QAnon-Ers’ Magic Cure for Coronavirus: Just Drink Bleach

Hucksters swarmed on a fresh opportunity to cash in from a crisis that speaks to paranoid fears on the fringe. | Continue reading


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Saudi Crown Prince Appeared to Taunt Jeff Bezos over Secret Affair Before Exposé

Mohammed bin Salman flaunted private info stolen from Jeff Bezos’ phone just a month after his Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi had been murdered, according to the UN. | Continue reading


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What happens when cannabis data gets leaked?

A patchwork of federal and state laws endanger cannabis customers when personal data is exposed. | Continue reading


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Regime Critic Says Saudis Tried to Kidnap Him on U.S. Soil

Abdulrahman Almutairi is a Saudi social-media influencer who criticized Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. If not for the FBI, he says, he might’ve met Jamal Khashoggi’s fate. | Continue reading


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James Murdoch Slams Fox News and News Corp Over Climate Change Denial

Rupert Murdoch’s younger son and his wife issued a rare public rebuke of the family’s media empire and its promotion of climate-change skeptics during Australia’s bushfire crisis. | Continue reading


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Lawrence Lessig Sues New York Times for Defamation over Epstein Story

Lawrence Lessig tried to defend an ousted MIT administrator who accepted the disgraced financier’s cash. Now he’s going after the paper of record. | Continue reading


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Trump Tweets Lie Accusing Dems of Defending Soleimani

The president concocted a blatant lie accusing Democrats of spending three days defending the Iranian general, who he called “the father of the roadside bomb.” | Continue reading


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Trump Told Mar-a-Lago Pals to Expect 'Big' Iran Action 'Soon'

Attendees of a closed-door Senate briefing didn’t get much more clarity than the club guests did. Instead, officials spun Soleimani’s slaying as a way to “de-escalate” tensions. | Continue reading


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Trump Told Mar-a-Lago Pals to Expect 'Big' Iran Action 'Soon'

Attendees of a closed-door Senate briefing didn’t get much more clarity than the club guests did. Instead, officials spun Soleimani’s slaying as a way to “de-escalate” tensions. | Continue reading


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Attendees of a closed-door Senate briefing didn’t get much more clarity than the club guests did. Instead, officials spun Soleimani’s slaying as a way to “de-escalate” tensions. | Continue reading


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The Smartest Book About Our Digital Age Was Published in 1929 (2017)

How José Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses helps us understand everything from YouTube to Duck Dynasty. | Continue reading


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“The answer is I would, but I can’t think of one now,” Biden said during a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Monday. | Continue reading


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Celebration, Florida: How Disney's “Community of Tomorrow” Became a Nightmare

In 2004, Disney sold the downtown of utopian Celebration, Florida, to a private equity firm. Residents say it took their money and let the city rot around them. | Continue reading


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Christian Post journalist quits after publication’s editorial aligns itself with Trump in fallout from Christianity Today’s condemnation of the president. | Continue reading


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Editor Quits Amid Evangelical Newspaper Civil War Over Trump

Christian Post journalist quits after publication’s editorial aligns itself with Trump in fallout from Christianity Today’s condemnation of the president. | Continue reading


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On Tuesday, President Trump claimed he was tougher on Russia than his predecessor. At the same time, his subordinates strongly opposed a bill imposing new sanctions on Moscow. | Continue reading


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“I said whatever you do, don’t hire a ‘yes man’... Because if you do, I believe you will be impeached,” Kelly said. | Continue reading


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The Mysterious Case of Babies Buried with Helmets of Other Children’s Skulls

Papers around the world have sensationalized the discovery of babies buried with the skulls of other children around their heads. But what’s really going on here? | Continue reading


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Real-Life Telepathy is closer than you think

And it could become big business in the not-so-distant future. | Continue reading


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Top administration officials have been tracking Giuliani’s venture through Europe, wondering if he’s going to cause yet another major headache for the president. | Continue reading


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The Sinister Scientist Behind the CIA’s Mind-Control Mayhem

A new book digs deep into the horrifying career of Sidney Gottlieb, the scientist who ran the CIA's damaging and possibly lethal experiments in drug-induced mind control. | Continue reading


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The former FBI lawyer and ongoing Trump target breaks two years of silence in this exclusive interview. And she has quite a lot to say. | Continue reading


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Lisa Page Speaks: 'There's No Fathomable Way I Have Committed Any Crime at All'

The former FBI lawyer and ongoing Trump target breaks two years of silence in this exclusive interview. And she has quite a lot to say. | Continue reading


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Lisa Page Speaks: 'There's No Fathomable Way I Have Committed Any Crime at All'

The former FBI lawyer and ongoing Trump target breaks two years of silence in this exclusive interview. And she has quite a lot to say. | Continue reading


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Trump Is First to Use Patriot Act to Detain a Man Forever

Never in 18 years has the government used Section 412 of the PATRIOT Act, which permits indefinite detention of resident aliens on national-security grounds. Until now. | Continue reading


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Sources say the ambassador grew increasingly close to a Romanian politician with a worrisome record on corruption. | Continue reading


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What the Hell Has Hollywood Got Against Nikola Tesla?

His inventions had a galvanic effect on modern life, arguably more than Edison’s, but when it comes to movies, Tesla is always portrayed as merely an eccentric crank. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Russian Whistleblower Assassinated After Uncovering $200B Dirty-Money Scandal

Andrei Kozlov was gunned down in 2006, weeks after trying to shutter the world’s biggest money-laundering scam—one reportedly used by Putin’s family and the FSB. | Continue reading


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Political experts from Jon Favreau to Carl Diggler parse the 2016 campaign’s most annoyingly pervasive meme. | Continue reading


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Fallout from the clemency cost the Navy secretary Richard Spencer his job, but a former Pentagon deputy chief backs the ousted official. | Continue reading


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Trump Tells Allies He Wants Absolved War Criminals to Campaign for Him

Fallout from the clemency cost the Navy secretary Richard Spencer his job, but a former Pentagon deputy chief backs the ousted official. | Continue reading


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Google engineer who protested company's work with CBP says she's been fired

Internal tensions are on the rise at the tech giant, previously known for fostering openness within its workplace culture. | Continue reading


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Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook

Accepting an award from the Anti-Defamation League, the comedian called Facebook “the greatest propaganda machine in history.” | Continue reading


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“Erratic,” “very emotional,” and “lots of yelling.” Those are some of the words used to describe Sondland’s performance in a White House meeting with top Ukrainian officials. | Continue reading


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Google and Twitter Approved Our BS Anti-Vaxx Ads

Google and Twitter allowed ads saying “Don’t get vaccinated” and “Vaccines aren’t safe.” | Continue reading


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The president misses his reality-TV days and is thinking of what show he can create once he’s out of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. | Continue reading


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ABC News Anchor Caught on Hot Mic Saying Network Quashed Jeffrey Epstein Story

“I tried for three years to get it on to no avail,” says Amy Robach in what appears to be a conversation with colleagues, adding execs feared loss of access to Britain’s royals. | Continue reading


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How the KGB Knew You'd Be a Traitor: Exclusive Look at Its Recruitment Manual

The bottom line for spy recruitment comes down to this: look for the losers, especially the ones who want to think they are winners because they hang on to important positions. | Continue reading


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The bottom line for spy recruitment comes down to this: look for the losers, especially the ones who want to think they are winners because they hang on to important positions. | Continue reading


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The meeting took place just around the time when the president’s lawyer began expressing interest in conspiracies about Ukraine’s role in the Mueller probe. | Continue reading


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Russia: Trump's Baghdadi victory lap is nothing but “propaganda”

The Russian Defense Ministry also disputed claims that Russia provided access to U.S. air units entering airspace it controls. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Facebook Axed Pro-Vaccine Ads from Health Orgs, Let Anti-Vaxxer Ads Slip Through

Legitimate health institutions are getting swept up in Facebook’s algorithmic crackdown against anti-vaccine misinformation. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Instacart Workers Screwed by the Algorithm Are the Latest Gig Economy Strikers

Tip cuts and a mysterious new pay system have pushed Instacart “shoppers” to organize a strike through Facebook groups. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

CNN Hires Former GOP Congressman and Trump Loyalist Sean Duffy as Political Commentator

Duffy’s wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, currently works for rival Fox News as a contributor. | Continue reading


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‘The Dukes:’ Russian Cyber Unit That Went Dark After Hacking DNC Is Still Spying

The hackers, also known as Cozy Bear, who are linked to Russian intelligence have been using Twitter and Reddit forums to send coded messages. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Grieving Parents 'Ambushed' by Trump, Who Had Teen's Killer Waiting at White House

The president had hoped to surprise the family of dead British teen Harry Dunn with a meeting with the woman who killed him. “And they weren’t ready for it,” he admitted. | Continue reading


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The president had hoped to surprise the parents of dead British teen Harry Dunn with a meeting with the woman who killed him—all in front of the media. | Continue reading


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Why Trump’s Tweets Aren’t Going Anywhere

Some tweets that violate Twitter’s normal rules will stay on the site, according to the company's newly articulated policy. | Continue reading


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