In new statement from AG Loretta Lynch.
Peter Thiel has allegedly been secretly covering the expenses against Gawker.
Months after promising to do so.
In wake of sexual-assault scandals.
Has peddled false anecdote to back his policies.
Al-Anbari was killed by U.S. special forces in March.
Same-sex marriage not recognized by S. Africa's Anglican church.
Stephanie Karr said she made the decision on her own.
After allegedly misled deputy about a shooting of his friend.
Allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted Andrea Constand.
Back in 2003, Cohen interviewed Trump as Ali G. Trump later claimed he was the ‘only person who immediately walked out’ of an Ali G interview. Now, Cohen is calling BS.
There’s no better way to celebrate the greatest American songwriter’s 75th birthday than to stoke reader outrage by attempting to rank his work, album by album.
Candice Patton on how Iris West became so much more than just a love interest in the CW drama’s second season. As for tonight's season finale, prepare to rejoice, #WestAllen fans.
It seemed like an outpouring of veteran anger against Donald Trump: over a dozen former service members protesting outside Trump Tower.But the reality was more complicated. The protest was actually a coordinated effort, led in part by the Hillary ...
It was a perfect opportunity to hold Trump’s feet to the fire for his broken promise to raise $6 million for vets. But this was no spontaneous protest.
Hillary Clinton, a wonkish disliked Democrat with an “I’m better than the other option” approach, might be looking for some help from an unlikely source: the owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks.According to Mark Cuban, Mavericks owner and star on ...
The mogul and reality-TV star (not that one!) says Clinton’s people want to chat with him after he said he’d be open to a VP position.
It’s easy to forget how dumb we’ve been.Seventeen months ago, Jeb Bush announced over Facebook that he would be starting a Leadership PAC to “facilitate conversations with citizens across America” about whether he would be a good president.“Onward...
Wonky. Earnest. Bathing in Benjamins. The Democratic frontrunner and the Republican belly-flopper are more similar than you think.
Tell a joke, and you might make someone laugh. But tell a joke on a college campus, and you might make someone report you to the administration’s Bias Response Team (BRT)—an Orwellian bureau that investigates students and faculty members for sayin...
If you hurt someone’s feelings, or might have potentially hurt their feelings, campus bias response teams are ready to pounce.
Bernie Sanders has proven he can fill a stadium with adoring fans, but Democrats say he risks being ostracized by members of his own party when he returns to the Senate unless he can rein in his supporters soon.While Sanders’s young and energetic ...
The blowup in Nevada has prompted many of Sanders’s Senate colleagues to urge him to get control of what he started—and direct it away from Democrats and toward Trump.
This week, the Game of Thrones faithful are rightfully crying “Hold the door!” up and down the Internet in honor of House Stark hero Hodor, whose tragically noble destiny was revealed in Sunday’s stunner “The Door.”Fans new to the cult of Irish ac...
He may have left us in Sunday night’s thrilling episode of GoT, but the spirit of Hold the Door—rather, Hodor—will continue to fill nightclubs across the world.
While everyone in the Twitterverse was up in arms over Madonna’s perfectly OK Prince tribute during Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards—I would’ve loved D’Angelo, The Weeknd, and Sheila E. backed by The Revolution and The Roots too, but that’d b...
The man who took L’s all year long bested Kendrick, Drake, Dre, and Future for Top Rap Album of the Year at the Billboard Music Awards. Huh?
As the Democratic National Convention approaches, things are getting pretty, pretty nasty on the Dems’ side between #IMWITHHER and #FEELTHEBERN—and sadly, we no longer have SNL’s Kate McKinnon and Larry David to lighten the mood. Tensions reached...
The host of HBO’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ argued that, while Trump and Hillary have earned their nominations—sorry, Bernie—the entire primaries and caucuses system is bollocks.
Early in “The Door,” Game of Thrones’ best episode so far this season, Jaqen the Faceless Man asks Arya if death only comes for the wicked and leaves the decent behind. Of course, we all know the answer too well. But of the dozens of good people (...
The best episode so far this season, ‘The Door,’ featured several shocking reveals—including solving the mystery of the White Walkers. [Warning: Spoilers]
When it is announced that Madonna, of all artists, is giving the first major Prince tribute at a music awards show—and, hell, that yet another of the industry’s roughly 53 music shows is happening (I swear one country music awards aired each week ...
It was a night of defied expectations. Madonna’s Prince tribute wasn’t a train wreck, and the otherwise pointless Billboard Awards showcased the industry’s undeniable girl power.
PART II: What Trump Knew About ‘Kardashian U’Plus: UPDATE: ‘Kris Jenner U’ Scrubs Its Social Media After Daily Beast Exposé Tuition at the Legacy Business School in Trump Tower runs up to $105,360 per year for a certificate. The price may be eye-p...
The Kardashian matriarch is lending her name to a gilded business school—but New York state claims it’s just the latest rebrand of a troubled European institution.
Fear the Walking Dead’s second mid-season finale airs tonight, yet you’d be hard-pressed to find a fan who has quite figured out the mystery of Victor Strand.The character, as played by Colman Domingo, flickers constantly between darkness and ligh...
The star of AMC’s spinoff of ‘The Walking Dead’ dishes on his character’s “reveal,” and what to expect in the show’s midseason finale.
Standing in Mt. Everest base camp—located at 17,700 feet—it is a little hard not to be overwhelmed. After all, it takes the better part of a week just to trek to that point, and when you do reach it you’re still standing more than 11,000 feet belo...
Climate change, unrest among the Sherpas, and a radically shifting business model are all signs of a mountain in transition—and almost all of it makes Everest a more dangerous place.
PARIS — The poor handbags didn’t stand a chance.In the latest brazen robbery of one of Paris’s storied boutiques, three men armed with pump-action shotguns and axes entered the Chanel shop on the ultra-chic Avenue Montaigne just after noon on Thur...
The smash-and-grab hit on Chanel’s Avenue Montaigne shop is just the latest in a long line of hold-ups at ultra-luxe French boutiques.
The death of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mansour in an American drone strike is a significant but not fatal blow to both the Taliban and their Pakistani Army patrons. The critical question Afghans and Pakistanis are asking is whether this is a o...
Mullah Mansour was Pakistan’s man picked to lead the Afghan Taliban, and he was killed on Pakistani soil. Is this the beginning of a new U.S. strategy?
PARIS — Irish soccer pundit Eamon Dunphy decided last week he wouldn’t be going to France for the Euro 2016 soccer championships that begin next month. He just wasn’t inclined to be a sitting duck in one of of those stadiums. Dunphy didn’t need to...
From the Euro 16 soccer championships to the Tour de France, the country will be a target-rich environment for terror.
LONDON — Imagine making a televised court appearance broadcast to the whole nation to make a humbling, humiliating apology for … showing your hair. Last Sunday, the Iranian regime carried out just such a “public shaming” of some of the country’s m...
Sexual freedoms have become a litmus test between open societies and closed ones, and too many Muslims around the world are headed in the wrong direction.
Remember when Pope Benedict XVI abdicated and the media went into a meltdown? You probably heard around then that this wasn’t the first abdication, and that Celestine V had abdicated about 800 years earlier. And then we promptly forgot about all o...
Forget about the Borgias, this pope used the papal armies to massacre his family’s enemies, engage in incestuous threesomes, and question Mary’s virginity.
The Second World War witnessed a huge expansion of the intelligence machines of every belligerent nation, so that secret service became the struggle’s growth industry. Never in the history of conflict had such vast resources been deployed by all b...
Spies on the ground during WWII were able to accomplish little in the way of intelligence gathering that made a difference. Codebreakers were another story entirely.
It was supposed to be Dan England’s first time singing the national anthem for such a huge audience, but his dreams were suddenly cut short.England stood on the field of the San Diego Padres on Saturday night with the rest of the San Diego Gay Men...
An ‘unintentional mistake’ caused a recorded version of the national anthem to be played over 100 singers on the field, the club says. The men aren’t buying it.
Monday’s acquittal of Baltimore police officer Edward Nero on charges related to the death of Freddie Gray on April 12, 2015, might portend upcoming not-guilty findings for the five remaining Baltimore city police officers facing various criminal ...
Prosecutors are 0-2 in convictions against the six officers after Edward Nero was acquitted of four misdemeanors on Monday. Good luck with murder.
Roberto Gonzalez’s last wish as he lay paralyzed in a veterans hospital was to say goodbye to his horses, Sugar and Ringo.So on Saturday, 46 years to the day after he was paralyzed while fighting in the Army in Vietnam, he was wheeled outside in h...
Roberto Gonzalez, wounded in combat, got his last wish when he was wheeled outside to see Sugar and Ringo one last time.
At the murder trial of Timothy Foster, a young black man accused of murdering an elderly white woman, there were 42 prospective jurors. Only five of them were black. Yet Georgia’s prosecutor used his ‘peremptory challenges’ to strike every one of ...
A prosecutor wrote things like “B#” next to African-American jurors on a list and excluded one for being divorced, but today’s narrow opinion gives little guidance for the future.
A tattoo on the outer edge of Kimberly Ann Brown’s right hand reads “Forgiven,” but she’s anything but for her alleged participation in an armed robbery in Florida this month.Eighteen-year-old Austin Young called a Fort Myers, Florida, number in t...
Eighteen-year-old Austin Young got the opposite of a good time when he called a Fort Myers escort—he was driven to a remote location and relieved of his wallet at gunpoint.
Grown by veterans on an Appalachian farm, then woven into American flags.
What if there was a psychoactive drug you could take during the workweek to boost your productivity? In low doses, it would help you focus, make you friendlier, and put a slight bounce in your step. The effects would be subtle, often imperceptible...
The focus of countless trend pieces, LSD ‘microdosing’ has been declared Silicon Valley’s favorite upper.
If anyone faces heightened danger in public restrooms, it’s transgender people. And as lawmakers in North Carolina and elsewhere take aim at their right to relieve themselves, there are troubling signs that this danger could be growing.Most recent...
Further proving that transgender people are more at risk in public restrooms than others, a trans woman was assaulted for using a grocery store bathroom.
New invention prevents choking, biodegrades faster, provides nutrition.
The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is headed to South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s desk and, if she signs it as promised, hers will become the 17th state in the country to institute a 20-week abortion ban.She will also be turning lies int...
Science says fetal pain doesn’t happen before 28 weeks, but that didn’t stop South Carolina from banning abortion past 20 weeks.
In recent weeks, public restrooms have been a highly discussed subject. Newspaper headlines, websites, talk shows, even political debates have raised the question of bathroom accessibility thanks to the passing of North Carolina’s HB2 law, known c...
North Carolina’s discriminatory HB2 law doesn’t just hurt trans people—it affects people with disabilities.
Doctors have long classified attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder as a childhood condition—one that, in many cases, continues into adulthood.The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines it as “a persistent pattern of inatt...
It’s not just for schoolkids. A new U.K. study may uproot everything researchers believed they knew about when attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder presents itself.
I’m biking down Death Road, when a massive semi-truck appears as I round a turn. I have a split second to decide: I could try to slow down to see around with a high-risk of losing control of my bike and face certain injury or I could go for it and...
It has been dubbed ‘the world’s most dangerous road,’ with hairpin turns, no guardrails, and sheer precipices. Our brave correspondent set out to cycle it.
With her arms crossed and left hip thrust to one side, Beyoncé stands in the center of a basketball court in the rain, her lips curled in a sultry, let’s-play-ball smile.So goes the beginning of a promo video for her new fitness venture, Ivy Park,...
Outrage at the conditions endured by workers at the Indian factory making Beyoncé’s clothing line ignores more complex truths about the local economy.
LONDON — Forty years after the Sex Pistols unleashed their debut single “Anarchy in the UK,” a battle for the soul of punk is raging in London.The war of words will culminate in a $7 million public bonfire that will incinerate decades of punk rock...
Joe Corré, Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s son, will destroy his collection of memorabilia to stop punk becoming “a fucking museum piece.”
The image is striking, no wonder it became famous. This exquisite woman catches your eye, one of those high-cheeked WASP beauties men were raised to revere and women were raised to emulate—then envy. She soaks regally in a bathtub, her shoulder lu...
Discovered for her beauty when she was almost run over, Lee Miller went on to have one of the greatest careers that was later undermined by the horror she saw and experienced.
Washington, D.C. will never run out of must-see tourist attractions.And for drinkers, right up there with the Lincoln Memorial, the White House and the Capitol Building, is the city’s monument to whiskey, the Jack Rose Dining Saloon.The walls of t...
Celebrate World Whisky Day today with these five singular whiskies from around the globe.
Whenever anybody—without warning and for no apparent reason—dies way too young, the living react with incomprehension at the senselessness of the universe, and little reverence for the mysterious ways in which God or nature allegedly moves.That is...
In his too-brief 32 years, friends and colleagues recall how Timmy Wood became one of the standout performers of Manhattan’s comedy scene.
There is a gap between the admiration and celebration accorded to those we may call “divas,” and how those figures might feel about being called “divas.’”It was once a badge of camp approbation (“She is such a diva”). But Jennifer Lopez—in a fasci...
‘Diva’ used to be said with wonder, accorded to the grandest of female celebrities. But for J.Lo, it is simply a sexist putdown for women seen as ‘difficult.’
Grown by veterans on an Appalachian farm, then woven into American flags.
His parents had given up on knowing where he went 39 years ago. Then they got a letter.
The new flavor, “Empower Mint,” includes a big scoop of voting rights advocacy.
Graffiti everywhere, police almost nowhere. Welcome to Exarchia, Athens’ anarchist neighborhood.
New maps of the planet’s surface show evidence of two tsunamis about 400 feet high.
New invention prevents choking, biodegrades faster, provides nutrition.
Often counted among the greatest live albums of all time, Van Morrison’s It’sToo Late to Stop Now features the Irish singer-songwriter at his prime in live performances.The 1973 tour, featuring his newly formed Caledonia Soul Orchestra, holds a my...
In never-before-seen footage, the Irish rock legend is at his peak, performing an epic version of one of his most treasured classics.
The actress made a Claire Underwood-like power play to get the same pay as Kevin Spacey.
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