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Unexpected
Trump Apologizes for Previous Remarks
Doesn’t specify which ones.
Mass Exodus
2 More Fox News Execs Leave Network
Two more staffers close to Roger Ailes are out.
PROOF
Manafort Ran ‘Secret’ D.C. Ukraine Lobby
Firm covertly tried to sway U.S. public opinion.
EPIDEMIC
Report: Hackers Targeted Trump Camp
At least one staffer’s email was infected with malware.
Good Samaritan
Amber Heard Gives Depp’s $7M to Charity
Wants to “help those less able to defend themselves.”
HOT WATER
Lochte Indicted for False Crime Report
Brazilian police confirmed.
END OF AN ERA
Gawker.com Shutting Down Next Week
Days after Univision bought it.
RANSOM?
State: Iran Cash Got Detainees Released
U.S. officials held cash to time with freeing of detainees.
‘TOUGH COP’
Report: Fox Dumps Ailes’s Top Detective
Blames New York mag reporter for his termination.
End of the Saga
Dauman Ousted From Viacom
Will reportedly abandon war with Sumner Redstone.
Keep ReadingThe filmmaker behind the futuristic satire and creator of HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ dishes on why the election season ads he’s been cooking up are ‘not going to happen.’
Fox Killed Anti-Trump Ads
Keep Reading‘Nightly Show’ producer Jon Stewart helped say goodbye to Larry Wilmore on his final night as a late-night host.
Jon Stewart Sends Off Larry Wilmore
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They’re #NeverTrump but Not Yet #WithHer
They’re #NeverTrump but Not Yet #WithHer
With less than 100 days until the general election, some #NeverTrump Republicans are stuck in a political limbo: They won’t support Trump, but they also won’t endorse Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.Here’s a list of the top Republi...
They’ll do anything to avoid voting for the Republican Party’s nominee—anything but publicly endorse the other side.
Trump’s New Hire Killed GOP Unity
Trump’s New Hire Killed GOP Unity
A month after Republicans tried to unify in Cleveland, that effort appears to be canceled.Because Donald Trump’s new campaign boss hates—really, really, really hates—the Republican establishment. Stephen Bannon, who is the Trump campaign’s new chi...
If there’s one thing Steve Bannon hates, it’s the Republican establishment.
Manafort Failed, Now It’s Trump Time
Manafort Failed, Now It’s Trump Time
Honey badger don’t give a shit—and Donald Trump don’t give a shit now, either.Breitbart’s “honey badger” motto—created by the fringe website’s patriarch Steve Bannon—may well be the guiding principle for Trump’s general election campaign, because ...
Trump was never really comfortable with Manafort and his rules, so he hired someone as crazy and unqualified as he is to run his general election campaign.
Kerri Walsh Jennings: Grace in Defeat
Kerri Walsh Jennings: Grace in Defeat
Beach volleyball queen Kerri Walsh Jennings may not have had any practice at losing at the Olympics, but she seemed good even at that.After Walsh Jennings lost her first of 26 Olympic matches and saw her chances for a fifth gold medal evaporate af...
The queen of beach volleyball remained generous and gracious even as she unexpectedly lost her chance at a fifth gold medal.
Watch: Trump Says Your Town Sucks
Watch: Trump Says Your Town Sucks
Wherever you live, if Donald Trump comes to town, he'll probably tell you it sucks. Typically it's because all your jobs have disappeared. Or maybe you have a tremendous problem with drugs. Or perhaps, as he said on at least one recent o...
Everywhere the Donald goes, he quickly informs his audience their town is a basket case.
Entertainment
Trump Is ‘Futurama’s’ Zapp Brannigan
Trump Is ‘Futurama’s’ Zapp Brannigan
The internet asked for the voice actor behind Futurama’s Zapp Brannigan to recite a bunch of Donald Trump quotes in the voice of Captain Brannigan, and that’s exactly what the internet got during this chaotic election.In recent months, politically...
The voice of ‘Futurama’s’ vain, misogynistic, and clueless warmonger has transformed his iconic character into Trump.
Noah Mocks Trump’s Lame Black Outreach
Noah Mocks Trump’s Lame Black Outreach
Besides the decision to name Breitbart executive Steve Bannon as his campaign chief, this week hasn’t seen any truly devastating gaffes from within the Trump campaign. But that doesn’t mean The Donald is back on track.On Tuesday, Trump made his pi...
‘The Daily Show’ host dismantles Donald Trump’s ignorant pitch to African-American voters.
Leo’s Real-Life Embezzlement Scandal
Leo’s Real-Life Embezzlement Scandal
When was the last time a celebrity scandal—not a body part—truly broke the internet? In the age of long lens paparazzi, 24/7 reality TV coverage and conscious uncoupling, we’ve been subsisting on cheap, disposable drama and scripted Bachelor break...
The Oscar-winning actor’s charity and the production company behind ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ have come under scrutiny for ties to a $3 billion embezzlement scandal.
Trump’s Bizarre ‘Seinfeld’ Connection
Trump’s Bizarre ‘Seinfeld’ Connection
Back in May, billionaire businessman and now pro-Hillary Clinton celeb Mark Cuban declared that Donald Trump was going to run “the Seinfeld campaign.”“It’s going to be the campaign about nothing,” he predicted.Today, Cuban’s mocking comment takes ...
Stephen Bannon, who’s produced right-wing propaganda docs, also used to front a company that owned a big chunk of several sitcoms—including ‘Seinfeld.’
Bella Hadid Bares All
Bella Hadid Bares All
Bella Hadid has followed in the footsteps of her older sister Gigi, 21, and posed nude for a high-end fashion magazine. The 19-year-old stunner—who is dating Canadian R&B crooner The Weeknd—will grace the cover of the coveted September issue ...
The supermodel—and little sister of Gigi—has bared all for the French edition of Vogue magazine.
Inside Barack and Michelle’s First Date
Inside Barack and Michelle’s First Date
In the summer of 1989, future history books will teach the children of the world, 25-year-old Chicago lawyer Michelle Robinson reluctantly went on a non-date-date with a cute Harvard Law student named Barack Obama that changed America. That day is...
Writer-director Richard Tanne’s Linklater-esque romantic drama hits theaters Aug. 26. But how accurately does it depict the moment the Obamas began to fall in love?
Colin Quinn: Trump Doesn’t Get ‘Sarcasm’
Colin Quinn: Trump Doesn’t Get ‘Sarcasm’
A few days after the third season of his under-the-radar but consistently hilarious web series Cop Show premiered on YouTube, Colin Quinn gave The Daily Beast a call to talk about it from the Comedy Cellar in New York City, where he was set to per...
The former ‘Weekend Update’ anchor talks about how he left ‘SNL,’ Donald Trump’s sense of humor, and the third season of his web series ‘Cop Show.’
World News
How the Olympics Wound Up in Brazil
How the Olympics Wound Up in Brazil
In 2009, at the IOC congress in Copenhagen, Rio de Janeiro, unusually, chose the nation’s central-bank president, Henrique Meirelles, rather than a former Olympian or leading politician, to give the keynote address to the committee, due later in t...
There are many ways things can go wrong, but when it comes to the story of how Brazil convinced the world it should host the Olympics, everything went horribly awry.
Did a Super Cartel Take El Chapo’s Son?
Did a Super Cartel Take El Chapo’s Son?
In the annals of the gruesome Mexican narcowars, the kidnapping of jailed drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s son and heir apparent at the beginning of the week is, to say the least… strange.In the dark early hours of Monday morning, heavily arm...
The most mysterious fact of Alfred Guzmán’s capture is that he was captured at all. Rival narco kings kill their enemies. What gives?
Monastery Murder Over Stolen Relics
Monastery Murder Over Stolen Relics
ROME — You are forgiven if the spooky details of the mysterious death of a priest in a monastery in northern Italy call to mind Umberto Eco’s famous thriller The Name of the Rose. But this story is not a fictional tale of historical intrigue; it i...
A kleptomaniac cleric is charged with strangling and killing a 92-year-old monsignor in Italy.
How Manafort Helped Incite Ukraine Chaos
How Manafort Helped Incite Ukraine Chaos
Donald Trump’s suddenly demoted campaign chief Paul Manafort, it has been revealed, was investigated a year ago in Ukraine for “conspiring with a criminal organization” and “inciting ethnic hatred and separatism” to promote a pro-Russian governmen...
The Donald’s top adviser, now fallen from grace, allegedly masterminded a kleptocrat’s short-lived comeback in Ukraine—which ended in revolution and exile.
U.S. Can’t Stop Hezbollah’s Killer Drone
U.S. Can’t Stop Hezbollah’s Killer Drone
As if Syrian regime forces, Russian airstrikes, and internal squabbling weren’t enough to worry about, Syrian rebels have apparently now come under attack from Hezbollah drones dropping bombs.On Aug. 9, the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group post...
The cheap commercial drone the militant group deployed to bomb Syrian rebels in Aleppo could soon be seen above battlefields all over the world—and it’s way ahead of U.S. defenses.
Russia Teams Up With Iran to Bomb Syria
Russia Teams Up With Iran to Bomb Syria
Russia has deployed bomber aircraft to Iran for air strikes on rebels in Syria, the Russian defense ministry confirmed on Tuesday.As the main backers of the regime of Syrian president Bashar al Assad, Russia and Iran have long been de facto allies...
The attacks mark a closeness between Moscow and Tehran that hasn’t been seen since World War II.
U.S. Kept Quiet After Americans Attacked
U.S. Kept Quiet After Americans Attacked
PARIS — It’s been more than a month since soldiers in South Sudan, a country that gets more than a billion dollars a year in U.S. assistance, singled out American aid workers for beatings and abuse amid an orgy of theft, intimidation, and gang rap...
Soldiers in South Sudan singled out American aid workers amid an orgy of theft and gang rapes last month. The UN didn’t stop them, and the U.S. said nothing.
U.S.
How to Help Louisiana Flood Victims
How to Help Louisiana Flood Victims
In what’s been called the worst national disaster since Superstorm Sandy, southern Louisiana has suffered severe flooding that has left thousands displaced and 11 reported dead.As thousands of volunteers from all 50 states have rushed to assist th...
These emergency organizations are asking for donations to help the stricken state.
Arab Cops Come Out of the Shadows
Arab Cops Come Out of the Shadows
DEARBORN, Michigan — As Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson looked out to the crowd of police officers before him, there sat women in hijab and officers with origins from Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. Some welcomed each other in Arabic with a c...
The Middle East Law Enforcement Officers Association, started by a female Palestinian and a male Chaldean, are the ‘ground force’ in the fight against extremism, Homeland Security Se...
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.
Watch: Trump Says Your Town Sucks
Watch: Trump Says Your Town Sucks
Wherever you live, if Donald Trump comes to town, he'll probably tell you it sucks. Typically it's because all your jobs have disappeared. Or maybe you have a tremendous problem with drugs. Or perhaps, as he said on at least one recent o...
Everywhere the Donald goes, he quickly informs his audience their town is a basket case.
![U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responds forcefully to intense questioning on the September attacks on U.S. diplomatic sites in Benghazi, Libya, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington January 23, 2013.]()
State to Release Deleted Clinton Emails
Date has not been announced.
Murder Suspect Hated Arab Victim
Murder Suspect Hated Arab Victim
An Oklahoma man who allegedly shot and killed his Arab-American neighbor called the man’s family “filthy Lebanese” who “throw gay people off the roof,” according to Tulsa police.Police say Stanley Vernon Majors, 61, shot and killed Khalid Jabara, ...
Stanley Majors of Tulsa, Oklahoma, allegedly shot and killed his neighbor after several years of escalating harassment against the Arab-American family.
Tech + Health
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?
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.
3-D Printed Guns Could Crush Gun Control
3-D Printed Guns Could Crush Gun Control
Legislators can pass bills for things like universal background checks and the “no fly, no buy” rule, but those policies target if someone can purchase a gun. Things become a lot more complicated when citizens can make their own guns at home—and t...
As the technology becomes cheaper and more widely available, tackling 3-D printed guns is going to be a massive challenge.
Inside NYC’s Radical Egg-Freezing Clinic
Inside NYC’s Radical Egg-Freezing Clinic
In a November episode of The Mindy Project, a pajama-clad Dr. Lahiri told an auditorium of bright-eyed college students that their baby days were numbered.“Your body does not care if you are dating the wrong guy, or [if] the guy you’re with is als...
Extend Fertility, a new private clinic in Manhattan, offers egg freezing at half market price. It’s also the first standalone practice of its kind in the U.S. How beneficial will it ...
James Patterson: Prostate Test Saved Me
James Patterson: Prostate Test Saved Me
On June 21 I had prostate surgery. The operation was a success and my recovery has been smooth. But this isn’t about me. It’s a plea to men out there who are over forty.Talk to your doctor about PSA testing. All the test requires is a blood sample...
A prostate cancer survivor, the bestselling author advises men over 40 to get a PSA exam as the simple first step in diagnosing the disease—and maybe saving your life.
Jesus Wants Me to Smoke This Joint
Jesus Wants Me to Smoke This Joint
When Rhode Island State Police arrived to arrest 46-year-old Alan Gordon for growing pot, he was on the toilet. The armed officers, startled, subbed out the typical “put your hands above your head” for a more relevant directive: “wash them.” Accor...
One Rhode Island group claims that when they’re lighting up a joint, it’s for religious reasons. Are they genuinely devout, or do they just want to get high?
Your Kids Are Better Behaved Than You
Your Kids Are Better Behaved Than You
There’s something terribly wrong with kids these days: a series of major surveys, conducted by the government every two years, suggest that they might just be the most well-behaved generation in recent memory.Teens are increasingly swearing off al...
Hard-partying Baby Boomer parents are more tolerant of drugs and alcohol, and their liberal attitudes may be paying off in an unexpected way.
Arts + Culture
The Young Royals’ New Power Base
The Young Royals’ New Power Base
Kensington Palace is among the most misunderstood of royal residences. To outsiders, the elegant pavilion designed by Sir Christopher Wren for King William and Queen Mary in the 1690s, and bordering the western edge of London’s unrivalled series o...
With the forthcoming arrival of Princess Eugenie, Kensington Palace is transforming into a dynamic HQ for the young royals. How does Prince Charles feel about that?
How Ailes Became the Trump Whisperer
How Ailes Became the Trump Whisperer
In a presidential campaign that has defied every reasonable prediction and flouted every tradition of American politics, finally here’s a story that surprises hardly anyone.If it’s true that ousted Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes has been advising D...
Having supplied similar counsel to Nixon, Reagan, and Bush Sr., the disgraced ex-Fox News chairman is aiding Donald Trump in his Hillary Clinton debate prep.
School Sex Assault Victim to Be Named?
School Sex Assault Victim to Be Named?
An elite New Hampshire boarding school has denied reports that it wishes to publicly identify the victim of a high-profile campus sexual assault in a civil suit against the school.On Monday, several reports that St. Paul’s School had asked a feder...
Exclusive New Hampshire boarding school St Paul’s has denied it wants to name the victim publicly, but would like her name to be used in court in an upcoming civil suit.
‘Cats’ Is Back and It’s Irresistible
‘Cats’ Is Back and It’s Irresistible
It could be the early 1980s all over again, the time when, as a young, country-living boy, I was taken by my parents to see Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats in London.The revolving stage—an innovation I remember being dazzled and gobsmacked over—was ama...
It feels resolutely ’80s, and it has no strong plot, but the magic of Mr. Mistoffelees and ‘Memory’ still makes Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical a winner with audiences.
Trump Dresses Like a Spoiled Rich Kid
Trump Dresses Like a Spoiled Rich Kid
Throughout our current election cycle, the ideas and opinions of Donald Trump have been examined, analyzed, and argued about constantly. However, what hasn’t been talked about so often is his style. I believe that the way a man dresses says a lot ...
The clothes the GOP candidate wears tells us all we need to know about a man whose idea of dressing well extends no further than how expensive his clothes are.
The Van Gogh That Keeps Getting Stolen
The Van Gogh That Keeps Getting Stolen
Since his death over a century ago, Vincent van Gogh has become something of a poster child for tormented artists. His life was troubled and tragic, plagued by mental illness and anxiety that resulted in his now notorious act of madness, cutting o...
One museum in Egypt has faced the indignity of having the same Van Gogh painting stolen not once, but twice, and ‘Poppy Flowers’ (1887) remains missing to this day.
The True Secret To Staying Young
The True Secret To Staying Young
After the age of 21, your body slowly stops releasing an important hormone known as HGH (Human Growth Hormone), which covers everything from gray hair to sex. It’s all downhill from there—that’s all I have to say.When I was recently invited to spe...
To remain engaged and excited by reading, writing, and by life itself, says a seasoned novelist, we must constantly seek to discover the new, to engage the unknown.
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