
Group reportedly brought Apple software flaw to bureau.
According to former Senator Bob Graham.
"Well, look, it was Mayor de Blasio's skit."
According to new report.

Says family was unaware of process.
Police seize documents linked to massive leak.
Mostly for fraud investigations, stolen credit cards.
from Mott & Bow
His second violation in six months.

In Portland county courtroom.

Washington and the cast of ‘Confirmation’ talk the surprising timeliness of Hill’s story, the impact of her testimony, and how we still treat women who ‘come forward.’

A new documentary goes inside a supermax prison to experience solitary confinement, which experts call unnecessary and prisoners say is torture. Watch an exclusive clip here.

Fox News’ loudest curmudgeon stepped in it Monday evening when he made a bizarre claim about black people.
Before the Clintons and Donald Trump were at each other’s throats in the 2016 election, they were pals who exchanged holiday cards and autographed books.A series of documents released by The William J. Clinton Presidential Library on Tuesday highl...
He didn’t always think Hillary Clinton was a lying liar. He used to be in correspondence with former President Bill Clinton somewhat frequently, according to new records released by ...
Could Bernie Sanders be starting to look ever so slightly like just another pol? Not to his besotted legions, of course. For them, nothing can tarnish the great man. But for other voters, the past week may mark a turning point in the way he’s perc...
It’s past time for the Vermont pol to start explaining himself.
A soap opera star with big, blond hair; an ex of Mike Tyson who went on to pose topless on the cover of Playboy; a dismissive supermodel; a socialite fashion designer who, at the time, was married to a billionaire businessman; and an Olympic figur...
Donald Trump likes to talk about his sexual prowess, but these famous women were mortified to be part of the conversation.
Before the Clintons and Donald Trump were at each other’s throats in the 2016 election, they were pals who exchanged holiday cards and autographed books.A series of documents released by The William J. Clinton Presidential Library on Tuesday highl...
He didn’t always think Hillary Clinton was a lying liar. He used to be in correspondence with former President Bill Clinton somewhat frequently, according to new records released by ...
No wonder Donald Trump calls himself an ardent philanthropist.He has likely made millions off it.He is not just some cheap miser who avoids digging into his pocket for charity, as The Smoking Gun and The Washington Post have described him.He does ...
Not only does the GOP frontrunner avoid giving any of his own money to charity, he manages to make some serious profits from his ‘donations.’
One of the ongoing mysteries in Washington is why the Obama administration is still classifying 28 pages of a congressional report written in 2003 that documents Saudi support for the hijackers who carried out the 9/11 attacks.The bipartisan co-au...
Ten days before Obama heads to Saudi Arabia, a new report explores the making of the 28 pages that reveal Saudi support for the 9/11 hijackers—and shows why they should be made public.
It’s been three days since Hillary Clinton and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered a controversial joke and they are still taking heat.The comedy sketch, which took place at the annual Inner Circle dinner on Saturday night, involved Clint...
The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah does not know what Hillary Clinton was thinking with that “Colored People Time” joke.
“You know, there’s some interesting parallels between this presidential election and the movie Captain America: Civil War,” Jimmy Kimmel said Monday night as part of the kick-off for his show’s synergistic Marvel week. “Both of them feature former...
What if Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders starred in Marvel’s newest blockbuster?
Samantha Bee took the past two weeks off and, as she remarked at the top of tonight’s new Full Frontal, “Dang, things have gotten ugly since we left.”And for once, she wasn’t talking about the Republicans.After playing some clips of the latest sni...
On Monday night’s ‘Full Frontal,’ Samantha Bee attempted to demystify the superdelegate system.
Tituss Burgess has a room. His keyboard is in there, along with his music books, the posters of all the Broadway shows he’s appeared in over his career, and, the most recent addition, the plaque he received when he was nominated for an Emmy Award ...
The ‘Kimmy Schmidt’ star reflects on one of the most meaningful years of his life, escaping the ‘bunker’ of his past, and becoming a wine magnate with his line of pinot noir.
“You know, there’s some interesting parallels between this presidential election and the movie Captain America: Civil War,” Jimmy Kimmel said Monday night as part of the kick-off for his show’s synergistic Marvel week. “Both of them feature former...
What if Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders starred in Marvel’s newest blockbuster?
The Panama Papers leak might just be the ideal news story for John Oliver. Not only does it have wide-reaching global implications, but most Americans don’t really seem to know what all the fuss is about. That’s where the Last Week Tonight host ca...
Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver opened his show this Sunday with a recap of the week’s biggest news story that not enough people are talking about.
On April 13, Kobe Bean Bryant will don his Lakers jersey for the last time. And during this, his 20th and final NBA season, Bryant has received an extended valediction fit for a king, replete with a plethora of celebrations, movie star-commercials...
The NBA legend has received a hero’s sendoff during his final season. But there’s one incident that will always taint Bryant’s career.
“You don’t question the motherfucking queen, bitch.”RuPaul Charles, at this point on a first-name basis with the world much like his fellow “Unapologetic Bitch,” Madonna, is nothing if not direct. The host of RuPaul’s Drag Race—not to mention drag...
With a new game show and more than 100 episodes of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ Mama Ru pauses for a moment of reflection: ‘I get to do whatever the f*** I want.’
The Panama Papers leak might just be the ideal news story for John Oliver. Not only does it have wide-reaching global implications, but most Americans don’t really seem to know what all the fuss is about. That’s where the Last Week Tonight host ca...
Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver opened his show this Sunday with a recap of the week’s biggest news story that not enough people are talking about.
LONDON — Pedophile panic has struck one of Britain’s least lovely seaside towns. A vigilante gang of mothers claimed they had broken up a brazen pedophile ring operating in plain sight.In reality, they were just ruining the vacation of a small gro...
They saw something. They said something. And they, and their thousands of Facebook followers, got it so incredibly wrong for an unfortunate group of travelers.
A Swiss law firm implicated in the Panama Papers also has links to an alleged Russian mafia, The Daily Beast has discovered.As reported last week in the disclosure of leaked documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, the Zurich-based ...
The trove of leaked documents has already revealed the billions swirling around Putin. Now a Swiss firm named in the papers appears to have links to Russian organized crime.
PARIS — It was a chilly Sunday night and Tobias, 20, had been strolling through a dark forest near his home in northwestern Sweden when an American stranger called.The American (me) was the seventh such random foreigner to have dialed him since Sw...
A Stockholm-based tourist association has posted a number that will put you through (sometimes) to one of 10,000 random volunteers ready to talk about … anything.
“Welcome to the Maiquetia Simón Bolívar International Airport,” said the stewardess with a metallic voice as our plane touched down on Venezuelan soil. The excitement of a family reunion and anguish over the situation in the country shook me out o...
A trip home to a country coming apart.
A Swiss law firm implicated in the Panama Papers also has links to an alleged Russian mafia, The Daily Beast has discovered.As reported last week in the disclosure of leaked documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, the Zurich-based ...
The trove of leaked documents has already revealed the billions swirling around Putin. Now a Swiss firm named in the papers appears to have links to Russian organized crime.
Lt. Cmdr. Edward Lin was once celebrated by the American military for his personal journey, from his native Taiwan to service in the U.S. Navy, where he became an officer and eventually an American citizen. “I always dreamt about coming to Americ...
He says he grew up dreaming of Disneyland in his native Taiwan. But after he joined the U.S. Navy, defense officials say, accused spy Edward Lin’s life took a much darker turn.
On April 10, 2016, dozens of people were injured when the police fired tear gas onto a group of migrants trying to break through a fence on the Greece-Macedonia border.
On April 10, 2016, dozens of people were injured when the police fired tear gas onto a group of migrants trying to break through a fence on the Greece-Macedonia border.
Islamic State jihadists destroyed the Arc du Triomphe in October 2015, along with other historic sites in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.
Islamic State jihadists destroyed the Arc du Triomphe in October 2015, along with other historic sites in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.
Lt. Cmdr. Edward Lin was once celebrated by the American military for his personal journey, from his native Taiwan to service in the U.S. Navy, where he became an officer and eventually an American citizen. “I always dreamt about coming to Americ...
He says he grew up dreaming of Disneyland in his native Taiwan. But after he joined the U.S. Navy, defense officials say, accused spy Edward Lin’s life took a much darker turn.
When it comes to fighting anti-LGBT legislation in North Carolina and Mississippi, the entertainment industry has been running laps around sports leagues and putting corporate America to shame.Yes, PayPal withdrew 400 planned jobs from the Tar Hee...
From entertainers like Bruce Springsteen to production studios like Lionsgate, Hollywood has promised to boycott North Carolina in light of its discriminatory HB 2 law.
LOS ANGELES — After three years chasing down a serial killer, Dennis Kilcoyne spends his retirement growing lilacs.As a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department, Kilcoyne led the “800 Task Force” (named after the same room at headquarters)...
Lonnie Franklin Jr. is on trial for 10 murders. The cop who arrested him says it’s 30. LaWana Wilson says she was almost No. 31.
Richard L. Seech, 60, has been with his partner since 1996. They share a home in Pittsburgh, maintain joint bank accounts, raise two cats together, and are the primary beneficiaries on each other’s wills. They were married on June 4, 2014, just tw...
Richard Seech taught in the Pennsylvania schools for 34 years, but when he asked the school system to pay for his partner’s health coverage, they turned him down.
When it comes to fighting anti-LGBT legislation in North Carolina and Mississippi, the entertainment industry has been running laps around sports leagues and putting corporate America to shame.Yes, PayPal withdrew 400 planned jobs from the Tar Hee...
From entertainers like Bruce Springsteen to production studios like Lionsgate, Hollywood has promised to boycott North Carolina in light of its discriminatory HB 2 law.
Anti-abortion Facebook rants are a First Amendment right, a University of New Mexico medical student says. But his school, which allegedly threatened to expel him over his social media activity, says differently.After University of New Mexico medi...
After he wrote an anti-abortion screed, a medical student says the University of New Mexico gave him two options: change his Facebook post or get out.
A San Diego-based Iraqi couple allegedly enslaved a domestic worker in their home, forcing her to work up to 18 hours a day with no pay, according to charges filed in federal court Friday.Firas Majeed and Shatha Abbas moved to California from Duba...
Forced to work up to 18 hours a day with no pay, the domestic worker allegedly escaped by passing a note to a nurse in her native language, authorities say.
Data storage is getting more reliable every year, but if that causes concern over whether or not you’ll be able to protect yourself by destroying sensitive data, worry not: even the most advanced technologies of the future will crumble with the st...
Every storage medium comes with caveats—there may never be a ‘forever’ solution.
When it comes to fighting anti-LGBT legislation in North Carolina and Mississippi, the entertainment industry has been running laps around sports leagues and putting corporate America to shame.Yes, PayPal withdrew 400 planned jobs from the Tar Hee...
From entertainers like Bruce Springsteen to production studios like Lionsgate, Hollywood has promised to boycott North Carolina in light of its discriminatory HB 2 law.
A new University of Virginia study suggests that many medical students and residents are racially biased in their pain assessment, and that their attitudes about race and pain correlate with falsely-held beliefs about supposed biological differenc...
We know the disparity is linked to racial discrimination on some level, but struggle to put our finger on the one cause.
A major development in the biology of skin stands to change the way we handle everything from the treatment of burn victims to the cosmetics industry: working, lab-grown skin that performs all the functions of the epidermis.A paper published this ...
For the first time, scientists have made skin that sweats, grows hair, and is ready to work when grafted.
When it comes to fighting anti-LGBT legislation in North Carolina and Mississippi, the entertainment industry has been running laps around sports leagues and putting corporate America to shame.Yes, PayPal withdrew 400 planned jobs from the Tar Hee...
From entertainers like Bruce Springsteen to production studios like Lionsgate, Hollywood has promised to boycott North Carolina in light of its discriminatory HB 2 law.
A few weeks ago I was sitting at one of my favorite lunch spots writing an article about our dysfunctional relationship with our bodies, and how fitness culture contributes to this dysfunction. As a couple of girls at the next table were getting u...
We're collectively ruining one of our greatest natural highs.
Sugar is a delectable enemy. Once thought to hold the secret to health, it is now believed to be fueling an obesity epidemic that encompasses 640 million people worldwide.Despite an abundance of evidence about its dangers, Americans just can’t qui...
Americans are eating more sugar than ever. Could another addictive substance stop our infinite sweet tooth?
When a few bad scientists have caused years of setbacks with faulty data on things like global warming and vaccines, it’s easy to demonize “incorrect” science and bad hypotheses as bad for humanity. And in some cases that’s true.But sometimes a li...
Newton’s fascination with alchemy didn’t turn lead into gold, but it did lead to revelations about visible light.
A few weeks ago I was sitting at one of my favorite lunch spots writing an article about our dysfunctional relationship with our bodies, and how fitness culture contributes to this dysfunction. As a couple of girls at the next table were getting u...
We're collectively ruining one of our greatest natural highs.
Walking up to the Queens Museum, nestled in a bucolic park of the New York City borough, there was a mass of black-clad, middle-aged rockers, hipsters, and children sporting leopard print tights and sunglasses.Well over a thousand people were in q...
The spirit of punk has been rendered mild, rather than wild, at the Queens Museum’s show dedicated to the legendary band.
Prince William and wife Kate are to visit India from Sunday as part of a week-long royal tour in the region that will also include a side trip to the mountain kingdom of Bhutan.The couple have undertaken numerous foreign royal tours since their ma...
Prince William and Kate are off to India and Bhutan, and if they’ve learned any lesson about a royal tour so far, it’s that the pomp can conceal a cultural and etiquette minefield.
One hundred years ago this month, the Ohio city of Cincinnati made a fateful decision. The city’s voters, by a majority of almost six-to-one, approved a bond issue to provide about $6 million of public money toward the construction of a two-track,...
A hundred years after construction began, the shell of a subway tunnel still lies beneath the Ohio city’s streets, empty and unfinished.
LONDON — We’re greeted by a wall of screens pulsing with Mick Jagger’s trademark strut and snatches of the great Rolling Stones’ riffs and licks.The footage at the start of Exhibitionism, a massive gallery show devoted to the Rolling Stones in Lon...
The Rolling Stones have created a lavish, over-priced celebration of themselves at the Saatchi Gallery. It's hard not to love them for it.
Prince William and wife Kate are to visit India from Sunday as part of a week-long royal tour in the region that will also include a side trip to the mountain kingdom of Bhutan.The couple have undertaken numerous foreign royal tours since their ma...
Prince William and Kate are off to India and Bhutan, and if they’ve learned any lesson about a royal tour so far, it’s that the pomp can conceal a cultural and etiquette minefield.
Gwyneth Paltrow, doyenne of everything New Age, can generally be relied on to sniff out the most obscure body-mind practices and products from far corners of the earth, delivering mugwort vaginal steaming from the fringes to the masses via her lif...
It’s meant to be a meditative, relaxing experience, the bather enveloped by reverberations from instruments like tuning forks, crystal singing bowls, and gongs. Shame about the sledg...
As it turns out, Beyoncé is not the only one who carries hot sauce in her bag.The spicy condiment is currently having a moment, as proclaimed proudly in Beyoncé’s hit song, ‘Formation’. More than half of all American households, according to the N...
Poor old mayo and ketchup. More than half of all American households currently have a bottle of hot sauce lurking on a shelf.
Over the past few weeks, the Film Center at New York’s Lincoln Center screened all 14 movies by maverick film director Sam Peckinpah. Peckinpah may be less revered than Stanley Kubrick or Martin Scorsese but he always had a devoted following—he wa...
On the set of ‘The Getaway’ in El Paso, everyone from Steve McQueen to Slim Pickens agreed that Peckinpah was unpredictable, more than a mite scary, and a helluva movie director.
Gwyneth Paltrow, doyenne of everything New Age, can generally be relied on to sniff out the most obscure body-mind practices and products from far corners of the earth, delivering mugwort vaginal steaming from the fringes to the masses via her lif...
It’s meant to be a meditative, relaxing experience, the bather enveloped by reverberations from instruments like tuning forks, crystal singing bowls, and gongs. Shame about the sledg...
Colin Furze’s fans asked him to build a jetpack. What he’s designed is even stranger.
By The Daily Beast VideoA British study shows how the brain works on acid, and it’s pretty trippy.
The world’s tiger population has been in decline for over a century—until now.
Petitioners want a billboard in St. Augustine reading ‘Islam Bloody Islam’ taken down.
The nightmare of a contested convention is only a slim possibility for Democrats.
Petitioners want a billboard in St. Augustine reading ‘Islam Bloody Islam’ taken down.
By Nathan PlaceThe nightmare of a contested convention is only a slim possibility for Democrats.
By Nathan PlaceThe world’s tiger population has been in decline for over a century—until now.
A Chinese army-backed newspaper has accused the animated American movie of eroding Chinese culture.
A phone number created by Sweden’s tourism bureau connects the world to random Swedes.
In an age of racism and sexism, Katherine Johnson broke both barriers at NASA.
A phone number created by Sweden’s tourism bureau connects the world to random Swedes.
By Nathan PlaceIn an age of racism and sexism, Katherine Johnson broke both barriers at NASA.
By Nathan PlaceA Chinese army-backed newspaper has accused the animated American movie of eroding Chinese culture.



















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