Rising need, fewer resources, fewer jobs—and more campaigns like Donald Trump’s. That’s the world ahead, according to America’s intelligence agencies.Analysts from U.S. spy services predict a darker world to come over the next five years, with ris…

The popular rage that propelled Donald Trump to the White House is only getting started, American intelligence analysts say.

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Rep. Tom Price, the physician and Georgia Republican tapped for the nation’s leading health care job, has long criticized federal spending as excessive. Yet during his years in Congress, he’s worked hard to k…

A longtime critic of federal spending, the Georgia Republican has helped keep federal dollars flowing to his generous campaign supporters.

Today Jeff Sessions claims credit for prosecuting a lynching by the Ku Klux Klan as proof that he is not a racist, but an attorney working for him claimed 30 years ago his boss wanted to drop the case.Confirmation hearings will begin Tuesday for D…

Trump’s attorney-general pick allegedly signaled an assistant U.S. attorney working for him in the ’80s not to prosecute two whites who murdered a black man.

U.S. Spies See a World of Trumps Ahead

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On Jan. 20, Donald Trump will become the 45th president of the United States. Along with the nation’s nuclear codes, he will be gifted presidential powers that have been vastly increased by Barack Obama.Thanks a lot, liberals. It’s all well and go…

If Trump makes good on his promise to ‘bomb the shit out’ of ISIS without even token approval from Congress, we’ll know where he got the idea.

With Donald Trump’s cabinet picks gearing up for Senate confirmation hearings, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer admitted last week that he wishes Democrats had not effectively blown up the filibuster in 2013, and along with it, any real chance…

Democrats may miss the old filibuster rules, but they didn’t come up empty-handed.

The 2017 Golden Globes had the potential to be many things, from a full-length musical directed by Damien Chazelle to a three-hour-long circle jerk. But of all the possible outcomes, we didn’t predict—but probably should have—that the show would r…

With more than a decade of TV appearances and hosting gigs under his belt, a dying franchise and a Razzie award is all Trump’s got to show for his efforts.

Meryl Streep gave a powerful, politically charged speech at the Golden Globes and, while it was obvious whom she was speaking about, never mentioned Donald Trump by name.In response, President-Elect Donald Trump made a series of tweets dismissing …

People who repeatedly say Hollywood and awards shouldn’t be platforms for politics and social justice need a new script. That includes, apparently, Twitter-happy president elects.

Diehard fans need not weep over the end of the college football season just yet. The NCAA championship game will feature two of the most exciting—not to mention skilled—teams in the league: Alabama Crimson Tide and the Clemson Tigers.Set for Monda…

Alabama Crimson Tide and the Clemson Tigers will face off in Arizona for the NCAA College Football Championship title. Here’s how to watch live.

In a series of dramatic early-morning raids, French police have arrested 16 people suspected to be connected to the robbery of Kim Kardashian, three months after she was bound, gagged, and robbed by a masked gang in a brutal Paris attack.Kim was f…

Three months after a gang pulled off an audacious and terrifying robbery of Kim Kardashian, French cops picked up 16 suspects, the oldest of whom is 72.

The Ridiculous Meryl Streep Backlash

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With Donald Trump about to enter the White House, they just don’t feel like “keepin’ it 1600” anymore.Just before Christmas, former Obama administration staffers Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor recorded what would become the final episod…

Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor are leaving The Ringer’s ‘Keepin’ It 1600’ to launch a new media company that aims to challenge Trump.

In the words of Mike Pence’s favorite musical, Donald Trump will never be satisfied.Our president-elect has proudly displayed his preference for primetime TV and Twitter rants over intelligence briefings and mature political discourse. However, Tr…

The president-elect unleashed a Twitter rant against ‘New Celebrity Apprentice’ and host Arnold Schwarzenegger over its low ratings. But Trump has a very checkered reality-TV past.

Roughly two-thirds of the way through Sunday night’s Golden Globes, Meryl Streep gave a speech.She talked about Hollywood, foreigners, and the press, and our need to embrace and empower them all. She remembered her heartbreak when Donald Trump moc…

For every great moment like Meryl Streep’s speech, the Globes were plagued by embarrassing tonal snafus. These shows can matter. So let’s make them.

Can Crooked Media Take Down Trump?

By Matt Wilstein

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Rising need, fewer resources, fewer jobs—and more campaigns like Donald Trump’s. That’s the world ahead, according to America’s intelligence agencies.Analysts from U.S. spy services predict a darker world to come over the next five years, with ris…

The popular rage that propelled Donald Trump to the White House is only getting started, American intelligence analysts say.

JERUSALEM—The relative calm of recent months in this tensest of cities was shattered just after midday Sunday by a major vehicular attack that left four Israeli soldiers dead and over a dozen injured on a picturesque promenade overlooking some of …

Plowing a car or truck through crowds was used to horrifying effect in Nice and Berlin—and Sunday in Israel, where such attacks began.

The new ISIS terror weapon is fire. “This is a quick option for anyone intending to join the just terror campaign,” says the latest issue of the ISIS magazine Rumiyah. This tactic requires neither guns such as were used in San Bernadino and Orland…

In the latest issue of its magazine, ISIS is calling for its followers to use arson to spread fear—and it targeted a specific Dallas church.

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated throughout with new information.Dramatic changes in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, first reported in The Daily Beast, have continued in the past 24 hours.The vessel scouring the depths …

With time running out, the vessel looking for the jet dashes north to the area where scientists say it went down, suggesting that something significant has shown up.

‘ISIS’ Attacks in Jerusalem

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The celebration of the New Year is a traditional time for taking stock, reappraising, and redirecting one’s life. Many resolutions focus on professional and interpersonal goals and dreams, but others are about transforming one’s own appearance. Di…

It’s the new year, which means it’s a time for new goals, new resolutions, and in some cases new bodies.

ROSARITO, Mexico—A week of protests in Mexico has devolved into looting, vandalism, and violence after a double-digit increase in gas prices that landed with a bang as the New Year began. On Saturday, hundreds of protestors descended on the border…

One week into 2017, and Mexico is already descending into chaos.

“In studying Americans, our Residency in Italy identified a number of places visited by Americans working in target installations of interest to our Intelligence Service. It was possible to determine that Americans in Rome systematically frequent …

An old Soviet field manual for spies tells us a lot about the mindset of today’s agents, and not only the Russians. Could an American president be the ultimate “dangle”?

The Thousand Year History of Nose Jobs

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Today Jeff Sessions claims credit for prosecuting a lynching by the Ku Klux Klan as proof that he is not a racist, but an attorney working for him claimed 30 years ago his boss wanted to drop the case.Confirmation hearings will begin Tuesday for D…

Trump’s attorney-general pick allegedly signaled an assistant U.S. attorney working for him in the ’80s not to prosecute two whites who murdered a black man.

A Pennsylvania man and woman raped and dismembered the woman’s adoptive daughter as part of a disturbed “fantasy,” police said this weekend. Then the couple collected the teenager’s Social Security payments for months, profiting off her death.14-y…

After a suicide pact gone wrong, a Pennsylvania couple has been charged with the rape, murder, and dismemberment of an adopted disabled 14-year-old girl.

About half an hour before recess, the 25 students of Dana Campo’s fifth and sixth grade combo class move their chairs—most of them grumbling—into an uneven circle at the front of the room. There were 13 girls and 12 boys, and by Dana Campo’s estim…

What started out as a class discussion about bullies among fifth- and sixth-graders ended up being about the biggest bully of them all, the one they see on TV.

Sessions Tried to ‘Drop the Case’ vs KKK

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Editor’s Note: This story has been updated throughout.The gunman who attacked Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday was being prosecuted on charges of domestic violence, The Daily Beast has learned. Esteban San…

Esteban Santiago was already facing charges for domestic violence when he allegedly opened fire Friday, killing five people and injuring more.

As Donald Trump’s inauguration looms, I am already impatient for some quick and angry fiction writer to publish a novel dealing with the Artist of the Deal. Writing before the election, the veteran political novelist Thomas Mallon outlined in the …

A vicious, albeit artful satire about the execution of the Rosenbergs, Robert Coover’s searing novel predicts our ugly mash-up of politics and entertainment.

As highlighted by Donald Trump’s rhetoric and Hillary Clinton’s treatment by some in the media (and even our living rooms), sexism is still alive and well. Perhaps it’s not surprising, then, that artificial intelligence (AI)—something coded by hum…

Want to make the new transformative piece of technology? Hire women. Lots of them.

Sometimes, in his covert influence campaign against America, Vladimir Putin need do nothing but sit back and chuckle mirthlessly while U.S. officials shoot themselves in the foot. Such was the case last week when the Department of Homeland Securit…

There’s a ton of evidence tying Moscow to the DNC hack. Somehow, Washington managed to screw up its presentation of that evidence.

CES holds itself out as a showcase of human innovation’s pinnacle, which is why it’s so funny that it occurs in Las Vegas, a place by and for the stupid. For one week every year, the vision of self-anointed genius is unleashed on a town that looks…

Being a female afterthought in a Vegas tech orgy by and for men.

LAS VEGAS—“Tickle him,” the man in the green striped tie says.I’m not sure how to tickle a robot. I haltingly place my hands beneath the small android’s arms, where its ribs would be. The robot’s anime-saucer eyes do not twinkle. Its jointed limbs…

A depressing future awaits, where we won’t need human contact, and our home devices will be smarter than we are.

U.S. Hobbles Its Hacking Case vs. Russia

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Fake news is more dangerous than you’d think. Deliberately falsified news reports aren’t just being used as propaganda to sway the gullible. Some of the Russian hackers blamed for infiltrating the Democratic National Committee are weaponizing fake…

Some of the Russian hackers blamed for infiltrating the DNC are using bogus news to get inside the networks of the unsuspecting.

“No computer is safe,” Donald Trump told us over the weekend. And nobody knows that better than the world’s terrorists. But at the end of the day, just like the rest of us, they still stay online—and in many cases, fortunately, that costs them.As …

From the Taliban to the so-called Islamic State, computers, cellphones, and social media are used as vital weapons—and offer critical vulnerabilities.

Regina Elsea was just starting her life. The Alabama bride-to-be had a new job, bought a brand-new car, and was two weeks from her wedding day.But in June 2016, the 20-year-old was crushed to death while trying to fix a machine at the automotive p…

Regina Elsea was killed just two weeks after U.S. inspectors found two dozen safety violations at a South Korean-owned plant.

Russian Hackers Weaponizing ‘Fake News’

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When Katelyn Burns wanted to start hormone therapy as part of her gender transition, there was a three-month wait at her nearest specialist, located over an hour away.So she went to Planned Parenthood instead.“I called on a Friday and made an appo…

Defunding Planned Parenthood would affect cancer screenings and HIV tests. But it would also damage what might be the largest provider of transgender health care in the United States.

Yes, that really is Cate Blanchett on top of a table dancing to thunderous pop music. Yes, she has got a gun. Yes, she will fire it into the eaves of the theater. And yes, her character, Anna Petrovna, has just told everyone else at her 40th birth…

Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh are the firecracker, should-be-perfect match in Andrew Upton’s fast and funny adaptation of Chekhov’s ‘Platonov.’

The Golden Globes kicked off with the usual celebs attired gorgeously and not-so gorgeously—and Evan Rachel Wood supreme in a custom tux.

The Golden Globes kicked off with the usual celebs attired gorgeously and not-so gorgeously—and Evan Rachel Wood supreme in a custom tux.

Widely seen as both the father of the modern American way of warfare and its most formidable practitioner, Ulysses S. Grant remains an enigma more than 150 years after the guns of the Civil War fell silent. More than 200 biographies of Grant have …

He lacked ambition, failed at most things he tried, and then Grant found himself and his calling with the coming of the Civil War, where he reinvented modern warfare.

Cate Blanchett Blows Up Broadway

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“Do you remember me?” she asks, as a hopeful smile spreads on her face, like she’s trying to tease the right answer out of me. We’re not children anymore. We’ve left. Some of us left with our families, some with our friends, and some alone. Now we…

They called him The Shepherd and he fit the stereotype of a sadistic German. His beatings were meant to break us.

Imagine Lisbon in 1502, during the height of Portugal’s golden age of exploration.The port is bustling with activity as the empire’s latest crowning achievement is unveiled—a massive new ship that is the finest the seafaring nation has ever built….

To this day, the wreck of the Flor de la Mar lies in wait, ready for a lucky underwater adventurer to disturb its resting place and strike it rich.

In the new luxe catalogue raisonné from Yale University Press showcasing the work of artist Richard Diebenkorn, there is something for anyone who cares at all for visual art. Painting, drawing, etching, portraiture, landscape, still life, represen…

There’s nothing like seeing one of Richard Diebenkorn’s joyful Ocean Park paintings in real life—but a new catalogue of his work comes close.

My Life Inside ‘The Family’ Cult

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