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FINALLY
Trump: Obama Was Born in the U.S.
Admitted truth after 30 minutes of hotel promotion.
PUNK’D
Media Protest Trump Birther “Rick-Roll”
TV pool pulls camera from hotel tour in protest.
DAMAGES
Bobbi Kristina’s Boyfriend Found Liable
Over ignoring a court order.
CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP
Katt Williams Arrested Again in Atlanta
Adding to a string of legal troubles for the comedian.
NIGHTMARE
Women Being Set on Fire in Manhattan
Five victims, suspects at-large.
WIKILEAKS
Swedish Court Upholds Assange Warrant
Expected to be questioned next month.
LANDMARK
U.S. Pays $1M For Innocent Drone Victim
Italian aid worker killed in Pakistan.
LIFESAVER
Police Robot Snatches Rifle from Gunman
Standoff ended peacefully.
BRACE FOR IMPACT
11 Dead After Typhoon Hit China, Taiwan
Another one on the way.
HORRENDOUS
NY Dad Admits Killing Toddler Daughter
Hinted at being jealous over attention she was getting.
Keep ReadingThe Oscar-nominated actor opens up about his performance as President Lyndon B. Johnson in the upcoming biopic ‘LBJ,’ as well as the current crop of POTUS nominees.
Woody Is Ready for a Revolution
Keep ReadingA sexist, valueless conversation about Renée Zellweger’s appearance has distracted from the real ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’ reveal: Not only is the movie good, it’s also important.
Bridget Jones Is Back. So Is Renee.
Keep ReadingTrump made his third appearance as a presidential candidate on ‘The Tonight Show’ Thursday night, and managed to say something ‘shocking’ despite his attempts at discipline.
Trump: ‘I Know Nothing About’ Putin
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Putin TV Stars Pump for Trump
Putin TV Stars Pump for Trump
Inside Russia Today’s American headquarters in Washington, across from the receptionist’s desk stamped by a lime green “RT” banner, an ad starring Ed Schultz and Larry King plays on a large screen TV.Schultz and King, whom he dwarfs, stand opposit...
Russia Today, Putin’s propaganda ‘news’ network, is getting help from familiar American media figures to undermine, well, America.
Trump’s Puppet Masters on School Choice
Trump’s Puppet Masters on School Choice
Donald Trump was never a major presence in the school-choice world—he didn’t give give to activist groups, or back New York’s growing charter-school movement. But over the last few months he’s begun loudly singing their praises, a major change of ...
The Mercers have long been in the thick of the charter-school movement. Now their presidential candidate is right there with them.
Why Democrats Can’t Win the House
Why Democrats Can’t Win the House
Even if Hillary Clinton pulls off an electoral landslide, and even if the Democrats flip the Senate, Republicans are likely to hold onto the House, where they hold a 247-188 majority.In large part that’s because the House districts were gerrymande...
In 2010, Republicans successfully redrew district lines to rig House elections in their favor. One leading redistricting expert says the problem is even worse than we think.
Colin Powell Bombs Bill, Hillary, Trump
Colin Powell Bombs Bill, Hillary, Trump
You’ve never heard Colin Powell talk like this.The former secretary of state and four-star Army general who has been in the national spotlight since he was Ronald Reagan’s national security advisor let loose on Hillary Clinton (“greedy, not transf...
Leaked emails reveal he thinks the ex-president is still ‘dicking bimbos,’ his wife ‘screws up’ everything, and her opponent is a racist.
Trump’s Bogus 9/11 Rescue
Trump’s Bogus 9/11 Rescue
Along with saying he lost hundreds of friends on 9/11, Donald Trump says he provided hundreds of workers for the recovery effort.“Well, I have a lot of men down here right now,” Trump told a German TV station in an interview just uptown from Groun...
The guy who says he lost hundreds of friends and sent hundreds of workers to help can’t seem to name one of them.
Entertainment
Justin Timberlake Defends Kaepernick
Justin Timberlake Defends Kaepernick
Justin Timberlake acknowledges that he could have reacted better this summer to being unceremoniously dragged on Twitter over his praise of Jesse Williams’s moving comments on the appropriation of black lives and black art. “My language was inappr...
The celebrated musician—and star of upcoming doc ‘Justin Timberlake and the Tennessee Kids’—sat down with Jen Yamato at TIFF to discuss the film, cultural appropriation, and more.
‘American Horror Story’s’ Insane Return
‘American Horror Story’s’ Insane Return
What is the theme of the new American Horror Story?That was the question that we’ve been naughtily teased with these last few months, with FX not only keeping nearly every single detail of the sixth installment of the franchise under wraps, from c...
The verrrry mysterious sixth season of ‘American Horror Story’ finally premiered, revealing a vague plot involving the lost colony of Roanoke and…The Juice shtupping his prosecutor?
Willis Clan Dad Arrested for Child Rape
Willis Clan Dad Arrested for Child Rape
A seemingly squeaky-clean Christian family band from Tennessee consisting of 12 telegenic kids who gained fame on America’s Got Talent and got their own TLC reality show has quietly imploded with the arrest of the children’s father on a child rape...
Toby Willis, the patriarch of the family band The Willis Clan—of ‘America’s Got Talent’ fame—has been arrested on child molestation charges, raising many, many questions.
Kid Cudi Blasts Kanye West and Drake
Kid Cudi Blasts Kanye West and Drake
On Wednesday, Kid Cudi published a Meek Mill-style Twitter rant, targeting reigning rap royalty Kanye West and Drake.In a series of 140 characters from the other side of hip-hop relevancy, Cudi went in: “I need yall to know I got so many haters wi...
The rapper lashed out at his haters on Wednesday, taking aim at ‘jealous chicken-hearted shits’…and Kanye West and Drake.
We Came This Close to Nuclear Armageddon
We Came This Close to Nuclear Armageddon
We live in terrifying times.Nuclear Armageddon, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, remains a distinct possibility in the post-Cold War world, and that’s not just because Iran continues its bellicose saber-rattling and North Korea presses on with w...
A new documentary focuses on the Sept. 19, 1980, explosion of one of the Air Force’s Titan II missiles in Arkansas—a Kafkaesque saga of human error and bureaucratic incompetence.
Rami Malek on His Existential Crisis
Rami Malek on His Existential Crisis
On USA Network’s hit series Mr. Robot, Rami Malek is a man divided. His cyberpunk hacktivist Elliot Alderson has been wrestling with himself, so to speak, throughout a second season that’s also seen the 35-year-old breakout star earn his first Emm...
Rami Malek stars in Buster’s Mal Heart, a film that asks some of the same philosophical questions as Mr. Robot. Malek says he couldn’t resist.
Seth Meyers and Fred Armisen Get Real
Seth Meyers and Fred Armisen Get Real
Fred Armisen gives one of the most intense, emotional dramatic performances of this TV season, playing the son of a restaurant worker in the hills of Colombia who is afraid of the chickens he must kill to cook for dinner.Such is the absurdist joy ...
How the ‘Saturday Night Live’ alumni created a show that parodies documentaries and turned it into one of the strangest, best shows on TV.
World News
Watch: Giant Moon Balloon Attacks China
Watch: Giant Moon Balloon Attacks China
A gigantic, slightly deflated moon balloon rolled and bounced its way over cars and motorbikes in Fuzhou, China, on Wednesday, after winds from an approaching typhoon set the celestial body loose. Videos taken by amused and/or frightened motorists...
Videos show a runaway inflatable moon wreaking havoc on the roads of Fuzhou, China.
Obama Just Put Hillary in a Jam
Obama Just Put Hillary in a Jam
President Obama’s decision to veto a bill that would allow 9/11 families to sue the Saudi government put him a precarious political position: between the victims of the greatest terror attack on American soil and the U.S. service members under his...
Hillary Clinton has a problem.
The Baby Without a Country
The Baby Without a Country
ROME — Newman Otas was born somewhere between hell and high water just after 7 a.m. on Sept. 12.His Nigerian mother, Faith Oqunbor, was already having contractions when she and her husband and their two young children boarded a rubber dingy on the...
The Mediterranean is becoming a maritime maternity ward as more pregnant women make the perilous journey to safety—and give birth in international waters.
ISIS Is Turning Women Into Cannon Fodder
ISIS Is Turning Women Into Cannon Fodder
Whether out of desperation or by design, the so-called Islamic State has turned to women and children to try to carry out a new wave of attacks in France, and possibly elsewhere.The first disturbing hint of the conspiracy came Sunday a week ago, w...
The terror group has always made it clear that the women it recruited would serve male jihadis as wives and mothers. But recent arrests show a major shift.
Trump’s ‘Take the Oil’ Madness
Trump’s ‘Take the Oil’ Madness
Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump has said repeatedly the United States should take Iraq’s oil as the spoils of war. With him, it’s an old refrain that goes back at least five years.But Trump never says what “taking the oil” of Ir...
If the Republican candidate followed through on his frequent calls to take Iraq’s oil, we’d be looking at hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops back in the Middle East.
The Al Qaeda Plot to Nuke D.C.
The Al Qaeda Plot to Nuke D.C.
On Christmas Eve 2003, Gen. Michael Hayden, the director of the secretive U.S. National Security Agency, made a secure phone call to his British counterpart, David Pepper, the director of the Government Communications Headquarters.“Happy Christmas...
American intelligence chiefs were so worried in late 2003 of a nuclear terror attack, they asked the British to take over their spying in case something ‘catastrophic’ went down.
Syrian Peace? Don’t Hold Your Breath
Syrian Peace? Don’t Hold Your Breath
In the late summer of 2011, President Barack Obama declared the reign of Bashar al-Assad “illegitimate” and told him the time had come to “step aside.” In the early fall of 2015, U.S. officials laughingly dismissed Vladimir Putin’s unexpected dire...
There’s little trust among the diplomats in Geneva, in fact, and far, far less among the fighters on the ground.
U.S.
Student: UNC Cops ‘Laughed’ at My Rape
Student: UNC Cops ‘Laughed’ at My Rape
Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout with new information.A student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has gone public with allegations that she was raped by one of the school’s football players and that the u...
Delaney Robinson is going public with accusations that a football player sexually assaulted her and the university and D.A. did nothing.
ITT Tech Staffer Shot by Student, Fired
ITT Tech Staffer Shot by Student, Fired
A former ITT Tech recruiter in Arizona is suing the defunct for-profit school for ignoring her complaints about a student with a violent criminal past before he shot her on campus.What’s more, Kristen Trease claims ITT Tech fired her the day she r...
The busted for-profit school is being sued by a former employee who claims it ignored her complaints about a violent man who went on to shoot her.
Watch: Driver Crashes Into 3 Cops
Watch: Driver Crashes Into 3 Cops
Three Phoenix police officers were just standing outside a gas station early Tuesday morning when a man rammed his car into them at high speed—and the whole thing was captured in a surveillance video.Police say Marc Payne, 44, deliberately crashed...
Intense video shows a red sedan slamming into a police cruiser and 3 officers outside a Phoenix gas station.
Cops Silenced Their Accuser With Rehab
Cops Silenced Their Accuser With Rehab
One teenager is ready to testify against dozens of California cops, alleging they abused their power and used her for sex. But she wound up in a Florida jail after one accused department arranged for her to go to rehab. The woman, who goes by the ...
A California police department paid for Celeste Guap’s drug treatment in Florida and even drove her to the airport. Now she’s sitting in jail, unable to testify.
Our Erupting Prisons Are a Disgrace
Our Erupting Prisons Are a Disgrace
Forty-five years ago today, on Sept. 13, 1971, nearly 1,300 men were waking up in the yard of the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, eager to begin another long day of negotiations with state officials. After first failing to get he...
Forty-five years after the protests at Attica, there is overwhelming evidence that the U.S. has learned little about prison reform and done even less to make things better.
Tech + Health
Trump’s Shady Doctor Swears He’s Healthy
Trump’s Shady Doctor Swears He’s Healthy
It seems Donald Trump’s personal physician is capable of writing a sane-appearing medical note after all.In a letter released Thursday, Dr. Harold Bornstein of New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital attested to Trump’s general health. In four paragra...
After last year’s much ridiculed health report, Donald Trump’s doctor issued a surprisingly boring report on the candidate’s well-being.
Fertility Doc Was Secretly the Father
Fertility Doc Was Secretly the Father
An Indianapolis fertility doctor is facing criminal charges for allegedly lying to state investigators about using his own sperm on patients.Donald L. Cline, 77, is charged with two felony counts of obstruction of justice for allegedly making fals...
An Indianapolis fertility doctor secretly used his own sperm to get up to 50 patients pregnant in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Zika Exploded While Congress Vacationed
Zika Exploded While Congress Vacationed
Dear Congress,I hope you enjoyed your Summer Vacation! You’ve been back for a week, and you still haven’t funded the Zika response. Maybe you are waiting for “back to Congress” night before getting serious?Let’s recap how we got here. Though Presi...
Congress’s inaction on Zika is especially pathetic. Every constituency has been cowed into baffled submission except one: the mosquitoes.
The Humanoid Robot Space Explorer
The Humanoid Robot Space Explorer
The Juno spacecraft recently made history by entering Jupiter’s orbit, which means that while humans have yet to land on another world, our robotic creations continue to leave their fingerprints, so to speak, on the galaxy.Depending on one’s defin...
Valkyrie can move its hands, bend its legs, turn door handles, and even dance. Its next task? Going to Mars.
Are Neon Foods Bad for You?
Are Neon Foods Bad for You?
By Christine Yu, Life by Daily Burn When you think of artificial food coloring, you probably picture your Saturday morning bowl of Lucky Charms or Fruit Loops from your youth, neon-colored gummy worms at the movies, or that bottle of Gatorade you ...
Facebook Pushes B.S. Dying Hillary Poll
Facebook Pushes B.S. Dying Hillary Poll
Two weeks after firing its entire editorial staff, Facebook’s Trending news section highlighted a report by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons—which believes that the “gay male lifestyle” shortens lives by 20 years and abortion ca...
Facebook trended an online poll from the AAPS—which believes abortion causes breast cancer—saying that most physicians are worried about Clinton’s health.
Is Abstinence Really the Cure for Zika?
Is Abstinence Really the Cure for Zika?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned women to wait eight weeks after visiting Zika-impacted Miami neighborhoods before trying to get pregnant in order to avoid potential birth defects like microcephaly. But now, the Worl...
Government agencies are clashing over how long men and women should wait to have sex after visiting Zika-riddled Miami neighborhoods.
Arts + Culture
Backstage at New York Fashion Week
Backstage at New York Fashion Week
Cameras go where spectators cannot at the premiere of the Spring/Summer 2017 collections.
Cameras go where spectators cannot at the premiere of the Spring/Summer 2017 collections.
Why Women Love Vera Wang
Why Women Love Vera Wang
Vera Wang by Lizzie Crocker Emily Ratajkowski, the bombshell model-actress-activist with a wisp-thin waist and prodigious breasts, hasn’t been show-hopping much this fashion week. She’d seen DKNY and Jason Wu (she’s the face of Wu’s fall campaign)...
At NYFW, Vera Wang was ghostly, Alice & Olivia future-looking, Monique Lhuillier and Reem Acra reveled in glamour, and BY. Bonnie Young stayed in the 1970s.
Madonna and Rocco Patch It Up Over Pizza
Madonna and Rocco Patch It Up Over Pizza
After a stormy few months in which mother and son were at legal loggerheads about custody and living arrangements, Madonna and her son Rocco appear to have built enough bridges that they were able to enjoy a peaceful night out at a London restaura...
The superstar’s custody battle with her ex-husband Guy Ritchie drove them to a public and painful legal battle. Now the Queen of Pop has conceded defeat—and was last night pictured t...
Kurt Vonnegut’s First and Only Opera
Kurt Vonnegut’s First and Only Opera
On Feb. 24, 1985, author Kurt Vonnegut attended the premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem Mass in New York City.Although he liked the music well enough, he found the traditional 16th century Latin text to Lloyd-Webber’s requiem off-putting to ...
‘Happy Birthday, Wanda June,’ Vonnegut’s reworking of the myth of Odysseus’s return from the Trojan War, was meant as a commentary on the Vietnam War. Now it will be performed as an ...
How to Dress Preppy, Non-Obnoxiously
How to Dress Preppy, Non-Obnoxiously
Tory Burch by Lizzie Crocker Having long staged her early morning fashion shows in the sun-soaked gallery of Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Tory Burch managed to find the same airy vibe in a downtown venue this year: the Whitney Museum. Burc...
At New York Fashion Week, Tory Burch felt familiar, Sally LaPointe served summery dresses and punk, Dennis Basso bathed in luxe, and Jil Sander provided much-needed calm.
Zac Posen, Master of Fashion Fairy Tales
Zac Posen, Master of Fashion Fairy Tales
Zac Posen by Tim Teeman As the actress Debi Mazar was leaving Zac Posen’s New York Fashion Week show, she had a thought which she conveyed gently to her daughter Giulia Isabel: it would be hell finding a car outside.It would indeed: not only was ...
Posen’s glamour and technical brilliance made his show an NYFW standout. DKNY featured girl-gang chic, Thom Browne brightly rendered Stepford Wives, and Rag & Bone stayed steady.
Serena Williams Serves Aces at NYFW
Serena Williams Serves Aces at NYFW
Serena Williams ‘Signature Statement’ Fall collection for HSN, by Allison McNearneyWe are well acquainted with Serena Williams’s prowess on the court (to the tune of 22 Grand Slam titles), but the tennis star is quickly proving herself to be also ...
The tennis star’s mixture of chic and versatile deserves to win fans, while Jeremy Scott served delicious pop, and Barbara Tfank Spanish-inspired elegance.
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