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CHANGE OF HEART
Trump Maybe “Soften” Immigration Laws
Big pivot from his previous position on undocumented immigrants.
ETHICS PROBLEM
Most Who Met Hil at State Donated to Fdn
AP review finds 55% of private visitors gave to Clinton charity.
GOOD LUCK
Trump To Hit Clinton On Crime Bill
As part of outreach to African-American voters.
STUDENT UNION
NLRB: Private Grad Students Can Unionize
SELF-DEFENSE
Scott Brown Denies Harassing Fox Host
“As a survivor of sexual abuse...”
TARGETED
FBI Probes Russian New York Times Hack
Cyber breaches were aimed at reporters.
RAMPING UP
TX Sues Over Federal Transgender Policy
On behalf of Catholic health-care network.
SCHIFF
‘Law & Order’ Star Dead at 94
Portrayed the district attorney for 10 years.
NIGHTMARE
Images Detail Zika’s Impact on Brains
And it’s worse than previously thought.
R.I.P.
U.S. Service Member Dies in Afghanistan
After an IED was triggered.
Keep ReadingShady financial ties. A fender-bender. Bailing on Hillary Clinton. It’s been a pretty tough week for the Oscar-winning actor.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Worst Week Ever
Keep ReadingThe Emmy-nominated host on how he’s changing the genre, his hopes to be ‘your friend at the end of the day,’ and whether there’s such thing as too much ‘Carpool Karaoke.’
How James Corden Changed Late Night
Keep ReadingRising New York City rents have forced Tekserve to close—but not before an auction of owner Dick Demenus’s amazing collection of vintage and esoteric gadgetry.
The Death of the Original Apple Store
Columnists
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Politics
Google Can’t Diagnose Hillary Clinton
Google Can’t Diagnose Hillary Clinton
Please do not turn to Rudy Giuliani for medical information.The former mayor of New York appeared on Fox News Sunday this past weekend to speculate about Hillary Clinton’s purported ill health. After asserting a media cover-up on her behalf, Giuli...
My advice for the internet mob is the same advice I give my patients: Don’t diagnose anyone via search engine.
Trump Keeps Trashing Your Town
Trump Keeps Trashing Your Town
Just about every single Donald Trump stump speech has the same moment. The mogul pauses, pulls a folded sheet of paper from his jacket pocket, and reads off a list of factory closures printed on it. The factories are all in the general vicinity of...
Donald Trump loves to tell crowds how pathetic their lives are and frequently rattles off names of factories that are closing. The problem: His facts are often wrong.
Trump’s Top Guy: ‘Destroy the State’
Trump’s Top Guy: ‘Destroy the State’
Why has the Trump campaign taken as its new head a self-described Leninist?I met Steve Bannon—the executive director of Breitbart.com who’s now become the chief executive of the Trump campaign, replacing the newly resigned Paul Manafort—at a book ...
The Breitbart executive director turned GOP leader boasted at a party about his goal of destroying the conservative establishment.
Does Trump Like Any American Presidents?
Does Trump Like Any American Presidents?
While We the People are busy battling it out on social media unfriending, blocking and retweeting our way to Election Day, historians will undoubtedly duke it out for decades to come trying to explain to future generations how the same nation that...
Usually, candidates say which former presidents they’d seek to emulate. But Donald Trump has no sense of history—while Hillary Clinton has too much of her own.
Manafort Thrown From Trump Crazy Train
Manafort Thrown From Trump Crazy Train
In the end, a 48-hour period in August may be remembered as the moment that Donald Trump stopped trying to win the presidency.On Wednesday, Trump announced that he had hired as the “CEO” of his campaign Steve Bannon, the chief executive of Breitba...
By the time Donald Trump brought in Steve Bannon, Paul Manafort was already dead.
Entertainment
John Oliver to Trump: ‘Drop Out’
John Oliver to Trump: ‘Drop Out’
John Oliver’s main story this week was about charter schools. But the Last Week Tonight host could not leave the HBO airwaves for a month-long hiatus before at least touching on the “racist voodoo doll made of discarded cat hair” also known as Don...
The ‘Last Week Tonight’ host proposes a third option for Donald Trump besides electoral victory or defeat.
The Women Fighting Sex Crimes in Comedy
The Women Fighting Sex Crimes in Comedy
Last week, the news of a male performer’s ban from the Upright Citizens Brigade theater burst through the bubble of the New York comedy community and entered the public conversation. And while some comics seem shocked by the allegations and UCB’s ...
For years, victims of harassment and assault in the New York comedy world were shamed into silence. Then Aaron Glaser was banned from UCB—and all hell broke loose.
Why Was I Locked Up in Guantánamo?
Why Was I Locked Up in Guantánamo?
It’s hard not to be suspicious of British Guantánamo detainee Moazzam Begg, the subject of a new documentary, The Confession, which revolves around an in-depth interview about his life before, during, and after the two years he spent in extrajudic...
Accused of links to terrorism, Moazzam Begg was kept in a 6-by-8-foot cage in Guantánamo Bay for almost two years. He still protests his innocence.
‘The Night Of’: Did Naz Really Do It?
‘The Night Of’: Did Naz Really Do It?
The first few minutes of Sunday night’s penultimate episode of The Night Of served the same purpose for viewers as it did for the jurors we’ve also become. Gruesome, graphic photos of Andrea Cornish (Sofia Black-D’Elia), the girl whose murder Nasi...
With one episode left before the season finale of ‘The Night Of,’ the defense presents its case and Naz becomes embroiled in more dark drama behind bars. How will this all end?
Natalie Portman on Israel and Palestine
Natalie Portman on Israel and Palestine
Love, darkness, moodiness, and grim solemnity mark and mar the directorial debut of Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman, who spent a decade chasing her ambitious dream project adapted from Israeli author Amos Oz’s memoirs. But while A Tale of Lo...
The Oscar-winning actress explores the creation of Israel in her moody directorial debut, ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness.’
Mel Brooks on Political Correctness
Mel Brooks on Political Correctness
In a world gone mad, Mel Brooks, now 90, is determined to get people back on his laugh track. Earlier this year, members of the Writers’ Guild of America voted for the 101 funniest screenplays of all time. Brooks was the only writer to have three ...
The 90-year-old comedy master opens up about his upcoming ‘Blazing Saddles’ event at Radio City Music Hall, political correctness, and the state of comedy today.
Is Sleep Music a Real Genre?
Is Sleep Music a Real Genre?
Entrepreneurs recently developed a pillow that plays music while you sleep. You can program it with your smartphone, and it comes equipped with a host of special features—including data analysis of your “snore score.” The pillow has its own playli...
Tunes for the unconscious are a hot music trend. But how do you assess songs you sleep through?
World News
LGBT Burmese Missed the Revolution
LGBT Burmese Missed the Revolution
RANGOON, Burma — When Moe Yan, a 19-year-old transgender sex worker in Burma, was raped at knifepoint in her friend’s house, she knew there was no point going to the police.Her community of trans women, who live on the industrial outskirts of the ...
Burma jails transgender people for wearing a ‘disguise,’ and a top aide of Aung San Suu Kyi laughs hysterically at the idea LGBT Burmese need their rights protected.
Where’s the Outrage Over Nun Beachwear?
Where’s the Outrage Over Nun Beachwear?
SABAUDIA, Italy — Go to any public beach in Italy and chances are you’ll eventually see a woman wearing a veil and long skirt. But she likely won’t be a Muslim in a version of the controversial burqini. She will almost certainly be a Catholic nun ...
While the French are banning Muslims in burqinis, Italian Catholic bishops find it ironic there’s alarm when a woman is “overdressed while swimming in the sea!”
Brazil Beats Expectations at Rio Games
Brazil Beats Expectations at Rio Games
The headlines in the lead up to the Rio Olympics could not have been more terrifying. Body Parts Wash Ashore in Sailor’s Bay! Dread Virus Spread by Mosquitos (and Sex) Sure to Afflict Athletes and Spectators! Wolf Packs of Street Criminals Prepar...
Before it started, coverage of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games left the world expecting the worst. While it is unclear if hosting the games will help Rio long-term—Brazil came through.
How Victorians Resurrected the Olympics
How Victorians Resurrected the Olympics
When we think about the history of the Olympics we tend to think about definitive moments in sporting history: Nadia Comăneci’s perfect 10; Usain Bolt’s world records, Michael Phelps’s cache of medals, and so on. If we are taking the long view we ...
We’ve always been told about the altruistic intentions of the Olympics, but what about their origins as a way to perfect Christian men at a Victorian boarding school?
The Cowboy Novels That Obsessed Hitler
The Cowboy Novels That Obsessed Hitler
The aura of Indian names—Massachusetts, Monangahela, Arapahoe County, Mississippi, Minnesota—hangs over America, even after the indigenous people are often gone. A Founding Amnesia has long erased the stories of Native Americans in history texts a...
The adventure stories of Karl May set in the American Southwest have charmed millions of Germans, but especially Hitler, who patterned Nazi policies on their plots.
Watch Brazil Go For Their First Ever ...
Watch Brazil Go For Their First Ever ...
Brazil men’s soccer team has never won Olympic gold. This year’s team, led by Neymar—widely considered one of the world’s top players—is just one step away from claiming the gold at home in Rio.Currently ranked ninth by FIFA, the Brazilian nationa...
The Epic Downfall of Medellin’s Top Pimp
The Epic Downfall of Medellin’s Top Pimp
American tourists visiting Medellín knew him as “Colombia Jake,” the friendly local American guide who made sure they had a good time. He could fix them up with an apartment, rent them a motorbike, or arrange for them a “Pablo Escobar tour,” visit...
Prostitution is legal in Pablo Escobar’s old hometown, but pimping is not—and according to police Colombia Jake was pimping little girls.
U.S.
Killer Tweeted: I’ll Murder My Roommate
Killer Tweeted: I’ll Murder My Roommate
Two days after he tweeted “I need to move out of my place before I viciously murder my roommates,” Zachary Penton called 911 and confessed to killing his roommate.Penton, of Gilbert, Arizona, was booked in Maricopa County jail after police said he...
Police say Zachary Penton confessed to killing a man he lived with two days after he tweeted he would ‘viciously murder my roommates.’
The Concert for Philando Castile
The Concert for Philando Castile
Philando Castile devoted his working life to Minnesota’s public schools, so it was fitting that one of them—his high school—honored him with a benefit concert on Sunday.Castile, who was shot dead by a police officer at a traffic stop on July 6, gr...
The event raised money for a scholarship named after Castile, who was killed by a Minnesota police officer in July.
No Punishment for Preacher-Killing Cop
No Punishment for Preacher-Killing Cop
The murder in cold blood and in broad daylight of a religious leader is horrifying enough. Especially in America, we associate our preachers with words not swords and expect them to be immune from violence. But merely a half-century ago, someone c...
In 1965 Alabama, Episcopal seminarian Jonathan Daniels was gunned down while trying to buy a Coke with two black girls. The cop who shot him was acquitted.
Everyday Heroes of the Louisiana Flood
Everyday Heroes of the Louisiana Flood
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Sanders Davis of Baton Rouge saw the Great Flood of 2016 up close and personal last week.Davis, 25, lives in the Sherwood Forest subdivision, a leafy, standard-issue middle class enclave that lies east of the 27-story Capi...
Teachers, stagehands, and countless others are helping the state recover when it almost seems like no one else will.
RIP, 747: The Jet That Changed the World
RIP, 747: The Jet That Changed the World
As epoch-ending statements go, this one was stealthy and carefully modulated: “It is reasonably possible that we could decide to end production of the 747.”And so it slipped out, in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission, first reporte...
The first wide-body jet opened air travel to the masses, created the era of first class vs. coach, and shrank the globe. Why the future belongs to smaller planes.
Tech + Health
Why Science Says It’s OK to Stay Fat
Why Science Says It’s OK to Stay Fat
The world is getting heavier. But you don’t need to lose weight. A number of news outlets have been covering a recent report out from the CDC, with headlines mostly pointing to the apparent 15-pound increase in average weight in Americans since 19...
It’s time we stop equating good health with weight loss.
Why More Young Adults Are Having Strokes
Why More Young Adults Are Having Strokes
ROCKLIN, Calif.— The headaches were excruciating and wouldn’t go away. Her doctor said they were migraines. Then, one morning a few weeks later, Jamie Hancock stood up from the couch and discovered she couldn’t move the right side of her body. Whe...
Because strokes are so often associated with older adults, young people might not see the warning signs—until it’s too late.
Dr. Drew Leads Clinton Health Truthers
Dr. Drew Leads Clinton Health Truthers
On a radio show this week, Dr. Drew Pinsky of Celebrity Rehab fame added his name to the long list of conspiracy theorists who believe that Hillary Clinton’s health could be failing—a list that so far includes the National Enquirer, Fox News host ...
Dr. Drew Pinsky, he of celebrity rehabs and adult radio, is joining the chorus of those who say Hillary Clinton is unwell and unfit to be president.
Can Bacteria Make Your Skin Healthier?
Can Bacteria Make Your Skin Healthier?
Antibacterial cosmetics are so last year; the latest craze is for face creams, serums, and washes that actually add bacteria to the skin in order to make it look younger and healthier. But experts think that these products aren’t backed up by enou...
Cosmetics companies claim that tweaking the bacteria on the skin can make it healthier. But does the science stack up?
Climate Change Behind the CA Wildfires
Climate Change Behind the CA Wildfires
The number of wildfires in California has decreased over the past 25 year, but try telling that to the hundreds of firefighters on the ground attempting to put out multiple fires raging across Northern California.Map provided by Google Maps. Appro...
Over 100,000 acres of California’s land has been scorched due to destructive wildfires.
Zika Hits Miami’s Outdoor Restaurants
Zika Hits Miami’s Outdoor Restaurants
MIAMI — August is already a slow month in Miami. Between the oppressive heat, suffocating humidity, and frequent rain, the locals who haven’t already fled to a less tropical clime prefer to stay inside. Add news of a Zika outbreak to the mix and b...
Wynwood Yard is an outdoor eatery and event space in a bustling Miami neighborhood. And three of its employees have been diagnosed with Zika.
Should Louisiana Be Scared of Zika?
Should Louisiana Be Scared of Zika?
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.
Arts + Culture
The Genius of Karen Finley
The Genius of Karen Finley
Karen Finley materialized amongst the audience at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on New York’s 42nd Street, a phosphorescent eruption of white fur and silvery sleeves, then moved stage-wards, unleashing a stream of commentary punctuated by smiles of ...
Karen Finley, famed for her transgressive performance art, has two new targets in her latest show, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton—and how they use, abuse, and revel in power.
Was This Man the Real Indiana Jones?
Was This Man the Real Indiana Jones?
When I first walk into the Holyland Bible Knowledge Society and am ushered into a lecture hall for a Bible study class, I feel like I have been tricked.I came expecting to see the treasures of the man who supposedly inspired my childhood cinematic...
In a small house in a quiet Los Angeles neighborhood, the Holyland Bible Knowledge Society honors the memory of an evangelist and relic hunter who just might be the original Indy.
How Harvey Milk Became a Navy Ambassador
How Harvey Milk Became a Navy Ambassador
Earlier this week, the U.S. Navy officially commemorated the new USNS Harvey Milk, a 677-foot fleet oiler and first navy ship to be named after a member of the LGBTQ community.It was the latest of many milestones for Milk, who was assassinated a y...
The USNS Harvey Milk is the first Navy ship to be named after a member of the LGBT community—and, like the brave advocate it is named after, it will take its message of equality ever...
The Curse of a Controversial Aristocrat
The Curse of a Controversial Aristocrat
A controversial Kenyan aristocrat of British descent who killed two local Kenyan men on separate occasions has died aged 48 of a heart attack, following complications after a routine hospital operation in Nairobi.Tom Cholmondeley (pronounced Chuml...
Tom Cholmondeley killed two black Kenyans on his father’s game reserve. Now he himself is dead, and one of the victim’s families says the curse that killed him will be visited on his...
Is Glenn Beck Suing Himself?
Is Glenn Beck Suing Himself?
Glenn Beck seems to be an endless source of nutty stories.Maybe the multimedia oddball spent too much time being spun around while strapped in a giant gyroscope that, as he told his fans, helped cure him of a mysterious brain illness that “quite h...
In a multimillion-dollar fraud, breach of contract, and dereliction of duty lawsuit, Glenn Beck appears to be suing himself, and may even end up having to pay damages to himself.
Trump TV Is Real
Trump TV Is Real
The odds are, if you believe the polls, that Donald Trump will never be president. But there is more than a possibility that the reality show billionaire will start his own television network shortly after the election.“A TV network is a logical w...
Whatever happens in the presidential election, the plan for a Donald Trump TV station is far from fanciful. Indeed, it might make extremely lucrative sense.
This Is How Gawker Died
This Is How Gawker Died
Was it a murder or a suicide?In other words, did Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel savagely kill Gawker.com—or was its demise the inevitable result of a self-inflicted wound, namely the October 2012 decision to publish a grainy sex video feat...
The site is no more—and founder Nick Denton paid tribute to its staff’s hustle and originality in a memo sent after the official death announcement was made.
Tech + Health