And an OK on gay marriage isn’t coming anytime soon.
According to Associated Press-GfK poll.
Says anti-LGBT measure is “not necessary” in her state.
Says Clinton made first assault.
And other tax havens.
Agrees to address advertising, airport issues.
ISIS claims responsibility.
City’s second such shooting since December.
To reprise role as Sookie St. James.
Beats out fellow Mississippi native La’Porsha Renae.
The ‘American Idol’ finale was a fan’s dream: super corny, nostalgic, and ultimately spellbinding. Very moving and very silly, it was everything that made the show great.
The A-list rapper/pop star put her D-list rapper “boyfriend” in check—and on ‘Ellen’ no less!
From hot sauce and pickles to chocolate bars, there are more ways to enjoy your beer than out of a pint glass.
Rather than rolling up their sleeves and considering Chief Judge Merrick Garland’s record for themselves, Republicans have outsourced their job to moneyed interest groups whose only goal is to smear the nominee’s admirable record of public service...
Senate Republicans are creating the toxic dynamic that ensures outside interest groups have the floor to themselves.
LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — “It’s great to be home,” Donald Trump said. It was Wednesday night and he was an hour away from Trump Tower, onstage at Grumman Studios, a movie studio in Bethpage, New York, talking to ten thousand Long Islanders dressed for a...
Back in New York, Donald Trump finally managed to stage a slick event as he pleaded with his home state to revive his faltering campaign.
Donald Trump needed some help in 2006. He was setting up Trump Institute, a series of seminars teaching the “way to wealth,” and was looking for expertise on how the conference business worked.He turned to a pair with a troublesome legal history t...
When The Donald started his wealth seminars, he turned to a couple with a checkered legal past.
Don’t look now, but the entire country is poised to live through the notorious 2004 South Park episode, “Douche and Turd,” in which elementary school kids are forced to pick between a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich as a new school mascot.Just ho...
In the ugliest election since Jefferson supporters called Adams ‘a hideous hermaphroditical character,’ there’s a chance for a libertarian to break through.
Donald Trump just blew off pro-life leaders exactly one week after he angered the movement by calling for “punishment” for abortion.Trump was reportedly expected to address Priests for Life and the 115 Forum conference during a conference call on ...
The formerly pro-choice Republican, already in deep trouble after talking about ‘punishment’ for women, just ticked off a lot of conservative activists.
“You have no people. You are no longer my son.”The first issue of the much-hyped, Ta-Nehisi Coates-penned Black Panther limited series landed at comic book shops this Wednesday, with fans of the titular character and fans of one of America’s most ...
The acclaimed cultural commentator has penned a limited series of Marvel’s African superhero, and the timing couldn’t be better.
“Timeless” and “original” are worn-out words that we apply to great art without much care, but in the case of Merle Haggard’s music, they are the only words that fit. Because the best of Haggard’s songs sounded, on first hearing, like songs you’d ...
Call him a country musician if you must, but the late Merle Haggard was more than that. He was a contrarian in the American grain and an artist without equal.
The actress Kerry Washington has been widely praised for her eloquent taking to task of Adweek magazine.Washington claims the magazine overly-Photoshopped her for their most recent cover, but is not specific about how they did so.Instead, she wrot...
She’s been lauded for criticizing AdWeek’s Photoshopping of her. But how ‘real’ do Hollywood stars really want to look?
Comics superstar Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman, The Multiversity) knew going into his Wonder Woman origin story Wonder Woman: Earth One that he’d be making a few major tweaks to the Diana Prince narrative most people know best.For one, in Morr...
Grant Morrison, the celebrated comics scribe, opens up about his new book ‘Wonder Woman: Earth One’ and why it’s Diana Prince’s time to shine.
What’s the worst thing Donald Trump has ever said about a woman? A recent super PAC ad aimed at female Republicans featured a diverse group of women reciting a litany of his past misogynistic comments. But we now know they missed a big one. “Wow,...
To find the most disturbingly sexist thing Donald Trump has ever said, ‘The Daily Show’ traveled back to the early ’90s and revisited ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.’
The trailer for the new season of The Real Housewives of New York is a glorious wine-soaked overture of screaming matches, catty remarks, and tearful confessions, a cacophony that translates as sweet music to the ears of reality TV fans. Bottles a...
Carole Radziwill is an Emmy-winning journalist, a best-selling author, and, um, a princess. Not exactly who you’d expect at a leg-throwing dinner. And that’s why she’s so great.
The U.S. military is planning to expand the number of so-called “fire bases” in northern Iraq to prepare for an assault on Mosul, ISIS’s Iraqi capital. The bases will be there to support local Iraqi forces. But they’ll also put U.S. troops near th...
It’s another indication that the U.S. military is increasingly conducting offensive operations even though President Obama has never publicly acknowledged the U.S. is back at war.
When Catholic priests issued decrees during morning mass last Sunday calling for the country to institute a complete ban on abortions, Poland erupted in protests. The initiative was not unexpected, but the surge of opposition caught many by surpr...
Poland’s Catholic Church and conservative government may have figured a draconian new “pro-life” law would have general acceptance. They were wrong.
TBILISI, Georgia — It is rare that a single image sums up the state of affairs of an entire nation. Last year it was the lethargic hippopotamus standing in the middle one of Tbilisi’s main streets, woozy and dazed with several tranquilizer darts t...
When a billionaire decided to float a 650-ton tree to his private garden, the spectacle became a metaphor for a nation adrift.
LONDON — Asad Shah was a much-loved Muslim shopkeeper in Scotland’s first city of Glasgow. Embodying the slogan of his mosque: Love for All and Hatred for None, he would post inclusive social media messages such as “a very Happy Easter, especially...
The stench of Islamic extremism has become all too common among the religious and community leaders of the U.K.
Before Nevada, there was Niue.Niue being a Polynesian speck of a nation that became known as Savage Island after it thrice repulsed Captain James Cook in 1774. It proved considerably more welcoming when the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca prop...
How Niue, a coral outcropping with just 1,190 residents, rolled out the welcome mat for Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of the massive records leak—and made a tidy profit.
ODESSA, Ukraine — Defense lawyer Yuriy Grabovskiy often told his friends and colleagues: “Surprisingly, nobody has rubbed me out yet.” But his words were never taken seriously. None of his friends thought of recommending that the charismatic lawye...
Attorney Yuriy Grabovskiy took the hard cases, and it appears because of the last one, defending an alleged Russian intelligence officer, he paid with his life.
LONDON — Phony terrorism strategies employed by some of America’s key counter-terror partners are at the heart of a shocking surge in death penalty usage, which has reached its highest level in a quarter of a century.Amnesty International recorded...
Shocking rises in death penalty executions, particularly in Saudi Arabia, are being justified as part of the war on terror, says Amnesty International.
In the wake of last year’s loss on same-sex marriage, the Christian Right has begun to act tactically, attacking what it perceives to be the LGBT equality movement’s weakest links. And yet amazingly, this strategy is backfiring. Not only is the ri...
The Christian right can no longer directly demonize gays and transgender people, so it has to lie and even the lies are backfiring.
When security guard Jeffrey Erich Binder was arrested late last month for allegedly soliciting sex from an undercover detective posing as an underage girl online, he said, “Now I gotta tell my work and family that I got arrested for soliciting a 1...
Eighteen suspected online predators were arrested in Florida after a massive sting operation. Two were employed by Disney World and one by SeaWorld’s Discovery Cove.
A female U.S. Army soldier said she was beaten so severely by a soldier after making out with another man in their unit that she “thought I was about to die.” Jacob Andrew Avila, a combat engineer, and his friend Lucas Curtis stumbled onto the 18-...
Two men in Texas are under investigation for allegedly strangling and punching a woman after catching her in bed with a man.
“Kill me!” the madman demanded of cops 50 times as he wielded a massive, blood-stained knife.Incredibly, the officers didn’t take the bait.“All hell broke loose,” Glendale, Ohio’s police chief Dave Warman said of the March 29 confrontation in the...
Pablo Aleman tried to beat a murder rap by begging for suicide by cop. Officer Josh Hilling didn’t give him what he wanted, despite a massive blade coming for him.
Lawyers for the State Department want to limit the types of questions that a watchdog group can ask former aides to Hillary Clinton, and potentially the former secretary of state herself, about her creation and use of a private email system while ...
Lawyers object to any attempt to ask Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and others about how information was handled—and are dead set against Clinton testifying.
There’s another stimulant hiding in your supplements—oxilofrine.In a nine-page report released Thursday morning, researchers from Cambridge Health Alliance reveal the science behind the banned stimulant and expose brands that are secretly hiding i...
Oxilofrine, which has serious side effects, is being added to at least 14 weight-loss and sports supplements, a new report says—the latest sign of a dangerously unregulated industry.
A story for Donald Trump, and all the other Republicans who have ideas about somehow punishing women who have abortions, or perhaps their doctors: Let’s just say that I didn’t offer her an abortion right away. She came in at 19 weeks, and it was ...
‘It’s my job to keep you from getting sick.’ I said. ‘This is the safest way we have now.’
As my mother once observed to me, “A day at the beach with your family is no day at the beach.”This is no reflection on the members of my family. Looking at them with a cold unbiased journalistic eye, I can observe clearly that I happened to wind ...
Disney parks used to be a haven for children with disabilities and their families. But that’s about to change.
By Christine Yu, Life by Daily Burn You brush your teeth and floss on the reg. You’ve tried everything from the latest toothpaste to whitening strips, gels, and trays but nothing seems to give you that 100-watt smile. So what’s the best way to get...
Clinic blockades nearly doubled. Arsons and bomb threats quadrupled. Acts of vandalism went up fivefold. Threats of bodily harm increased by 94 times. And an armed gunman named Robert Lewis Dear killed a police officer and two civilians inside a C...
2015 was the worst year in history for anti-abortion violence, according to a new report by the National Abortion Federation.
If you’ve ever been concerned about your picture being forever in the cloud, your fear may soon become an inevitability, as more and more companies are beginning to adopt the selfie as a security feature.Mashable reported that Amazon is the latest...
Amazon and MasterCard want to use selfies as passwords, meaning they’d collect hundreds of pictures of you.
During a recent Executive Program at Silicon Valley’s Singularity University, the institution’s co-founder Peter Diamandis made some confident predictions.Within the next decade, he said, self-driving cars will eliminate all driving fatalities. Ar...
The students and teachers at Singularity University welcome a future where robots run the world.
It doesn’t quite rank up there with the prowler who made his way into the Queen’s bedroom for a late night chat, or the reporter who got a job serving the Queen breakfast.But a British pop duo have pulled off a publicity coup by blagging their way...
British band Cat’s Eyes once talked their way into the Vatican for an impromptu performance. Now they have blagged their way into Buckingham Palace for the same purpose.
When it comes to fashion, designer Isaac Mizrahi’s approach is no color left behind. This is evident from the first step on to the second floor at The Jewish Museum in New York City where the all-American designer is the subject of his first-ever ...
The Jewish Museum is hosting a retrospective of the designer’s clothes—and what impresses is his longevity and originality.
Chefs and foodies be warned: It’s not even noon and Anthony Bourdain is sipping a glass of Balvenie PortWood 21 Year Single Malt Scotch and talking about the joys of jujitsu—chokeholds and cauliflower ears included.But just when I think I’ll need ...
The famed chef on why the Food Network is ‘unsuccessful,’ the changing nature of eating out, and his favorite Big Apple dining spots.
How can a former royal girlfriend get on with a successful life of her own after she splits with her royal love?It’s a tough challenge, as public fascination with royal exes persists in a way that it does not when it comes to the otherwise non-fam...
It isn’t easy being the one-time romantic partner of royalty. Scandal may await you, as well as the ongoing curiosity of media and public.
When it comes to Hulk Hogan’s sex video/invasion of privacy lawsuit against Gawker Media, it ain’t over till it’s over.In two defense motions filed with the trial court in St. Petersburg, Florida, Gawker is asking the judge to throw out the shocki...
In two defense motions filed with the trial court in St. Petersburg, Florida, the company is asking the judge to throw out the $140.1 million awarded to Hulk Hogan.
Oberlin College in Ohio currently employs Joy Karega, an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition, who publicly professed on Facebook that ISIS was run by the CIA and Mossad, the Israeli counterpart to the U.S. agency.Karega also posted on ...
Students on campus are quick to protest incidences of supposed cultural insensitivity—even over sushi—but not when it comes to a professor’s anti-Semitism.
Bernie Sanders is drawing bigger and more enthusiastic crowds than Hillary Clinton, and outraising the Democratic frontrunner by millions of dollars.Now he is poised to beat her in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary while giving the former secretary of s...
Politics-watchers are mystified that Sanders’s staff cooperated in a front-page postmortem on his election campaign—when he’s still fighting to win.
In an age of racism and sexism, Katherine Johnson broke both barriers at NASA.
The chain says its biggest store ever will feature ‘coffee as theater.’
A phone number created by Sweden’s tourism bureau connects the world to random Swedes.
Tommy Davis, who lost his son, nephew and brother in the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster of 2010, says the company’s chief deserves much worse than a year in jail.Outside the courthouse where ex-CEO Don Blankenship was sentenced to one year in pris...
A man who lost three relatives in the 2010 UBB mine disaster says Blankenship got off easy.
A Florida farmer put down an 800-pound alligator. Why? It was eating his livestock.
A private security guard bullied demonstrators with his phone. Then a real cop stepped in.
The Red Planet may have actually been more habitable when asteroids were pummeling it.
A new technology used by Facebook describes photos to blind users.
The man who voiced 'Star Wars' fan favorite Admiral Ackbar died on Sunday.
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