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STIFF-ARMED
AP: DHS Disputes Trump Terror Warnings
A draft report downplays terror threat from 7 countries named in Trump’s EO.
COUNTER-NARRATIVE
WH ‘Asked’ Lawmakers to Downplay Russia
In addition to intelligence officials.
STEPPING UP
Apple to ‘Back’ Trans Rights at SCOTUS
Apple will be joined by Ebay, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal and Salesforce, among others.
THAT SETTLES IT
Pentagon: We Officially Call Them ‘ISIS’
Says ISIS, ISIL and Da’esh are interchangeable.
BUSTED
AP Sues Ingraham’s Site for Unpaid Fees
The wire service alleges that LifeZette did not pay its licensing fees.
HEATED
Brazile: DNC Got Death Threats Post-Hack
Also received bomb threats, interim chief Donna Brazile said.
BACKING OUT
Report: Bloomberg Nixes WHCD Afterparty
Follows Vanity Fair, New Yorker in backing out of anti-media president’s party.
FREE SPEECH?
GOP Reps Push Bills to Limit Protesting
In numerous states nationwide.
ANOTHER ONE
WH Aide Had Ties to Anti-Semitic Groups
Allegedly worked closely with far-right European parties.
BREAKING RANK
GOP Rep Calls for Trump Tax Returns
Matt Gaetz shocked protesters at local town hall.
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Politics
At CPAC, Trump Ups War with ‘The Media’
At CPAC, Trump Ups War with ‘The Media’
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Last year, this was Ted Cruz country. Today, it was The Donald J. Trump Show.At the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference hosted by the American Conservative Union at National Harbor, Trump made his triumphant C...
Speaking to the American Conservative Union on Friday, the president relied on campaign trail standbys and his new favorite target: railing against the media.
Middle America: Hands Off My Obamacare
Middle America: Hands Off My Obamacare
If being a pig farmer was enough to make Joni Ernst a United States senator, if that one ad about castrating hogs was enough to make her one of 100 people with enormous influence over every aspect of U.S. policy making, then it ought to be enough ...
Even Republican, Ozarks, military, NRA families sometimes have rare connective tissue disorders.
Lost at CPAC: Any Sense of Principle
Lost at CPAC: Any Sense of Principle
Up there with the surprise of seven new planets is one that awaits you at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, once composed primarily of the religious right of the Republican Party. Gone is the pretense of principle. They have co...
It’s a total victory-lap party down there in National Harbor. But something important is missing…
GOP Rep. Goes Overtime With Angry Crowd
GOP Rep. Goes Overtime With Angry Crowd
BATTLE CREEK, Mich.—After 55 minutes of boos, grave concerns and complaints, Rep. Justin Amash seemed to be looking to break the tension at his afternoon town hall.“You look happy,” Amash said with a nervous but hopeful laugh before handing over t...
Rep. Justin Amash said he wasn’t afraid to meet with unhappy constituents and on Thursday he proved it.
CPAC: ‘Revolution Is Here & It’s Bloody’
CPAC: ‘Revolution Is Here & It’s Bloody’
Last year, shortly after the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, the board of directors of the American Conservative Union convened a conference call to discuss the party’s newly minted presidential nominee Donald J. Trump.The ...
CPAC has long been a parade of the Republican fringe. But in 2016, the fringe took over and now they have the main stage all to themselves.
Entertainment
What to Do When Everyone Is an A**hole
What to Do When Everyone Is an A**hole
Everything is awful in I don’t feel at home in this world anymore., and nursing assistant Ruth Kimke (Melanie Lynskey) is mad as hell about it. She keeps finding dog crap on her front lawn. She has to listen to one of her patients respond to a TV ...
Misery and silliness abound in the excellent, Sundance-winner black comedy ‘I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore,’ about a woman fed up with a world full of a**holes.
Bowie and George Michael Remembered
Bowie and George Michael Remembered
Tearful tributes to David Bowie and George Michael, both of whom died last year, dominated the Brit Awards, the U.K. pop music awards, in London last night.Andrew Ridgeley, Michael’s former Wham! band-mate, led the encomiums to Michael, while Bowi...
Emotional tributes were paid to David Bowie and George Michael at the U.K.’s biggest music awards, while Katy Perry inadvertently provided a new ‘left shark’ moment.
Give Viola Davis an Oscar Already!
Give Viola Davis an Oscar Already!
KEVIN: For Day Two of our Oscars debates, we dive into the two categories that are guaranteed to send me into a rage fit if the presumed frontrunners don’t take home their rightful trophies: Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. But b...
In the latest Oscars debate, The Daily Beast’s Marlow Stern and Kevin Fallon discuss the Best Supporting Actor and Actress categories, including why Kathryn Hahn deserved more love.
Meyers Rips Trump’s Pointless Wall
Meyers Rips Trump’s Pointless Wall
Despite what you might be hearing from incompetent Texas hunters and the president of the United States these days, “there’s hardly an immigration crime wave in this country” right now, Seth Meyers told viewers Wednesday night—citing a series of s...
The ‘Late Night’ host took ‘A Closer Look’ at President Trump’s doomed immigration policies.
Katy Perry Mocks Trump As Dead Body
Katy Perry Mocks Trump As Dead Body
American award shows don’t have a monopoly on politics. Meryl Streep called out Donald Trump at the Golden Globes, A Tribe Called Quest denounced the president’s “Muslim ban” at the Grammys. Who knows what might happen at this Sunday’s Oscars? But...
The skeletons appeared to hold hands, just like the real American and British leaders.
Jenna Jameson Defends Milo, the KKK
Jenna Jameson Defends Milo, the KKK
As one of the world’s most famous ex-porn stars, a XXX icon who’s appeared in close to 200 adult films, it is pretty surprising that Jenna Jameson has rebranded herself as an alt-right firebrand.Then again, the 42-year-old formerly known as Jenna ...
The former porn star has gone full alt-right.
Donald Trump’s Bizarre Oscars Obsession
Donald Trump’s Bizarre Oscars Obsession
Donald Trump loves gold. His three-story palatial penthouse overlooking Manhattan, valued at $100 million, is bedizened with 24-karat gold finishings, aping the garish stylings of Louis XIV and Saddam Hussein. It even has gold-plated toilets. And,...
The president—who constantly decries ‘Hollywood elitists’—is downright obsessed with the Academy Awards, for years live-tweeting and delivering recaps of Hollywood’s big night.
World News
The Man Beating Back Germany’s Far Right
The Man Beating Back Germany’s Far Right
LUBECK, Germany—Was there ever a time when Angela Merkel was not Germany’s chancellor? After someone’s been there for more than 11 years, it starts to get hard to remember. Merkel is more than a leader, she has become an icon, from the color and c...
He’s the Social Democrat candidate for German chancellor and the antithesis of the Trumpistas in neighboring France and the Netherlands.
From Boko Haram to Europe’s Brothels
From Boko Haram to Europe’s Brothels
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—It’s minutes past 4:00 p.m. local time, and Sarah, as we’ll call her, has just returned to her tent in an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp at the outskirts Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s war-torn Borno state.She had ...
Fleeing from jihadists, thousands of women and girls wind up in camps where they’re sexually abused. To them, prostitution in Italy sounds like escape.
The Real Target of Trump's Ban Is Iran
The Real Target of Trump's Ban Is Iran
After what appeared to be a costly misfire, the Trump administration appears ready to release a revised executive order on immigration after massaging the language through the traditional interagency process it skipped the first time around.It sho...
Iran has been politically or militarily active across the globe—including each of the six other states covered by the disputed U.S. travel ban.
£1M Gitmo Detainee Just Blew Himself Up
£1M Gitmo Detainee Just Blew Himself Up
Almost 13 years ago today, Jamal al-Harith was freed from Guantanamo Bay and returned to the U.K. But he won’t be celebrating the anniversary this year. Instead, he has blown himself up in Mosul on behalf of the so-called Islamic State.What makes ...
Jamal al-Harith got a million pounds from the British government—and plenty of friendly coverage in the press—after his release from Guantanamo. Now he’s become a martyr for ISIS.
Italy Paid for Gay Orgies
Italy Paid for Gay Orgies
ROME—There is little question that Italy has been slow on the uptake when it comes to recognizing equal rights for the country’s LGBT community. Last year Italy was the last in western Europe to finally pass a same sex union law, though it remains...
The country’s anti-discrimination department used funds intended to combat homophobia to invest in private prostitution clubs.
Trump’s Jekyll/Hyde Team Spooks Europe
Trump’s Jekyll/Hyde Team Spooks Europe
PARIS — European politicians and policy makers have begun to feel they’re watching a horror movie: the tale of an American administration with a split personality as sinister as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—the first perfectly reasonable and sociable, ...
While the reasonable-sounding Jekylls try to reassure the Europeans that Trump doesn’t mean what he says, the Hydes push an agenda that will destroy the EU.
When Putin’s Killers Descended on London
When Putin’s Killers Descended on London
Prologue:The Men from Moscow Passport control, Gatwick Airport, Sussex 16 October 2006Two of the Russians arriving that morning stood out. What precisely made them suspicious was hard to identify. But in the mind of Spencer Scott—the detective c...
In this excerpt from ‘A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin’s War With the West,’ the first vestiges of a global Russian murder ring emerge.
U.S.
FDA Warns Over Toxin in Teething 'Cure'
FDA Warns Over Toxin in Teething 'Cure'
The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States wasn’t the only shakeup to the natural order of things this January. That same month, a drug company rebuffed the FDA over a potentially dangerous product for infants.The ...
The FDA has asked for a recall of homeopathic teething products that may cause seizures or worse—but consumers can still easily get their hands on the product.
Can Heavy Rain Really Cause Earthquakes?
Can Heavy Rain Really Cause Earthquakes?
By Gillian Foulger, Jon Gluyas, Miles Wilson, Durham UniversityIn recent weeks, California has experienced unusually heavy rainfall. California is also earthquake-prone, hosting the great San Andreas fault zone.If there is an unusual surge of eart...
With the recent heavy rainfall in California, scientists expect new opportunities to study possible connections between weather and earthquakes.
Trump Makes Private Prisons Great Again
Trump Makes Private Prisons Great Again
It’s barely a month in, but the Trump administration has already brought great news for America’s private prison companies.On Feb. 21, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a memo that former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates issued last summ...
Trump was the last hope for private prisons that were in the process of being cut off from the federal government. Now he’s come through for them in a big way.
Alleged Shooter: ‘Get Out of My Country’
Alleged Shooter: ‘Get Out of My Country’
A Kansas man allegedly shot two Indian-American men and a bystander after yelling anti-immigrant slurs Wednesday night.Adam Purinton, 51, allegedly opened fire on the two Indian-American engineers in an Olathe, Kansas, bar, in an incident Kansas p...
An alleged case of racist mistaken identity in Kansas left two injured and one dead.
Taxpayer-Funded Horror at Standing Rock
Taxpayer-Funded Horror at Standing Rock
UPDATE: Ten people were arrested, and one protester was injured during confrontation with North Dakota police during evictions Wednesday. Forty-six more were arrested Thursday in a police sweep of the main protest camp. ALONG THE CANNONBALL RIVER,...
Police brutality against protesters is reminiscent of civil-rights battles like Selma. And the state has borrowed millions to fund it.
Tech
How Artificial Intelligence ‘Thinks’
How Artificial Intelligence ‘Thinks’
Artificial intelligence has gotten pretty darn smart—at least, at certain tasks. AI has defeated world champions in chess, Go, and now poker. But can artificial intelligence actually think?The answer is complicated, largely because intelligence is...
AI can beat humans in chess, Go, poker and Jeopardy. But what about emotional intelligence or street smarts?
Russian Arrested for Hacking in L.A.
Russian Arrested for Hacking in L.A.
A federal investigation into a Russian cybercrime ring led Secret Service agents to the doorstep of a 29-year-old Los Angeles man the United States calls an “extremely sophisticated and well-connected cybercriminal” who allegedly used malware to s...
Alexander Tverdokhlebov, described as an ‘extremely sophisticated and well-connected cybercriminal,’ allegedly robbed thousands of U.S. bank accounts.
ISIS’s Drone Papers Revealed
ISIS’s Drone Papers Revealed
This report was originally published by The Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point.By Don Rassler, Muhammad al-’Ubaydi, Vera MirnovaMuch has been made of the Islamic State drone threat ever since the group killed two Kurdish soldiers in October...
At a former jihadist-run facility in Mosul, Iraq, researchers uncovered a cache of documents that show how the so-called Islamic State buys, builds, and deploys unmanned aircraft.
#DeleteUber Activists Hail CEO Decision
#DeleteUber Activists Hail CEO Decision
Activists in the quickly mobilized effort to oppose Uber were celebrating Thursday evening after their message finally broke through.Less than a week after a massively successful social media campaign using the hashtag #DeleteUber implored users t...
The creator of the movement called Travis Kalanick’s exit from the president’s economic council a ‘crushing victory’—but said it’s not yet time for people to start using the app again.
Will Trump Free a Russian Superhacker?
Will Trump Free a Russian Superhacker?
The Federal Detention Center near Seattle is home to 563 men and women who are all waiting for something. Some are accused criminals approaching trial, others are immigrants facing deportation, a few are serving a sentence and waiting for their re...
A Putin ally and his criminal son bet big on Trump winning the White House. Will the new president reward their faith in him?
Reddit Bans Alt-Right Group
Reddit Bans Alt-Right Group
Reddit, the enormous online community-run forum, announced on Wednesday night that it was banning the white nationalist subreddit r/altright, due to “posting of personal information,” otherwise known as doxxing.“Reddit is the proud home to some of...
The company, once a haven for right wing extremism, is cracking down on the hub of white nationalists—right after its founder blasted Trump’s ban on immigrants and refugees.
Paralyzed Patients Speak for First Time
Paralyzed Patients Speak for First Time
Imagine what it would be like to be fully conscious and aware of your surroundings, but trapped inside a paralyzed body, not only unable to move, but unable to communicate in any way, for the rest of your life. Unable to express feelings, thoughts...
When a new brain-computer interface reached the thoughts of completely locked-in patients for the first time ever, it found them engaged and happy to be alive.
Arts + Culture
Why Shane Smith Won’t Hit Back at Trump
Why Shane Smith Won’t Hit Back at Trump
“What we’re trying to do,” said former Canadian punk-rocker Shane Smith, the co-founder and part-owner of the multi-platform juggernaut Vice Media, “is to be one of the sharks, not the tuna.”Smith, 47, has spent the past decade joining forces with...
As ‘Vice’ begins its fifth HBO season, Vice Media co-founder and part-owner Shane Smith claims the company is ‘without an agenda and not partisan in any way.’
What Does Princess Beatrice Actually Do?
What Does Princess Beatrice Actually Do?
A bizarre story appeared in the British press this week, announcing that Princess Beatrice, the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Fergie, had landed a deal with a sexy tech start-up seeking to float on the New York stock exchange via her new bus...
Reports that Prince Andrew’s daughter was now a “business matchmaker” has led people to ask what that actually means, and who she is doing it for.
Inside a Very British Apocalypse
Inside a Very British Apocalypse
A very British apocalypse is unfolding. We don’t know about the apocalypse initially in Caryl Churchill’s 50-minute play, Escaped Alone, presently showing at BAM, because we are popping in to what seems more like a gently unfolding afternoon chat ...
In Caryl Churchill’s ‘Escaped Alone,’ four women chat away in a small suburban British garden—in the face of personal, and much larger, apocalypses.
The Show About to Invade Your Instagram
The Show About to Invade Your Instagram
Spring has come early to Washington, D.C., and not just in the form of an unseasonably warm February that has driven bougie SoulCycle fiends to plunder neighborhood wine shops of their rosé stock. No, spring has arrived at the Hirshhorn Museum wit...
Washington’s Hirshhorn Museum has corralled six Infinity Mirror Room installations by Yayoi Kusama as part of a terrific retrospective generating insane buzz before it even opens.
Trump Lets States Bully Trans Kids
Trump Lets States Bully Trans Kids
On January 31, the White House released a statement claiming that President Donald Trump is “respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights.”Apparently the “T” was silent.This evening, after days of speculation—sparked by a Monday evening Washington Bl...
The Trump administration tells states and schools they can require transgender students to use bathrooms corresponding to their birth-assigned gender.
The Ridiculous Panic Over Trans Kids
The Ridiculous Panic Over Trans Kids
Transgender kids are a reliable source of controversy. They are also human beings.Over the past two years, articles and opinion pieces published in The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Pacific Standard, New York magazine, and more have questioned the p...
Ignore the alarmist commentators. Parents of trans kids are not rushing their offspring through transitioning. The process is sensitively and carefully overseen.
Milo’s Symphony of Victimhood
Milo’s Symphony of Victimhood
“Please be respectful,” Milo Yiannopoulos admonished—an irony that was lost on no one but him.Ignoring a question about his own disrespectful behavior that he apparently didn’t feel like answering, the embattled Donald Trump groupie and alt-right ...
Delivering a halfhearted apology for the remarks that led to his exit from CPAC and Breitbart, Yiannopoulos asked the press to be ‘respectful’—before cursing them.
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