Officials said as many as 20 people were killed by one gunman. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Did Novelist John Steinbeck Spy for the CIA in Paris?

During the same summer that he wrote “The Amiable Fleas,” now published in English for the first time, the American author also appears to have been gathering intel for the Agency. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Has China Just Made a Major Stealth Breakthrough?

A team of Chinese scientists have created a new “metamaterial” that could dramatically shrink the radar signature of a jet or missile. But does it really work? | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Tries to Sell Interviews with Shooting Survivors

After the mass shooting, he advertised his new app that would somehow let people set a price for their stories—and give him a 20 percent cut. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Scorned Women and a Casanova Cop Caught L.A.’S ‘Dine-and-Dash Dater’

Paul Gonzales scammed his online dates into buying him expensive dinners. Then they made him pay. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

The powerful 70-year-old House Democrat from Massachusetts will face off against Alex Morse, the 30-year-old mayor of Holyoke. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

How Trump Jr.'s Fixer Wages War Against the Media

When GOP operative Arthur Schwartz sees Bannon, Scaramucci, or Don Jr. as being wronged by the press, he goes into overdrive—and sometimes crosses the line. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Gizmodo Media Staff Enraged at New CEO’s ‘Insane’ Direction

High-level staffers at the company that now owns ex-Gawker sites like Jezebel and Deadspin complain their new leader is destroying a famously freewheeling culture. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

VP finance embezzles $22M from Stylehaul for gambling and cryptocurrency trades

The feds say he blew the stolen cash on poker games, online gambling, and cryptocurrency trades. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

No one who is invited to the summit has actually been banned from social platforms. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

A great singer, composer, and piano player, the good doctor had a long career as one of the Crescent City’s most gifted musical ambassadors. Here’s a guide to his best work. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

How the Navy Blew $30B on 10 ‘Cheap’ Ships

Years late and riddled with crippling design flaws, the Littoral Combat Ship has consumed tens of billions while producing only a handful of ships capable of even leaving port. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

The Rise and Fall of Kobayashi, Godfather of Competitive Eating

A new ESPN ‘30 for 30’ documentary, ‘The Good, the Bad, the Hungry,’ explores the rivalry between eaters Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut. Here, Kobayashi clears the air. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Twitter Conspiracy Theorist Charged with a Felony in Lynch Threat

The tweet ominously threatened Virginia Senate candidate Qasim Rashid with an infamous photo from a 1915 lynching and the phrase ‘View your destiny.’ | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Iran's Cyber Army Under Attack

Iran’s scrappy hacking crew is most effective when flying under the radar. Unfortunately for them, now everybody’s paying attention. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

India Bullies Twitter into Banning Accounts of American, British Students

A Texas college student is among other Westerners to be banned after a crusade against Pakistani trolls went terribly wrong—and ensnared unwitting students thousands of miles away. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Facebook Officials Cooperate with Daily Beast Reporters to Help “Dox” Posters

The video that racked up millions of views and sparked a national conversation was uploaded by a sports blogger from the Bronx, currently on probation for domestic battery. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

America Is Stuck with a $400B Stealth Fighter That Can’t Fight

The planes have had several previously unreported ‘category 1’ flaws—military parlance for issues that can prevent a pilot from accomplishing their mission. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Facebook Removes Conspiracy Site Natural News

Far-right site promoted vaccine disinformation and mass arrests of the left, with more followers than Infowars before it was banned. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Boeing’s Bean-Counters Courted the 737 Max Disaster

Just when the smallest jet should have been replaced with a new model, the company fell into tight-fisted hands—with fatal consequences. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Tucker Carlson Praises Elizabeth Warren: Her Economic Policies 'Make Obvious Sense'

‘Yesterday, Warren released what she’s calling her plan for economic patriotism,’ he said. ‘Amazingly, that’s pretty much exactly what it is: Economic patriotism.’ | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Rutgers Defunded Student Paper After It Called Out White Supremacist Propaganda

The Daily Targum has been publishing for 150 years. But this year it lost funding after a campaign by a group that called it ‘fake news.’ | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

You Can Hear the Climate Change Apocalypse on the New South Wales Country Hour

In New York, it’s easy to forget about climate change when there’s not a Sandy-level catastrophe. Across the globe, it’s an everyday reality now. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

We Found The Guy Behind the Viral 'Drunk Pelosi' Video

The video that racked up millions of views and sparked a national conversation was uploaded by a sports blogger from the Bronx, currently on probation for domestic battery. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Generation Z Is Already Bored by the Internet (2018)

Today’s teens are still bored, often incredibly so. They’re just more likely to experience a new type of boredom: phone bored. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

A Black Psychiatrist Helped Make ‘Sesame Street’

The children’s television show entranced preschoolers—and helped teach impressionable black kids. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

CBS's Scott Pelley Blasts Former Boss David Rhodes for 'Hostile Work Environment'

Pelley dropped the unexpected hit while appearing on CNN to promote his new book. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

The former Secretary of State is talking with lawmakers at the same time virtually everyone else who worked for the president is defying Congress. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

DHS Urges Cybersecurity Staff to ‘Deploy’ to Border Instead

Employees are encouraged to set aside their cybersecurity work to head to the border because ‘serving the needs of the homeland is the cornerstone of what we do.’ | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Laura Poitras, Barred from Intercept Meeting After Snowden Archive Shutdown

The meeting featured written questions to permit frank talk without reprisal, a remarkable development for a company built on aggressive journalism and defense of free speech. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Can A.I. Help Stop Bee Extinction?

Colony collapse disorder has been a mystery. But artificial intelligence might just stop bees disappearing. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era

A superbug attacked my husband, who nearly died after seven cases of septic shock and nine months of hospitalization—and it gave me the biggest wakeup call of my life. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Yes, buying alcohol is still illegal in parts of the U.S.

For an estimated 18 million Americans across the country, Prohibition never ended and they’re still prohibited from buying a drink. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

How Woodstock 50 Is Shaping Up to Be Fyre Fest 2.0

Financiers claim the 50th anniversary festival honoring Woodstock is cancelled. The festival’s lead organizer, meanwhile, claims the show will go on. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Jacob Wohl’s Business Plan: ‘Make Shit Up’ to Game Political Betting Sites

The bumbling political operative pitched investors on a scheme to use fake news stories to manipulate political betting markets for profit. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Japan Has a New Emperor and a New Era, but a Dark Future

Japan’s new imperial era officially started on May 1 at a time when 79 percent of the Japanese people no longer believe their own government. Should we? | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

“Trump’s opacity is moving some members into the impeachment camp,” one Democratic lawmaker tells The Daily Beast. “Translation: it’s always the cover-up that gets ‘em.” | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Fox News Reporter Rips Colleagues Over Charlottesville: You Sound Like 'White Supremacist Chat Room'

In emails obtained by The Daily Beast, one bold Fox reporter stands up to two of his colleagues who defended Trump’s ‘both sides’ comment about neo-Nazi rallygoers. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Assange Smeared Seth Rich to Cover Russia

Julian Assange repeatedly blamed Seth Rich, the murdered DNC staffer, for Russia’s leaks. The Mueller report shows that Assange was lying from the start. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Mueller Julian Assange Smeared Seth Rich to Cover for Russians

Julian Assange repeatedly blamed Seth Rich, the murdered DNC staffer, for Russia’s leaks. The Mueller report shows that Assange was lying from the start. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Republicans have rigged the judiciary in favor of their agenda. But Democrats can take it back | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Moscow Server Hosted WikiLeaks and Iran’s Hackers Weeks Apart

The year was 2015, and weeks after a group of brazenly persistent hackers hit over 500 targets, WikiLeaks dumped thousands of Saudi diplomatic cables. Coincidence, or connection? | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Barr Sounds More and More Like Trump’s Roy Cohn

The attorney general contradicts himself on Mueller and obstruction and starts talking like a true-believer on intelligence agencies ‘spying’ on the Trump campaign. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Lara Logan Returns to TV as a Right-Wing Heroine at Sinclair, Condemning 'Moral Cowards' at CBS

Reporter Lara Logan, who is joining Sinclair Broadcast Group, condemns her critics at former employer CBS, and claims her flawed Benghazi story has ‘over time been proved right.’ | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Pregnancy-Tracking Apps Share Data with Users’ Employers: Report

Ovia reportedly gives employers access to their female employees’ pregnancy data if they pay. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Getting Rid of Birthright Citizenship Is ‘On the Table’

The Fox News host notes that ‘things seem less under control’ at the border now than they did before Trump was elected. Send in the military, he says. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Crypto Fans Flee Coinbase After It Hired Hackers for Dictators

Hacking Team sells spyware to cops, corporations, and countries like Saudi Arabia. No wonder people are furious to learn they were also working for a major crypocurrency exchange. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Anatomy of a Measles Outbreak: How One Traveler Brought Virus to Detroit Area

Measles cases continue to emerge across the U.S. amid the growing anti-vax movement. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago