Paper Forces ‘Terrified’ Staff to Office as COVID Cases Rise

On the same day that South Carolina had its largest number of coronavirus deaths, the company that owns the Post & Courier had a message for the...

Could Women in Ancient Rome Read?

When it comes to ancient education and literacy, the consensus is that most people in the ancient Roman world were illiterate. Those who could read...

This Wrestler Wouldn’t Bow to Men, But Trolls Took Her Down

TOKYO—Hana Kimura’s bright pink hair, sometimes in semi-dreadlocks, signalled she was a rebel in Japan—a country where students are forced to...

Race-Baiter Donald Trump Is America's THUG-in-Chief

“I understand the hurt, I understand the pain,” Donald Trump claimed Friday as he read from a prepared statement addressing the racial violence...

Why It’s So Tough to Charge, Let Alone Convict, a Killer Cop

Four days and three nights of unrest after Derek Chauvin’s knee was on the neck of George Floyd, the now former Minnesota police officer was...

MN Calls in Entire National Guard for First Time in History

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Saturday he was taking the unprecedented step of fully mobilizing the state’s national guard for the first time in...

Space Experts: Netflix’s ‘Space Force’ Is Very, Very Dumb

The U.S. Space Force, President Donald Trump’s new military command for orbital warfare, literally began as a joke. “Maybe we need a new force—...

The Next Big ‘Woman Scorned Murders Her Husband’ Event

This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the...

Leave New York? Meet the People Who Can’t Wait to Move In

As a teenager in Anand, Gujarat, in western India, Rushita Patel was obsessed with Gossip Girl . “It showed so much of the Upper East Side and the...

RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel Also Voted by Mail

As she’s undertaken a large-scale, multimillion-dollar effort to push back on Democratic attempts to expand vote-by-mail access before the...

This Pot Makes Cooking Pasta Easier Than It Already Is

Quarantine has definitely upped my carb intake. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: there is no such thing as too much pasta....

George Floyd's Brother: Trump Wouldn’t Even Let Me Talk

The brother of George Floyd said Saturday that he spoke to President Donald Trump but the conversation was so quick that he “he didn't give me...

Philly Is Latest Flashpoint in Protests Sweeping Nation

PHILADELPHIA—After hours of peaceful protests in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love descended into chaos on Saturday afternoon as protesters...

‘F*ck Shit Up’: White Rioters Enrage Black Organizers

MINNEAPOLIS—Mahado Ali stood outside a convenience store just across the street from the Minneapolis Police Department’s first precinct...

Minneapolis Police Unleash ‘Unprovoked’ Show of Force

MINNEAPOLIS—A night after Minneapolis burned, protests on Saturday were mostly calm—until cops and the National Guard moved in with force...

To All Black Journalists: We See You, We Support You

As black journalists, the arrest live on air of CNN reporter Omar Jimenez felt like an all-too-common case of being black in the wrong place and at...

‘Looting, Fire, Whatever It Takes’: 2 Dead as Chaos Spreads

MINNEAPOLIS—Hours after a former Minneapolis cop was charged with murder in the death of George Floyd, protests exploded in major cities across...

SpaceX Blast-Off Signals New Era of Human Space Exploration

With a flash of light, billowing smoke, and a thunderous roar, American astronauts on Saturday afternoon blasted into space aboard an American...

America’s Most Infamous Resistance Bros Want Back In

Conservatives cheered Thursday as Donald Trump announced an executive order of dubious legality that would let people who have been banned from...

This Isn’t a Few Bad Apples. The Police Are Wholly Rotten.

Minnesota law enforcement’s latest spate of terror started with the murder of George Floyd and has continued unabated with cops firing rubber...

What If You Want to Be a K-pop Star—but You’re Not Korean?

The ballroom of the Hotel Pennsylvania in midtown Manhattan was packed with 300 or so nervous unknowns who’d come to audition in the hope of...

Raging Pandemic, Streets Aflame, and Trump’s Mad at Twitter

Just after midnight on Thursday, with Minneapolis ablaze over the death of George Floyd, the president weighed in on Twitter.  By now, you know...

Why So Many Empty Beds in Domestic Violence Shelters?

Domestic violence experts around the country braced for an increase in abuse at the start of the coronavirus pandemic: The crisis had the...

This European Old Town is Fake—but Full of Secrets

It’s a credit to craftsmanship that one could spend some time in Warsaw’s Old Town before noticing a very salient fact about it—most of it’s...

When White Women of Privilege Borrow From Ethnic Cuisines

Amongst those who know, Diana Kennedy is understood to be the English-speaking world’s authority on traditional Mexican cooking. But not many...

The Risky Business of Porn and Viruses 

It was a typical day at work on a porn set: a standard three-way. Slick with the sweat of mutual exertions, we were focused intently on performing...

Black CNN Correspondent Arrested Live on TV in Minneapolis

The Women Who Exposed Russell Simmons’ Abuse Want Justice

The activist and educator Barbara Smith once wrote, “Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular...

Is There a Future for UK Cocktail Bars?

Since March 23, bars and restaurants across the United Kingdom have been closed in attempt to fight the spread of the coronavirus.  According to...

Twitter Conceals Trump Tweet For ‘Glorifying Violence’

Twitter has hidden a tweet from President Trump which the social media site said broke its rules around “glorifying violence.” The tweet in...

Disturbing History of Minneapolis Cops Before George Floyd

This story was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign...

Internal Docs: Border Patrol Infections Doubled in a Month

COVID-19 infections in U.S. Border Patrol—where some agents have reportedly shunned masks—have shot up, according to internal government data...

Kremlin Stooges Wonder if They Created an Orange Monster

The sense of alarm was palpable on Russian state TV this week. Images of nuclear explosions flashed on an oversized screen as Evgeny Popov, host of...

Former Minneapolis Cop Derek Chauvin Taken Into Custody

The now-fired Minneapolis police officer who held his knee on George Floyd’s neck while the handcuffed black man repeatedly said he couldn’t...

Kimmel Brutally Roasts ‘Lopsided’ Trump

“This is what our penny-colored president is up to,” offered Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday night. “While racial injustice is tearing our country...

Harry and Meghan’s Drone Nightmare Won’t End Anytime Soon

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, as The Daily Beast exclusively reported this week, are being regularly harassed by drones in the backyard of their...

Angels of the Resistance in Nazi Paris

PARIS — History sneaks up on you. Stories of love and courage, cruelty and atrocity, of survivors and those who do not survive—they reach out to...

The Woman Who Stole £1M on ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’

In 2001, the blockbuster game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was at the peak of its popularity in the U.K. One-third of the country’s...

George Floyd Death Sparks Night of Violence Across America

Seven people were shot in Louisville, Kentucky; an SUV plowed into a crowd of demonstrators in Denver, Colorado; full city blocks were ablaze and a...

How To Screw Up a Vice Presidential Pick

Joe Biden’s choice for Vice President is arguably the biggest decision of his campaign—and it could go very, very wrong. And no one knows more...

The Mexican Cartels Tweeted Her Murder

MEXICO CITY—She was a crusading Twitter journalist in a bastion of organized crime who chose a photograph of Catwoman as her online avatar and...

Big Pharma Is Betting on This Rookie Arizona Senator

By Jay Hancock and Elizabeth Lucas, Kaiser Health News Sen. Kyrsten Sinema formed a congressional caucus to raise “awareness of the benefits of...

Taylor Swift Goes Nuclear on Trump Over White Supremacy

Taylor Swift’s recent embrace of politics continues apace. On Friday, the singer furiously tweeted at Donald Trump in response to his tweet...

This Viral Broadway Lip Sync Artist Is Just Getting Started

As much as Mary Neely loved reproducing The Sound of Music song by song for Twitter, there were a couple times she had to step back and question...

Trevor Noah: ‘Police In America Are Looting Black Bodies’

After broadcasting from his New York apartment every weeknight for the past two months, Trevor Noah went on hiatus this week. But he couldn’t...

Geraldo Rivera Unloads on Trump: ‘What Is This, 6th Grade?!’

Geraldo Rivera delivered one of the harshest condemnations of Donald Trump ever aired on Fox News Friday afternoon when he appeared on The Five and...

Man Up, Twitter—Trump’s Race-War Tweet Is Just the Beginning

In the wake of Trump’s batshit executive order on social media, it looked as if Twitter was about to get fucked and fucked hard by Donald Trump. ...

Fire & Fury: Crowd Attacks CNN Center in Atlanta

CNN Center, the cable network’s Atlanta headquarters, came under furious attack Friday night during protests over police brutality sparked by the...

BuzzFeed Staff Take Pay Cuts to Stave Off More Furloughs

BuzzFeed News staff are taking a paycut and agreeing to share the workload in a deal to offset most of the potential employee furloughs the company...

Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’: The Soundtrack to a World on Fire

This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the...

Trump Fears The Minnesota Chaos Makes Him Look Weak

The coronavirus pandemic stole from President Donald Trump his most prized political possession: a booming U.S. economy. Now racial unrest in...

Bill Maher: Killer Cops Are Losers Making Up for High School

On Friday night, the panel returned to Bill Maher’s Real Time , with former CNN anchor turned podcaster Soledad O’Brien and Ian Bremmer, who is...

Zuckerberg Profits from Rage as Much as Donald Trump Does

When Mark Zuckerberg took to CNBC earlier this week to defend President Donald Trump’s ability to use social media to lie to the American public,...

Team Biden on Klobuchar: ‘We Need to Avoid Her’

In recent weeks, Sen. Amy Klobuchar has positioned herself as a leading contender in the race to join former Vice President Joe Biden on the...

Infamous Russian Phone Call Reveals Flynn’s Real Obsession

When Donald Trump’s national security adviser-designate made his fateful phone calls with the Russian ambassador, the conversations that set in...

Kylie Jenner Isn’t a Billionaire. Who Honestly Gives a Sh*t?

K ylie Jenner might not be a billionaire. Well really, I suppose the issue at hand is she (possibly?) was never a billionaire. A splashy exposé...

Alarmed Protesters Meet National Guard with Racist Past

One week before the Minnesota National Guard was deployed to racial justice protests in Minneapolis, the organization released a statement about...

Here’s How Fox News Covered the Arrest of a CNN Reporter

Reporting on the arrest of a CNN reporter and his crew by Minnesota state police on Friday morning, Fox News anchor Sandra Smith framed the...

Michigan Barber Still Thinks He Gets to Make His Own Rules

An appeals court ruled against a Michigan barber who's become a totem for the anti-lockdown movement—but he’s still fighting against safety...

The Latest Coronavirus War Is the ‘COVID-19 Surcharge’

At Bootleggers BBQ, a stick-to-your-ribs smokehouse that usually draws crowds from around Missouri, the coronavirus pandemic has decimated sales....

China’s Airline Industry Is Capitalizing on the Pandemic

There is no doubt that airliners were the novel coronavirus pandemic’s main vector.  Its first direct breakout into the world (and into the U.S.)...

Trump Threatens to ‘Start Shooting’ as Police Station Burns

MINNEAPOLIS—Protesters demanding action over the death of 46-year-old George Floyd took over the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct...

Ingraham: Trump Knows Police Violence Because of FBI Probe

Fox News host Laura Ingraham attempted to explain to African Americans on Thursday night that President Donald Trump can empathize with inequality...

Trump’s Plan: Break The Internet To Suppress The Vote 

The internet, and Twitter in particular, is central to President Donald Trump’s power. His tweets move everything from Pentagon policy on Syria...

The Night That Cop on Top of George Floyd Tried to Kill Me

Ira Latrell Toles didn’t immediately recognize Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in the now-viral video of him holding his knee on George Floyd’s neck...

‘Burn It Down’: Chaos in Minneapolis as Man Shot at Protest

MINNEAPOLIS—Flames and black smoke poured into the sky here into early Thursday as the second day of protests over the death of George Floyd took...

Rage Builds As Feds Slow-Walk COVID Nursing Home Cash

Weeks into the national lockdown, the Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center outside Richmond had become the site of one of the nation’s...

Do Fox News Viewers Cry for COVID-19 Victims?

Watching the major cable and broadcast news outlets during the coronavirus pandemic, Americans on lockdown are more than twice as likely to cry...

Right-Wing ‘Race War’ Wannabes May Make Protests Go Nuclear

Protesters in Minneapolis didn’t know the precise affiliation of a man who showed up on Tuesday at the first night of unrest over the death of...

Ellen Barkin: ‘Larry Kramer Is a Hero. He Changed My Life’

Larry Kramer, the late LGBTQ and AIDS activist, author and playwright, has been much praised and analyzed over the last 24 hours. But Larry Kramer...

Driver Appears to Deliberately Target Protesters in Denver 

A protest in Denver on Thursday night over the death of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis police custody took a violent turn when a driver...

Ramy Youssef: TV’s Coolest Person on Trump and Masturbation

Ramy Youssef is in a situation many auteurs have stumbled into before. When a person creates, writes, and stars in his own show—with his name in...

Florida’s Felon Ruling Puts New Votes Up For Grabs

The Democratic and Republican parties each have demographic groups they can generally count on for support every November. But a weekend ruling has...

Larry Kramer’s Anger Was the Beating Heart of His Activism

The anger. That’s what the obituaries and memories of Larry Kramer come back to. It’s what the interviews with him came back to. And yes, Kramer,...

Lemon Erupts at ‘Birther-In-Chief’ Trump Over George Floyd

CNN anchor Don Lemon unloaded on President Donald Trump after the Justice Department said Thursday that the president was “actively monitoring”...

The Best Trump Can Say About George Floyd Is ‘Very Sad’

Eric Garner. Sandra Bland. Philando Castile. Alton Sterling. Michael Brown. Their names, and those of far too many other unarmed African-Americans...

‘I Can’t Breathe’ Is the New American Anthem

George Floyd’s dying words as Minnesota Police Officer David Chauvin callously pushed his knee into Floyd’s neck and watched his life fade away...

Who Was Crazy Enough to Steal a Horse From the Israel Mob?

TEL AVIV—In the pre-dawn hours of May 13, Nissim Alperon, one of Israel’s most notorious alleged gangsters, and a small army of men found...

UConn Student Wanted in Murderous Rampage Nabbed in Maryland

The University of Connecticut student suspected of killing two people during a bloody crime spree has been captured in Maryland after a five-day,...

How Dare All These Dead People Threaten Trump’s Re-Election 

On Tuesday, Vanity Fair reported that an ally of Donald Trump said the president was furious about the coronavirus. “He was saying, ‘This is so...

Meghan Goes Off on Twitter for Daring to Fact-Check Trump

Kellyanne Conway thinks if people will wait in line for cupcakes, they should wait in line to vote. Meghan McCain thinks that if Twitter is going...

‘The Vast of Night’ Is a Sci-Fi Marvel

Directorial debuts don’t begin in much more confident, bravura fashion than The Vast of Night, a science-fiction indie that heralds the arrival...

The Return of Cocktail Hour

Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, liquor store sales are up across the country with many folks fixing cocktails at home.  On this episode of...

Jackie O’s Dark Side

People are always going to care about the Kennedys, and as the years stretch on from that mythical time in politics we called Camelot, memories can...

Tiny Town Freaks Out Over White Nationalists in Its Castle

Berkeley Springs, a tiny tourist town nestled in West Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains, has always prided itself on being a little bit different....

The Hamptons' Wildest Bondage Party

‘Melonie Haller’s Lost Weekend,’ a piece I wrote for New York magazine in the summer of 1980, centered on a party in a Southampton beach house....

‘F*cking Dangerous’: PA Dems Lose It Over COVID ‘Cover Up’

When a Republican state representative in Pennsylvania revealed to lawmakers on Wednesday that he’d recovered from coronavirus, his Democratic...

Fox Anchor Confronts Kayleigh on Mail-In Voting Hypocrisy

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany may have found herself in an uncomfortable position on Thursday when Fox News anchor Ed Henry briefly...

Ruby Rose Breaks Silence on Abrupt ‘Batwoman’ Exit

Ruby Rose has broken her silence regarding her abrupt exit from the CW’s groundbreaking Batwoman series—although, true to caped crusader form,...

Family-Funded Super PACs Are Boosting Relatives’ Campaigns

Jim Bognet’s congressional campaign is very much a family affair. It’s based at the offices of his father’s contracting business in Hazle...

OANN Toady Concocts Batsh*t Scarborough Conspiracy Scenario

One America News reporter Chanel Rion on Thursday continued her habit of promoting President Donald Trump’s favorite conspiracies via loaded...

Shaun King Raises Money—and Questions About Where It Goes

When Shaun King and progressive journalist Benjamin Dixon launched an ambitious multimedia reboot of Frederick Douglass’ abolitionist newspaper,...

Trump Administration Preps New Weapons Sale To Saudi Arabia

When State Department inspector general Steve Linick was abruptly fired, one of the inquiries he was conducting concerned a massive, highly...