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REFORM
CA Approves New ‘Brock Turner’ Law
Mandating prison time for sexually assaulting unconscious person.
BREAKING
El Cajon Police Shooting Video Released
Shows officers shooting Alfred Olango, 38.
WON’T BACK DOWN
Machado Fires Back at Trump’s ‘Hate’
After Trump urges voters to “check out” alleged sex tape.
SAY CHEESE!
Judge Releases Trump Deposition Video
From lawsuit against chefs ditching over his Mexican “rapists” comment.
Blunt Talk is Back
Brit Expats on Election 2016
from Blunt Talk is Back
HOUSE THAT FOX BUILT
Ailes Buys $36M Crib After $40M Buyout
According to a Daily Mail report.
KAEPERNICK 2.0
Joakim Noah Protests Dinner with Army
“It’s hard for me to understand why we go to war.”
BYE BYE
Roy Moore Suspended for Rest of Term
Found guilty of ethics violations in anti-gay marriage stand.
WHITE SUPREMACISTS
Neo-Nazi Hacker Targets Mariners
Over player’s suspension for making racist comments.
ENTER CONSPIRACIES
Debate Commission: Trump Had Audio Issue
But only for a short time inside the debate hall.
Keep ReadingThe iconic actor from ‘Mean Streets’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’ explains why, as a Marine veteran, he can’t back Trump: ‘There’s not much poetry in the man.’
Keitel: Tough Guys Don't Vote Trump
Keep ReadingThe hosts of ‘The View’ went after Trump’s campaign manager again on Friday after she admitted Trump did business with Cuba the day before.
‘The View’ Hits Back at Kellyanne Conway
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Lawsuit: Trump Is the Illuminati King
Lawsuit: Trump Is the Illuminati King
Donald Trump is a communist, a member of the New World Order, and may have been tangentially involved in a plot to use wireless brainwave technology to coerce a Disney World alligator into killing a toddler—if the lawsuits against him are to be be...
The most absurd of the frivolous lawsuits filed against the candidate this month was brought by a man who believes Trump is a would-be communist dictator.
Is Trump Private Prisons’ Last Hope?
Is Trump Private Prisons’ Last Hope?
Donald Trump’s regressive law enforcement views may be the last best hope for private prison companies.And given the past five weeks, they could use a lifeline.Their stock prices have been brutalized. A host of law firms have started putting toget...
Their stock prices plunged when the feds decided to phase them out—and again when Hillary Clinton said she’d stop using them at the state level, too. But they may have a lifeline.
Obama on Trump Criticism: ‘Blah Blah’
Obama on Trump Criticism: ‘Blah Blah’
In one of the last town-hall style meetings of his presidency, Barack Obama challenged the man who may yet be elected to succeed him: Donald Trump.Asked by a Gold Star mother Wednesday evening why he didn’t use the term “radical Islamic terrorism,...
At a town hall Wednesday night, the president took on the GOP candidate’s statements on Muslim Americans—and batted down his contention that the U.S. military is in a sorry state.
The Race to Smear Hil’s Miss Universe
The Race to Smear Hil’s Miss Universe
Alicia Machado, the former Miss Universe whom Donald Trump repeatedly attacked for her weight both in 1996 and this week, is a Venezuelan porn actress with a history of violence and palling around with shady characters running drug cartels. That’s...
Rush Limbaugh was quick to dub Trump foe Alicia Machado ‘porn star Miss Piggy’ because someone who looked like her appeared in porn. It wasn’t her, though.
Hillary Saved the Bombshells for Round 2
Hillary Saved the Bombshells for Round 2
Come along with me, people, because it’s already time to look ahead to the second debate. Consider this thought: Hillary Clinton took Donald Trump to the house Monday night without even playing some of the heaviest cards against him.What did come ...
She hardly had to scratch the surface to win the first contest—and there’s plenty more dirt where that stuff came from.
Entertainment
Colbert Mocks Gary Johnson’s ‘Ignorance’
Colbert Mocks Gary Johnson’s ‘Ignorance’
Stephen Colbert has spent so much time talking about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton over these past weeks and months that it must have been a relief to spend a few minutes Thursday night making fun of Gary Johnson.The Libertarian presidential ca...
The ‘Late Show’ host took a break from shaming Donald Trump to remind viewers why Gary Johnson is not a viable alternative.
Brangelina Split Doc Gets Canceled
Brangelina Split Doc Gets Canceled
The divorce battle between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt is becoming increasingly bitter, with tabloid accusations that Pitt “lunged” at his son Maddox during a row with his wife, and that he is a “bad dad” with a fondness for alcohol and marijuana...
Angling for a sit-down with either of the warring sides in the Jolie-Pitt divorce, sources say NBC pulled a documentary on the Brangelina split to avoid burning bridges.
Watch Cumberbatch Sing Pink Floyd Live
Watch Cumberbatch Sing Pink Floyd Live
Benedict Cumberbatch is one interesting chap. The Oscar-nominated star of The Imitation Game, the beloved TV series Sherlock, and the upcoming Marvel superhero film Doctor Strange has, among other things, taught English at a Tibetan monastery in ...
The Oscar-nominated actor can apparently do no wrong.
Tori Amos on Rape Culture and Trump
Tori Amos on Rape Culture and Trump
The first time Tori Amos watched Netflix’s documentary Audrie & Daisy, about two teen rape victims driven to suicide—one completing her attempt, the other a survivor—it left her numb. “It’s a call to arms,” she told The Daily Beast from Los An...
The acclaimed singer-songwriter opens up about her theme song to the poignant documentary ‘Audrie & Daisy,’ rape culture in America, and much more.
Chelsea Handler Burns Ann Coulter
Chelsea Handler Burns Ann Coulter
The first sign that something was up came when Chelsea Handler posted an Instagram story Wednesday afternoon in which she literally set fire to Ann Coulter’s latest book, In Trump We Trust.The conservative pundit, fresh off her crash-and-burn perf...
After Ann Coulter canceled her appearance on Chelsea Handler’s Netflix show at the last minute, the host spent most of the episode tearing her to shreds.
‘The Daily Show’ Finds Creepy Trump Clip
‘The Daily Show’ Finds Creepy Trump Clip
Donald Trump is, without question, the most misogynistic presidential candidate in modern American history. He views women as mere objects—even his own baby daughter. He possesses a pathological need to project his own body insecurities onto women...
Host Trevor Noah and his staff aired not one, but two clips of the Republican presidential candidate acting like a total scumbag.
Westworld Isn’t the Next Game of Thrones
Westworld Isn’t the Next Game of Thrones
It’s interesting that high expectations might be Westworld’s biggest problem. The feverishly anticipated HBO series reveals a world in which boundless expectation and possibility gets stifled when the bleakness and limits of reality sets in.The re...
HBO—or at least reporters who cover HBO—has long promised that ‘Westworld’ could succeed Westeros as its next great epic. It fails in that respect, but shows potential.
World News
Obama Admin Begs Him to Challenge Putin
Obama Admin Begs Him to Challenge Putin
Russia and Syria appeared to attack two more hospitals and a bakery in the already besieged eastern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, in an aggressive push to seize and starve the city—home to as many as 100,000 children—back into regime control.So how...
Russia’s forces are on the attack in Syria; its hackers are monkeying with America’s election. And the president’s response is… well, there’s not much of one.
How Shimon Peres Got Nukes for Israel
How Shimon Peres Got Nukes for Israel
PARIS —Shimon Peres is recognized as a great statesman and will be remembered after his death early Wednesday morning at age 93 as a passionate advocate of peace between Israel’s Jews and the Arabs of the Middle East.With a longer view, historians...
Renowned for his decades-long quest for peace in the Middle East, Shimon Peres’s greatest triumph was his cunning and successful plan to bring nuclear weapons to Israel.
Shimon Peres: An Optimist Betrayed
Shimon Peres: An Optimist Betrayed
Shimon Peres was the last of Israel’s founding fathers, a larger-than-life figure and Nobel Peace laureate who made history several times over. Yet his legacy lies in a shambles.For someone who built the state of Israel, engineered its massive def...
Israel’s former prime minister, president, and defense minister, who died early Wednesday at age 93, was the last link to its founding generation.
Playboy Puts on the Hijab
Playboy Puts on the Hijab
Playboy magazine has just featured an article about a hijab-wearing Muslim-American, Noor Taguri, “making a forceful case for modesty.”Yes. You read that correctly.In its October “Renegades” issue, Playboy is showcasing a religious-conservative pr...
With the best of intentions, no doubt, the magazine has fallen into the slut-shaming game of Islamists around the world.
U.S. Warned of Attack on Syria Aid Group
U.S. Warned of Attack on Syria Aid Group
Two days prior to devastating aerial attacks, Michael Ratney, the U.S. special envoy to Syria, was told the Assad regime was planning to hit the Aleppo facilities of the Syrian Civil Defense, a volunteer rescue group.Raed al-Saleh, the head of the...
The Obama administration, desperate to save a shattered Syrian ceasefire, seems to have ignored concrete intelligence of an atrocity to come.
Mexico Can’t Stop Lying About a Massacre
Mexico Can’t Stop Lying About a Massacre
MEXICO — The lives of dozens of Mexican families were forever altered when bullets rained down on their sons, rural college students who dreamed of one day becoming teachers.Two years ago this Monday, a convoy of corrupt police ambushed students t...
The government claims the missing students were murdered by the cartels and incinerated en masse. But experts say they doubt that’s the truth.
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.
U.S.
Dozens Wounded in NJ Rush-Hour Nightmare
Dozens Wounded in NJ Rush-Hour Nightmare
At least one person was killed when a New Jersey Transit train crashed into the Hoboken commuter station Thursday morning during the heart of rush hour. The accident injured 114 others, while many passengers were reportedly trapped inside train ca...
One of the busiest hubs in the New York area is the scene of tragedy, after a train crashed through Hoboken’s terminal, killing at least one commuter.
Dog Groomer Arrested in Murder-for-Hire
Dog Groomer Arrested in Murder-for-Hire
She was willing to kill for her “dream house.”An Ohio dog groomer was collared last week for allegedly hiring a hitman to zap her estranged husband in the middle of their divorce.Shelly Ann Carter, 42, offered an assassin $1,000 and a car to slay ...
Shelly Ann Carter was arrested along with her much younger boyfriend after the hired killer she allegedly approached to off her husband went to the police.
Lawsuit: Trump Is the Illuminati King
Lawsuit: Trump Is the Illuminati King
Donald Trump is a communist, a member of the New World Order, and may have been tangentially involved in a plot to use wireless brainwave technology to coerce a Disney World alligator into killing a toddler—if the lawsuits against him are to be be...
The most absurd of the frivolous lawsuits filed against the candidate this month was brought by a man who believes Trump is a would-be communist dictator.
He Survived Idi Amin—Not San Diego Cops
He Survived Idi Amin—Not San Diego Cops
Before he mastered boneless buffalo-wing and chili-fry orders as a Hooters line cook, Alfred Olango escaped war-torn Uganda.“You know he was a refugee,” Tunda Braxton, who through tears and by her husband Charles’s side spoke to The Daily Beast ab...
His sister called 911 to ask them to help her brother. When police finally arrived, they shot him down.
PETA: Ringling Bros. Abuses Tigers
PETA: Ringling Bros. Abuses Tigers
Ringling Bros. Circus announced nearly two years ago that it would abandon its world famous elephant acts by 2018--but what about its other animals?A new report from PETA alleges that among the animals “held captive” by Ringling Bros. and Barnum &...
PETA says it’s found evidence that ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ is abusing its top performers. Ringling’s parent company says it’s all part of PETA’s political agenda.
Tech + Health
Watch: Real Debate vs. Trumpland Spin
Watch: Real Debate vs. Trumpland Spin
“I thought he was a complete gentleman to her.”Thus began Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway’s description of her candidate’s debate performance on ABC’s The View, and things only got stranger from there.As the show’s panel listened in disbel...
Was Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, even watching the same debate as the rest of us?
The Dark Side of Hangover-Free Booze
The Dark Side of Hangover-Free Booze
We’ve heard just about every hangover remedy in the book, from the age-old advice to drink a glass of water and take two aspirin before bed, to recommendations for the boozy “hair of the dog.” But what if a hangover could be avoided altogether?Acc...
A synthetic called Alcosynth promises the positive effects of drinking without the nasty next-day consequences. Is it too good to be true?
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...
‘Nursebots’ Will Make Shortages Obsolete
‘Nursebots’ Will Make Shortages Obsolete
For years, the U.S. has experienced a shortage of registered nurses. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that while the number of nurses will increase by 19 percent by 2022, demand will grow faster than the supply, and that there will be over ...
By 2022, one million nurse jobs will be unfilled—leaving patients with lower quality care and longer waits. But what if robots could do the job?
Trump Techbro Sparks Pro-Hillary Revolt
Trump Techbro Sparks Pro-Hillary Revolt
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Oculus Rift developers are donating to Hillary Clinton in direct response to news that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is backing a political action group pushing “shitposts” on behalf of Donald Trump.Some developers ...
The Daily Beast revealed Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey as a Trump “shitposting” sugar daddy. Now the Virtual Reality community is coming out hard for Hillary Clinton.
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?
Arts + Culture
London Loudly Rejects ‘Tube Chat’ Badges
London Loudly Rejects ‘Tube Chat’ Badges
There are few places where collective silence is the preferred mode of communication.Our theaters and cinemas have become hideously noise-polluted places where the thoughtless and cretinous indulge in talking and rustling of paper and bags, while ...
Jonathan Dunne, originally from Colorado, has been handing out hundreds of ‘Tube Chat’ badges to London Underground commuters to get them talking. Their response: Shut up and get lost.
Vogue Declares War on Fashion Bloggers
Vogue Declares War on Fashion Bloggers
This week, several senior Vogue editors and critics reflected on Milan Fashion Week before heading to Paris, alighting on a general consensus: The collections were fabulous, but the peacocking bloggers and street style maelstrom were unbearable.Pa...
Editors decried bloggers ‘heralding the death of style,’ while bloggers said the criticism was hypocritical, and ‘schoolyard bullying, plain and simple.’
Tantaros Ups the Ante Against Ailes
Tantaros Ups the Ante Against Ailes
Just when the folks at Fox News thought they were finally out of the woods, recovering from the Roger Ailes fiasco while boasting about record ratings, former Fox personality Andrea Tantaros is raining on their parade.Tantaros, who on Aug. 23 sued...
Andrea Tantaros’s former therapist details meetings the former Fox News star said she’d had with Roger Ailes ‘where he engaged in highly inappropriate and offensive behavior.’
The Most Powerful Man in Hair
The Most Powerful Man in Hair
Twixt a barber and the barbered, the full array of human emotion, the palette of power and the exertion of it, the circuits of cordiality and spurs of challenge can crackle through a few inches of air at every snip of the clippers. There are a tho...
Martial Vivot is no mere barber. He cuts and shapes the coifs of Manhattan’s movers and shakers, and to do that he employs not only his scissors but a keen sense of psychology.
Will and Kate’s So-What Tour of Canada
Will and Kate’s So-What Tour of Canada
It’s hard now to believe that just over three years ago, several hundred journalists, cameramen, and news crews spent several weeks in one of London’s hottest summers standing, sitting, and even sleeping on a pavement outside a London hospital wai...
William, Kate, George, and Charlotte are visiting Canada on what was intended to be a high-profile family tour. But so far it has registered a big fat zero on the global news feed.
Why Did CNN Make Lester Holt Invisible?
Why Did CNN Make Lester Holt Invisible?
To borrow one of CNN’s advertising slogans, the cable outlet decided to “go there” during Monday night’s great debate.If you depended on that particular news source, as I did, to watch Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump mix it up at Long Island’s Ho...
If you were watching CNN’s coverage of the Clinton vs Trump slugfest, moderator Lester Holt of NBC was nowhere to be seen—and today CNN won’t say why.
How Nat Turner Spent His Last Night
How Nat Turner Spent His Last Night
When the actor Phillip James Brannon wears the shackles that prevent his character, Nat Turner—the slave who led a rebellion of other slaves in Virginia in 1831—from moving, the weight of history is very literally on his shoulders.The shackles the...
In the New York Theatre Workshop play ‘Nat Turner in Jerusalem,’ the leader of the 1831 slave rebellion faces a long, dark night of the soul before his execution.
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