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Trump Addresses Birther Issue
Tells Bill O'Reilly how he thinks it affected his African-American support.
GOOD JOB EVERYONE
Zika Funding Vote Fails
Government could shut down if an agreement isn't reached by September 30.
Random Acts of Violence
Denver Police Hunt for Throat-Slasher
In apparently random attack on a restaurant customer in broad daylight.
FAT CHANCE
Ben to Trump: Apologize for Birtherism
Carson tells CNN: “I think that would be a good idea.”
Onslaught
Suspected Chlorine Attack Hits Aleppo
Dozens of civilians suffocated in attack, monitors say.
RIP
Ferguson Activist Dies at 29
Darren Seals died from a gunshot wound.
DICTATOR FRIENDS
Kaine Bashes Trump for Hosting Gaddafi
Late dictator rented Trump property during U.S. visit.
FITTING TITLE
Brock Turner Registers as Sex Offender
Will have to register every 90 days for rest of life.
Out of Control
Gang Downs Police Chopper in Mexico
Four killed during police operation to arrest gang leaders.
About Time
Trial Against Bill Cosby Set for June 5
Only criminal case to be brought so far amid dozens of rape allegations.
Keep ReadingThe future ‘Bachelor’ and his fellow ‘love-seekers’ tried their best to uncork the halfhearted smiles and booze-drenched fake tears. [Warning: Spoilers]
That Crazy ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Finale
Keep ReadingAfter a three-month run as Hollywood’s most transparently fame-hungry couple, Hiddleswift is officially over.
T. Swift & Tom Hiddleston Call It Quits
Keep ReadingThe best-selling author and journalist talks about his first adult cocktail, his favorite gins, and how he is mystified by wine.
Why Carl Hiaasen Can’t Drink and Write
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Politics
The Man Who Made Trump Hate Mexico
The Man Who Made Trump Hate Mexico
Long before Donald Trump was playing at statecraft in Mexico, he was in dabbling in a different kind of diplomacy in Mexico: pageant diplomacy.And he was just as terrible at that.It was a legal case that forms the backdrop to Trump’s views on Mexi...
Targets of Donald Trump’s ire have been varied and many, but few have been a target as often as Mexico. What’s behind the vendetta?
Clinton Foundation Honoree Was Deported
Clinton Foundation Honoree Was Deported
In 2009, President Bill Clinton thanked Ben Sangari for the work he did developing public school science curricula. The following year Sangari was on stage at a Clinton Foundation event again receiving applause for his achievements in education.Fo...
Ben Sangari was honored by the Clinton Foundation for his education work in 2010. Four years later he was in an immigrant detention center, awaiting deportation.
The MSM’s Trump-Sized Blind Spot
The MSM’s Trump-Sized Blind Spot
A few weeks ago, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook went on national television and declared: “There are real questions being raised about whether Donald Trump himself is just a puppet for the Kremlin in this race.”For all the talk over...
Nothing is quite as trite and boring as journalists parachuting in to report on the pathologies of Trump supporters through a phony anthropological prism.
Trump Playing Religious Right for Rubes
Trump Playing Religious Right for Rubes
Has there been a remark more illustrative of this wretched election than Donald Trump’s avowal, “I love the poorly educated!”? Uttered on the evening of his victory in the Nevada primary, this astonishingly candid admission went both ways, suggest...
He’s a thrice-married, epically greedy, congenitally dishonest serial adulterer who exalts the rich while heaping scorn upon the vulnerable. Yup, he’s their man!
The Birther Goes to a Black Church
The Birther Goes to a Black Church
DETROIT — In September of 2012, Donald Trump was in the midst of a months-long quest to prove that President Barack Obama was not in fact from the United States. “Wake Up America! See article: “Israeli Science: Obama Birth Certificate is a Fake,”...
Trump's most famous political foray until now was a quest to determine if Obama was not born in the U.S. Today he tried to make amends with a visit to a black church.
Entertainment
Ava DuVernay Is Blowing Up Hollywood
Ava DuVernay Is Blowing Up Hollywood
“I don’t know how Shonda does it,” Ava DuVernay laughs. “She does it for multiple shows, and has for the last decade. This one wore me out.”DuVernay is chatting the week before her new drama series Queen Sugar debuts on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network...
How do you make Hollywood more inclusive? Hire women and people of color. Basically give Ava DuVernay a TV show. The ‘Queen Sugar’ creator tells us about her crusade.
Slow TV: Netflix’s Antidote to 2016
Slow TV: Netflix’s Antidote to 2016
If you’ve ever wanted to see seven hours of unedited footage from a camera mounted to the front of a train—and who hasn’t?—your ship has come in. In August, Netflix began airing the Norwegian Broadcasting Company’s “Slow TV,” a genre which offers ...
Stressed out by the ongoing political nightmare that is 2016? Check out Slow TV, the transfixing Scandinavian TV phenomenon in which absolutely nothing happens. Trust us.
Rob Zombie’s Insane Killer Nazi Clowns
Rob Zombie’s Insane Killer Nazi Clowns
Rob Zombie’s horror movies don’t just get under your skin—they get in your face, challenging your tolerance for murder and mayhem while simultaneously making you question why such fiendishness is so appealing. The rocker-auteur’s latest, 31, is no...
The hard rocker turned horror auteur opens up about his upcoming gorefest, horror influences, the state of metal, and much more.
Mel Gibson Forgiveness Tour Hits Venice
Mel Gibson Forgiveness Tour Hits Venice
It’s been 10 years since Mel Gibson, the Oscar-winning helmer of Braveheart, directed a film. And boy, quite a lot’s happened since then.In the lead-up to the release of 2006’s Apocalypto, a thrilling Mesoamerican drama about a tribesman shielding...
The controversial actor-filmmaker unveiled his first film behind the camera in 10 years at the Venice Film Festival: a WWII movie about an embattled man of faith. Sound familiar?
A Hip-Hop Coming-of-Age Sensation
A Hip-Hop Coming-of-Age Sensation
In the Bay Area-set Kicks, the debut feature of writer-director Justin Tipping, inner city teenager Brandon (Jahking Guillory) hustles to afford the red and black Air Jordans that will bring him all he’s ever dreamed of—confidence, respect, girls—...
Filmmaker Justin Tipping’s stunning debut explores a Bay Area teen’s dark journey in search of his stolen Jordans.
‘Anarchist Cookbook’ Author Says Goodbye
‘Anarchist Cookbook’ Author Says Goodbye
Last year, the FBI arrested a pair of ISIS-inspired women in Queens, New York, with designs on constructing a bomb and detonating it somewhere within the contiguous United States. Undercover agents from the Bureau revealed that the women had profe...
William Powell, who penned the controversial bomb-making terror screed, opens up about coming to terms with the sins of the past in the documentary ‘American Anarchist.’
'Narcos’ Pablo Escobar: Legalize It
'Narcos’ Pablo Escobar: Legalize It
“El Chapo is in jail. Pablo Escobar was killed. And what happened to the drug trade? Is it over?”Narcos star Wagner Moura, an expert on the history of the war on drugs and the life of the egomaniacal Colombian cocaine lord whose reign of terror on...
The acclaimed Brazilian actor who shines as the drug lord in the Netflix series dishes on Season 2, the failed War on Drugs, and much more.
World News
‘The Art of War’ For First-Graders
‘The Art of War’ For First-Graders
TOKYO — The playground is a battlefield in Japan, and if you’re old enough to read, then you might as well learn to fight, or avoid fighting, or run away if there’s no way you can win the fight. Here, as summer vacation comes to an end, the kids a...
Is it ever too early for kids to learn the basic lessons of when to fight—and when not to? In Japan, where competition is fierce from pre-school onward, the answer’s no.
Prisons Within Prisons for Jihadis
Prisons Within Prisons for Jihadis
LONDON — The recent terrorism conviction of Anjem Choudary, the West’s most prolific media cheerleader for the so-called Islamic State, raised questions about his incarceration in prisons that have—in some cases—been labeled jihadist training camp...
Unchecked extremism in jails and penitentiaries could soon pose a ‘lethal threat to national security.’
The Mideast’s 100-Year-Old Carve Up
The Mideast’s 100-Year-Old Carve Up
Certain images will indelibly mark memories of this year and one will be the gut-wrenching video of a five-year-old pulled from rubble in Aleppo with the frozen stare of trauma, his face streaked with soot and blood. “Cease fires” come and go. Hel...
How two men, one British, one French, got together and drew a new map – betraying promises and inventing nations like Syria and Iraq. And left a mess that destroyed Tony Blair.
How Being Pale Became Passe
How Being Pale Became Passe
To look at our political candidates, you might think that orange-hued skin is all the rage. Donald Trump springs to mind, but he is not the only candidate who has turned to spray-tanning in an effort to improve his appearance. Mitt Romney also use...
Pale skin was once an ideal pursued in the West with sometimes deadly side effects—until it wasn’t.
The Oligarch Ghost Town of Kiev
The Oligarch Ghost Town of Kiev
Curving downhill back and forth from St. Andrew’s, the prettiest of Kiev’s magnificent onion-domed churches, Andriyivskyy Descent was long considered the heart of the city’s artistic community. It was the birthplace of writer Mikhail Bulgakov and ...
The luxury neighborhood of Vozdvyzhenka in the center of Kiev is filled with a mind-boggling collection of Easter Egg mansions and luxury apartment buildings.
A Perfect Saint For Troubled Times
A Perfect Saint For Troubled Times
ROME — A vial of blood, a splinter of wood from a confessional and two dubious medical miracles are the ingredients making Mother Teresa a saint not just figuratively but literally, and this Sunday in Rome she will be canonized with great fanfare....
Vials of blood, splinters of wood and dubious miracles? Is Mother Teresa really holy enough to be a saint? Some say no.
How Pablo Escobar Escaped His Own Prison
How Pablo Escobar Escaped His Own Prison
My father didn’t carry a weapon in La Catedral because there was always a guard by his side, ready to pass him a submachine gun or a cell phone. This relaxed atmosphere suddenly evaporated, however, when the media reported that the Cali Cartel was...
In an excerpt from his new book, Pablo Escobar’s son describes how his father cheated death by breaking out of the prison he built himself.
U.S.
Watch: Vandals Destroy Rock Formation
Watch: Vandals Destroy Rock Formation
The iconic "duckbill" rock formation in Oregon survived 18 million years of erosion, weather, and environmental upheaval-- but not the vandalism of three dumb humans. A video posted to Twitter last week by David Kalas appears to show a g...
The vandals said they believe their actions did the world, and Oregon, a favor.
Watch: Ex-GF Sets Wrong Car on Fire
Watch: Ex-GF Sets Wrong Car on Fire
A Florida woman was caught by surveillance video setting fire to a car. When police asked her why she lit the vehicle ablaze, she said it was because it belonged to her ex. Only, it didn't.The now-incinerated Honda Accord actually belonged to...
Surveillance footage shows a Florida woman setting fire to a car that did not, in fact, belong to her ex-boyfriend.
The Bad Guys Behind Chicago’s Bloodshed
The Bad Guys Behind Chicago’s Bloodshed
CHICAGO — The city’s shooters did not quit working this Labor Day weekend, killing at least 13 and wounding 65, according to the Chicago Tribune.Chicago had already surpassed 2015’s total number of homicides before the holiday weekend, according t...
Repeat offenders like the brothers charged in the slaying of Dwyane Wade’s cousin are behind the surging murder wave, but no solution seems near.
Pipeline Protest Unites Native Americans
Pipeline Protest Unites Native Americans
In an unprecedented show of inter-tribal cooperation not seen, according to one elder, since the Battle of Big Horn, thousands of activists from at least 200 Native American tribes have gathered in a remote part of North Dakota to protest the cons...
More than 200 tribes are protesting an oil pipeline in North Dakota, joined by activists who don’t want it there or anywhere.
DJ Battle Kills 3 Lawyers’ Careers
DJ Battle Kills 3 Lawyers’ Careers
Melissa Andrade was on her way out of Malio’s Steakhouse in Tampa when she spotted a lawyer she recognized. He was representing the opposing side in an ongoing and rather sordid case. Andrade, a paralegal, notified her bosses who called her back f...
The sordid legal battles surrounding Hulk Hogan have chewed up three more careers. The lawyers representing his buddy Bubba the Love Sponge are now disbarred.
Tech + Health
See the New iPhone 7 and Apple Watch
See the New iPhone 7 and Apple Watch
It’s not quite Christmas in July, but Apple’s event on September 7th has already been the source of intense social media attention and speculation. The official unveiling of the iPhone 7 and Apple Watch 2 will give us a good idea of what will be a...
What does Apple have cooked up for the new iPhone 7 and the New Apple Watch?
Robot Uber Drivers Are Safer for Women
Robot Uber Drivers Are Safer for Women
Uber’s fleet grew faster than its number of drivers this past month, and that statistic is likely to continue. The company chose Philadelphia as the launch site for a squadron of driverless cars. Some are made by Volvo, with other companies eventu...
Uber’s fleet has been riddled with allegations of harassment and abuse. Removing drivers is the answer.
Internet Access Doesn’t Fix Stupid
Internet Access Doesn’t Fix Stupid
Is knowledge obsolete? The phone in your pocket can answer just about any factual question you care to pose. The cloud knows more than you do or ever will, and its store of knowledge grows with every passing second. So why should we bother to fill...
In the digital age, information is always only a click away, but facts alone don’t make you an informed citizen. For that you need context, perhaps the one thing you won’t find online.
How To Build a Better EpiPen
How To Build a Better EpiPen
Was it only about a week ago that we learned that the price of EpiPens, a widely used “epinephrine auto-injector” used to treat potentially fatal allergic reactions, has jumped from $100 to $600 per two-pack over the past few years? After an avala...
Forget political threats. Competition and an easier approval process is the only way to get more, better, and less expensive drugs.
There’s Nothing Wrong With Being Asexual
There’s Nothing Wrong With Being Asexual
When asexual activist David Jay went on the Montel Williams Show in 2007 to explain his lack of sexual attraction, he was given the third degree.Had he been sexually abused as a child?“Nope,” said Jay.Did people just not want to have sex with him?...
New research aligns asexuality as a sexual orientation. Why is it so hard for society to accept?
We’re Still Using Sunscreen All Wrong
We’re Still Using Sunscreen All Wrong
Wearing white isn’t the only thing most people stop doing after Labor Day weekend.While it is true that most of us spend comparatively less time out in the sun in the fall and winter months, the same ultraviolet (UV) rays that cause skin damage an...
The sun’s UV rays are dangerous all year—which is why you should apply sunscreen every season. But please, don’t eat it.
Americans Are Taking Their Pets’ Drugs
Americans Are Taking Their Pets’ Drugs
A small percentage of Americans take their pets’ medication, according to a study published in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.The study, which measured how many Americans take antibiotics without a prescription, came across the ...
A study on non-prescription antibiotic use showed that some Americans take their pets’ medicines.
Arts + Culture
Fading Glenn Beck Empire Quits Movie Biz
Fading Glenn Beck Empire Quits Movie Biz
Glenn Beck’s financially troubled multimedia empire took another hit over Labor Day Weekend as Beck announced that Mercury Radio Arts, his privately held umbrella company, has abruptly stopped producing scripted film and television projects under ...
American Dream Labs was supposed to be the movie-making arm of Beck’s right-wing media empire. This weekend, he admitted that dream was over.
Blindfolded For The Perfect Date
Blindfolded For The Perfect Date
“Excuse me, how do these fortune cookies work?”A bunch of us were standing in line at a “sensory speed dating” event when an anxious redhead named Mona asked me about the curved wafers being passed around on platters.“I guess they’re all about sex...
At a ‘sensory speed dating’ event, blindfolded attendees were smelling each other’s armpits. Was it any more effective than going for a drink?
The Great Fabergé Easter Egg Hunt
The Great Fabergé Easter Egg Hunt
It was the Easter present to trump all Easter presents. In the tradition of the Russian Orthodox Church, Czar Alexander III commissioned a delicate, intricately decorated egg as a gift for his wife to celebrate the holy day in 1885.But this was no...
The Russian royal family had their intricate, bejeweled Easter eggs crafted by Fabergé. Then they were killed, and the glittering treasures scattered.
A Nordic Novel That Isn’t Bleak
A Nordic Novel That Isn’t Bleak
Three years ago, when Atria Books Editorial Director Peter Borland was sent the first 50 pages of a novel translated from the Swedish, he had no idea that what he held in his hands would become a national sensation. The book was by an unknown writ...
Even the popular fiction coming out of Scandinavia—think Stieg Larsson—is dark and bleak, which makes the success of ‘A Man Called Ove’ an even more delightful surprise.
The Secrets of the Royal Servants
The Secrets of the Royal Servants
The queen is looking for a new cleaner.At least, that is what we assume they mean by their job advert looking for a new “live-in housekeeping assistant,” whose duties include to “clean and care for interiors and items from carpets and furniture to...
The private planes might be glamorous, but the low pay, early starts, and rigorous royal standards make the life of a palace servant pretty exhausting.
Univision Condemns Latino-Free Debates
Univision Condemns Latino-Free Debates
You can’t please everybody, especially when it comes to the presidential debate commission’s widely-praised selection of moderators for this fall’s televised general election debates.Randy Falco, the chief executive of Univision, the Latino-orient...
Randy Falco, the chief executive of Univision, has voiced ‘disappointment, and frankly disbelief’ at the lack of Latino hosts for the upcoming presidential debates.
The Downfall of Roger Ailes Step by Step
The Downfall of Roger Ailes Step by Step
As Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes was battling the worst crisis of his professional life in mid-July—a self-inflicted catastrophe borne of decades of allegedly sexually harassing and abusing female underlings—he and his third wife, Elizabeth, focus...
Like a wounded, cornered animal, the former head of Fox News came out snarling and snapping in defense of his job after he was accused of sexually harassing his female staffers.
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