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Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast After Dave Broom 's visit to the world's most northerly distillery , we figured that it would make sense to have him see what was happening at the opposite end of the globe. So he headed to New Zealand to see ...

Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast Any Kanye West fan on Twitter is used to his disappearing (and reappearing) act. After an 11-month-long absence, he's returned to the social media platform on Sunday, once again tweeting like he's...

Drew Angerer/Getty This week brought yet another humiliation of a Trump cabinet official at the hands of the president himself. UN Ambassador Nikki Haley suffered the latest indignity when she claimed more sanctions on Russia would be coming shortly, only...

Susan Weems/AP It's a tale of government gone mad. A huge force of federal agents descends upon a peaceful commune of religious seekers in Texas, immediately opens fire on some 120 men, women and children inside, and uses military helicopters to straf...

Chris Williams/Icon Sportswire via Getty With their series sweep over the LA Kings, the NHL's expansion-team extraordinaire Vegas Golden Knights took another step forward in their miracle season. As a result, demand for Vegas Golden Knights playoff ti...

Oscilloscope On Sunday, Boston mourned the fifth anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing with a city-wide moment of silence. The 2013 terrorist attack killed three and injured hundreds; the resulting efforts to hunt down the suspects, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev...

Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast Following a corn harvest, the husks, stalks and cobs left in the field form what's called "stover." But that stover is far from garbage. At the Idaho National Laboratory, Dr. David Reed, Dr. Yo...

Former FBI Director James Comey weighed in Thursday afternoon on the criminal referral from the Justice Department's Inspector General to......

A criminal referral does not mean McCabe will be charged, but that the inspector general's office had reason to believe a crime may have been committed....

Former New York City mayor and close Trump confidant Rudy Giuliani has joined President Donald Trump's legal team, Giuliani told......

Sarah Wasko / Media Matters Conservative and pro-Trump Facebook pages, most affiliated with fake news websites, are recycling memes created by the Russian troll companies like the Internet Research Agency (IRA), which the social network has banned from it...

Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Busy Philipps knows how headlines work. She's been in the business for 20 years. Her best friend is Michelle Williams . She's had headlines pegged to her movies and TV shows, about nostalgic cast reunions (they don't get ...

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast When a Harriet Tubman scholar found out in 2016 that the abolitionist she studied for decades was going to be the new face of the $20 bill, she cried. "Here you have an African American woman, formerly enslaved wh...

Courtesy Atlanta Film Festival It's rare to see transgender stories told by transgender people—and rarer still to see thoughtful portrayals of transgender men in the media, because creators seem to more interested in stories about the abdication...

The former New York mayor joins a team that has struggled to attract new talent....

Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast On the Thursday morning of April 6, 2017—the day last year's Pulitzer Prizes were revealed— East Bay Times investigative reporter Thomas Peele was so nervous that "I felt like I was go...

Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast A paradigm shift in political fundraising is playing out across the 2018 midterms landscape. In a large number of congressional races throughout the country, Democratic candidates are raising gobs of cash ...

Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast The FBI has quietly solved a rash of bulk database thefts that affected 168 million users of some of the internet's most popular websites, The Daily Beast has learned. The culprit in the breaches is a...

The Latest on fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe (all times local):...

Former FBI Director James Comey explained Thursday why he thinks...

The ride-hailing upstart is investing millions to help reduce global warming....

Trump has told multiple people this week at Mar-a-lago and late last week in the West Wing that he believes Comey's book has had little impact on him....

The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general says it will open a second probe into Administrator Scott Pruitt's security detail....

Lawyer says he's confident Andrew McCabe won't be charged unless Trump administration applies "inappropriate pressure"...

An appellate court struck another blow to the Trump administration's efforts to pressure sanctuary cities...

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told President Donald Trump at a recent meeting that he's not a target in the investigation of his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, a source familiar with the matter told CNN....

A group of customers is suing the multi-level marketing company, saying it knows its eye serum can cause serious side effects and markets it as safe anyway....

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lance Armstrong has reached a $5 million settlement with the federal government in a whistleblower lawsuit......

Republicans are concerned that their electoral prospects are being damaged by Trump's trade policies in the agricultural regions of the country they are depending on to vote for the GOP....

The Hamas-linked Council on American Islamic Relations is only worsening a "he said, she said" situation between Siwatu-Salama Ra and the Michigan Department of Corrections....

The Justice Department has agreed to provide Congress with copies of several memos written by former FBI Director James Comey....

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It was another dramatic hour -- and history was made -- in the Senate on Thursday....

During President Barack Obama's presidency, the coal industry and its boosters in Congress often invoked the term "war on coal" to criticize the administration's energy and environmental policies. Even though Donald Trump now occupies the ...

We've learned so much new information about Michael Cohen just in the last 36 hours about the Russia mob,......

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Anti-abortion rhetoric is intensifying ahead of midterm elections as a rush of officials in Republican-dominant states......

Campaign finance paperwork shows that the Democratic nominee for Illinois attorney general has hired a former employee of imprisoned ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich who pleaded guilty in a fraud case....

America's last great wilderness, is one step closer to being the site of America's newest oil field. The Trump administration is moving toward oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, fulfilling a longtime Republican p...

President Donald Trump isn't getting the facts straight when it comes to how he won the 2016 election....

Two Democratic lawmakers are calling on President Donald Trump to provide records spelling out the legal basis for missile strikes in Syria last week and in April 2017....

During arguments Thursday on Paul Manafort's motion to dismiss the DC indictment, one of his lawyers noted that Manafort's assets have been tied up since he was charged....

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling, thereby preventing the Trump administration's from denying grant funds to sanctuary cities nationwide....

Two other National Guard officers were also disciplined after a video showing Sgt. Robin Brown taking an oath with a hand puppet went viral last week....

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Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) brings her newborn daughter, Maile, to work. "It feels great. It's about time": US Sen. Tammy Duckworth just made history by bringing her newborn baby onto the Senate floor during a vote https://t.co/8sLxsuVpD2 p...

One day after the Senate voted to allow babies onto the chamber's floor, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., made history by bringing her newborn with her to vote....

Her rival Donna F. Edwards suggested Alsobrooks timing was politically motivated....