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      Heroes, Killers, and a Double-Shot of Omarosa: The Daily Beast’s Best-Read Stories of 2017

      White House backstabbers. Hollywood creeps. Dirty cops. Silicon Valley lunatics. And the marshmallow rock of 3 Doors Down. This year had it all.

      Noah Shachtman

      Noah Shachtman

      Updated Dec. 26, 2017 11:45AM EST / Published Dec. 26, 2017 11:00AM EST 

      Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast

      This last year was intense. Beyond intense—disturbing, wild, kaleidoscopic, and bike-stuck-on-a-train-track riveting.

      In other words, it was a damn fine time to be a reporter. It was a damn fine time to be at The Daily Beast.

      Take a look at this list of our 20 most-read stories and you’ll see what I mean. As the world got freakier, our reporters dug in deeper, delivering the groundbreaking investigations, exclusive interviews, and WTF moments you’ll see below. We exposed villains and the systems that protected them. We highlighted heroes trying to bring a little goodness to the planet. We caught Steve Bannon calling Jared Kushner a “cuck.” It was weird. It was frenetic. It was awful. It was glorious.

      A note on the list: These aren’t the stories that got the most clicks, or the ones with most shares (although many of ’em went viral). These are the 20 articles that our readers spent the most time consuming.

      So kick back, take a read, and get ready for an even wilder 2018.

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      Exclusive: Green Beret Discovered SEALs’ Illicit Cash. Then He Was Killed.

      Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar’s death looked suspicious from the start. But even the most hard-bitten observers gasped when they learned how the Green Beret really died.

      Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast

      Exclusive: Silicon Valley CEO Pleads ‘No Contest’ to Abusing His Wife—and Is Offered a Deal for Less Than 30 Days in Jail

      The assault was caught on tape. And yet prosecutors wanted to give only the lightest of sentences to the man who did it.

      Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast

      Bill Maher Exposes Tomi Lahren on ‘Real Time’

      The Trump fangirl was not at her best—claiming the president isn’t actually in charge of military operations and decrying “racism against white individuals.” Maher and his panel pounced, viciously.

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      Exclusive: George Clooney Opens Up About Why Hillary Clinton Lost: ‘I Never Saw Her Elevate Her Game’

      Clooney pushed hard for Hillary Clinton. In an exclusive interview, the Oscar-winning actor-filmmaker-humanitarian explained why all the endorsements, money, and institutional oomph weren’t enough to beat Trump.

      Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast

      Exclusive: Cadet Run Out of West Point After Accusing Army’s Star Quarterback of Rape

      He was cleared by the school and the Army—and became captain of the football team. She says she was shamed by fellow cadets and disrespected by the academy’s leaders.

      Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast

      Exclusive: ‘Silicon Valley’ Star T.J. Miller Accused of Sexually Assaulting and Punching a Woman

      Allegations of sexual violence have followed the acclaimed comic and actor years. Finally, accuser came forward.

      Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast

      NBC Fires Matt Lauer for Sexual Misconduct, and It’s Already Getting Worse

      The #MeToo moment claimed the biggest name at NBC News—as the network braced for even more horror stories to emerge.

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      Trump’s Inauguration Welcome Concert Was a Total Disaster

      Even diehard Trumpkins screamed to the sky during the rhythmic stylings of Ravidrums and the marshmallow rock of 3 Doors Down.

      Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast

      John Kelly Pushing Out Omarosa for ‘Triggering’ Trump

      Trump’s “Apprentice” was bringing a little too much reality-TV drama to the Oval Office. So the general told her to GTFO.

      Yeganeh Torbati/Reuters

      Trump’s Border Agents Defy Judge, U.S. Senator at Dulles Airport as His First Constitutional Crisis Unfolds

      It took just nine days for the first major constitutional crisis of the Trump presidency to erupt.

      Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast

      Cop Purged Dead Girl’s Texts at Scene of Her Death, Prosecutors Say

      “You can’t do this to me,” the cop allegedly messaged over and over. “You can’t.”

      Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast

      Exclusive: New Evidence Debunks History Channel’s Crazy Theory That Amelia Earhart Was Captured and Killed

      A new photo supposedly showed the aviatrix taken alive, but eyewitness testimony unearthed by The Daily Beast proved the claim was false.

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      No One Knows What Omarosa Is Doing in the White House—Even Omarosa

      Seemingly stripped of formal responsibilities, the onetime TV villain appeared to spend her White House time—and taxpayer salary—planning her wedding.

      Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast

      A Viral Sex Crime That Shocked a Nation

      “Last spring I was sexually assaulted in broad daylight in Mexico City. It nearly destroyed my career, forced me to flee the country, and alienated me from society.”

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      How Doug Jones Destroyed Roy Moore’s Whole Shtick With One Well-Chosen Verb

      “Prancing around on a stage in a cowboy suit.” At first it looks like a standard, if slightly harsh, political insult. But parse that phrase closely, and you realize it’s a body blow—not just to Roy Moore, but to the politics he champions.

      Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast

      Steve Bannon Calls Jared Kushner a ‘Cuck’ and ‘Globalist’ Behind His Back

      Historians will likely look back at the spring of 2017 as the Golden Age of White House Backstabbing.

      Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast

      Republican Coal King Sues HBO Over John Oliver’s Show

      When Last Week Tonight skewered a West Virginia coal magnate, he responded with a “rambling and semi-coherent” legal threat.

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      Snow Fall: The Plane Went Down With His Wife, His Kid... and a Secret

      Don’t wait until Hollywood turns it into a blockbuster. Read this thriller now.

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      The Real-Life Story of Princess Margaret and Tony, Wild Swingers of ‘The Crown’

      The Daily Beast’s Clive Irving had the inside track on the couple that scandalized Swinging London. After all, he worked with the future Lord Snowdon and brother-in-law to the queen.

      Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast

      Hollywood’s Other ‘Open Secret’ Besides Harvey Weinstein: Preying on Young Boys

      “This is a place where adults have more direct and inappropriate connection with children than probably anywhere else in the world.”

      Noah Shachtman

      Noah Shachtman

      @noahshachtman

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