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Trump: I Should’ve Mentioned Lewinsky
Applauded himself for “holding back on indiscretions.”
CALLED OUT
Latina Miss Universe Thanks Hillary
Clinton confronted Trump with “Miss Housekeeping” comment about Latina pageant winner.
R.I.P. #16
Marlins Pay Tribute to Fernández
An emotional Dee Gordon smashed first-inning homer.
LOVE IS FLEETING
Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts Splitting
After 11 years together.
Blunt Talk is Back
The British Are Here: Expats on Elect...
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BOOMERANG
Clinton Nails Trump for Pregnancy Remark
Trump denies making controversial remark while video circulates showing otherwise.
COME ON
Howard Dean Asks: Is Trump on Cocaine?
Asked the shocking question during first debate.
RESPECT
LeBron Supports Kaepernick’s Protest
But won't kneel during the national anthem.
CONSPIRACY THEORY
Trump Says Debate Mic Was ‘Defective’
‘I wonder. Was that on purpose?'
SAY WHAT?
Trump: I Have a Winning Temperament
The Republican nominee's temperament comment gets laughs from the audience.
Keep ReadingThe same day he released his first memoir, the Boss released ‘Chapter and Verse,’ including five never-before-heard songs. Here are seven more songs you need to hear.
The Best Bruce Songs You’ve Never Heard
Keep ReadingThe fourth season of Comedy Central’s hilariously drunken history lesson promises a Lin-Manuel Miranda cameo and lots of bad decisions.
‘Drunk History’s’ S**tfaced Brilliance
Keep ReadingShe’s one of the most successful Broadway actresses…ever. On TV Land’s ‘Younger,’ she plays a 41-year-old pretending to be 26. Sutton Foster tells us what both ages have taught her.
The Ceaseless Charm of Sutton Foster
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Trump Shouts and Raves as Hillary Speaks
Trump Shouts and Raves as Hillary Speaks
The first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump arrived as the former secretary of state’s lead over the reality television show host has been whittled down to single digits (depending on the poll, anywhere from a statistical tie to a si...
As Lester Holt stays mostly out of the way during the first 2016 presidential debate’s opening minutes, Donald Trump keeps interrupting Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Must Embrace Reform Tonight
Hillary Must Embrace Reform Tonight
The Saturday before the big debate, Hillary Clinton was closeted with staff doing what she does best: prepare. Donald Trump was out doing what he does best: lie. Trump is the worst and best of liars; easy to catch, impossible to shame. Clinton’s s...
Fact-check Trump tonight? ‘Expose’ him? No. Just own the reform that angry voters are ravenous for.
Glenn Beck Breaks Up With Cruz
Glenn Beck Breaks Up With Cruz
Glenn Beck nervously paced back and forth through his TV studio designed to look like the Oval Office.“He’s gonna call?” the conservative stalwart sheepishly asked. Beck was a lovesick puppy questioning whether his wayward one-and-only, Ted Cruz, ...
The conservative radio host and the Texas senator went their separate ways Monday after a tense confrontation. Beck came out wondering whether he should’ve backed Marco Rubio.
Watch: SNL’s Best Fake Debates
Watch: SNL’s Best Fake Debates
In American presidential politics, Saturday Night Live’s debate parodies have become almost as important a tradition as the debates themselves. Over the years, the show has delivered lines that outlasted anything actually said in the debates—e.g. ...
From Will Ferrell’s ‘strategery’ to Larry David’s uncanny Bernie Sanders impression, watch some of the show’s most legendary spoofs.
Does Hillary Want to Shut Down Fracking?
Does Hillary Want to Shut Down Fracking?
By C. Eugene Emery and Lauren CarrollThe weekend before the first presidential debate, Donald Trump went to Roanoke, Virginia, to talk about energy.“Here, in Virginia, we are going to end the war on American energy and on our miners. Hillary Clint...
Donald Trump says the Democratic nominee wants to ‘shut down’ shale and natural gas, and put coal miners out of work. Here’s why he’s partially right.
Entertainment
Photos: Remembering Buckwheat Zydeco
Photos: Remembering Buckwheat Zydeco
Born Stanley Dural Jr., the musician better known as Buckwheat Zydeco died at age 68.
Born Stanley Dural Jr., the musician better known as Buckwheat Zydeco died at age 68.
The 12 Most Iconic TV Presidents
The 12 Most Iconic TV Presidents
Over the course of American history, all 44 presidents have been men and all but one have been white men. On television, our presidents have been a far more diverse bunch.Eight years into the Obama presidency and with the potential first female pr...
As America approaches our most consequential election yet, we look back at some of television’s most dynamic fictional presidents.
How ‘Transparent’ Changed Jeffrey Tambor
How ‘Transparent’ Changed Jeffrey Tambor
Jeffrey Tambor has a story he likes to tell about his role playing trans woman Maura Pfefferman on Transparent.The first season of the Emmy-winning Amazon series had aired and the actor, previously best known for his comedy work on Arrested Develo...
Jeffrey Tambor and Judith Light talk Season 3, their education on trans issues and rights, and how they talk to their friends about the progressive show.
Harry Belafonte’s Festival for Change
Harry Belafonte’s Festival for Change
Elegant. The adjective describes Harry Belafonte perfectly. First, there is his presence. This is a man who could look equally compelling in a tux or a basic tank top and whose cultural dexterity enables him to wear either to fit the social world ...
Harry Belafonte has been at the forefront of social change for more than half a century. Now he’s mounting a music festival in Atlanta to promote his goals.
John Oliver: Trump Shadier Than Hillary
John Oliver: Trump Shadier Than Hillary
On the eve of the first presidential debate, a broadcast event moderated by NBC News’ Lester Holt that’s expected to attract as many as 100 million viewers, John Oliver returned to his Last Week Tonight hosting duties after a month-long hiatus (an...
The ‘Last Week Tonight’ host broke down the so-called scandals associated with the two presidential candidates and found Trump’s to be far, far worse.
‘The Simpsons’: Mr. Burns Becomes Trump
‘The Simpsons’: Mr. Burns Becomes Trump
When The Simpsons first debuted on The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987, there had never been anything quite like it. Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie proved that nothing is sacred, turning the historically tame, kid-friendly medium of television ca...
The longest-running animated sitcom is back for its 28th (!) season, reminding us why we fell in love with the show in the first place.
Japan’s Perverted Spider-Man
Japan’s Perverted Spider-Man
In Hentai Kamen 2, the second film adapted from a manga whose title translates, more or less, to “Pervert Mask,” the Japanese give tired superhero clichés a kinky twist with the heroics of a panty-sniffing deviant who gains superpowers by slipping...
The super-horny sequel ‘Hentai Kamen 2’ features a sexual deviant whose crotch can stop bullets and who gets his powers by huffing women’s panties.
World News
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.
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.
Dien Bien Phu's Costly Unlearned Lessons
Dien Bien Phu's Costly Unlearned Lessons
In the fall of 1953, the fortunes of the Vietminh Communists looked brighter than ever in their seven-year war against Vietnam’s erstwhile colonial masters, the French. General Vo Nguyen Giap, chief architect and strategist of the People’s Army of...
In 1953, a hard fought battle between French and Vietnamese forces finished off France as a colonial power and eerily presaged the fate of the US in Vietnam a decade later.
Corbyn Wins: Hard Left Kills Off Labour
Corbyn Wins: Hard Left Kills Off Labour
At 11:45 a.m. Saturday morning, Theresa May, the newly ensconced leader of the Conservative Party, won a handsome victory at Britain’s next general election. It was also the time, the precise moment, when the Labour Party ceased to exist as a func...
After a year of Corbyn’s ineffectual leadership, Labour had a chance to return to mainstream politics. Instead, its members chose to indulge in the sanctimony of permanent opposition.
Pippa Middleton’s Hacker ‘Arrested’
Pippa Middleton’s Hacker ‘Arrested’
Just last weekend, Pippa Middleton gave an interview in which she bemoaned the intrusion into her privacy which her position as sister of the future queen, Kate Middleton, occasions.Today, those fears have taken on a nightmarish reality with the n...
A man has reportedly been arrested by British police after 3,000 photos stolen from Pippa’s account were offered for sale.
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.
U.S.
Trump’s White Firewall in Peach State
Trump’s White Firewall in Peach State
Sheryl-Ann Pruitt has managed to get a few things right. Keeping up the premiums on her late ex-husband’s life insurance policy was one of them. The other was getting hired on at an auto assembly plant, located an hour or so outside of Atlanta.Tha...
‘Ain’t no way in hell I’m voting for Hillary,’ she says. ‘I know she’s lying when she opens her mouth.’
Powerful Pictures of Charlotte’s Protest
Powerful Pictures of Charlotte’s Protest
Protests continued to roil Charlotte, North Carolina, this weekend after the fatal shooting of Keith Scott by police.
Protests continued to roil Charlotte, North Carolina, this weekend after the fatal shooting of Keith Scott by police.
Accused Seattle Shooter’s Sordid Past
Accused Seattle Shooter’s Sordid Past
The social media profiles for the alleged killer in a Burlington, Washington shooting spree depict a young man fascinated by guns, video games, and serial killers.Police arrested 20-year-old Arcan Cetin on Saturday night, after he allegedly opened...
The man accused of killing five people in a Seattle-area mall left a trail online of passion for guns and serial killers, as well as a reputation for being dangerous for women.
Is Columbus Day Going Extinct?
Is Columbus Day Going Extinct?
On the second Monday of October, many businesses in the United States will be closed for a federal holiday officially known as Columbus Day. Businesses in the entire state of Alaska, however, will be closed for Indigenous Peoples Day, after Gov. B...
Colleges, cities, small towns, and even states are changing the name of the controversial holiday, and if the trend continues it may be gone completely.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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