Teen Forced to Rape Himself for Insulting ‘Putin’s Soldier’

By Anna Nemtsova

A Russian social media dissident was captured by Ramzan Kadyrov’s men in Chechnya and forced to sit on a glass bottle as an act of apology to Putin’s favorite enforcer.

By Lloyd Grove, Maxwell Tani

In his just-released tell-all book, the president’s former fixer recalls how Fox News’ founder and its star host both abased themselves at the altar of Trump.

By Barbie Latza Nadeau

Regina King recreates a night in 1964 when Muhammad Ali celebrated a win with Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke—and the result is one of the timeliest movies of the year.

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By Nick Schager

The documentary “My Octopus Teacher,” debuting Sept. 7 on Netflix, explores the extraordinary bond—nay, romance—between a South African filmmaker and an octopus.

By The Daily Beast

It’s a question considered—then knocked down, then raised again— by veteran FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok on the latest edition of The New Abnormal.

By Brandon Withrow

Hoping to salvage some of the money tourism brings, Costa Rica is lifting restrictions on Americans, but with one big caveat.

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By Blake Montgomery

Police Chief La’Ron Singletary handed in his resignation, along with all his command staff.

By Alaina Demopoulos

Nineteen fashion designers have created looks for Joe Biden’s campaign. The results are mixed—but nearly anything is better than Donald Trump’s “#BuildTheWall” T-shirt.

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DOUBLE DIPPING

Intentionally double-voting is illegal and prosecutors will examine each instance on a case-by-case basis.

 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Software engineer Ashok Chandwaney said that they “can no longer stomach” working at Facebook.

 DRINK UP

I’ve been drinking everything out of it for the past few weeks — coffee, water, mulled wine, non-mulled wine.

 CURIOUS

A public records investigation by Vice fleshed out the scope of July’s nationwide seed-by-mail mystery.

 BIG SPENDER

“We did, and are doing, a GREAT job,” the president tweeted amid reports his campaign has squandered millions of dollars.

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