Dallas shooter appears to have acted alone.
Calls for thorough investigation.
Micah Johnson stockpiled rifles, ammunition, and ballistic vests.
Says blacks are far more likely to have bad experience with cops.
After days of being invisible.
Day after Dallas shooting targeting police officers.
And carried an SKS semi-automatic rifle.
Fearing a repeat of attacks on police officers.
Touched down at an Air Force base.
Elderly victim in Utah.
When Swissair flight 111 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1998, besides the terrible and huge loss of human life, the ocean also claimed much of the plane’s lucrative luggage, like...
After this year’s ‘woke’ Tonys and BET Awards, the Teen Choice Awards will honor a performer with a history of tone-deaf responses to race. The timing couldn’t be worse.
The shock jock returned to radio Friday afternoon, ranting that he didn’t mean to incite violence against President Obama, or start a race war. Then he said he didn’t take anything b...
Over the past several years, numerous police killings of unarmed black men have fueled a growing outrage that ultimately gave birth to the Black Lives Matter movement. This week, a lone gunman used that movement as a platform to shoot 12 police of...
While the shooting of 12 police officers at a Dallas Black Lives Matter protest has ratcheted up the rhetoric on all sides, some of the worst reactions have come from the right.
A former Nixon adviser, a conspiracy theorist radio host, two African-American singing sisters, a group of bikers and a self-proclaimed “Second Amendment advocate”will join forces in Cleveland on July 18 to hold a rally for a former reality televi...
A host of his fringiest supporters will join up to kick off The Donald’s classy Cleveland convention.
Outraged by the FBI’s decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email system, Republicans have opened a new front in their long battle with the soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee, accusing her of lying to Congress...
Clinton may not hang for her private server. But some apparent misstatements—or, if you’re a Republican, lies—could send the FBI after her again.
Donald Trump spent his day on Capitol Hill calling fellow Republicans losers, complaining that the media is just too mean, and doubling down on his defense of Saddam Hussein. So basically, just another day on the campaign trail for the GOP nominee...
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee made a trip to Capitol Hill on Thursday to unify his splintered party. He failed.
The summer of Speaker Paul Ryan’s sustained headache over gun legislation seems to only be getting hotter, longer and increasingly self-inflicted. After Democrats staged a drama filled 26 hour protest over gun-control on the House floor two weeks ...
Tea Party Republicans are so appalled at Democrats for holding a sit-in on the House floor that they are balking at a bill that aims to keep guns out of the hands of suspected terror...
Comedians Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome fell in love in Africa. Professionally, at least.The popular stand-ups and actresses had known each other for years—both performed with the Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles and have run in the sam...
On Comedy Central’s ‘Another Period,’ sisters in 1902 Rhode Island strive to ‘keep up,’ so to speak, with society’s rich and famous. Co-creator Natasha Leggero explains its genius.
After a week of police killings, Beyoncé has updated her website with a full-page letter on the topic of black lives—the respect they deserve and the violence they continuously endure. The pop superstar’s response to the murders of Alton Sterling ...
The pop superstar unleashed a powerful statement on her website and a moment of silence at a concert. It’s the latest in her laudable history of Black Lives Matter activism.
Barney Frank has been out of Congress since 2013, which makes him a more fun late-night talk show guest than most politicians. And the former Massachusetts representative’s appearance on Chelsea Handler’s Netflix show this week was no exception.Re...
Former Democratic Rep. Barney Frank used his appearance on Chelsea Handler’s show to make the case for Elizabeth Warren as vice president.
As the world reacts to the shooting of Alton Sterling, and now the brutal police killing of Philando Castile, famous figures from Drake to Hillary Clinton have publicly voiced sorrow and frustration.One of the most powerful voices among these has ...
“Can you say the words ‘It looks bad’? You can’t ever say that?”
It’s been a while since Larry Wilmore has been forced to discuss the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man on The Nightly Show. And that’s a good thing. But on Wednesday night, he felt he had no choice but to cover the tragic death of Louisiana m...
‘The Nightly Show’ host Larry Wilmore was “speechless” after seeing the Alton Sterling shooting video. But not for long.
Renee’s face. Margot’s mystique. Blake’s Blake Livelyness. What do they have in common? They’re the only qualities a disparate group of male film journalists could find worthy of discussion in a recent roundup of professional writing on female mov...
Over the past week-plus, three A-list actresses have been targeted by entertainment writers for their looks. They are so much more than that.
MC Hammer can’t touch Donald Trump—or at least that’s the impression I get towards the end of our amusing phone interview, when his publicist all but shrieks please hammer, don’t hurt ‘em! after I ask the hip-hop icon if he’d had any interesting e...
The hip-hop icon turned tech entrepreneur dishes on his new partnership with the real-estate site Trulia, his tech mastery, and how he’s very, very into artificial intelligence.
ROME — In what must surely be a relief to Pope Francis, a Vatican tribunal ruled on Thursday that the press is free, that secretaries aren’t to blame, that new mothers shouldn’t go to jail, and that one of their own is the only one who truly deser...
After a messy, ill-thought-out trial, the Vatican reaches a compromise and convicts one of its own.
In an unprecedented escalation in the last two decades, Iranian Kurdish rebels have broke a unilateral ceasefire with a series of attacks against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the mountainous Kurdish cities in northwestern Iran.A series...
A center-left separatist insurgency, based in northern Iraq, has taken to fighting Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
PARIS — Saudi King Salman bin Abdelaziz sounded at once angry and plaintive as he marked the end of this blood-drenched month of Ramadan.The so-called Islamic State, ISIS, had just staged attacks in three Saudi cities, hitting near the U.S. consul...
Like communists of yore, the soldiers of the caliphate are seeking to ‘exacerbate the contradictions’ of those ranged against them.
LONDON — On the 28th of July, 2002, Tony Blair sent a “Note on Iraq” to President George W. Bush. It began: “I will be with you, whatever.” And with those six words, the British Prime Minister sealed his fate, committed his country to a disastrous...
The case for war was made with ‘certainty which was not justified,” based on ‘flawed intelligence,’ and assessments that were ‘not challenged and should have been.’
Warfare and diplomacy are intrinsically linked, except when it comes to the Obama administration’s policy on Syria. While a negotiated settlement remains the only viable pathway out of the Syrian crisis, currently existing facts on the ground do n...
Unless America addresses the chaos Assad has wrought, it can’t stop the rise of jihadism in Syria.
ROME — Last year when aid agencies in Italy shared the grim news that as many as 10,000 migrants and refugees, many under the age of 18, had disappeared without a trace, most people assumed they had just escaped to other parts of Europe.Now, it wo...
A human trafficker turned informant exposes a sinister ring where migrants and refugees who can’t pay their bills are sold to an Egyptian gang for their body parts.
PARIS — I return here to reckoning the debits and credits of the Obama years.I stand by my earlier criticisms of a foreign policy that has ceded too much to Bashar al-Assad, to Vladimir Putin, and to the enemies of the United States generally.And ...
As Obama campaigns for his successor, we can’t be sure how history will judge him, but here’s how an influential French philosopher, and frequent critic, sizes him up.
DALLAS — A sniper killed five police officers during a Black Lives Matter march on Thursday night and in the aftermath, the peaceful protesters downtown say they were wrongly blamed for the massacre.Dallas chief of police David Brown said Friday m...
Fear turned to outrage by black Americans who felt, again, they were being blamed for a massacre of police Thursday night.
Five officers were left dead, nine others wounded, and a nation severely shaken after a gunman opened fire. See pictures from the aftermath.
Five officers were left dead, nine others wounded, and a nation severely shaken after a gunman opened fire. See pictures from the aftermath.
Two years after seven do-or-die loyals of one of L.A.’s original Latino gangs allegedly tossed Molotov cocktails into their neighbors’ homes to “get the n—-ers out of the neighborhood,” the law finally caught up with them.On Thursday, the feds uns...
The Latino Big Hazard gang wanted to keep black people out of its public housing complex—and threw Molotov cocktails into four apartments to do it, prosecutors allege.
Eleven police officers were shot and five died Thursday night when two snipers opened fire at the conclusion of a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas, officials said.Two officers were in surgery and three are in critical condition, the department...
Shots from above rained down at the conclusion of a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest Thursday night, hitting 11 officers, leaving five dead and three critical.
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Abdullah Muflahi sat on a beer cooler inside the Triple S Food Mart and described what it was like to watch police kill his friend. “It was a nightmare, it was a nightmare,” Muflahi, the owner of this small convenience sto...
Footage provided to The Daily Beast shows Alton Sterling being repeatedly shot by police officers after he was pinned to the ground.
On Andrew Sadek’s 20th birthday, North Dakota police made him an offer: moonlight as a confidential informant and avoid rotting in prison.It was November 2013, and Sadek had never been in trouble before. Months earlier, he’d sold a small amount of...
When Andrew Sadek was caught selling $80 of pot, cops pressured him into being an informant and told him to go after ‘harder drugs.’ Then he turned up dead.
By Laura Newcomer, Life by Daily Burn Still not wearing your sunscreen? Here are a few good reasons to start: Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. It’s also the most preventable, says Clinical Associate Professor of Dermatology at N...
Want to keep your skin healthy but not quite sure how to cut through all the myths? Here you go.
Police stood by as a small white drone touched down in Northern Ireland last Tuesday on the banks of the Clanrye River. Two women, awaiting its arrival, turned to face news cameras before consuming the drone’s controversial cargo: pills used to in...
Once a renegade ship sailing international waters to provide abortions, Women on Waves is embracing drone technology to expand their service.
It was a car crash of all things that gave him away.In September 2015, Michigan abortion doctor Michael Arthur Roth asked the West Bloomfield police to retrieve some items from his car, which had been impounded after an accident. But when police l...
A Michigan doctor found with human tissue in his car—and who allegedly stole fentanyl for illegal abortions—has been charged with a slew of crimes.
“Goodbye pills. Hello real vitamins.”That’s the tagline for Tespo, a new high-tech vitamin dispenser that turns powdered nutrients into clear “liquid vitamins”—all with the touch of a button.The $150 dispenser—available only online—aims to provide...
Tespo says it will turn your vitamins into a daily drink—but the science behind liquid supplements remains murky.
In Australia last year, a young woman named Olivia Meville faced an onslaught of Tinder shaming by strange men for simply posting a Drake lyric in her bio—“The type of girl that will suck you dry and then eat some lunch with you.”The first wave of...
‘I was drunk,’ ‘I was joking,’ ‘It’s free speech’: men are making awful excuses for why they harass women online.
“When I first heard about applying electricity to your naked body during sex, my first thought was ‘oh my god why would you do that?! Zappy, ouchy, dangerous!” says Jess Wilde.“But now I have completely changed my mind: the idea of turning you and...
Couples who use electricity between the sheets say it taps into the body’s nervous system.
If embattled Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes’s on-air stars, especially women, have until now been publicly silent in his hour of need, Greta Van Susteren is a notable exception—eager to go on the record with a ringing defense of her beleaguered bos...
In an exclusive interview, the host says she doesn’t believe Roger Ailes sexually harassed Gretchen Carlson—who, she thinks, is ‘quite unhappy that her contract wasn’t renewed.’
Of course, the Instagrammed pictures of frolicking in the sea en masse, or shooting down water slides, or sitting on the porch enfolded in Tom Hiddleston’s arms should make us all really envy being on July 4 holiday with Taylor Swift and her buddi...
That Independence Day getaway looked like ‘Mean Girls Gone Wild.’ Did anyone save Ryan Reynolds? What about the poor official photographer?
Bill Thomas has 4,500 bottles of whiskey at his house and nearly 2,700 bottles at Jack Rose Dining Saloon, his Washington, D.C. bar and restaurant. Many of them are worth thousands of dollars and are one or two of a kind. Despite their rarity, Tho...
From liquor cabinets to ghost distilleries, whiskey collectors are hunting for the rarest bottlings to add to their collections.
“To the best of my knowledge I’m still employed,” New York Observer entertainment writer Dana Schwartz told The Daily Beast on Tuesday evening.It was a few hours after she posted on the Observer’s web site an open letter to the weekly’s owner, rea...
In an open letter in the New York Observer, writer Dana Schwartz scolded owner Jared Kushner for countenancing his father-in-law Donald Trump’s alleged anti-Semitism. Here she explai...
“This is the most famous lookout in all of the Azores,” utters my guide Miguel as he proudly puffs his chest. The so-called Vista do Rei, or King’s Viewpoint, on the largest island, São Miguel, is an unassuming spot where travelers can swerve thei...
Most of the Azores still feel very much as they did hundreds of years ago—crumbing medieval villages strapped to the ledges of cliffs, unfazed by the ever-busying of the world around...
Listen to Bruce Springsteen’s new foreword to the 40th anniversary edition of Born on the Fourth of July, published here courtesy of Audible (audio version of the book available from Audible here). Introduction to Born on the Fourth of July Repri...
‘Born on the Fourth of July,’ Ron Kovic’s account of his time in Vietnam, is out in a new edition. Listen to Bruce Springsteen’s new foreword and read Kovic’s introduction.
Of course, all the throbbing penises, phallic flowers, and hot bodies Robert Mapplethorpe fans could wish for are present at the two retrospectives of his work at Los Angeles’ Getty (to July 31) and LACMA (also to July 31) museums. Of the two, the...
Two great exhibitions in Los Angeles reveal the lifetime’s work of photographer Mapplethorpe—with his confrontational treatment of sexuality and male body taking center-stage.
A Boston cab driver returned a passenger’s backpack to him last week—which is lucky, since it contained $187,000.The driver, Raymond “Buzzy” MacCausland, said the customer was a homeless man who abruptly left the cab to meet a friend, leaving his ...
A homeless man who’d just cashed his inheritance left it all in a cab. Fortunately for him, the driver returned it.
Diets high in pasta can actually keep people slim, according to a new study from—of course—Italy.“As a traditional component of [a Mediterranean diet], pasta consumption was negatively associated with BMI, waist circumference and waist-to-hip rati...
Eating pasta helps keep a healthy weight, says a study funded by a pasta company.
Animal rights protesters rushed the stage at the Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest in Coney Island on Monday, spraying fake blood on the contestants and knocking over trays of hot dogs. Soon afterward NYPD officers grabbed and removed the pro...
Chaos ensued as protesters rushed the stage at the Coney Island hot dog eating contest.
A severed foot and other body parts were found on Copacabana beach Wednesday, adding one more problem to the long list plaguing Rio de Janeiro’s upcoming Summer Olympics.The mutilated remains were found just a few yards away from where Rio is plan...
Human remains turned up at the venue for the Games’ volleyball matches.
Among the many Democrats running for Congress this year, two are trans women. Both, oddly enough, are named Misty.On Tuesday, Misty Snow and Misty Plowright became the first openly trans candidates to win major party primaries for Congress, the Wa...
Two trans women ran in two separate Democratic primaries for Congress. Both won.
DJ Sven Vath had a lot to keep track of this past weekend at a Netherlands music festival—including the soccer game on his phone. Pictures posted to Facebook by photographer Mr. After Party show the Awakenings festival from Vath's point of vi...
Photos clearly show DJ Sven Vath’s phone streaming a UEFA game between his turntables.
Humanity is still destroying itself with its own greed and stupidity, Stephen Hawking told Larry King on Saturday.Reiterating the concerns he had expressed in 2010, the legendary scientist said on Larry King Now that human shortsightedness is stil...
“We certainly have not become less greedy or less stupid,” Hawking told Larry King.
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