of reporters to keep her Miss Universe job in 1997. Now he won’t let it go.
Entertainment
Colbert Blasts Trump’s ‘Fat-Shaming’
Colbert Blasts Trump’s ‘Fat-Shaming’
One night after he tore into Donald Trump for threatening to confront Hillary Clinton with her husband’s infidelities, Stephen Colbert was at it again, this time taking on the Republican candidate’s rediscovered history of “fat-shaming” women who ...
The ‘Late Show’ host went after Donald Trump Wednesday night for his decades of ‘fat-shaming.’
Seth Meyers on Trump’s Tax Slip-Up
Seth Meyers on Trump’s Tax Slip-Up
The bar was set so low for Donald Trump in the first presidential debate—basically refrain from spinning his head and projectile vomiting like the demon-child in The Exorcist—that pundits right and left were predicting a victory for the blustering...
The ‘Late Night’ host dissected the first presidential debate—including several of Trump’s more bogus claims.
Norman Lear on Trump vs. Archie Bunker
Norman Lear on Trump vs. Archie Bunker
TV legend Norman Lear has a metaphor he likes to use when talking about Donald Trump.“I think Donald Trump is the middle finger of the American right hand,” Lear tells me. For a segment of the population tired of leadership failing them, Trump is ...
The 94-year-old TV legend puts an end to those Donald Trump and Archie Bunker comparisons, discusses his legacy, and previews his new docuseries, ‘America Divided.’
Colbert Hits Trump’s Lewinsky Threats
Colbert Hits Trump’s Lewinsky Threats
The opening credits of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert featured a very special guest Tuesday night. Each time the announcer mentioned one of the night’s guests, Donald Trump popped up in the corner to give the same rejoinder he hurled at Hillar...
The ‘Late Show’ host broke down Donald Trump’s various excuses following a loss in the first presidential debate.
‘Daily Show’: Trump ‘Spinning’ His Loss
‘Daily Show’: Trump ‘Spinning’ His Loss
On Monday, Donald Trump became the first presidential candidate to enter the so-called spin room and talk directly to reporters after a general-election debate. And it wasn’t because he won.“Normally the candidates leave it up to their surrogates ...
Host Trevor Noah took on all the post-debate reactions Tuesday night, including Donald Trump’s foray into the spin room.
Clinton Camp’s Victory Lap on ‘The View’
Clinton Camp’s Victory Lap on ‘The View’
Robby Mook was feeling a lot better this morning, just a couple of weeks after he may or may not have caught pneumonia from his boss.The Hillary Clinton campaign manager had booked his appearance on The View well before last night’s first presiden...
Robby Mook could not have been more pleased with Hillary Clinton’s debate performance.
Gigi Hadid Speaks Out After Attack
Gigi Hadid Speaks Out After Attack
On bad weeks, the internet can read like a laundry list of shit that women have to put up with. On Monday night, women across the world got to watch a former secretary of State deploy the face we use when an obnoxious dude won’t stop talking to us...
After being attacked by a serial celebrity harasser last week, Vogue cover model Gigi Hadid has strong words in favor of self-defense and ‘model behavior.’
World News
How Shimon Peres Got Nukes for Israel
How Shimon Peres Got Nukes for Israel
PARIS —Shimon Peres is recognized as a great statesman and will be remembered after his death early Wednesday morning at age 93 as a passionate advocate of peace between Israel’s Jews and the Arabs of the Middle East.With a longer view, historians...
Renowned for his decades-long quest for peace in the Middle East, Shimon Peres’s greatest triumph was his cunning and successful plan to bring nuclear weapons to Israel.
U.S. Warned of Attack on Syria Aid Group
U.S. Warned of Attack on Syria Aid Group
Two days prior to devastating aerial attacks, Michael Ratney, the U.S. special envoy to Syria, was told the Assad regime was planning to hit the Aleppo facilities of the Syrian Civil Defense, a volunteer rescue group.Raed al-Saleh, the head of the...
The Obama administration, desperate to save a shattered Syrian ceasefire, seems to have ignored concrete intelligence of an atrocity to come.
Mexico Can’t Stop Lying About a Massacre
Mexico Can’t Stop Lying About a Massacre
MEXICO — The lives of dozens of Mexican families were forever altered when bullets rained down on their sons, rural college students who dreamed of one day becoming teachers.Two years ago this Monday, a convoy of corrupt police ambushed students t...
The government claims the missing students were murdered by the cartels and incinerated en masse. But experts say they doubt that’s the truth.
If You Knew Putin Like We Know Putin…
If You Knew Putin Like We Know Putin…
Russia has come to occupy an outsize role in U.S. foreign policy and the forthcoming U.S. presidential election, and who knows more about the Bear than the Baltic States—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania? They were devoured by the Soviet Union on the...
Estonia’s president and Lithuania’s foreign minister talk to The Daily Beast about the menace Moscow poses to them, Europe, and the United States.
The Biggest Myths About Jesus Christ
The Biggest Myths About Jesus Christ
1. Jesus wasn’t tall and white. We’ve said it before but it bears repeating: Jesus was not the light-haired blue-eyed icon of European art. The problem isn’t limited to European painters: Willem Dafoe, Robert Powell, and Diogo Morgado have all bro...
Was he really a pacifist? And what did he think about marriage? Oh, and there’s that whole thing about the color of his skin…
How Francis Has Changed the Church
How Francis Has Changed the Church
President John Quincy Adams once said, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” The popular enthusiasm surrounding the papacy of Pope Francis is, in part, a testament to his highly co...
Despite being in office only a few years, Pope Francis has already created significant change in the ministry of the Catholic Church.
Socialite Beat the Nazis By Playing Dumb
Socialite Beat the Nazis By Playing Dumb
PARIS—If you’re going to have an obit in The New York Times, it would be hard have a more intriguing headline than this one from March 2000: “Gertrude Sanford Legendre, 97, Socialite Turned Hunter and Prisoner of War,” unless they’d added, as they...
Big game hunter, legendary French Riviera partier, and a quintessential WASP—Gertrude Sanford was also a vital U.S. spy who managed to outmaneuver the Nazis after being captured.
U.S.
Drug Lab Blast Kills Firefighter Royalty
Drug Lab Blast Kills Firefighter Royalty
A gas explosion tore through an alleged Bronx drug lab Tuesday morning, killing a second-generation firefighter and rattling neighbors.Firefighters were on the scene an hour before the 7:30 a.m. explosion, responding to reports of a gas leak at a ...
A Tuesday morning explosion killed second-generation FDNY Chief Michael Fahey, whom the FDNY called a ‘brave man’—just like his dad.
Stuck in Jail as Cops Killed Her Husband
Stuck in Jail as Cops Killed Her Husband
The day Terence Crutcher died, his widow was stuck in jail.Frenchel Johnson, Crutcher’s common-law wife of 16 years and the mother of his three children, was incarcerated on an assault charge Sept. 16. That evening, Officer Betty Shelby fatally sh...
First she was locked up for tangling with a neighbor. Then she found out her husband had been shot dead. Now she’s in a legal battle with his family.
Refugees: Right-Wing Sheriff Targeted Us
Refugees: Right-Wing Sheriff Targeted Us
The plainclothes officer was on Dollarsai Yurgh’s property with an assault rifle to “audit the vote,” he said. But the scene looked more like a stickup.“Show me your hands!” the officer allegedly yelled, pointing his gun at Yurgh. When he finally ...
The Hmong community of Northern California is suing a lawman obsessed with ‘voter fraud’ for allegedly scaring them from the polls with assault rifles.
Right-Wing Gala Honors Freddie Gray Cops
Right-Wing Gala Honors Freddie Gray Cops
The conservative Media Research Center took a victory lap on behalf of the six Baltimore police officers who arrested Freddie Gray before he died from the result of an injury sustained in their custody last year.The self-appointed “media watchdog”...
The Media Research Center paid tribute to three Baltimore police officers involved in the arrest of the young black man who later died.
Crime Is Up, but Trump Is Still Wrong
Crime Is Up, but Trump Is Still Wrong
Violent crime spiked in several major cities last year, pushing the national murder rate up by double digits, according to newly released annual crime data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.The FBI's 2015 Uniform Crime Report was made ...
The FBI reports murders jumped 10 percent last year, prompting fears of a new crime wave straight out of the GOP nominee’s nightmares—or dreams, if he thinks it will help him politic...
Tech + Health
Trump’s Online Trolls Turn on ‘Daddy’
Trump’s Online Trolls Turn on ‘Daddy’
One of Donald Trump’s most ardent fringe message boards appeared to turn on its candidate of choice during Monday night’s debate, saying he “got played” and that “this was not supposed to happen.”4chan, the alt-right forum that Trump and his campa...
The alt-right diehards of 4chan, who’ve helped power the GOP nominee’s campaign with racist memes, were none too thrilled about his ‘400-pound’ hacker comment at the first debate. Th...
‘Nursebots’ Will Make Shortages Obsolete
‘Nursebots’ Will Make Shortages Obsolete
For years, the U.S. has experienced a shortage of registered nurses. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that while the number of nurses will increase by 19 percent by 2022, demand will grow faster than the supply, and that there will be over ...
By 2022, one million nurse jobs will be unfilled—leaving patients with lower quality care and longer waits. But what if robots could do the job?
Trump Techbro Sparks Pro-Hillary Revolt
Trump Techbro Sparks Pro-Hillary Revolt
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Oculus Rift developers are donating to Hillary Clinton in direct response to news that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is backing a political action group pushing “shitposts” on behalf of Donald Trump.Some developers ...
The Daily Beast revealed Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey as a Trump “shitposting” sugar daddy. Now the Virtual Reality community is coming out hard for Hillary Clinton.
Jim Carrey Lawsuit Just Got Uglier
Jim Carrey Lawsuit Just Got Uglier
The wrongful death lawsuit against Jim Carrey just went from strange to stranger.In an amended complaint filed Thursday, Mark Burton, the estranged husband of Jim Carrey’s late ex-girlfriend Cathriona White, is claiming that the Liar, Liar star ga...
A lawsuit that alleges the actor had involvement in the death of Cathriona White was amended Thursday. It claims Carrey gave White multiple sexual transmitted diseases, including her...
Facebook, Stop Messing With the Election
Facebook, Stop Messing With the Election
“You’re on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls!”In 2004, that’s how ex-Daily Show anchor Jon Stewart famously rebutted Crossfire host Tucker Carlson’s allegation that he had gone too soft on John Kerry. Seven years...
Still denying it’s a media company, Facebook says it’s just a technology company. But given its influence on the election, how much longer can it keep up the charade?
Facebook Fat Cat Funding Trump Memes
Facebook Fat Cat Funding Trump Memes
A Silicon Valley titan is putting money behind an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and circulating internet memes maligning Hillary Clinton.Oculus founder Palmer Luckey financially backed a pro-Trump political organization ...
Palmer Luckey—founder of Oculus—is funding a Trump group that circulates dirty memes about Hillary Clinton.
Please Do Not Hack Your Own EpiPen
Please Do Not Hack Your Own EpiPen
EpiPens are so expensive that some people are trying to make their own. But the makeshift cure might be just as dangerous as a severe allergic reaction.After pharmaceutical company Mylan acquired the EpiPen patent in 2007, the emergency allergy me...
In response to EpiPen’s 600 percent price hike, some users are hacking cheap, DIY versions at home. But experts warn of infection and overdose.
Arts + Culture
Will and Kate’s So-What Tour of Canada
Will and Kate’s So-What Tour of Canada
It’s hard now to believe that just over three years ago, several hundred journalists, cameramen, and news crews spent several weeks in one of London’s hottest summers standing, sitting, and even sleeping on a pavement outside a London hospital wai...
William, Kate, George, and Charlotte are visiting Canada on what was intended to be a high-profile family tour. But so far it has registered a big fat zero on the global news feed.
Royal Canadian Touchdown
Royal Canadian Touchdown
Prince George demonstrated he has the right stuff to be King today, showing a promising mastery for one so young at the art of the royal wave as he arrived with his mother Kate Middleton, father Prince William and sister Princess Charlotte at the ...
The royals have kicked off their big Canadian tour with a crowd-pleasing appearance at Victoria airport in British Columbia
Trumpet Lessons, Life Lessons
Trumpet Lessons, Life Lessons
My Aunt Harriet took me up on the bus to the Wurlitzer store on Sutphin Boulevard and bought a used trumpet, which she paid for with bills and change from the grandmother’s purse. Afterwards, each Saturday morning, my mother gave me three dollars ...
In an excerpt from his autobiographical novel—his first published work in a decade—Jimmy Breslin describes his first trumpet lessons, and stumbles upon a scene of heartbreaking beauty.
How a White Trash Girl Stumbled on Grace
How a White Trash Girl Stumbled on Grace
I am a writer. It seems unlikely yet inevitable that I should have become one. I didn’t go to college, have no degree, but I do have what they call, “a past.” I was named after my father, Willie, a con artist, card sharp, and sometimes garden-vari...
Her father was a thief, her mother a drunk, but Billie Livingston was determined to be a writer. She succeeded, then it got hard, and then the magic happened.
The ‘Great British Bake Off’ Break Down
The ‘Great British Bake Off’ Break Down
If Nigel Farage and Brexit are the hard, political manifestation of the never-ending existential crisis of what it means to be British, then the BBC TV show the Great British Bake Off is their gentler, custard-soaked cultural counterpart.Bake Off,...
There is nothing more British than a TV baking show. But Bake Off has accepted an appetizing $99m deal to abandon the BBC and there’s a sour taste in everyone’s mouth.
The Curse of Being a Royal Nobody
The Curse of Being a Royal Nobody
When Lord Ivar Mountbatten made the recent decision to come out as gay in the British media, he was identified as “the Queen’s cousin,” which is a somewhat economically truthful version of the real situation—he is actually the queen’s third cousin...
The recent coming-out of a distant relative of Queen Elizabeth highlights the perils inherent in the business of being a minor royal—you do have the name, but not much else.
The Play Putting Dubya on Trial
The Play Putting Dubya on Trial
President George W. Bush was found guilty of war crimes last night at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. The jury vote was 6-3.Don’t worry if you didn’t know the 43rd president was on trial. This was an off-Broadway verdict, the conclu...
In a new play, Bush is charged with three overarching crimes resulting from the war in Iraq—and every night a jury of audience members votes on whether he is guilty or not.
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