Eric Charbonneau/Getty ImagesMeghan Markle was a “demon” who had “psycho moments” as a boss, people who worked for her have told The Daily Beast.The former employees spoke out after a carefully curated crop of former and current staffers said she was the best boss ever, who gives her staff bundles of freshly cut flowers and home-produced eggs, and makes her staff feel like seeds being watered.The delightful portrait of Meghan’s management style was painted in Us Weekly on Tuesday, as Team Meghan launched a fightback against a report in The Hollywood Reporter that claimed Meghan was a “dictator in high heels” who reduced “grown men to tears.” Sources close to the couple denied that story as a “fabrication” to The Daily Beast last week.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Joe Buglewicz/Getty ImagesConspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars will be sold for parts to pay towards the more than $1 billion he owes to families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.A Houston bankruptcy court said Tuesday that it plans to approve auctions for the assets of Jones’ company Free Speech Systems, Infowars’ parent. Everything from lighting fixtures used on the far-right network’s broadcast sets to the company’s dubious vitamin and supplement store will be up for sale beginning in November.“FSS will now be sold at auction, meaning Alex Jones will no longer own or control the company he built,” Chris Mattei, an attorney for the Sandy Hook families, said. “This brings the families closer to their goal of holding him accountable for the harm he has caused.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Brandon Bell/GettyDonald Trump was given a briefing Tuesday by intelligence officials about “real and specific threats” from Iran to assassinate him, his campaign said.In a statement, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said the Office of the Director of National Intelligence informed the former president about the Iranian plots, which aim to “destabilize and sow chaos in the United States.” The briefing comes after the FBI foiled an alleged Iran-linked plot to kill Trump earlier this year that authorities said was not believed to be related to the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally shooting, which wounded the Republican nominee in July.Cheung said intelligence officials “have identified that these continued and coordinated attacks have heightened in the past few months.” It’s not clear if the briefing concerned threats already known to U.S. intelligence or if new plots from Iran have been detected.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ImagesSean “Diddy” Combs and Kim Porter’s children have condemned a publisher’s claim that their late mother wrote a 60-page supposedly leaked memoir as “simply untrue.”The Daily Mail reported that Chris Todd, who is based in Los Angeles, published the memoir in early September after he had been given a flash drive of Porter’s writing by her “close friends.” The book, titled KIM’S LOST WORDS: A Journey for Justice, From the Other Side under the pseudonym Jamal T Millwood, has fuelled rumors about Diddy’s sex tapes and Porter’s sudden death in 2018.Christian “King” Combs, twins D’Lila and Jessie, and Quincy Brown, who is the son of Porter and singer Al B. Sure!, took to Instagram as they published a lengthy statement asking for more “respect” to be shown to their late mother.Read more at The Daily Beast.

CNNA former White House aide to former president Donald Trump slammed his claim that he will be a protector of women as “creepy” and “very infantilizing.”Trump on Monday issued a vague, eerie vow to the female half of the U.S. population that he would be their “protector.”“I want to be your protector. As president, I have to be your protector,” Trump said at a rally in Indiana, Pennsylvania, addressing female voters. “I hope you don’t make too much of it. I hope the fake news doesn’t go ‘oh, he wants to be their protector.’ Well, I am: as president, I have to be your protector.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyFor 25 years, Kimberly Guilfoyle has floated the story that Kamala Harris tried to block her from getting a position at the San Francisco District Attorney’s office. This, she says, happened when she was living in LA, began dating San Francisco Supervisor Gavin Newsom, and reached out to the DA about a job.She claims Harris called her, pretended to have a role in hiring, and dissuaded her from applying. Kimberly applied anyway.The story made headlines in San Francisco when it dropped in 2003. Kamala was running for DA. Kimberly was, by then, engaged to Newsom, who was running for mayor. And, the press loves a catfight.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Marco Bello, Jeenah Moon via ReutersIt sounds oxymoronic, but Kamala Harris plans to sell herself as a pragmatic capitalist to business leaders in Pittsburgh on Wednesday in a speech designed to crush Donald Trump on the economy and rob him of undecided middle-class voters.The Democratic presidential candidate will tout her middle-class roots as an asset in managing the economy when she appears before the Economic Club of Pittsburgh, according to a senior campaign official. And she’ll present herself as a pragmatist whose economic philosophy will not be “bound by ideology,” the official said.And in the birthplace of steelmaking and labor unions, Harris plans to slam Trump as a shill for billionaires and a villain of everyday workers and entrepreneurs. “For Donald Trump, our economy works best if it works for those who own the big skyscrapers. Not those who build them. Not those who wire them. Not those who mop the floors,” Harris plans to say in a preview shared by her campaign.Read more at The Daily Beast.

ABCIn March this year Jimmy Kimmel hosted the Oscars and one of the millions of viewers watching it live was Donald Trump, who famously ranted on Truth Social as the ceremony was still airing.“Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars,” Trump fumed.Six months later, Trump still seems upset about Kimmel’s performance as an Oscar host. On a Monday evening rally in Indiana, Trump said, “Jimmy Kimmel was the worst host in the history of the Academy Awards. He’s one of the dumbest human beings ever. What a dope.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/HandoutComedian Samantha Bee is back for the third time on The Last Laugh—and this time it is as host of her very own Daily Beast podcast!Along with the Daily Beast’s Joanna Coles, Bee is bringing her always sharp and hilarious political insights to The Daily Beast Podcast. And before their first episode premieres this Thursday, Bee is here to share her unfiltered thoughts about interviewing Kamala Harris, being exhausted by Donald Trump, and those pesky “undecided voters” who seem to get so much attention this time of year.The former Full Frontal host also reveals how she would have approached stories like JD Vance’s “childless cat ladies” if she—or really, any other woman—was still on late-night TV, and reacts to Jon Stewart’s triumphant return to The Daily Show and the backlash he received (including from the host of this podcast) for “both sides-ing” Trump and Joe Biden.Read more at The Daily Beast.

NetflixLove can make people do reckless and stupid things, as it did to Vicky White, an Alabama assistant director of corrections at Lauderdale County Detention Center who, in 2022, broke a violent inmate out of jail and fled with him in the hopes of achieving a happily-ever-after together. Jailbreak: Love on the Run is an up-close-and-personal recap of Vicky’s saga, enhanced by copious security camera footage that depicts her carrying out this daring scheme, and audio recordings of her phone calls with her incarcerated beau. Netflix’s latest true-crime documentary (Sept. 25) flails in trying to cast itself as a heartening story about seizing happiness, but as a snapshot of the foolhardy acts that amour can drive sane individuals to commit, it plays as an eye-opening cautionary tale.In 2020, Casey White (no relation) was transferred to the Lauderdale County Detention Center, a temporary holding facility that’s described as a “very intimidating environment” where parking-ticket violators and capital murder suspects coexist side by side. Casey was in the process of serving 75 years behind bars for attempted murder and other felonies. Moreover, he was facing an additional capital murder charge that was still under investigation and to which he had confessed. While awaiting trial for that latest slaying, he had been moved to Lauderdale, and it was there that he met Vicky.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Markus Cuff/Corbis via Getty ImagesThe Los Angeles County Medical Examiner said Tuesday that the June death of Crazy Town frontman Shifty Shellshock had been linked to the effects of fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine.Shellshock’s manner of death was ruled accidental, with no other medical conditions listed as contributing factors.The ‘Butterfly’ singer’s body was found in his Los Angeles home on June 24. He was 49.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Kate MedleyEmbattled North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson has hired a firm founded by a longtime Trump lawyer to investigate CNN’s report detailing years of racially insensitive and lewd comments on pornography sites by a username linked to the GOP candidate.In a press release on Tuesday, Robinson announced he was retaining the services of the Binnall Law Group, a Virginia-based firm founded by Jesse Binnall—a lawyer who has represented former President Trump and others in his orbit.“As I’ve said from the beginning, the claims from CNN are salacious lies. I will not let these attacks distract us from sharing a better future for our state,” Robinson said in a press release.Read more at The Daily Beast.

CNNRep. Nancy Pelosi chided CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Tuesday for bringing up Donald Trump’s latest baseless smear of Vice President Kamala Harris regarding her acuity.On The Lead, Tapper broached the subject by noting feedback he has received regarding the media’s coverage of Trump’s gaffes and at times confusing responses to questions.“I‘m sure that you hear from progressive voters, Democratic voters who say—as I hear from them on social media—[that] the media made such a big deal out of Joe Biden‘s alleged cognitive problems, [and so] why don‘t they talk about Donald Trump‘s cognitive problems?” Tapper said. “Well, Donald Trump talked about that just a second ago, and I want to get your reaction.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Reuters/Nebraska State LegislatureNebraska State Sen. Michael McDonnell was a firefighter for 24 years and proved his mettle by striding into burning buildings long before he ran for office.Even so, political courage is so rare these days that it came as a surprise to many people when 58-year-old McDonnell resisted pressure by Republicans—including Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance—to support a last minute change in how his state allocates its five electoral votes that would potentially give Donald Trump a decisive edge in the upcoming election.The measure would have all but assured Trump one more electoral vote in a contest close enough that it could determine who goes to the White House. And the vote on the bill itself promised to be so close that it was doomed when McDonnell announced his decision on Monday.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMadeTwo clusters of people around me found Ghost of John McCain (SoHo Playhouse, to Nov. 10) howlingly funny. They shrieked with laughter, snorted, squealed, and whooped—responses that are even more jolting in the compressed confines of SoHo Playhouse. Were they friends of the cast or production? Maybe. Even at its wildest moments, the show was not that funny—and for that we have its primary target of its satire to blame: Donald Trump, and the divisive politics that swirl around him. The urgency and nervousness of the present moment neutralizes much of the show’s attempts at humor.One person not happy about the musical’s existence is Meghan McCain, John McCain’s daughter, who railed on X when the show was announced earlier this year, “This is trash—nothing more than a gross cash grab by mediocre desperate people. I hope it bombs.”One can empathize with her upset—it’s a satire about a beloved family member imagining him in a kind of post-death life—while also questioning the validity of her critique. She hadn’t seen it, after all. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Credit: MSNBCMichael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer who testified for the state in Trump’s criminal trial in New York this past spring, told MSNBC on Tuesday that he intends on leaving the country if his former boss—who has been threatening his opponents with prosecution—is elected president again.“I’m already working on a foreign passport with a completely different name,” Cohen told Deadline: White House anchor Nicolle Wallace. “I don’t know how it’s going to work as far as dealing with my wife and my children. I certainly don’t want them moving to where I’m looking to go..."Cohen, who has a daughter, Samantha, and son, Jake, added later when asked directly if he would leave the country: “I’d have no choice.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesAuthorities in Arizona are investigating after gunfire damaged a local Democratic campaign office in Tempe in an overnight incident, police said. The office was unoccupied at the time and no one was injured.Gunshot damage was discovered on Monday, the Tempe Police Department told the Daily Beast in a statement, adding that the matter is being looked at as a potential property crime. Local TV stations aired footage showing four apparent bullet holes in a glass door and windows, according to the Associated Press.The office is used by both Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign and state congressional candidates.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Lothar Speer/ReutersRyan Wesley Routh, the man suspected of trying to kill former President Donald Trump on a Florida golf course, will have his case handled by Trump-appointed federal district Judge Aileen Cannon, who at one point oversaw a case concerning Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents. Cannon ultimately threw out the case earlier this year following a recent Supreme Court decision that held presidents have immunity for official acts taken while in office.In a new indictment filed on Tuesday, Routh was charged with attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate—a charge that comes with a maximum term of life in prison and fines up to $250,000.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Elizabeth Frantz/ReutersPresident Joe Biden sent a message to leaders in his final address to the U.N. General Assembly—his fourth and last time as president—while revealing more details of what finally led him to withdraw from the 2024 race against Donald Trump.While mostly focused on issues overseas, including the Middle East and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Biden also noted how he “faced a decision whether to seek a second term as president” over the summer.“Being president has been the honor of my life. There is so much more I want to get done. But as much as I love the job, I love my country more. I decided, after 50 years of public service, it’s time for a new generation of leadership to take my nation forward.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Mario Anzuoni/ReutersMeghan Markle gives her staff gifts including dog leashes and skincare products, and is such a good boss that she makes them feel like seeds being watered or much-loved children.That, at least, is the case according to extraordinary claims made to Us Weekly Tuesday, after The Hollywood Reporter claimed Meghan was a “dictator in high heels” who “belittles” people and had reduced “grown men to tears.” Sources close to the couple denied the story as a “fabrication” to The Daily Beast last week.In a bizarre intervention Tuesday, a carefully curated selection of former and current staffers talked to Us Weekly to heap praise on the couple.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Scouted/The Daily Beast/ONE/SIZE.Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission.I spent the last month or so spiraling over my skincare routine because my pores doubled in size seemingly overnight. I’d pull out my vanity mirror to assess the status of my skin, and all I’d see were enlarged dots around my nose. I immediately thought of everything I could attach blame to. My skincare routine was the obvious choice for this sudden skin shift. It had to be a new product I was using that was clogging my pores, but nothing had changed in my rotation for months. I was using the same products that I was when I could recall my pores looking unnoticeable just a couple of months prior. Did my skin rapidly age overnight? Did my skin react poorly to increased sun exposure over the summer?After mulling it over for a few days (and buying a new cleanser that promised to shrink pores), I decided to let it go. A couple of days later, I was doing my makeup and reached for an old favorite, the ONE/SIZE by Patrick Star Ultimate Blurring Setting Powder. I enjoyed this powder when it first launched, and the only reason I stopped using it was to try something new (oh, the life of a beauty editor!). A couple of hours later, as I sat at a light in LA traffic, I pulled down my mirror to inspect my makeup—my skin looked velvety smooth, and my pores were undetectable. Almost as if they had shrunk? Right there was my “Aha moment.” It was the setting powder—not my skincare routine—that was messing with the appearance of my pores. Then came the harsh realization that my pores had always been that large, and this setting powder was just so good that I forgot.Read more at The Daily Beast.

University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolA controversial law professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose alleged “racist, sexist, xenophobic, and homophobic” comments repeatedly landed her in hot water was publicly reprimanded and suspended for a year—with only half-pay—after years of fighting.Amy Wax, a tenured professor at Penn’s Carey School of Law, was sanctioned for her controversial comments on race after a lengthy review process that took over two years.Wax has now become the first tenured professor at the Ivy League university to face sanctions in about 20 years, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Steve Granitz/GettyTalk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres is getting vulnerable about going to therapy after she was accused of creating a toxic workplace on her self-titled talk show back in 2020.DeGeneres made the revelation in her new and final stand-up special called For Your Approval, which began streaming on Netflix Tuesday.“I was in therapy for a while trying to deal with all the hatred that was coming at me. It was not a common situation for a therapist to deal with,” the 66-year-old explained.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Denis Balibouse/ReutersSwiss authorities have arrested several people and opened a criminal investigation after a 64-year-old American woman reportedly used a so-called “suicide pod” to end her life, according to local reports. The death marks the first known instance in which the controversial invention, known as the “Sacro capsule,” has been used to end a life.The woman died Monday afternoon in a forest in Merishausen, a Swiss town close to the German border, according to the newspaper Schaffhauser Nachrichten.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Scouted/The Daily Beast/Retailers.Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission. The 2024 presidential election is fast approaching, which means it’s time to stock up on merch for the candidate you’re supporting (on top of making sure you’re registered to vote). Campaign gear and election merchandise have always been a powerful way to make a statement about the ballot and wear your vote on your sleeve, not just to show your support for who you hope will win but in support of democracy. Fortunately, for those supporting Vice President Kamala Haris and Tim Walz, the options are much more fun than a former president’s red eye sore of a baseball cap.The fun really started when Harris-Walz campaign’s own baseball cap went viral. The camouflaged number boasts bold orange embroidery and became a symbol of the ticket’s uniquely diverse appeal. It resonates without a slogan because it stands as a juxtaposition of “red-state style” and blue-state values. Now, the merch is only getting better, and why? There’s a lot to brag about right now, and there may be even more in November.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Greg Doherty/Getty ImagesIt’s been a rough week for Janet Jackson. And it’s starting to become clear that her MAGA brother Randy Jackson is to blame. First, the pop star took heat for falsely saying that Vice President Kamala Harris is “not Black” in an interview with The Guardian. The comment, which parroted claims made by former President Donald Trump, went viral on social media—prompting outcry and mockery.Soon after, a man claiming to be her manager publicly apologized on her behalf, only for Jackson’s camp to state that the apology didn’t come from Jackson, as the man wasn’t actually her manager. (The man, Mo Elmasri, told the Daily Beast that he had worked for Jackson but was fired for his actions after the Guardian debacle.)Read more at The Daily Beast.

Cheney Orr/ReutersCaroline Ellison, the cryptocurrency executive who helped her ex-boyfriend Sam Bankman-Fried steal $8 billion in customer funds, was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday for her role in the fraud.Ellison, who ran the hedge fund tied to the digital currency trading platform FTX, pleaded guilty to seven counts of fraud and conspiracy.The relatively light sentence—as Ellison’s charges carried a maximum sentence of 110 years—comes after she testified against Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the fraud that led to FTX’s sudden collapse in Nov. 2022.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Mike Segar/ReutersA Haitian nonprofit group has filed charges against GOP nominees Donald Trump and JD Vance for their peddling of a pet-eating hoax that has turned Springfield, Ohio, upside over the last month.The Haitian Bridge Alliance, based in California, announced Tuesday that it has taken advantage of a Ohio law that allows private citizens to file charges without first going through police or prosecutors. The charges filed against the Republican candidates included disrupting public services, making false alarms, telecommunications harassment, complicity, and aggravated menacing.Read more at The Daily Beast.

REUTERS/Jim VondruskaRetiring Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) said he will not endorse Kamala Harris after she announced she wants to get rid of the filibuster to reinstate the abortion protections once guaranteed by Roe v. Wade.“Shame on her," Manchin said of the vice president’s support for scrapping the longstanding procedure that requires 60 Senate votes to pass most laws. "She knows the filibuster is the Holy Grail of democracy. It's the only thing that keeps us talking and working together. If she gets rid of that, then this would be the House on steroids."He added that he would not be endorsing her after hearing her latest comments—a departure from hints earlier this month that he was getting ready to back the Democratic nominee.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Mike Segar/ReutersOhio’s Republican Senate nominee thinks it’s “a little crazy” how much women care about abortion rights.“You know, the left has a lot of single-issue voters,” Bernie Moreno said at a town hall on Friday, according to a video obtained by Columbus TV station WCMH. “Sadly, by the way, there’s a lot of suburban women, a lot of suburban women that are like, ‘Listen, abortion is it. If I can’t have an abortion in this country whenever I want, I will vote for anybody else.’”“It’s a little crazy, by the way,” he continued. “But—especially for women that are like past 50—I’m thinking to myself, ‘I don’t think that’s an issue for you.’”Read more at The Daily Beast.