In soon-to-be-issued executive order.
In a 17-minute recording.
After he called for calm.
Publisher to set e-book prices.
Philae is sending multiple pictures.
Even after organization says it’s clean.
Attacked them in Istanbul.
After 31 years in place.
Spotted near a supermarket.
Cops saw his car swerving.
‘Downton Abbey’ star Elizabeth McGovern discusses the LP ‘Christmas at Downton Abbey,’ her character’s steamy fifth season arc, and kissing George Clooney on the show.
No television show exerted more influence on the state of American science fiction than ‘The Twilight Zone,’ the little morality plays of a former Army private.
Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, fairies. Myths of strange creatures roaming the earth are plentiful, but one man is convinced they’re true when it comes to an ancient race of giants.
In an election cycle of shocking surprises—Larry Hogan’s win in Maryland, Mark Warner’s near-death experience—none are greater than the slap in the face Vermont voters gave Governor Peter Shumlin. Ten days after the election, Shumlin, who as Chair...
The governorship of Vermont wasn’t election night’s biggest prize, but it sure was the biggest surprise. How the Democrat almost botched it.
You would not know it by listening to cable news pundits, and no politician will ever admit it. And unless you are a mind reader, you will find almost no evidence of it in your local coffee shop.But here it is: The American center is dead.More acc...
Okay, not quite “none.” But the idea of the swing voter is way oversold by the media. Why? Because we are a nation of liars.
When Ready for Hillary was started by two Hillary Clinton superfans in a Washington, D.C., living room, its ambitions were modest: Build up an email list of dedicated supporters to convince Clinton that there was enthusiasm for a campaign. Then, o...
The group’s original purpose was to build up excitement and an email list of supporters for a possible campaign—then disband if and when she ran for president. Now it’s not so sure.
Sen. John McCain, who once joked about bombing Iran, is now pushing for a bill that would benefit a company that’s in business with the Iranian government.The Arizona senator and 2008 GOP presidential nominee is leading the charge on Capitol Hill ...
The hawkish senator is catching some flak from neocons for pushing a land sale that could benefit one of Tehran's corporate associates.
"I need you to look at me," Bob Healey Jr. said to the camera in the first Rhode Island gubernatorial debate last month. It was an intimate and somber plea, like a parent opening an intervention with a wayward child."You probably wo...
No cash, big hair, strong results. How did Bob Healey do so well when so many other independent candidates face-planted?
Christmas is starting early at Downton Abbey. On Nov. 17, the double-album Christmas at Downton Abbey will hit stores. It’s comprised of 45 holiday tunes, including seven by members of the cast. Two of the most tender numbers, “It Came Upon A Midn...
‘Downton Abbey’ star Elizabeth McGovern discusses the LP ‘Christmas at Downton Abbey,’ her character’s steamy fifth season arc, and kissing George Clooney on the show.
Tuesday night, Paper Magazine teamed up with Kim Kardashian’s butt in an attempt to “break the Internet.” The resulting cover shot, which looks like a NSFW Pam commercial gone horribly right, sought to succeed where the Red Wedding, Alex from Targ...
A guide to black exploitation, poems about slut-shaming, and full-frontal photos.
“This really pisses me off… this is serious porn!”Back in November 2010, before the days of being Mrs. Kanye West and raking in over $40 million for a lifestyle app, Kim Kardashian posed semi-nude on the cover of W magazine. The cover story was ti...
Yes, Kardashian posed completely nude for Paper magazine. Oh, the hypocrisy. Let’s travel back to the moment she completely lost it over being ‘caught’ nude on a cover. (Warning: NSFW)
While Kim’s butt did not, indeed, break the Internet, its omnipresence proves the power of trolling. Instead, here’s 10 magazine covers that are far more worth our eyes and time.
While Kim’s butt did not, indeed, break the Internet, its omnipresence proves the power of trolling. Instead, here’s 10 magazine covers that are far more worth our eyes and time.
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to get shot at by an assault rifle while driving your SUV, this is the video for you. Sit back and relax while one man empties half a clip from an AK-47 into the windshield of a Mercedes SUV with another guy ...
CEO of armored car company tests his merchandise from the inside.
As he munches on a parmigiano crostini, James Deen offers me an unsolicited answer to a question I never asked: “You’re pretty and nice,” he says, “but I wouldn’t have sex with you.”Yes, the “nice guy of porn” has completely rebuffed a sexual adva...
An HIV scare, Rand Paul talking points, and a (maybe) proposition. A turbulent night in New York City with porn’s boy-next-door.
Kim Kardashian broke the Internet—and no, it wasn’t by sitting on it.On Tuesday evening, Paper magazine unveiled their Winter 2014 magazine. One cover, shot by famed French photographer Jean-Paul Goude, showed Kardashian recreating the photog’s “C...
The reality star bared her infamous behind on the cover of Paper magazine, and the web went wild.
LONDON — Mary Magdalene was a “co-Messiah” whose marriage and vigorous sex life with Jesus should be celebrated at the heart of Christianity, according to the authors of a new book who claim to have discovered a lost gospel.A sixth-century manuscr...
The author of a new book claiming to have found a ‘hidden gospel’ about Jesus and Mary Magdalene’s sex life defends his research to The Daily Beast.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Half a dozen men sit on the floor in a grimy rented storefront in the crowded Khyber Bazaar. A bottle of locally brewed liquor chills in a water cooler in the corner, a Pepsi bottle next to it for mixing. A Bollywood soundtrac...
Identifying targets for the lethal American drone attacks in Pakistan was always dangerous. Then al Qaeda created its own strike force to target the informants.
The International Rescue Committee’s Peter Biro shares some of his photos from the front lines of the Ebola crisis.
The International Rescue Committee’s Peter Biro shares some of his photos from the front lines of the Ebola crisis.
Eyewitnesses have spotted hundreds of Russian-made vehicles and heavy munitions moving into eastern Ukraine. Thousands of Russian troops are on the border -- and thousands more may already be inside Ukraine, if one informed estimate is to be belie...
The fragile peace in Ukraine is being threatened by an influx of gear and armed men. What’s the Kremlin’s next step?
TOKYO—Imagine if you will, that this year’s APEC summit was set in the Star Trek Universe and China was the belligerent Klingon Empire; it’s not hard if you try. And things aren’t going so well for the United Federation of Planets.The Asia-Pacific...
It may look like a costume party, but as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation shindig draws to a close, nobody is having a good time.
Is it getting better?For most LGBT people in the United States, yes. Not just same-sex marriage laws but public opinion continues to shift in the favor of sexual and gender minorities. A decade ago, gays were a wedge issue used by Republicans t...
Public approval of homosexuality around the world is increasing at .86 percent annually, according to a new study.
When the 51-year-old son of a Syrian legislator was gunned down July 9 on a highway outside Damascus, it would have been easy to dismiss his death as just one more casualty in a bloody and convoluted civil war that had already claimed the lives of...
To most of the world, Bashar al-Assad is a brutal dictator, responsible for the slaughter of 100,000 or more. The Syrian-American residents of one Pennsylvania city disagree—strongly.
This week, the parents of slain teenager Michael Brown travelled to Geneva to call on the United Nations for help in bringing peace and justice to Ferguson. Meanwhile, their Missouri hometown appears to be on the brink of chaos.Despite a concerted...
With the impending grand jury decision on whether to indict the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, Ferguson is bracing for protests—and residents arming up could make ...
It was a classic Gotham crime.On Tuesday afternoon, as a cavalcade of New York City’s elected officials and honorees strode down Fifth Avenue in the Veteran’s Day Parade, a man slipped into 23 West 47th Street, armed with a gun and a bag labeled “...
Two gunmen pulled off a daylight heist in the Diamond District and evaded every single cop. It happens more than you'd think on the city's most glittery block.
Lt. Billy Ryan of the FDNY’s Rescue 1 would have been wearing the same thin black band around his helmet no matter what emergency his unit responded to early Wednesday afternoon.“9/11/2001,” read the numbers on the band.And he and his fellow firef...
On Wednesday the FDNY was not rushing to save thousands but two window washers stuck on a dangling scaffold outside the 68th floor. But the rescue was charged with emotion nonetheless.
The smaller the coffin, the more monstrous the murder.And along with the kid-size casket at the funeral on Wednesday for 5-year-old Laylah Petersen, there will be a harrowing statistic:Eleven children under the age of 13 have been shot in the city...
Months after a grieving mother had pleaded with violent thugs to stop shooting, 5-year-old Laylah Petersen was killed by a random bullet. How a city’s kids are caught in the crossfire.
When the Today show’s Al Roker attempts to set a new record for continuous weathercasting, he’ll be looking to neither Jerry Lewis nor Strom Thurmond as inspiration for sheer iron-assed endurance.“I would go with Tom Brokaw,” the hambone meteorolo...
The ‘Today’ show’s resident cutup is ready for his 34-hour weathercasting marathon, which begins Wednesday night—with a ‘clean bill of health’ from doctors and multiple outfit changes.
A few months after President Obama took office in 2009, he announced that securing the nation's critical infrastructure -- its power generators, its dams, its airports, and its trading floors -- was a top priority for his administration. Intr...
The cybersabotage campaign on Iran’s nuclear facilities didn’t just damage centrifuges. It undermined digital security everywhere.
In November 2011, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, a 22-year-old founding member of the social network Diaspora, committed suicide in his San Francisco bedroom. It was just three days before the scheduled release of his company’s beta product—a highly anticipat...
Fueled by idealism and Kickstarter, four young men tried to challenge Facebook’s hegemony with a social network that valued privacy. Then things went south.
Every night, they emerge from their roosts, taking to the skies on silent wings. Their nightly flights bring with them the powers to pollinate plants and control insect populations. From this perspective, bats seem like a universal good.Many cultu...
A new paper outlines five steps required for a virus to ‘spill over’ from bats to humans. But don’t just blame the bats—deforestation and hunting are to blame, too.
“My films are always held to a weirdly high standard,” filmmaker Christopher Nolan told The Daily Beast. It is, however, a high compliment for a blockbuster space odyssey like Interstellar to earn the right to be analyzed on a scientific level; af...
The acclaimed astrophysicist, host of ‘The Cosmos,’ and director of the Hayden Planetarium discusses what Christopher Nolan’s film got right and wrong. [SPOILERS]
At 9 p.m. each night, it begins. Thunderous sounds announce its arrival, piercing the silence that accompanies sundown in the swampland near Boystown, Liberia. The concrete building from which the sounds emanate shakes from the impact, rattling th...
A crematorium for Ebola victims in Liberia is not only raising concerns about its procedures and record keeping, but it’s rattling the very core traditions of the community.
There are only so many ways to wrap a penis in plastic, but that hasn’t stopped a new crop of prophylactic engineers from trying to exhaust them all.Condoms remain one of the most effective ways to reduce the risk of unintended pregnancy and sexua...
A better-designed condom is hot business right now—even Bill Gates has invested seed money (the puns write themselves). Is the regular old condom as we know it on its way out?
Quick: what’s the top-selling drug in the United States?Prozac? Viagra? Maybe something for heart disease?Nope—Abilify, the powerful anti-psychotic medication that’s now widely used to treat depression. From April 2013, through March 2014, sales o...
The best-selling drug in America isn’t what you think—and it’s a whole lot more powerful than you’d expect.
Jim Vieira isn’t convinced that giants once roamed North America, but he’s willing to stake years of research and his professional reputation on finding out.The 48-year-old Massachusetts-based stonemason has spent seven years scouring the country ...
Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, fairies. Myths of strange creatures roaming the earth are plentiful, but one man is convinced they’re true when it comes to an ancient race of giants.
Cooking show star Paula Deen lost her lucrative gig on the Food Network more than a year ago in an ugly scandal arising out of racist language Deen admitted to having used when she was deposed in a lawsuit filed by a female manager against Uncle B...
Where it hasn’t been ignored outright, the troubling tale of Southern food has been perverted into a myth of a past that never existed—yes, we’re talking about you, Aunt Jemima.
Hmm, there’s something familiar about “lumbersexuals,” I thought, scanning the facile breakdowns of this supposedly new smoking-hot male subset.In a flash it was obvious. Straight people have discovered, and co-opted, the gay “bear” and “cub.” Of ...
Have you met the lumbersexual: all beards, flannel shirts, and work boots? It’s the latest gay ‘look’ co-opted by straights. Have it. We have nothing left to give you.
It was only to be expected that as soon as super-leggy, ultra-attractive, and—let’s be honest—pretty toned Myla Dalbesio was mentioned within 500 words of “plus-size,” that there would be cries of utter frustration across the web.Her interview las...
Myla Delbasio is a size 10 model. In the weird world of fashion, that means she is deemed ‘plus-size.’ Will this body-shape madness ever end?
Although a significant portion of Basetrack Live takes place in Afghanistan, it has surprisingly little to say about that country or its residents. That is, except for one distinct moment.At about twenty-five minutes in to the multimedia theater p...
Basetrack Live tells the truth about sending Americans to war, but don’t expect it to explain why we sent them.
Like most parents I know, there is a yawning chasm between the kind of parent I would like to be and the kind of dad I actually am.In my fantasies, I picture myself teaching my kids Chinese and urging them to pay a little more attention to their u...
How did the “watching us watching them” simplicity of ‘Let’s Play’ videos, in which viewers watch other people playing video games, become so all-conquering—including with our corres...
The statue, draped with a purple ribbon, money pinned along its edges, made its way down Fort Washington Avenue in New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood. Its faceted crown caught the glint of the clear, early November sun, the air cool a...
Worshipers who queued this weekend to pay homage on her Feast Day to Mother Cabrini, the patron saint of immigrants, urged politicians to emulate her pioneering work and spirit.
As a person in Iraq, you learn from an early age how to become “lifeless” – absolutely numb with no feelings whatsoever. Everyone here has seen a dead body. Not a normal dead body, but a dead body that is missing some limbs due to some explosion, or one with half a skull because of a shooting. Or just seeing missing limbs scattered on the street.That’s not the worst of it. It’s what we think when we see these things that are disturbing because no one thinks, “Oh ...
A 17-year-old Iraqi girl writes that in her culture, women and girls face constant degradation and humiliations, large and small, even at the hands of their own families. She certain...
Additional reporting by Cody Shane Griggers in MonroviaShe called herself the “boss lady” and despite his name, her big brother, Sheriff, 11, didn’t doubt it. Anne Marie had an uncommon feistiness for a five-year-old, especially for one who had ju...
UNICEF’s Chief of Crisis Communications chronicles six weeks in the life of a 5-year-old on the brink of Ebola.
Known for her travel-inspired style and her striking, feminine pieces, iconic fashion designer Rachel Roy also constantly strives to assist women and children around the world.Roy has worked with organizations like Piece & Co., Born Free Afric...
On her new lip balm collection, what Tyra taught her and how being a mom inspires her management decisions.
BENTIU, South Sudan — The vast majority of the more than two million people in South Sudan facing severe food insecurity – the worst food crisis in the world – are not living in camps. Major logistical issues and concerns about security continue t...
South Sudan faces the worst food crisis in the world – and it’s about to dramatically worsen. The need for aid is urgent and growing.
No piece of cloth throughout history has sparked more controversy as the veil. Many Muslim women are forced to wear it daily. The hijab has a spectrum, of course, from its most radical embodiments, the niqab, which covers the entire face, to loose...
One of Saudi Arabia’s preeminent activists, who led the right-to-drive movement, describes her decision to take off the niqab.
On Sunday, Dilma Rousseff won re-election to continue her service as president of the fifth largest country in the world. As Brazil’s first female president fought for re-election one thing was clear, the economy would be the focus of the race. As...
Rousseff won reelection as Brazil’s president because she championed economic policies that protected and advanced the economic security of women and children, not investors and markets
America’s seventh largest city was the site of the latest meeting of Women in the World. A sold-out crowd of 800 (mostly) women packed the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre in San Antonio to take part in the event. “Your hearts are big, your wits ar...
Tina Brown’s signature event traveled to Texas to take on issues as vast as the Lone Star State: Ebola, honor killings, reproductive rights, the strains of military life, and peace t...
A few months after President Obama took office in 2009, he announced that securing the nation's critical infrastructure -- its power generators, its dams, its airports, and its trading floors -- was a top priority for his administration. Intr...
The cybersabotage campaign on Iran’s nuclear facilities didn’t just damage centrifuges. It undermined digital security everywhere.
LONDON — Mary Magdalene was a “co-Messiah” whose marriage and vigorous sex life with Jesus should be celebrated at the heart of Christianity, according to the authors of a new book who claim to have discovered a lost gospel.A sixth-century manuscr...
The author of a new book claiming to have found a ‘hidden gospel’ about Jesus and Mary Magdalene’s sex life defends his research to The Daily Beast.
Cooking show star Paula Deen lost her lucrative gig on the Food Network more than a year ago in an ugly scandal arising out of racist language Deen admitted to having used when she was deposed in a lawsuit filed by a female manager against Uncle B...
Where it hasn’t been ignored outright, the troubling tale of Southern food has been perverted into a myth of a past that never existed—yes, we’re talking about you, Aunt Jemima.
In November 2011, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, a 22-year-old founding member of the social network Diaspora, committed suicide in his San Francisco bedroom. It was just three days before the scheduled release of his company’s beta product—a highly anticipat...
Fueled by idealism and Kickstarter, four young men tried to challenge Facebook’s hegemony with a social network that valued privacy. Then things went south.
A new book claims that a lost manuscript proves that Jesus was married to the prostitute Mary Magdalene and had two children. “I swear I’ve read this story,” you say, checking the date on this article. And indeed you have. The Jesus-was-married th...
A new book resurrects the ‘Jesus-was-married-with-children’ theory made famous by Dan Brown, but the ‘lost Gospel’ on which it is based isn’t actually lost—and doesn’t mention Jesus.
“Business theory teaches us one important lesson,” says the instructress. “Always thoroughly research the desires of the consumer. Apply this principle when you search for a rich man. On a first date there’s one key rule: never talk about yourself...
In the land of the boom-and-bust oligarchs, hopeful girls sign up for Oliona’s training school to learn how to snag a Moscow millionaire.
In 1956 John F. Kennedy, then a young senator from Massachusetts, wrote a book entitled Profiles in Courage, a Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short biographies describing acts of courage and integrity by eight United States senators througho...
Sen. John McCain’s latest book honors 13 soldiers who served the US over the course of the nation’s history.
Fifty years ago, on the eve of the 1964 Army-Navy football game, former president Dwight Eisenhower, then living in retirement in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, sent the Army team a telegram. “You will always have what you give today. The more you give...
Dwight Eisenhower will never be remembered as a great West Point football player, but he never ceased to extol the formative lessons he learned as an athlete.
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