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SHOCK
35+ Dead as Powerful Quake Hits Italy
Strikes popular vacation region of Umbria.
INVASION
Turkish Tanks and Troops Enter Syria
With U.S. planes providing air cover.
ANOTHER
6.8-Magnitude Quake Strikes Myanmar
Felt as far as Bangkok.
WHOOPS
U.S. ‘Lost’ 700K+ Weapons in Middle East
Doesn’t know exactly how many guns it sent.
ESCALATING TENSIONS
North Korea Test-Fires Missile From Sub
Aimed at Japan.
DISGUSTING
Sex-Assault Claims Hit Shkreli’s Firm
Executive files lawsuit against “pharma bro” co.
RED LINE
Assad May Have Kept Chemical Weapons
After promising to destroy the entire arsenal.
CHANGE OF HEART
Trump: Maybe ‘Soften’ Immigration Laws
Big pivot from his previous position.
STUDENT UNION
NLRB: Private Grad Students Can Unionize
In a 3-1 decision.
GOOD LUCK
Trump to Hit Clinton on Crime Bill
As part of outreach to black voters.
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Donald Trump’s Potemkin Campaign
Donald Trump’s Potemkin Campaign
We learned something extraordinarily valuable last week about Donald Trump’s qualifications to be president when, in the words of oh so many news reports, there was another shake-up of his tiny campaign team. Sadly, most all of the breaking news r...
Trump doesn’t consult campaign roadmaps. It is not even clear he knows how to read one.
Trump Campaign Boss Wrote Rap Musical
Trump Campaign Boss Wrote Rap Musical
Decades ago, Stephen K. Bannon was just another hungry aspiring filmmaker trying to make it in Hollywood, co-writing scripts on subjects like the Rwandan genocide or Shakespearean hip-hop moralists caught in the middle of the 1992 L.A. riots.Today...
Trump’s campaign CEO may be best known for running a race-baiting, alt-right mess of a website, but he also once wrote a rap musical about the 1992 L.A. riots.
Garland Rises as Trump Sinks
Garland Rises as Trump Sinks
When the Senate reconvenes on Sept. 6, there may be a new faction supporting the confirmation of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court: Republicans.As the slow-motion implosion of Donald Trump’s candidacy continues, the calculus is shifting f...
Vulnerable GOP senators could distance themselves from their nominee by voting to confirm the Supreme Court nominee—before President Hillary picks a more liberal jurist.
Trump’s Phony Courtship of Black Voters
Trump’s Phony Courtship of Black Voters
In what may just be the most starkly crass, absurdly dishonest moment of the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump is now proclaiming himself black America’s last and best hope. “We’ll get rid of the crime,” Trump told an audience Monday in Akron, Ohio....
The small man prefers hawking fear and loathing to meeting with and listening to black people.
The GOP’s Great Millennial Challenge
The GOP’s Great Millennial Challenge
Republicans face a real and looming threat to our survival as a major party: Just 20 percent of millennials identify with the GOP.Our voting base, the baby boomer generation, is shrinking along with the popularity of Republicans in urban areas. As...
Millennials are not the pothead slackers older Republican consultants, operatives, and voters make them out to be.
Entertainment
Meyers: Trump’s Inner Circle Is Nuts
Meyers: Trump’s Inner Circle Is Nuts
Seth Meyers really doesn’t like Donald Trump. The former SNL writer turned late-night host turned in one of the better anti-Trump stand-up routines at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner—you know, back when the former reality star hinted a...
The ‘Late Night’ host returned from a two-week hiatus to unload on Trump’s poorly managed campaign—which has been hijacked by the alt-right.
The Literary Hoax That Fooled the Stars
The Literary Hoax That Fooled the Stars
If we’ve learned anything in the 21st century, it’s that identity can be as slippery as a fish, and this has never been quite so true and so puzzling as it is in Jeff Feuerzeig’s documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story.Frequently referred to as one...
‘Author: The JT LeRoy Story’ humanizes the bizarre tale of a folk hero who turned out to be more fiction than fact.
How Parker Sawyers Became Young Obama
How Parker Sawyers Became Young Obama
A day after viewing the new film Southside With You, I walk into a room at The London Hotel in West Hollywood to meet the president. But Parker Sawyers, who plays a young Barack Obama in the film, no longer looks like the president.For starters, t...
The 33-year-old actor with a striking resemblance to the president talks about growing up Republican and channeling a young Obama in ‘Southside With You.’
The Women Fighting Sex Crimes in Comedy
The Women Fighting Sex Crimes in Comedy
Last week, the news of a male performer’s ban from the Upright Citizens Brigade theater burst through the bubble of the New York comedy community and entered the public conversation. And while some comics seem shocked by the allegations and UCB’s ...
For years, victims of harassment and assault in the New York comedy world were shamed into silence. Then Aaron Glaser was banned from UCB—and all hell broke loose.
Why Was I Locked Up in Guantánamo?
Why Was I Locked Up in Guantánamo?
It’s hard not to be suspicious of British Guantánamo detainee Moazzam Begg, the subject of a new documentary, The Confession, which revolves around an in-depth interview about his life before, during, and after the two years he spent in extrajudic...
Accused of links to terrorism, Moazzam Begg was kept in a 6-by-8-foot cage in Guantánamo Bay for almost two years. He still protests his innocence.
Frank Ocean’s ‘Blonde’: Worth the Wait
Frank Ocean’s ‘Blonde’: Worth the Wait
Every generation needs its enigmas.Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange was an epochal album, a seminal studio debut that cemented Ocean as one of the definitive musical voices of 2010s pop. In its wake, a new wave of “alt-R&B” acts took over popular ...
The R&B prince’s long-awaited follow-up to ‘Channel Orange’ does not disappoint.
‘The Night Of’: Did Naz Really Do It?
‘The Night Of’: Did Naz Really Do It?
The first few minutes of Sunday night’s penultimate episode of The Night Of served the same purpose for viewers as it did for the jurors we’ve also become. Gruesome, graphic photos of Andrea Cornish (Sofia Black-D’Elia), the girl whose murder Nasi...
With one episode left before the season finale of ‘The Night Of,’ the defense presents its case and Naz becomes embroiled in more dark drama behind bars. How will this all end?
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The Jihadi Joker Was a Terror Mastermind
The Jihadi Joker Was a Terror Mastermind
LONDON — Perhaps the world’s most mainstream pro-ISIS Western media agitator, Anjem Choudary, finally has been convicted of terrorism in the United Kingdom.It took 20 years to bring him to justice, but after jurors at the Old Bailey heard last wee...
For 20 years, long before ISIS, Anjem Choudary abetted terror plots in the U.K. and around the world. Now that he’s in jail, will he continue his work there?
The Lost Girls of Panama: The Full Story
The Lost Girls of Panama: The Full Story
The Daily Beast brings together here all three parts of its investigation into the fate of Kris Kremers, 21, and Lisanne Froon, 22, who went out for a brief hike near a mountain resort in Panama in 2014 and never came back. Were they victims of a ...
The mysterious deaths of two young tourists in Panama puzzled examiners and shocked nations on both sides of the Atlantic; now secretly leaked documents reveal what happened.
Where’s the Outrage Over Nun Beachwear?
Where’s the Outrage Over Nun Beachwear?
SABAUDIA, Italy — Go to any public beach in Italy and chances are you’ll eventually see a woman wearing a veil and long skirt. But she likely won’t be a Muslim in a version of the controversial burqini. She will almost certainly be a Catholic nun ...
While the French are banning Muslims in burqinis, Italian Catholic bishops find it ironic there’s alarm when a woman is “overdressed while swimming in the sea!”
Brazil Beats Expectations at Rio Games
Brazil Beats Expectations at Rio Games
The headlines in the lead up to the Rio Olympics could not have been more terrifying. Body Parts Wash Ashore in Sailor’s Bay! Dread Virus Spread by Mosquitos (and Sex) Sure to Afflict Athletes and Spectators! Wolf Packs of Street Criminals Prepar...
Before it started, coverage of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games left the world expecting the worst. While it is unclear if hosting the games will help Rio long-term—Brazil came through.
How Victorians Resurrected the Olympics
How Victorians Resurrected the Olympics
When we think about the history of the Olympics we tend to think about definitive moments in sporting history: Nadia Comăneci’s perfect 10; Usain Bolt’s world records, Michael Phelps’s cache of medals, and so on. If we are taking the long view we ...
We’ve always been told about the altruistic intentions of the Olympics, but what about their origins as a way to perfect Christian men at a Victorian boarding school?
The Cowboy Novels That Obsessed Hitler
The Cowboy Novels That Obsessed Hitler
The aura of Indian names—Massachusetts, Monangahela, Arapahoe County, Mississippi, Minnesota—hangs over America, even after the indigenous people are often gone. A Founding Amnesia has long erased the stories of Native Americans in history texts a...
The adventure stories of Karl May set in the American Southwest have charmed millions of Germans, but especially Hitler, who patterned Nazi policies on their plots.
Watch Brazil Go For Their First Ever ...
Watch Brazil Go For Their First Ever ...
Brazil men’s soccer team has never won Olympic gold. This year’s team, led by Neymar—widely considered one of the world’s top players—is just one step away from claiming the gold at home in Rio.Currently ranked ninth by FIFA, the Brazilian nationa...
U.S.
Perv Preacher Nabbed 2,000 Miles Away
Perv Preacher Nabbed 2,000 Miles Away
It took a jury 30 minutes to find preacher Gregorio Martinez guilty of molesting a 13-year-old boy.The New Jersey preacher was convicted in February 2015 of aggravated criminal sexual contact, child abuse, and endangering the welfare of a child, f...
After Gregorio Martinez was convicted of sexually abusing a boy, he vanished. Two reporters working on one tip did what law enforcement couldn’t: Find him.
Students Won the Campus Culture War
Students Won the Campus Culture War
Last year, college campuses roiled with student activism and protests, from hunger strikes to requests for trigger warnings on academic curricula, the likes of which the country hadn’t seen in decades. Student groups across the country, many of th...
Last year, protests erupted over offensive monuments and trespassed-upon ‘safe spaces.’ What happened next may have changed campus life forever.
Family of 5 Killed for Protecting Woman
Family of 5 Killed for Protecting Woman
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Derrick Dearman allegedly tracked his girlfriend down to where she was hiding after fleeing his abuse, murdered the family of five sheltering her, and then kidnapped her and the infant child of one of his victims.Dearman, a 2...
Derrick Dearman allegedly tracked down Laneta Lester after she ran away, snatching her from the Alabama house she was hiding in after he killed everyone inside.
Killer Tweeted: I’ll Murder My Roommate
Killer Tweeted: I’ll Murder My Roommate
Two days after he tweeted “I need to move out of my place before I viciously murder my roommates,” Zachary Penton called 911 and confessed to killing his roommate.Penton, of Gilbert, Arizona, was booked in Maricopa County jail after police said he...
Police say Zachary Penton confessed to killing a man he lived with two days after he tweeted he would ‘viciously murder my roommates.’
Everyday Heroes of the Louisiana Flood
Everyday Heroes of the Louisiana Flood
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Sanders Davis of Baton Rouge saw the Great Flood of 2016 up close and personal last week.Davis, 25, lives in the Sherwood Forest subdivision, a leafy, standard-issue middle class enclave that lies east of the 27-story Capi...
Teachers, stagehands, and countless others are helping the state recover when it almost seems like no one else will.
Tech + Health
Why Science Says It’s OK to Stay Fat
Why Science Says It’s OK to Stay Fat
The world is getting heavier. But you don’t need to lose weight. A number of news outlets have been covering a recent report out from the CDC, with headlines mostly pointing to the apparent 15-pound increase in average weight in Americans since 19...
It’s time we stop equating good health with weight loss.
Why More Young Adults Are Having Strokes
Why More Young Adults Are Having Strokes
ROCKLIN, Calif.— The headaches were excruciating and wouldn’t go away. Her doctor said they were migraines. Then, one morning a few weeks later, Jamie Hancock stood up from the couch and discovered she couldn’t move the right side of her body. Whe...
Because strokes are so often associated with older adults, young people might not see the warning signs—until it’s too late.
Dr. Drew Leads Clinton Health Truthers
Dr. Drew Leads Clinton Health Truthers
On a radio show this week, Dr. Drew Pinsky of Celebrity Rehab fame added his name to the long list of conspiracy theorists who believe that Hillary Clinton’s health could be failing—a list that so far includes the National Enquirer, Fox News host ...
Dr. Drew Pinsky, he of celebrity rehabs and adult radio, is joining the chorus of those who say Hillary Clinton is unwell and unfit to be president.
Can Bacteria Make Your Skin Healthier?
Can Bacteria Make Your Skin Healthier?
Antibacterial cosmetics are so last year; the latest craze is for face creams, serums, and washes that actually add bacteria to the skin in order to make it look younger and healthier. But experts think that these products aren’t backed up by enou...
Cosmetics companies claim that tweaking the bacteria on the skin can make it healthier. But does the science stack up?
Climate Change Behind the CA Wildfires
Climate Change Behind the CA Wildfires
The number of wildfires in California has decreased over the past 25 year, but try telling that to the hundreds of firefighters on the ground attempting to put out multiple fires raging across Northern California.Map provided by Google Maps. Appro...
Over 100,000 acres of California’s land has been scorched due to destructive wildfires.
Zika Hits Miami’s Outdoor Restaurants
Zika Hits Miami’s Outdoor Restaurants
MIAMI — August is already a slow month in Miami. Between the oppressive heat, suffocating humidity, and frequent rain, the locals who haven’t already fled to a less tropical clime prefer to stay inside. Add news of a Zika outbreak to the mix and b...
Wynwood Yard is an outdoor eatery and event space in a bustling Miami neighborhood. And three of its employees have been diagnosed with Zika.
Should Louisiana Be Scared of Zika?
Should Louisiana Be Scared of Zika?
Days after a severe flood in Louisiana that left six people dead and 10,000 in shelters, some experts are expressing concern that the event may usher in a large Zika outbreak.The fears are not entirely unfounded. When the water currently rushing t...
Faced with severe flooding, Louisiana could be in for another disaster: Zika. But experts say it isn’t time to panic yet.
Arts + Culture
NBC’s ‘Today’ Show Marries Billy Bush
NBC’s ‘Today’ Show Marries Billy Bush
In yet another installment of the Today show’s vaunted wedding feature, the venerable NBC News morning franchise exchanged sacred vows Monday with a blushing new bride.That bride—and I use the term advisedly, only because of all the over-the-top a...
Last week Al Roker confronted Billy Bush for believing Ryan Lochte’s ‘lies’ about his Rio escapade. But ‘Today’s’ 9 a.m. gang this morning officially welcomed Bush with lots of smile...
How Rejection Made Me a Serious Writer
How Rejection Made Me a Serious Writer
Don’t date someone you work with, because, if you date someone you work with you’ve substantially increased the chances that you will get dumped while you are at work. I can give this advice because I once dated someone I worked with and then that...
Getting told no—by lovers, bosses, schools—is never fun, but sometimes you have to hit bottom before you realize that becoming who you want to be is all on you after all.
Was This Man the Real Indiana Jones?
Was This Man the Real Indiana Jones?
When I first walk into the Holyland Bible Knowledge Society and am ushered into a lecture hall for a Bible study class, I feel like I have been tricked.I came expecting to see the treasures of the man who supposedly inspired my childhood cinematic...
In a small house in a quiet Los Angeles neighborhood, the Holyland Bible Knowledge Society honors the memory of an evangelist and relic hunter who just might be the original Indy.
How Harvey Milk Became a Navy Ambassador
How Harvey Milk Became a Navy Ambassador
Earlier this week, the U.S. Navy officially commemorated the new USNS Harvey Milk, a 677-foot fleet oiler and first navy ship to be named after a member of the LGBTQ community.It was the latest of many milestones for Milk, who was assassinated a y...
The USNS Harvey Milk is the first Navy ship to be named after a member of the LGBT community—and, like the brave advocate it is named after, it will take its message of equality ever...
The Curse of a Controversial Aristocrat
The Curse of a Controversial Aristocrat
A controversial Kenyan aristocrat of British descent who killed two local Kenyan men on separate occasions has died aged 48 of a heart attack, following complications after a routine hospital operation in Nairobi.Tom Cholmondeley (pronounced Chuml...
Tom Cholmondeley killed two black Kenyans on his father’s game reserve. Now he himself is dead, and one of the victim’s families says the curse that killed him will be visited on his...
Is Glenn Beck Suing Himself?
Is Glenn Beck Suing Himself?
Glenn Beck seems to be an endless source of nutty stories.Maybe the multimedia oddball spent too much time being spun around while strapped in a giant gyroscope that, as he told his fans, helped cure him of a mysterious brain illness that “quite h...
In a multimillion-dollar fraud, breach of contract, and dereliction of duty lawsuit, Glenn Beck appears to be suing himself, and may even end up having to pay damages to himself.
Trump TV Is Real
Trump TV Is Real
The odds are, if you believe the polls, that Donald Trump will never be president. But there is more than a possibility that the reality show billionaire will start his own television network shortly after the election.“A TV network is a logical w...
Whatever happens in the presidential election, the plan for a Donald Trump TV station is far from fanciful. Indeed, it might make extremely lucrative sense.
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