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THE KING
Arnold Palmer Dead at 87
Of complications from heart problems.
ALARMING
Police Check Neighborhood Watch Racism
Members of Louisiana group warned to watch young black men.
TRUTH SQUAD
Debate Head: No Fact-Checks By Moderator
Janet Brown says moderators shouldn’t be an “Encyclopedia Britannica.”
SCATHING
Power to Russia: Stop Syria ‘Barbarism’
“Instead of pursuing peace, Russia and Assad make war.”
BACK TO NORMAL
Charlotte Mayor Lifts Curfew
After days of chaotic protests over fatal police shooting.
FREE EXPRESSION
Oculus Execs Weigh In on Palmer Luckey
Luckey apologized for funding anti-Hillary Internet memes.
TIP-TOEING
Pence: Trump’s Flowers Tweet Not Serious
Says Gennifer Flowers will not be at the debate.
CONGRATS
Jane Pauley to Lead ‘CBS Sunday Morning’
Replacing Charles Osgood.
NO TRIAL
Jordan Man Killed for Anti-Islam Cartoon
Outside courthouse where he was standing trial.
VINDICATION
1968 Anthem Protesters to Meet Obama
The Olympic athletes were expelled from the games over their raised-fist protest.
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Harry Belafonte’s Festival for Change
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How to Watch the First Presidential D...
How to Watch the First Presidential D...
After months of threatening to pull out of the debate and suggesting that there should be “no moderator,” it seems as though Donald Trump will finally face the music– and Hillary Clinton– at the first presidential debate on Monday night at Hofstra...
Trump and Clinton will square off head to head at the first presidential debate of the 2016 election.
Here’s Hillary’s Debate Knockout Punch
Here’s Hillary’s Debate Knockout Punch
Kenneth Baer, a former Obama Administration official, runs Crosscut Strategies; Jeff Nussbaum is a partner at West Wing Writers. Together, they oversaw the speechwriting operation at the 2016 Democratic convention and were once speechwriters for V...
When the topic is cultural politics, Trump bites back. But when it’s class politics, his answers are lame—or he’s just silent. Therein lies the key.
Was Gennifer Flowers Invite Real?
Was Gennifer Flowers Invite Real?
Two days before the first presidential debate that could determine the trajectory of the general election, Donald Trump took to Twitter to taunt Hillary Clinton with the possibility that he would invite one of her husband’s former mistresses to si...
Just a day after Donald Trump threatened to rattle Hillary by bringing one of Bill's mistresses, the Trump campaign wasn't exactly clear if the invite was legitimate.
Dumbest Generation, Worst Election
Dumbest Generation, Worst Election
And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.Deeply depressed by the rise of Donald Trump and fearful for our nation’s future, I recently found myself reciting the...
“They know nothing about art. They know nothing about history. They know nothing about philosophy.”
How Truman Reinvented Campaigning
How Truman Reinvented Campaigning
On a Monday night in the spring of 1948, a group of President Harry Truman’s advisers met for their weekly gathering at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., overlooking Rock Creek Park. Over steak dinner, the men discussed the president’s r...
In a chapter from ‘Whistlestop,’ his new book about presidential campaign history, the Face the Nation moderator describes how Harry Truman rose from the dead in 1948.
Entertainment
Jamie Lee Curtis: ‘I Was a Dope Fiend’
Jamie Lee Curtis: ‘I Was a Dope Fiend’
Jamie Lee Curtis knows exactly how to work a crowd.Talking about her current children’s book, This Is Me, before a diverse collection of devoted fans at Barnes and Noble in Bethesda, Maryland, the author/actress comes across as a blithe spirit; sp...
The acclaimed actress and star of Fox’s ‘Scream Queens’ dishes on her new children’s book ‘This Is Me’ and much, much more.
Bill Maher: Tulsa Cop ‘Also a Victim’
Bill Maher: Tulsa Cop ‘Also a Victim’
Last week, 40-year-old Terence Crutcher—who is black—was gunned down after his SUV was stopped on the street in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Several police cameras captured Crutcher, unarmed and with his hands over his head, absorbing a fatal gunshot wound fr...
The ‘Real Time’ host shared his thoughts on the controversial shooting of the unarmed Crutcher—which has resulted in manslaughter charges being brought against the officer.
Maureen Dowd: Bush Really Hates Trump
Maureen Dowd: Bush Really Hates Trump
This week, reports surfaced indicating that former President George H.W. Bush, aka Bush 41, would be voting for Hillary Clinton this presidential election instead of his party’s candidate, former reality star Donald J. Trump. The news, unsurprisin...
The New York Times columnist joined Bill Maher on ‘Real Time’ where she shared some fascinating stories about former POTUS George H.W. Bush and Donald J. Trump.
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...
The New ‘Mystery Show’: The Election
The New ‘Mystery Show’: The Election
The woman who made one of most popular podcasts in the world has ended her sabbatical in the most obvious way: She’s now producing (and sometimes guest starring in) a separate podcast about gambling on the election, hosted by a domain name reselle...
‘Mystery Show’ show host Starlee Kine has finally emerged after a long disappearance with a new podcast about gambling on the election.
Shondaland Is Back. Blessed Are We.
Shondaland Is Back. Blessed Are We.
I don’t remember when I first fell in love with Shonda Rhimes. It may have been the first time Scandal cold opened with an extended sex scene set to a groovy Motown track. Or it might have been when Annalise Keating, the star of Rhimes’s 2014 offe...
Thursday night blessed us with the return of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘How to Get Away With Murder,’ two miraculous shows in which women rule the world and every twist is f**king bonkers.
Joe Biden’s Crazy ‘SVU’ Episode
Joe Biden’s Crazy ‘SVU’ Episode
When the news broke that Vice President Joe Biden, Obama’s perpetually grinning, ice cream and choo-choo train-loving boy Friday, would be appearing on an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, our imaginations went into overdrive. Woul...
The episode, airing Sept. 28, is a riff on the series ‘Making a Murderer,’ about a man whose rape conviction was overturned then finds himself—once again—accused of rape.
World News
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.
Forest Guardians Beat Back the Cartels
Forest Guardians Beat Back the Cartels
MORELIA, Mexico — One day in the late spring of 2012, Mexican police pulled over Efrén Olivares Valdez and told him he was delivering his truckload of raw pine resin to the wrong refinery. The grandfatherly driver, a leader of his indigenous triba...
Mexico’s drug lords aren’t satisfied with gang wars and narcotics trafficking. Their corruption runs deep in rural life. But some folks fight back.
One Woman Against The Mafia
One Woman Against The Mafia
ROME — Letizia Battaglia has smelled the blood and heard the desperate cries of despair caused by the Sicilian Mafia’s wrath. At 81, this truly extraordinary photographer remembers not just the moments of horror she witnessed, but what was going o...
Italy’s best known photographer of the Mafia reflects on her life-long battle against it and how the mob is changing to adapt to modern times.
On the Front Lines Approaching Mosul
On the Front Lines Approaching Mosul
GISMA, Iraq — The convoy rumbles through this village along the dusty road that has taken it across the Tigris and to the fraying edges of the Islamic State.We are now about 60 kilometers, or 40 miles, from Mosul, captured by ISIS in 2014 and by f...
Obama wants to take back the second biggest city in Iraq before he’s out of office. These are some of the guys that are going to have to do the fighting.
Pope Francis: Thou Shalt Not Gossip
Pope Francis: Thou Shalt Not Gossip
ROME — It is certainly no secret that Pope Francis frowns upon idle chatter. Since taking the helm of the Roman Catholic Church in 2013, he has scolded his priests and nuns and parishioners on countless occasions against wagging tongues. “Gossip i...
The pontiff warned journalists not to use their craft for fear-mongering and spreading lies.
Russia’s Brutal Pro-Trump Coverage
Russia’s Brutal Pro-Trump Coverage
MOSCOW — If you think the American elections look ugly where you are, you should watch the coverage in Russia. News about them is all over Russia’s mainstream media, and it’s brutal.When Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tried to p...
In recent weeks, Russian broadcasters have proclaimed Hillary Clinton dead and praised Trump as a great statesman. Hard to know which is more bizarre.
Back to School in World’s Murder Capital
Back to School in World’s Murder Capital
Sophia* has a cascade of dark curls and Cupid’s-bow lips that impose happiness on her whole face regardless of what she’s saying. Even when, in an empty classroom, the 15-year-old goes over a bleak list of options for surviving one of the most dan...
In El Salvador, students are afraid to study and teachers say doing their job is more dangerous now than it was during the bloody 10-year civil war.
U.S.
The Man Who Went Full Trump for FDR
The Man Who Went Full Trump for FDR
It’s still hard to believe that Americans would fall for such a demagogic smear campaign: The false corruption charges, clouding past actions in shadowy tales of double-dealing. The "birther" attempts to question the president's ver...
He made up stories to smear the opposition and barely backpedaled when called out—Charlie Michelson perfected the nasty art of political mud-slinging.
The History of Bombs and Terror in NYC
The History of Bombs and Terror in NYC
New York is no stranger to explosives. Over the past century the city has endured bombings carried out by lunatics, extortionists, and extremists of all stripes. In the first decade of the 20th century, the criminal organization known as the Black...
New York has endured three phases of terror in the last hundred years. Unfortunately, with regard to the current one, there’s no end in sight.
They Have Faith Their Church Will Change
They Have Faith Their Church Will Change
They're young, liberal, LGBTQ+, pro-choice, feminist, science loving, climate change accepting, and immigrant welcoming. They're evangelicals.No, this is not a report from an alternate universe, where history took a different turn. This ...
They are often pro-gay, vote Democrat, and are pro-choice, but their churches aren’t. Can they convince their brethren to change?
The Great American Dog? Coyote
The Great American Dog? Coyote
Forget those pampered pooches at the local kennel club, the coyote is the great American dog. Environmental historian Dan Flores tracks the pedigree, chronicles the plight, and sings the praises of Canis latrans in his new book, Coyote America: A ...
Not only has the animal survived genocidal attempts at its destruction, it’s thrived and expanded from the arid southwest to the concrete canyons of New York.
Protest Killer Flashed Guns on Facebook
Protest Killer Flashed Guns on Facebook
The North Carolina man charged with murdering a protester on Wednesday was arrested early Friday morning.Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Chief Kerr Putney announced at a press conference that the department’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Team arrest...
Rayquan Borum was arrested for shooting Justin Carr in the head at a protest Wednesday and made his fondness for firepower clear on social media.
Tech + Health
The Real Dangers of Food Porn
The Real Dangers of Food Porn
By K. Aleisha Fetters, Life by Daily Burn We’re only a week and a half into September, but this month has already celebrated National Gyro Day, National Baby Back Ribs Day, National Cheese Pizza Day, National Coffee Ice Cream Day, National Beer Lo...
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.
Is This the End of Lesbian Media?
Is This the End of Lesbian Media?
Lesbian bars have been closing for years. Lesbian websites may not be far behind.On Tuesday, AfterEllen editor-in-chief Trish Bendix announced on her Tumblr that the 14-year-old site for lesbian and bisexual women “will be effectively shutting dow...
Why is it so hard to keep queer women’s media in business?
Two-Headed Calf Is ‘Lucky’ Indeed
Two-Headed Calf Is ‘Lucky’ Indeed
Raising cattle in Campbellsville, Kentucky, Stan McCubbin is used to things that would make most people squeamish. But even he wasn’t expecting one of his cows to give birth to a double-headed calf last Friday.Walking along the farm’s property, Mc...
A Kentucky farmer got a surprise last Friday when one of his calves was born with two heads.
Arts + Culture
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 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.
Ex-Exec Sues ‘Paranoid’ Glenn Beck
Ex-Exec Sues ‘Paranoid’ Glenn Beck
The abrupt end of a beautiful friendship—nearly two decades of mutual admiration between struggling media entrepreneur Glenn Beck and his fired top executive, Christopher Balfe—has become a legal battle of ugly accusations that only promise to get...
The Blaze owner has driven his company ‘into the ground due to his own erratic behavior, excessive spending, and mismanagement,’ his ex-top executive alleges.
‘Drug-Dealing’ Aristocrat Shot Dead
‘Drug-Dealing’ Aristocrat Shot Dead
The daughter of one of Britain’s most notorious aristocrats, Tony, the 3rd Lord Moynihan, has been found shot dead on a Philippines street, making her one of the most high-profile victims of President Rodrigo Duterte’s extra-judicial war on drugs ...
The body of Aurora Moynihan was found dumped on a Manila street last week with a hand-written sign alleging she was a drug dealer to celebrities.
Actors Reveal the Real Edward Albee
Actors Reveal the Real Edward Albee
The actor Bill Irwin’s friendship with Edward Albee began when Irwin appeared in The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? in 2002, opposite Sally Field; on Broadway in 2005 he played George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, opposite Kathleen Turner as Martha...
The playwright could be inscrutable, difficult, warm, and funny, recalls Bill Irwin, while Eileen Fulton remembers how he led her to put out a fire on stage.
This Is the Global Language of Grief
This Is the Global Language of Grief
A loud bang reverberated throughout the hall of New York’s Park Avenue Armory, like a gunshot, then the sound of mourning began: a dissonant chorus of sorrowful chants, cymbals and drums, humming, and caterwauling.It was just after sundown, and a ...
Visitors attending Taryn Simon’s monumental installation piece, ‘An Occupation of Loss,’ which explores grieving rituals from around the world, will leave shaken and stirred.
How to Win the Emmys Red Carpet
How to Win the Emmys Red Carpet
On the Emmys red carpet, Claire Danes dazzled in Schiaparelli, Taraji P. Henson in Vera Wang, and Ellie Kemper in Jenny Packham.
On the Emmys red carpet, Claire Danes dazzled in Schiaparelli, Taraji P. Henson in Vera Wang, and Ellie Kemper in Jenny Packham.
Politics