
“Quit asking cops to... do it for you.”
Circumstances are unknown.
Based on relationship he has with officers’ parents.
In response to a fact-check about recent BLM comments.

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Clears the way for Theresa May.
Exact circumstances unknown.
“He loved his country.”

Spent all 19 seasons with the San Antonio Spurs.

Slowly but surely, soccer is gaining a foothold in the U.S., and with it comes changes in fashion—not among players but among the fans, who are the real trendsetters.

HBO’s crime miniseries is your new summer TV obsession.

A day on set in the Gilded Cage of the Upper East Side with Jill Kargman, the laugh-riot creator and fish-out-of-water inspiration behind TV’s most underrated comedy.
By Lauren Carroll and Jon Greenberg Politicians and pundits searched for answers Sunday following the police-involved shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota, and the deadly shooting in Dallas that killed five police officers.On Meet the Press, Sen. ...
In the wake of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile’s killings by cops, a former Philly police commissioner says the number of police departments is partly to blame.
Always deeply psychological endeavors, presidential campaigns reveal, in remarkably accurate ways, the hearts and minds of the candidates. The sweating and resentful Richard Nixon of 1960 became the disgraced president driven from office 1974. The...
Ever since he got pushed around at that military academy, Trump has been all about shame—avoiding it himself, and inflicting it on others.
When FBI Director James Comey recommended the government bring no criminal charges against Hillary Clinton over her use of a personal email server while secretary of state, he removed the last serious obstacle to her becoming the first woman presi...
She’s damn lucky she’s running against him, because she’s an empty pantsuit with no vision for the future except for her own ambition.
By Lauren Carroll and Jon Greenberg Politicians and pundits searched for answers Sunday following the police-involved shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota, and the deadly shooting in Dallas that killed five police officers.On Meet the Press, Sen. ...
In the wake of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile’s killings by cops, a former Philly police commissioner says the number of police departments is partly to blame.
Caitlyn Jenner will be in Cleveland, Ohio, during the Republican National Convention.However, when the sports and transgender icon touches down there later this month, she won’t be headed to the Quicken Loans Arena to show support for the GOP or D...
Caitlyn Jenner is headed to Cleveland the week of the GOP Convention—but so far, has no plans to attend.
He offered his thoughts and prayers.She said black lives matter.He referred to them as “two motorists.”She repeatedly said their names.Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have reacted to the uniquely American bloodshed that defined this week—just bef...
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have taken different paths on every single issue possible—but the murders of police in Dallas had them sounding the same…almost.
Now stable, but had gone into cardiac arrest.
In 2007’s Live Free or Die Hard, Timothy Olyphant’s evil cyber-terrorist Thomas Gabriel initiates a paralyzing attack on the nation’s technological infrastructure—seizing control of its transportation, communication, military, and power systems—wh...
Alex Gibney’s new doc ‘Zero Days’ chronicles the Stuxnet worm, a piece of malware the west used against Iran, and its even more dangerous sister virus: “Nitro Zeus.”
Twenty years ago, Saturday Night Live star Dana Carvey got an offer he couldn’t refuse after leaving the late-night NBC institution that made him a star: his own primetime variety show. But after seven episodes, ABC pulled the plug on The Dana Car...
Dana Carvey looks back at ‘The Dana Carvey Show,’ a short-lived slice of comedy gold that showcased many of today’s top comedic talents.
In a post-Brexit world, it’s important to remember a time when England’s main export wasn’t bad news. Twenty years ago our frenemies across the pond gave us the greatest gift of all—the Spice Girls’ debut single, “Wannabe.” Legend has it that the ...
The iconic video that launched an era of pop-fueled girl power was nearly subdued by Virgin executives. Here’s how the girls fought back—and how the song’s spirit stays relevant today.
In 2007’s Live Free or Die Hard, Timothy Olyphant’s evil cyber-terrorist Thomas Gabriel initiates a paralyzing attack on the nation’s technological infrastructure—seizing control of its transportation, communication, military, and power systems—wh...
Alex Gibney’s new doc ‘Zero Days’ chronicles the Stuxnet worm, a piece of malware the west used against Iran, and its even more dangerous sister virus: “Nitro Zeus.”
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.
Calvin Harris is totally over Taylor Swift, and he’s not crying right now. Calvin Harris is so over Taylor Swift that he and his six to nine abs wrote a song that definitely isn’t about Taylor Swift!! Like any pseudo artistic ex-boyfriend with a b...
Calvin Harris’s new track “Olé” is rumored to be about his ex Taylor Swift, who is now dating Tom Hiddleston. But he’s totally over her, just so you know. Sooo over her.
Do you need another reason not to watch the Teen Choice Awards? The awards ceremony most likely to make you feel old and decrepit has decided to bestow its greatest honor on Justin Timberlake, in light of his tireless work over the past 10 years t...
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.
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.
In 1847 and 1848, as their fellow Americans fought the Mexican War, crowds in Washington, DC, and then all over the nation, flocked to see her. In an era that had much less leisure time and fewer artistic crowd scenes, as many as 100,000 people ul...
She was sensual and classically beautiful, and she also triggered a debate about ending slavery.
As we mourn the loss of Elie Wiesel, who described himself as “a witness… having survived by chance,” and whose Nobel Peace Prize award hailed him as “a messenger to mankind,” we remember how he taught us to never forget.I am a child of Holocaust ...
We say we’re a pious country. And yet we turn our backs on the very people in the world who are suffering the most.
Images of J. Edgar Hoover and encased spy paraphernalia are scattered throughout. At centre stage, when you walk in, is a scale-model replica of the JFK hangar where the 1978 Lufthansa heist—the one Martin Scorsese dramatized in GoodFellas—took pl...
Russian media trumpeted the death of Aleksandr Poteyev, the spy found guilty for being an American mole. But it’s unclear he’s dead, or that he was even a mole in the first place.
Early in February 1946 the 167 inhabitants of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a remote U.S. possession in the Pacific Ocean, were told that in order to “end all world wars” they would have to leave this, their ancestral home, and pick up the...
The atomic age showed its chops on a remote Pacific atoll named Bikini 70 years ago – and gave a name to the most provocative invention of the sexual revolution.
As we mourn the loss of Elie Wiesel, who described himself as “a witness… having survived by chance,” and whose Nobel Peace Prize award hailed him as “a messenger to mankind,” we remember how he taught us to never forget.I am a child of Holocaust ...
We say we’re a pious country. And yet we turn our backs on the very people in the world who are suffering the most.
ROME — If the shocking death of 19-year-old American study-abroad student Beau Solomon after a night of partying in Rome sounds all-too-familiar, that’s because it is.Solomon is the fifth American-born student to die in the last five years on the ...
Our reporting shows the murder of 19-year-old Beau Solomon in Rome this week fits a disturbing pattern.
ISTANBUL — “Turkey will control the world,” said Adnan Oktar, with no hint of irony. It was one in the morning, and we were sitting in a low-ceilinged basement room on the Asian side of Istanbul, bathed in the dim green light from ...
Adnan Oktar has long been a big supporter of the Turkish president, but of late he’s been growing critical, and Erdogan has a long history cracking down on dissenters.
Just a day after South Sudan marked its fifth anniversary as the world's newest independent country, fierce fighting between rival factions has resumed, putting the already tenuous August 2015 peace deal in jeopardy. Hundreds are alleged to h...
South Sudan, Africa’s newest country, is facing one of those consequential moments that will impact millions of lives.
ROME — If the shocking death of 19-year-old American study-abroad student Beau Solomon after a night of partying in Rome sounds all-too-familiar, that’s because it is.Solomon is the fifth American-born student to die in the last five years on the ...
Our reporting shows the murder of 19-year-old Beau Solomon in Rome this week fits a disturbing pattern.
San Diego — I spent Friday morning, processing the horrible events in Dallas, alternating between sorrow and rage, and crying over the deaths of complete strangers as if I’d lost a member of my own family. Actually, I lost five. My dad is a retire...
The broad-brush painting of law enforcement and a debate marked almost solely by hostility has created an atmosphere in which violence was an inevitable outcome.
In the early hours of Monday, July 4, an off-duty New York City Police officer shot and killed a black man.In a week full of national stories about killer cops and cop killers, this one barely registered. The shooting was a “road-rage incident,” o...
The video contradicts earlier reports.
Shortly after 10 p.m. on Thursday night, when Micah Xavier Johnson shot and killed five Dallas police officers and wounded nine others, Mauricelm-Lei Millere, founder of the African American Defense League hate group, posted a picture on his Insta...
Micah Xavier Johnson, the now-notorious Dallas cop-killer, was one of a handful of online fans of a group which proclaimed, “we must kill white police officers across the country!”
San Diego — I spent Friday morning, processing the horrible events in Dallas, alternating between sorrow and rage, and crying over the deaths of complete strangers as if I’d lost a member of my own family. Actually, I lost five. My dad is a retire...
The broad-brush painting of law enforcement and a debate marked almost solely by hostility has created an atmosphere in which violence was an inevitable outcome.
Texas’s Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has a history of making inflammatory statements at inopportune moments, but his reaction to the killing of five police officers by a sniper at last night’s Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas seemingly goes far beyond...
During an appearance on Fox News, the outspoken conservative smeared the protesters caught in sniper’s crossfire.
DALLAS — He served his country overseas. Then he came home, became radicalized, and turned into a mass murderer. Micah Johnson, 25, of Mesquite, Texas, was identified by police as the sniper who shot 12 people during a Black Lives Matter protest i...
The sniper who murdered five officers during a Black Lives Matter protest was a fan of anti-police groups and a reservist who deployed to Afghanistan.
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.
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.
“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.
“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.
One of the most basic definitions of a design, is that it is a plan to give form to function. By that definition, recipes surely qualify as designs. But a recipe can have several functions that often seem to compete. The most basic purpose of food...
The contemporary food landscape is full of abominations, but one of my favorite comfort foods has become unnecessarily tedious.
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?
Miami BeachSee this as no more than a snapshot and forget about everything that came later, with one caveat: He’ll be called Muhammad Ali—the name he chose for himself—even though it wasn’t what people called him at the time. History muddles thing...
He knew his business even before he took his name. So did the wiseguys who ran Miami Beach.
There are few cocktails that have their own theme song. But not only does the Piña Colada have one, but Rupert Holmes’ 1979 hit Escape (listen to it here), which immortalizes the creamy tropical concoction, is a guilty pleasure that is nearly impo...
For National Piña Colada Day, Rupert Holmes reveals the secrets behind the writing of his 1979 hit song, Escape.
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?
In the final scene of Some Like It Hot (1959), Jack Lemmon, who is so good at female impersonation that he has provoked a proposal of marriage, is trying to explain to the man in love with him why a union between them won’t work. He offers a serie...
We all know the feeling: In the midst of an argument, the other person short circuits the discourse with a reply that’s not really an answer but leaves you with nothing to say.
Just like the bunt and the intentional walk, baseball wouldn’t be baseball without a cold beer. In fact, there are few drinking traditions in America as time honored as sipping a cold one while cheering (or jeering) on the home team. At the stadiu...
Beer and baseball are essential parts of America’s identity and have a shared history. Before you watch Tuesday’s all-star game pour yourself a cold one and brush up on this intersec...
It’s a well-known secret in La Paz, Bolivia, that it has an illegal underground cocaine bar, noted as the first in the world. Backpackers and adventure-seeking travelers whisper and pass along the name: Route 36.Additionally, the location changes ...
In La Paz, our correspondent finds a legendary basement dive, where the house specialty is not a cocktail, but an illicit tray of the white stuff.
In the final scene of Some Like It Hot (1959), Jack Lemmon, who is so good at female impersonation that he has provoked a proposal of marriage, is trying to explain to the man in love with him why a union between them won’t work. He offers a serie...
We all know the feeling: In the midst of an argument, the other person short circuits the discourse with a reply that’s not really an answer but leaves you with nothing to say.



















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