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LITTLE SHADY
Clinton Ally Helped FBI Official’s Wife
Official later helped oversee probe into Clinton’s email use.
LIBERAL LION
Tom Hayden, Famed Activist, Dead at 76
Founder of the SDS, defendant in Chicago Seven trial.
DODGY
Ex-Trump Aides Tied to Putin Spying Bid
Linked to firm that sought to help Russia install iris-scanning machines in Moscow subways.
COLLISION
13 Dead in California Bus Crash
At least 31 others were injured.
RANDOM VIOLENCE
Trump Fan Arrested at Clinton Rally
After reportedly punching someone.
MEGAMERGER
AT&T to Buy Time Warner for $80 Billion
Donald Trump says he would block it.
RIGHT THE SHIP
Reince: Autopsy Report Was for Long Term
Facing questions about Trump’s low poll numbers with African-Americans and Hispanics.
PHRASING
Brewer: Trump 'Waterboarded' by Accusers
Former AZ governor defends Trump’s threats to sue women.
FITS RIGHT IN
Curt Schilling Joining Breitbart
Considering Senate run in Massachusetts.
R.I.P.
First Woman to Climb Everest Dies
She was 77.
Keep ReadingThe Season 7 premiere featured the identity of Negan’s victim and plenty of icky grief porn. [Warning: Spoilers]
‘The Walking Dead’ Isn’t Fun Anymore
Keep ReadingHe’s been out of the anchor’s chair for over a decade and is about to turn 85. But Dan Rather’s blend of foreboding and hope is reaching more people than ever—on Facebook.
Dan Rather, Facebook’s Only Good Newsman
Keep ReadingThe Oscar-nominated actor opens up about his thrilling new genre film ‘In a Valley of Violence,’ the wacky 2016 election, and the 25th anniversary of ‘White Fang.’
Ethan Hawke: Trump Is a ‘Fascist’
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Donald in Wonderland
Donald in Wonderland
So one day you are out chasing a white rabbit, and the next thing you know you’re falling down a hole. It’s a long, long way to the bottom, and you hit bottom pretty hard. When you come back to your senses there is a man with strange hair shaking ...
There is a table in Wonderland and on the table is a piece of cake. Near the cake is a note that says EAT ME. The candidate does not understand the meaning. Nor does he need to offer...
Trump: I'll Sue Accusers After Election
Trump: I'll Sue Accusers After Election
Gettysburg, Pa.—To kick off the final leg of his campaign, Donald Trump went to the high-water mark of the confederacy. The candidate spoke to a ballroom of supporters in the Eisenhower Hotel and Conference Center in Gettysburg, a few miles from t...
At a rally in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on Saturday, Donald Trump invoked Abraham Lincoln in the same speech in which he went after the women accusing him of sexual misconduct.
Trump’s Vision: Fatherland America
Trump’s Vision: Fatherland America
LONDON — After this week’s debate there cannot now be a shred of doubt that the choice between Trumpland and Hillaryland is a choice between a fatherland and a motherland. And make no mistake, that’s how a Donald Trump-led America would be viewed ...
For a man for whom losing is like being emasculated, the appeal is clear: man up the nation. But beware the lessons of history.
The Awkward T-Shirts of Trump Supporters
The Awkward T-Shirts of Trump Supporters
From airbrushed tees depicting demonic Clinton caricatures to DIY-Sharpie shirts of the Donald, Trump supporters get weird with their fandom.
From airbrushed tees depicting demonic Clinton caricatures to DIY-Sharpie shirts of the Donald, Trump supporters get weird with their fandom.
R.I.P., Ivanka Trump’s Brand
R.I.P., Ivanka Trump’s Brand
There was a certain pathos to Ivanka Trump’s appearance at Fortune Magazine’s “Most Powerful Women” summit this week. She waxed defensive, then dismayed, at her father’s crude talk about groping women. She lamented that the “vicious” media, which ...
A year or so ago, Ivanka Trump’s last name was associated with luxury. Now it’s about racism, misogyny, and white-supremacist swamps. Hey—nobody made her play along.
Entertainment
SNL Blasts Trump’s ‘Nasty Woman’ Gaffe
SNL Blasts Trump’s ‘Nasty Woman’ Gaffe
America’s Dad, Tom Hanks, has a message for us. In the crazy, anxiety-inducing, pussy-grabbing fall that has dominated all of our conversations, he wants us to know that it’s all going to be alright. Because we’re all Hankses. Sure, he says, on ...
America’s Dad, Tom Hanks, returns to SNL to put the final nail in the debate season coffin and reassure that our fair country will be OK after Trump and Clinton finish with it.
How to Watch NLCS Game 6
How to Watch NLCS Game 6
It’s down to one game for the Chicago Cubs. Leading the National League Championship Series (NLCS) 3-2 against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Cubs have one of the best chances in years to make it to the World Series— and break the 108-year “Curse of...
Can the Cubs beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in NLCS Game 6 and break the Curse of the Billy Goat?
Jorge Ramos: How Trump ‘Emboldened’ Hate
Jorge Ramos: How Trump ‘Emboldened’ Hate
You can draw a straight line from Jorge Ramos’s confrontation with Donald Trump to his new documentary Hate Rising, which premieres this Sunday night at 10 p.m. on both Fusion in English and Univision in Spanish.“The documentary’s origin is precis...
In a new interview, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos talks Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Plus, watch an exclusive clip from his new documentary ‘Hate Rising.’
The Racial Politics of Nat Turner Tours
The Racial Politics of Nat Turner Tours
Nate Parker entered his film The Birth of a Nation at this year’s Sundance Film Festival with little publicity and no distribution deal. It emerged having garnered the festival’s Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award, and a deal with Fox Searchlight fo...
The subject of an acclaimed new movie, the 1831 slave revolt led by Turner is also the focus of two tours, one black and one white, in a region still divided over Turner’s legacy.
How Altamont Cursed The Rolling Stones
How Altamont Cursed The Rolling Stones
They didn’t bring lawn chairs to Altamont.The modern-day rock festival has come a long way. In a remarkable comeback, thriving, massive outdoor music festivals have sprung up across the country over the past couple of decades—from Coachella to Bon...
The free concert festival put on by the Stones outside San Francisco was poorly planned, hastily thrown together, and heedlessly run. The tragedy forever haunts the band.
Excl: ‘Rocky Horror’ Pics by Mick Rock!
Excl: ‘Rocky Horror’ Pics by Mick Rock!
The iconic lensman, who snapped photos for the original 1975 musical-comedy, has done it again for the FOX remake. And they’re stunning.
The iconic lensman, who snapped photos for the original 1975 musical-comedy, has done it again for the FOX remake. And they’re stunning.
Are Kanye and Jay Z on the Outs?
Are Kanye and Jay Z on the Outs?
Seattle Kanye fans got even more than they paid for—if that’s even possible—at the rapper’s Wednesday Saint Pablo tour stop. Yeezy acolytes worship at the altar of shit-stirring and oversize controversy, and their lord and savior did not disappoin...
The Chicago rapper turned designer and his OG Brooklyn mentor have apparently let a failing streaming service come between them.
World News
The Surprise Inside Secret Chambers
The Surprise Inside Secret Chambers
In the past week, archaeologists have been abuzz with the news that hidden chambers had been discovered in the Great Pyramid of Giza. The 4,500-year-old monument, which is known as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, had been keeping se...
Archaeologists got the media in a frenzy this week over the discovery of a possible secret chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza. But what exactly did they find?
This Nation Went on Strike for Women
This Nation Went on Strike for Women
BUENOS AIRES — “We want to live,” was the cry from women standing in plazas and streets across Argentina on Wednesday. It has become a tireless demand in a country where ‘femicide’—the crime of gender motivated murder—takes the life of a woman eve...
Women in Argentina are the latest in a global trend of organized protest against femicide and sexual violence against women.
Today’s Internet Attacks: Just the Start
Today’s Internet Attacks: Just the Start
Back in September Bruce Schneier, an internationally renowned security technologist, wrote about hackers probing the internet for points of weakness in an attempt to have the ability to take the entire net offline.A lot of people blew that article...
Thanks to powerful new botnets, hackers now have the ability to knock major companies—even whole countries—offline.
Fighting ISIS From Pickup Trucks
Fighting ISIS From Pickup Trucks
NAWARAN, Iraq — Shortly before daybreak the armor-plated diggers begin to eat away furiously at the berm, or earthen wall, that runs across the road to Mosul.The two machines painted in camouflage patterns pace back and forth, headlights darting a...
The Kurdish fighters vital to the Mosul offensive don’t give out the numbers, but they’ve started taking some serious casualties, not least for lack of proper equipment.
Did China Just Buy the Philippines?
Did China Just Buy the Philippines?
MANILA — Ranking members of the Philippines government rushed into damage-control mode Friday as they sought to assure their citizens and the rest of the world that the country’s close relationship with the United States remains intact despite Pre...
Philippine President Duterte says he’s severing ties to Washington, and ready to be dependent on Beijing—which won’t be criticizing his increasingly bloody rule.
Driving ISIS Out of Christian Iraq
Driving ISIS Out of Christian Iraq
OUTSIDE BARTELLA, Iraq — “You see the smoke? It’s from my city!’ Karam Hasso said excitedly as he drove down the highway that cuts between Erbil and Mosul, rosary beads and a cross dangling from his rearview mirror. Up until this morning, this str...
ISIS drove out the Christians of Nineveh plains. Now they’re back—and they’ve brought some heavily armed company.
How Trump Will Create More ‘Bad Hombres’
How Trump Will Create More ‘Bad Hombres’
MEXICO CITY — The bustling streets in the middle of Mexico’s Federal District, home to more than 20 million residents, are surprisingly clean for one of the most polluted cities in the world. Near the Plaza de la Ciudadela, in the southwest corner...
The Republican’s immigration and protectionist proposals are likely to drive down Mexico’s economy, and thus drive more Mexicans to the U.S.
U.S.
American Wages Are Rising At Last!
American Wages Are Rising At Last!
There’s terrific news in the federal government’s latest, and most detailed, annual report on pay: American wages reached record levels last year after stagnating or falling from 2001 through 2012. Wages began rising in 2013, but initially at anem...
Between 2000 and 2014, the median inflation-adjusted wage rose by all of $6. In 2015, they shot up by $1,074.
Frat Boy Accused of Serial Campus Rape
Frat Boy Accused of Serial Campus Rape
A Wisconsin college student is facing charges after three women told police he sexually assaulted them.This week, Madison police cuffed Alec R. Cook, 20, on charges of second-degree sexual assault, strangulation and false imprisonment. Since his a...
Cops say three different women have come forward to accuse a Wisconsin college student of sexual assault and false imprisonment.
Serial Killer Led Cop to Hidden Victims
Serial Killer Led Cop to Hidden Victims
HAMMOND, Indiana — When Lori Townsend is missing her daughter particularly badly, sometimes she texts her old phone number, “Hey!”When the inevitable “Who’s this?” comes back, Townsend explains that the person’s number used to be her daughter’s an...
Darren Deon Vann didn’t just confess: He took police door-to-door to show them his work. And he could be linked to as many as 19 other unsolved murders.
Assad’s Latest Lie Debunked by His Wife
Assad’s Latest Lie Debunked by His Wife
There are no surprises anymore for Syrians when it comes to denying the realities of their suffering and when it comes to the shamelessness of of those who accuse truth-tellers of being outright liars. This is especially the case when the shameles...
The Syrian dictator claims the notorious photograph of Omran Daqneesh was a ‘forgery.’ Even Asma al-Assad begs to differ.
Trump: Hil Will Take Guns, Kill Babies
Trump: Hil Will Take Guns, Kill Babies
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton did not waste any time on Wednesday night sparring over two of the most contentious issues in U.S. politics: Americans’ rights to guns and abortions.Clinton was very careful with her rhetoric on gun rights, while T...
He says she would repeal the Second Amendment, and that he would appoint justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade.
Tech + Health
Today’s Internet Attacks: Just the Start
Today’s Internet Attacks: Just the Start
Back in September Bruce Schneier, an internationally renowned security technologist, wrote about hackers probing the internet for points of weakness in an attempt to have the ability to take the entire net offline.A lot of people blew that article...
Thanks to powerful new botnets, hackers now have the ability to knock major companies—even whole countries—offline.
How Hollywood Depicts Drunken Blackouts
How Hollywood Depicts Drunken Blackouts
The film adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ bestseller, “The Girl on the Train,” was last weekend’s top earner, but it opened to mixed reviews.[Warning: slight spoilers ahead.]It’s told mostly through the bloodshot eyes of Rachel (played by Emily Blunt)...
The film version of Paula Hawkins’ bestselling book examines a phenomenon that’s more prevalent than ever: women who drink until they can’t remember.
Can a DNA Test Predict Addiction?
Can a DNA Test Predict Addiction?
“Right this minute I’m detoxing like hell,” James, an opioid user, said. On top of feeling fatigued but unable to sleep, his weakened muscles are draped in a relentless ache. These are the unbearable symptoms of withdrawal. James was run over by ...
Many addicts get their first fix thanks to unsuspecting physicians treating them for pain. A new product claims it can predict with 93 percent accuracy someone’s risk. Why that’s pro...
This Drone Could Find the Lost Colony
This Drone Could Find the Lost Colony
As viewers tune in for the pig-wallow witchcraft of American Horror Story: Roanoke, the real Roanoke Island remains a favored haunt of scientists, not spooks. From the beginning, England’s ventures in the New World were largely scientific: scope o...
America’s oldest mystery—what happened to the first English colonists who disappeared with hardly a trace—is yielding tantalizing new clues to high-tech sleuths.
Is ‘Toxic Mold’ Real?
Is ‘Toxic Mold’ Real?
Recently a patient of mine was hospitalized for liver failure due to alcohol. His history of liver disease was well documented, but he adamantly denied that anyone had warned him to avoid alcohol.An initial confession of “a few drinks” turned into...
A search for ‘toxic mold’ will result in hundreds of scary warnings and ‘studies,’ but few are based in science—and many are motivated by profit.
Dating While Trans
Dating While Trans
In the third season of Transparent, Maura Pfefferman goes where the character has never gone before: the bedroom. After Pfefferman, played by Emmy-winner Jeffrey Tambor, meets Vickie (Angelica Huston), a breast cancer survivor, at a women’s mus...
The Daily Beast spoke to transgender people across the country to find out what challenges they face in relationships.
How Trees Will Save Humanity
How Trees Will Save Humanity
By Hamish Gordon and Cat Scott, Research Fellows in Amospheric Science at the University of Leeds. The pre-industrial atmosphere contained more particles, and so brighter clouds, than we previously thought. This is the latest finding of the CLOUD ...
Trees are much better at creating clouds and cooling the climate than we thought.
Arts + Culture
How To Smash Broadway, 77 Years Young
How To Smash Broadway, 77 Years Young
The sounds of jazz pianist Red Garland may confer a mellifluous vibe to his compact, tidy dressing room at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, but Denis Arndt is bracingly direct when a reporter asked what it was like now, aged 77, to be making a wide...
As he garners rave reviews for his performance in 'Heisenberg,' Denis Arndt talks about his long road to Broadway, taking in Vietnam service, helicopter piloting, 'King L...
The Hunt for Libya’s Lost Treasures
The Hunt for Libya’s Lost Treasures
When the French historian, archaeologist, and researcher Morgan Belzic, of the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris embarked on a PhD thesis on the somewhat esoteric subject of Cyrenaican Funerary Sculptures, little did he know he would end u...
The chaos in the Middle East is turning the trickle of cultural artefacts appearing on the global art market into a flood.
When Hollywood Built Its Own Berlin Wall
When Hollywood Built Its Own Berlin Wall
In the months after the Berlin Wall rose in August 1961, thousands of East Germans fled to the West. They swam rivers, navigated sewers, climbed or smashed through the Wall. Some were shot by border guards. As new security measures made most metho...
When East Germans began tunneling under the newly built Berlin Wall in 1961, Hollywood muscled in with on-location filming even as tunnelers worked beneath them.
Where Is Lincoln’s Lost Slavery Speech?
Where Is Lincoln’s Lost Slavery Speech?
On the skills section of Abraham Lincoln’s resume, badass orator ranks near the top. During the course of his career, the 16th president excelled at giving profound, rousing, and memorable speeches that have been engraved on the soul of the countr...
In 1856, Lincoln delivered an inspired and severe indictment of slavery—but his actual words went mysteriously unrecorded.
It’s Tough Being a Trump Woman
It’s Tough Being a Trump Woman
“Nobody has more respect for women than I do,” Donald Trump said during Wednesday night’s mercifully final presidential debate, drawing sniggers from the audience.It’s hard to believe the flailing GOP nominee isn’t in on the joke. After 90 minutes...
In defending his own alleged behavior and words, Donald Trump relies on the steadfast support of Melania and Ivanka. How do they stay so serenely devoted?
Activists Slam U.K. Gay Sex ‘Pardons’
Activists Slam U.K. Gay Sex ‘Pardons’
British gay-rights campaigners have criticized a legal amendment that will see an estimated 15,000 living men convicted of the “crime” of having gay sexual relations prior to 2003 be “pardoned.” The campaigners say a “pardon” still implies guilt o...
The Turing Law will confer ‘pardons’ upon gay men convicted of past consensual sex crimes. But does a ‘pardon’ go far enough to rectify the injustices they faced?
Gertrude and Alice: The Opera
Gertrude and Alice: The Opera
“Her whole life is this big, fabulous ‘fuck you.’ She just was who she was whether you liked it or not until she became one of the most famous people in history. That is really inspiring to me,” composer Ricky Ian Gordon told The Daily Beast recen...
‘27’ tells the story of Stein and Toklas’s relationship, alongside the luminaries they called friends and championed, including Picasso, Matisse, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemi...
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